Sentences with phrase «book deals at»

At the Vessel Project, you'll find all kinds of Christian Kindle Book Deals at ridiculously low prices.

No platform often means no book deal at all.

Even though she says she doesn't do happiness - «I don't trust it» - she had much to smile about in 2004 when Bloomsbury UK (J.K. Rowling's publisher) signed her up for a two - book deal at the age of 19 years, on the basis of the manuscript of The Icarus Girl that she wrote while studying for her A-Levels (exams taken before leaving UK high schools).

«I recently took your class 5 Things to do Before a Book Deal at The Doylestown Bookshop.

The real truth is that most agents go in for a two - book deal at the get - go, and that most publishing houses are ready to sell through the number of copies they need to sell to make the book a «success» in their eyes by the time they even offer the contract.

Let's say you were to sell a trilogy in a three book deal at $ 15,000 per book for a total of $ 45,000!

Not exact matches

(Apparently, he wasn't sold on the idea that the internet would be a big deal at the time the book was initially published in 1995.)

After finally being acquitted of murder following four years in Italian jail in Italy, Knox flew back to Seattle, enrolled at the University of Washington student, and got a book deal.

In 2006, a fresh - out - of - prison Jordan Belfort chose Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese to option his book rights in a $ 330,000 deal based at Warner Bros..

Warren is also a professor at Harvard Law and has written eight books and more than a hundred scholarly articles dealing with credit and economic stress.

Tina Brown: I decided at Vanity Fair to buy an extract of his new book, The Art of the Deal, and I bought it because I love the voice in the book.

That's according to a tidbit of wisdom in the business book Dinosaur Brains: Dealing With All Those Impossible People at Work unearthed by Farnam Street, a consistently interesting blog dedicated to hunting down just these sorts of fascinating ideas in out - of - the - way places.

Given that Donald Trump «wrote» the best - selling «business» book of «all time,» it's surprising that Hillary Clinton in the last few weeks has proven to be the better dealmaker in at least one case: how they have dealt with their main political rivals.

In contrast, when a deal is structured around stock, the assets on the books must be amortized at their value to the seller, which is likely to be far less than the total sale price.

Anybody who's seen Chinatown can guess at the sordid history of the real estate deals that helped transform Los Angeles from a dusty burgh to a global capital of glamour, and for Gross — who sold truckloads of his previous book, 740 Park, a history of New York's richest apartment building and its residents — the estates of Beverly Hills and Bel Air prove fertile ground.

But at the end of the quarter, the book - invitation webinar campaign was the most effective one to influence the deals that got done.

An economist at Oxford Economics recently told a Sydney audience that «Chinese authorities were understating the extent of bad loans on their banks» books and faced tough choices in dealing with the potential bank failure.»

«A growing underclass scrambling to make ends meet at the whim of increasingly picky and erratic employers, that number could balloon to 65 million within 10 years, or about half of the domestic workforce, warns Steven Hill in his troubling new book, Raw Deal.

Two years later, QBE booked a $ 120 million loss on the sale of its American division in a deal aimed at shedding units that dragged on the company's performance.

«We know from The Art of the Deal that he is going to come at us very hard,» Mr. Manley said, referring to a 1987 book about Mr. Trump and his business approach.

Leon and his wife Amy, both professors at the University of Chicago, are preparing a book on the subject of marriage and courtship for one of our institute projects dealing with what we call «everyday ethics.»

One thing I found really interesting is that one conclusion the book came to is that these «faith wars» had a direct impact on the fall of the Roman Empire because the gov» t had to deal with the internal struggle and the external enemies had to take a back seat in importance or at least drastically distracted the leadership.

The present book looks at the organizational dimension of the Presbyterian (and mainline) «predicament» in twelve essays, dealing with denominational structures; financial changes; women's, men's, and special - interest groups; and in two provocative concluding essays, some speculative conclusions about where the changes have brought us.

And a few of them, within a year of speaking at this conference, will get a book deal or an invitation to speak at Exponential, or some other church conference.

If you have a perfect book in your hand or at your bedside, it certainly must relieve some of the anxiety in dealing with this imperfect and often confusing world of ours.

Lest it appear that this book proposes to substitute piety and devout words for action, let it be said at once that only by a great deal of determined action can even a minor dent be made on the evils just mentioned.

Despite concerns with some of the authors» theological opinions, this book has a great deal going for it, and at 136 pages the authors have done extraordinarily well to cover so much important material so clearly and thoughtfully.

I often get jealous of the people who «strike it rich» with book deals and conference invitations, who get the parties and the fame because they were bad but now they found Jesus, but then I look back over my life, at how far Jesus and I have walked together, what we have been through together, and how we have suffered, and grieved, and rejoiced, and laughed together, and I realize that no book deal, bank account, or applause from men could ever substitute for what I have with Jesus.

When you look at The Bible and it's origin, the proof is quite dramatic that this is the real deal, moreso than any other book in history!

Eliade, who was for many years at the University of Chicago, will be familiar to most readers as the author of the four - volume A History of Religious Ideas and numerous other books dealing with religion and myth in human history.

There is at least one section (IV) which deals with contracts — six different kinds — and various kinds of outrages, that is to say it is in some senses a book of law.

Jesus had a cousin... named John... who spent a great deal of time pointing to everyone else in his last book of Revelations, making sure that nobody ever pointed the finger at him.

Islam today still beheads people for apostacy — if not on the national level then at the village / local level (saudi arabia, Iran), still burn people to death for witchcraft (indonesia and saudi arabia), Draw the prophet and earn yourself a death sentence from the Clergy, Write a book critical of islam and get the same deal, write a magazine article expessing concern about the rise of islam in your country and have your throat slit on a public street in YOUR own country...

In his first Hasidic books Buber exercised a great deal of freedom in the retelling of the Hasidic legends in the belief that this was the best way to get at the essence of the Hasidic spirit.

In the months ahead, at least two other books on the Pope will likely be making their appearance, at which time we hope to run a review article that will also deal with the Szulc book in greater detail.

The questions with which this book chiefly deals first began to claim major attention from me through my participation in the Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University and especially in the seminars on classical Greece.

I hope, too, that whilst inevitably the book deals with externals it will point to the living experience at the heart of the faith.

He'll probably crawl back to his lord at the end of the year with his faith renewed in the fictional christ / daddy figure, and get a book deal...

No book deal or contract yet — it's still just a proposal with a few chapters, making the rounds of publishers, at this stage of the process.

If you still want to pursue this book, then why not write a book about your friendship with several Calvinist / Arminians / Eastern Orthodox / Catholic and through that friendship discuss and describe how they deal with Calvinistic questions, and most importantly how and in what way was your friendship affected, if at all.

Theologian Henri de Lubac dealt with this issue at length in his masterful book, The Drama of Atheist Humanism: «If man takes himself as a god, he can, for a time, cherish the illusion that he has raised and freed himself.

There is at least one whole book dealing largely with the subject, Christ in Islam.18 To be sure Mohammed never believed in him as divine.

I have not dealt with the death and afterlife of the individual thus far in this book, though I have done so elsewhere at considerable length.15 The issues involved, though related, are not identical.

These books are not dealing with any particular area of theology, but present a new paradigm or a new way of looking at theology that really helped my theological development.

The book never deals with the passage we are looking at today, either.

The pastor had even been asked to speak at a national church conference next year, and it was rumored that a book deal was in the works.

I was tempted at first to give maybe a 10 point list of advice for parents going through deconstruction in front of their kids... things like let them see the books you read and answer their curiosities about them; teach your kids how to think, not how to believe; tell them everything you're going through and let them deal with what it means for them; ask them what they believe and listen objectively and engage in conversation about it; openly share your struggles with what you're going through with the church and let them process it themselves, and so on.

This slim, readable book actually doesn't deal directly with evolution at all; instead, it examines the genre and context of the creation narrative of Genesis 1 in light of the ancient Near Eastern culture from which it emerged.

It's not the book deal that's at stake, in other words.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.