Sentences with phrase «book this year with»

Researchers tore up a few pages of the chemistry rule book this year with the discovery of new types of bonds, electrical connections that hold molecules together.

For a number of years we at ReadFreely have provided 50 books each year with a seal of approval to give readers the reassurance they needed.

The King County Library in Washington loaned out the most books this year with a total number of 1.6 million books, which was a 25 % increase from 2012.

The program, which was was supported by publishers, authors, booksellers, and individual donors, placed one million books each year with readers who may not have otherwise had access.

Here is an example, we worked on a book this year with a self - published author and even though he only had his book available for sale through Amazon, he was able to sell thousands and thousands of books during his first months with Smith Publicity.

Most of you probably know I'm currently releasing two books a year with Lake Union (Amazon Publishing).

But I've listened to many a book written in the first person POV of a 20 yr - old librarian assistant / school teacher / first mate / warrior princess narrated by a 50 - yr - old, ex-smoker who happens to have a contract to narrate a certain number of books a year with the audiobook publisher producing the book... especially, I'm sad to say, in the Inspirational Fiction Market, where I do most of my work.

Not exact matches

At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

«With some extra time on my hands this year to catch up, I wanted to share the books and music that I enjoyed most.

I've been working with, and marketing for, small businesses for many years, and let me tell you — this book has it all.

Jeff Boss is cofounder of Chaos Advantage, author of two books, founding team member of the SEAL Future Fund, cofounder of The Adaptability Metric, and former 13 - year Navy SEAL where his top awards included four Bronze Stars with valor and two Purple Hearts.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

Topaz International, a corporate travel auditor, conducted a study this year in which it looked at 5,572 itineraries booked via corporate travel programs, of which 81 percent could be replicated, with the same routing, on public internet sites.

The website is expected to have about 80 million nights booked this year, double the number in 2014, investors familiar with the company's performance told Reuters in September.

The aircraft manufacturer's order book gives the company visibility 20 years into the future and the opportunities with consumers are bountiful.

Average five - year growth rate among the 2001 Inc 500 that had Venture - capital funding at start - up: 4,619 % CEO with an M.B.A.: 2,542 % CEO who took 5 days or fewer of vacation yearly: 2,385 % Open - book management: 2,283 % CEO who took more than 10 days of vacation yearly: 1,983 %

Last year I saw a lot of cool orange book covers with the catchy title Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain.

The book, the result of a year of research with the help of four other reporters, reveals a complex system of big money and shaky ethics — an enormous industry awkwardly grafted onto the body of post-secondary education.

America's fascination with entrepreneurial productivity is endless — just look at the waves of books published each year to the ongoing obsession with finding ways to wake up earlier each day.

Author and London Business School professor Lynda Gratton, along with her coauthor, Andrew Scott, had a simple premise in mind for their 2016 book, The 100 - Year Life: What is going to happen to us all, when everyone starts living to 100?

Going gluten - free has become something of a fad in recent years, with cookery books about «clean eating,» and myths being spread that wheat is bad for digestion.

It's why Bill Gates reads 50 books every year (roughly one a week) and Mark Zuckerberg kicked off 2015 with the goal of reading one every other week.

Two years later, Fisher released her tell - all book, that included her claim of an affair with Ford and the admission that she thought her days as Princess Leia were over.

«One friendly but sharp - eyed commentator on Berkshire has pointed out that our book value at the end of 1964 would have bought about one - half ounce of gold and, 15 years later, after we have plowed back all earnings along with much blood, sweat and tears, the book value produced will buy about the same half ounce.

In his best - selling book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller is consumed with the idea of story.

With Major League Baseball's All - Star Game and Home Run Derby officially in the books for this year, we have reached what baseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summer.»

With 10 firms booking $ 112.6 million in 2014 revenue, Maryland tops this year's list of states with the fastest - growing African - American - led companWith 10 firms booking $ 112.6 million in 2014 revenue, Maryland tops this year's list of states with the fastest - growing African - American - led companwith the fastest - growing African - American - led companies.

The business of getting people to give to charity has changed remarkably little over the 125 years since Andrew Carnegie first ushered in modern philanthropy with his book «The Gospel of Wealth.»

Trump SoHo's corporate bookings were down to 11 events this year, with fewer well - known names, WNYC reports.

With a then two - year - old, and another child on the way, an MBA from Alberta's Athabasca University — which mixes in - residence and online components — would be a delicate balancing act between the books and the slopes.

Pulizzi has written five books: «Get Content Get Customers» (with Newt Barrett, 2009); «Managing Content Marketing» (2011); «Epic Content Marketing» (2013); «Content Inc.» (2015); «Killing Marketing» (with Robert Rose, coming in September of this year).

Profits from mobile devices jumped to 3.3 trillion won compared with just 100 billion won at the same time last year, when the company booked the costs of the withdrawal of its fire - prone Note 7 gadget.

Earlier this year I visited Tokyo with my husband and son while I was writing the book — it was a really beautiful and interesting city.

It took discerning consumers a few years of swimming through the ocean of mediocre - to - bad online recipes before they became frustrated with «free,» according to Bill LeBlond, editorial director of food and drink at independent publisher Chronicle Books.

Presented by the Great Game of Business, the Gathering of Games is the largest open - book management conference of the year, in which hundreds attend to learn innovative best practices, introduce OBM to newcomers, invigorate current employees with new ideas, and network with fellow OBM practitioners.

«Iran and Saudi Arabia have had serious frictions in the past, but the last few years have seen a real increase in tension,» John Gay, executive director of the John Quincy Adams Society and coauthor of the book «War With Iran,» told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The year - long series, «A Nation Under Our Feet,» will be inspired by Steven Hahn's 2003 book of the same name and «will find the hero dealing with a violent uprising in his country set off by a superhuman terrorist group called the People.»

«Growing up in a home with 500 books would propel a child 3.2 years further in education, on average, than would growing up in a similar home with few or no books,» the Pacific Standard noted.

Name: Melanie Perkins Company: Canva Work - life balance philosophy: We are what we repeatedly do, and being consistent with perseverance and hardwork have seen me from being a 14 - year - old starting my first business of selling handmade scarves, to a 19 - year - old starting Fusion Books, to where I am with Canva is today.

Five years and nearly $ 50 million in VC funding later, MacInnis is helping to transform the book publishing industry, with a little inspiration from his former boss.

Jim Camp, a negotiation coach whose book Start With No was published last year, goes into considerable detail on «interrogative - led» questions.

There's the classic 1989 interview with Steve Jobs, the story that introduced the world to open book management, and a blow - by - blow of Nike's early years, circa 1981.

All those years ago, when everything was still possible, book publishers might have sold authors instead of books, and magazines and newspapers might have done the same with journalists and commentators.

My friends who read my first attempts at writing my book, years ago, struggled to tell me how unreadable it was, so I wasn't born with engaging writing.

But last year saw more cooperation with competitors (remember the Microsoft appearance at last year's Apple event) in the name of increased value, and new products like the Surface Book.

Every year, on the team's long West Coast road trip, Jackson would give each player a book with the aim of pushing him toward a particular way of thinking.

TOKYO, April 10 (Reuters)- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) plans to book a charge of 50 billion yen ($ 470 million) for the year ended March, as it closes or merges unprofitable domestic branches to cut costs, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

«With every business I've been in, costs sprout and spread like weeds,» says Olson, who started typesetting and reference publishing companies before beginning his business - book enterprise four years ago.