Sentences with phrase «books about books»

This is a book about a book — but not just any book, but a very special book.

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Schultz talks affectionately about his father in his book, «Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time,» saying that Fred was an honest man who worked hard, played ball with his kids on the weekend and loved the Yankees.

To promote the book, she started a blog, called Footnoted.org, where she wrote about corporate shenanigans and other news investors could use buried in the — you guessed it — SEC documents» fine print.

In 2012, Apple held an event in New York City to talk about education, where it unveiled its iBooks 2 platform, its tool for making and publishing books online, but even that event was all about the iPad.

David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR, with now three editions of updated rules of marketing speaks about his newest version of his best - selling book.

Unlike some online searches that don't identify the provider, the secret fares provide all details about the flight such as the airline, departure time and arrival time before booking.

Whether the salacious details that Chang outlines in her book are true or they're a gross mischaracterization of what took place, this event will surely make firms think twice about their out - of - office gatherings in the future.

As YouTube star Mamrie Hart — her popular channel You Deserve a Drink has more than 1.2 million subscribers — set about writing her second book, which some could argue is an even scarier prospect than writing your first, her M.O. was to seek out adventure.

Instead, he's a believer in «Small Data,» the title of his new book, which he describes as a method that's about «infusing creativity and preserving the instincts» of entrepreneurs, which he says can be their most valuable assets.

I promise that nobody from Basecamp forced me to talk about their business book (nor did they pay me to do so).

I recommend this book because I hate the typical «entrepreneur» books about someone building a business.

There's a lot of moving parts in the book, but at its core, it's about finding your voice and learning to make yourself heard, even if it's uncomfortable.

The entire book is about her transformation from doing what people expect her to do to someone who thinks for herself.

He doesn't mention data science at all, but the book is about cognitive bias.

We talked about the book, I sent him a chapter, and he wrote a wonderful testimonial.

Ferriss is all about optimization — so if you're still a slave to the corporate life, this book just might inspire and enable you to take the leap and start your own business.

Dropbox's young CEO Drew Houston learned about leadership from reading books by Intel icon Andy Grove.

My favorite young adult book (that I actually still read even now) is «The Truth About Forever» by Sarah Dessen.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us: This book offers the «surprising truth about what motivates us,» according to entrepreneur Matt FieAbout What Motivates Us: This book offers the «surprising truth about what motivates us,» according to entrepreneur Matt Fieabout what motivates us,» according to entrepreneur Matt Fiedler.

First is a catalog pagination meeting — we look at all the product that is coming for our summer book and think about how we're going to bring it out and the stories we'll be telling.

While Gates admits he isn't usually «one for tear - jerkers about death and dying,» he was drawn to Kalanithi's search for meaning through books, writing, his family, medicine, surgery, and science.

I related to the book in ways that I was not expecting and it did what only truly great books do — it made me think about things that I wouldn't have otherwise, and it made me see the world from a slightly different perspective.

Digital books made up about 20 % of the market last year, roughly the same as they did a few years ago, a fact that has traditional publishers almost gloating.

From pronouncements about the «death of literature» to predictions of shorter books, the pay - per - page system is being roundly criticized.

His books can alter the way the public thinks about and conceives of entire worlds, from baseball management to football pass protection to the subprime mortgage crisis.

But, I've also learned a great deal from Russell Brunson, who's created the perfect webinar script, and goes into detail about crafting webinars in his book, Expert Secrets.

I have a children's book coming out next spring and I'm so nervous about doing events with kids; kids aren't polite in the way that adults can be.

The company was booking about $ 170,000 a month in sales.

But while male billionaires» reading choices get plenty of press coverage, we hear relatively less about the books that have been most inspirational for super successful, but slightly less high - profile women — the kinds of books that are most likely to provide similar wisdom and mental nourishment for the generation of leaders coming up behind them.

«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» he recently told The New York Review of Books.

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

The professor, who teaches at Sweden's Lund University, went straight to the authorities when he became suspicious about the provenance of a 16th - century prayer book he had purchased online.

Although entrepreneurship is all about having a bias towards action, this list is well curated for books that don't give generic advice but more practical tips for a busy entrepreneur.

This year, Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, due out in March, is that book, but it's also stirring up controversy about privilege.

I'm reading a book called Breaking Night, about a woman's journey from homelessness to Harvard.

«When I was interviewing couples for my book The Daddy Shift, I found the happiest ones were those who weren't hung up on ideas about what a man should do and what a woman should do.

(Lazaridis has talked about the book frequently at RIM town hall meetings.)

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.

«This is the only entrepreneurship book I have come across that talks honestly about the incredible challenges that entrepreneurs face when running a business, and not just about facing the difficult decisions, but about the way running a company affects you mentally.

Best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad — the No. 1 personal finance book of all time — Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money.

«This book talks a lot about paradox of our world of hyper digital convenience that doesn't necessarily translate to a seemingly logical replacement of physical things.

«Initially when I started to write this book it was going to be about how to avoid awkwardness, but the book became about something totally different.

No, the real reason to write a book is because there is something you have to explore that you think readers want to learn about, not because you think putting «author» on your LinkedIn profile is smart.

«Great book about resilience and finding peace in the midst of adversity.

In an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for him.

Employees can use this same service to book days off, find out about their company's bonuses, obtain information regarding an IT problem and much more.

Flow is a term coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience to mean complete absorption in a given task where concentration is «so intense that there is no attention left over to think about anything irrelevant.»

As Entrepreneur magazine observed in a recent article about the book industry, we now have a «market flooded with forgettable books created by companies for hire.»

How about we agree that you just take my word for it (or read my book), rather than try to learn these prison leadership lessons in their natural setting?

I've read almost every single one of Sarah Dessen's books, and her writing is so personal and relatable and I feel like you can feel that especially in «The Truth About Forever.»