Sentences with phrase «books each year about»

The center reviews and identifies outstanding books each year about discrimination, bigotry, and ways to develop equitable future communities and societies.

I'm also launching a series of children's books this year about The Teashop Twins.

Each has published a book this year about friendship: Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson (Audacity Jones to the Rescue), Barbara O'Connor (Wish), Augusta Scattergood (Making Friends with Billy Wong) and Susan Hill Long (The Magic Mirror).

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

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.

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.

Every few years, a new book ignites debate about structural and social impediments to women achieving professional parity.

After someone tweeted about visiting the Barnes & Noble in Redwood City, California, Sutherland responded, suggesting that the person check out Kepler's Books, a 55 - year - old bookstore in Menlo Park.

There were about 17.2 million cars and trucks sold last year, according to a report by Kelley Blue Book.

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.

Thick as a tombstone and serving the same essential purpose, it's already the book of the year, excerpted and reported on and tweeted about ad nauseam.

We get sent hundreds of business books a year, all in the hope that someone here reads one and decides to write about it.

Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.

In that first year at Reed, Jobs also read «Diet for a Small Planet,» a book about protein - rich vegetarianism that went on to sell three million copies.

Halfway through last year, Jason Kint of the advertising trade group Digital Content Next looked at the total ad revenue booked by those two companies as a proportion of the overall industry, and found that they accounted for about 90 % of all the growth in the business.

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.

«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.

Founder Adam Robinson is passionate about recruiting; not only does he have over 20 years experience in the industry, he has written a book about the power of predictive hiring.

To emphasize this point, in the past year I've published a book, spoken at Google, maintained one of the most popular business podcasts on iTunes, and am having serious conversations about creating a television show about my life.

According to Pew Research, the typical American reads about four books a year.

At the beginning of Jim Koch's new book about his adventures building the Boston Beer Company, our hero bails on a Harvard MBA to spend three years leading grueling, off - the - grid excursions for the famous outdoor education program.

And what we realized was that we had 20 years of data — about why customers buy, how they buy, what they read, how they read and why they're reading it — that could make a physical bookstore just a different and better place to discover books.

What most people forget, however, is that Newton worked on his ideas about gravity for nearly twenty years until, in 1687, he published his groundbreaking book, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.

«One could describe it as if Ikea grabs you by the hand and consciously guides you through the store in order to make you buy as much as possible,» Johan Stenebo, a 20 - year veteran of Ikea, wrote in his 2009 book, The Truth About Ikea.

Considering that a fax machine is apt to need service as frequently as a laser printer or an electronic typewriter — about one and a half times a year — learning to perform even a minor repair (for example: «Soldering Tips and Techniques») will sooner or later cover the price of the book.

This year, I'm feeling the birthday doldrums a little more acutely than usual since I've just about finished up the manuscript on my next book, Humans 3.0, which is all about how technology is affecting human nature.

In today's divided world, this book brings readers a fundamental message to show more love to those we lead, deliver compassion, develop people in a more intentional way (think about how Jesus built up his followers over a deeply committed three - year period), and finally, be willing to forgive.

«I don't understand how Apple could ruin the record business in one year on Mac,» said Doug Morris, the head of Universal Music, according to Appetite for Self - Destruction, a new book about the record industry's ills by Rolling Stone writer Steve Knopper.

Fellow readers can sign up for «Book Club» emails that lists monthly selections from about 100 titles Patrick reads each year.

«I will admit to really underestimating cryptocurrencies for years,» he told CNBC, noting that in his book about investing for millennials he compared the crypto price surge to historical market bubbles.

This time of year may be about giving, but don't forget to devote plenty of time to getting your books in order.

Airbnb is expected to double bookings to about 80 million nights this year alone.

«Goals are about growing,» he explains in his book «Your Best Year Ever: A 5 - Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals.»

If Canadian best - selling author Malcolm Gladwell were to write a book about this year's presidential election, he said his title would be «I'm heading home.»

«The OTAs were only booking about 8 % of our rooms,» he says, «but that was up from 4 % three or four years earlier, and I thought it would keep growing.»

And it would be hard to compile any list of the best business books of the year without mentioning Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty - First Century — which «sparked a fantastic global discussion this year about inequality,» Gates writes.

Over the last 15 years, I have discovered valuable secrets about the publishing industry that have helped me in writing my own books — secrets that have then helped me to sell hundreds of thousands of copies of those books.

Gibbs, a former pastor who talks to young audiences about bullying and life choices, says Shipp's opening doors for him has produced 90 percent of the 40 - plus engagements he has booked so far this year.

The venture capitalists I interviewed for my book Hungry Start - up Strategy: Creating New Ventures With Limited Resources and Unlimited Vision (Berrett - Koehler, 2012) made it clear that they talk to about 1,000 ventures a year and invest in one or two.

Better World Books started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partBooks started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partbooks online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partners.

«I think it's a book about a 50 - year - old guy trying to reinvent himself and create a new career,» he says.

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Ticking off a list of changes to financial markets over the past three years, Mr. Dimon said he feared someone would write a book soon about how government overreach had hurt the economic recovery.

She says she is also currently working on a book about her professional experiences in the public and private sectors, due out sometime next year.

The average price of a new vehicle in December was $ 32,890, which was about the same as a year ago, according to Kelley Blue Book.

I never anticipated the extramarital affair between David H. Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, the woman I'd worked with for 16 months on a book about Petraeus's year commanding the war in Afghanistan.

Thanks to these selling points, FreshDirect is doing well — booking about $ 240 million a year — but I sometimes wonder why it isn't doing even better.

Cain, a former Wall Street lawyer, has been researching and writing about the subject for years, and her new book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking (Crown), synthesizes much of that research.

When the 54 - year - old world leader manages to steal a few fleeting moments to unwind past dark, he reportedly reads good, old paper books, and not always about politics and domestic and foreign affairs.