Sentences with phrase «books of the year for»

It was selected as Indigo's Book of the Year for 2014 and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list.

Well, it's December, and you know what that means: Time to start panicking about Christmas shopping... OR you could just hit up your favorite bookstore, buy a few of our best books of the year for your family and friends, and then put your feet up and read a seasonally appropriate novel.

Yesterday morning, the American Library Association announced the best books of the year for children and teens.

Pretty much all of the books she worked with won awards, including a Foreword Book of the Year for a book by Kate Niles, and many were translated into other languages.

One of these books will be recognized in the coming weeks as the Outskirts Press Best Book of the Year for 2012.

At the annual conference in 2016, Book Design Made Simple won the Informational Nonfiction category as well as Book of the Year for its valuable contribution to the publishing industry in general and all members of IPNE specifically.

And in doing so, you'll learn the recently crowned winner of the Outskirts Press Best Book of the Year for 2012.

I think this is going to be one of the most valuable books of the year for authors!

An award - winning author of vivid and literary stories, her debut historical romance book, Chasing the Butterfly, received the 2016 Illumination Award for Enduring Christian Fiction, the 2015 Christian Small Publishers Book of the Year for Historical Fiction and the 2015 Inspirational Readers Choice Award Finalist for Women's Fiction.

Finalist, Dog Writers Association of America Awards for Best Training and Behavior Book of the Year for 2011

His most recent book, Building Stories, was a New York Times and Time Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year for 2012, and was chosen as the single best book of the year by Publisher's Weekly.

Not exact matches

For example, I clump most of my necessary phone appointments during a month into one day and book my Phone Day in each month a year ahead.

To be sure, * The Magic of Thinking Big * was not written strictly for entrepreneurs — I'm not sure the word was well - known in the 50s... but applying the principals from this book has contributed to the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existence.

«The anniversary has already opened old wounds for Camilla, people are being reminded of the fact that she was instrumental in ending this marriage that was described as a fairy tale,» said Morton, who has released a revised version of his book to mark 25 years since its release.

Last year, Paul English, a co-founder of the travel booking site Kayak — which Priceline bought for $ 1.8 billion in 2012 — looked at his calendar.

If you're looking for book suggestions to fill your reading list this year, you could do a lot worse that follow the blog of Microsoft - founder - turned - philanthropist Bill Gates.

«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.»

Willink has been retired from the SEALs for seven years now, and passes on his philosophy of discipline through his leadership consulting firm Echelon Front, his podcast, and books.

But for bookworms, the true highlight of the season might just be the avalanche of «best books of the year» lists.

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

Over the years, the acronym has become a sort - of mantra for the famed Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers venture capitalist, who more recently turned it into a book (Measure What Matters; Portfolio, $ 14) he describes as «my love letter to our future.»

The process for writing a book is almost the same as it was 50 years ago, except you type on a computer instead of a typewriter now.

The Canadian mining sector has been in people's bad books for years, while energy shows few signs of rebounding after brutal performances in both 2014 and 2015.

According to Jaunted, trips aboard «Triumph» can already be booked for as early as April of this year.

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.

Fujifilm said it would book restructuring costs of 49 billion yen ($ 450.95 million) in the second half of the fiscal year through March, lowering its operating profit forecast for the year to 130 billion yen from a previous 185 billion yen.

Although the incident comes at the height of the busiest time of the year for cruise bookings, a period known as Wave Season, travel agents weren't bracing for a downturn in business Monday, in part because the incident had yet to get major publicity, said Mike Driscoll of Cruiseweek, an industry newsletter.

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.

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.

The company booked revenue of $ 125.1 million for the year ending January 2017, and loss of $ 105.3 million.

Though tourism numbers were (again) at record highs, up 23 % for the first nine months of 2013, further violence would certainly jeopardize bookings for the rest of the year and in 2014.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

In 2014, the Guinness Book of World Records gave her an award for Longest TV Career for an Entertainer (female), for her, at that point, 70 years in the industry.

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.

One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, «The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People» has captivated readers for 25 years.

Diversified miner Independence Group has booked a $ 58.8 million net loss for the 2016 financial year, on the back of acquisition costs and lower commodity prices.

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.

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.»

From the book: «For 2,000 years, the people of Igorot Sagada have laid their dead to rest by jamming their bodies into compact wooden coffins and hoisting them up onto brackets driven into the side of a cliff.

DODOcase co-founder Patrick Buckley, a 29 - year - old serial entrepreneur, felt there was a niche among people nostalgic for the warm, classy feel of a traditional book.

Technology blogger Gayle Laakmann McDowell served on Google's hiring committee for three years, and she says that Google now prohibits many of the sorts of questions listed on the jacket of Poundstone's book (gems like «How would you weigh your head?»

This year, students will participate in weekly reflection sessions under the guidance of world — renowned professor Henry Mintzberg, whose book Managers Not MBAs provides a new framework for management education.

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.

Over 50 years ago, one of the earliest champions of brainstorming, Alex Osborn, a U.S. advertising executive, developed rules for the practice — such as banning criticism and encouraging freewheeling — which he published in his 1953 book Applied Imagination.

Many travel agencies and tour operators discourage bookings this time of year because of the disruption, but luckily for its tourism sector, March is typically already low - demand season.

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.

In his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years past.

Exactly 20 years ago, just as Cisco's John Chambers took the reins as CEO, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected term limits for Congressional leaders, wiping off the books laws in 23 states limiting the terms of office for U.S. legislators.

Before coming to Business Insider as assistant managing editor, Lyndsay worked for several years in book publishing, most recently in the literary department of ICM Partners.

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.