Sentences with phrase «books out of an author»

«Agents need to get ten books out of an author so you,» he said very kindly, «are too old and too far away in New Zealand.»

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Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and psychologist Steven Kramer, authors of the incisive The Progress Principle, pored over 12,000 daily work diary entries and were surprised to find out that making progress — even small wins — on meaningful work is the most powerful motivator,» reports the book.

But as bestselling author and Oprah - anointed happiness expert Shawn Achor pointed out on in an excerpt from his new book on the TED Ideas blog recently, that sort of praise — well intentioned as it might be — actually does more harm than good.

«We're living in what I like to call the «Thank You Economy,» because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old - fashioned way — and do it authentically — are going to have a prayer of competing,» says social media expert and author of the book The Thank You Economy Gary Vaynerchuk in a recent Entrepreneur.com column.

Most authors think the purpose of the introduction is to lay out and explain everything the author will talk about in the book.

In July, Amazon tried to make peace with Hachette authors by offering them 100 % of digital book sales for as long as talks with Hachette dragged out — a proposal that Hachette had already turned down in negotiations.

Out of 2,000 negotiations videotaped by Gerard I. Nierenberg and Henry H. Calero, the authors of «How to Read a Person Like a Book,» there wasn't a single settlement when one of the negotiators had their legs crossed.

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

Gretchen Rubin, the author of three bestsellers on happiness, recently teamed up with Scribd to come out with a list of the books that added the most happiness to Rubin's life.

Head of content at MarketingProfs, and author of some of the more compelling digital - centric books out there, such as Everybody Writes and Content Rules.

Free your mind Don't be afraid to give your product away, Chris Anderson says, you'll figure out how to make money later The secret to success in the digital age is giving people what they want — literally, says Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired and author of the controversial new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price.

«The last lawyer working on it does now know what the first one worked out», the author, and friend of Ingvar Kamprad, Bertil Torekull wrote in his book «Historien om IKEA», first published in 1998.

«Social Security is about as complicated a fiscal system as is humanly possible to design,» said Larry Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University and author of the book «Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security,» set for release in February.

The Power of Nice describes an exercise from the authors» seminars, in which attendees are paired off, each playing either the «agent» or the «publisher» in working out a book deal.

E-mail has become so intrinsic to the way work is done at companies of all sizes, it's where most business records are stored, says Nancy Flynn, executive director of the ePolicy Institute, a Columbus, Ohio, an electronic communications consultant and author of a book on e-mail policies due out in December.

So they pulled out all the stops by experimenting with an in - store cafe, free Wi - Fi, monthly book swaps, a children's play area, entertainment, more than 200 in - store author readings a year and community forums on topics of interest to customers.

«The retailers need to know how much of the beacons they want to use and figure out whether they should crawl, walk or run (with the technology),» said Schafer, who is a director at the National Retail Federation in the U.S. and author of Branded, a book about retailers and social media.

«He has to do some digging to find out who the contact person would be at those companies,» says Sherman, author of Raising Capital (Kiplinger Books).

To find out, Cramer spoke with technician Carley Garner, co-founder of DeCarley Trading, author of «A Trader's First Book on Commodities» and colleague of Cramer's at RealMoney.com.

Others start out as authors of self - help books.

Another of the luminaries I interviewed for this project was Dorie Clark, the author of Stand Out, named the # 1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc..

Matthew Goodwin, the professor of politics at the University of Kent who is the author of a book on UKIP's rise, pointed out that the elite had failed to appeal to many in U.K. society.

Jeff Shore, of Shore Consulting, is a sought - after sales expert, speaker, author and consultant whose latest book, Be Bold and Win the Sale: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone and Boost Your Performance, was published by McGraw - Hill Professional in January 2014.

We aligned the book with a strong corporate brand through one of the authors and rolled out a series of book signing receptions around the country entitled: «An Evening of Enlightened Power at Eileen Fisher» which successfully took the book into non-traditional retail venues.

Recognized as a «branding expert» by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, she is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future and her most recent book, Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It, was released in April 2015.

Founder and President, Tracy Becker, a Certified Expert Credit Witness, Certified Fico Professional, and established author (check out her latest book, Credit Score Power), has lead her team to improve the overall financial condition of thousands of companies over the years, improving their credit, saving them millions of dollars, and providing seminars and counseling to educate them on building and maintaining excellent credit scores.

The guest speaker from Portugal Carlos Gonçalves, CEO of Avila Business Centers, and author of the book «Out of the Office», talked about the paradigm shifts of the sector.

Despite Disney's apparent lack of concern about the potential to scare off remotely budget - conscious vacationers, Frommer.com's Jason Cochran, author of Frommer's Easy Guide to Walt Disney World and Orlando, says that the theme park giant is «playing a dangerous game» not only with the latest price hikes, but with an array of policies that all but force guests to book multi-day vacations (because the per - day costs are astronomical if the visit is short) and to plan every latest detail of one's visit far in advance (because that's the way to get the most out of one's trip).

They get all their ideas out of books from a few authors.

In her new book, For the Love, the author and speaker encourages readers to live out of grace, and to use grace to accept criticism and give correction in the context of loving community when needed.

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It would seem that the author of Out of the Depths intends this book to be an instrument serving that cause.

God is the author of the bible and I find it much harder to take things out of context if we read and study a book line by line and chapter by chapter.

That's one of the things I was pointing out to someone who read a book on necromancy (long island medium) and was totally sold on everything the author wrote and was now at «peace» from reading about the endless cycles of death — i.e. soul coming back as such... dying then coming back again as another.

In the book I'm reading, The Year of Living Biblically, author A.J. Jacobs is trying to figure out how to handle the Bible's capital punishment laws, and has taken to tossing pebbles at adulterers and Sabbath - breakers.

So I was thrilled to learn that Wayne Jacobsen, one of my favorite authors (you must read his book So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore) and podcasters (check out his podcast, «The God Journey «-RRB-, was putting out a book by the very same title.

John Shea, a young theologian and author of three books, says that many fine thinkers of his generation prefer to «act out what they believe in social or political programs, or talk out their ideas in conferences and workshops, rather than write them out.»

Throughout the book, even while the author is correctly pointing out the violence monotheism can foster, there are hints of a biblical solution just beyond her grasp» a vision of God marked by a lack of rivalry and a plentiful generosity.

By a geographical expansion shattering anything that either his cosmopolitan detractors within paganism or, for that matter, the author of the Book of Acts within Christianity could have imagined, his name has moved out far from that «small corner of the earth somewhere» and has come to be known «unto the uttermost part of the earth.»

But it may be pointed out that (1) no one has ever «unstrung» the Marcan sequence more completely than the author of Matthew did in revising and reorganizing the Gospel of Mark for his special purposes: the book is taken apart and put together again in a new order, combined with the «Sayings Source» (Q) and with other materials, and arranged apparently for didactic use — as a manual, one might say, for the religious educators of the early Syrian church!

Niebuhr continued to prick American illusions and point out the ironies of American history in two other books he jointly authored, one with Alan Heimert (A Nation So Conceived, 1963) and the other with Paul E. Sigmund (The Democratic Experience, 1969).

Ed is the author of Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life and is the co-author of the forthcoming book Hazardous: Committing to the Cost of Following Jesus (Due out in August 2012).

Oh yes, how courageous it is to bring out a book which will undoubtedly earn the author large amounts of money, and as this article shows, reams of praise from anti-feminists.

A big part of Martin's job is helping Christian authors, leaders and influencers develop effective social media strategies to get their message out there and sell some books, and to do so with integrity.

The author states that this book grew out of his own struggles and his experiences in enriching mid-years marriages, including his own.

«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another.»

While I am on the subject of the publishing industry, let me make one little tiny suggestion to publishers and book agents: Please, out of respect and courtesy to the authors who submit books to you, don't you think it would be wise to create a little form letter that you send to authors whose books you reject?

Books have always been overpriced, and publishing companies and individual authors who want to control the price of books had better figure out a new way to make money... and qBooks have always been overpriced, and publishing companies and individual authors who want to control the price of books had better figure out a new way to make money... and qbooks had better figure out a new way to make money... and quick.

Christopher Calderhead, author of Illuminating the Word: The Making of the Saint John's Bible (Liturgical), points out that in the case of a modern book the reader is the first to see any particular copy — it is sometimes wrapped in cellophane at the printer's and opened for the first time by the purchaser.

Not only that, I've sort of figured out that Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the best book on America, thought that the French Catholic Pascal taught the truth about who we are, and that the psychology of Pascal more than the History of Rousseau (or the ambiguously natural / Historical Locke) explains to us best of all who we are.