Sentences with phrase «books out of the back»

While it was true that some people, such as John Grisham, were able to sell books out of the back of their car and make it work, the majority of self - published writers just sank into obscurity with a garage full of books.

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«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.

Iron Solutions, of Fenton, Mo., had its genesis in an annually issued guide, akin to the used - car Blue Book, that dates back to the»40s; dealers would dog - ear the guide to help them price, say, a rusted - out 1992 combine some farmer was offering on a trade.

Sandberg peppers the book with studies, reports and personal anecdotes to back up her premise — that for reasons both in and out of their control, there are fewer woman leaders than men in the business world and beyond.

BACK in 1995, Nicholas Negro - ponte in his book Being Digitalsuggested the greatest single obstacle to the roll - out of the information economy was the vast army of digitally homeless CEOs and senior managers.

In her book, Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, Anne - Marie Slaughter advises: «Don't drop out, defer... if you keep your hand in the workforce while you are devoting more of your time to care, it will be easier to ramp up than to get back in.»

Premier Pauline Marois» government, which backed away from an earlier prediction to balance the books by this year, now promises to guide the struggling province out of the red by 2015 - 16.

Not merely a collection of good ideas, this book spells out the 67 timeless principles and practices used by the world's most successful men and women — proven principles and strategies that can be adapted for your own life, whether you want to be the best salesperson in your company, become a leading architect, score top grades in school, lose weight, buy your dream home, make millions, or just get back in the job market.

Drawing on nearly two decades of business experience, Melinda Emerson's new book, Fix Your Business, lays out her 90 - day plan get control of your business and get back your life.

But as I see it, few are really putting anything really substantial out there, I mean here in the way of serious books, with serious backing and support that might get them into the mainstream.

Check out this link to find out about marriage to young girls claim.Very very interesting to know.I hope everyone has the patience to study history and reality of life centuries ago worldwide.This video also gives you references to online history books about facts it says.Simply, the average age of marriage was very young worldwide including church approved age of consent to marry.What Mohamed did, was very common back in the days and just to let you know, that girl was engaged to another man and then the engagement was broken due to his disbelief which tells you that that was common back in the days.Also, the age of 6 mentioned was age of engagement not age of marriage.marriage happened a few years later.

I admit that this item was a real stumper for me when I filled out the sample questionnaire in the back of the book.

CIA has been in the book business for several decades: before 1967 it «sponsored, subsidized or produced over 1,000 books,» many of which were put out by CIA - backed cultural organizations whose subsidy was «more often than not» unknown to the writer.

I shove the book back into my purse (relieved to at least put the kitschy orange and green cover out of sight).

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

I'm concerned about Tony's theology, whose philosophical foundations I criticized pretty consistently while I was involved in EC in 2004 - 7 before bowing out because Tony seemed more into pushing with some arrogance a pomo philosophy he never really studied in school than he was into fostering dialogue (I went back to just reading the wonderful books of Brian McLaren which is how I got involved in the first place).

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.

Check out Jeremy's book he mentions at the end of the post, «Put Service Back into the Church Service».

They seem to leap out at him from books, signs, even the back of cereal boxes.

It reminds me of a book I read by John Ortburg a long while back that really inspired me — «If you want to walk on water you have to get out of the boat»

This is the same language that was recently thrown out of the school books because it was simply a back door to religious teachings.

Christianity is a belief system, completely made up out of whole shroud, whose tenets have no evidence to back them up, only a book written and adjusted by men, and a huge power structure that generates enough income to keep people coming back to the trough.

Unfortunately, most of their lists were filled with out - of - print books, which back then, meant many of them were largely unobtainable.

I want to scrawl whole passages of books on the stairway walls, scripture on the fireplace, psalms on the cupboards, epic poems on the east wall, quotes on pumpkins, rules on the stairs, wear out a pack of Sharpies on the backs of the doors, just writing the truth that I know while I know it still for someday.

that book says I only had to die once and then the judgement, but we may have to postpone the Big Day a bit so I can go down there and shed some blood because of those bone - headed followers of mine...» He hasn't gotten back to me... but you're right there, my son, William, they are pretty damn wicked....god - damned I'll tell ya... BTW, William, like your thoughts... If I do come back we'll have to get together... maybe you could be, like, an Aide or something... can't promise you it'll be good pay, but, we can always milk the Televangelist out of a few bucks... let me know...

Jews, not Hebrew Israelites as far back as the book of Esther were ran out to Gresian, Turkey, and were there for 2000 years, even loosing their Hebrew language, speaking Yiddish, then when the 1897 Herzel Movement came, this is when the jews began to claim Israel, or Zion, and the instigation of both wars, World War I, & II, following the Holocaust, also instigated to establish the vision in Daniel 11:14, exposed by a rich jew, former zionist Benjamin H. Freedman, these jew zionist cracked a few eggs to make an omlet, it has even been found that there wasn't 6mill.

As Elizabeth Eisenstein says in her book on the role of the printing press, Protestant clergy «viewed printing as a providential device which ended forever a priestly monopoly of learning, overcame ignorance and superstition, pushed back the evil forces commanded by Italian popes, and, in general, brought Western Europe out of the dark ages.»

You need to get your nose out of that book of fairy tales and come back to reality.

It's the essay our Robert Cheeks wanted to read back in January, when we pomocons went nuts over the film in several threads, and it brings out the Southern and Democratic Party sympathies of the book very nicely.

What really makes this book stand out is the wonderful question and answer session provided in the back of the book.

Please put another homesick Texas out of her misery (I promise to buy the book next time I am back home in the States) and tell me if this recipe is close, as in, can I substitute serranos for jalapenos?

Kind of like the «what books are you reading» post from a few months back — which I printed out and am slowly and luxuriously making my way through, on the theory that people who read and appreciate your recipes, like me, probably also read books I'd like!

Lay back, wrap yourself in a cozy throw blanket, grab a good book, sit by the window and enjoy an afternoon of winter's delight, with a glass of this VEGAN Vanilla Masala chai to warm you from the inside out, as the fragrances envelop you in a cocoon of headiness and transport you to a different world in a different time.

And if you doubt her, just check out the back of the book where she lists pages of resources, recommended brands, and texts she consulted in order to make this collection of recipes so successful.

The powerfully built centre back had been on Inter Milan's books for three years but only managed one appearance during a spell that involved talented youngster being farmed out on loan to a succession of clubs including Treviso and Pisa.

Our strength and conditioning apartment is a shambles, do they address it, no course they don't too busy looking at revenue for a single summer signing just to try and put a temporary smile back on our face, just to keep the books rolling a bit longer so they can squeeze every last drop out of us hardworking fans.

Then they drove back to the hotel and assembled again in the St. Louis Room, where Bell began hitting them with the questions he had dug out of his black book on the plane.

Another superb player on the books at Dortmund, Arsenal could do with forking out around # 30m that would be needed to sign world class centre - back Mats Hummels, with the club currently weak in depth at the back and in need of improvements.

a student who goes for lectures, reads his books, does his assignments and buys his text books with the money given him, will get my backing any day any time even if he doesn't come out top of his class.

It may be a little too early for the Arsenal midfielder to be thinking about a place at the World Cup in Russia next summer, as he is currently out of the England national team set - up and before he gets back in there is the small matter of getting his place in the Arsenal side once again, but I am sure that Jack Wilshere will have thought about it as England booked their place for next summer.

You asked where out youth system is, well where was yours when Fabregas was on your books??? Now weve turned him into the player he is today you want him back and think you have some claim over him because your greedy bastards and think you have the right to do as you please because the spanish banks and governments will bail you out... ha ha ha you plank, im sure you would point to messi as a product of your GREAT youth academy yet if we were to point to Fabregas, Song, Van Persie, Clichy, Ashley cole and Wilshere you would no doubt claim he is spanish.....

«Conte won't like this, but he needs to take a leaf out of Mourinho's book and turn the focus of discussions back onto football.

It took a few days of our kid crying himself to sleep before he started singing or chatting or happily role - playing himself to sleep - and now, the routine leading up to bedtime is so much fun (a few books on the potty, brush the teeth, read another book, a final trip to the potty, turn out the lights, start twinkle twinkle, ok another trip to the potty if you must but no piggy back this time, restart «TTLS» and he's tucked in for the night).

Sadly, our car trouble quite literally steered us out of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art before we could go in, but we all left so enamoured with the whole area that we're sure we'll be back there soon.

If you don't have time to read the book, simply clip out the summary chart of «Whole - Brain» parenting strategies from the back of the book and glance at it every so often; the emotional fabric of your family life will surely benefit.

Tiny children have it naturally, then we condition it out of our kids until as adults, we spend a fortune on books, programes and processess, trying to get back to it!

Don't just ready baby books, you can read out of any book you are reading, or magazines, read the back of cereal boxes, point out the pictures.

I did make an exception in my baby book for the Grandmother's Favorite blanket, inspired by the famous washcloth pattern of the same name in which yarn overs are used to create the edging of a blanket worked from one corner out and back again.

I received a copy of this book to review back in April and I didn't get a chance to read the whole thing, but my husband has been getting a kick out of it!

For those commenters who were asking about books to read on early (er) potty learning (i.e., not potty learning from birth, usually called Elimination Communication, but earlier than is usually done today in North America and Britain) I recommend Jill M. Lekovic's «Diaper - Free Before 3»: http://www.diaperfreebefore3.com/excerpt.html She can be a little intimidating (if I remember correctly her chapter on «later» potty learning covers starting after 6 - 9 months, which could freak many people out, I know), but her methods are gentle, respectful (of child and parent) and quite Montessori in many respects (going back to Hedra's comments above).