Sentences with phrase «control over your author»

Just as Amazon gives authors quite a bit of control over their Author Page, they also give authors the opportunity to edit much of the information that appears on their book's Product Detail Page including the Product Description, About the Author, From the Author, From the Inside Flap, From the Back Cover, and Reviews.

Once big corporate publishers got control over their authors ebook prices they jacked up the price.

Authors Guild and that new body are vying for control over authors, both do little good, other than issue blind mandates without consulting the body they represent.

Yet, every day, writers click ACCEPT to contracts with self - publishing companies that take too much control over the author's work.

Since Amazon & Amazon UK have so much control over Author's books — they should at least have a policy of CONTACTING the Author when things appear to be out - of - order.

QUESTION: Do you prefer more or less flexibility when it comes to control over your author website?

Not exact matches

(John Gray, # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Men Are from Mars, Women are from Venus, What You Feel You Can Heal, and Staying Focused in a Hyper World) «This is a wonderful, thoughtful book that will guide you and inspire you to get complete control over your drinking problem once and for all.»

Author Silver Donald Cameron says of the «Security and Prosperity Partnership»: «The SPP is the new name for the old American project of Manifest Destiny — absolute control over the whole continent.»

let alone the god they present, one who could have created any kind of world he wanted, like an author who has complete control over what shows up in a fictional work; why would god then giddily create / allow so much pain and evil?

The authors seem to think that there's something inexorable about the growth, as if, for example, it's impossible to conceive of a president not wanting to exercise substantial control over our healthcare system.

CNN: My Take: It's time for evangelicals to speak up about guns Pastor and author Daniel Darling urges evangelicals to participate in the debate over access to guns, and to acknowledge that there is «no clear - cut Christian position on gun control.»

An author only has control over those sort of details if she self - publishes, which I have not done.

«Parents have less direct control over making older children sleep, so it becomes about making them a partner and teaching them the importance of getting a good night's rest,» says Elizabeth Pantley, author of The No - Cry Sleep Solution.

The author encourages women to develop all of their bodily resources for giving birth, to follow their own instincts, and to take more control over the experience of giving birth.

In principle that could reduce the threshold for an efficient win to (1 / n), but I don't know of any author who assumes that amount of control over opposition voters, since Duverger's Law kicks in.

If we can take this document: http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/orientation#faq5 as a reasonable discussion of Zeitgeist's beliefs you'll notice in the section «The «Prima Facie» Fallacy» that this particular branch of Zeitgeist argues directly for a technocratic and anti-democratic control over production; as opposed to the humanism that the collective author claims to see in Marxist communism.

The authors argue that for tropical forests to remain an important carbon sink, indigenous groups will need greater control over their forests.

This allows us to create very clean samples and gives us full control over the essential system parameters,» says Puneet Murthy, a PhD student at the Center for Quantum Dynamics at Heidelberg University and one of the lead authors of this publication.

Beilock acknowledges that connection, but adds that the authors have no financial interest in app and the foundation had no control over the data.

The study's authors recommend that educators, administrators, and parents work to strengthen students» positive emotions and minimize negative emotions related to school subjects, for example, by helping students gain a greater sense of control over their performance.

To test how the brain exercises this inhibitory control over behavior, the authors trained rats to press a lever to obtain sugar pellets.

«We found that 20 percent of MS patients over the age of 50 have cerebral microbleeds compared to 7 percent of healthy controls,» said Ferdinand Schweser, PhD, assistant professor of neurology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB and senior author on the paper.

«Conventional wisdom may lead us to believe that individuals with greater control over their resources are more charitable, reflecting a greater capacity to give,» write authors DaHee Han (McGill University), Ashok K. Lalwani, and Adam Duhachek (both Indiana University Bloomington).

The authors examined a concept known as power distance belief (PDB)-- individual acceptance and expectation of social hierarchy — and its relationship with charitable giving and power, defined as the control one has over valued resources.

Dr. Sunil Khaparde, Manager of India's Revised National TB Control Program (RNTCP) and one of the authors said: «While India's RNTCP has achieved tremendous success over the years, the country continues to have a large number of TB cases.

The reason could be that plant defenses against pathogens gradually weaken after a fire, Moritz and Odion speculate — for instance, from stiffer competition among plants as they grow, decreased chemical defenses as they age, or depletion of soil nutrients.The findings suggest that California's fight against forest fires over many decades may have precipitated or accelerated the outbreak, and that perhaps controlled burning could be used to halt it, the authors say.

The retraction notice explains that the other authors of the article, Arndt von Haeseler and Korbinian Strimmer, «have no control over the licensing of the software and support the retraction.»

«Using laser tweezers to study red blood cell invasion gives us an unprecedented level of control over the whole process and will help us to understand this critical process at a level of detail that has not been possible before,» says senior study author Julian Rayner of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

«Over the past five to 10 years, types of illicit drugs used around the world have been created or repurposed from research chemicals to mimic the effects of traditional drugs of abuse in order to circumvent legal control and detection,» explained corresponding author Sabra Botch - Jones, MS, MA, D - ABFT, forensic toxicologist and instructor in the Biomedical Forensic Sciences program in the department of anatomy and neurobiology at BUSM.

Daniel Goleman, author of the best - selling book Emotional Intelligence, describes chronic stress and the subsequent feelings of loss of control as a «neural hijacking» in which the emotional brain takes over.

«The patient gets a simplified schedule, slightly more control over his daily life, the convenience of eating whenever he chooses and the opportunity to share the cost - savings with his insurance company,» said study lead author Dr. Russell Szmulewitz.

«It seems that developing stable, repeatable behaviors related to food intake and weight loss early on in a weight - control program is really important for maintaining changes over the long term,» said study lead author Emily Feig.

While the author acknowledges the importance of portion control he suggests that rather than measuring portions at each meal it is better to monitor your long - term intake over a week or more.

He is the author of «SuperCharge Your Brain: The Complete Guide to Radically Improve Your Mood, Memory and Mindset,» and the SuperCharged Recipe book with over 180 full - color recipes to help you take back control of your health.

The significant improvements in stress may have occurred because yoga provides its practitioners with ways to gain more control over their lives, thereby reducing stress, the study authors surmised.

«Eating in restaurants usually means less individual control over ingredients and cooking methods, as well as larger portion sizes,» the authors wrote.

When the movie underperformed, however, author EL James was able to wrestle more control over the franchise (like hiring husband Niall Leonard to take over scripting duties), resulting in a sequel that's so much worse.

Another proponent begins with a basic condition of test - taking, namely, stress, leading the authors to craft methods that allow students more control over the test but that identify cheating (one recommendation they make is to limit changed answers to 15 percent of the total number of answers).

Every Common Core critic who frets over loss of local control and nonexistent curricular - content mandates should be holding its authors and implementers to these words.

By giving these schools true control over their programs, staff, and curricula, and by opening them to all families, authors of the charter school law resurrected the true American vision of public schooling: equal access to great instruction and accountability for results.

The authors note that the schools given the opportunity to participate needed to «out - pace their counterparts in the control group» over the program's first two years in order to demonstrate that merit pay made a real difference for student achievement.

This article will build on the previous one and explain how to incorporate the standard Moodle activities into a Storyline presentation (we make use of Storyline, but these principles can apply to any authoring tool), thereby having complete control over your course navigation design.

You'll want to select an authoring tool that gives your team creative latitude while still empowering you with control over your brand standards.

The current eLearning authoring tools offer advanced character recognition and scoring for more control over how learners are assessed.

The authors conclude that holding teachers accountable for results must be paired with giving them control over the instruction that produces these results.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

Rapid e-learning Creation or Creative Flexibility - There is always a debate between how much easy to use, quick e-learning creation is required vs a full creative control over the course authoring.

Report author Anne Pinney says she is concerned about moves to extend school freedoms, which include giving those schools control over their admissions policies.

There's a lot of time and effort being put into analyzing the market by authors who really have control over one thing and one thing only: their books.

A self - published author retains control over every aspect of their book rather than turning over responsibility to a group of strangers who can not understand the book as well as the author.