Sentences with phrase «decades before he published»

Steven Pressfield was a struggling writer for nearly two decades before he published The Legend of Bagger Vance, which subsequently became a Hollywood hit starring Will Smith.

It was, then, over two decades before he published Origin of Species that Darwin replaced biblical literalism with a «more simple and sublime» theology, one in which God is viewed as ordaining that creation operate without interference, through the natural law that he established.

I was full time writer with huge freedom of selecting my themes for well over a decade before the publishing market in our country crashed and I decided to try my luck on Web with much bigger market, more chance to find my niche, but also much more competition.

When you consider that Arrhenius also persisted in adhering to the luminiferous aether theory even though Michelson and Morley falsified it nearly a decade before he published his greenhouse «theory» he was wrong on first principles to begin with.

Not exact matches

For example, several decades ago, before he started publishing The Robb Report, White was a college student with some extra money.

«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.

In the decade since their blockbuster international bestseller Winning was published, Jack and Suzy Welch have dug deeper into business, traveling the world consulting to organizations of every size and in every industry, speaking before hundreds of audiences, working closely with entrepreneurs from Mumbai to Silicon Valley, and, in 2010, starting their own fully accredited online MBA program, 30

Published in 1844 and recounting a journey in the Middle East made a decade before, it is a masterpiece of the wry and elliptically self - mocking English travel memoir; only Eric Newby improved on the model in any respect.

Three decades before the current writing by feminist therapists, she was publishing papers challenging the blatantly patriarchal presuppositions of Freud.

The Hebrew Bible had found its way into print decades before Erasmus published the first Greek New Testament in 1516.

The seven - day rainfall total from Harvey was as much as 40 percent higher than rainfall from a similar storm would have been decades ago, before human activity caused atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to spike, according to a study published yesterday in Geophysical Research Letters.

A Panamanian park has lost around 40 percent of its amphibian species in the past decade, with some dying out before biologists had even learned of their existence, according to research published July 19 in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.

Not what I read from just a book or in a research paper (though, trust me, I've read a few... all the way from texts published in 1896 to the latest research journals) but what I've had hammered into me through over two decades of unbroken dedication to weight training; what I've seen other people go through and what I've learned from people who have gone before me.

Furthermore, it is well published in the literature (however not widely known in the clinical world) that these auto - antibodies can be raised for many years, even decades before symptoms occur.

Coming at the end of 1974, the film touches on themes popularized by Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique published a decade before but still very much a part of the ongoing women's movement at the time.

Published exclusively by Creature Features, with a lavish introduction by original OUTER LIMITS zine publisher Ted C. Rypel, this limited trade paperback is jam - packed with never - before - published publicity and making - of photos, five decades of rare merchandise, exclusive photos of surviving props, plus stunning, newly commissioned OUTER LIMITS artworks from legendary artists Bernie Wrightson, Tim Bradstreet, Steve Bissette, Published exclusively by Creature Features, with a lavish introduction by original OUTER LIMITS zine publisher Ted C. Rypel, this limited trade paperback is jam - packed with never - before - published publicity and making - of photos, five decades of rare merchandise, exclusive photos of surviving props, plus stunning, newly commissioned OUTER LIMITS artworks from legendary artists Bernie Wrightson, Tim Bradstreet, Steve Bissette, published publicity and making - of photos, five decades of rare merchandise, exclusive photos of surviving props, plus stunning, newly commissioned OUTER LIMITS artworks from legendary artists Bernie Wrightson, Tim Bradstreet, Steve Bissette, and more!

The sequence was generated by classroom teachers nationwide — some of whom had used the Stop & Think Program for almost a decade (from 1990 to 2000 — before the curriculum was formally published.

Book Agent John Silbersack spent a decade and a half working at publishing houses before he became an agent.

Published in the Commonwealth last year, this first novel is a challenging stream - of - consciouness narrative, told from the perspective of a young girl, that proved a tough sell: McBride spent most of a decade shopping it around before finding a home with a small press.

Published in the Commonwealth last year, A Girl Is a Half - Formed Thing is a challenging stream - of - consciouness narrative, told from the perspective of a young girl, that proved a tough sell: McBride spent most of a decade shopping it around before finding a home with Norwich's Galley Beggar Press.

The publisher went on to explain that the world of publishing has changed more over the course of the last decade than in the hundreds of years before it.

I know an author who wrote for a publisher (with agent and editor) for nearly three decades, at about 4 % royalty, before realizing that she could earn far more by self - publishing.

The Addison County writer worked on her first manuscript for about a decade before self - publishing it.

It's the format that designers have been sending to printers for decades, so, strictly speaking, every book you've read that was published since the turn of the century was almost certainly a PDF before it was printed.

Unlike a decade before where getting a publisher to publish your book was the hardest thing to do, self - publishing now is equivalent to having your own fairy godmother, ready to grant all your wishes.

Joel knows writing & publishing from the inside: he's been doing it for decades — long before the self - publishing became popularly associated with personal brand - building for professional, small - business, and entrepreneurial success.

We have speculated before that back in 2003 and 2004 when Jeff Bezos, Steven Kessel, and others began dreaming up the Kindle and its associated publishing and retail platform, they were driven by fears that the rise of ebooks — with some other parties in the drivers» seats — could, within a decade, destroy the retail print book business that was then the core of their business.

Fantasy author Joseph Malik has been writing for decades before he turned to self - publishing.

The sole known published reference to the «nanny dog» notion, before the rise of opposition to breed - specific laws in recent decades, came in a 1922 work of fiction, Pep: The Story of A Brave Dog, by Clarence Hawkes, a blind man who wrote by dictating his stories and, though able to spin a gripping yarn, routinely muddled his facts.

Colonel Konrad Most, who published «Training Dogs: A Manual» in 1910, was using many of the same principles that Skinner studied, decades before he described them.

However, even though these profiles were updated as of 2016 by panels of canine and feline nutrition experts, the data they are based on were largely published before 2003, and are already more than a decade out of date.

This collection of never - before - published talks at one of the leading art schools in the United States, documents an exciting decade in the development of contemporary art and arts education, featuring interviews with renowned artists, curators, and writers.

The most significant and comprehensive collection of Siskind works published in decades, this sumptously produced monograph brings together both well - known and never - before - published images from his six - decade career.

As I said to Andy Revkin (and he published on his blog), the additional decade of temperature data from 2000 onwards (even the AR4 estimates typically ignored the post-2000 years) can only work to reduce estimates of sensitivity, and that's before we even consider the reduction in estimates of negative aerosol forcing, and additional forcing from black carbon (the latter being very new, is not included in any calculations AIUI).

He was also a coauthor of a book published in 1989 that contained the first comprehensive analysis of implications of the 2 - degree warming limit, two decades before the G8 nations accepted this normative target.

It has been well known for decades that the WMP and LIA was real and significant.Long before the stupid and proven junk science was published.

(3) The expectation in AR4 (2007) of warming over the coming two decades is not falsified by slower warming over the period before it was published.

Before the salesmen for renewables side - track this thread, I write to quote the conclusion of my paper published a decade ago which I referenced in my above post at June 16, 2011 at 5:20 am ============================================================== Richard, thanks for that.

Before the salesmen for renewables side - track this thread, I write to quote the conclusion of my paper published a decade ago which I referenced in my above post at June 16, 2011 at 5:20 am

Lets take a look at the same phenomenon in the decades just before the satellite age — I use original temperature data published en around 1974 - 84 for this:

It happened once before — a decade ago when lawyers first began to publish legal information on the Web — and it is happening again now with the spread of legal blogs, says Kevin O'Keefe at LexBlog Blog:

The number of death sentences imposed during 2009 was 106, down from 111 the year before, 284 a decade ago, and a high of 328 in 1994, according to a year - end report published today by the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization that opposes the death penalty.

In 1990 he wrote a Master's thesis on the bureaucratic efforts to undermine the Commons Special Committee on Indian Self - Government, and later wrote a doctoral dissertation on the testimony of First Nations lea ders before a succession of joint Senate - Commons Committees on the Constitution during the decade before patriation, part of which was published in 2006 under the title Speaking with Authority: The Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations Self - Government (Routledge).

In an article recently published on the National Public Radio (NPR) website, Attorney and safe hiring expert Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR), says employers must perform a kind of balancing act with background checks since «every story of a person denied a job because of some youthful indiscretion decades in the past» is usually balanced by a «case of a registered sex offender whose record was not properly checked before being hired for a job involving interaction with the public.»