Sentences with phrase «descriptions of books by»
Featuring works spanning nearly 200 years, Black Authors offers annotated descriptions of books by subject area, such as autobiography, education, philosophy, and technology.
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The modern - day bible for this way of thinking is a 2014 book by Belgian organizational behaviour consultant Frederic Laloux called Reinventing Organizations, which posits that reporting structures (and, indeed, job descriptions) have no purpose in the workplace of the future.
In addition to a brief biographical introduction detailing Cram's life, the book presents a brief description of each of his projects, accompanied by a cornucopia of plans, perspectives, and photographs.
Consider the description of executive behavior offered by John Kenneth Gaibraith in his 1967 book, «The New Industrial State»: «Management does not go out ruthlessly to reward itself - a sound management is expected to exercise restraint.»
Others see it as a description of the German Third Reich, defeated by the Allied armies even as the book was germinating in the author's mind.
The description of this holiday (holy - day) is followed in the Book of Nehemiah by the discovery that God had intended this festival to last seven days and to include the building of booths for the people to live in temporarily while they celebrated.
Since that sermon by Jesus serves as a description of summary of how His disciples should look and act, the same can be said of the book of James.
By far, the most exciting thing in the book for me was the description on pages 118 - 120 about the stages of faith.
Here's a description of the Slow Church book by Christopher Smith and others:
While we travel comfortably by rail, we read the book's description of the perilous roads and trails.
These led me to his earlier works, which consistently vindicated Kass's self - description in his justly acclaimed Towards a More Natural Science: «The author of this book is by reading a moralist, by education a generalist, by training a physician and biochemist, by vocation a teacher» and student» of philosophical texts, and by choice a lover of serious conversations, who thinks best when sharing thoughts and speeches with another.»
The first recipe that caught my eye in the book was an Indian dish, which was accompanied by her description of seeing a woman dressed in a colorful sari at a market, who was possibly a spice vendor, eating a bowl of something she describes as ``... beautiful and simple and you knew at a glance that it tasted good.»
THE FIRST MESS COOKBOOK by Laura Wright The description on the front of this book, «vibrant plant - based recipes to eat well through the seasons», describes it's pages perfectly.
Remember these when you see fresh cranberries» This is the description of these muffins from the book Maida Heatter's Cake by Maida Heatter.
I now recommend the book, «Natural Birth the Bradley Way» to all my pregnant friends, even those planning on an epidural, because it has by far the best descriptions of what to expect from labor that I found (had not come across Birthing from Within), as well as offering techniques for managing early labor which are helpful all the way through, or pre-epi if that's the option someone has chosen.
As you can guess from the foregoing description, Lunch Money is meant to be a highly practical resource for managers of school food services departments, and it is they, not lay readers, who are addressed directly by the author in this book.
By Sarah Olmsted Published By Roost Books Fall 2012 Description: For children, potential is limitless, curiosity is an electrical current, and every moment is open to the possibility of the unexpected.
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For some descriptions of how autonomous education can work in practice, you could check some home educating family blogs, or read the book «Free Range Education: How Home Education Works», edited by Terri Dowty.
The breakthrough came in 1665, when the English Royal Society published the first popular science book, Micrographia (with the subtitle Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon).
Volk: Yeah, okay, so this was suggested by a friend of mine, because in our previous book Gaia's Body I had just [a] three or four paragraph description about [a] carbon atom's travels, and he said, «Why don't you have this in the new book?»
Whoever Geber was, Newman was struck by the range of ideas in his book, which contains everything from details about refining metals to a description of the essential behaviors of matter.
My husband passed along Michael Pollan's book Omnivore's Dilemma when he was done, and I was especially fascinated by Joel Salatin's Polyface Farms, specifically Michael's description of the techniques used to raise pastured beef, eggs and chicken and the resulting health of the farm's entire ecosystem.
The New Arthritis Breakthrough: The Only Medical Therapy Clinically Proven to Produce Long - term Improvement and Remission of RA, Lupus, Juvenile RA, Fibromyalgia, Scleroderma, Spondyloarthropathy and other Forms of Arthritis by Henry Scammell gives a very clear and concise description of the Marshall Protocol, an antibiotic based relief program for auto - immune disease, which the book claims are in reality mycoplasma infestations.
A: For a detailed explanation of women's hormone balance issues, a hormone balance program, as well as detailed descriptions of how to use natural progesterone, the following books by John R. Lee, M.D. are recommended:
On here looking for genuine female friends - leading to a beach and paddling at dawn - im larger than life character - def a book you should not judge by the cover - lots of interesting stories inside - i like going to watch friends rock band — writing - meeting and talking - im self employed - last job was a steeplejack - but fell through a floor - oops i guess best place to start is to talk to me - best description is a giantgentlebear - im looking for someone to talk too any where in the world or outer
Immediately download the Hamlet summary, chapter - by - chapter analysis, book notes, essays, quotes, character descriptions, lesson plans, and more The Dating of the Gospels.
Description: Traveling psychic Manfred Bernardo (François Arnaud) settles in the small Texas town of Midnight and discovers there are more to the people in town than meets the eye in this supernatural drama based on the book series by Charlaine Harris.
The future team leader, Cyclops (played by Tye Sheridan), is making a bit of a departure from his comic book origins with EW's description of him as a «bad boy.»
There's a subplot involving Tatiana's crush on Denny (Jackson Beard), a fundamentalist Christian who likes reading books with graphic descriptions of Hell, writes heavy metal songs about his beliefs, and, in one scene, displays a twisted way of atoning for his sins (attempting to carve a cross on his chest, before he's interrupted by his father).
The Coens meticulously select the most filmic moments of McCarthy's terse, gripping book; they trim the sheriff's nostalgic reveries and philosophising, embellish and enhance the action, and succeed overall in transforming the novel's economic descriptions into a full - blown world populated by vivid, plausible characters.
I've included a description of a typical session, list of Socratic questions for use by the teacher during discussions and a list of picture book resources for young children, and another list containing some story - based resources for older children.
According to the description on ASCD's page for the newly released book, Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day, by flipped - classroom pioneers Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann, «In this model of instruction, students watch recorded lectures for homework and complete their assignments, labs, and tests in class.»
«Learning by Doing is not only the title of an incredibly powerful book, it is also the description of our districts journey over the last five years.
Your students will have fun creating a project based on the main characters of their books by planning a birthday party for them, rather than writing typically boring character descriptions.
The Authors: Jason Creekmore & Shannon Deaton Description: The goal of the book is simple: To improve student achievement by helping teachers implement active learning strategies in the classroom.
However, in the first chapter of «The Hobbit» by J.R.R. Tolkien, we tapped the icon to find a history of the book itself, a detailed description of Bilbo Baggins and a definition of dwarf as it relates to Tolkien's world.
Descriptions of the store include that the books are «all faced out,» to increase interest in ones that might've otherwise been overlooked if they were lined up by their spines, as in most other stores.
They pay attention to the subtleties of marketing on Amazon by paying attention to categories, keywords, excellent book descriptions and so on.
Yet, unlike in the US, the book descriptions being sent by CreateSpace have lower priority on European sites than descriptions already there — so if you've submitted content through any other channel over the past decade, you're out of luck.
Achieve this by naming the other books in the description of Book One.
Some of the main books discussed were those educating children about the human body — books that include drawings and descriptions of the human anatomy, such as It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris.
While that description hardly seems applicable to the women of today, both Collins and writer and journalist Anna Quindlen — in a new afterword — remark upon the still - persuasive power of Friedan's words, as well as the timelessness and relatability of the stories shared by the women she interviewed while researching and writing the book.
It succeeds as a standalone read, as a prologue brings readers up to date with a concise description of Saville's alternative world, while an intriguing author's note explains the very real history behind the book: a Nazi plan to «quarantine» Jews in Poland beginning in 1939, and the subsequent unsuccessful Nazi «Madagaskar - Projekt,» hatched by SS leader Heinrich Himmler in 1940.
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The bottom line: Nobody wants to suck at any part of their author business yet tons of authors out there write long, abhorrent descriptions of their book like they're being paid by the word.
I wanted to try the Amazon description tool and the tool for submitting your free book to all the right sites (both of which were excellent), but was blown away by the tool to pull emails from Amazon reviewers, the support and training, and several other useful tools.
You do this by setting up a series of pointers (in the backs of books, in product descriptions) in order to steer readers to the places you want them to go, and to give them compelling reasons to do so.
As you can see by looking at the table of contents, it goes beyond a simple Amazon book description generator to create HTML for Kindle and CreateSpace.
An intriguing description of the kind of fiction or nonfiction you write, as well as what the reader can hope to learn or experience by reading your books.