Sentences with phrase «few modern authors»

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Whisper that to yourself a few times, and file those expense reports, you cubicle - dwelling worker bees, because according to the authors, the modern organization — maddeningly imperfect and dysfunctional as it may seem — is here to stay.

That was one of the topics discussed at a workshop in Vancouver, B.C., on love put on by Carrie Jenkins, a philosophy professor at the University of British Columbia, that featured many wonderful speakers besides Jenkins, whose thought - provoking book, What Love Is And What It Could Be, comes out in a few weeks, including Marina Adshade, UBC professor of economics, author of of Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and entertaining TEDx speaker; and Mandy Len Catron, who teaches writing at UBC and whose Modern Love essay on how to make anyone fall in love with you was one of the most - read Modern Loves, and that lead her to write a book on love essays that comes out in 2017.

«Very few, if any, medical discoveries have had a larger impact on modern medicine than the discovery and development of antibiotics,» said senior author Ronald C. Montelaro, Ph.D., professor and co-director of Pitt's CVR.

In the past few years, sleep loss as a disorder characterizing the 24 - hour lifestyle of modern societies has increasingly been shown to represent an additional behavioral factor adversely affecting metabolic health,» write the authors.

Based on the first major work of Pulitzer Prize - winning author John Steinbeck, this rousing tale of farm laborers fighting for a few more dollars a day takes on modern relevance as workers across the U.S. continue the struggle for a living wage.

The author articulated a framework called critical software studies, which seeks to unpack the way software, which is what comprises modern technologies, demands a kind of scrutiny few acknowledge and consider when preparing future educators.

A recent article in The Guardian by We Need to Talk about Kevin author, Lionel Shriver (who I was lucky enough to meet at a literary festival a few years ago) rightly said: «If all modern literature comes to toe the same goody - goody line, fiction is bound to grow timid, homogeneous, and dreary.»

The author was a guest on Conan a few days ago and mentioned «I hate some of these modern systems where you type a lowercase letter and it becomes a capital.

• Very few authors who debut with major publishers make enough money to earn a living — and modern advances don't cover the difference.

Dan Koboldt on Dan Koboldt Author and Scientist An Experiment in Amazon Sales Rank «Few things are more obsessed - over by modern authors than Amazon Best Sellers Rank.

Few things are more obsessed - over by modern authors than Amazon Best Sellers Rank.

Most authors will have heard the gurus proclaiming that building an email list is essential for modern - day writing success, but very few start with the basics to explain why that is.

One of my favorite authors is updating one of my favorite kids / YA series of books so that they are a little more modern, she starting writing these books 30 years ago and things have changed since the time of the Apple II (we now have internet, smartphones, WiFi and text messaging) while at the same time clarifying some plot points and even adding a few scenes and plot enhancements, these are only available as ebooks at this point.

If John Green - type contemporary realistic books are trending down in the YA category, and supernatural witch - based modern fantasy is trending up sharply, HarperCollins may come up with a «bible» of plot, character sketches, setting, etc. and ask a few select authors to provide a chapter, effectively competing to see which one will be allowed to write the story (or in some cases the series) in a compressed timeframe.