Sentences with phrase «first big author»

For me, the most memorable event was our first big author signing in the early 1980s with Roxanne Pulitzer.

Wiley, TS Wiley, who's the first big author to write about the effect of lighting on our health, going back to the early»90s, I met her a while back, maybe 2001.

Not exact matches

And the amount of muscle you have to put into a book is the biggest surprise for most first - time authors.

First, with regard to the question about the poor, the author is suggesting that these candidates make a big deal of their Christian beliefs, yet seem not to care at all about «the poor.»

From The Author: «Dive spoon - first into a big scoop of this safe - to - eat, vegan and gluten - free Edible Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.

With warmth and sensitivity, the authors guide young boys though the challenges and rewards of potty training — from the first steps to the joy of graduating to big boy underpants!

With warmth and sensitivity, the authors guide young girls though the challenges and rewards of potty training — from the first steps to the joy of graduating to big girl panties!

For instance, if the last author is a big name, readers could easily assume that the senior scientist provided the intellectual firepower, even if the first author did the heavy lifting, Stemwedel says.

A couple of first - author publications in an area closely related to your proposal will be a big advantage.

«Many studies deserve praise for being the first of their kind, but if we actually began relying on the claims made by big data surveillance in public health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the study.

Laila Noli, first author and PhD student from King's College London said: «Having two distinct ICMs within a single embryo of which one was bigger and more developmentally advanced than the other was an unexpected finding.

«I believe this work is one of the biggest advancements in considering the viability of a simple synthetic approach,» said Ph.D. candidate Sun - Min Jung, the first author of this article.

Wei Liu, a TSRI staff scientist who was first author of the study, said, «It's a big advantage that you don't have to harvest individual crystals — you can just load the whole gel - like sample with embedded microcrystals in the injector and start collecting data.

«Thanks to this detection, the team has been able to study for the first time the properties of extremely faint objects formed not long after the big bang,» said lead author Leopoldo Infante, an astronomer at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

«The boxfish is small and yet it survives in the ocean where it is surrounded by bigger, aggressive fish, at a depth of 50 to 100 meters,» said Wen Yang, a UC San Diego alumna now working at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in Switzerland and the paper's first author.

«The story told in most textbooks and museums is that as grasslands gradually took over from forests, horses got bigger, and they reduced their toes to a single digit,» said first author Brianna McHorse, a Ph.D. student working in the labs of Assistant Professor Stephanie Pierce and Professor Andrew Biewener in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

«That big a drop actually reduced the risk levels to those of about 20 years ago,» says Peter Ravdin of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, the first author on that study.

«One big problem we have is that tens of thousands of human genome variants and phenotypes are spread throughout a number of databases, each one with their own organization and nomenclature that aren't easily accessible,» said Julia Wang, an M.D. / Ph.D. candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Baylor and a McNair Student Scholar in the Bellen lab, as well as first author on the publication.

«One of the biggest challenges in designing an achromatic broadband lens is making sure that the outgoing wavelengths from all the different points of the metalens arrive at the focal point at the same time,» said Wei Ting Chen, a postdoctoral fellow at SEAS and first author of the paper.

First author on the paper Dr Rebecca Mead, a former teacher herself, said: «It's remarkable that such a simple and cost - free intervention makes such a big difference.

«A big take home message for me is the fact that high - impact diets are such a large part of the overall contribution to food - related greenhouse gases,» said U-M researcher Martin Heller, first author of a paper scheduled for publication March 20 in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

Freshly secreted sweat has little odor, because the long - chain fatty acids the axillaries secrete are too big to be volatile, says first author, Chris Callewaert of Ghent University, Belgium.

«Within these big troop networks over time social preferences are generally dictated by age, rank, personality and so on,» said Dr Alecia Carter, from the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology, first author of the study.

Those cognitive styles turn up in a personality test called the Big Five, which assesses people for openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism; only the first two have been strongly linked to political tendencies, says New York University (N.Y.U.) social psychologist John Jost, another author on the study.

«It is very striking that when we compare the size and shape of the Big Bird beaks with the beak morphologies of the other three species inhabiting Daphne Major, the Big Birds occupy their own niche in the beak morphology space,» said Sangeet Lamichhaney, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the first author on the study.

I first discovered the fascinating truth about why bigger muscles aren't necessarily better when I spoke with author Paul Jaminet on my podcast about his theory that a smaller muscle that can exert more force is a healthier muscle, and that a gargantuan but comparatively «weak» muscle is an unhealthy muscle.

This also isn't the first text by Talty to receive the big screen treatment, with the author having reportedly ghost - written «A Captain's Duty» which formed the basis of Paul Greengrass» maritime thriller Captain Phillips.

As he does, «The Little Prince» makes a remarkable stylistic leap from the accomplished but familiar CG environs of these opening scenes (big - eyed, bobble - headed humans; modernist - futurist design influences) into 2D stop - motion animation, bringing the world of Saint - Exupery's original story to life in beautiful handcrafted images based on the author's own crudely elegant watercolors (seen in the book's first printing and all subsequent editions).

«Harry Potter» fans will be delighted to discover author J.K. Rowling's latest work, «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» — the first of five new films penned exclusively for the big screen.

This is the first time revered and reclusive American author Thomas Pynchon has been adapted for the big screen; you could say he's found his perfect match in the man behind Magnolia and There Will Be Blood.

Despite an upcoming appearance at this years Film4 Frightfest, the future still looks bleak for Stephen Sommers» big - screen adaptation of the first of horror author Dean Koontz» ODD THOMAS series of novels.

Despite the number of Nicholas Sparks» novels that have been tailored for the big screen, this is the first time the author has penned the screenplay as well.

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Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers are the authors of more than 40 books and professional articles for educators, including, most recently, Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas (ASCD, 2016), Smarter Teacher Leadership: Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration (Teachers College Press, 2016), Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well - Being (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice (Teachers College Press, 2013) and Flourishing in the First Five Years: Connecting Implications from Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013).

Editor's note: This is the first post in a five - part series which takes a look at five big ideas for implementation of the Common Core State Standards, authored by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins

If you haven't already heard the big news, Articulate released their first major upgrade to their award - winning rapid e-learning authoring tool, bringing us to Articulate Storyline 2.

The placement tests that determine whether students are ready for college - level work are the first big hurdle to graduation, say the authors of a new study on California community colleges.

Meanwhile, the Big 6 expect a first - time author to sell 20,000 - 50,000 books before they'll renew their contract.

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Even if an author's first book hits it big, they still put the time, effort, and investment into it.

After self - publishing her first two novels, this author shares what she sees as the biggest advantages and disadvantages of self - publishing.

Back when my first novel was published in 1997, authors went on book tours, scheduling talks and signings at bookstores, groceries, and even stopping at drugstores and big - box retail stores to sign books on the shelves.

ADVANCE TEASERS — Have you noticed how many big named authors release the first 10 chapters or so for a new novel coming out shortly?

Big name authors are going the indie route to get back the control they lost when they first signed with a publisher.

Authors need to focus on the big picture first, then follow up with sentence - level work if the problems are severe enough to frustrate an agent or a publisher.

THERE»S NO PLACE LIKE HOME A bigger switch comes from New York Times best - selling author Connie Brockway, who offers her first contemporary with Hot Dish, a novel that turns out to be that rarest of breeds, a contemporary romance that isn't chick lit or divorce lit or even (much) of a romantic suspense, but a hot main dish for the savvy reader who knows pure romance can be a hearty meal in itself.

Story2Go, first interviewed by Good e-Reader at Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, launched at the time with an inexpensive iOS app that allowed authors and creators to essentially build their ebooks with simple drag - and - drop and uploading features, then rely on the bigger guns to actually distribute the book to a variety of app stores.

It made up the FIRST issue of my Kindle Cheatsheets series and was titled: «The Critical FIRST Step To Success on Kindle»... and is the biggest secret to the best selling authors on Kindle.

At first Eric's biggest best social media was Facebook where he had set up his author page.

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