Sentences with phrase «idea of giving books»

Many times authors don't like the idea of giving their book away for free.

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For me, there were three books that made the biggest impact: The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh gave me the idea to start the XPrize Foundation.

The book, Recycled Papers: The Essential Guide (MIT Press, 800-356-0343; $ 40, cloth; $ 25, paper), by Claudia Thompson, is itself printed on four types of recycled surfaces, to give you an idea of what to expect from recycled paper.

He was part of a New York City dinner circuit that includes people who believe the US should go back to the gold standard, rich people who don't think they should have to give back to society in the form of taxes, and anyone interested in either of those ideas who wanted to write a book about them.

Giving a new college graduate an 832 - page book by a professor sounds like a terrible idea — except your gift will probably register when you say it's on the recommendation of none other than Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.

If you're aiming more for creativity than productivity and have a bit more time to devote to a morning writing practice, you might want to give the idea of Morning Pages, developed by Julia Cameron in her book The Artist's Way, a try.

Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, the book that popularized the idea that mastery in a given field takes at least 10,000 hours of practice, had just come out, as had Geoff Colvin's Talent is Overrated and Daniel Coyle's The Talent Code, both of which emphasized the role of dedicated practice (and discounted natural - born talent) in excellence.

This book will give you dozens of new and fresh green ideas about how to not only market your business responsibility, but beat the pants off your competitors.»

Gallo's book is a treasure chest of ideas for blog posts, giving presentations and telling stories to help my clients with their content.

This book will give you dozens of new and fresh green ideas about how to not only market your business responsibility, but break new ground in solving the world's most pressing problems — AND beat the pants off your competitors.

He just wrote a book advocating for the idea of giving every working person in the U.S. $ 500 a month.

Perhaps the most practical of all the books on this list, Disunity in Christ will give you concrete ideas for how to move forward in your relationships, church, and community.

I am considering giving up on that book project of mine... But I think you are right, I should continue the project and see where the rabbit hole goes, and acknowledge that my ideas are provisional, as you say.

The listings in the World Government Address Book give some idea of the hundreds and hundreds of NGOs that make no bones about their dedication to, well, world government.

Maybe the Holy Spirit is at work around the world to bring multiple authors and pastors and theologians to similar ideas about similar things all at once, and so when I read something in someone else's book that sounds a lot like something I have written, but they don't give me credit, it is not that they «borrowed» from me, but because both of us were listening to what the Spirit has been whispering to minds all over the world.

But like you say — if most of an author's ideas and content are being pulled from the ideas of authors in other books, it is only right and fair to give them more crthan two footnotes especially if content, argument structure and illustrations are similar (credit: Jeremy Myers).

At least Author A reworded and summarized the ideas which are found in the books of Author B, but again, I feel that if most of an author's ideas and content are being pulled from the ideas of authors in other books, it is only right and fair to give them more credit than two footnotes.

I try to give credit for others thoughts or ideas whenever I know I am using them but I am sure, since I read a lot of others blogs, articles, and books some of what I think are my ideas have developed from a combination of my personal life experience and ideas or thoughts I have read or heard.

I just hate the idea of throwing a book at him as if there's a problem he has that a piece of literature can fix, so I plan to reach out to him, spend more time with him and make sure I'm not giving him reason to be anymore discouraged.

The very idea of an omnipotent god writing a book or only giving revelations to a select few is ludicrous.

I am a one - man show, however, and so this book gave me some ideas of what I can do to help get my books out faster, better, and into the hands of more people.

There I only gave it a B + as a book of rock criticism, partly on the basis of its too - encyclopedic style, but in retrospect, my sense is the power of its basic ideas will make it something of a classic of the genre.

They presented the main idea of each book, gave a synopsis of the outline and thoughtflow in the book, and discussed some of the major themes.

A first point seems to me to be this: to overcome [the] false idea of man's autonomy as an «I» complete in himself, whereas the «I» is fulfilled in the encounter with the «you» and «we»... It is fundamental to recover a true concept of Nature as the Creation of God that speaks to us... and also of Revelation: recognising that the book of Creation, in which God gives us our fundamental orientation, is deciphered in Revelation, which is endorsed in cultural and religious history, not without mistakes, but in a substantially valid manner, to be further developed and purified anew -LSB-... fostering] openness of the «I» to the «you», to the «we» and to the «You» of God.

In the second place, this anonymous book says, that this slaughter was done by the express command of God: but all our ideas of the justice and goodness of God give the lie to the book, and as I never will believe any book that ascribes cruelty and injustice to God, I therefore reject the Bible as unworthy of credit.

I was given your book as a gift and my mum thinks it would be good idea for us to try this way of eating!

I liked her Classics of Italian Cooking Books One and Two much better than Essentials because she gave ideas for accompaniments to her recipes.

Her docotor has recommened she gives up sugar to help the healing process, and I think this book would give her lots of ideas and inspiration!

Kathy's latest book, The Great Vegan Bean Book is full of recipes just like this that can give you fresh ideas for breakfast, lunch or dinbook, The Great Vegan Bean Book is full of recipes just like this that can give you fresh ideas for breakfast, lunch or dinBook is full of recipes just like this that can give you fresh ideas for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

I've taken the time to really dig into why I love each of these books, and share a handful of recipes from each to give you an idea of what to expect and to help you decide on if it would be a cookbook worth investing in for your kitchen too.

Holtzman took the idea to Henry Regnery Co., a Chicago publishing house, which gave him a cash advance and a contract for $ 12,000 on delivery of a book.

These odds can also help give you a better idea of where your favorite team is most likely to finish according to the books.

In this issue we give suggestions for LGBT family friendly vacation ideas, another installment of our regular column No Drama Mama parenting advice from Flavia Francesquini and new book blurbs.

You can also buy books for singles and use them separately for the children, which might be a good idea if you intend to give their baby books to them when they have kids of their own.

I'm not so much a martini mom, but the subtitle of this book should give you a pretty good idea why I thought I'd like it: «100 ways to find 10 blissful minutes for yourself» — that's pretty fantastic!

It is a bookworm's dream and gives you lots of great book ideas to dive into once you finish reading it.

To give you an idea of the style of the book and type of activities it includes we've got a FREE sample available to download.

We hear it from our family members, our schools, our pediatricians, our politicians, parenting books that continue to be published influenced by this old - fashioned thinking despite the mountains of research to the contrary — ideas of how children should be raised, based on personal opinion rather than research - backed fact, subtle revelation of how our society is still scared of giving «too much» nurturing to our children.

Finally, here's my favorite tip from my plan: to wait five minutes before giving my son attention during a night waking, a variation of the «pause» idea common in France, according to the book Bringing Up Bebe.

the book is laid out well, giving parents, teachers, or caregivers a good idea of how easily the activities come together 2.

These «doctors of obstetrics» wrote books and gave advice on something they knew nothing about other than ideas they'd heard over the ages.

I was given the book babywise and have since learned how stupid the whole western idea of solitary sleep is when you understand how human milk is produced and human milk for human bubs is obviously ideal although I am glad we have formula for situations in which it is impossible and feel for women who miss out on all the closeness of cosleeping / breastfeeding etc..

Elizabeth Pantley gives you creative ideas to help along the potty process, my favorite (and my daughters) was a box of wrapped little presents (i.e., play dough, crayons, coloring book) and whenever my daughter used the potty she got a gift.

As a matter of fact, it was one of the few books, if not, the only book, that gave way to the idea of husbands being present in the birthing room.

The developmental milestones listed in this book will give you a general idea of the changes you can expect, but don't be alarmed if your own baby's development takes a slightly different course.

Once you've booked your stay at one of our Beaches Resorts, you can contact our Engagement Concierge, who'll be able to give you a variety of ideas, from romantic to adventurous, that will make your proposal memorable.

Great baby shower idea: give this book and a gift certificate for their choice of baby carrier... they'll thank you from the bottom of their hearts!

Yet, as with the original Baby Led Weaning book, being on the paleo diet makes us disagree with much of the dietary information and ideas about healthy meals that are given in the book.

Start out by looking at pictures of farm scenery with your child using the Farming book, magazines, or even online to give them an idea to start from.

There are so many sleep training books, sites, fountains of advice out there on this topic, that I was hoping you could give me some ideas on how to start?