Sentences with phrase «less books because»

Customers are buying less books because the average price rose from $ 9.99 to $ 17.99 for a new bestseller.

Not exact matches

«Are those kids any less deserving of books simply because of circumstances beyond their control?

Booking site Hipmunk reported that its reservations for Trump hotels are down nearly 60 percent over this time last year, the Globe said, while a survey of more than 2,000 Americans by travel trend tracking website Skift found 56.9 percent of respondents said they were less likely to stay in a Trump hotel because of his campaign.

I went grocery shopping even when I didn't need to because I was bored,» she writes in her book, «Living a Beautiful Life on Less.»

Thorp's book is chock - full of knotty lessons for investors, thinkers, and business people, but because Thorp is far less well covered than Munger, many of these ideas felt new and let me see them with fresh perspective.

In fact, I find Guy's book amazing because it talks less about value investing rules and more on a value investor's character development.

Because AIG sells for less than book value, each share it repurchases increases the book value of the remaining shares.

Hence there are Church members today who continue to summon and teach at every level of Church education the racial discourse that black people are descendants of Cain, that they merited lesser earthly privilege because they were «fence - sitters» in the War in Heaven, and that, science and climatic factors aside, there is a link between skin color and righteousness» Mormon scripture specifically referencing race includes (from the Book of Mormon): 1 Nephi 11:8 1 Nephi 11:13 1 Nephi 12:23 1 Nephi 13:15 2 Nephi 5:21 2 Nephi 30:6 (1830 edition) Jacob 3:8 Alma 3:6 3 Nephi 2:15 Mormon 5:15

Now he reviews a new book on ethics and writes,» [The author] agrees with what now seems to be a near - consensus among philosophers that «speciesism» - the view that we are entitled to take theinterests of animals less seriously than we take human interests, simply because humans are members of our species - is not a morally defensible position.»

The wake - up call came after I received a gracious, heartfelt email from a reader who said she loved the book because it gave her hope, made her feel less alone, and put into words what she had been feeling for many years.

I think if these people had worried less about what others might be sharing, and just stayed focused on getting their own book done, maybe we'd be talking about how great their book is because it would be published, rather than all the lives they destroyed in trying to control others and make sure none of their ideas leaked out.

But that is all that Simpson will understand of his motives and of those who bought the book: «Reynard the Fox was also a seller because it answered to the intensely competitive, materialist conditions in which Caxton himself prospered, no less than it answers to our own times.»

This approach may seem overly limited due to the fact that it proceeds through the narrow defile of one cultural fact, the existence of written documents, and thus because it is limited to cultures which possess books, but it will seem less limited if we comprehend what enlargement of our experience of the world results from the existence of such documents.

God could had it been both ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...

God could had creation either ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...

I told her, «This is the problem, this is why I've written this book, because somewhere in the past someone told you that you were less and you believed that lie.»

Gospel Chivalry is less than convincing because it is difficult to know what kind of a book it is: is it a historical dissertation, an informed narrative, a meditation or a collection of short essays of various types?

Because of Ray's promotional schedule for his second book, we had less than a week to do it.

Granted, that net spend is considerably higher this season but that's because several high earners were removed from our books while the new arrivals came in on much less wages than many of the departing players.

It enrages me because it is a tacit declaration that it is my (or someone's) job to clean up after him, and the end result is that I have far less «spare» time to spend doing fun things with the kids or working on my career or heck, just relaxing with a good book on a couch that isn't covered with his smelly discarded socks.

Because parenting is about so much more than discipline, Rebecca hits on important topics less spoken about, making this more than a parenting book.

I purchased this book because it seemed the less intimidating of all the options.

While I'm a super huge fan of the course because I love the video pieces, questionnaires and printouts I can keep handy, this book is an excellent introduction that will leave readers finding themselves yelling less and building more respect with their kids.

Online bookstores like Amazon can maintain vast inventories of lesser - known titles because they don't have the real estate constraints of traditional bookstores and because the Internet makes it so much easier to find the niche readers who will buy those books.

In a book published last year, Weathering Katrina: Culture and Recovery among Vietnamese - Americans, VanLandingham also suggested that this community's members bounced back faster than many black residents of similar means because they faced less discrimination.

Gates: The key point the book makes is that reuse is a stronger benefit energy-wise than recycle, because in recycle you, in the case of the metals, you molt it again, and so you're actually using almost as much energy — aluminum say half as much — but almost as much energy — actually, it's less than half.

The warming of the WAIS is most worrisome (at least for this century) because it's going to disintegrate long before the East Antarctic Ice Sheet does «'' since WAIS appears to be melting from underneath (i.e. the water is warming, too), and since, as I wrote in the «high water» part of my book, the WAIS is inherently less stable:

And I had a patient just maybe a month or two ago came in with severe RA, had multiple surgeries on her spine and hands because of the actual disfigurement and she had been on gluten - free diets, but then we kind of upped it one notch with a true gluten - free diet or an autoimmune diet following a lot of the same tenets in your book and her pain, 30 - year pain, literally vanished in little less than a month.

In Dr. Maffetone's book, 1:59 Marathon, he argues that breaking this magic barrier will happen when an athlete actually does less mileage and less intensity than today's elite, but improves running economy, optimizes rest and other lifestyle factors, and learns to race barefoot (because of reduced weight and improved explosive force per stride... once the feet become conditioned of course!).

He may start developing interest in things that she likes, such going on a hike with her (because she likes), going to different types of concerts (bands that she likes), watching different movies and TV shows (that she likes), going to different restaurants, and even reading some books (less common tough).

Good new for Rudyard Kipling fans because less than two years since we last had a live adaptation of The Jungle Book, a second one is heading to big screens.

Inherent Vice has been widely characterized as Pynchon's «most accessible» book — mainly, I think, because it follows a traditional noir narrative more or less so that if you get lost, it's easier to fake it.

Yates's dispassionate shooting of those scenes in clinically sound locations certifies the grimness of Higgins's thesis (one gets a grubbily incontestable, time - and - money demonstration that crime often pays miserably), and ultimately he improves upon the experience of the book simply because the visual experience of the film is less monotonous than the verbal experience of the book.

I've had other students, maybe not profiled in the book, who have expected me to require less of them, which I won't do, because I'm not required by law to modify curriculum.

Nor is a boy going to become a bad guy, say the authors, because he reads some of the books, watches some of the shows, or listens to types of music that portray males as less than exemplary role models.

Marian Anders: I wrote this book because I wanted something that would be more effective and less expensive for my students at St. Augustine's College.

For nearly any classroom intervention, student test scores in that subject generally appear to be less responsive overall, possibly because of variations in home factors, such as access to books.

That might be because many black children are poor, with less educated parents and fewer books at home.

Jack R. Nerad, executive editorial director and executive market analyst for Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com said, «A vehicle's resale value is of critical importance because a vehicle with high resale value will typically be less expensive to own over time than a similar vehicle with poorer resale value.»

Because of this increased energy output, FIA rules require the R18 to consume 2.5 percent less fuel per lap; further additions to the rule book limit the team to only five engines per race car for the entire 2015 season.

Attacking them in a rant helps no one, and makes reviewers less likely to pick up your books because they don't want to deal with the drama and (in some cases) personal attacks.

(Remember, Amazon has now forbidden placement of the ToC at the back of a book because less than ethical authors were doing so to work the system of page turns in Kindle Unlimited.)

But perhaps the best reason is because authors publishing under «higher» packages earn higher royalties and their book copy prices are less expensive.

The exciting news is that small publishers are more likely to change quickly because they have less invested in the old business model in which publishers kept such a high percentage of the revenue because they managed the printing, storage and distribution of books as well as offering editing.

I've sold far and away more books on Pubit, but that's largely because of the platform I've built and people going to look for me directly THERE for their Nooks (Smashwords is less well known).

Author platform is less important for authors of this type of book because such books aren't «expert - based.»

i boycotted this book for years because of the title... it sounded too girly, and i had no desire to read a book about horses, much less pretty ones.

Amazon really hurts lesser - known books because people expect hundreds of glowing reviews now.

For nonfiction, especially self - help and business books, the length of the book matters less because it's about the value your content provides.

And that's why indie writers are making more money in the field than major publishers, because not only are they offering more books that hit more specific tastes, but Internet - savvy writers also charge far less.