Sentences with phrase «less time than books»

Video takes less time than books, and there's also the benefit of information presented in smaller chunks than 20 - page chapters.

Not exact matches

In our new book, A Great Place to Work For All, we discovered that organizations that foster the most consistently great experience across all demographic groups grow revenue three times faster than their less inclusive counterparts.

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.

Prudential Financial can be purchased today for around 0.8 times its book value and less than nine times its expected forward earnings.

The average Russian company is selling for just 7.5 times earnings and 20 % less than its book value.

The broader TOPIX trades for about 1.3 times book value which is way up from 0.8 before the rally but a heck of a lot less than the US ratio of 2.7.

The average lead time is 14 days, with 50 % of online meeting rooms booked with less than a week in advance.

Requiring less than 24 hours of your time (and over 250 hours of ours), we create and publish a beautiful book that rivals the quality of any book found on the front table of major bookstores.

According to the Barna study, the percent of engagement people have with the Bible — from being engaged (reading the Bible at least four times a week), friendly (engaged with the Bible less than four times a week), neutral (read the Bible once a month or less and see the Bible as the inspired word of God, but acknowledge it can have some errors) and skeptical (see the Bible as «just another book of teachings written by men)-- has started to stabilize and return to its normal rates after the rate of skepticism increased by 4 percent to 14 percent and the rate of friendliness dropped 8 percent to 37 percent in 2011.

Andy — What about those of us, like myself, who have read her books (as I have, a couple of times) and still find them lacking, or less than admirable?

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.»

For our time when one of the great human advances is the gender revolution, the need for her symbols of love, parent, love and friend, for God can be accepted with less tentativeness than characterized in her bold book.

I've had the book for less than 2 weeks and already made recipes from it 4 times, which is unprecedented for me.

That's way less time than it took the Cubs to win another World Series after their victory all the way back in 1908, so it's no surprise to see them acting like proud papa bears and showing off all these newborns who arrived in the world nine months after the Cubs finally closed the book on over a century of helplessness.

That said, due to the total incompetence of AW and his recruitment team he has run out of time and we will be left with a disgruntled player on our books who will leave next year for less than the cost of a postage stamp

3 is a silent pick em so money line the game with a dog of 3 pts or less, 85 % of teams that cover 3 points as dogs win the game outright so why give the books any more than you have to, make sure you take dogs in first half ONLY, i cant stress this enough, more times than not if a dog will cover the game, (big dogs +7 or higher) they will show up early and you do not want to get screwed in the 2nd half by blowing the cover, these are things the sports books never would tell you but surely will save you a lot of aggravation in the LONG RUN

For starters, in the PB Book of Coaching Ideals, his starting point is, overall, less than ideal.1 And specifically, its various manifestations have cost Texas in the win column at times - in particular, as HornBrain notes, against the very best competition.

I asked her recently to write up a few things about what it was like breastfeeding at a time where even less women breastfed than today and there was no internet, no Google to search things up, no information except the odd parenting book or La Leche League meeting.

The Time piece acknowledges that The Baby Book's author Dr. Sears» views are «less extreme than his critics (and even many of his followers) realize.»

In the book, she and the co-authors Maureen Brown and Sarah Miles cite the research that tells us that our individual anecdotal sense that our children have far less free time than we once did is spot on.

In addition to the time it takes up, screen media is less conducive to creative play than other media such as books or radio.

Last year our income was less than # 90,000, enough to employ 3 part - time staff and a book - keeper, pay the auditors, run the websites and office, travel to key events and support our partners around the world.

I seriously don't cook, ever, but your recipe book was beyond easy to follow and the food processor was much easier to use and took much less time than I expected.

If you have kids older than that, though, this book will give you a nice framework for thinking about all the areas of family life so you can assess what you can control and streamline things so you can process the chaos as it happens and spend more time enjoying life and less time feeling like it's dragging you around.

Low - bidder Triangle Talent Inc. agreed to book the 2009 fair's musical performers for $ 48,500 — 10 times less than what the state paid Live Nation Worldwide in a no - bid deal.

In truth, the Orange Book was rather less radical and rather more pluralistic than its editors claimed at the time.

Past achievements include writing and editing a full - length non-fiction book — iDo — for Simon & Schuster in less than two months, hosting Twitter parties that launched targeted brand hashtags onto the trending topics list, creating widely - read link building content for brands like T - Mobile, creating and executing on custom marketing packages for brands like GB International (the largest baby product manufacturer in the world), and editing the memoir Four Before Their Time.

If it seems less impressive to anyone that Scorsese's source this time around is a four - year - old movie rather than, say, a Nicholas Pileggi book, it's worth noting that the stylistic lexicon from which Infernal Affairs drew was written largely by Martin Scorsese.

He presents Austen's book with such leaden literalness that it feels less faithful than the version set in a time and place Austen never could have imagined.

The entire film references other comic book films, and pop culture mentions, typically by making fun of them in some way; Green Lantern, joke in the credits, Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice's silly mommy moment, Hawkeye's lack of powers, Josh Brolin's Thanos's two - timing as a character in Avengers: Infinity of War less than three weeks ago, at one point Wade simply calls Brolin's (Cable), «Thanos,» Logan's gags you'll need to see for yourself.

That certainly didn't help his perception of the film at the time, but over the course of six years, it eventually became clear that there's at least some merit in the less than well - received comic book movie.

While the actions taken by the cast are in the book, much of it is unnecessary for the telling of the overall story and I bet a talented screenwriter could have put this thing in at one film with less than a three hour running time.

What's more, he has to do double - takes to realize that some of his new colleagues are crazier than the youngsters in their charge, including the macho phys ed dude Wade (Rainn Wilson), the gym teacher's eternally upbeat girlfriend Lucy (Alison Pill), the socially backward Doug (Leigh Whannell, who spends his free time in the lounge reading a book on how to start a conversation, and the less developed characters of Tracy (Jack McBrayer) and Rebekkah (Nasim Pedrad).

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.

At a time when the black population represented approximately 12 percent of the total U.S. population, they represented less than one percent of children's books produced.

Some teachers are less than enthusiastic about the plan to periodically have all classes at each grade level teach the same book at the same time, so teachers can compare notes about their effectiveness.

During his ownership the vehicle was serviced by the supplying Dealer no less than 10 times with invoices and a stamped service book to prove despite having covered only 11,861 miles.

While the booking numbers are lesser than gathered by some rivals in similar time period, the response is nothing less than phenomenal for a brand which is new to our audience.

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.»

The last time we polled our customers, less than 20 % were regular comic book buyers before they used our app.

Most of the time, authors who think they are doing everything right have less than 10 book reviews, which means everything they do is wasted effort.

Most authors earn less than minimum wage (we are not all J.K. Rowling or Mrs Fifty shades) and have to work second jobs while giving up time with our friends and families to bring you the books you love.

Her most recent book, Father of the Rain, addresses a type of relationship that receives, perhaps, less «page time» than it should: that of a father and daughter.

So the next time you get the vibe from someone that your self - published book is somehow less than a major accomplishment, think about these authors.

I can't speak for others, but because I am able to spend several months of my time working for far less than minimum wage, considering I usually work 10 - 12 hours, six days / week, to edit and publish a book, my clients (writers) prefer to enter into a business arrangement with me rather than become a contractor for the production of their work and deal with the «very real» business of distributing and marketing their title afterwards.

Most months, I still sell less than a dozen copies of books a month (although that number is climbing) and feel like I'm closer to the moon than becoming an author full - time.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

The Kindle Store (http://www.amazon.com) now has more than 620,000 books, including New Releases and 108 of 111 New York Times bestsellers, starting at $ 9.99 or less.

So much time, effort and money goes into publishing a book that less than positive feedback can feel downright discouraging.

The only reason I haven't given 5 stars is because I had a heck of a time at the beginning putting my books on it - less than a quarter of my library had covers, the rest just wouldn't download the covers at all, so, in the end I had to download my entire library to my computer (which took forever I can tell you) and put them on my Kindle that way.