With over fifteen years of experience in the book business, this expert divulges industry secrets on avoiding the top five mistakes
made by new authors, pricing your book to sell and identifying dishonest publishers.
Not exact matches
In it, the
authors discuss a shift from «old power,» which they define as being «held
by few» and «closed, inaccessible and leader - driven,» to «
new power,» which is «
made by many» and «open, participatory and peer - driven.»
Steve... I think we're floggin» a dead horse here, but for what it's worth, understand that I'm not trying to convince you to think like I do, rather I wd hope that room wd be
made for many theological differences.To think discuss and debate theology is well supported
by the
New Testament and history, and is perfectly within the bounds of what it means to engage our minds with the subject at hand.Theologians and biblical scholars have done this very thing for centuries, revealing a plethora of opinion on the evolving world of biblical studies.Many capable
authors have written and debated the common themes as well as the differences between Paul, John, Jesus, the synoptics, etc..
''... book
made up of 66 books written
by 40
authors (most who never
new of or met each other) over thousands of years.»
However, one point of many facts about the Bible, (do the statistical math) find another book
made up of 66 books written
by 40
authors (most who never
new of or met each other) over thousands of years.
See, for example, Harrison, Beverly Wildung, Robb, Carol S., ed.,
Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist Social Ethics (Boston: Beacon Press, 1985), and
by the same
author, Our Right to Choose: Toward a
New Ethic of Abortion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1983).
Celebrities back Fathers» Story Week with video storytelling clips Coronation Street star Charlie Condou, TV presenter Tim Lovejoy, children's
author Peter Bently and playwright / poet Nick Makoha are the stars of four
new «Celebrity Story Time» videos
made by the Fatherhood Institute to promote the importance of dads reading to their children.
Much the same point is
made by the
authors of the
new BJSM editorial and in Back in the Game, where Kutcher and Gerstner argue that suicide rates among former National Football League players, can be and have been affected
by messaging in the media — a phenomenon called the «suicide contagion» — and note how, in its coverage of the suicide of players such as Junior Seau and Dave Duerson, the media has consistently ignored all seven of the recommendations of the Centers of Disease Control on how to avoid spreading that contagion, including not presenting simplistic explanations for suicide, not engaging in repetitive, ongoing, or excessive reporting of suicide, and not sensationalizing suicide.
What I love is that this list isn't just
new releases, which means you should be able to find lots of these titles in your library stacks (I have organized the list alphabetically
by author to
make your stack perusal easier!).
Coronation Street star Charlie Condou, TV presenter Tim Lovejoy, children's
author Peter Bently and playwright / poet Nick Makoha are the stars of four
new «Celebrity Story Time» videos
made by the Fatherhood Institute to promote the importance of dads reading to their children.
The blog will also feature a behind - the - scenes look at the
making of Hooked of Phonics
new learning program as told
by the team of
authors, illustrators, educators, animators and musicians involved in the year - long, multi-million dollar overhaul (due out in August 2009).
«We have tried to
make it easier for parents and providers to understand the recommendations
by providing specific answers to common questions,» said Rachel Moon, MD, FAAP, chair of the AAP SIDS task force and lead
author of the
new guidelines.
The
author revels in the details of the tale
by noting how, having sent British newspapers into a frenzy, the Labour MP
made it to Australia with two
new identities and settled down in the suburbs of Melbourne, where «he applied to join the local jazz club».
An
author and one - time elected official under
New York Gov. George Pataki, McCaughey has
made her name largely with blistering attacks on health care reform efforts offered
by Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 1990s and then eventually passed into law as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare.
Owens said the company could triple its business if Congress passes a
new bill
authored by Tenney that would require the Department of Defense to buy American -
made flatware for its installations across the world.
As in previous reports, the expert committee that
authored this document (which was chaired
by Gregory Petsko, Arthur J. Mahon Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College in
New York City)
makes a number of proposals (emphasis in original):
King says that
by working through the original
author's paper and discovering the «enormous number of small decisions» he or she
made that aren't explicitly described in the methods section, young scientists can often identify entirely
new questions that the original
author never thought to address.
«Since 95 percent of cancer patients still get chemo, we realized we could
make a major impact on cancer treatment
by helping clinicians prescribe the right chemotherapy drug,» said Sourav Bandyopadhyay, PhD, a professor of bioengineering and therapeutic sciences in UCSF's Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine and senior
author on the
new study.
«The ability to control the functional states of opioid receptors is of particular interest because they belong to the large family of so - called G - protein - coupled transmembrane receptors (GPCRs), which
make up a large fraction of the proteins targeted
by pharmaceutical agents,» says Matthias Schönberger, first
author of the
new study.
«Spaceflight data is hard to come
by; we should remember what's already been done, so we can
make the most of
new opportunities to do human research in space,» said corresponding
author Dr. Virginia Wotring, associate professor of the Center for Space Medicine and pharmacology and chemical biology at Baylor College of Medicine.
«The need to conserve the environment
by reducing the wash temperature and the use of biodegradable washing products have grown in importance in the
new millennium,
making this type of research more high profile,» explained Professor John Dean, corresponding
author of the study from the University of Northumbria.
«The more distant the galaxy, the further back one is looking, so
by measuring their distances we can piece together a timeline of how vigorously the Universe was
making new stars at different stages of its 13.7 billion year life,» said Joaquin Vieira (California Institute of Technology, USA), lead
author of the paper in the journal Nature.
«The more distant the galaxy, the further back one is looking, so
by measuring their distances we can piece together a timeline of how vigorously the Universe was
making new stars at different stages of its 13.7 billion year life,» said lead
author Joaquin Vieira of the California Institute of Technology.
«This study is purely based on differences in morphological characters between fossil specimens, with each character weighted equally, and with disregard of any functional aspects of every character,» says Dr. Gerrit van den Bergh of the University of Wollongong in
New South Wales, one of the
authors of the 2016 study published in Nature that supports the idea that H. floresiensis descended from H. erectus and was
made small
by insular dwarfism.
John Leland is a Metro reporter for The
New York Times and the
author of Happiness Is a Choice You
Make: Lessons from a year among the oldest old, which was recently published
by Sarah Chrichton Books.
Next up is The Thousandth Floor,
authored by Katharine McGee, my good friend's sister, so I'd read it regardless of the fact that it
made the
New York Times bestseller list.
EXTRAS: In addition to both the theatrical and extended cut of the film (featuring 10 minutes of never - before - seen footage), there's a brand
new collection of bonus material, including an audio commentary
by director Ridley Scott, writer Drew Goddard and
author Andy Weir, a
making - of featurette, deleted scenes and more.
Extras:
New interviews with Coppola, Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett,
author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson; «
Making of The Virgin Suicides,» a 1998 documentary directed
by Eleanor Coppola and featuring Sofia Coppola, Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods, Eugenides, and more; «Lick the Star,» a 1998 short film
by Coppola; official music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed and shot
by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola; trailer; an essay
by novelist Megan Abbott.
Extras:
New audio commentary featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano; new introduction by Giddins; new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.&raq
New audio commentary featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano;
new introduction by Giddins; new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.&raq
new introduction
by Giddins;
new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.&raq
new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four
new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.&raq
new video essays
by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and
making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.»
Highlights of this 2 - disc set include an audio commentary with Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Karen Dotrice, and co-composer Richard Sherman, a 50 - minute
making - of documentary, a deleted song called «Chimpanzoo», and a
new animated short based on another tale
by P.L. Travers, the
author of Mary Poppins.
«Cosmopolis» Synopsis: Based on the novel
by American
author Don DeLillo, it centers on Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a young multi-billionaire
making an epic, ultimately doomed limo ride across
New York City.
Extras include an illustrated paper foldout on the film including informative text and an essay
by novelist Megan Abbott,
New interviews with Coppola, DP Ed Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett,
author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson, The
Making of «The Virgin Suicides» (1998 documentary directed
by Eleanor Coppola) featuring Sofia Coppola; Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola; actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods; Eugenides; and more, Lick the Star, a 1998 short film
by Coppola, the official (and odd) music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed and shot
by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola and an Original Theatrical Trailer.
NEW Sounds from the Cold — interviews with supervising sound editor David Lewis Yewdall and special sound effects designer Alan Howarth
NEW Between the Lines — an interview with novelization
author Alan Dean Foster Audio Commentary
by director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell John Carpenter's The Thing: Terror Takes Shape — a documentary on the
making of THE THING featuring interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, special effects make - up designer Rob Bottin, legendary matte artist Albert Whitlock plus members of the cast and crew (80 minutes — SD) Outtakes (5 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes from the electronic press kit featuring interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell and Rob Bottin (12 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes — The Making of a Chilling Tale and The Making of THE THING (1982 — 14 minutes — SD) Vintage Product Reel — contains a promotional condensed version of the film with additional footage not in the film (19 minutes — SD) Vintage Behind - the - Scenes footage (2 minutes — SD) Annotated Production Archive — Production Art and Storyboards, Location Scouting, Special Make - up Effects, Post Production (48 minutes — SD) Network TV Broadcast version of THE THING (92 minutes — SD) Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailers (U.S. and German Trailer) TV spots Radio Spots Still Gallery (behind - the - scenes photos, posters and lobby
making of THE THING featuring interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, special effects
make - up designer Rob Bottin, legendary matte artist Albert Whitlock plus members of the cast and crew (80 minutes — SD) Outtakes (5 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes from the electronic press kit featuring interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell and Rob Bottin (12 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes — The Making of a Chilling Tale and The Making of THE THING (1982 — 14 minutes — SD) Vintage Product Reel — contains a promotional condensed version of the film with additional footage not in the film (19 minutes — SD) Vintage Behind - the - Scenes footage (2 minutes — SD) Annotated Production Archive — Production Art and Storyboards, Location Scouting, Special Make - up Effects, Post Production (48 minutes — SD) Network TV Broadcast version of THE THING (92 minutes — SD) Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailers (U.S. and German Trailer) TV spots Radio Spots Still Gallery (behind - the - scenes photos, posters and lobby ca
make - up designer Rob Bottin, legendary matte artist Albert Whitlock plus members of the cast and crew (80 minutes — SD) Outtakes (5 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes from the electronic press kit featuring interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell and Rob Bottin (12 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes — The
Making of a Chilling Tale and The Making of THE THING (1982 — 14 minutes — SD) Vintage Product Reel — contains a promotional condensed version of the film with additional footage not in the film (19 minutes — SD) Vintage Behind - the - Scenes footage (2 minutes — SD) Annotated Production Archive — Production Art and Storyboards, Location Scouting, Special Make - up Effects, Post Production (48 minutes — SD) Network TV Broadcast version of THE THING (92 minutes — SD) Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailers (U.S. and German Trailer) TV spots Radio Spots Still Gallery (behind - the - scenes photos, posters and lobby
Making of a Chilling Tale and The
Making of THE THING (1982 — 14 minutes — SD) Vintage Product Reel — contains a promotional condensed version of the film with additional footage not in the film (19 minutes — SD) Vintage Behind - the - Scenes footage (2 minutes — SD) Annotated Production Archive — Production Art and Storyboards, Location Scouting, Special Make - up Effects, Post Production (48 minutes — SD) Network TV Broadcast version of THE THING (92 minutes — SD) Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailers (U.S. and German Trailer) TV spots Radio Spots Still Gallery (behind - the - scenes photos, posters and lobby
Making of THE THING (1982 — 14 minutes — SD) Vintage Product Reel — contains a promotional condensed version of the film with additional footage not in the film (19 minutes — SD) Vintage Behind - the - Scenes footage (2 minutes — SD) Annotated Production Archive — Production Art and Storyboards, Location Scouting, Special
Make - up Effects, Post Production (48 minutes — SD) Network TV Broadcast version of THE THING (92 minutes — SD) Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailers (U.S. and German Trailer) TV spots Radio Spots Still Gallery (behind - the - scenes photos, posters and lobby ca
Make - up Effects, Post Production (48 minutes — SD) Network TV Broadcast version of THE THING (92 minutes — SD) Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailers (U.S. and German Trailer) TV spots Radio Spots Still Gallery (behind - the - scenes photos, posters and lobby cards)
Special Features
New 4K digital restoration, supervised
by cinematographer Ed Lachman and approved
by director Sofia Coppola, with 5.1 surround DTS - HD Master Audio soundtrack
New interviews with Coppola, Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett,
author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson
Making of «The Virgin Suicides,» a 1998 documentary directed
by Eleanor Coppola and featuring Sofia Coppola; Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola; actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods; Eugenides; and more Lick the Star, a 1998 short film
by Coppola Music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed
by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola Trailers PLUS: An essay
by novelist Megan Abbott
Special Features
New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised
by cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu - ray
New documentary on the
making of the film, featuring interviews with members of the production team Excerpts from a 1980 American Film Institute seminar with director Hal Ashby
Author Jerzy Kosinski in a 1979 appearance on «The Dick Cavett Show» Appearances from 1980
by actor Peter Sellers on NBC's «Today» and on «The Don Lane Show» Promo reel featuring Sellers and Ashby Trailer and TV spots Deleted scene, outtakes, and alternate ending PLUS: An essay
by critic Mark Harris
More extra features in this handsome package include a
new feature - length audio commentary
by film historian Stephen Prince,
author of The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa and a documentary from 2003 on the
making of the film, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create.
A
new book
authored by HGSE Adjunct Lecturer Margot Welch investigates the rewards that come to philanthropists who
make long - term, active commitments with low - income children and their education.
Perhaps the
authors of the «NMC Horizon Report: 2011 K - 12 Edition» — part of a series of research - based analyses of trends in ed tech
by the
New Media Consortium — said it best: «The digital divide, once seen as a factor of wealth, is now seen as a factor of education: Those who have the opportunity to learn technology skills are in a better position to obtain and
make use of technology than those who do not.»
The
author makes sense when he notes that people find it easier to implement ideas with which they are familiar and that they commonly interpret
new policies through a lens conditioned
by existing routines.
Joined
by children's
author and illustrator Paul Stickland — Dinosaur Roar, Swamp Stomp — and leading Canadian tech blogger Dean Shareski, the teachers discovered how
new media and technology can trigger children's interest in story -
making, and improve learning outcomes for EAL and SEN pupils.
The
author takes every chance he gets to slight
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whom he says «
made a name for himself
by beating up on educators.»
She has
authored, edited, and / or co-
authored numerous books on mathematics education, among them,
Making Moments Matter: Conferring with Young Mathematicians at Work (
New Perspectives, available through Amazon.com), Models of Intervention in Mathematics Education: Reweaving the Tapestry (NCTM and Pearson), Young Mathematicians at Work (a series of 4 books on numeracy and algebra published
by Heinemann in the U.S. and distributed in Canada
by Pearson), Learning to Support Young Mathematicians at Work (Heinemann), A Parent's Guide to Math Education in Today's Schools (
New Perspectives, available through Amazon.com), Reconstructing Math Education (Teachers College Press), Constructivism: Theory, Perspectives and Practice (Teachers College Press) and Enquiring Teachers, Enquiring Learners (Teachers College Press.)
Talking about training tools, you can now leverage the different advantages of online training proposed
by new serious game
authoring tools, in order to
make your training simulations more engaging than ever.
Authored by Vikki Boliver, Claire Crawford, Mandy Powell and Will Craige, this report provides
new evidence on the use of contextualised admissions amongst a group of highly selective universities in the UK today, and offers some insights into the difference that greater use of contextual data might
make to the numbers of disadvantaged students at these universities.
In this exclusive Times Insider conversation, Nikole Hannah - Jones, an award - winning domestic correspondent and the
author of the National Magazine Award — winning story «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» is joined
by Ritchie Torres, a Bronx City Council member, and two parents whose children attend
New York City segregated schools to discuss the crisis in the classroom — and how to
make education equitable for all.
Such naivete explains why the Obama Administration has continually promoted case studies of reform - minded school leaders working closely with NEA and AFT locals, why Class Struggle
author Steve Brill floated the laughable idea of Weingarten becoming chancellor of
New York City's traditional district three years ago, and why organizations such as Educators4Excellence and Teach Plus — which represent younger, reform - minded teachers who now
make up the majority of NEA and AFT rank - and - filers (and are staffed
by teachers who are themselves centrist and progressive Democrats)-- work so hard to aim to lead reform from within union ranks.
Publishers and
authors can submit their content and
make it available to Kindle customers
by using Amazon's
new Digital Text Platform (DTP), a fast and easy self - publishing tool that lets anyone upload and sell their books in the Kindle Store.
SEATTLE, Sep 28, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today introduced the beta version of «Kindle for the Web,»
making it even easier for customers to discover
new books and
authors by sampling Kindle books directly through web browsers — no installation or downloading required.
Barnes and Noble is
making customer support for
authors its top priority
by introducing a
new live chat feature.
It should look like it was produced
by a big
New York publishing house, yet many self - published
authors make the mistake of cutting corners and skipping over critical steps in the publishing process.