Sentences with phrase «merits of any given book»

Before the rise of Amazon's KDP Select, I had serious reservations about the merits of giving books away for free as a means to build readership.

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For Whitehead explicitly states in the only review of another's book he ever made: «I think that the formalist position adopted in that chapter [Introduction to Universal Algebra], whilst it has the merit of recognizing an important problem, does not give the true solution...» (SPTC5: 239).

Give me one shred of text to convince me this book has any more merit than Greek Mythology.

Her book, Balm In Gilead: Journey of A Healer (1988), which won the 1988 Christopher Award, given for «literary merit and humanitarian achievement,» was followed by I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation (1994), and The Art and Science of Portraiture (1997), which documents her pioneering approach to social science methodology; one that bridges the realms of aesthetics and empiricism.

Merit pay might work if it was given to students — and only student — who cooperated with teachers and turned in all of their classwork and homework done correctly to boost learning, and increased their literacy skills by voluntarily turning off TV, video games and not texting and replacing all that crap by reading at least one book a week for enjoyment outside of school hours.

Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award given annually to English - language children's and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience:

Stonewall Book Award — Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award is given annually to English - language works of exceptional merit for children or teens relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience.

For example, in a thread about the merits of giving away free ebook copies as a promotional gambit, following the post of a member extolling the virtues of free ebook copies, it may post, «If your book was any good, you wouldn't have to give it away.»

The Stonewall Book Awards of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Round Table of ALA are given annually to English - language works of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience, and include the Stonewall Book Awards — Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award, the Stonewall Book Awards — Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and the Stonewall Book Awards — Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award.

Sure, the blurb on the back gives a better indication of its merit, but who is going to systematically read every blurb on Amazon or in a book store?

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