Sentences with phrase «more significant books»

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But on a much more significant level, Flash Boys is a subversively pro-business book.

If you need more Starpoints to book an award stay at a Starwood property, transfer to an airline, or transfer to Marriott to book an award, your significant other can deposit points to your SPG account.

In an age that is centred on platform - building and self - promotion, David Zweig's book Invisibles claims we can make a significant impact while... More

Whether we're christian or atheist we can't disagree that a book thats been around over 2000 yr's & still has us discussin it more than any book in history, is significant!

Examining their contents more closely, I found that seven of these books blamed specific Christian or Bible - based values as significant «causes» of the ecology crisis.

This is true, not because it contains, as it does, more exalted religious ideas than any other book, or expresses them better (this would be an explanation of the Bible's superiority, not of its uniqueness), but because it stands in a unique relation to some unique and supremely significant events.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

«While reading the book, I felt the need to define roles to be less and less important, and my desire to become like Christ to be more and more significant.»

The more significant problem many of us (evangelical Christians) have with Mark's book is that it a) lacks wisdom, b) employs a faulty system for determining if something is useful, c) has a terrible view of women, and d) misses the point.

The worst perpetrator is, of course, Mary Daly, whose significant work in The Church and the Second Sex (1968) and the even more important Beyond God the Father (1973) has degenerated into her latest effort, Gyn / Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (1978); about «Spinning and Witches and Great Hags,» it is a book which makes one want either to laugh or cry.

Most commonly, people realize that there is a dimension of universality in the message of the book, but take for granted that such a dimension was significant for the people of Israel, who supposedly were more exclusive than we are.

It's important to know which side is receiving the majority of tickets, but it's far more crucial to understand which side is receiving a majority of money since books are far more likely to adjust their lines if they have significant liability on one side.

It's important to know which side is receiving the majority of tickets, but it's far more crucial to understand which side is receiving a majority of the money since books are far more likely to adjust their lines if they have significant liability on one side.

Which is why, if I want to be a better person, it's going to take more than a few self help books, no matter how statistically significant their content.

«An orchestrator and connoisseur of meetings (the book reports on innumerable meetings), Bromley thinks poorly of the sessions he had with Skinner, noting that «I never left one of them feeling that there had been any significant information transfer or that I had pinned Sam down to a specific topic for more than a few seconds».

Radio Nutrition: Do you think any of the nutrients you discuss in Part 2 of the book are more important, so that following the guidelines you suggest will result in a significant change in a person's 7 Pillars of Vitality.

Research indicates that getting adequate amounts of vitamin K in the diet can help older adults maintain strong bones, according to the book «Wellness Foods A to Z.» Dried plums are a significant source of vitamin A as well, supplying more than 7 percent of the nutrient's daily value per serving of five fruits.

This is the subject of significant debate, which the book should have known about even in 1996 when it was published, but all the more reason to have school textbooks as up to date as possible — particularly in an evolving topic, such as nutrition.

One drawback to most home infrared saunas is that they can produce a significant amount of potentially stress electromagnetic fields (EMF), which you'll learn more about in the lifestyle section of this book.

While Yeezy was Aden's first catwalk booking, her appearances in Milan are perhaps more significant as Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara represent the mainstream fashion establishment.

But the more significant departure for our purposes is that in the second book, Authority, VanderMeer describes her character as being of Asian descent.

Since that first animated comic book, he has successfully requested more funds from the local school board and a nearby educational foundation and also has received significant awards from the Eastern Illinois Employment Service Agency, a group focused on vocational education, for hardware and training.

Peter Norman may be in the record books as an Olympic silver medallist, but his support of the protest against racial equality by Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the two black Americans sharing a podium with him, was arguably much more significant.

Although children in the treatment group and family literacy group reported reading more books than the control group, there was no significant effect on reading comprehension and vocabulary.

The district has invested more than $ 13 million in campus and community infrastructure — including amassing an electronic lending library of more than 30,000 English - language and 4,000 Spanish - language books — as well as significant training for teachers and parents alike.

Of course, one of the more appealing aspects of the service — something that members are willing to spend significant money on considering that the two - book - a-month plan starts at $ 9.99 and increases from there — is the vetting of the titles for appropriateness and content.

While it's true that many print or ebook authors make significant investments in their editing, formatting, cover design, and more, it's not a financial requirement for putting a book in Kindle Unlimited.

Collins invests a significant portion of his energy in large - scale research projects - often five or more years in duration - to develop fundamental insights and then translate those findings into books, articles and lectures.

And I think that there have been a number of really significant markers, the most recent being that Amazon just announced last week that it had sold more electronic books than hard covers in the last three months.

In artisanal publishing, the words, the purpose, focus, structure, core meaning, originality, literary craft and artistic style of a book is actually a lot more significant than whether words are spelled correctly or a comma is out of place (although that's very important too!)

The program now offers more than 70,000 books, which is a significant increase from the 10,000 books it had in September.

Advertising is simpler and more direct, but the problem is — once you stop advertising, your books will stop selling, you need to always spend a significant chunk of your profits keeping the books visible.

Echoing what others have said, if this is an author's first book and they don't have strong reviews by trusted readers or a significant sample of their work available, I'll be hard pressed to pay more than $ 2.99.

However, before authors invest significant time into publishing a book that may bring in meager profits and attract a relatively small audience, they should consider options beyond publishing a book and books that may bring more long - term value.

But in a way, I felt as if I owed it to John Green, and buying the book seemed more significant because I was not just diving into the world of Hazel and Augustus but into the world of John Green.

I've got a lot on my plate, but none of it is more important than my marriage.FOOTNOTES: • No hipsters or metrosexuals were harmed in the making of this book • This story takes place at the beginning of Prime Minister (Frisky Beavers # 1), but can be read as a standalone silver fox story • This book includes a significant excerpt from Prime Minister.

Do you want something more meaningful or significant than yet another book on how to market your novel?

The ability to carry around 500 books is not a significant plus because I have never needed to carry 500 books with me, in fact I can't remember the last time I had to carry more than 1 book with me at a time.

Just to make a small, but significant point: The Frankfurt Book Fair (held in October) has roughly ten times more exhibitors than London.

The company, which was the first major retailer to offer a multi-channel textbook rental program, announced it has expanded that highly successful program to nearly all of its Barnes & Noble College campus bookstores this semester, offering significant savings of more than 50 percent over a new printed book for millions of higher education students and their families.

The Voldemort of the book business not only controls an estimated 60 percent of e-book sales and a significant chunk of print book sales, it has now become a publisher, establishing imprints for everything from romance novels to children's picture books and putting out more than 100 books of its own in 2011.

If you make millions of sales with your first few titles, then you're probably so busy spending / investing the money that writing more books in the series becomes a significant chore.

«For over 100 years, The New York Public Library has collected, preserved, and made accessible to the public millions of significant and enlightening books, manuscripts, photographs, artifacts and more from history — items that have informed and inspired countless new works and ideas,» said NYPL President Tony Marx.

If it's truly for profit, be aware that you'll definitely need more than one book to start seeing any significant money.

Let's leave aside the facts that (1) the survey data represent only a freeze - frame snapshot of Amazon book purchasers in May 2012, and (2) that if 48 % of book choices came from customers» planned searches, then 52 % — more than half — did not; yet the writer calls the 48 % «whopping,» while dismissing the 52 % as «not... significant numbers.»

I can understand your reasoning, but may I suggest that a lower price point while you're building an audience has a significant value in terms of making your books more attractive to those who don't know you?

Word of mouth is still a huge part of marketing — and if you've written a great book this will be even more significant to your success — but getting your name out there in a crowded marketplace is more difficult, and that is why blogging and social media is highly recommended to authors.

They exercise this control toward making books more commercially viable, which often diverges from making the books more entertaining, more informative, or more artistically significant.

The real question is — Will this be the main impact the Kindle 3 has or will Kindle 3 impact reading and books in other, more significant ways?

Please note that a significant number of indies surveyed did pay more than $ 500 per book.