Sentences with phrase «most authors and their books»

That's fine for the rare storytelling author who can capture your attention for many hours, but let's face it... most authors and their books don't meet that standard.

Not exact matches

She is arguably the most in - demand career and internship expert and the author of two books; All Work No Pay and Welcome to the Real World.

He is the author of three books on investing and the culture of Wall Street, including his most recent, «My Side of the Street.»

And the amount of muscle you have to put into a book is the biggest surprise for most first - time authors.

«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and psychologist Steven Kramer, authors of the incisive The Progress Principle, pored over 12,000 daily work diary entries and were surprised to find out that making progress — even small wins — on meaningful work is the most powerful motivator,» reports the book.

Most authors think the purpose of the introduction is to lay out and explain everything the author will talk about in the book.

«For many people, I think their first impulse is to have an event,» says Joan Schneider, president and creative director of Boston public relations and marketing communications firm Schneider Associates, and author of the book «The New Launch Plan: 152 Tips, Tactics, and Trends from the Most Memorable New Products.

Andrew Keen, an author and tech entrepreneur, is hardly the first to point this out, but his ambitious new book, How to Fix the Future, makes what might be the most forceful case yet.

Cho is also the author of three books, the first dedicated to helping other creators and freelancers get their online businesses off the ground, and her most recent, Oh Joy!

Most experts agree that an apology letter should open with a salutation and a warm greeting, which helps you soften up the recipient, says Julie Miller, founder and president of Business Writing That Counts and author of a book by the same name.

E-mail has become so intrinsic to the way work is done at companies of all sizes, it's where most business records are stored, says Nancy Flynn, executive director of the ePolicy Institute, a Columbus, Ohio, an electronic communications consultant and author of a book on e-mail policies due out in December.

Denise Lee Yohn, a brand consultant and author of the book What Great Brands Do, encourages companies to engage in authentic philanthropy that ties most directly to their areas of expertise.

Runkel is a marriage and family therapist, and the author of multiple books on parenting and relationships, including, most recently, «Choose Your Own Adulthood.»

He is the author of six internationally bestselling books, including most recently New York Times No. 1 bestsellers UNSHAKEABLE: Your Financial Freedom Playbook and MONEY: Master the Game.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

The author of Small Giants and co-author of The Knack (with Inc. columnist Norm Brodsky), as well as two books with open - book - management guru Jack Stack, Burlingham joined the magazine's staff in 1983 and has developed an unmatched ability to get inside some of the nation's most fascinating organizations.

Kevin Mitnick, one of the country's most notorious hackers and author of the book «The Art of Invisibility,» explains why.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

He is a regular guest on Fox's Tech Take, a HuffPost contributor, and bestselling author of seven books, including PR for Dummies and Leadership Secrets of the World's Most Successful CEOs.

You might know Seth Godin as a sort of marketing legend, the author of books such as Unleashing the Ideavirus, «the most popular e-book ever published,» according to his marketing materials (I have no idea how I'd check that), and Purple Cow, «the best - selling marketing book of the decade» (similar caveat).

I have been following most of these contributing authors for years, and can definitely recommend the expertise in this book (disclaimer — somehow I was invited to contribute a chapter as well!)

This week, when I asked for a book recommendation (http://on.fb.me/O7k7tQ), introduction to a public company CEO (http://on.fb.me/P9x6vR), and received an intro to an author I interviewed (http://on.fb.me/P9xb2C); it was generally the weak ties in my network who I had never met or hadn't connected with for years that gave the most support.

Michael Hyatt is a bestselling author whose latest book «Your Best Year Ever: A 5 Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals» uses the latest research to help us take control of our time and our dreams to build the lives we want.

As an example, I not only agented this book myself to a major NYC - area publisher, I brought in Jay and his famous brand, I brought in Stephen M.R. Covey for the foreword, and even wrote my own back cover (something most authors never get to do when working with a major publisher).

Social media games that ask for personal information such as pets» names, favourite activities, authors, books, and more, probably are used to tell you which celebrity you're most similar to.

Recognized as a «branding expert» by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, she is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future and her most recent book, Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It, was released in April 2015.

He is the author of the prophetic Crash Proof and, most recently, The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets.

This week, #HipNJ is featuring Matt Sweetwood — author, entrepreneur, single - father and life coach — whose most recent project, a self - help book entitled Leader of the Pack, was recently celebrated at Till & Sprocket NYC with a stimulating discussion about marriage, divorce, parenthood, and leadership.

As the author of eight books and a popular columnist for Forbes and Inc.com, Carmine has interviewed leaders at the world's most admired customer service brands.

Despite Disney's apparent lack of concern about the potential to scare off remotely budget - conscious vacationers, Frommer.com's Jason Cochran, author of Frommer's Easy Guide to Walt Disney World and Orlando, says that the theme park giant is «playing a dangerous game» not only with the latest price hikes, but with an array of policies that all but force guests to book multi-day vacations (because the per - day costs are astronomical if the visit is short) and to plan every latest detail of one's visit far in advance (because that's the way to get the most out of one's trip).

He is a nationally - known investment expert, professional economist, university professor, and author of more than 20 books, including his most recent book, Investing in One Lesson.

He is a former McKinsey consultant and author of four business strategy books, most recently «Outthink the Competition.»

In the prologue of their 2013 book entitled Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, authors Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton state: «When it comes to increasing the amount of money they have, most people recognize that relying on their own intuition is insufficient, spawning an entire industry of financial advisors.

While the book has weak points — most notably regarding Isaac Backus, the 18th - century baptist minister and author of the important treatise Government and Liberty Described and Ecclesiastical Tyranny Exposed (1778)-- who appears and then disappears without much clarity on how he fits the argument — it is generally an incisive interpretation.

As I said, authorship of most of the books of the Bible are in question and tend only to be variants of the other stories, roughly in the same time period and «neighborhood» — most often with no specific author — therefore it is very reasonable to think they are just variations on the same story.

The book's most irritating flaw is the author's relentlessly polite Episcopalian - scholarly prose: readable and informative, but not the penetrating or polemical critical analysis for which this topic calls.

@mama k» As I said, authorship of most of the books of the Bible are in question and tend only to be variants of the other stories, roughly in the same time period and «neighborhood» — most often with no specific author — therefore it is very reasonable to think they are just variations on the same story.»»

But for me the finest and most moving essay was the last one, devoted to one Matthew Shanahan, a man otherwise unknown to the world, who was going blind and whom the author met while he was reading aloud books at a Jewish home for the blind: «Matthew Shanahan was as Irish as Joseph Epstein is Jewish....

Mr. Lens, a Chicago - based labor leader and activist in peace and radical movements, is the author of a number of books, including, most recently, The Promise and Pitfalls of Revolution.

As anyone familiar with my own work will expect, I have many serious reservations about this book, the most inclusive being that I do not think the author helps either the nonbeliever or the believer to understand the problem of faith and New Testament criticism.

If you want to see what sorts of authors and books have most influenced my thinking and theology, check out my Best Christian Books books have most influenced my thinking and theology, check out my Best Christian Books Books page.

The special approach to the subject and the nature of the book itself combine to give it a less theoretical character than most of the author's work, and it has always appealed to American readers.

Chad is the author of God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC — a funny, insightful book that I especially enjoyed as an Alabama fan because it recounted the season in which Bama won its most recent national championship....

Anyway, if you download one of these books and enjoy reading it, most of these authors also have other books you can read as well.

Which is why J.R. organized the Epic Fail Pastors Conference and why he authored one of the most important books I've read this summer, Fail: Finding Hope and Grace in the Midst of Ministry Failure.

From that position he became one of the most famous speakers on Christianity and social problems of his day, as well as a beloved teacher and honored author of several books.

Most New Testament books, including the four Gospels, are silent on same - sex acts, and Paul is the only author who makes any reference to the subject.

Eliade, who was for many years at the University of Chicago, will be familiar to most readers as the author of the four - volume A History of Religious Ideas and numerous other books dealing with religion and myth in human history.

We could argue that their books were written by several different authors over a period of several decades, all of whom had competing interests and goals, most of which involve self - advancing propaganda and fictional tales of the supposed author's life and ideas.