Sentences with phrase «numbers of books»

I realised they didn't do anything for me I couldn't either do myself or hire done (and contracting someone was MUCH cheaper than giving away 60 % of my royalties for 5 years — the only way this is a bargain is if you plan to sell small numbers of books, something no author should have in their plan.)

But the contract also has royalty periods where a short time after the end of a certain period of time the author should get an accounting from the publisher of the numbers of books sold against the advance in that period of time.

He said the second objective of the government's English curriculum was practice, encouraging children to «improve the fluency and speed of their reading» by reading «large numbers of books», adding: «The more you read, the more vocabulary you acquire and the easier it becomes to comprehend.»

The fire department said that large numbers of books in my parents» townhouse accelerated the fire.

At the time, however, there were large numbers of books coming out on China, and so we decided not to add to that per se, but instead to think comparatively about the two most important states in the global system.

When my older son was learning, we accumulated numbers of books to make him familiar with the process.

In other words, we probably will want to go beyond a mere organizational analysis of the numbers of books, sermons, or theater productions that are produced.

Publishing houses are producing record numbers of books on preaching and continuing education preaching courses are among the most popular.

It is the case that large - and middle - sized for - profit publishers and university presses as well as a number of new small presses now publish substantial numbers of books by mainline Protestant writers.

Miller registers «two major reservations» about the reading habits of this man who consumed staggering numbers of books: «Fosdick read too lightly in twentieth - century imaginative literature, and too frequently he rifled meretricious stuff for homiletical purposes.

Bill Gates has a habit of reading for at least one hour each night, so he makes his way through a good number of books.

I've read a number of these books but still have a ways to go before I finish your whole list.

CNN has dubbed her «The Book Whisperer» due to the sheer number of book properties she has set up to be adapted to TV and Film.

Self - publishing on Amazon is like putting an infinite number of your books in the center of the world's largest bookstore.It costs very little time and zero dollars to self - publish on Amazon.

Beyond Amazon's sale of an undisclosed number of books through their Kindle for iPad app, the much - hyped tablet has helped legitimize e-books and raise their profile.

The hotshot «dealaholic» selling machine, who got his first taste of sales success at the age of seven selling a record - breaking number of books and Christmas calendars door to door in his native Stockholm, returned to the City That Never Sleeps at 25 determined to make it big.

In one study, «the number of books «liked» on Facebook profiles was negatively correlated with [psychopathy]-- a finding the authors suggested might indicate that an interest in books contradicts psychopathic tendencies such as thrill seeking, impulsivity, and affect deficiencies,» reports Psychology Today.

Display a number of your books, magazine and accessories on the coffee table for definition.

I have written a number of books, and I reveal them all in these books.»

-- To the posts above, there are quite a number of books and articles that recommend (often with math / backtesting) that young investors should focus on 100 % equities, if not more.

My hope is that this numerical system will be of growing use of as the number of book reviews piles up in the future.

He is the author of a number of books including Reset: Living a Grace - Paced Life in a Burnout Culture.

Thomas Laqueur of the University of California at Berkeley reviews a number of books on smoking (meaning, mainly, cigarette smoking) and concludes with this: «They are the result of a new vision of what health means, or more precisely, of what death does not mean.

Of course the number of books published is greater than ever.

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.

a cursory look at amazon will show you there are a great number of books about atheism spanning a wide range of topics under that heading.

She is the author of a number of books, notably the well - known Gnostic Gospels (1979) and....

She has also authored and contributed to a number of books.

In the twentieth century, and especially since the establishment of the state of Israel, there has been renewed Jewish interest in Jesus and a number of books have been written about him by Jews.

Kennedy's method has been reproduced in a number of books and essays on rhetorical method, and so it has become something of a standard.

Now that we have looked at a number of books on the subject, where are we?

There are a number of books that were taken out of the Bible in early years, so the Bible is not even complete.

Moreover, few Catholic journals still publish a substantial number of book reviews or provide much literary coverage.

First, of the large number of books and essays that can be construed as theological, the two Gestalts mentioned above will refer to different sets.

I have read hundreds of the articles from Jerusalem Perspective, including quite a number of books from Brad Young, David Flusser, and others.

In light of these developments, a number of books have appeared recently to refute the so - called revisionists.

Amy is a theologian who, as well as contributing to a number of books, authored two books exploring apologetics: Why Trust the Bible and But is it Real?

He founded the Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and is the author of a number of books on pastoral studies.

He has written a number of books including God's Lavish Grace and The Spirit - Filled Church (Monarch).

During the last two decades an ever - increasing number of books have been published, warning that a frightening nemesis is now appearing on the horizon as a result of our changing relationship with the earth.

College students reading for the classes can churn through a number of books each year.

Beyond this work, he produced a staggering number of books, lectures, articles and letters — most of which were of the very highest order.

Having read a number of your books and blog posts I find that I have come to the conclusion that unless we view the bible through the lens of Christ we will never truly understand God the Father and how He behaves towards us all.

It contains a NUMBER of books and sources..

I own way more than this number of books already, which is depressing for me to think about!

After the death of our son, I dipped into a number of books about grief.

«61 In the organic approach, all parts are responsible for the whole as full partners in decision making, as attested by a number of books that began to appear in the 1970s to promote the democratization of congregational leadership.

In the beautiful departure speech in the 14th chapter of John, we hear, «In nay Father's house there are many dwelling places,» and at the end of the Gospel, John brings his witness to a close by noting that in addition to the things he has told us, there is so much more that if it were all reduced to writing, there wouldn't be enough space in the world to contain the number of books that would be required.

A welcome development of recent years is the number of books debunking the myth that the American founders were post-Christian rationalists or adherents of a vague spirituality conveniently called Deism.

As happened in the case of a number of books in the Old Testament, material which the editors could not appropriately insert elsewhere, they placed at the end of the book.