Sentences with phrase «of hitting books»

It's inescapable: «back to school» ads alert you of retail deals on the annual theme of hitting the books.

Take the most reasonable decision and buy coursework instead of hitting books days and nights.

A pastel colored, fitted, 3 / 4 - sleeve sweater with an adorable pattern keeps ripped jeans flirty and feminine, and the slouchy jeans beat skinnies for a day of hitting the books.

All this Red Velvet talk is leading me to a night of hitting the books!

Bestselling author David Bach, who is releasing an updated version of his hit book «The Automatic Millionaire» this December, calls such views «ridiculous» and argues that homeownership is a timeless principle of building wealth that, while boring, still works.

Recently, a video featuring author of the hit book, Start With Why, Simon Sinek, shared a video (that has since gone viral) touching on Millennials in the workplace — and why they are the way they are.

Isa Chandra Moskowitz is the best - selling author of the hit books Isa Does It, Veganomicon, Vegan With a Vengeance, and many other titles.

I have two doctoral degrees — Chiropractic and Naturopathic Medicine — and I'm the author of the hit book Reclaim Your Energy and Feel Normal Again!

Jennifer shot to superstardom thanks to starring role as Katniss Everdeen in the movie version of hit book series The Hunger Games.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Martian dropped by The Writer Files to chat with host Kelton Reid about his writing process and the upcoming movie adaptation of his hit book, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon (release date October 2, 2015).

Author of the hit book WOOL, a New York Times and Amazon.com bestseller, Hugh Howey has found amazing success through independent publishing.

Not exact matches

After reading half a chapter of the book, the message hit me in the face like a ton of bricks.

Alex Garcia and Matt Buchan, the owners of Emerson salon hit it off with an aggressive social media campaign on Twitter, Facebook and other media by promoting their services, linking their social profiles with their websites and adding a button through which users can easily book the appointment to get their hairs cut.

As you can see, it did not hit those targets once in the three quarters since — even booking a slight decline in the first quarter of 2013.

And Arianna Huffington, cofounder and editor of The Huffington Post, reads hard - copy books before hitting the hay each night.

It's been nine years since the book The Coming Collapse of China first hit bookshelves.

The book became a surprise hit as a hardcover and caught the attention of Penguin, who purchased the paperback rights from Savas Beatie.

But «Ready Player One,» based on a 2011 novel, is vying for moviegoers at a time when the box office has been dominated by serial tales of comic - book superheroes and sequels to established hits, making it tougher for new material to shine.

We'll take a look at some of them, from renowned fashion designer Vera Wang, who didn't design her first dress until she was 40, to writer Harry Bernstein, who authored countless rejected books before getting his first hit at age 96.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final installment of J.K. Rowling's blockbuster children's book series, hits stores (with a thud, at 784 pages) on July 21.

Within a couple of days, 10,000 orders had been placed for the book — which was originally released in 2013 — and it hit N0.

Everyone knows reading is an important source of knowledge, but many don't understand how much they can actually learn by hitting the pause button, sitting down and picking up a book.

Self - publishing is shedding its stigma in the book world thanks to smash hits like On the Island and Fifty Shades of Grey.

One of the most interesting things I found in researching my book Mapping Innovation is that the firms that invested in basic exploration eventually hit on something big, What's more, the massive return on investment it generated paid for all of the failed projects many times over.

In an interview with Fortune, Smith discussed the new book, Netflix's hit, House of Cards, and the future of entertainment.

Students are generally short of money and have no lack of other demands on their time (though, let's be honest, plenty of college kids aren't exactly getting up at the crack of dawn to hit the books or spending every waking hour working).

Two of my favorite books on this subject hit home the point.

But even with more young Canadians hitting the books, a big part of our national discourse on unemployment is focused on the lack of good or appropriate work once they graduate.

He was considered the most successful music producer ever, cited in the Guinness Book of Records for having more than 50 number - one hit records over five decades in the United States and Britain alone...

I used to think about all of the books, articles and speeches that I wanted to create but then eventually talked myself out of it, because I would hit a wall and just tell myself that creativity isn't a strong suit of mine.

If becoming a great negotiator takes more of a commitment than reading a book, then certainly no quick hit list of tips is going do the job, either.

When David DeFazio graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1992, he decided to hit the mountains of Jackson, Wyoming before hitting the books in law school.

Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

The movie adaptation of Lewis» 2010 book hits a limited number of theaters this week, and will be widely released Dec. 23.

SAP had been slow to move into the cloud, said Reuner, but after making the shift with acquisitions such as procurement software company Ariba in 2012, the first quarter of 2017 saw it sell more subscriptions than expected, with new cloud bookings increasing by 49 percent to 215 million euros ($ 244.9 million) and shares hitting a record high.

As more and more bookstores have closed, Amazon is now believed to be the nation's largest bookseller, with an estimated 30 per cent of a total book market that PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates hit $ 34.9 billion last year, and 60 per cent of an e-book market that PwC pegged at $ 7.9 billion.

While these mini Mensa types skimmed their psychology books and hit Georgetown's popular hangout the Tombs promptly at 4 p.m., I memorized, was tutored and had every conceivable study buddy willing to take even a little pity on me and none of it happened over a beer.

One of them was the mid-1990s hit Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler, in which the author, a Brazilian CEO, describes running a democratic, open - book company in which people set their own salaries.

Tired of money managers who cook the books and stockbrokers who profit whether you hit it big or lose your shirt?

Marie Kondo released her book The Life - Changing Magic of Tidying Up back in 2014 and it really hit home.

Hollywood has a handful of new releases hitting theaters this weekend, including Victorian - era zombie romp Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which is based on the 2009 book (itself based on the Jane Austen book) of the same name.

With the success of «The Jungle Book,» Disney proved that it could pull off a hit in the normally quiet month of April.

When we hit 4,500 backers, you got a digital copy of your choice of books from O'Reilly's Lean Series and 3 months of access to Safari, which includes over 30,000 books, video courses and conference talks.

(``... I thought, he would maybe hit one gonad but not both,» Musk said in Vance's book of the knife thrower he hired for a bash.)

Sales development started to hit the mainstream when Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler released the book Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine with the $ 100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com.

A Quill & Quire «Book of the Year», Slow Death by Rubber Duck has been featured by the Washington Post (which said it «is hard - hitting in a way that turns your stomach and yet also instills hope»), Dr. Oz, Fox News, and Oprah Magazine, and translated into six languages.

Jeff is also author of The Little Book of Stock Market Cycles and Super Boom: Why the Dow Will Hit 38,820 and How You Can Profit from It (Wiley, 2011).

In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball.

I can see myself bringing this up in conversation for at least a year or 18 months before I'd hit everyone in my address book with whom I could have this kind of exchange and compiling the most eclectic collection of stories one could imagine.

The following post hits on one of the themes I write about in this book.