Sentences with phrase «of lesser books»

There is The Word that's getting underlined, a Bible in a year, that teeters atop a stack of lesser books by my bed.

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«People I've talked to who have looked at the books — to the extent you can — of the state - owned enterprises and estimated what would be their profit margin if they had to pay market rates for their inputs is that a lot of them would go bankrupt or they would be far less profitable,» Dobson says.

The much discussed 2010 book delves into the financial arrangements of the world's poorest citizens, the billions among us who make do with less than $ 2 a day.

But while male billionaires» reading choices get plenty of press coverage, we hear relatively less about the books that have been most inspirational for super successful, but slightly less high - profile women — the kinds of books that are most likely to provide similar wisdom and mental nourishment for the generation of leaders coming up behind them.

«Are those kids any less deserving of books simply because of circumstances beyond their control?

Travel over Memorial Day could be up to 16 percent less expensive compared to fares booked later, and travel over the Fourth of July, up to 14 percent cheaper.

His book gives a slightly different, but no less heroic, version of events.

With that info shared through a common system with the sales department, the general manager and the web team, you eliminate the possibility of double - booking an ad space or disappointing clients with less prominent advertising, Pace says.

In fact, in Andorra's capital city of Andorra la Vella, a three - star hotel (# 43, or $ 59) is not only just half the cost of the average Airbnb (# 79, or $ 108), but you can book yourself into a five - star hotel for less than the average listing on Airbnb's website too (# 77, or $ 105).

The more effort you put into the outline, the less the reader is going to notice or be conscious of the organization of the book, which is what you want.

The book chronicles the story of Dr. Claude Shannon, a modest, quirky mathematician and engineer who was one of the founders of the information revolution, and arguably one of the lesser - known geniuses of the 20th century.

Get free, early access to one Kindle book from a selection of editors» picks each month or shop the hardcover version for $ 9.99 or less.

One of the many ways books can make you happier is by helping you pass the time during some of life's less entertaining moments.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

In fact, authors Thomas Stanley and William Danco found in their book «The Millionaire Next Door» that a majority of millionaires reached that goal by spending less than they earned.

Turkle is the author of «Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other» and «Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age,» among many other books on human relationships to technology.

PRICE RATIONALE: Since this is a business in which books sell for 50 % of their original price or less, it's no surprise that this deal feels right.

Greg McKeown's book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less is a wonderful deep dive into the art of saying no by pursuing lLess is a wonderful deep dive into the art of saying no by pursuing lessless.

In researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.

The Kardashian game's total bookings, which includes the cut Glu must pay to app store owners like Apple, fell to under $ 8 million in the second quarter, less than one - fifth what it brought in at the height of the game's popularity.

This book reminds me of the opportunity we all have to free our minds of fear and judgment so that we may make better decisions and be more creative, with less internal friction and more in harmony with those around you.

Booking site Hipmunk reported that its reservations for Trump hotels are down nearly 60 percent over this time last year, the Globe said, while a survey of more than 2,000 Americans by travel trend tracking website Skift found 56.9 percent of respondents said they were less likely to stay in a Trump hotel because of his campaign.

Public - sector unions have orchestrated a massive transfer of wealth away from the less well - off to their members, claims a new book.

While the likes of Beate Uhse and Playboy were each raking in at least $ 300 million each a few years ago while I was researching my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, the three biggest public companies pulled in less than that combined over the past year.

Is someone with abusive paedophile tendencies more or less likely to put those urges into action if he (or indeed she) can indulge those fantasies within the confines of a book?

However, as he argued in his most recent book, The End of Energy Obesity, modern societies have at their disposal the technological tools, and possibly the social pressure, to consume less energy in absolute terms, not just per capita or per dollar of GDP.

Sandberg's book shares personal details that reveal a fair share of stumbles and lesser - known tidbits.

Open - book management doesn't cause someone to accept less money; it just enables both the company and employee to get more out of their time together.

But it was less a pure business book than a broad piece of social history.

This year's presidential election will go down in the books for many things, but perhaps one of the less appreciated reasons — thanks to millions of smartphone - wielding, social - networking Americans — is the number of images it has produced

«Prices have declined at the high end of the market but remained steady for more moderately priced units; bidding wars have become noticeably less prevalent,» the Beige Book said.

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Listees come with price - to - earnings multiples of less than 15 and price - to - book equal to or less than 1.5.

Obviously, comic book villains are the stuff of fiction — investors make for much less interesting stories.

(ii) whose income in the preceding 12 months is not less than S$ 300,000 (or its equivalent in a foreign currency) or such other amount as the Exchange and the Book Depository may prescribe in place of the first amount;

Companies ripe for takeovers often have some of the following traits: • a small capitalization; • a market price less than book value; • a «weak» management team; • ownership of undervalued assets or important patents.

«If it's booked through a third party, they have less of a connection and may get less information from a customer like an email address, so they don't have that same ability to follow up with them.»

But that strategy works a lot less smoothly than it used to, says green marketing expert Shel Horowitz, author of eight books — most recently the Amazon Environmental category bestseller Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (with Jay Conrad Levinson).

That was until Amazon branched out of books and niche players like Etsy provided a different and better product selection with a cleaner user experience less than a decade later.

Furthermore, as of October 2017, European stocks remained generally less expensive than US peers on metrics such as price - to - book and price - to - cash - flow.

Valuation: Price - to - book ratio compares a stock's market value to the value of total assets less total liabilities (book value).

The initial public offering price is substantially higher than the pro forma net tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately following this offering based on the total value of our tangible assets less our total liabilities.

Clark Howard, host of the nationally syndicated radio show «The Clark Howard Show» and author of 10 books, has been helping people save more and spend less for decades.

Instead of trying to watch less tv or spend less time on Facebook, start doing something else, like join a team or writing a book.

Even a relatively mundane corporate tax return for a Canadian corporation with a few dozen employees and domestic operations can easy run into 100 pages, and frankly our tax legislation and compliance obligations are far less onerous than those of our US cousins (by way of example, our Tax Act is one phone book, the IRC is three, of more or less inpenetrable gibberish).

Cash revenue differs from total bookings, as disclosed elsewhere in this prospectus, due to secondary domain sales being recorded as gross sales for cash revenue purposes with the offsetting commissions recorded in cost of cash revenue while total bookings recorded net sales (gross cash receipts less commissions).

The Beige Book survey seemed to blame this less - than - idyllic state of affairs on the weakening in demand overseas.

Based on government valuations, companies deciding to renew their concessions under MP 579, such as Eletrobras, would be forced to receive indemnity payments as much as 50 % less than the book value of their assets.

«To succeed in the Gig Economy, we need to create a financially flexible life of lower fixed costs, higher savings, and much less debt,» Diane Mulcahy, a senior analyst at the Kauffman Foundation and a lecturer at Babson College, writes in her book «The Gig Economy,» which is part economic argument and part how - to guide.

The aggregate book value of those loans is less than $ 70 million.