Sentences with phrase «of older books of»

And the best - selling nonfiction book had nothing to do with he latest recipe or the newest diet; it was (and is) a recent version of the oldest book of all: the Bible.

Thanks to a recent online release of old books of piracy trials in the nineteenth century by the Law Library of Congress, we can brush up on what it meant to be a pirate back then.

Not exact matches

So much so, that she was able to snag a book deal and start making lots of money off of her 5 - year - old blog, Momma's Gone City.

Fast - forward six decades and one of the remaining posters was discovered by a bookseller who bought a box of old books (where the poster was hidden) at auction.

At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.

If you're not afraid of facing the really difficult — and really meaningful — questions over your holiday break, professor Jeffrey Pfeffer suggests this title: «It's an old book that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974.

While the business of booking trips through a traditional agency will likely never return to pre-internet levels, there is a growing understanding among travelers that calling an old - school agent could be worthwhile in certain cases.

As one of the oldest tricks in the digital marketing book, website scraping is still a premiere way of getting data.

«The anniversary has already opened old wounds for Camilla, people are being reminded of the fact that she was instrumental in ending this marriage that was described as a fairy tale,» said Morton, who has released a revised version of his book to mark 25 years since its release.

This was required reading in my family, and I think perhaps the only book all of us kids (meaning my older brother) agreed on being essential.

The Microsoft founder - turned - humanitarian is a veritable font of book recommendations, taking to his blog periodically to suggest new releases and old favorites that have caught his eye.

«Chesapeake Requiem,» a forthcoming book by Earl Swift, paints a timely portrait of the 200 - year - old crabbing community as it faces extinction from rising water levels.

Now, most books are published outside of the old traditional models, and most non-fiction books are not monetized directly.

And while some older people may discount Mulcahy's strategy of using a chat box on her website as impersonal, she sees it as a way to communicate with customers on their time table — maybe at 11 p.m. when they happen to need a tutor or want to book an appointment.

Among the top five films of 2016 was The Jungle Book, a remake of a 49 - year - old movie.

In the past few years, it's become clear that old technologies like vinyl records, analog cameras, and print books are managing to hang on in the world of streaming music, smartphones, and ebooks.

Inside, a vintage wooden bar lines one wall, with bottles of whiskey and gin sharing space with colorful sweaters, a case of old Rolex watches and money clips, and various books and obscure fashion magazines.

«We're living in what I like to call the «Thank You Economy,» because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old - fashioned way — and do it authentically — are going to have a prayer of competing,» says social media expert and author of the book The Thank You Economy Gary Vaynerchuk in a recent Entrepreneur.com column.

But the short answer for anyone who doesn't want to buy a book is that the standard old - fashioned clinical trial is designed to answer a specific question about a population with lots of different specific characteristics.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

It first identifies snippets of old books that can not be digitized automatically because digitization - helping software can not recognize the old text.

When President Trump has his physical exam on Friday, there is little chance he will repeat the same story within a span of 10 minutes or fail to recognize old friends, as the explosive new book «Fire and Fury» by Michael Wolff asserts he has done in the past.

«Ask yourself: would we have retained this document the old - fashioned way, in a file cabinet,» says Nancy Flynn, executive director of the ePolicy Institute, a Columbus, Ohio, electronic communications consultant and author of numerous email books.

Last month, in the buildup to the release of his first book, the 25 - year - old marketer revealed some big ones.

The 90 - year - old «Queen of Suspense» has published more than 50 books, and she told CNBC recently it's still a thrill.

The takeaway here — as much as it pains someone who writes for the Web to say it — is that the best sort of reading is probably the most old - fashioned: just you, a book, and a quiet room for an extended period of time.

Many point to the a fifteen year - old book called The Alchemy of Growth as its origin.

DODOcase co-founder Patrick Buckley, a 29 - year - old serial entrepreneur, felt there was a niche among people nostalgic for the warm, classy feel of a traditional book.

One of the quickest ways to make money fast is by selling your old books, CDs (yes, people still buy them) and DVDs as well as smartphones, smartphone chargers and gaming consoles.

Yet the shops» old - world practices have their advantages: book - acquisition costs are minimal to nonexistent, as the stores acquire titles either inexpensively or in the form of donations (even though the business is not a nonprofit).

Name: Melanie Perkins Company: Canva Work - life balance philosophy: We are what we repeatedly do, and being consistent with perseverance and hardwork have seen me from being a 14 - year - old starting my first business of selling handmade scarves, to a 19 - year - old starting Fusion Books, to where I am with Canva is today.

Selling copies of your book, no matter how old it is, how or when it was published - or preparing the groundwork for your phenomenal success in the future - begins with the decision to do so.

-- Bert Thornton, former president and COO of Waffle House, Inc., and author of the new business book, Find an Old Gorilla

In his book, Making the Corps, Tom Ricks described putting his life in the hands of a 22 - year - old Marine on a patrol in Somalia.

Or if you're looking for a deeper dive there's a whole book on the subject by Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, entitled Managing the Older Worker: How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order.

«This book aims to help readers understand the habits and mindsets used to take the company that I started at 15 years old and turn it into one of New York's fastest - growing public relations firms.

«It's no longer a sweet old lady pushing a trolley of books,» notes Duxbury.

You Can Negotiate Anything, probably the most entertaining of the books, skips any allusion to scholarship about the human tendency to defer to authority, instead citing an old Candid Camera episode in which a surprising number of highway drivers confronted with the sign «Delaware Closed» actually turned around.

«If you take it off company - wide, you're taking off things you need,» says Jeff Olson, 43 - year - old co-founder of Velocity Business Publishing, a book and e-book publisher in Bristol, Vermont.

Project Gutenberg is one of the oldest e-book sites with over thousands of books available for free download.

Travis Isaacson, senior director of organizational development at Access Development, a Salt Lake City, affinity marketing business, doesn't want anything that fancy, just an iPod Classic with 120 GB of memory instead of the old 80 GB model he has now so he can squeeze in more of the business books he downloads from Audible.com.

The now 26 - year - old CEO and start - up co-founder of mobile advertising app Kiip used a series of career «cheats» to fast - track his success, which he describes in his book, «The Cheat Code.»

After reading my new book, Real Leaders Don't Follow, an old friend and business associate who's had a long and successful career, Ziv Azmanov, sent me an email that, among other things, does a pretty effective job of explaining what distinguishes real entrepreneurs from the pack:

David Patchell - Evans, GoodLife's 57 - year - old founder and CEO, is making the rounds, enthusiastically meeting with new and potential members and signing free copies of his latest lifestyle book, The Real Sexy, Smart and Strong.

If anything — as a recent crop of books about Apple, Google, Amazon and Twitter makes plain — they mark the sly triumph of old - style corporate manners in a bright new skin.

The definitive example is Sun Tzu's The Art of War, a 2,000 - year - old book on military strategy that still resonates with entrepreneurs.

So, you're 42 year - old and you've written seven of the greatest - selling books of all time.

«There's an old saying that goes, «If you paid for porn, you flunked the Internet,»» says Patchen Barss, author of The Erotic Engine, an upcoming book on the way pornography shaped modern technology.

I had a shelf full of old Photoshop books.

The 20 - year - old online travel booking business allows customers to choose from 300 airlines, 200,000 hotels in 200 countries, 300 airlines, and a variety of car rentals, cruises and vacation packages.