Sentences with phrase «of the biggest issues book»

In that discussion, I was surprised to learn that one of the biggest issues book publishers deal with every day is royalty inquiries from authors.

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The other issue that faces all companies is, as you get to a large enough size, there are people whose job it is to protect business lines — they're just doing their job — but this is the classic case of «The Innovator's Dilemma,» the famous business book, which says that when companies ultimately fail, whether it's Polaroid or whoever, it's not because they were big and dumb; it's because they were actually really smart.

It's a useful book for students who need accurate information for the argument / debate / shouting match at the student bar, for families tackling big issues in passionate kitchen debates, and for quiet perusal before replying to the sneers of office colleagues — or even to the well - intentioned «But surely you can't believe...?»

Pope Benedict XVI discusses some of the biggest issues facing the Catholic church in a book of interviews being released Tuesday - a book that has already caused controversy over his remarks on condoms.

The bigger issue with his «Christianities» stem from the church he claimed to have attended for long is an imposter (what many call a church of hate), his conversion coincides with the start of his political career, he's never given any account of why he converted to Christianity (people who do convert invariably have very specific reasons), and in one of his books he vows that he will stand with Islam.

That is a huge issue in my books, much bigger than a pastor who leads a congregation of a church that seats 1200 people... really.

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The biggest issue looming in my mind as I read the book was the sticky problem of student participation.

This book differs from Two Thousand Kisses a Day, Whispers Through Time, and The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline in that it takes a Christian approach to parenting as L.R. takes on big names in the Christian child - training sect such as Dr. James Dobson, Tedd Tripp, Gary Ezzo, and Michael Pearl, breaking down their doctrine and reexamining such issues as spanking, instant obedience, submission, free will, and more in light of the original Hebrew and Greek texts of the scriptures.

Then the book goes more in - depth to introduce the idea of emotional projects; those big issues that can be a struggle for children because of their emotional charge.

I understand the book's steetmant to be more of an observation of a bigger societal / cultural issue: people in general, and mothers in particular, have overloaded expectations of their own time and involvements.

You'll find 4 exclusive issues of DC comic books featuring the JUSTICE LEAGUE in specially marked boxes of Big G cereals from now through April -LCB- while supplies last -RCB-.

SNA Research on the issues and trends impacting school nutrition like SNA's trends and operations reports, The Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, and the Little Big Fact Book.

«People have been having their books sent in for 20, 30 years and now all of a sudden it's become a big issue for the secretary of state.»

«Even the cardinal rule that a great essay must be beautifully written has been violated in a few instances,» says Martin Gardner, introducing Great Essays in Science (Prometheus Books, pp 427, # 14.50), a splendid collection of 34 essays on science and some of the big issues of science and philosophy.

I did have a minor issue with the idea of moving to a big city, only because of how many competitors you gain when you do, but otherwise this book is flawless.

One of my biggest issues is that the last film forgot to focus on character development / relationships and these are some very cool comic book characters in the Lantern Corps., we just didn't get a chance to see this properly explored.

From the looks of this, some of the bigger moments of the book have made it to the screen, and we'll see how the various interpersonal issues play out too.

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As Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Bad Boys II, and Legally Blonde 2 touch down in theatres, Die Another Day, The Jungle Book 2, and the Brady Bunch movies land on DVD, and then there are the cross-promotions: It seems like everyone wants a piece of the fallout from Universal's big - screen Hulk, with Fox, Buena Vista, Anchor Bay, and Universal itself issuing «Hulk» - branded discs prior to the feature film's June 20th opening.

Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance.

The logo is based on the same one that has graced hundreds of issues of the character's comic book adventures, though it has been chromed up a bit for the big screen.

The fall issue of the Big Deal Book of Technology for K - 12 Educators featured Education World, and we couldn't be more honored.

If we look at the issue of disability as identity — which is one of the things we talk about in the book — and of students developing a sense of themselves as people with disabilities and integrating their disability into their overall personality, there were actually big differences on that dimension.

In the following excerpt from their new book The Every Student Succeeds Act: What It Means for Schools, Systems, and States, Frederick M. Hess and Max Eden explain how what might appear to be a story of Congress «not working» can actually be seen as a story of Congress working exactly as it is supposed to, finding agreement on a major issue in a big, diverse, and complicated nation.

Dreading anything having to do with numbers and understanding myself more as a «big picture» guy, Honan's systematic, clear, engaging and fun - loving approach to teaching exactly how to be a strategic school leader, with your mission in one hand and your financial statement in the other, not only dissipated my lifelong fear of «financial books,» but just as importantly gave me a skills set I was very confident using (and even, God help me, enjoyed) when dealing with all issues involved in leading a school.

In the background of this book, there's a bigger issue: There's not much research supporting exactly what works best for gifted students.

Much Promise book review: a comprehensive account of English education and its big picture influences and issues

Many of the raging debates I'm seeing still haven't addressed the issue of nonreturnable books which I think is the big culprit here.

In my opinion, if most readers aren't getting past the first 1 / 10th of a book, then I'd have a bigger issue than getting a Kindle Unlimited payout.

«One of the biggest issues facing publishers today is knowing a lot about the people who are buying their books,» Weiner told Mashable.

After I look at Amazon pages of books, I click the close button (even when free) more often than I click the buy button, and the issue of quality is a big reason behind that.

One of the key issues plaguing an admittedly glutted ebook market is the need for better searchability, especially for self - published and small press books that don't come with the publicity teams reserved for bestsellers from the Big Five.

The two things I take issue with above are the assumption that paper is only 10 % of the cost of a book — that's a big assumption and I am not at all sure you're correct, there.

Once you're certain that you've solved the big - picture issues of your book (and done the necessary re-writes), it's time to turn the keys over to a master of English mechanics: the copy editor.

The big issue is of course with the last category; how to get these books into the right hands.

In an earlier blog post we talked about the importance of developmental editing and why the focus on big - picture stuff — structure, book - spanning issues like plot or organization, character development, dialogue, and that sort of thing — needs to come first, before you spend too much time worrying about the finer points of style and wording.

A big issue with scribd for here in India is for the same price of subscription in America, we get even less number of books than the people in the states.

Also wondering if the B&T solution does anything to address the primar issue for library e-books (no books from most of the Big Six pubs).

I say this not to be negative or downplay what you're saying, as I've seen it work for lots of writers, but only to broaden the point that not everyone is capable of that upfront investment, and as hopelessly impatient I can be at times, this is an issue than «just writing more books» will not solve regarding indie publishing in the big picture sense.

The big issue with all these comic readers is that the 10 - inch iPad screen actually isn't quite big enough to comfortably read comic book dialogue bubbles off of.

I would like to see more unemotional exploration of the economic issues; more critical questioning of the statements of big - name publishing players; and greater representation of those who think Amazon may be a boon to a book - loving culture, not its killer.

I am totally sold on the e-readers and especially the ease of finding books to buy with the internet — a very big issue since I live over 60 miles from the nearest thing one could call a city.

... unfortunately, I discovered most of my single issues had been damaged (some missing covers, others with big chunks of them ripped out), 4 of my Reading with Pictures books were missing ($ 80 in potential revenue), and they had added a Jesus coloring and activity book, and a 2 - disc Cream vinyl record set.

I mean, considering the fact that the biggest offline seller of books in the US Borders is facing huge financial issues, and the predictions that have been made that Amazon's e-Book business is going to make $ 2.5 billion in 2012, why should the Author's Guild be concerned about some minor issue of Text to Speech on the Kindle!

Their writers are their biggest cheerleaders and they are both seeing modestly increasing success with every round of books they issue.

It's not a big issue for me, personally, since most of my book traffic comes from the United States, but I have acquaintances in the United Kingdom and Canada who feel left out.

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Of course maybe the audience that moves digital will be big enough for this to not be an issue, but even so book publishers and authors will need to compete with movies, games and music much more directly and immediately than they have in the past.

Certainly, Amazon has issues too, however, the big traditional publishers, Barnes and Noble, and the group of literary agents connected to this model have made a very good living from working with a relatively small number of authors that sell a lot of books.