Sentences with phrase «of years the book»

Within a couple of years the book's sales, in all editions and translations, were approaching a million.

This e-book product is a companion book study that may be utilized in several different ways including: (1) individual professional development to renew your own professional growth and learning; (2) a faculty and staff book study as a summer or really anytime of the year book study for professional growth; (3) a guide or workbook for an assigned reading in a graduate course; and (4) maybe an entire faculty and staff summer read to help better understand the world of dyslexia as part of a school improvement process!

Thankfully, in the past couple of years book promotion has started to slough off old, bad habits.

We also need to re-invent the «ebook social context»: for hundreds of years books have served a social role, because they were easy to share with your friends and easy to show on your shelves at home.

Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction recently posted... 2017 End of Year Book Survey

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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.

«There are a number of core lessons I have pulled from this book over the years.

For example, I clump most of my necessary phone appointments during a month into one day and book my Phone Day in each month a year ahead.

To be sure, * The Magic of Thinking Big * was not written strictly for entrepreneurs — I'm not sure the word was well - known in the 50s... but applying the principals from this book has contributed to the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existence.

Digital books made up about 20 % of the market last year, roughly the same as they did a few years ago, a fact that has traditional publishers almost gloating.

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.

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

«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 year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

Last year, Paul English, a co-founder of the travel booking site Kayak — which Priceline bought for $ 1.8 billion in 2012 — looked at his calendar.

As you'd expect from the founder of Facebook, he started a book club of sorts called A Year of Books on — you guessed it!

And yesterday he was at it again, offering up his own version of that seasonal stand - by, the end - of - year best books list.

Facebook's CEO highlighted 23 books in his recent «A Year of Books» reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Rutbooks in his recent «A Year of Books» reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda RutBooks» reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven.

«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.

In their book Start Your Own Business, the staff of Entrepreneur Media Inc. guides you through the critical steps to starting your business, then supports you in surviving the first three years as a business owner.

In fact, in an effort to make sure he feeds his mind a steady diet of good books this year, he has vowed to read something new every two weeks, starting an online book club to keep himself on track and inspire others.

If you're looking for book suggestions to fill your reading list this year, you could do a lot worse that follow the blog of Microsoft - founder - turned - philanthropist Bill Gates.

«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.»

Accounting technology has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, and using this sophisticated software business owners and managers can automate and balance their books without delving into the complicated world of accounting.

Based on the bestselling book, «The Wonder Weeks,» the app condenses 35 years of research on a baby's developmental progress into an at - a-glance chart.

Adjusted book value per share of $ 84.54, up 1 % from year - end 2017.

The phrase had been popularized earlier that year in a book by Mervyn King, a former governor of the Bank of England.

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Willink has been retired from the SEALs for seven years now, and passes on his philosophy of discipline through his leadership consulting firm Echelon Front, his podcast, and books.

But for bookworms, the true highlight of the season might just be the avalanche of «best books of the year» lists.

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

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

Jeff Boss is cofounder of Chaos Advantage, author of two books, founding team member of the SEAL Future Fund, cofounder of The Adaptability Metric, and former 13 - year Navy SEAL where his top awards included four Bronze Stars with valor and two Purple Hearts.

Over the years, the acronym has become a sort - of mantra for the famed Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers venture capitalist, who more recently turned it into a book (Measure What Matters; Portfolio, $ 14) he describes as «my love letter to our future.»

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.

She and a colleague published a book this year examining the efficacy of a variety of voluntary CSR standards.

The process for writing a book is almost the same as it was 50 years ago, except you type on a computer instead of a typewriter now.

What follows is a catalog of the books and music that most impacted Obama last year.

The Canadian mining sector has been in people's bad books for years, while energy shows few signs of rebounding after brutal performances in both 2014 and 2015.

According to Jaunted, trips aboard «Triumph» can already be booked for as early as April of this year.

The government expects the anti-smoke move will increase federal tax revenues by $ 685 million in 2014 - 15 — a major piece of the puzzle in Tory efforts to balance the books over the next two years.

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.

Fujifilm said it would book restructuring costs of 49 billion yen ($ 450.95 million) in the second half of the fiscal year through March, lowering its operating profit forecast for the year to 130 billion yen from a previous 185 billion yen.

Although the incident comes at the height of the busiest time of the year for cruise bookings, a period known as Wave Season, travel agents weren't bracing for a downturn in business Monday, in part because the incident had yet to get major publicity, said Mike Driscoll of Cruiseweek, an industry newsletter.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

Initiated by Keith's and then Mick's books, and followed by suspenseful talk of a tour, the public's seduction has stretched over a year.

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

The Carnival Triumph fire comes two years after another Carnival ship, the 113,000 - ton Carnival Splendor, was disabled off the Pacific coast of Mexico by a fire during a cruise from California — a similar incident that ultimately affected bookings leaving Texas, Driscoll said.

Topaz International, a corporate travel auditor, conducted a study this year in which it looked at 5,572 itineraries booked via corporate travel programs, of which 81 percent could be replicated, with the same routing, on public internet sites.

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.