Sentences with phrase «on local authors»

So, if you're going to walk into a Barnes and Noble or a BAM, and you want to try to get your book on that local author's table, show to them that they have people around them in their community, again, the readers that Barnes and Noble themselves are trying to connect to, and make that connection for them.

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«When people are surprised on Twitter, they are going to tweet about it and that's how things can spread very quickly,» says O'Neil's boss, Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likable Local, and author of Likeable Business (McGraw - Hill, 2012).

But to further quantify women's impact on a local level, the study's authors also broke down what female residents of each state contribute to GDP per day.

Several skeptical researchers and authors have been hammering away at the foundations of the foodie cause, arguing that everything Pollan and his acolytes stand for — from the dangers of GMO foods to the benefits of local farming — is based on sketchy evidence at best, and at worst is just plain wrong.

Author Elizabeth Royte writes in her book, «Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it,» that 92 % of the nation's 53,000 local water systems meet or exceed federal safety standards and are at least as clean and often cleaner than bottled water.

«The National Front gets support from very small businesses — artisans and local retailers,» says Vincent Jarousseau, a professional photographer and the author of a book on the National Front, called L'illusion National.

This week, author and speaker Jen Hatmaker took to Twitter to describe her local church and the impact it is having on the lives of individuals and communities.

For as the author notes early on, «natural law... is less exalted than direct divine revelation and more exalted than merely local human arrangements.»

The recipe is based on one introduced to me by my friend Ann Martin Rolke, cookbook author, Sacramento local, and co-founder along with Amber Stott, of the California Food Literacy Center, a recently formed non-profit with the mission to help us understand the impact of our food choices.

This year's 11th Annual San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival again culminated with the legendary Grand Tasting Event, this year held on November 22, 2014, which was a magnificent mélange of some of the nation's most celebrated chefs, local culinary rock stars, renowned winemakers and brewmasters, sommeliers, mixologists, authors and other F&B talents who titillated and satiated the collective palate of more than 10,000 eager event - goers.

An expert on child and adolescent hydration and heat illness, she is the author or co-author of sixteen peer - reviewed journal articles, and has made over 20 professional presentations at the local, national, and international level on thermoregulation and hydration behaviors.

This beautifully illustrated book by another local Massachusetts author takes young children on a discovery tour of the layers of snow that play home to ladybugs, salamanders, chipmunks, carp, and more.

Intended as a showcase for local authors, presses, and literary organizations, the fair will take place on Saturday, May 12 from 2 - 5 pm -LSB-...]

Authoring organization (s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health - Published: 2006, 2008 Summary: These materials include clinical algorithms geared for health workers (not lay counselors) to use to counsel mothers and determine the most appropriate time to stop breastfeeding; an adaptation and finalization of the World Health Organization (WHO) Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling: An Integrated Course, including new chapters on complementary feeding and country - specific recommendations; adaptations and local drawings / graphics inspired by the WHO counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement feeding.

Former Rockland County Times editor & author of columns on local history, Robert Knight, will be laid to rest 10:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, May 8 at Pearl River Cemetery.

Brooklyn Paper article on BP Adams congratulating local winners of the Pulitzer Prize, including Boerum Hill playwright Lynn Nottage, Flatlands poet Tyehimba Jess, and Fort Greene author Colson Whitehead.

Local author James P. Burke will discuss his recently published book, «A Lifetime on the Hill,» offering stories from the Tug Hill area.

His store is hosting two local authors on Saturday, including former political cartoonist Frank Cammuso and award winning author Laurie Halse Anderson.

Briffault, the author of several dozen law review articles on campaign finance law and local government, has been a member of several commissions dealing with state and local governance.

PLATTSBURGH — Award winning local author Lawrence Gooley will be giving a presentation called «Escape From Dannemora: Breakouts, Tortures and Violence in Clinton Prison's Past» on Monday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. more

Niagara County Majority Leader Randy R. Bradt, R - North Tonawanda, who helped author the resolution that was introduced on the floor of the Legislature, noted that Nik Wallenda's 2012 walk not only captured the imagination of a billion people around the world, but offered a big boost to the local economy.

Locals no longer feel powerless and so are less likely to take out their frustrations on an unlucky big cat, says Chloe Inskip at the University of Kent, UK, an author of the study on tiger killings in Bangladesh.

The authors suggest this fits with the idea that local signals from outside the growth plate are important in establishing body proportions early on in development.

By measuring an uptick in online searches as well as social media chatter and mass media coverage, Ion Bogdan Vasi, an associate professor of sociology at the UI and corresponding author of a new study, demonstrated how local screenings of Gasland — a 2010 American documentary that focused on communities affected by natural gas drilling — affected the public debate on hydraulic fracking.

Other determinants, including local labor market conditions, parental education and family structure appear to have a greater impact on child poverty levels, according to Myungkook Joo, assistant professor in Rutgers School of Social Work, who authored the study.

«The significant decrease in the catch rates of green turtles represents a concern for both conservationists and local, coastal communities who depend on this resource,» said Dr. Lagueux, lead author of the study.

Though it remains unclear how the litter made it so far north, it is likely to pose new problems for local marine life, the authors report on the online portal of the scientific journal Polar Biology.

«RAIs are important because they are widely used in the United States in an attempt to reduce biased assessments of recidivism risk and are increasingly being mandated at the local, state and federal level,» says Sarah Desmarais, an associate professor of psychology at NC State and lead author of a paper on the research.

First author Randal J. Schoepp, Ph.D., recently returned from Liberia and Sierra Leone, where he spent six weeks helping to set up an Ebola testing laboratory and training local personnel to run diagnostic tests on suspected Ebola hemorrhagic fever clinical samples.

Lead author of the research Dr Kelly Redeker from the Department of Biology at the University of York said «As microbial activity and its influence on its local environment has never been taken into account when looking at ice - core gas samples it could provide a moderate source of error in climate history interpretations.

«The new and important point of our method is that it analyzes the local and global features in one framework without corrupting the underlying regularities of the original time series,» said Miwa Fukino, a doctoral student at the University of Tokyo and first author on the paper.

The chimps are basically imposing a «natural tax» on farmers growing crops near the nutrient - rich soils of the forest,» said Shane McGuinness, lead author on the research and PhD student in Geography at Trinity, who conducted the interview - based study with the help of the Great Apes Trust and local conservation workers.

«We found not only an effect on bone metastases, which one might have anticipated, but also on local regional recurrence, distant bone metastases and contralateral breast cancer,» said study author Dr. Michael Gnant, a professor of surgery at the Medical University of Vienna.

This piece reflects the personal views of the author and does not necessarily represent the position of the local school board on which he serves.

In undertaking this study, the authors tried several recruitment approaches: paid advertisements in local, free newspapers; paid, targeted advertising on social media; and advertisements in government school newsletters.

Using detailed student - level data to compare what sorts of students enter KIPP as compared to public schools in the neighborhood, and what kinds of students replace those who leave, authors find, on average, that KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools.

Nice piece in The Wall Street Journal from the authors of a forthcoming Harvard Education Press publication on charter schools: Charter Schools Are Reinventing Local Control in Education.

Authors Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim argue that state superintendents can use both hard and soft power to negotiate local governance reforms, build coalitions, and act as high - level advocates for change on the local level.

Rep. Horman, District 30, Idaho Falls, is a former president of the Idaho school boards association and author of the Local Innovation School Act that was signed into law on March 31st.

Dan Lawson, author of the letter and director of Tullahoma City Schools, stopped short of calling the document a vote of no confidence but said many of Huffman's moves are «counterproductive and hurtful» to the educators on the ground in local schools.

Among other things, the bill would prohibit schools from using Design - Build methods and it would also prohibit schools from negotiating with local contractors or establishing a bidding preference for local contractors on all school construction, repair or remodeling projects above $ 50,000 (the original bill called for projects above $ 75,000 but the bill authors introduced an amendment that appears to change that to $ 50,000).

Richard Long, Author and Consultant on State and Local Implementation of Title I and Kelly Pollitt, Chief Strategist, Policy and Alliances, NAESP

Joe Crawford, Milken Award - winning educator and author of Using Power Standards to Build an Aligned Curriculum, shares his proven process for building a viable local curriculum based on the CCSS.

This course can include a wide variety of skills based on local industries and can include content from the Odysseyware course library, district - authored custom content, and any other district - provided resources desired.

Juan has been the author or co-author of various publications focusing on process and summative evaluations of supplemental educational services, teacher - focused professional development, the impact of accountability systems, the impact of interim assessment practices on summative assessment results, and the evaluation of technical assistance efforts provided to state and local education agencies throughout the country.

The authors, who have advised school districts on implementing merit - pay plans, believe policymakers should consider such plans tailored to local situations.

As Village Book's Publishing Director, Brendan Clark has noted, «our publishing program brings together flexible project management, high - quality on - demand book production, and the expertise of local professionals, all with the unified goal of helping authors get their books into print.»

Everything else that I have read, recently, about local book signings for Indie Authors only mention things like «grueling,» or they go on to question the value of such in today's digital marketplace.

While you might be able to hand - sell copies of your self - published book to readers at local events, your online sales rely on the vitality and allure of your online author platform.

(Managing partner Robert Sindelar says the store evaluates Amazon titles on a case - by - case basis and tries to support local authors.