Sentences with phrase «over the book for»

This is designed to help you plan lessons aligned to the Lucy Calkins curriculum so you no longer have to pour over the books for hours, or look elsewhere for separately written units.

And most significantly, if you can achieve a threshold of sales, say from 5 - 10K copies on your own, a traditional publisher may offer you a deal to take over the book for their list.

But perhaps you don't want to sign over all your books for representation.

Not exact matches

In this book, Ramsey coaches readers through the basics of personal finance, from paying off debt to building an emergency fund, providing «the simplest, most straightforward game plan for completely making over your money habits,» as Amazon describes it.

Set in a fictional future where a single company looms, Big Brother — like, over all of Internet commerce and connection, the book presents an absolute worst - case scenario for our current mass - experiment in living online.

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.»

The chart below shows how the prevalence of the word «fact» has changed over time, using a tool designed to search for it in Google's library of millions of books published from 1600 to 2008.

After reading Lupkin's case study on a network marketing company that grew over seventy - million in sales with his approach, Carter knew it was time for the pair to co-author a book.

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.

Customers buy three to four times as many books after they buy the Kindle device... That's such a remarkable increase in the amount of book purchasing, it seems pretty likely to be an increase in the rate of which people buy books [over all]... I hear this from people every day, that they're actually recapturing minutes of the day for reading.

From Adam Markel's Pivot, which will help anyone in transition create a new roadmap for success, to Jon Acuff's Do Over, a helpful guide in dissecting relationships, skills, character and work and preparing them for change, there's no shortage of helpful books that will make your reinvention smoother.

«There's a lot that goes into making a book,» she says, «and we're going to take over everything for you.»

For example, we wanted to attract high - achievers and entrepreneurs (because we knew they'd be our best backers), so we designed a «Productivity Bundle» worth over $ 1,000, which included our journal, business books, a brain fitness tool and coffee.

If you want to write a book, setting a Challenge that says you'll write for 2 hours a day will automatically trigger some progress and mental momentum, because you know that if you just do that over and over again, for six months, chances are very good you'll have at least a rough draft in place when you're done.

One of the most interesting things I found in researching my book Mapping Innovation is that the firms that invested in basic exploration eventually hit on something big, What's more, the massive return on investment it generated paid for all of the failed projects many times over.

Ms. Huffington writes about her vision for a society and workplace culture where sleep is prioritized over pushing the limits and burning the candle at both ends in her new book The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time.

In his new book, «Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two,» Jim Koch tells the rollicking, often profane tale of how he built the Boston Beer Company (home of Samuel Adams) and made non-imported lagers safe for discriminating drinkers.

But even more troubling for Taibbi was the impression he took from the book that Comey is not above «pulling a J. Edgar Hoover» and holding damaging facts over a president to gain leverage.

You don't have to pay the premium for the Microsoft Surface Book over an XPS 13 or Spectre x360, but if you're a professional with money to burn, it's the closest thing Windows laptops have to a luxury brand.

Over 50 years ago, one of the earliest champions of brainstorming, Alex Osborn, a U.S. advertising executive, developed rules for the practice — such as banning criticism and encouraging freewheeling — which he published in his 1953 book Applied Imagination.

He was considered the most successful music producer ever, cited in the Guinness Book of Records for having more than 50 number - one hit records over five decades in the United States and Britain alone...

Sinek, best known for his book, Start With Why, said that current consumer - minded business models that prioritize the needs of customers over people within the organization are outdated, having first been adapted in the 80s and 90s.

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.

For its 2018 travel planning guide, Hipmunk ran data from millions of flights over an 18 - month booking window.

I've frequently shared how keeping a journal for over 16 years has not only helped me write a book but also how it has helped me become a better business leader.

By using this tip, a book campaign for Escape From Island Jesus set a goal of $ 8,000 but ended up accruing over $ 15,000.

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

«The process of writing proved to be very therapeutic and healing for me, and provided a way to look back over the time line of my grief and process how I was truly feeling,» says Ledeboer, who is now working on a book based on her blog posts.

In an interview after his book was finally released, Zusak said, «In three years, I must have failed over a thousand times, but each failure brought me closer to what I needed to write, and for that, I'm grateful.»

After college, Bezos worked for several years in finance, including at hedge fund D. E. Shaw, where he had the idea to sell books over the Internet, according to the Wired feature.

Some of that relative decline might be explained by e-book prices that have risen: many people still prefer the tactile pleasure of a physical book and will choose that over a digital book for the same price.

That's 180,000 words over a three - month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.»

Bookings from fares rose 14 per cent to just over $ 11 billion for the quarter.

, however, has oceans of cash available — not just because it has over $ 20 billion in cash on its books, but because its AWS hosted - computing platform for corporate customers spins off huge amounts of money every quarter.

He's witnessed a canceled hotel booking because it was «taken over for a government meeting.»

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I've had my eye on Israel for several years now, since working on my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and learning that much of the country's economic success over the past few decades has been the result of a meshing between technology and the military.

Peter Thiel may be embroiled in controversy over his support for Donald Trump at the moment, but according to Ng his book Zero to One is well worth a read if you're aiming to start new and innovative ventures.

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Second, the average time to maturity on U.S. debt is six years, meaning that most of the low - yielding bonds now on the books will be exchanged for more expensive debt over the next decade.

A great read I enjoyed over the summer break was Gerry McGovern's new book The Caring Economy... Business Principles for the New Digital Age.

ForwardKeys, which analyses 16 million flight reservations a day from major global reservation systems, said bookings for international arrivals to the United States over the next three months were 2.3 % higher than last year.

As famous for his death - defying stunts as for successfully running hundreds of companies over the past 50 years, Richard Branson has one of the best stories in business — which he tells in his new book, Finding My Virginity.

The latest Disney foodie craze taking over Instagram is definitely one for the books, giving a nod to the glorious rose gold Minnie Mouse ears the theme parks can't keep in stock: Say hello to rose gold Minnie Mouse ears cupcakes — eeee!

The company, which had been around since 1872, started to step away from legal books and began using the internet to publish their legal materials online in the mid-1990s, eventually selling the company for over $ 3 billion (back when a billion was a lot of money).

Over at MiVote.org.au we're using this same shared record book technology for voting.

The two bonded over their mutual love of business and personal - development books, including Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, for which Guthy had secured TV rights.

From what i've observed, prices for items like music and books tend to be pretty sticky (or even declining), so over the long term you'd probably need to counteract that with higher sales.

Tom's studied hundreds of millionaires over the years whose habits are the main focus of his blog (RichHabits.net) and his book (same name — Rich Habits), so I feel like if it's working for them it would work for us too;)

Simon has published over 30 books in 26 languages, including worldwide bestsellers Hidden Champions, Power Pricing, Manage for Profit, Not for Market Share.