Sentences with phrase «over the book of»

To understand Noah, and to give his character a story arc, Aronofsky and his co-writer, Ari Handel, spent 10 years poring over the Book of Genesis and the midrash — stories written by rabbis to fill out the Bible's narratives.

WILLIAM: Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution (Natural Selection) has not had any victory over the Book of Genesis.

When did Darwin's theory of evolution prove victorious over the book of Genesis?

FD: You have participated in the negotiations to the extent that you have offered to hand over the books of the 26 franchises to the players.

This is what makes publishers so desperate, and determined to find the next sparkly vampire drivel over books of literary significance.

New job is partnering with and in 3 - 5 years taking over the book of business for a very profitable financial advisor family member.

Not exact matches

Russell Brunson has built a following of over a million entrepreneurs, sold hundreds of thousands of his books and co-founded software company ClickFunnels, which helps tens of thousands of entrepreneurs quickly get their message out to the marketplace.

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

When the next generation of Chinese entrepreneurs rewrite the world over the next couple of decades, these are the books they'll be quoting from.

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.

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.

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.

China's ruling Communist Party recently announced it would take direct control of major broadcasters and assume regulatory power over everything from film and TV to books and news.

Flow is a term coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience to mean complete absorption in a given task where concentration is «so intense that there is no attention left over to think about anything irrelevant.»

Travel over Memorial Day could be up to 16 percent less expensive compared to fares booked later, and travel over the Fourth of July, up to 14 percent cheaper.

Recently when a customer was dropping Lord of the Rings references, the employee on the other end, who had never read the books, tapped a new representative to take over and continue the Tolkien - themed banter.

Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and psychologist Steven Kramer, authors of the incisive The Progress Principle, pored over 12,000 daily work diary entries and were surprised to find out that making progress — even small wins — on meaningful work is the most powerful motivator,» reports the book.

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.

In the book Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary Leader, authors Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli draw on extensive interviews — conducted over the course of their journalistic careers — to depict the life of the Apple co-founder.

O'Reilly, whose company produces technology books and events, has been at the forefront of nearly every major development in computers over the past three decades.

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.

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.

The only thing that would change is trampling even more all over any willingness to tackle a couple of reforms,» Schäuble said Thursday at a book launch, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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At a press conference to push his new book, Crippled America, Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen of foul play over interest rates.

Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.

In his book People Over Profit, Dale Partridge — co-founder of Sevenly — explains that socially - conscious business models that put people first the future of enterprise.

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.

Over the course of two years I read 197 books on different topics ranging from business to physics, from nonfiction to fiction and made every second of my days productive.

Over the last 52 years (that is, since present management took over), per - share book value has grown from $ 19 to $ 172,108, a rate of 19 % compounded annually.&raOver the last 52 years (that is, since present management took over), per - share book value has grown from $ 19 to $ 172,108, a rate of 19 % compounded annually.&raover), per - share book value has grown from $ 19 to $ 172,108, a rate of 19 % compounded annually.»

Two years later, Fisher released her tell - all book, that included her claim of an affair with Ford and the admission that she thought her days as Princess Leia were over.

The sheer volume of books being published every year has grown exponentially over the past few years.

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.

KindleUnlimited gives you access to over 1 million books, thousands of audio books, and a rotating selection of popular magazines.

During that earlier period, American business earned an average of 11 percent or so on equity capital employed and stocks, in aggregate, sold at valuations far above that equity capital (book value), averaging over 150 cents on the dollar.

Owner Ivan Gedz is sworn to secrecy over which book patrons must tug to gain access, but crack the case and you'll find a low - lit bar designed with recycled wood that musters the look and feel of a Kentucky moonshine shack.

Founder Adam Robinson is passionate about recruiting; not only does he have over 20 years experience in the industry, he has written a book about the power of predictive hiring.

Belying Spicer's comment is data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English, which has 450 million words spoken on television and written in books and print media over the past three decades.

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.

The business of getting people to give to charity has changed remarkably little over the 125 years since Andrew Carnegie first ushered in modern philanthropy with his book «The Gospel of Wealth.»

As sleep researcher Matthew Walker explains in his book Why We Sleep, losing just an hour of sleep stresses the cardiovascular system, which can tip some folks with heart issues over the edge.

But in the book, it explains how it's not just about if you can survive on a little bit of sleep but also what happens to your body over the long term when you deprive it of sleep.

«I mean, it's a really big deal, and in terms of the war I think the thing that's important is, you know, in the comic books it's kind of over relatively quickly.

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.

But the characteristics of craft can also be applied to a company's culture, said Jim Koch, founder and CEO of the Boston Beer Company and author of the new book Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two.

In fact, in Dave Kerpen's book, «The Art of People,» he emphasizes how important it is to hone your people skills in order to charm and win over those who matter, in both your personal and professional life.