Sentences with phrase «piles of books by»

Although there are always piles of books by the bedside, after lights out, I continue reading on a Palm, generally newspaper pieces from Avantgo and magazine and academic articles in a stripped down PDF format.

You may be surprised to find your baby leafing through a pile of books by himself as well.

A boy precariously balancing a pile of books by Yinka Shonibare doubled estimates at # 137,000; a portrait of Cara Delevingne by Jonathan Yeo rose over estimates to # 100,000; and a 1960 used book collage by the underrated John Latham, the subject of a retrospective now at the Serpentine gallery, sold for # 56,250 — all auction records.

Not exact matches

As per Professor Crossan's analyses in his many books, the body of Jesus would have ended up in the mass graves of the crucified, eaten by wild dogs, covered with lime in a shallow grave, or under a pile of stones.

I'm always caught up by books about women and their work so my bedside is piled with two kinds of books — cookbooks and biographies.

However, it's not uncommon for 90 % of the floor space to be taken up by piles of books, fancy heels that have been kicked off with relief at the end of a long day, and scattered recipe print - outs.

As I write this post, I'm surrounded by a sea of cardboard boxes, stacks of books and papers, and a huge pile of food magazines that I'm not entirely ready to party ways with just yet.

While the pile of concussion books in my office continues to grow taller, seemingly with every passing day, one that will stay at the top of the very short pile of my favorites is Back in the Game: Why Concussion Doesn't Have To End Your Athletic Career (Oxford University Press, New York 2016) by sports neurologist Jeffrey Kutcher, M.D., and award - winning sports journalist Joanne Gerstner.

I clean up by sorting out room with stacks of trash, laundry and then piles of objects of similarity together (hair stuff, books etc).

Your baby's eating a variety of solid foods by now, so bring out a few of his favorite treats, along with a pile of books to read together outside

Wallbook of Science and Engineering by Christopher Lloyd and Andy Forshaw, What on Earth Publishing, # 17.50 Too big for our book pile, this wallchart book is a great way for your kids (or you) to learn.

Pile a stack of winter books and magazines to inspire you right by your most inviting chair or sofa.

A severed hand, possessed by spirits living in an enchanted mirror, is trapped beneath a bucket and a pile of books — atop which is A Farewell to Arms, of course.

Indeed, the corpses pile up in Book of Shadows, and its death scenes are more elaborate than The Blair Witch Project's (by virtue of happening, for the most part, on screen).

Don't look so surprised: This may be a Disney — Marvel comic - book film — and, as such, pretty much designed by one of the world's biggest corporations to generate piles of money — but these movies have become steadily more politically self - aware and socially conscious over the years.

Hibernation - find out about different animal that hibernate over Winter Literacy resources Snowflake alphabet Book review Worksheets - various worksheets about the story, Winter and the characters Word searches Writing pages - various pages to photocopy for the children to write and colour in the borders Writing sheets Hibernation worksheets Worksheets - Signs of Autumn, Winter and Spring worksheets Acrostic poem Art and crafts Animal paw prints - use the cards to copy the paw prints in the sand tray or in the snow Tracing picture Colouring worksheets Winter scene worksheet Animal puppets to make Animal masks - black and white masks of the different animals in the story Games Bingo - a colourful picture bingo game Snowman building game - throw the die and collect the different parts of your snowman Hibernation game - throw a die and turn over a card to see how many hedgehogs are hibernating under the pile of leaves Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves.

He loves snow, drinking whiskey by the fireplace while it's snowing, and writing books by candlelight while a thick layer of snow piles up outside.

With a teetering to - read pile constantly tumbling down by my bed, and the black hole that is my Kindle hiding dozens of downloads, I've always got more books than I have time to read, but whenever I receive a courteous, friendly request to review a book that sounds interesting, I do my best to squeeze it in, unless it sounds like a book I'd actively dislike.

However — book bloggers are a very busy lot with huge SUBs (Stapel ungelesener Bücher = «piles of unread books»), so many of them might not often stop by on the site to search for even more books to read.

By reviewing from the big five a reader can request and receive a limited number of books, review books already owned, and check out library books all without feeling swamped under a to be read pile that is much too large for any reader.

Even Neal Pollack, a New York Times journalist who wrote an article in support of self - publishing, said he wouldn't recommend self - publishing for a first time author, as «a self - published book [by a new author] is almost certainly going to end up on the digital slush pile, with fewer readers than the average blog post.»

If you've resolved in 2009 to work smarter, be more productive, follow your dreams or find more fun in the daily 9 - to - 5, this quartet of books will come in handy.Back to basicsIs your life overscheduled and overrun by clutter, whether piles of paper on your desk or way too many commitments on your...

Essentially, this active readership for self - published books has agreed to go through America's slush pile, and they (rightly) expect that at least some of their labor should be subsidized by lower prices and the occasional e-book giveaway.

The debut novels on this list, hot off the presses and ready for your 2018 TBR pile, are the kind of books I'll definitely be sharing with all by best reading buds this year — but lucky for you, I'm sharing them here with you first.

This is an annual industry - wide holiday during which most comic book stores will be stocked with piles of free comics donated by every major publisher.

By first writing a series of successful books and establishing a readership, Penn was able to «jump the slush pile» and submit to various agents upon their request.

Booksellers can react by hand - selling to customers and making themselves relevant as Ravenbooks has (I am increasingly sure of finding a pile of relevant books there every time I walk in) and no doubt this will mean concentrating on older books, out - of - print books and second - hand books, books that appeal directly to the customer, and print - on - demand books printed directly on site (though I am less convinced of the economic case for this).

If you're an indie author, maybe you didn't realize that you're leaving a pile of money on the virtual table by just selling your book in ebook and maybe print format.

This is what Howey means by «the huge percentage of books that never make it out of the slush pile.»

Since I have been ruining my chance at a literary career by not writing my own things for about a decade — to illustrate this specifically, I did not finish a book while a Canadian literary giant who was championing it was still alive — I thought a two week timeframe was about right so that I didn't collapse in a pile of goo.

Right now, I have a pile of books sent to me by publicists, authors, and book review sites.

New unheard - of author Robert Galbraith's Cuckoo Calling at first count was not doing so well getting noticed by anyone — including those agents / editors confident enough to admit they rejected the book in the slush pile.

It is successfully bringing back the experience of long - lost childhood summers, walking home from the library with the maximum allowed 10 books piled up or shared by siblings, but without the actual need to carry books or let alone go anywhere.

This is similar to how books used to be arranged on Kindle eInk devices prior to introduction of collections — you can tons of items piled up in archived items or home screen, but you can find the one you need quickly by searching for the right word.

In the Injustice comic book Damian accidently kills Dick Grayson by throwing one of his kali sticks hitting Dick in head, dazed and confused Dick falls over braking his neck on a pile of bricks.

The rundown halls of the prison and burning piles of debris left behind by rioting inmates really bring the place to life and give it the feel of the actual comic book locale.

In the «Pavilion of the Common» an inexplicably large chunk of space is given over to works involving thread — tables hold piles of Taiwanese artist Lee Mingwei's patched, ripped clothing; Filipino David Medalla invites visitors to embroider what they please onto a long swath of fabric (by the second day, it was filling up with stitched - on business cards, which seems about right for the Biennale); and elegant stitched texts and books by the late Sardinian artist Maria Lai are on display not far from terrific fabric pieces by Walther.

By the end odd gifts from visitors, like stickers and record albums, joined her own piles of books, drawings, clothes and music.

A pile of books reveals that the top tired and well thumbed copy is actually a fictional book by a fictional writer; 5 well worn, aged box files are stacked horizontally on top of one another with such hand - written titles as Time Lines, Tide Lines and provenance; a home made page - per - day calendar, assembled in an ad - hoc manner from a metal lever arch and laser printed A4 paper with notes and images taken from the artist's notebooks including sketches, ideas and general to do lists.

In this work, a ramshackle tarp tent is erected in the gallery space, accompanied by a Radio Flyer wagon full of books, with more piled around the tent.

The latest in the Zeichnungen series of artist's books by Wade Guyton (born 1972), this volume depicts a collection of book pages, over-printed with photographs, bitmap files and screen captures from websites, piled onto the artist's studio's kitchen floor and photographed.

You've reminded me of another book that's in my «to read» pile: «Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the World,» by Christopher Steiner.

The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

No one expresses nostalgia for doing research by browsing a big pile of books on the floor.

I always bring the stack of novels and therapy books that have been piling up at home (no e-reader for me yet) and look forward to quiet hours with a chair by the ocean's edge.

Paper - wrapped gifts placed under the tree, a pile of books on the coffee table near those nice pinecone candles, and textured throw pillows by the fireplace will make your home feel warm and festive.

The laptop's not the problem; it's the pile of books and papers I seem to be permanently surrounded by when I hunt for quotes and bits and bobs I've studied.