Sentences with phrase «read at that time whose»

Irihapeti was the only author I had read at that time whose work I could relate to and understand — as one black nurse to another, in her writings about Cultural Safety.

Not exact matches

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

I've read a few accounts of its history, including the development of a soupy stew to satisfy soup - lovin» British soldiers during the time of the British Raj in India (whose cuisine that did not have soup at that time).

I can't count how many times I've read articles this month about how great it is not having to worry about what presents to get, or whether you're at the present stage, or whose parents to visit on Christmas day...

School leaders don't escape either — I'm just looking, it says «two - thirds of children say at least a few times a year their Principal encourages reading books for fun»... but, importantly the finding is «Children whose Principals encourage reading books for fun are more likely than those without encouragement from their Principal to read frequently.»

This time around, we have the folks over at Core Knowledge, whose otherwise laudable effort to improve the nation's woeful reading curricula is often overshadowed by the penchant of its advocates to dismiss other reforms.

At the same time, Librify is exploring ways to let the authors jump in and participate in the discussion with a book club's members, and users have shown great interest in having that connection with the authors whose books they're reading.

I thought of that earlier this year when I reviewed a biography by Amy Houts of TV personality Rachel Maddow (Rachel Maddow: Primetime Political Commentator), whose life as an out lesbian — I noted in the review — has been distinguished by a number of «firsts»: she was one of only two openly gay students in her freshman class at Stanford; the first openly gay recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship; and the first openly gay person to host a prime - time news show on TV — a terrific role model, in short, for LGBTQ kids, who, historically, have had too few such in books to read.

Following the announcement this week that Scholastic will be donating one million books to schools and libraries whose collections were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, Scholastic's digital reading platform Storia will be making a similarly large donation, this time to encourage a love of reading at the holidays.

Endorsements, of course, have been around a long time, going back famously to the time F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his editor Maxwell Perkins at Scribner's in New York about a new young writer whose work he'd been reading in newspapers, noting that the upstart might well «outlast his own scribbles.»

It's a brilliant strategy, one author whose book I read says she has several books at any given time in the KDP Select program.

Literary agent Jason Allen Ashlock — whose Movable Type Management has created the new Rogue Reader author collective — told the room with a wry smile that an author working alone in the business today may not be adept at what's needed, «no matter how many times you've read Guy Kawasaki's book.»

Most of my favorite work has been done by self - published indies whose work I can't even imagine getting picked up by a big publisher because rarely does what I read fall into what the big publishers consider to be «popular» and in demand at that time.

Her recent works picture ethereal, at times ghostly, female figures whose wispy forms float in saturated canvases, caught in moments of joy or fear — narratives that stem from a longtime passion for reading and writing.

In my short time working at a law firm last summer, I was surprised by the fact that so few people work away from the office in a job whose main responsibilities are thinking, reading, writing and research.

After controlling for demographic characteristics and propensity scores resulting from pre-enrollment factors, on average, at the beginning of kindergarten, children whose kindergarten enrollment was delayed had the highest scores in reading and mathematics, followed by children who entered kindergarten on time.