Sentences with phrase «recent days authors»

In recent days authors have celebrated fiction's ability to improve empathy and imagination.

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I just listened to an interview with an economist author who happened to have undergone a recent pregnancy and realized that most of the advice given to women these days is either spotty, or egregiously over conservative — flat out wrong in many cases.

• Fact # 7: Mark Batterson is the author of the recent book, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day based on an obscure reference in 1 Chronicles 11:22 «Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a brave man from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

«One could spend days sorting through the claims and counterclaims,» Goldberg writes about the only recent study of American home births, which Tuteur has been beating up on for years and to which the authors, for better or worse, have been responding.

CUNY will host a reading of the recent, unauthorized biography of Cuomo, «The Contender», with author and Vanity Fair writer Michael Shayerson on April 21 — the day the Legislature is scheduled to return to Albany from its spring break.

In recent days I've been visiting a number of message boards related to the indie author community.

NaNo novels have been looked down on in recent years as being rush jobs that authors put to market far too quickly, but the writing itself is meant only to be a tool for authors to hold themselves accountable to a daily word count and to focus on their own writing processes for thirty days.

As the technology behind digital comics advances, such as with the recent release of the DC Comics New 52 re-launch which included day - and - date stamping to allow tablet readers to have same - day access to new releases of the print editions, the door will be flung wide open for indie authors to digitally self - publish their graphic novels to more and more devices.

Just as a recent HuffPo piece trashing self - published authors and their works has demonstrated, it seems that everything about the industry is working towards a backwards slide to the days when vanity press authors desperately struggled for acceptance.

Two days ago we announced the best book and the talented author in our most recent newsletter: The Persian Project, by Mark Irving.

With the myth of the troubled artist busted, we've rallied around another golden calf in recent years: the insane workaholic, self - published author who writes 10,000 words in an hour and publishes a book every other day like a manic half - human, half - typewriter mutant / android.

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Here is why: On a recent ten author / 5 day tour.

Day is one of the reported 2 % of traditionally published authors who makes more than $ 100,000 per year from their book royalties, and her most recent figures from a new deal inked with St. Martin's Press will add to that statistic.

On the first day of the show, congressional candidate turned bestselling political author, Kevin Powell, signed copies of his 11th book «Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, and the Ghost of Dr. King,» which explores modern politics and pop culture through recent events such as the tragic murder of Trayvon Martin.

Three fellow thriller writers have been generous in lavishing attention and praise on the book and its author in recent days.

But I've heard other Amazon Publishing authors with more recent releases distressing over vanishing reviews for the past few days.

A recent promotion lifted one author's book to # 23 on the chart for paid Kindle bestsellers — depending on daily fluctuations, this can translate to 1000 or more sales per day.

In recent days — many times when suffering outright nastiness from authors who don't like the new per - page pay structure or his support of it — he has been at pains to clarify that he does not have a «sweetheart» deal with Amazon.

Last but not least, these recent Indie Author Day partners offer quality author resources, including those devoted to indie news and book discovery such as Indies Unlimited, IndieReader and No Shelf Required; Where Writers Win and Written Word Media, which offer author marketing services and Author U, which offers educational programs for aspiring auAuthor Day partners offer quality author resources, including those devoted to indie news and book discovery such as Indies Unlimited, IndieReader and No Shelf Required; Where Writers Win and Written Word Media, which offer author marketing services and Author U, which offers educational programs for aspiring auauthor resources, including those devoted to indie news and book discovery such as Indies Unlimited, IndieReader and No Shelf Required; Where Writers Win and Written Word Media, which offer author marketing services and Author U, which offers educational programs for aspiring auauthor marketing services and Author U, which offers educational programs for aspiring auAuthor U, which offers educational programs for aspiring authors.

The book takes you from his early days, interleaving the recent versus the past, until we get to the financial crisis, at which point, the author's faith in the Democratic Party is severely tested.

Biologist Pierre Legagneux, lead - author on a recent study about this behavior, says the idea for this research sprung up from bird behavior most drivers witness every day: avian jaywalkers taking flight as to avoid being run over.

Our recent article «Seepage: Climate change denial and its effect on the scientific community» in Global Environmental Change, authored by me and Naomi Oreskes, James S. Risbey, Ben R. Newell, and Michael Smithson, has attracted a bit of attention over the last few days.