Another bit of news that caught my eye serves as confirmation of some of my concerns when I heard that Penguin was
taking over Author Solutions.
It's a strange condition that
takes over an author's brain and compels him or her to continually peek at their book's Amazon sales ranking throughout the day.
On the other hand I've often considered opening my own small press (which is actually, basically what I do on Creativindie Covers) so that I can
take over author's publishing efforts and strenuously steer them in the most profitable direction, rather than letting them make poor decisions.
Not exact matches
The report's
authors aren't concerned with sci - fi doomsday scenarios like robots
taking over the world, such as in Terminator, but more practical concerns.
«Conservative pundits all too often sound alarms
over an effort to
take over America and of undocumented immigration's alleged horrific impact on the U.S. economy,» said Román, who
authored a book released last year on immigration.
The
authors cite nearly 20 years» worth of case studies that show how category kings swiftly
take over the market cap in a particular category, leaving scraps for other competitors in the space.
Stever Robbins is a veteran of nine startups
over 25 years and is the
author It
Takes a Lot More than Attitude to Lead a Stellar Organization.
«
Taken together,» the
authors conclude, «our results find little or no evidence of deterioration in the performance of daily deal promotions
over the past year (April - May 2011 to May 2012) for small - and medium - sized businesses or with experience as the business operator runs multiple daily deals.
A thin - skinned Mr. Kenney lashed out at Mike Morrison, the
author of the popular Calgary culture website Mike's Bloggity Blog, as an example of a socialist conspiracy to
take over the PC Party.
The
author shares that «Only 14 percent of all managed mutual funds beat the stock market average in each of the last three, ten, and fifteen year periods» and the number is actually likely a lot lower when you
take out all the fess and tax liability
over this same period (p. 42).
Dimitri Cavalli, source of many WWAI items
over the past few years and
author of the Washington Examiner story from which these quotes are
taken, explains the change this way: Back then, Lynn was defending progressive causes, but now that «the so - called Religious Right has eclipsed the influence of the Religious Left in American public life,» it's time to shut down religious influence.
And I think I will
take the opinion of a Hebrew Bible scholar who has dedicated years of his life to the study of Judaism and the OT
over some guy who is disgruntled because he desperately dislikes the
author and wants to slander him.
Over the last few years, famed pastor and
author John Piper has
taken an interest in racial injustice as part of his overall Gospel message.
Report
author and SCIAF Policy Officer Jo O'Neill said: «Despite efforts to tackle irresponsible businesses by governments, human rights and environmental abuses continue to
take place, and all
over the world human rights defenders continue to be threatened and killed.
CNN: My
Take: It's time for evangelicals to speak up about guns Pastor and
author Daniel Darling urges evangelicals to participate in the debate
over access to guns, and to acknowledge that there is «no clear - cut Christian position on gun control.»
I've been in correspondence with the
author --(we're fellow Arrested Development junkies, so we like to exchange favorite quotes
over Twitter)-- and the first thing I told him after diving into the book was, «Don't
take this the wrong way, man, but this book is WAY more interesting than I thought it would be.»
Seitz, in his review of The Book of J by Harold Bloom and David Rosenberg,
takes both
authors to task for essentially dismissing
over 100 years of scholarship in order to present their thesis that the
author of the J portions of the Pentateuch was both a woman and a secularist.
From my early years in Brooklyn just learning how to make my own tamales and create vegan translation of my favorite foods, to my adulthood as a cookbook
author taking over the world with cupcakes, and finally, my current life in Omaha, opening a vegan restaurant — Modern Love — in the heart of cattle country, these recipes will tell the story of my life.
BRC reviewer personal comments: It
took me a few pages to get
over the
author's mantra of «women have the power in the relationship» because it was sinking in in regards to what the
author meant.
Authors» kids
took over the green room this weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books.
Tough, a former editor at The New York Times Magazine and the
author of Whatever It
Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America (2008), believes that students from schools like KIPP may have «character advantages» over their wealthier counterparts because of the hard work it takes for them to suc
Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America (2008), believes that students from schools like KIPP may have «character advantages»
over their wealthier counterparts because of the hard work it
takes for them to suc
takes for them to succeed.
Sheila Kitzinger, passionate campaigner for women's and babies» rights, childbirth educator and
author, describes the experiences that have shaped her since childhood and the enormous changes that have
taken place
over the last 50 years on the subject of birth.
The
author encourages women to develop all of their bodily resources for giving birth, to follow their own instincts, and to
take more control
over the experience of giving birth.
If we can
take this document: http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/orientation#faq5 as a reasonable discussion of Zeitgeist's beliefs you'll notice in the section «The «Prima Facie» Fallacy» that this particular branch of Zeitgeist argues directly for a technocratic and anti-democratic control
over production; as opposed to the humanism that the collective
author claims to see in Marxist communism.
He said the review's
author, BTP chief constable Ian Johnston, «recognises that there are arguments, either way, regarding proportionality
over the manner of arrest of a member of parliament but questions the method
taken in this case».
Ravitch, who has written about the issues and is the
author of a very popular anti-Common Core blog, doesn't have anything good to say about the new, more rigorous curriculum that's
taken over New York state classrooms.
Countries can advance their own interests without using direct force or
taking over territory,» said lead
author Melissa M. Lee, assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
«The story told in most textbooks and museums is that as grasslands gradually
took over from forests, horses got bigger, and they reduced their toes to a single digit,» said first
author Brianna McHorse, a Ph.D. student working in the labs of Assistant Professor Stephanie Pierce and Professor Andrew Biewener in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
While the
authors acknowledge the «remarkable progress in cultivating the concepts of flood risk management» that has
taken place
over the last few decades, they also recognize that «the challenge now is to turn the now commonly accepted concepts of managing risks and promoting opportunities into common flood - management practice».
The
authors, led by Dr. Martina Persson from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, reached these conclusions by using information from the Swedish medical birth registry (a database including nearly all the births occurring in Sweden since 1973) for all births (of single babies) that
took place between 1992 to 2010 — comprising
over 1.7 million births.
«The convenience and ease of being able to use frozen sperm
taken by biopsy in ICSI offers many advantages
over fresh sperm,» said Kenan Omurtag, MD, the study's first
author and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
After analyzing historical data on benthic community composition in Lake Erie
over the last 50 years, the
authors conclude that the lake's benthic community has changed significantly, even after
taking into account the challenges presented by differences in sampling design, gear and preservation techniques, and taxonomic resolution
over the years.
By studying access to care and health outcomes for five years after health reform
took effect in Massachusetts, the
authors also were able to distinguish how access to care and health outcomes changed
over time.
«We've been targeting traditional risk factors in public health campaigns for many years,» said Susan Cheng, M.D., M.P.H., study lead
author and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass. «We wanted to
take a look at how well we've been doing
over time at keeping these risk factors from causing heart and vascular disease — both by preventing the risks from occurring and by minimizing their effects when they do occur.»
«It is extraordinary how many patients describe themselves as collateral in the war against drugs,» where law enforcement concerns for potential abuse
take precedent
over the medical imperative to treat suffering, said
author — journalist Melanie Thernstrom, who participated on the committee as a patient advocate.
It
took more than 35 years and a journey
over 15 billion miles, but: «Voyager 1 is the first human - made object to make it into interstellar space — we're actually out there,» says Don Gurnett, lead
author of a September Science paper announcing the feat.
Scientists thought for a long time that it could be detrimental if areas of one hemisphere of the brain
took over work of the other, said David Bundy, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kansas Medical Center and the lead
author of the paper.
«We showed that a single dose of Vorinostat could expose the hidden virus several years ago, but it has
taken two studies
over the last five years to define the proper interval dosing strategy to use Vorinostat safely and effectively,» said Nancie Archin Ph.D., lead
author of this study and an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UNC.
Daniel Goleman,
author of the best - selling book Emotional Intelligence, describes chronic stress and the subsequent feelings of loss of control as a «neural hijacking» in which the emotional brain
takes over.
If youre in way
over your head (as in, your minimum payments each month total more than 20 % of your
take - home pay), seek debt counseling, says Farnoosh Torabi,
author of You're So Money.
She is the creator of the Post Punk Kitchen and
author of vegan cookbooks, including Isa Does It, Appetite for Reduction and co-
author of Veganomicon, and Vegan Cupcakes
Take Over The World.
Author Madeleine Somerville argues that access to basic reproductive health services would help women around the world
take greater ownership
over their bodies and in turn ease the overpopulation crisis that's spurring climate change.
I can
take it.Visiting
Author: Almost everyone is
over 50.
Rather than get into the politics of it myself, I'll let Gary Taubes,
author of the incredibly thorough and well - researched Good Calories, Bad Calories
take over.
The
authors reference a study in the Netherlands where the transport rate from home to hospital is
over twice that in the U.S. (and where Chervenak et al.
took greatliberties in interpreting the results on patient satisfaction) and a U.K. study where the costs of home and hospital birth are virtually equivalent.
He is the
author of «SuperCharge Your Brain: The Complete Guide to Radically Improve Your Mood, Memory and Mindset,» and the SuperCharged Recipe book with
over 180 full - color recipes to help you
take back control of your health.
The
authors didn't report how much food the turkey poults ate, but they estimated that the high vitamin A group consumed 15,000 IU per day, which is, after adjusting for body weight, equivalent to a human
taking in
over 3,500,000 IU per day.
Jeff «Muscle Nerd» Anderson is the
author of Hardgainer Project X: The Ultimate Skinny Guy Guide to Building Muscle.Jeff was the geeky guy in the gym,
taking notes and analyzing
over every aspect of his training results to determine what works for building muscle and losing fat.
«Our skin absorbs up to 60 percent of what we put on it,» Sara Gottfried, MD,
author of the New York Times bestselling books The Hormone Cure and The Hormone Reset Diet, writes on her blog, adding that «even if a chemical isn't so harmful that it affects us right away, some bioaccumulate (meaning they become concentrated in the body
over time) therefore
taking their toll
over time.»
The
author suggests that you need to be choosey, trying out more than one site and
taking advantage of the free membership which all these
over 40 dating websites seem to offer.