Sentences with phrase «than the author telling»

Also, some things I'd rather decide for myself what they look like, rather than the author telling me.

Not exact matches

Dr. Elizabeth Lombardo, therapist and author of «Better Than Perfect» tells Entrepreneur, «Breaking your own mold can only make you stronger and more confident to reach higher levels in your professional and personal life.»

I love how some take the words of one supposed «theologian» to another and then tells everyone not to listen to their pastor who has probably had as much experience (if not more) with biblical interpretation than this author.

More than 14 years» labor went into the writing of the book, and the author tells us that his preoccupation with Feuerbach goes back further still — to the time when he first encountered him in a graduate seminar at Yale Divinity School and found himself «strangely disturbed.»

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.»

We tend to concur in the wise comment that «if the author had an ulterior motive, he concealed it more successfully than is common to story - tellers who write with a purpose»; and, from another source, that the writer «set out to tell an interesting tale of long ago, and he carried out his purpose with notable success.»

It's not that I have an issue with catering to special diets (and it's great to have resources like this for counselling patients if needed), but other than being «trendy» I can't tell why the author has chosen to do this.

«Screening tests tell you the likelihood that your baby could have a birth defect, while diagnostic tests tell you with more than 99 percent certainty whether your baby has the disorder,» says Allison Hill, M.D., an OB - GYN and author of Your Pregnancy, Your Way and co-author of The Mommy Docs» Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy and Birth.

«It may be dressed up in academic think - tank language, but this is no more than a crude attack on basic workplace rights and a charter for bad bosses everywhere,» she said, dredging up the spectre of Margaret Thatcher's premiership and telling the authors to «get out more».

The study suggests PSC and PBC differ more than originally thought, Konstantinos Lazaridis, M.D., a Mayo Clinic hepatologist and senior study author says: «Moving forward, we can look at what this finding might tell us about the causes of these diseases and how to better treat them.»

«Our findings reflect what small - livestock farmers often tell us: that the jackal is a much more challenging threat than larger carnivores such as caracal or even leopard,» said lead author and PhD candidate Marine Drouilly, of the Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Rather than a commentary which tells us what to think, we are presented with excerpts from the editorial meeting at which the authors themselves are struggling towards a reading of common themes.

Emissions from wildfires totalled more than 1bn tonnes of CO2 from 2003 - 2015, the lead author tells Carbon Brief, and climate change, along with forest fragmentation, could cause a further increase in the number of forest fires in the coming decades.

«We suggest that the use of tools drove the evolution of language, and it seems likely that «words» for things other than current emotional states would have been very useful for learning to knap,» lead author Thomas Morgan told Discovery News.

«Instead, I think our findings show that the traditional view that stone tool use was something that only members of our own genus Homo were capable of is outdated,» senior author Tracy Kivell told Discovery News, explaining that stone tool usage «goes back much earlier — long before the appearance of Homo — than we originally thought.»

Professor Murray says the study is «a very competent and conservative assessment of what research studies tell us about the relationship between cannabis and psychiatric disorders» and that the risk could be even higher than the authors have estimated.

«There are just so many mosquitoes in that part of the Arctic, more than you could possibly imagine without visiting,» lead author Lauren Culler, a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth's Dickey Center's Institute of Arctic Studies, told The Post.

«We are closer than any other approach to universal protection, but we still have hurdles, primarily with safety for giving it to many, many people,» the study's lead author Michael Farzan, an infectious disease specialist of the Scripps Research Institute in Florida, told the BBC.

«There is no reason to drink more than your body needs, and the sensor that tells us how much we need is thirst,» says Mitchell Rosner, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Virginia Health System, who authored guidelines on H2O and exercise in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine in 2015.

This stunning portrait of prominent black author and intellectual James Baldwin tells his story through his own writing and interviews, and the enduring resonance of his words on the Civil Rights Movement and racism in America are incredibly compelling and more relevant than ever.

The editors candidly tell us that «as we were seeking support for the project and recruiting authors, more than one person wished us well and told us this was an important avenue for inquiry but just too hot for them to touch.»

This — this Harvard / Columbia study is fascinating, and one of the study's authors told The New York Times, quote, «The message is to fire people sooner rather than later.»

Author Elissa Nadworny notes, «The latest national numbers suggest that more than 6 million students are «chronically absent,»» and emphasizes comments made by Phyllis Jordan, who authored a recent FutureEd report on the subject, that, «Research tells us that kids shouldn't miss 10 percent or more of the school year, that's the tipping point for kids, but there isn't really research that tells us how many chronically absent kids are too many for a school.»

In the October 2017 issue of The Automobile... Douglas Blain describes his rôle in discovering an experimental Bentley coupé body long thought lost, while James Fack tells the story of its design and development in the 1930s in The Aero Bentley / For this months Auto - biography, Matthew Bell visits a converted Victorian gasworks in mid-Sussex to meet the larger - than - life author, windmill expert and passionate Vintage car owner Rodney de Little / In Sprint Speciale, Richard Sutton tells the story of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta SS and its brilliant stylist Franco Scaglione / Mick Walsh chooses his favourites from Pebble Beach, the famous concours d'elegance on the Monterey peninsula / Sébastien Faurès Fustel de Coulanges explores the pioneering work of Dutch engineer Alexander Holle, which may have inspired Vittorio Jano's greatest Grand Prix car design in Alfa Romeo and the 4wd Holle / An offshoot of Arrol - Johnston, the Galloway was designed with the woman motorist in mind.

But I have talked with authors who've told me they paid it and, surprisingly, received detailed feedback about their manuscript that was worth more than ten times the fee.

Also, since many authors aren't web savvy, they can't tell the difference between putting their book up on one site that gets thousands of new visitors a day, versus another that gets less than 50.

What is it about them that makes first - time author Amy Gustine tell us to feel pity rather than trust our immediate emotions?

This tells you that 5 % of the authors are doing better than you and 95 % are doing worse.

For more than 24 years, Publicity Expert Joan Stewart has mentored, coached and taught more than 50,000 authors, speakers, experts, CEOs and small business owners how to get thousands of dollars in free publicity and tell their stories to the world, without a $ 20,000 publicist.

Authors with years of experience tell us that having a bad agent (or the wrong agent for us) can be worse than no agent at all.

But if more than 400 authors want to use Dellarte, and if HQN wants to make more money from Dellarte, that really does tell us (RWA - members and non-members alike) something about HQN, doesn't it?

Best thing I can tell you is to have fun looking at what everyone else is doing... especially YA fiction authors... and you'll start getting ideas... to do it YOUR way... but building social media numbers by simply following other people... can be easier for a fiction author than spending too much time writing blog articles just to try and build a following.

Mostly, though, the reps had to «tell the story» of the book they represent and its author in less than 2 minutes.

In the same vein of thought, I always tell authors who are seeking social media posts from big - time influencers that they must send those people a hard copy of the book or galley, rather than an electronic one.

These and many other indications, of course, tell us that despite our inability to measure the true breadth of self - publishing — as long as the key metric, the ISBN, depends on authors to pay much more for their identifiers than the industry does — we know that self - publishing is growing.

He also said that in hindsight (and with more royalty - statement sales input from what he described as «dozens» of authors), it's possible to tell now that the ranking - to - sales curve in the original doing of this data dance was even farther off than the 18 percent he reported in the last quarterly article.

Prepare to be transported into the realm of the ancient Norse gods, and who better to tell these tales than their author, Gaiman?

Here, she examines several handwriting samples from famous authors and demonstrates that telling a person's profession by their handwriting is easier said than done.

And increasingly Amazon is clamping down on free titles on other retailers by sending out its pernicious MFN clause email telling authors their book is cheaper on another channel than on Amazon and if they don't fix it they will be de-listed from KDP.

Some authors have told us they actually make more money under Select than they do selling their book for $ 0.99.

Anyway... other than that huge blight on the story, the author was a fabulous story teller and I loved the variety of stories she told from her adventures as a midwife.

If anything, the mail I get shows that authors who self - published realized it's a helluva lot harder than the nostrum salespeople told»em and they'd like to get back to the tried and true way of leaping in over the transom.»

More than 300 authors, marketers and publicists, including yours - truly tell about their best promotional strategies with regards to book marketing.

Publishers, faced with shrinking book promotion budgets, are more excited than ever about telling authors to promote their own books online.

Recently we've had the good fortune to speak with bestselling author and publishing guru David Chilton about publishing best practices, and he's emphasized some key points we've been telling our clients: conserve your energy and put your resources into things that really matter, rather than spinning your wheels in areas that won't have a strong impact on book marketing and sales.

Hatchette would much rather have a «name» out there telling its readers how evil Amazon is than one of their authors who make up the mid list that carries the house when a best seller bombs.

If you liked the book you could tell someone other than the author.

He is the author of 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea, a miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history — as told to Franklin in dozens of exclusive interviews.

We have no reason to trust that they will actually lower the price other than that they've told YOU (authors generally) that they will.

Each of King Henry VIII's six wives were very different from each other, so what better way to tell their stories than with six different authors?