Sentences with phrase «traditional history books»

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BOOKS BY MATTHEW WOOD Seven Herbs, Plants as Teachers (1987) Vitalism, The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences (2000) The Book of Herbal Wisdom (1998) The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism (2004) The Earthwise Herbal, A Complete Guide to New World Medicinal Plants (2009) The Earthwise Herbal Repertory: The Definitive Practitioner's Guide (2016)

Although history obviously mixes with fiction, there's enough here left under - covered by traditional textbooks to make The Book of Negroes an intriguing window into the period.

Using traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional film processes (boiling old books) Gatten's films trace the contours of private lives and public histories, combining philosophy, biography, and poetry with experiments in cinematic forms and narrative structures.

T'Challa's superpowers, tight - fitting Panther outfit, and Shangri - La - style homeland (transferring the fabled El Dorado from the Western Hemisphere to Africa) distort actual history and anthropology the same way that TV, comic books, video games, and movies have supplanted traditional education and learning.

Traditional images of history on the pages of history books have been replaced by archived or real time cries of Syrian youth being murdered by their government on a TV screen right behind the counter while we purchase our Dunkin Donuts.

A true page out of the traditional Ferrari history book, the 1964 Ferrari 275 GTB / C Speciale contains within a 320 - hp (70 hp more than the standard GTB road car), 3.3 - liter dry - sump V - 12 engine with six Weber 38 DCN carburetors, mated to a five - speed manual transaxle transmission.

The 4.0 - liter V8 direct - injection gasoline unit, the last in an illustrious line of traditional naturally aspirated engines from BMW's revered M division, has been resigned to the history books after just six years of service in the outgoing fourth - generation M3 coupe, sedan and convertible — a continuation of an engine downsizing program that has taken root throughout BMW M division's lineup in recent years.

Consequently, I traced the history of Jews, Western Christians and Muslims from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century in the first part of the book, to show the advent of modernity and its impact upon traditional agrarian faith.

Animals — Less than 1 % Less than 1/5 Concepts — 8 % 5 % Holidays / festivals / religion — 9 % 3 % History / sports / people / places — 10 % 5 % Education / reference / language — 15 % 10 % Games / activities / hobbies — 20 % 18 % Biographies / autobiographies — 28 % 12 % Social situation / family / health — 22 % 65 % Does this mean that the sales go to traditional publishers because their books are better illustrated and published?

My tentative conclusions are these: 1) ebooks are «leveling» the playing field for female authors since, for the first time in publishing history, authors do not have to wait for the largesse or permission from publishers to get our books into the hands of readers, and traditional publishing has always favored males (to date).

Also, self - publishing titles tend to include books that are locally focused, narrate family histories, are niche and at times more risque — around religion, politics, sex and sexuality — than what a traditional publisher might wish to handle, Fulton and Bradley said.

Publishing mostly local history, Bob never had a real need for a traditional book distributor or even a wholesaler.

Other popular projects on the minds of those surveyed are family history books, which traditionally are frowned on by the US traditional publishing industry, as well as children's books.

As stated above, nearly all fiction authors do require representation of a literary agent if their book is to be produced by a traditional publishing house, and that is also true with some forms of general non-fiction too (such as histories, memoirs and biographies).

The easiest way to understand the challenges for the large traditional book publishing companies is to think about the recent history of the large traditional music companies.

By embracing and utilizing the very technology that is changing the book publishing world, traditional book publishers have the ability to offer authors the same services provided by self - publishing platforms under the umbrella of a vast amount of knowledge, experience, and a long - standing history of success.

Whether you are designing a family history or an artist's monograph, we are confident we'll be able to decorate your cover beautifully with our comprehensive range of traditional book finishing options.

In it, there's a brief history lesson on how paperback books were initially perceived by the publishing industry, an explanation of how traditional ebook pricing is hurting everyone involved, and a request to email bomb Hachette CEO, Michael Pietsch.

He is publishing director of the traditional publisher The History Press Ireland, a Board Member of the Irish Publishing Association (Publishing Ireland), and founder of The Book Pitch, launching this autumn.

Two of my favorite history books are so narrow in scope they would have never found a home at a traditional publisher.

A friend of mine who has a «real» book from a traditional publisher experimented with placing $ 1,000 in Facebook ads targeted to people in «cold» states (his book is called the History of the Snowman and it does very well around Christmas).

For most of publishing history, the traditional route was the only pathway to publication, unless you were willing to pay large sums of money to vanity publishers to get a book out.

After a conversation with Thomas L. Friedman, author of the book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty - first Century, about whether some of what was in the book would apply to the legal vertical, Mark started Clearspire, a virtual law firm and legal services company that upended the traditional law firm business model.

In keeping with her desire for the Court to be modern and accessible, she asked for the history to be an engaging, online resource instead of a traditional «coffee table» memorial book.

Over 100 illustrations «Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a landmark book in the history of body psychotherapy and effectively provides the bridge between traditional psychotherapy and body - oriented therapies.

Unique items this year were movies and CDs, history books, a man purse, a Blue Jay shirt, as well as the more traditional body lotions, night gowns, hats and gloves.