Sentences with phrase «very significant books»

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Often times these properties can be picked up for significant discount, as a bank is often very willing to get the loan off their books.

This book, by Fr Patrick Purnell SJ has indeed had a very «significant» impact on Catholic educational circles in England and Wales for the past twenty years or so.

According to Ford, there have been significant conceptual shifts not only between the various books expressing Whitehead's philosophy of organism but also during the very composition of some of them individually.

It is a very parent - friendly memory book since all significant milestones have been clearly identified.

If you read the book «Engine 2» by Rip Esselstyn, there were some formerly - omnivorous firefighters who adopted a purely plant - based diet who had very significant drops in cholesterol.

And the appearance of a certain character at the very end of the movie struck me as a well - intentioned attempt to include a significant idea from the book that ultimately left the final scenes slightly overstuffed.

In the book, Hattie spends significant time on talk — which makes sense, since teaching is so talk dependent — but what is interesting here is that Hattie makes the very important point that dialogue between teacher and students is a crucial component of teaching and learning - yet is seldom present in classroom exchanges.

This book blazes new ground in a very innovative way teachers will love it because it will improve the performance of their students in very significant ways!

While many authors have the dream of earning a full - time living from the sales of their books, the truth is, very few authors are able to generate a significant livelihood just from the sales of their books.

Once a book is in print, the odds of a significant publisher picking it up are very slim.

But the problem is that after all these improvements, e-readers» advantages over books still aren't very significant.

In artisanal publishing, the words, the purpose, focus, structure, core meaning, originality, literary craft and artistic style of a book is actually a lot more significant than whether words are spelled correctly or a comma is out of place (although that's very important too!)

And «using graphics in some significant way» is very much at the heart of the matter for professional book designers.

Normally, contributor names are limited to those who made very significant and visible contributions, such as an illustrator for a children's book, an audiobook narrator, a translator, and so on.

I think the 650's «reading experience» is very poor for reading books that have a significant amount of pictures, maps, tables, figures, etc..

Also, Kobo owns OverDrive — the ebook distributor that's critical to the U.S. library market — and has an ebook retail partnership with Flipkart, the most significant book retailer in India; those affiliations can be very helpful if your books do well and catch the attention of Kobo's marketers and promotions managers.

I hope that this book gets the very wide audience it deserves because what it has to say is of relevance to virtually all of us as individuals, and takes on even great significance when one adds in the fact that (according to well - documented and much repeated research, first performed by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s) about two - thirds of the general population will follow the orders of somebody in authority, even if it is to inflict significant harm on others.

This is found money for you and a very simple way to create a significant revenue stream from your financial asset — your book — thus helping to maximize the return on your investment.

Very few people make significant income with a single book.

One very significant part of attending events like the Digital Book World conference held in New York this week is the opportunity to wander among the vendor and sponsor booths and meet up with innovative companies and platforms that offer a lot to the digital publishing space.

Such an offering would be costly, but we always pay attention to what Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has to say, and we thought it was very significant when he told our contributing editor Len Edgerly in an exclusive interview earlier this summer that, of all of the company's customers, the people who read the most (or buy the most books) are people who buy «our 3G version of the Kindle.»

I can not stress enough how rewarding it is if the writer and I are afforded the opportunity to work closely on a book — or a significant revision of it — from the very beginning.

This book argues that the floods following extreme precipitation result not only from very heavy rainfall but also from the significant impact of human activities on natural water systems.

If you are handling the advertising alone then you might have a hard time since you will have very little time to talk to so many different people who play significant roles in getting your book sold.

I know that the professional side of our membership really does appreciate having so many very good and very successful — I mean, we have members who have sold over a million books and people who have really, you know, brought themselves from complete obscurity to significant success, be that — it's not always about sales.

As John Locke says in his book «How I Sold 1 Million eBooks» — «What I'm saying is, if you're not offending a significant number of readers, your writing is probably not very original.

If it is, in fact, trying to drive consumer prices down (and accept short - term losses) in order to be the only (or major) supplier of books to consumers and / or reseller of books from publishers, this can be viewed as predatory pricing — perhaps good for the consumer in the very short run, but less so in the long run, since there are significant fixed costs to establishing a similar e - book / bricks & mortar presence in the market, particularly in the light of Amazon's potential willingness to drop prices enough to make business untenable for the new entrant.

We ordered one of each book and were very glad we did because upon an actual read through of the proofs we realised we had missed a significant number of minor errors, such as punctuation or minor typos, (all our mistakes, not theirs).

Well, imagine that someone quotes and makes significant allusions to your hero's book and does so in a way that ruins the original meaning, and replaces it with a meaning of far lesser value very different from the original meaning.

The climate alarmists claim that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels is a very significant such distortion, but as explained in my book, Environmentalism Gone Mad, they have failed to prove their improbable case.

«This is a very significant partnership as South Korea is right at the forefront of digital culture when it comes to both cryptocurrency and online games,» said Jon Jacobs, CEO of NEVERDIE and Guinness Book of World Records holder for most valuable virtual items, who in 2016 became the first elected President of Virtual Reality.

The majority of community banks keep these loans on their books, meaning that they hold the client to very high underwriting standards, and many times require a prior banking relationship with the client in addition to significant depository accounts.