Sentences with phrase «way as physical books»

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In many ways, Pinker's book The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature, which will be published this month, may be his most ambitious yet — an attempt to show that the entire range of human thought is built on the «scaffolding» of a few core concepts that shape our understanding of the physical and social worlds and form the basis for the way we interpret reality.

Hannah represents a physical consequence of Tom and Isabel's actions and yet the way Cianfrance chooses to insert her (and depending on how faithful an adaptation this is, this flaw could be true of the book as well) feels blatantly manipulative.

Younger readers are still at the stage in their lives where physical possessions are very important, as they don't have many things that are «theirs» in the way that books are.

The book and app can be used solo, each in their own right, however, when they're used together, the magical book experience is a perfect way to increase the interest for the physical book as well as a great opportunity for parents and children to spend time together.

As he lay still in the blast's aftermath and then, ears ringing, began to make his way through his altered world through smoke and damage both physical and psychic, I couldn't help but think how his head injury — untreated throughout the book — affected everything he experienced thereafter.

In any case, the basics of the deal strike me as almost banal in the way they replicate the loaning of physical books.

While they may not reach a huge audience, chapbooks can be appreciated as a physical object in a way that many contemporary books can not.

Publishers are only looking at it as another way to prevent their criminal customers from actually being able to do with their e-books what they can with their physical books.

Consider the emotive connection to a physical purchase versus an ebook download, it is likely that the percentage of «ebooks sold to read» conversion will be higher, and as a book that has been read is way more likely to get recommended than a book that hasn't... you get the picture....

I have many print books via CreateSpace by different authors (some have self - published and some are from small publishers), and they are ALL numbered this way as well as have headers on pages that don't appear in other print books that you buy at a physical bookstore.

Similarly, most publishing experts predict that paper - and - ink books — as well as physical newspapers and magazines — will ultimately go the way of the dodo.

Although authors and readers agreed that they loved the narrative, a structured argument — a story — they still saw the book as a container, a physical or digital object, a defined way to obtain and consume content.

But physical book sales and book prestige, if you think of prestige as the way it used to be in the 20th century, are going down.

The six artists in Bibliothecaphilia, on view beginning January 24, 2015, explore the medium and ethos of libraries: institutions straddling the public and private spheres, the escapism that libraries offer, libraries» status as storehouses for physical books — and thus for experiences and knowledge — and the way that these objects circulate and are re-used.

This book shines a fascinating light on this process by revealing how climate change has been transformed from a physical phenomenon, measurable and observable by scientists, into a social, cultural and political one... This book is so important because Mike Hulme can not be dismissed as a skeptic yet he is calling for a radical change in the way we discuss climate change.

Data is collected and used in libraries for purposes like the evaluation of usage statistics of purchased content to assess whether value is being gotten for money, and as a way to evaluate whether a physical space is still required, but I would argue that the numbers of times someone accesses a subscription, asks a question at a reference desk, or takes out a book are not reasons to fund a library that are compelling to decision makers.

I love all your suggestions about how to invigorate your career wind from spending time with positive people (they can help motivate / encourage you), to exercising (this reminds me of my recent post on willpower and how Kelly McGonigal shared starting physical activity as being having a powerful positive ripple effect on one's life) to working with a professional writer on your resume (to help you highlight your strengths in the best way possible) to wonderful self - care activities such as reading a nourishing book and spending time with friends and family.

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Summary: In a new book, Emotions, Learning, and the Brain, Immordino - Yang and her colleagues at USC's Brain Creativity Institute found that as students learn new rules during a task, such as the most efficient way to answer a math problem or the best deck to choose in a card game, they show emotional and physical responses long before they became consciously aware of the rules or are able to articulate them.