Sentences with phrase «with less books»

Guglielmo Wiber, author of the previous study, says the benefits for kids in households with less books were much lower than kids who had more access to books.

Not exact matches

The much discussed 2010 book delves into the financial arrangements of the world's poorest citizens, the billions among us who make do with less than $ 2 a day.

And the same books that made you feel less alone, that you connected with so fully, are likewise the things that a complete stranger might have felt and been glad for during the same precarious time.

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However, Haberman signed the book deal with fellow NYT White House reporter Glenn Thrush, who was suspended less than two months later following a report by Vox, detailing sexual misconduct allegations against him by several women, including by the article's author.

As backward as it sounds, getting rich often has less to do with the money than the mentality, he writes in his book «How Rich People Think.»

To wit: less than two months after Theroux joined eOne, the company announced a multi-territory deal with Summit Entertainment, an up - and - coming Hollywood player getting ready to release a movie based on a vampire book series.

Li quietly negotiated with the bank, now called HSBC Holdings Plc (hsbc), to buy Hutchison shares for less than half their book value.

This is more or less what I did (sans the China focus) with my first book, Chief Marketing Officers at Work.

This book reminds me of the opportunity we all have to free our minds of fear and judgment so that we may make better decisions and be more creative, with less internal friction and more in harmony with those around you.

Is someone with abusive paedophile tendencies more or less likely to put those urges into action if he (or indeed she) can indulge those fantasies within the confines of a book?

Of course there are whole books dedicated to this topic, but for now I'll look at just two aspects of how to get more done with less time... and how to «turn it off» at the end of the day:

Listees come with price - to - earnings multiples of less than 15 and price - to - book equal to or less than 1.5.

«If it's booked through a third party, they have less of a connection and may get less information from a customer like an email address, so they don't have that same ability to follow up with them.»

But that strategy works a lot less smoothly than it used to, says green marketing expert Shel Horowitz, author of eight books — most recently the Amazon Environmental category bestseller Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (with Jay Conrad Levinson).

That was until Amazon branched out of books and niche players like Etsy provided a different and better product selection with a cleaner user experience less than a decade later.

Even a relatively mundane corporate tax return for a Canadian corporation with a few dozen employees and domestic operations can easy run into 100 pages, and frankly our tax legislation and compliance obligations are far less onerous than those of our US cousins (by way of example, our Tax Act is one phone book, the IRC is three, of more or less inpenetrable gibberish).

Cash revenue differs from total bookings, as disclosed elsewhere in this prospectus, due to secondary domain sales being recorded as gross sales for cash revenue purposes with the offsetting commissions recorded in cost of cash revenue while total bookings recorded net sales (gross cash receipts less commissions).

A math formula called «present value» (a good calculator is here, web page here, video here, book here) shows exactly how much less valuable money received in the future is compared with money received today.

Finding value stocks — stocks that trade for less than what their book values suggest they should, or stocks with low P / E ratios and other metrics — is one way to find stocks with potential.

Thorp's book is chock - full of knotty lessons for investors, thinkers, and business people, but because Thorp is far less well covered than Munger, many of these ideas felt new and let me see them with fresh perspective.

These points and miles are less valuable when used for domestic flights in economy class, especially when travelers have the ability to book flights with plenty of advanced notice.

The average lead time is 14 days, with 50 % of online meeting rooms booked with less than a week in advance.

By purchasing these companies after a price decline, we find we are able to control risk in the portfolio as these investments often have less downside while offering a decent potential return.The U.S. Equity Fund seeks to invest in companies with a lower Price to Book Ratio, lower Price to Earnings Ratio and higher Dividend Yield than the S&P 500 index.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

Despite my general sympathy with what Dreher seeks to do in this book, I am less enthusiastic about other facets of his argument.

Chudacoff, who throughout his book tends to introduce the theme of homosexuality with hints and surmises rather than data, counters Stott's argument with this: «More recently [actually less recently — in 1985 and 1988] other historians have discovered hints [of homosexual relations].»

If the city assumed that Cochran's beliefs would continue to lead him to treat his subordinates with the love and respect taught by his faith, perhaps his impropriety in publishing the book could have been dealt with in a much less severe manner.

Now he reviews a new book on ethics and writes,» [The author] agrees with what now seems to be a near - consensus among philosophers that «speciesism» - the view that we are entitled to take theinterests of animals less seriously than we take human interests, simply because humans are members of our species - is not a morally defensible position.»

Readers of Last Testament may wonder, however, what in this fourth of Seewald's book - length interviews with the man who became Benedict XVI is going to change the views of a world media locked into its own certainties and «narratives», much less the views of Ratzinger's longtime Catholic critics.

Computer programmer Barry Goldstein translated the book for fun, the work being «much less stressful than wrestling with a recalcitrant computer.

Kevin Phillips concludes his book «Wealth and Democracy» with a grim warning: «Either democracy must be renewed, with politics brought back to life, or wealth is likely to cement a new and less democratic regime - plutocracy by some other name.»

I would try to rest the basis of my arguments on books of the Bible with less of a chance of being later forgeries in Peter's name.

We all know we have tribal tendencies — we attend conferences to hear speakers we agree with, we read books by the same speakers and we mix less and less with people who think differently.

The book is crammed with statistics on how Jews, less than three percent of the American population, are disproportionately successful, especially in the university, media, and entertainment elites.

At home, you're less likely to cozy up with the Book of Daniel than a Daniel Day - Lewis movie.

I'm thinking especially of the relationship a reader has with a living writer whose books he or she has been reading more as less as they appeared over the years.

It also assess monetary value for humans with women being about half... It also states any child less than a month has no monetary value... There are certainly better books in the bible...

If you travel somewhere instead of weighing your bag down with 5 - 6 books that take up space, you can carry 80 books with you that take up less space than a regular book.

According to the Barna study, the percent of engagement people have with the Bible — from being engaged (reading the Bible at least four times a week), friendly (engaged with the Bible less than four times a week), neutral (read the Bible once a month or less and see the Bible as the inspired word of God, but acknowledge it can have some errors) and skeptical (see the Bible as «just another book of teachings written by men)-- has started to stabilize and return to its normal rates after the rate of skepticism increased by 4 percent to 14 percent and the rate of friendliness dropped 8 percent to 37 percent in 2011.

But the book is less than half - way finished... and if I can not prove the thesis to my satisfaction, I see no way out of the dilemma about how to reconcile the love of Jesus with the violence of Yahweh other than to say that in some way or another, the Old Testament is wrong in its portrayal of God.

The books, more or less, have the character of a primer that emphasizes essentials in bold outline with a minimum of detail.

It's a pretty good book, though it seemed to me that the further you got in the book the less it became about discussing interesting ideas about applying Christian ideals in the society we find ourselves in and more it became a lot of his personal prescriptions for what needs to be done and a venting of his worst pet peeves, filled with just a bit to much anger.

I really struggle with most of these books since it seems that once the authors get to where they are, they forget the struggles and pain that all of us «lesser» people are dealing with.

The books are arranged more or less chronologically, starting with the beginnings of the Church and ending in modern times.

(More excerpts here from Manent's new book of interviews, Le Regard Politique — i.e., Seeing Things Politically) When I met Aron I was carried away with admiration for him... Aron desired less than any man to exercise influence over people or to dominate a young man [such as I....

Less directly Bible centered, but with biblical titles and themes with which the Bible is concerned, are such books as Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, and Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes.

Less consistently the second alternative is exemplified in the book of Revelation, where the whole process of salvation tends to he associated with the future advent of the Messiah, although the expiatory significance of Christ's death is constantly in the author's mind.)

The book suggests ways that Muslims may liberalize Islam through what she calls «operation ijtihad,» an ambitious initiative that would empower more Muslim women economically, align Islamic human rights codes with those of the modern world, reform radio and television outlets, create a less militant paradigm for the relationship between mosque and state, incorporate more democracy into the Muslim world and allow for engagement in interfaith activity.

If someone told Wendy that she needs to «be more balanced» and spend less time cooking and with children and more time reading books, she wouldn't do so well.