Sentences with phrase «years books like»

Why is it, for example, that whenever in recent years books like Wagner's «The Simple Life» or Cabot's «What Men Live By» have been published the sale has been phenomenal?

So why did they not require the large bulk of unadjusted longer datasets from national meteorological institutes and year books like I did?

Not exact matches

I read the actual book a few years ago, and it's definitely one that I wish I could go back and tell my seventh - grade self is worth reading, especially since I liked «Brave New World» so much when I read it in high school.

In the past few years, it's become clear that old technologies like vinyl records, analog cameras, and print books are managing to hang on in the world of streaming music, smartphones, and ebooks.

A book a week, for 30 years, would be 1,560 books - doesn't seem like that much does it?

(I am facing that problem head - on every day as I try to write my new book on what the world will look like in 20 years - knowing that I'm going to be laughably wrong at various points along the way.

And it looks like New Yorkers can't get enough: The four - year - old company's two locations have booked a 2,792 percent rise in three - year sales, which hit $ 3.4 million in 2014.

Technology blogger Gayle Laakmann McDowell served on Google's hiring committee for three years, and she says that Google now prohibits many of the sorts of questions listed on the jacket of Poundstone's book (gems like «How would you weigh your head?»

And so he took his own advice, creating the «relevant résumé,» which features highlights like «Have yet to finish a book I started writing years ago,» and «Should have been more aggressive.»

In his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years past.

In addition to regularly blogging on the subject of raising funding for his own blog mpd.me and publications like Inc.com and Business Insider, Davis has written a series of soon - to - be released self - published books on navigating the startup financing maze: «Fundraising Rules,» to be released this fall and «Breaking the Rules,» which is expected out sometime next year.

The years New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova spent interviewing con artists for her book The Confidence Game didn't make her like these expert hustlers any more, but it did make her respect their skills.

But last year saw more cooperation with competitors (remember the Microsoft appearance at last year's Apple event) in the name of increased value, and new products like the Surface Book.

«With every business I've been in, costs sprout and spread like weeds,» says Olson, who started typesetting and reference publishing companies before beginning his business - book enterprise four years ago.

From there, if the writers like the program, they are invited to join our year - long marketing program to learn how to make the most of their book and coaching program.

«He likes to keep his bookings at around 65 or 70 a year.

While the likes of Beate Uhse and Playboy were each raking in at least $ 300 million each a few years ago while I was researching my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, the three biggest public companies pulled in less than that combined over the past year.

As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the past hundred years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.

In recent years, the industry has attracted competition from the likes of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, the latter of which has diversified into toys and games in order to prop flagging book sales.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

The company expects to book an annual recurring revenue, an accounting term used by software companies like Zenefits, of $ 100 million this year, up from $ 20 million last year.

About five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell, author of bestselling books like The Tipping Point and Blink, made this prediction, basically writing off the power of social media for businesses: «In about five years, everyone will head back toward traditional advertising.»

Earlier this year, Amazon launched a freight - delivery service, and is said to be building out its own Uber - like app for booking carriers, to try to penetrate the more than $ 150 billion industry.

Westland Last year, around the time Bezos committed to investing as much as $ 5 billion in India to compete with Asian - grown competitors like Alibaba, he purchased this Indian book publisher, owned by outsourcer Tata Group, for $ 1.4 million.

«I'd like to write a book every year or every other year,» he says.

Last year the company launched Instant Book, a new category of listings that don't require approval from the host and allow for immediate, hotel - like booking.

Tom's studied hundreds of millionaires over the years whose habits are the main focus of his blog (RichHabits.net) and his book (same name — Rich Habits), so I feel like if it's working for them it would work for us too;)

Like, writing a book feels so unproductive, because you're working on it for years and nothing happens.

He details what it was like going from a broke teenager to a millionaire with a bestselling book in several short years, and how he dealt with fame and increasing responsibilities.

For years I've come to trust Carmine Gallo's sage wisdom on learning to be a better communicator and I've made his book, Talk Like TED, required reading for my staff.

Such advice comes as no surprise to readers of Fried's 15 years of posts on his company's popular and influential blog, Signal vs. Noise or who have read any of his books, like Rework, the New York Times best - seller he co-wrote with his Basecamp partner, David Heinemeier Hansson.

Having founded and managed more than a few companies in my life, all I can say is, I wish I'd had a book like Small Business, BIG Vision years ago.

According to a book published in Brazil this year, Sonho Grande (Big Dream), Lemann's partner Sicupira has a favorite phrase: «Costs are like fingernails: You have to cut them constantly.»

I also love that the book has been recently updated with newer statistics but even if it's like 10 years in the future and you're reading this review I think the book will still be very accurate and topical.

Investment funds focused on cryptocurrencies were launched, the CBOE announced Bitcoin futures for the end of the year and some everyday expenses like booking flights at Expedia can be paid in Bitcoins.

As it happens, this is essentially what Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told us a year before her book, Lean In, was published: «There are still days I wake up feeling like a fraud, not sure I should be where I am.»

While that might not seem like a lot, if you sell enough over the course of the year, you can get a pretty healthy passive income without actually having to stand outside the bookstore and hawk your own book.

«I feel like this is gonna be in the history books in the next couple years,» he said.

Many of the dumb mistakes of omission I've made have come from caring too much about exactly what a business looks like now (what it's reporting in earnings, showing in book value, etc.) rather than what I think it'll roughly look like in 5 years.

Finally, looking at valuation, European banks traded at a material discount to tangible book value, one standard deviation3 below their historic forward price - earnings multiple, and near a 20 - year low relative to global banking peers as the year came to a close.4 We are also finding select financial sector values in Asia, in both mature, under - earning banking markets like South Korea and Singapore, as well as underpenetrated, growth - oriented markets like China (particularly in insurance) and India (particularly in banking).

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

It's not one book like I always thought - It's an ancient collection of writings, comprised of 66 separate books, written over approximately 1,600 years, by at least 40 distinct authors.

It may be silly, but then getting paid minimum wage to read books when one is 18 years old ain't a bad gig, and this man and the library he led and the town which made this library possible are irreplaceable factors in both making and preserving important things like the opportunity to read good (or not so good) books in quiet solitude.

It's easier now watching the years tick by, the seasons balancing their books, the sun swift in his passage, like a man who goes home after his day's labor full of gruff gratitude for the lights that one by one rise up in welcome; glad of what he's done, but gladder still it's done with, and enough.

And just so you know, the fact that more and more people like you feel the need to speak up with your hatred of all things biblical or Christian, makes people like me very happy because it tells us that the very book, the Bible, that you diss, is absolutely right because it has been warning us for hundreds of years that thoughts like yours will increase.

I picture my mother years and years ago — younger than I am now by ten years at least — sitting in the corner of the couch, her first real bible in her lap, underlining practically the entire book of John with tears in her eyes, like she can't believe her luck.

Back then, I couldn't find ANY Christian books on spiritual abuse — the first main ones (like * The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse * and * Toxic Faith *) wouldn't even be published until a dozen years later.

I love a good irreverent life - humour book — like Amy Poehler's Yes Please or Jenny Lawson's Furiously Happy — but for some reason, this one just became my favourite of the year.

The books of 2014, like the books of any year, utterly exceed our grasp.

Which is why I know that last Thursday, my Amazon ranking was all the way down to 4,222 in books (a mere 2,700 points away from John Acuff's Stuff Christians Like and 3,500 points away from Donald Miller» sA Million Miles in a Thousand Years), but that by Sunday night it was back up to 19,501 in books (15,000 points away from Pete Wilson's Plan B and 19,500 points away from Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest).