The result was a flurry of invitations and publicity, including articles in publications like New Scientist and The Economist.
And that strikes me as a little strange, because a successful scientific career is based entirely on the approval of the scientific community, in the form of publications, citations, invitations, awards, peer-reviewed grants, leadership roles in societies and departments (okay, some of you would call that punishment), tenure, and so on.
Simon & Schuster executives met with the first lady in the White House before a party to celebrate the publication of her most recent book, "Invitation to the White House".
Langley was equally helpful to the novelist Tom Clancy, who was invited to CIA headquarters after the publication of The Hunt for Red October, an invitation that was regularly repeated.
Following the publication of The New Mandala I accepted an invitation to join the staff at Menla Mountain Retreat Center in the Catskills of New York.
He is an unpredictable accepter of invitations.
As to the linguistic formation of invitations, we discovered that the declarative format is used most frequently; however, invitations are also delivered in the interrogative and imperative formats.
The biggest impact I have had in the last couple of years comes from the publication of 'Religion in Human Evolution' which has generated many invitations to speak, give interviews, attend conferences, etc.
Most movie stars wait for either an invitation to park their bottom on Oprah's sofa or the publication of a warts-and-all autobiography to share the details of their abusive childhood.
The stimulus for the invitation to write the comprehensive survey of rumor viruses mentioned above [ 13] was the publication of a retraction of what we imagined was our own discovery of a novel human retrovirus.
