Sentences with phrase «as readers of our book»

As readers of the book know, she plays a pivotal role in changing Montag's mindset from an obedient fireman («By the time you guys grow up, there won't be one book left.»)

As readers of my book will know, I've had life - transforming experiences with literature — early on with Eli Wiesel's Night and later with W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz.

You have to convince the agent / publisher on how your book would be sold and who would buy it, not necessarily appealing to them as a reader of books.

As any reader of the book knows, I am hugely thankful to Janet North, Susie - Belle's foster - mum not only for trusting us to become Susie - Belle's new family and arranging for the veterinary care that she needed,...

As regular readers of this blog, and as readers of my books, know, I'm a big believer in helping my students develop Social Emotional Learning skills like self - control and perseverance.

Not exact matches

In this book, Ramsey coaches readers through the basics of personal finance, from paying off debt to building an emergency fund, providing «the simplest, most straightforward game plan for completely making over your money habits,» as Amazon describes it.

As a voracious reader and all around brilliant guy, Gates is in a great position to evaluate which books are worth the time of a busy entrepreneur.

Slywotzky's book takes readers under the hood of companies that fire on all pistons, at least as far as exciting consumers is concerned.

When Wattpad launched in 2006 as an online — and now mobile — community for readers and writers to share free books, CEO Allen Lau and his team were working out of a drab cubicle farm in Toronto's north end, with bankers and accountants for neighbours.

This burst of candor may strike the reader as disarming or annoying, but either way, by the standards of the countless books that offer business or self - help advice, it's startling: The whole premise of such titles is that you know very little, and whatever you think you know is dead wrong.

«As a long - time reader of both Jay Levinson's and Shel Horowitz's previous books, I have to keep wondering why I'm surprised to see such a remarkable collection of wisdom - busting innovative ideas, all in one place.

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.

This is due to readers enjoying one book and going to another as well as publishers, reviewers, and retailers further promoting your slew of publishing.

This would later surprise me, because I thought of myself as a tuned - in reader, especially when it comes to personal finance books.

He's an avid reader, affectionately characterised by his own children as a «book with a couple of legs sticking out.»

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

This means that the reader can be assured that the book is pure of sectarian or theological contamination as it follows the by - now quaint - sounding criteria of a history objective and scientific.

Secondly, as a priest ordained in Rome where he knows that the Basilica would be totally against his assertion, he uses euphemisms to cloud the mind of a reader thinking quoting wrong scriptures with the intent to seduce would suffice — his own roots denounce his deeds and / or beliefs but he axiomatically wants to hold both the roots and wings to no avail, read the book and the truth shall set you free... This is exactly what happens when a gay priest turned professor what to justify his perverted lifestyle... I rest my case

Further evidence that Graber's volume was worthy of notice might be found in the fact that her book was the first selection in the re-launched Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and — as one reader reminded us — a nominee for a National Book Awbook was the first selection in the re-launched Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and — as one reader reminded us — a nominee for a National Book AwBook Award.

I often give a little 3 - book starter pack of this book as a gift for beginning readers in grade 2 or 3.

The Bible can't be used to verify claims any more than the Quran or the Book of Mormon, as all religious texts first require a basic belief on the part of the reader that they (the texts) are right in order to be viewed as such.

It's not necessarily a book to be read straight through, as its style may be somewhat discursive for English readers, but it provides a rich source of material for deepening our understanding of this all - important topic.

His final book, Not As the World Gives, will remind his many readers, friends and admirers of how much they have lost.

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.

Questions such as whether torture is permissible in Tolkien's world view, whether war is glorified (with a side - debate about how the films differ from the books in this respect), and how victory and defeat are characterised, are worth considering and will encourage readers to think more deeply about LOTR and appreciate how nuanced Tolkien's treatment of these issues is.

And it's also cresting a wave of enhanced electronic books as one of the most high - profile literary works to take advantage of the new abilities of readers such as Apple's iPad and other tablet computers.

Secondly, as a priest ordained in Rome where he knows that the Basilica would be totally against his assertion, he uses euphemisms to cloud the mind of a reader thinking quoting wrong scriptures with the intent to seduce would suffice — his own roots denounce his deeds and / or beliefs but he axiomatically wants to hold both the roots and wings to no avail, read the book and the truth shall set you free... I rest my case

After carefully reading the Quran and examining it based on his many years of study, a leading American theologian has concluded that via the holy book God is speaking to all human beings around the world, a voice that, in his astonishing book, he said he tried to transmit to readers and students, as well to himself, to deepen his understanding.

The method used in the writing of this book is the same as that used in the preparation of the two previous volumes — The Religion of the Hindus and The Path of the Buddha — which I have edited in an attempt to present to Western readers the major religions of the world from the point of view of the followers of those faiths.

These revisions of the Darwinian theory of evolution have been interestingly summarized for the general reader in George Gaylord Simpson's The Meaning of Evolution (Yale University Press, 1949), and in 1958 published as a Mentor Book in a paper - bound edition.

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In the book's concluding chapter, Hays totals the «strengths and weaknesses» of the evangelists as OT readers and outlines briefly a set of ten methodological prescriptions gleaned from the early chapters.

Eliade, who was for many years at the University of Chicago, will be familiar to most readers as the author of the four - volume A History of Religious Ideas and numerous other books dealing with religion and myth in human history.

As a science - fiction reader I am always amazed that some people will say that a book brings into focus human nature and future trends and a possible scheme for the salvation of the human race from our own self - destructiveness.

Schema's book is an entertaining read, though its multitude of details may strike readers as self - indulgent.

If, as he has done, you write a book titled A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love, you might seem to be saying that any reader who does not love the book has not understood it.

As a matter of fact, Bultmann's Jesus and the Word of 1926 was prefaced with a classic statement of the modern view of history, and on this basis he states that his book reflects his own encounter with the historical Jesus, and may mediate an encounter with the historical Jesus on the part of the reader.

I shall do this under a few headings but very briefly — for further explanation the reader may wish to consult such books as my own Lure of Divine Love (Pilgrim Press and T. and T. Clark, 1981) or Peter N. Hamilton's The Living God and the Modern World (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968).

Once this hurdle is over, the reader will find this an excellent book which explores, with great sensitivity and understanding, the question of what it means to be human, why each human person has great value and importance, and why the frail and gravely ill matter just as much as the rest of us.

If the Psalms are to serve as a text that discloses a creative way of being in the face of death, it is important for a reader to remember how close death was to everyone in the original context of the book.

In that spirit readers may continue to find the book useful, even as they take note of Niebuhr's own type of liberal Protestantism.

Although this little book (it can be called an occasional address, yet without having the occasion which produces the speaker and gives him authority, or the occasion which produces the reader and makes him eager to learn) is like a fantasy, like a dream by day as it confronts the relationships of actuality: yet it is not without assurance and not without hope of accomplishing its object.

As a result, many readers of their books stop with what they have read and go no further.

This qualifies the first half of that particular section, which calls for singing to come from one of the books of chant: «If there is no singing at the Entrance, the antiphon given in the Missal is recited either by the faithful, or by some of them, or by a reader; otherwise, it is recited by the Priest himself, who may even adapt it as an introductory explanation.»

For a generation or more biblical scholarship has been committed to what is known as the historical method — that is, to the aim of seeing the books of the Bible in their historical setting and understanding them as nearly as possible in the way their writers and first readers understood them.

This is a good balanced book which allows the reader to see that Genesis 1 - 4 are historically and theologically true, even if the reader does not read these chapters as recording a chronological and scientifically precise account of how the universe began.

If it interests you or any of your readers, I wrote a book called Nine Lies People Believe About Speaking in Tongues, and deal with many things I see come up in these comments like Paul said you can't speak in tongues in a meeting unless you have an interpreter, speaking several languages allegedly being the same thing as speaking in tongues in the Bible, etc...

However, as this book is basically just a collection of essays and interview transcripts, I do not think that this book is the most helpful for a reader who wants to understand Girard's mimetic theory.

The subtitle of this book, «the unity of knowledge,» will strike some readers as abstruse, yet it directs us to important questions: Can we think about the world and ourselves in anything resembling an integrated manner?

He did so by urging the expansion of the idea that the great books include the Eastern classics, as well as through his inspiring participation in Columbia's core courses on Asian humanities and through his many books making the cultural history of China and the rest of East Asia available to educated readers.