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I have just started author readings at local schools and that has helped.

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This inside look at the house the Forbes family built — the famous headquarters at 60 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, in fact — certainly reads as though its author spent the years since sharpening his knife.

I read far too many essays that placed the author's venture at the center of every discussion.

This inside look at the house the Forbes family built reads as though its author spent years sharpening his knife.

The author is writing about looking at the payout ratio of dividend paying stocks and evaluating their ability to sustain their dividends or even their financial strength and profitability Continue reading →

Speaking of a system bulging with debt protruding from every crevice, Jim Quinn's Burning Platform featured a must - read article yesterday in which the author has discovered that the Loan - To - Value Ratio on Fannie Mae - issued mortgages is now at its highest level in history — nearly 10 % higher than at the peak of housing bubble 1.0:

Now that the author has so successfully catalogued many of the great ideas of Charlie Munger, I hope to read future works by Griffin that are focused on more controversial subjects at the margins of modern value investing.

But you are wrong, champ, I have in fact read the bible and if you could suss out where I mentioned that a bible, in its content (a.k.a. all the sh.it you quoted at me) can say that its true all it wants, but to make something non-fiction, the author, at the beginning and the end usually has a forward and an appendix with multiple sources to back up the material its presenting.

Most authors I read who deny the existence of God / aGod have at least the decency to admit there is no way to know a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y.

But for me the finest and most moving essay was the last one, devoted to one Matthew Shanahan, a man otherwise unknown to the world, who was going blind and whom the author met while he was reading aloud books at a Jewish home for the blind: «Matthew Shanahan was as Irish as Joseph Epstein is Jewish....

He is the author of determinedly «Southern» works such as Why Flannery O» Connor Stayed at Home and Possum and other Receits for the Recovery of «Southern» Being, all of which are recommended reading.

That's one of the things I was pointing out to someone who read a book on necromancy (long island medium) and was totally sold on everything the author wrote and was now at «peace» from reading about the endless cycles of death — i.e. soul coming back as such... dying then coming back again as another.

Authors Ed Dobson and Ed Hindson, professors at Liberty Baptist College in Virginia, base their reasonably balanced effort to define and locate fundamentalism on a wide reading of secondary sources and present a convenient summary as well as a campaign document.

In the book I'm reading, The Year of Living Biblically, author A.J. Jacobs is trying to figure out how to handle the Bible's capital punishment laws, and has taken to tossing pebbles at adulterers and Sabbath - breakers.

A quick glance at her sources reveals just how well - read and smart the author is, though her prose is not for a moment stilted or heavy - handed.

As happens with many good books, I stumbled upon More Than Serving Tea by accident, after I read an interview with one of its authors, Nikki Toyama - Szeto, at Intervarsity's «The Well» blog.

Maybe the Holy Spirit is at work around the world to bring multiple authors and pastors and theologians to similar ideas about similar things all at once, and so when I read something in someone else's book that sounds a lot like something I have written, but they don't give me credit, it is not that they «borrowed» from me, but because both of us were listening to what the Spirit has been whispering to minds all over the world.

Yoel Finkelman lectures in Jewish studies at Bar - Ilan University and is the author of Strictly Kosher Reading: Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy.

At the same time in France, another Catholic revival had emerged, guided by novelists Georges Bernanos and François Mauriac and poets Paul Claudel and Pierre Reverdy, all of whom were widely read in the U.S.. Another factor inspiring American Catholic authors, a disproportionate number of whom were Irish - American, was the rise of modern Irish literature.

In The Spiritual Life (Harper, n.d.) she pleaded: «We can not begin the day by a real act of communion with the Author of peace and Lover of concord, and then go on to read a bloodthirsty newspaper at breakfast.»

Read the comments, you can see some harsh words directed at the author of this article.

The author obviously hasn't read some of the posts to a story about scientists looking at people who eat all they want without gaining weight in order to get an idea of how obesity works.

@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»

However, if the author had read the book, they would have realized that the book does not make any mention of religion at all.

When we read such proclamations of the intellect bent on showing the existential conditions of absolutely everything, we feel — quite apart from our legitimate impatience at the somewhat ridiculous swagger of the program, in view of what the authors are actually able to perform — menaced and negated in the springs of our innermost life.

I can't for the life of me recall what book I read it in, but I remember an author saying once that he raised his children to be wary of consumerism by teaching them to laugh at commercials.

Too often we bring our own biases to the text / argument and what we read in is, «Well, I always knew that he thought that, and this proves it,» when really that's not what the author intended at all.

No, it originally read «Yoda, also from «Star Trek»» and the author went back and changed the error at some point since last night and tonight.

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Crowder, lead author and assistant professor of entomology at Washington State University, says he and Reganold became interested in the topic after reading a study several years ago that indicated that organic farming produces a lower crop yield than conventional agriculture.

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I first want to say that most authors don't mind leaving un-updated information and books out there for purchase, but as for me, after doing lots of research of the new and exciting science of nutrition, I couldn't sleep at night knowing that people were reading information that I put out there that wasn't up to my current standards.

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That was one of the topics discussed at a workshop in Vancouver, B.C., on love put on by Carrie Jenkins, a philosophy professor at the University of British Columbia, that featured many wonderful speakers besides Jenkins, whose thought - provoking book, What Love Is And What It Could Be, comes out in a few weeks, including Marina Adshade, UBC professor of economics, author of of Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and entertaining TEDx speaker; and Mandy Len Catron, who teaches writing at UBC and whose Modern Love essay on how to make anyone fall in love with you was one of the most - read Modern Loves, and that lead her to write a book on love essays that comes out in 2017.

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And tonight, I had the privilege of reading at Melville House in Brooklyn with two of my favorite authors, Nick Flynn and Melissa Febos.

But I've been reading «Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty - First - Century Families,» a compilation of intriguing essays authored by social scientists and family law experts and edited by Marsha Garrison and Elizabeth S. Scott (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and among the many issues discussed is polygamy.

The LA launch event is going to be on April 30, with a reading and author signing at Book Soup followed by a party at Ghettogloss art gallery.

Then, while sitting in the chair at my hairdresser, where much of my reading on popular culture occurs, I stumbled upon an article by Turkish author Elif Shafak in this month's Vogue magazine.

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Most parents underestimate children's capability to do chores says Elizabeth Pantley, author of Perfect Parenting and Kid Cooperation (read her helpful chore strategies at http://library.adoption.com/Teaching-and-Training-Children/Should-My-Kids-Do-Chores/article/1862/1.html).

Thus while Lord Acton's dictum — that all power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely — was, at the time of its authoring, primarily anecdotal and based on a selective reading of history, he had stumbled upon a stronger causal explanation than he realized.

Continue reading «John Baron MP - author of letter calling for referendum legislation - expresses «sadness» at lack of solid action»»

Sadly, some people can't seem to put partisan instincts to one side — as this report commissioned by the Yes campaign just before Christmas showed - you may also like to read this blog from the very same author who, a year ago, wisely said: «At a time of economic crisis, when people are calling for clear leadership and direction, it would be foolish to abolish a [voting] system that carries out these functions.»