Sentences with phrase «fascinating book about»

Legal Stuff Matters: Review of The Divorce Dance by Financial Planner Stan Corey: A Fascinating Book About Divorce Financial Settlements

This is a fascinating book about the psychology of money and how our instincts and emotions often harm us when we make investing decisions.

In two separate interviews, John Shors discusses Beneath a Marble Sky, a fascinating book about the construction of the Taj Mahal; and Dragon House, set in contemporary Vietnam.

I'm featuring a fascinating book about the women of the Bible: Vindicating the Vixens.

As a result, her fascinating book about love details how you, too, can achieve an old - fashioned romance.

He wrote a fascinating book about it called The Makers Diet (I know I'm always recommending articles or books, but it's so much more info than I can provide in a blog post!!).

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell - a fascinating book about the history of New York City, from the perspective of the oyster trade.

Before the Dominion Elections Act (1920), voting in Canadian federal elections was largely governed by the provinces, just as voting in US federal elections is still, even today, governed by the «several States» (as they are wont to put it)-- except for the 1917 wartime election, labelled as the «largest gerrymander in Canadian history» (I've just finished a fascinating book about that election, fought over the issue of conscription; I highly recommend it).

I freely admit that I gently borrowed the title from French professor Serge Guilbaut, whose book How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War, written back in 1983, is still by far one of the most fascinating books about abstract expressionism and its controversial use as propaganda in the Cold War years.

Not exact matches

It was a fascinating book because I didn't know a lot about early Christian theology and how it evolved.

Although Garnett reports that the book will teach you «almost nothing about Rehnquist's tenure as chief justice,» his sharp review provides a fascinating introduction to the man's life and legacy.

(I wrote more about this in my review of Mark Noll's fascinating book, «The Civil War as a Theological Crisis.»)

Frank Viola and Mary DeMuth have written a fascinating and insightful book about five women from the Gospels.

I haven't mentioned Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald, edited by Welty biographer Suzanne Marrs and Macdonald biographer Tom Nolan (the most touching collection of letters I've read in years), or the latest volume in The Complete Letters of Henry James, or Catherine Lampert's superb Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting (which the painter Bruce Herman will be writing about for Books & Culture), or James Curtis's fascinating and beautifully produced William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come.

'» All in all, the book makes fascinating reading, and should be studied by those who want to discover more about the present configurations of marriage among Christians of all denominations.

Such a fascinating book deserves more time than we can give it, but I'd like to start off by talking about the current attitudes about life after death that have come to dominate much of Western Christianity and that Wright seeks to evaluate.

I read books about fascinating people and ideas, even ideas I disagree with.

Ever since Thomas Kuhn popularized it with his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the notion of a «paradigm shift» has led to fascinating arguments about whether this or that break with previous scientific understanding counted as one.

One of the things I found most fascinating about this book, is the connection it made with the author's blog.

Du Boulay has certainly led a varied and fascinating life, but this book is ultimately about her spiritual odyssey from what she describes as a «middle - class, Anglican upbringing» — via transcendental meditation, Catholicism and shamanism — to her current stance; an eclectic «pick - and - mix» spirituality.

I find the mix of dark and comedic elements in the book of Esther and in the celebration of Purim fascinating, for I think they teach us something important about the nature of power and of evil, something about what it means to relate to forces that seem beyond our control.

Peter Berger, in a fascinating preface to the book, asks not so much about the accuracy of Siemon - Netto's argument as about the reasons cliche - thinking about Luther and Lutheranism has continued in such an unchallenged way.

He wrote a fascinating book that those of you who are wondering about that might enjoy called The Great Divorce in which people are given kind of one last opportunity to experience heaven and experience the kingdom and see if they want it.

I've recently read a little more about how they started their winery, I found it quite fascinating that Ernest and Julio were out traveling the country selling grapes from the family vineyards, they always wanted to start a winery so they borrowed money from family, rented books on how to make wine and wala, their dream was born.

It's a fascinating book that makes it very clear that the conventional wisdom about child development is flat - out wrong.»

The first book taught Whit about synesthesia, and we have had fascinating conversations about that.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn more about this fascinating area.

Covering everything from recognizing faces and sounds to depth perception and fine motor skills, this fascinating book is perfect for parents who are curious about their baby's growing ability to understand and interact with the world around them.

Every kid will ho ho ho when they unwrap this book that is chocked full of the most random and fascinating facts about their most favorite holiday.

All this comes out strikingly in his book, which is packed full of indiscrete anecdotes, including a fascinating one about Clegg and former Bank of England governor Mervyn King holding a summit on quantitative easing while in their underpants.

In this weekend's front - page New York Times Book Review, Mary Roach reviews Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us), and no stranger to thoroughly researched books about random topics, she finds it rather fascinaAbout Us), and no stranger to thoroughly researched books about random topics, she finds it rather fascinaabout random topics, she finds it rather fascinating.

Another notably illustrated book is London Under London by Richard Trench and Ellis Hillman (John Murray, pp 240, # 15.99), chock - full of fascinating detail about the life and times of the labyrinthine city that exists below the pavements of the visible one.

He is the author of the new book Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life about the fascinating bacteria that live in each of us and the fundamental role it's played in the history of modern biology.

THIS fascinating and disturbing book is as much about our attitudes towards fish as it is about the fish themselves.

A prominent example of a fascinating therapeutic oil that I encountered through my travels (and wrote about in my book) is black cumin seed oil.

I've read about this very interesting Harvard University study about exercise multiple times in the past, but I was just recently reminded about this study again while reading the fascinating book called 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman.

I received my preview copy of this fascinating book just a few weeks ago, and I look forward to sharing more about it in the coming weeks as we approach its release date in September.

Dr. Perlmutter, can't wait to read your book, saw it on the Garden of Life instagram account (the brand I have been buying my probiotics from for some time now) and then reached for your interviews online and found everything you say about gut health and brain diseases fascinating.

Prolific documentary maker Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) steers a fascinating film about the Church of Scientology in Going Clear, based on the book by Lawrence Wright.

There are spinoff books, spinoff movies, and a spinoff play all about the prolific writer's magical universe and a ton of fascinating facts about all of them

But it's also about the subtle and not - so - subtle negotiations between being a journalist and being a groupie, which gives it some passing relation to the fascinating (if poorly edited and organized) interview book Crowe recently did with Billy Wilder, Conversations With Wilder.

The more I think about it, the more complex it gets, which makes it a fascinating work in my book.

ALISON GOPNIK: So part of the inspiration for this book is a lot of really fascinating recent research in evolutionary biology and developmental psychology — the kind of research I have done for 15 years — about how childhood works and how children learn from adults.

Using fascinating truths and eyewitness accounts, «Good Morning America» weather forecaster Spencer Christian, along with children's author Antonia Felix, expertly guides readers through the formidable forces of nature, from untwisting the myths of tornadoes to shaking out the facts about plate tectonics, in the first two books of the series, Can It Really Rain Frogs?

But in their very different ways, both books tell fascinating stories about yearning, youth, and hope.

In this interview Mike Petrilli talks with Rick about the book, Shanker's fascinating life, his role as a union leader, and whether he deserves the mantle of «education reformer.»

So, pick up a book or two and learn all you can about the fascinating field of Instructional Design.

Anyone who has studied maths to a certain level, or read a few books about it, or seen brilliant people like Marcus du Sautoy or Katie Steckles or Francis Su talk about it, will tell you that maths is fascinating stuff just as it is.

In telling that story, this book raises fascinating questions about the relationship between equity and excellence.

We could write a whole book about them (some people have), but we'll stick to the main points here, and if you have the time, money, and inclination, you can delve further into what is a fascinating world revolving around a fascinating car.