Sentences with phrase «for academic books»

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(xi) At the recent book launch in Sydney, Meaghan Morris nominated this as one of the 10 best - ever opening lines for an academic book.

Besides seeing the importance and ubiquity of literacy in school settings, I also experienced the field from a different angle as an editor for an academic book publishing company.

Not exact matches

«The room, board, books and laundry figures are based upon the rates which prevailed during the past academic year, and can be accepted as applicable for the year 1950 - 1951 unless national economic changes require their alteration,» according to the bulletin.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

We know a lot from various kinds of evidence: a) the experience of the real estate sector, where recent studies by Macdonald Realty and Re / Max have confirmed the dominance of foreign buyers at the top end of the market especially, as stated for years by individual realtors (accounts often denigrated as «anecdotal»); b) there is the digging of several investigative journalists, and most notably by Ian Young of the South China Morning Post who has boldly and effectively raised issues native journalists have sometimes shied from; c) academic work, including the books by Katharyne Mitchell (2004) Beyond the Neoliberal Line and David Ley Millionaire Migrants (2011).

Bernstein holds a PhD in Social Welfare from Columbia University and is the author and coauthor of numerous books for both popular and academic audiences, including his latest book, «The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity.»

Though she dedicates the book to her parents and in the end praises them for their adoption of two Haitian children, her account of her religious and academic education comes off as pretty nutty.

Many of the books reviewed in the regular «Book World» column dealt with social issues, but the editors also included notices of academic theological monographs and of books on subjects not traditional for religious publications: literary criticism, philosophy and psychology.

You registered for that last class, you signed up with an advisor, you checked out stacks of thick academic books from the library.

The precision of the writing is impressive, and the book is clearly intended for an academic readership.

Academics wrote the books and articles making the scientific and philosophical case for life.

In books, academic journals, magazines, blog posts, speeches, conferences, and campus clubs, they are steadily building a case that there is a place in the traditional evangelical church for sexually active gay people in committed, monogamous relationships.

I would not recommend The Curse of Cain easily: Those who enjoy being scandalized» who enjoy reacting against either «monotheism» or «liberal academic chic»» should not read this book, for it is too easy to do so in a way that panders to their titillation.

Not surprisingly, in a book by a modern academic, Rosenzweig turns out to be much like any other academic looking for tenure.

Last year I read Tom Harpur's book The Pagan Christ, which for a noted academic like Harpur, makes wild claims, yet there is no real historic basis to them, just blind bigotry and prejudice and an extreme liberal licence to make such claims.

This assault has been conducted in books (e.g., Paul Gifford's The Religious Right in Southern Africa), newsletters (e.g., Crisis News), on the pages of prestigious academic journals (e.g., Journal of Theology for Southern Africa), and through the putative research of mainline religious organizations such as the Institute for Contextual Theology.

My reflections arose, as I have indicated, in part from formative books and teachers, but they also grew out of grappling with Scripture (one of the lightning bolts here was the simple but profound insight of realizing once again the ineradicable connection of form and content — for instance, what is said in a parable can not be said in any other way), and with the complex business, endemic to academic theologians, of, as Kierkegaard would put it, becoming a Christian (not in general or for someone else but in particular and for me).

«Mack was one of the hopes for a revival of the tradition,» said Ralph Hood, a University of Tennessee professor who's written two books on snake handlers and is probably the foremost academic expert on their culture.

Abingdon has opened a new office in Atlanta, specifically for editing academic books; Westminster / John Knox has affirmed its interest in serious theological publishing; and Augsburg Fortress has sought to reassure those concerned about the future of the Fortress tradition.

The casual reader of the introduction to The Five Gospels might suppose that no serious New Testament scholar would differ materially from the consensus represented by this book, were it not for the single telltale polemical reference to anonymous «elitist academic critics who deplored the public face of the seminar.»

Though bioethicists may continue their academic debates for decades to come, there is no need to cause unnecessary confusion among couples navigating a rocky enough road as it is, so I hope these sections may be amended in future editions of the book.

There are a few points in the book in which it would appear that the authors depart from their own sense of what is licit and illicit out of deferrence to certain academic Catholic bioethicists who persist in arguing for the permissibility of so - called «borderline» assisted reproductive techniques such as Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer (GIFT) and Artificial Insemination by Husband (AIH) or insist that the Church may still allow for so - called embryo adoption.

Master the mechanics, and it's a relatively routine task to run any sort of book or essay through them for — pronto — an academic interpretation.

In fact, so common has the terminology become in some Christian thinking that in a recent academic book it is even used as a verb: «It is good for us Christians (note the pronoun) to have these other missionary religions dispute the Gospel....

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Although not fully sympathetic with everything that some of the «deep ecologists» or «Gaia theorists» advocate, these works stand, more than any other works I know, as theological manifestos for an American Green Movement — one book is in a more academic form for the university and seminary, the other in a more confessional mode for the church and community study group.

For those not familiar with academic debates, the impression could be given that West's work contains serious errors, when, in fact, his books have received imprimaturs and the endorsement of trusted figures.

The book made him famous and for ever closed all academic doors to him, for it was received with exclamations of horror, and there began a process of academic persecution which was to follow him all his life through.

[4] Gail Buchwalter King, ed., ATS Fact Book on Theological Education for the Academic Years 1988 ~ 9 and 1989 - 90 (Pittsburgh: ATS, 1990), pp.4 - 10, 25,26, tables 1.01, 2.04, and 2.04 b.

To question his sources is, he claims, unfair to the book that is intended for popular consumption, not academic dissection.

Lynch's academic habit of writing often leaves non-specialists, for whom the book is clearly intended, feeling that we would do better to live in our world and ponder it, rather than read a book about how we know.

KEMP AND CREMINS Sir: Jan Kemp's story (This Case Was One For The Books, Feb. 24) should inspire all those educators who struggle daily to instill high academic standards in their students.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

Denise Pope, the founder of Challenge Success, in August released a book, «Overloaded and Underprepared,» that provides practical recommendations for schools based on years of academic research on workload and achievement.

One of the most important things that you can think of when looking for preschool curriculum ideas is to find some books that would develop their academic and social skills.

Mary J Renfrew: has received grants for quality improvement work related to feeding infants in neonatal units; small amounts of money, in regard to co-authoring a book; and been an invited speaker at a range of professional and academic organisations, for which no fee was received.

For instance, analysis of the modes and mechanisms of exit, the economic impacts of exit, and the norms that underpin the dominant paradigms of exit — these are just a few of the academic issues that we address in the book.

Unfortunately for those with historical or academic leanings, any book proclaiming itself a «history» must have verified sources.

With over 30 published books, countless learned papers, articles and reviews, and huge commitments to lectures and seminars, he is an academic Stakhanovite, with a touch of Maghdi Yacoub's gift for incision and a bit of provocative Socrates thrown in — except that he imparts knowledge with answers as well as questions.

The Ho Polytechnic Chapter of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana, (POTAG), has asked Government to speed up the payment of this year's book and research allowances, in order to avoid the distraction of the 2016/2017 academic year for tertiary institutions, as has been recorded in the past.

However, Robert Ford & Matthew Goodwin, academics (Manchester and Nottingham respectively) whose book on where support for UKIP comes from is published next month, present similar data for UKIP converts since 2010 (Con 47 %, Lab 10 %) but very different data for converts between 2005 and 2010 (Con 39 %, Lab 43 %).

Kwasi Kwarteng, Conservative MP for Spelthorne and member of the transport select committee is an unabashed academic, who, in 2011 alone, published three books.

Sources for the book included over 300 interviews with key players from all the main parties, election literature, media, including print and social, and some academic studies.

Patrick Dunleavy finds essential reading for academics in the run up to the AV referendum in Alan Renwick's recent book.

► «[T] he process of offering admission at selective Ph.D. programs is chock - full of assumptions that are seldom made explicit or challenged,» wrote Sian Beilock, vice provost for academic initiatives at the University of Chicago in Illinois, in her review of the book Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping, by Julie Posselt.

While welcomed by the academic community, the newly created graduate scholarships and the much - needed additional funds to cover the indirect costs of academic research are only on the books for the next 3 years.

This resource includes detailed appendices with books for beginners and advanced readers, online and electronic materials, live educational training courses, professional and educational organizations in the field (including international organizations), certifications, conferences, and major academic programs in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia.

It was also a pleasant surprise that all scientists at Lilly spend time working in the lab regardless of seniority, and that the company allows their employees time for academic pursuits such as writing chapters of books.

And for decades, books and academic articles portrayed him as a benevolent figure who saved children with autism from the killing centers.