Sentences with phrase «good biography of»

Good biography of the band.

All the same, this is the best biography of Rasputin and a splendid piece of work.

Not exact matches

Morton used six tapes of interviews to write the biography, knowing that he was sitting on revelations that could tear apart the country's oldest and best - loved institution.

«This is a good time for Ron Chernow's fine biography of Ulysses S. Grant to appear,» wrote Bill Clinton in the New York Times Book Review.

Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like, well, wildfire as soon as word of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.

While Jobs's treatment of his first child, Lisa, was deemed to be seriously lacking (with good reason) in Walter Isaacson's biography Steve Jobs, and the silver screen film adaptation that followed, he apparently had changed his parenting ways with the three children he raised with his wife Laurene Powell Jobs.

Indeed, Jobs biographies are filled with accounts of him screaming at his employees, imploring them to do better, and often firing them for little cause.

We're often better at evaluating the strengths and experiences of others than we are at examining our own, so Clark suggests you «ask your friends to identify the most fascinating elements of your biography, your interests, or your experiences....

Credits: This infographic would not be possible without the great biographies done by Roger Lowenstein (Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist) and Alice Schroeder (The Snowball), as well as numerous other sources cataloging Buffett's life online.

A GOOD subtitle for a biography of Karl Marx would be «a study in failure».

Walter Isaacson, whose biography of Steve Jobs was an instant best seller after the Apple CEO's death in October 2011, shares the real management lessons from Jobs.

In this New York Times best - selling biography, Metaxas gives a full account of Bonhoeffer's heart - wrenching decision to leave the safe haven of America to return to Hitler's Germany.

Liberals indulge in periodic public rhetorical displays of «So - to - Speak» support for the Constitution, and they like well - told history or biography about the Founders as well as anyone, but they aren't as interested in treating them as a guide.

It is reasonable to be dubious about biographies of philosophers, even when they are good.

Walter Isaacson, best known for biographies of Steve Jobs and Einstein, is unsurprisingly most interested in Leonardo da Vinci's scientific achievements.

And I've been keenly interested in the question of religion, having written a biography of Jesus and practiced Christianity as best I can for much of my life.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo — This is another one that could have gone on the picture book list because the paintings in here are sublime but the biographies of 100 notable women are written as bedtime fairy tales.

But translating the Good Book into progressive politics has always been a mainstay of Obama's political biography.

yken's biography is perhaps better positioned to explain Packer's Evangelical fame than was the earlier effort of Packer's fellow British Evangelical Alister McGrath, J. I. Packer: A Bbiography is perhaps better positioned to explain Packer's Evangelical fame than was the earlier effort of Packer's fellow British Evangelical Alister McGrath, J. I. Packer: A BiographyBiography.

While historians have welcomed Appleby's nuanced study of how the War for Independence altered the lives of ordinary Americans (Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans), an even broader and more appreciative audience has made David McCullough's biography of John Adams a run away best seller.

And we should, at last, have time to keep up with biography, with fiction, with history, as well as with all the branches of theology.

Olson's lengthy Federalist Society biography makes no direct mention of the work for which he is now best known and closes with a disclaimer disavowing any organizational endorsement of its expert's views.

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

For (and this may be the chief lesson to be learned from these biographies) George Eliot is perhaps the signal figure for those who maintain that we can be good without God, indeed, that belief in the Christian God is a great impediment to the achievement of «individual and social happiness.»

While many of the books about Jesus are written in scholarly language and primarily for other scholars, Viola and Sweet have written a well - researched and documented biography of Jesus, but in a way that the average Christian can read and understand.

I'm not sure it is good policy, but Santorum's policy of no corporate income taxes on manufacturers, might do him some good when added to the stuff about his biography, etc..

Well, I suggest you read the biographies of John Adams, John Jay, and Thomas Paine.

Still, Urofsky's biography is a valuable guide to the life and thought of a man who, for better and worse, profoundly shaped modern constitutional law.

Leonardo da Vinciby walter isaacsonsimon and schuster, 624 pages, $ 35 Walter Isaacson, best known for biographies of Steve Jobs and Einstein, is unsurprisingly most interested in Leonardo da Vinci's scientific achievements.

gave me a chance to rediscover Jane Austen, not least because she is my mother's favorite author: For not only does the Oakesian matriarch own all six of the Austen novels in the elegant Oxford edition, but Park Honan's marvelous biography, Jane Austen: Her Life, occupies a prominent place on her bookshelf as well ¯ which I gobbled up (naturally) even more avidly than I did the novels.

Schmidt is at his best in drawing out social history from the fine details of biography.

All holy book scriptures have been subjected to the views of given authors — which is no different than a modern - day biography — and, at best, should be used to guide one's decisions — much like a fable written for children.

«William Franklin Graham Jr can safely be regarded as the best who ever lived at what he did,» said William Martin, author of the biography A Prophet With Honour.

Regrettably for A.A., I believe, the writer of A.A.'s official biography of Dr. Bob Smith (DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers) then gratuitously added the following statement — which was not at all a part of the Amos report: «It might also be noted that many terms now considered by A.A.'s to be misleading were then used, not only by non-A.A.'s discussing the movement, but sometimes by members themselves: «cure,» «ex-alcoholic,» «reformed alcoholic»» (DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers, pp. 135 - 36).

Nevertheless, there are subtle but important differences between them, and where they differ I find myself siding with Whitehead.2 Since Whitehead's conceptuality is presupposed in my extensions and applications, it seemed best to introduce the reader to this thought by way of an intellectual biography tracing the development of his theism.

Panikkar's theology is highly marked by his biography which laid the encounter of different religions and contexts in his cradle, as it were.40 He has faced this challenge and engaged in an intense study of languages, philosophies, theologies and sacred scriptures as well as living everyday life in many contexts.

The general writings mention him, but for a fuller treatment the best sources are two books by Y. P. Mei: Motse, Rival of Confucius, a biography and systematic discussion of his thought, and The Works of Motse.

As a concrete example let me read a page from the biography of Antoinette Bourignon, a good woman, much persecuted in her day by both Protestants and Catholics, because she would not take her religion at second hand.

British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of the new book «Jerusalem: The Biography,» knows the city well.

Since this is territory that has been well covered in recent years — in biographies of the principal players, as well as in numerous volumes of history and political analysis — the question naturally arises: what does Kramer have to say that sheds new light on the subject?

Broadwell is the author of Petraeus» biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus, and was embedded with him in Afghanistan where rumors of something romantic between the two were common but dismissed by people who knew them well.

All of this happened to me, in a close proximity of time and believe I am living proof of how the Old and New Testaments are all part of the same story, the revelation of Jesus and his biography as well.

Mundanely enough, the early Church councils were in the best position to judge which biographies were reliable and they chose Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.Anthony McRoy, of Wales Evangelical School of Theology, says that the way the Church decided on the books of the New Testament bears little resemblance to the conspiracy theories of Dan Brown and Philip Pullman.

To his contemporaries he was certainly a man anointed by God with the Spirit and with power; a man who went about doing good; a chasid or Jewish saint; perhaps a prophet, «like one of the prophets of old,» or even «more than a prophet,» perhaps the prophet, «like unto Moses»; («Prof. David E. Adams» Man of God (1941) is a study of the Old Testament pattern used repeatedly in biographies and presupposed in stories of holy men in the Old Testament and in related literature.

Second, it requires affirming through the media persons and events that have been able to deal with these «boundary situations» creatively and with faith: news stories from Manila and South Africa; biographies of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Archbishop Tutu — and a host of other unfamous people of faith as well.

If he believes his dubious assertion that «the more we know about Shakespeare the more we will understand his work,» then why has he failed to consult important biographies by Park Honan and Katherine Duncan - Jones, as well as James Shapiro's award - winning A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599, among scores of other books and articles?

The religious part of the commemoration of the Prophet's birth is a recital by the leader from one of the well - known biographies of the Prophet — written either in verse or in rhythmic prose — interspersed with songs of praise sung by the leader or by the leader and congregation together.

A good biography, expertly researched and finely crafted, conveys not just the trajectory of someone's life but also a feeling for the era in which the person lived.

We are obliged therefore to forego chronological order from the outset, as well as the reconstruction of any development in Jesus, in his success, in his conflict with his enemies — a «biography» of Jesus in this sense can not be written.

The front matter to what Beranbaum terms her «bread biography» contains perhaps the best explanation anywhere of how yeast works and a description of the sponge method used for almost every yeast - risen bread.