Sentences with phrase «less book by»

If you follow the exercises and suggestions in the Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less book by Christine Koh and Asha Dornfest you will automatically bring more good stuff into your life while avoiding more crap.

There is The Word that's getting underlined, a Bible in a year, that teeters atop a stack of lesser books by my bed.

Not exact matches

However, Haberman signed the book deal with fellow NYT White House reporter Glenn Thrush, who was suspended less than two months later following a report by Vox, detailing sexual misconduct allegations against him by several women, including by the article's author.

One of the many ways books can make you happier is by helping you pass the time during some of life's less entertaining moments.

In fact, authors Thomas Stanley and William Danco found in their book «The Millionaire Next Door» that a majority of millionaires reached that goal by spending less than they earned.

Greg McKeown's book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less is a wonderful deep dive into the art of saying no by pursuing lLess is a wonderful deep dive into the art of saying no by pursuing lessless.

Booking site Hipmunk reported that its reservations for Trump hotels are down nearly 60 percent over this time last year, the Globe said, while a survey of more than 2,000 Americans by travel trend tracking website Skift found 56.9 percent of respondents said they were less likely to stay in a Trump hotel because of his campaign.

I just finished a great book called The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier.

Related Book: 80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More by Perry Marshall

European equities, as represented by the S&P Europe 350 Index, are now trading at less than 12x forward earnings and 1.3 x book value.

Even a relatively mundane corporate tax return for a Canadian corporation with a few dozen employees and domestic operations can easy run into 100 pages, and frankly our tax legislation and compliance obligations are far less onerous than those of our US cousins (by way of example, our Tax Act is one phone book, the IRC is three, of more or less inpenetrable gibberish).

You can make it far easier and less time consuming by having your books in order and not combining business and personal funds.

By purchasing these companies after a price decline, we find we are able to control risk in the portfolio as these investments often have less downside while offering a decent potential return.The U.S. Equity Fund seeks to invest in companies with a lower Price to Book Ratio, lower Price to Earnings Ratio and higher Dividend Yield than the S&P 500 index.

The book, «Mutav Lehizaher K'dei lo Lehitzta'er» (which translates roughly as «Better Safe Than Sorry»), published privately by Ella Bargai and Nitai Melamed, appears to be making significant progress in making the issue less of a taboo topic within the Haredi world.

Russ Christian thinking at its best, 5 billion people totally ignore or think the bible is just another poorly written of fiction, sure to your lot it may be the most influential book in history, not so much to everyone else and is getting less and less influential as time goes by.

It was written by many people over the span of hundreds of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith» as your proof of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away of reason i.e. belief without evidence.

If the city assumed that Cochran's beliefs would continue to lead him to treat his subordinates with the love and respect taught by his faith, perhaps his impropriety in publishing the book could have been dealt with in a much less severe manner.

Kevin Phillips concludes his book «Wealth and Democracy» with a grim warning: «Either democracy must be renewed, with politics brought back to life, or wealth is likely to cement a new and less democratic regime - plutocracy by some other name.»

We all know we have tribal tendencies — we attend conferences to hear speakers we agree with, we read books by the same speakers and we mix less and less with people who think differently.

For example, the Bible as held by Protestant Christians contains sixty - six books, no more, no less.

Mormonism is more than Christianity, of course — most obviously by adding the Book of Mormon to the Bible — and that makes it much less than Christianity as well.

A book by Michigan megachurch pastor Rob Bell, «Love Wins,» presenting a much less harsh picture of hell than is traditional, stirs discussion in evangelical circles.

If I didn't have to wait for the next book deal, I'd be less humbled by the first.

According to the Barna study, the percent of engagement people have with the Bible — from being engaged (reading the Bible at least four times a week), friendly (engaged with the Bible less than four times a week), neutral (read the Bible once a month or less and see the Bible as the inspired word of God, but acknowledge it can have some errors) and skeptical (see the Bible as «just another book of teachings written by men)-- has started to stabilize and return to its normal rates after the rate of skepticism increased by 4 percent to 14 percent and the rate of friendliness dropped 8 percent to 37 percent in 2011.

A review of a book by Donald Wiebe attacking present day religious studies as less than the objective science they were originally supposed to be.

But while Lindsell obviously intends to meet these concerns, his book is actually a repristination (and often less subtle than earlier expressions) of a particular timebound formulation of biblical authority that is being seen by increasing numbers of evangelicals not only to have outlived its usefulness but to have become a positive hindrance to the understanding of the fuller and deeper significance of the Scriptures.

See Carl Hausman, A Discourse on Novelty and Creation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984); this is a reprint of the book issued under the same title in 1976 by Martinus Nijhoff, but Hausman (more or less) affirms in 1984 what he said in 1976.

When Islam started spreading by murdering and beheading all those who refused to convert to it, there was no Internet, much less Face Book, Twitter or You Tube where their possible future atrocities could be exposed to the world.

The book's enthusiastic reception by popular and (to a lesser extent) academic readers took Kirk somewhat by surprise.

His academic colleagues at Union were taken aback by his brash, outspoken touting of socialism and pacifism when he joined the faculty, but they were even less ready when he attacked theological and political liberalism in this book.

Book Review: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, By Barry Schwartz.

I see the movie as more of a product inspired by the book and less of a forced visual replication.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller — The book that is likely on the short list for 90 % of evangelicals my age, Donald Miller made me feel a little less crazy.

A third matter of note is that Luke freely includes references to the kingdom in citing the sayings of Jesus, though less often than Matthew, but in the book of Acts by the same author the references to the kingdom are few.

The Book of Revelation, on the other hand, produced by a community suffering persecution, took a less sanguine view of civil authority.

Unlike Lewis» novels, the book is not a Christian book, and so the story has less of a «moral» than the books by Lewis, but is still creative, imaginative, and well - told, but did leave me confused in many areas.

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

In his recent book, he uses the same type of logic used by Hawking, but in a less in intelligent way.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

This high calling was further ennobled by the company he enlisted to help him and them: the Great Books, and lesser but still important ones.

«The body,» he continues, «would thus be, not the cause of our thinking, but merely a condition restrictive thereof, and, although essential to our sensuous and animal consciousness, it may be regarded as an impeder of our pure spiritual life.8 And in a recent book of great suggestiveness and power, less well - known as yet than it deserves, — I mean» Riddles of the Sphinx,» by Mr. F. C. S. Schiller of Oxford, late of Cornell University, — the transmission - theory is defended at some length.9

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

... wow, lot's of mis - statements here by people speculating about the Bible and Jesus, including those of you who think the books of the Bible were written a few hundred years ago (Moses penned it around 1400BC)... the Bible is a collection of the most investigated writings of all time, so there is a tremendous amount of credible archeological and scientific material in this world available for review rooted in verifiable investigations... my response, read the Bible, do your own investigation, determine the Truth for yourself... hopefully, anne rice's denouncement of faith in the God of the Bible (it's difficult for me to believe she ever had Saving Faith in the first place) will bring some readers to investigate and find the Truth... God will call the Elect, not one more, not one less...

The museum presents the case for Young Earth creationism, following what it says is a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis, which says the Earth was created by God in six days less than 10,000 years ago.

A man with less education than I have quotes a parable from a so - called holy book written, who know when, by who knows who, and tries to say that is what God intended.

In a letter to a friend at Zwickau, Luther wrote about Eck's text in desperate apocalyptic mood: «The book... is nothing less than the malice and envy of a maniac... Rejoice, Brother, rejoice, and be not terrified by these whirling leaves... The more they rage the more cause I give them...»

In the first place, the quiet but drastic step taken by Robinson between the publication of his book and his essay, of abandoning the concept of an existential encounter with Jesus mediated by a modern historiography in favor of something much less dramatic, is an absolutely essential step to take.

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It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

Born of a people who never attained greatness as a nation, buffeted by greater and lesser enemies throughout their whole existence, a nation that at its widest period of expansion would have ruled a region scarcely larger than Pennsylvania, this book has mothered three great religions which between them touch very nearly half the entire population of the world.