Sentences with phrase «practice books as»

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The book argues that most of us are not as creative as we have the potential to be and, thankfully for the time starved business owner, living up to our full creative potential doesn't necessarily mean locking yourself in a practice room for around a decade.

CONS: Books age well, but management practices seldom do, especially in a rapidly changing industry such as this one.

He introduced the word in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, and used it as a way to describe how trends and societal practices catch on and become popularized.

«China has engaged for a very long time in the theft of our intellectual property as well as practices like forced technology transfer,» said Navarro, author of several books anti-China books including «Death by China.»

The practice was commonplace at the time, and was awesomely referred to as «swilling the planters with bumbo,» according to the 1989 book Robert Dinkin's «Campaigning in America: A History of Election Practices» (originally seen via an article in Smithsonian Magazine).

Yet the shops» old - world practices have their advantages: book - acquisition costs are minimal to nonexistent, as the stores acquire titles either inexpensively or in the form of donations (even though the business is not a nonprofit).

Over 50 years ago, one of the earliest champions of brainstorming, Alex Osborn, a U.S. advertising executive, developed rules for the practice — such as banning criticism and encouraging freewheeling — which he published in his 1953 book Applied Imagination.

As The Drucker Institute has noted, The Practice of Management was the first book «to organize the art and science of running an organization into an integrated body of knowledge.»

Perel, who has a practice in New York City, would know: She's the author of the bestselling book Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence and the new release The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity, as well as host of the podcast Where Should We Begin?

Commonly referred to as «open - book management,» the practice varies widely.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, the book that popularized the idea that mastery in a given field takes at least 10,000 hours of practice, had just come out, as had Geoff Colvin's Talent is Overrated and Daniel Coyle's The Talent Code, both of which emphasized the role of dedicated practice (and discounted natural - born talent) in excellence.

Case in point: Following the Enron blow - up, the Financial Accounting Standards Board banned an accounting practice that Enron had used to book expected future profits as earnings, immediately, at very the moment it made an investment.

This pattern, practiced by modern superconnectors, unfolds exactly as Wharton professor Adam Grant's soon - to - be-released book, Give and Take, suggests: Helping others increases net productivity and success for both helper and helped.

And practicing the win - win principles laid out in the book, Ive set up a system that lets you benefit as I benefit:

He credits the growth of his business, in part, to the stabilization of print and new practices in the publishing industry, such as Penguin Random House's so - called rapid replenishment program to restock books quickly.

Also, much has been written over the past 2 - 3 years about the importance of buyer personas, but these articles, books, and blog posts have stressed them as profiles or lead - generation tools as opposed to a best practice that informs on business, sales, and marketing strategies that help best identify and reach buyers.

But as Daniel Pink describes in his book Drive, these practices can actually crush internal motivation, which is far more effective at producing results.

As Malcolm Gladwell said in his book Outliers, «It takes roughly ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field.»

But, bigger picture, the book should be valuable for insights into David's practices as an angel.

Particularly targeted are practices banks use to move loans off their books by repackaging them as investments.

This post isn't an attempt to pick on Dell, but that company was highlighted in the book as one of the firms that practiced this type of behavior.

They are an off - shoot of Christianity with their own new holy book and a bigamy practicing prophet — just like Islam, as it happens.

We must, therefore, retain a little more confidence in American medicine than this book alone is likely to produce in us, but, so long as we keep that in mind, White Coat, Black Hat should force us to ask some hard questions about how best to structure the practice of medicine.

I dig deeply, remembering the cadence of the priest's voice, practicing to match the tone just right as I throw muddy socks and stained tee shirts into the washer, as I dump a basket of warm clothes on the bed, as I butter bagels hot and yeasty from the toaster oven.My kids glance warily at me over their books, leery of the chanting.

As I have argued in a previous book, Evangelicals at an Impasse: Biblical Authority in Practice, there is no set procedure or program for controlling this theological dialogue.

If you want to learn more about non-violent resistance, what it is, and how to practice it as a follower of Jesus, I recommend these books:

And, citing the book of Sirach (3:3 - 7, 14 - 17), he added: «The word of God presents the family as the first school of wisdom, a school which trains its members in the practice of those virtues which make for authentic happiness and lasting fulfilment.»

In 167 B.C. Antiochus precipitated a full - scale revolt when, having already forbidden the practice of Judaism on pain of death, he set up in the Jewish temple an altar to Zeus and offered swine's flesh upon it (which the Book of Daniel refers to as the «abomination of desolation») Antiochus was an apostle of Hellenism and meant to bring his entire realm under the influence of Greek ways.

Interest in oriental religion goes back in America to the early 19th century, as we have seen, but never before have significant numbers of people gone beyond reading books to become adepts and engage in arduous practice.

We also recognize time as God's gift when we respect the daily needs of the body, when we offer attention to the people and experiences of the immediate present, when we set aside a portion of each day for attention to God, when we remove impediments to the authentic use of time, and when we practice the sabbath, a practice that receives considerable attention in Bass's book.

As New Urbanists came to realize that existing zoning ordinances, street design manuals and housing industry practices were all impediments to making traditional towns and neighborhoods, they began developing new kinds of zoning ordinances; found sympathetic traffic engineers to help write a different set of street design standards; renewed the practice of creating high - quality pattern books to guide home - builders; and learned how to persuade lending institutions of the economic advantages of financing traditional neighborhoods.

There are many things in your bible that are immoral and are still practiced today, such as a woman being forced to marry her ra.p.ist, since apparently the «stain» of her no being a virgin is far worse than ra.p.e... all the ra.p.ist has to do is pay 50 sheckles of silver and the victim is then forced to marry her attacker... is THAT moral... of course not, but it IS IN YOUR BOOK, and is still practiced today in Morocco.

The Jesus we meet in this book reverently practiced his Jewish faith as he grew in strength and wisdom.

So am I going to start engaging in any ancient practices as a result of this book?

We may suspect that he did not write a book, but suspicions of this sort are not easily confirmed; moreover, writing in antiquity as in modern times often involved the practice of dictating.

That is nonesence, all religions with book are free to practice in Iran except Bahi which is precived as man made branch of Islam

While many ministers argued that evolution had undermined the Bible as a source of Christian insight and practice and while others argued that the new historical critical approach destroyed all reverence for the Book, a history - making event occurred.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

Or more precisely, he is willing to regard the bulk of his book as «irrelevant» to his thesis that there is something about Christianity as practiced today that is inherently off - putting to masculine men, and so won't bother to defend it.

This book is going to ruffle some feathers as I not only challenge the practices of baptism and communion (die to your rites), but also raise questions about the legal rights of Christians to the freedom of speech, to bear arms, and to various other rights guaranteed by the «First Amendment» and the «Bill of Rights.»

He says he heard so many people misusing terms such as «born again» and «salvation» that he wrote a book about the practice.

This book is about the future of the Church as we undergo a massive rummage sale of our beliefs and practices.

While the Koran is the one completely sacred book of the Moslems, there exists alongside it a considerable body of supplementary material which is almost as important as the Koran itself in the determination of Moslem belief and practice.

J. K. Elliott, who prepared the comprehensive translation of such early texts notes: «These apocryphal books are of importance as historical witnesses to the beliefs, prayers, practices, and interests of the society that produced and preserved them.

This book presented a non-violent reading of Scripture in light of Girard's mimetic theory, but more than anything, this book was a defense of how the Catholic Mass could still be practiced and not be viewed as a perpetual sacrifice.

It is possible, of course, that water baptism continued to be practiced as frequently as ever, and the writers simply stopped mentioning it, but when we understand the cultural and religious significance of water baptism in the first century Mediterranean world, and specifically the role of baptism within the book of Acts, it becomes clear that water baptism served a special and specific role within the early church which became unnecessary later on.

To give final devotion to the book is to deny the final claim of God; to look for the mighty deeds of God only in the records of the past is to deny that he is the living God; to love the book as the source of strength and of salvation is to practice an idolatry that can bring only confusion into life.

One can observe the priority of practice, as a hermeneutical principle, in his sermons, essays, and books.

Tilden Edwards, an Episcopal priest who has explored this practice in real life as well as in a book, urges contemporary Christians to be flexible, embracing not a renewed Sabbatarianism as much as a pattern of «Sabbath time.»