Sentences with phrase «reading great books in»

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He notes that he goes into how to get in touch with your intuition in great detail in his book, but also explains the essential initial step to improving your ability to read others: Consciously ask key questions (Will my boss give me this raise?

There is some analysis in there but I think we want people to get to the end of this book and be entertained, informed, feel like they've read a great book.

Soon droves of students will be issued reading lists, inventories of books they are told to they need to read to learn how to become the best, the greatest, or as successful as (fill in famous name here).

Yes, you'll need to have captivating visuals and a clear message with great content, which you can read all about in the aforementioned dozens or hundreds of books and articles on ecommerce.

From great online content to endless book recommendations and must - read lists, most of us struggle to fit in all the reading we want to do rather than locate cool stuff to check out.

Once in a great while, along comes a business how - to book that really is worth reading cover to cover.

I think Buffett wrote a bunch of letters that were compiled by Lawrence Cunningham that get (ph) into topics, and that was laid out and I always assign that in my class which I just think is a great, great book and you mention my three books three times and so you have to read those too.

«The Great Reflation is by far the best economic and investment book that I have read in the last ten years.

«The Retail Revival is a critical read for all marketing professionals who are trying to figure out what's next in retail Doug Stephens does a great job of explaining why retail has evolved the way it has, and the book serves as an important, trusted guide to where it's headed next.»

It's been awhile since I've read it, but I think Michael did a very good job of explaining this in his appendix to The Great Rebalancing book.

This book gives great advice for investing and is written in a very easy to read style (it was like a close friend was giving me their honest advice).

«Active Value Investing has the hallmarks of all great investing books — easy to read, humorous at times, and, most of all, it demonstrates Vitaliy's investing process in terms accessible to the novice and expert alike.

In Episode 3, I told you about the best book I read in 2017, and recommended some other great books that I read in the same yeaIn Episode 3, I told you about the best book I read in 2017, and recommended some other great books that I read in the same yeain 2017, and recommended some other great books that I read in the same yeain the same year.

I have been following the slow and arduous acceptance of author Michael Fumento's central thesis presented in his book The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS and in his series of articles in The New Republic and in Commentary with great interest... So I was extremely pleased to read your editorial position concerning AIDS.

I'm enjoying reading «small giants» a secular business book that argues againt the «grow or die» received wisdom through a study of businesses that turned down opportunites to grow in size and profits in order to be great at quality (http://www.anglicancelluk.org/blog/p,12/).

the bible was written by man, god writes in your heart, it is more work to find and read the writings of god in your heart but there is no great book, no sermon, nothing of the works of man that can take it's place

Even if you didn't read the books, Neil Patrick Harris is great in everything he's in, so there's still something for everyone.

«Great potential for growth in the Baby Boomer market,» one of the book's memos reads, «but will require awareness campaigns to promote the concept of «guilt,» which 53 — 68 - year - old respondents to a survey reported they are «less likely» or «unlikely» to experience.»

I've been keeping busy, preparing for classes that were supposed to start yesterday, reading a book for a review due at the end of the month, shoveling the driveway (the first one on the block to do so, with the only emulator being the ex-Marine across the street), and watching DVDs we rented in anticipation of the great blizzard of 2011 (8 inches of snow and ice!).

For instance, I might have read her book quite carefully and nevertheless, in an attempt to survey a great deal of material, failed to note something significant» and in this case that is just what happened.

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

This book speaks about the subject of Calvinistic influence in the church today, it is a Great read.

It was fully expounded in Hal Lindsay's book The Late Great Planet Earth, which was read by an estimated 18 million people.

«I was praying for you... I heard a great sermon... I'm reading a great book on the spiritual life... I came across this beautiful verse in Luke the other day... I was talking with a friend from church....»

(Not a great month for books for me in terms of my «fun» reading.

Sorry about the tangents, but it's always a great point in a post to quote the great Thoreau, I think he captures the heart of what I desire in all humanity: «A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.

Ironically, as I was reading this book about how to live as Christians in a post-Christian era, I ran across an exchange between atheist Christopher Hitchens (author of the best - selling book God is Not Great) and Suchin Pak (correspondent for MTV news).

Because I have learned a great deal from his other books, reading what he has to say in this one is very reassuring — and helpful — to me.

Furthermore, although we recognized that much of what was worked out in the later book was absent from the former, we read the former in light of where we understood it was tending, namely, the system that we identified as Whitehead's great achievement.

But along with the praise, Wilson offers insights about the reasons these books are powerful: Lewis's generosity toward the authors he discusses, the way he finds passages that make them seem interesting; his sense of «wonder and enjoyment» in all he reads; his willingness to take up the great themes that engaged his authors, to put to work in criticism his «creative intelligence.»

There are lots of really great books out there, and you can't fault the publishing industry for only publishing books that sell in a day when people are reading only 2 or 3 books a year.

OK, so this is a biased choice, but in this book, I explore in much greater detail why we should read transformatively, and how we can do so.

The king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him went all the people of Judah, all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.

It is one of the virtues of Quint's book (another is the generosity of critical annotation, amounting almost to a mini variorum edition) that Paradise Lost's still center is given a density so great that reading the poem becomes itself a heroic act; an act difficult to perform, but in its difficulty providing an experience few (if any) efforts of the human imagination are capable of provoking.

Those who shudder at inscriptions on monuments or passages in history books which refer simply to «the Great War» or «the World War» — written as though what we call World War I would indeed prove to be «the war to end war» — will feel saddened to read her portentous observation that «we have no guarantee that it will not recur.»

Losing 10 pounds and reading a book a week sound like great goals, but are we really focusing on the things that will make lasting positive change in our lives?

The next stage of Kass's education was the «educational prejudice» he acquired at the University of Chicago «in favor of discussing the great questions and reading the Great Books.&rgreat questions and reading the Great Books.&rGreat Books.»

Nonetheless, we read in VOEGELI's great book that he and Bill Clinton were on the cusp of entitlement reform we could have believed in when the Monica scandal broke.

Despite «inchoate reservations» coming from both personal experience and reading Great Books, Kass, M.D. went on to pursue a PhD in biochemistry.

It had greater power and authority than other books, and as such, could only be entrusted to those who were trained in how to read and understand it.

Bumper stickers announce that Christ is coming soon, and a spate of books are being published which, whether read or not, are being sold in very great numbers.

In working to sustain the tradition of the «great books,» for instance, we may find that we are so busy protecting an idea that we ourselves have no time for reading.

This is a great book, with groundbreaking information that will transform how you read the Old Testament and the New Testament, and how you understand the role of religion in society and culture.

There's no shortage of great new books to fill your fall reading list, but every once in a while, it's good to throw in a few classics.

All the great literate traditions have taken certain books as formative of their deepest beliefs and have read them, commented on them, and understood them in changing ways over their entire history.

I don't remember how the book came to be in my hands, where I bought it, or if it was a gift, but I can recall with great clarity the moment I read the first chapter.

According to Brett McCracken, Evolving in Monkey Town is «a provocative book — great for group discussion, and a must - read for anyone who has found doubts to be a stumbling block in their journey of faith.»

These could be the first steps into taking up an active life of evangelisation, and in this way the book itself is a work of evangelisation: tilling the hearts that read it and then planting little seeds that ultimately stand a greater chance of taking root.

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 this respect, I read this book as I read any other great book: I assume that every word counts; I attend especially carefully to the sequence and the local context, in the belief that the meaning of each part is dependent partly on what comes before and after, both immediately and also remotelIn this respect, I read this book as I read any other great book: I assume that every word counts; I attend especially carefully to the sequence and the local context, in the belief that the meaning of each part is dependent partly on what comes before and after, both immediately and also remotelin the belief that the meaning of each part is dependent partly on what comes before and after, both immediately and also remotely.