Sentences with phrase «about ancient books»

At her author site, JFPenn.com, she blogs about ancient books, cities, and the psychology of religion — all common themes in her novels.

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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.

His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).

WHY do they believe that their God is so concerned about whether or not they listen to musical instruments in church on Sunday, get dunked or sprinkled in ceremonial water, speak in a tongue as some kind of sign... to whom ever, read from the correct translation of some long lost ancient books, etc, etc?

Modern science is the cornerstone of your belief system, as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.

``... as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.»

No... they're about ignorant fairytales from an archaic old book of ancient mythology.

It's not about knowing the specific nature of God, rather, the Bible is a book of ancient history and metaphors that allows you to peer into the mind of God.

First and foremost, Zeus is real beacuse of the great many books that have been written about him as well as the stories told by the ancient greeks.

There is Another Testament on earth today, called the Book of Mormon (like the books in the bible it is a collection of ancient prophets speaking about their day and prophesying about our day).

However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.

How about we get over what this ancient comic book says altogether?

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

Just because some ancient book makes you feel guilty about your life?

In this book he argued that religion created a conscience which is quick to understand social need, that religious philanthropy gives charitably but without raising ultimate questions about the causes of social maladjustment, that religion «unifies individuals, stabilizes societies, creates social imagination and sanctifies social life; but it also perpetuates ancient evils, increases social inertia, creates illusions and preserves superstitions.

well, if you knew the law, and knew what that **** g ancient book of BS says about «obeying the law», you would actually be supporting my position....

Imagine that you pick up an ancient history book and it tells you about three men who were put to death around 33 BC for religious and political crimes.

One of the worst things about the religious people is that they think that because science can't give you all the answers immediately that an ancient book is the obvious fill - in for anything missing.

Even though the Bible is an ancient book, it offers ways of thinking about the world that can still be considered a guide to Christian faith.

For example, the book of Leviticus contained laws for ancient Israel on quarantine and hygiene when surrounding nations knew nothing about such matters.

You make a lot of assertions, but can not provide any support beyond a book of ancient tribal superstitions, one of many such books (that all say very different things about Gods and morals).

It took about two years, but I finally got her ancient worn out prayer book, and she had written me a note in it.

- Other ancient documents that state new and contradictory info about NT books, such as quoting parts of I Timothy and stating that the book was manufactured in Paul's style, but had nothing to do with Paul.

When the author talks about interpretation of an ancient book, he means to take literally the scripture the way you are putting.

And God said «blah blah blah...» Who cares what a mystical, self contradicting book writen by ignorant ancients has to say about anything.

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

Smith dictated the book of 584 pages over a period of about three months [5] saying that he translated it from an ancient language «by the gift and power of God».

Rick writes: «White Gold or Mayan Sea Salt has been the subject of numerous books and scholarly papers written about the trade routes of the ancient Mayans.

Hicks, Jennifer HIRKANI»S DAUGHTERS: Women Who Scale Modern Mountains to Combine Breastfeeding and Working La Leche League International, 2005 The title of this book was inspired by an ancient Indian tale about a young mother, Hirkani, who scaled down a 1,000 - foot vertical cliff in order to get to her baby to breastfeed.

Rediscovering Birth by Sheila Kitzinger Buy on Amazon - Buy on Book Depository Kitzinger's book helps women learn about taking back their bodies from the male - oriented medical business, respecting the ancient vocation of midwifery, and helping each other during a pregnaBook Depository Kitzinger's book helps women learn about taking back their bodies from the male - oriented medical business, respecting the ancient vocation of midwifery, and helping each other during a pregnabook helps women learn about taking back their bodies from the male - oriented medical business, respecting the ancient vocation of midwifery, and helping each other during a pregnancy.

About this Book: The Narrow Edge A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey Deborah Cramer Yale University Press, 2015

About this Book: From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics A. Mark Smith University of Chicago Press, 2015

Pearce is a good storyteller: tales ripple through the book about how the Libyans are creating a great artificial river in the Sahara, how the ancient ziggurat at Ur was saved from bombing in the recent Gulf War, and how a tribunal in Valencia has been resolving disputes over water allocation continuously since medieval times.

Her recent book, «How to Clone a Mammoth,» offers a critical, pragmatic, perspective about de-extinction that is rooted in her ancient DNA expertise, Dr. Shapiro is a protagonist for the appropriate, ethical, and responsible application of de-extinction technologies for conservation of living species and their ecosystems.

«In this very small volume of messed - up corroded metal you have packed in there enough knowledge to fill several books telling us about ancient technology, ancient science and the way these interacted with the broader culture of the time,» said Alexander Jones, a historian of ancient science at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancientancient technology, ancient science and the way these interacted with the broader culture of the time,» said Alexander Jones, a historian of ancient science at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancientancient science and the way these interacted with the broader culture of the time,» said Alexander Jones, a historian of ancient science at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancientancient science at New York University's Institute for the Study of the AncientAncient World.

This education embraces the ancient wisdom of traditional cultures as shown by the research of the Weston A. Price Foundation and written about in Sally Fallon's book, Nourishing Traditions.

For instance, if you teach language arts and the goal of the unit is teaching students how to write an effective response to literature or a literary analysis essay, who says everyone has to write about the same book written by some ancient dead writer (no offense, dead writers)?

And now a few words about the book, that ancient medium we've all encountered, with ink on paper pages, a front and back cover, and pleasure, or knowledge, or provocation, or even a certain necessary tedium stored within.

The only thing I remember about this book was a photo of an ancient stone staircase and a caption that read «Staircase going down - to a spaceport?»

A complete student book about Ancient Rome with 6 Units and Contents page.

She has developed and published thematic curriculum units on «Young Children Learning About Ancient China Through Archeology, Ancient Nubia and Egypt», and «Learning to Read Nature's Book,» an interdisciplinary project - based unit through the study of the environment and social justice (2005, co-authored with Bisse Bowman).

Well, that would be a first — if its even true; and how about the library of ancient sacred books closed off from the public, will little babyjesus be coveting those all to himself for another 2000 years too?

For example, if you're an expert on ancient Rome, and have written a book about Roman saints, now would be a great time to be promoting your expertise.

Some books in this series are: Gifts of the Jews, Desire of the Everlasting Hills, about Jesus, Sailing the Wine Dark Sea, about ancient Greece, and Mysteries of the Middle Ages.

Drawing on everything from ancient Egyptian medical texts to cutting - edge medical science, the book takes readers on an adventure packed with weird and wonderful facts about their own defense mechanisms, making this both informative and great fun to read.

The following are suggestions for implementing the Common Core State Standards with recommended books about ancient China.

Each book below assumes that readers have limited knowledge of ancient China and provides an easy - to - read text about a very complicated and extensive subject in short but comprehensive descriptions of ancient Chinese culture, paired with detailed illustrations and helpful appendixes.

Reader name: Mary - Ann Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA Favorite genres: time - travel fiction, Civil Rights - era fiction, historical fiction set in ancient Egypt or during the time of Christ, novels about real historical women Favorite books: The Summerhouse (Jude Deveraux); Winged Pharoah (Joan Grant); Soul Flame (Barbara Wood); To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee); The Help (Kathryn Stockett)

I have been reading about Ancient Egyptian society for almost forty years, and my book has put all my research and passions together.

When Jane settles into her new home, she discovers a hidden chamber lined with ancient books about witchcraft.