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To this day, I am deluged with mail from people who say how desperately pleased they are to find that someone is indeed writing about literature for the common reader, that someone does not try, as it were, to do the French thing, in regard to literary study or the many ideological modes which I will not mention, which are now practiced in the Anglo - American Universities and college world.

Not exact matches

How to Fix the Future is a truly important book and the most significant work so far in an emerging body of literature — others of note are Tim Wu's The Attention Merchants and Zeynep Tufekci's Twitter and Tear Gas — in which technology's smartest thinkers are raising alarm bells about the state of the Internet, and laying groundwork for how to fix it.

Losing the war made the South the South; Southern literature, for example, is all about the experiences of displaced aristocrats and a kind of very otherworldly Christianity that was the product of political defeat.

That there is no auxiliary literature of grievance for men — who, for the most part, just don't seem to feel they have as much to grieve about in this new world order — is something else that Humanae Vitae and a few other retrograde types saw coming in the wake of the revolution.

For the overpopulation literature has not only been abandoned by thinkers for more improved science; it has actually been so thoroughly proved false that today's cutting - edge theory worries about precisely the opposite: a «dearth birth» that is «graying» the advanced worFor the overpopulation literature has not only been abandoned by thinkers for more improved science; it has actually been so thoroughly proved false that today's cutting - edge theory worries about precisely the opposite: a «dearth birth» that is «graying» the advanced worfor more improved science; it has actually been so thoroughly proved false that today's cutting - edge theory worries about precisely the opposite: a «dearth birth» that is «graying» the advanced world.

Pope Benedict XVI for instance has a lot of fantastic literature on topics you seem to be blessedly ignorant about.

I got to thinking about all of this when I learned that Evolving in Monkey Town is nominated for an INSPY Award for excellence in faith - driven literature.

She makes young people welcome, encouraging them to read and to share her passion for literature and poetry, and has given talks in the parish about her work in Churchill's wartime headquarters in London.

Because he is a voracious reader who goes in for heavy reading about ultimate concerns, his humor can be appreciated especially by those familiar with the pretentiousness of some religious and philosophical literature.

All of this is to say, then, that myth and legend in the Old Testament serve for us a historical purpose: the literature of Genesis informs us in a unique way about the faith of the community of Israel, about what Israel believed.

I read a lot of Calvinist literature in English and literature classes and in history class the closest thing I saw to anti-Christian sentiment was a comment about how Islamic scholars in West Africa criticized Christian teachers for doing exactly what the Islamic scholars had been doing (the hypocrisy was clearly pointed out).

For wisdom about the human condition, ancient scripture can be interesting and revealing — as can any good literature, visual art, poetry, music, and such.

She commends the work, and rightly so, primarily for its «comprehensive critical review of the literature» (there have been about 15 studies of female homosexuals who were not patients) and for its 26 summarized case studies.

but fortunately there are psychologists, mental health practitioners and others who do and I have benefitted greatly from their work, personal testimonies and the various articles / publications which they have produced --(for example, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; The Religious & Spiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of consciousness.

He would be the Caesar of a Jewish empire no less universal than the Roman; though it would be fair to say that the program drawn up for the «Son of David» in literature not far in date from the time of Jesus has more about justice and moral reformation than about bread and circuses.

As the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and lived.

And having read it and though about it for decades, I can state that many of the stories are poor attempts at literature or history, unless you like thinly veiled plagiarism.

«For me,» he writes, «the most attractive Lewis is the author of English Literature «in the Sixteenth Century, a fluent, highly intelligent man talking about books in a manner which is always engaging.»

I have been involved for 25 years in fruitful conversation with Muslims, and I have read the Qur» an and a lot of literature about Islam.

No book about the Bible is a substitute for the biblical literature itself.

The essays range from the place of Christianity within literature and culture, all the way to talking about Lewis» distaste for church music and 20th Century European Historical Criticism.

I vividly remember that on one occasion in the late 1970s when I was walking with Malcolm in the East Sussex countryside, he started talking about the emergence of aesthetic nihilism in modern life and literature, a phenomenon that he identified with the Bloomsbury writers, whom (except for Leonard Woolf) he particularly loathed.

Whitehead's ideas about education are contained in Whitehead, Alfred North, The Aims of Education and Other Essays (New York: A Mentor Book, The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1963), and in the final chapter of his Science and the Modern World (New York: A Mentor Book, The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1956), Chapter XIII, «Requisites for Social Progress,» pp. 192 - 208.

Until I read The Humiliation of the Word, for instance, I could not understand why my students in French literature classes had so much to say and ask about the texts they read but never had any verbal response whatever when I showed them a film.

Miller registers «two major reservations» about the reading habits of this man who consumed staggering numbers of books: «Fosdick read too lightly in twentieth - century imaginative literature, and too frequently he rifled meretricious stuff for homiletical purposes.

But if one of us offers to give said protesters a leaflet explaining what we are about (nature - based spirituality, acknowledging the changing seasons, our horned god representing the male principle in nature, not the Christian devil, and so on...) often they will recoil in horror and are not prepared to take our literature in return for their own.

The attraction does not lack for show - business hyperbole; in the weeks before the unveiling, Holy Land's promotional literature proclaimed, «The Gates of Jerusalem Are About to Open in Orlando!»

Since I am under a major deadline for my cookbook, I asked my husband to use his medical background to research infrared sauna benefits in the medical literature and write about it below.

Whether you're into literature, palm trees and salty air, or maybe cats are more your thing, the Hemingway House has just about something for everyone.

I grew up reading British literature, which always seemed to include British food - for years I never knew what half the things I was reading about were, but I always wanted to try them.

All the literature I've ever read on preventing sexual abuse of kids says the same thing — that talking to your kids openly about their genitals — giving them the correct names for them is hugely important.

The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) is the cancer charity that fosters research on the relationship of nutrition, physical activity and weight management to cancer risk, interprets the scientific literature and educates the public about the results.

Perplexed by the lack of appropriate advice from pediatric sources, her extensive literature research led to her first IPPY Award - winning book, Baby Matters: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Caring for Your Baby.

Infidelity has been a topic of interest in scholarly literature for at least the past two decades, but humans have been talking about it, and engaging in it, since biblical times.

For the Waldorf student, music, dance, and theater, writing, literature, legends and myths are not simply subjects to be read about, ingested and tested.

She set out some literature to read about the tanning options and post-spray care, as well as several products to enhance and maintain the tan for 5 - 7 days.

For someone who can't be bothered to actually read the scientific literature on breastfeeding you sure have an awful lot to say about it.

«I was looking for some sort of potty training method, some literature that I could read about.»

but when I went back and looked in the literature, I saw that the concept has been around for about 100 years.

CHER is your Canadian source for Home Education materials including: All About Learning, Alpha Omega Publications, Apologia Educational Ministries, Essentials in Writing, Explode the Code, Handwriting Without Tears, Learning Language Arts through Literature, Life of Fred, Mystery of History, Master Books, Northwoods Press, Rosetta Stone, Saxon Math, Singapore Math, WriteShop, and so much more!

If you read the scientific and medical literature, the controversy about bed sharing safety primarily concerns babies less than 20 weeks old, and the most recent meta - analysis of published studies found no evidence of increased risk for babies over 3 months of age (Carpenter et al 2013).

There are tips for just about everything associated with the baby, even if you are looking for tips for baby medicine cabinet, you have enough literature associated with it on the internet.

The purpose of this review of literature is to assess current evidence about the safety of women's oral intake during labor and generate recommendations for nursing practice.

According to our results, the alternative nutritional method in case of discontinuation of EB is primarily breast with pharmacy milk, and according to the literature and this study, the concern about milk insufficiency and breastfeeding difficulties present common reasons for the introduction of the infant formula [10][24].

And before I started to look at this issue, I'd actually been a breastfeeding mother for seven years, believe it or not and when I started to read about this and talk to other mothers and look at the literature, I was stunned by how ignorant I had been of all the influences on me as a breastfeeding mother and all the messages that are being sent to us about the purpose of our breasts and the idea of the primary purpose of our breasts being about Sex Attraction and you know I didn't realize I'd been fighting a struggle against all these messages as a breastfeeding mother.

She has taught middle school English for the last 10 years and is passionate about instilling a love of writing and literature in the hearts of young learners.

According to Bill McKibben, author of Maybe One: An Environmental and Personal Argument for Single - Child Families, studies show that only children tend to do better in school, especially in science, math, and literature; have more friends; and be more flexible about gender roles than kids in larger families.

She has now started a series called «I» am Looking for a Book About...» and where possible, we aim to double up and link to each other — Zoe providing you the literature and I providing you the crafts.

Perplexed by the lack of appropriate advice from pediatric sources, her extensive literature research led to her first book, Baby Matters, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Caring for Your Baby.