Sentences with phrase «academic book on»

Another excellent academic book on relationships, love, and the difficult to understand complications in and surrounding love and relationships.

Keith Brooke is author of fourteen novels, six collections and over 70 short stories; he has also edited several anthologies and an academic book on science fiction.

Research for a painting is a combination of academic books on the subject and infant picture books, which leads to a few weeks» mental preparation for the main elements.

Not exact matches

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

«It's easy to imagine why company brand managers would stay up all night or wake up in a cold sweat,» said Karl Gerth, an academic and author of a book on Chinese consumer behavior.

Tiff is a well - known expert in monetary and financial systems and has contributed articles to academic journals, as well as providing chapters and commentaries on monetary and financial sector policy and international economics in books and conference proceedings.

Personal Capital has two economic luminaries on its board of academic advisors: Shlomo Benartzi, who co-authored the book «Save More Tomorrow» and Harry Markowitz, a 1990 Nobel Prize winner in Economics.

One of the four panelists at the hearing, Peter Conti - Brown, an Academic Fellow at Stanford Law School whose forthcoming book, The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve, will be published by Princeton University Press, also weighed in on the Fed's General Counsel.

Matt Hall, cofounder and president of Hill Investment Group, introduces his 2016 book, Odds On: The Making of an Evidence - Based Investor, by stating that: ``... the evidence - based movement has been studying market data and academic research to identify the groups of stocks and other investments that provide better odds of long - term success.

I can't claim to be providing certainly accurate information on this, since it's been a while since I've done relevant physics reading (lay books, not academic), but in the early universe (before inflation went out of control) there were irregularities that gave rise to clumping, from which the first stars and galaxies originated.

All of this information is not without a certain interest, but even someone like myself, unusually interested in the man, closes this book reflecting on Gadamer's epigraph to his own academic memoir of 1977, Philosophical Apprenticeships: «De nobis ipsis silemus»» about oneself one must keep silent.

The third book focuses on Jane and Mark Studdock, an academic couple who end up falling on opposite sides of a conflict involving the dystopian events surrounding Bracton College, a sinister corporation, and a mysterious figure dug up from the bottom of a well.

And this wasn't merely academic reflection on the book; students were sharing their own griefs and fears about death.

The fact that First Things published a long article on my book Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Existence is an honor even when the article is a critique, which — as usual in academic disputes — needs critique from my side as well («What Mercy Is,» March).

Many of the books reviewed in the regular «Book World» column dealt with social issues, but the editors also included notices of academic theological monographs and of books on subjects not traditional for religious publications: literary criticism, philosophy and psychology.

In order to mark the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Holloway's book, we invited some leading academics to write on this question of the primacy of Christ.

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

Winner of the Albert C. Outler Prize in Ecumenical Church History and of two other prestigious academic awards, Nathan Hatch's book has already become a standard reference on American religious history.

Though written on an academic subject, the book is very readable, and he writes with wit and humor.

Author John Charles Cooper, dean of academic affairs at Winebrenner Theological Seminary, sums up the situation: «People do feel that religion is losing its influence on society, and they may be right — but the majority of people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious books.

Yes, I like thousands of highly credentialed scientists from the world's leading academic and scientific institutions who have written dozens, if not hundreds of books casting doubt on Evolutionary Theory, I do have our doubts about evolutionary theory and Darwinism.

After all, if all these smarter - than - me theologians, theorists, academics, scholars, thinkers, and leaders on both sides of the issue haven't been able to put the debate to rest, what chance does a slim yellow book by a happy - clappy Canadian mama - writer have?

Wilson's book about the Enlightenment assault on belief appears at a time when, in the world of academic theology, the Enlightenment is in eclipse.

This assault has been conducted in books (e.g., Paul Gifford's The Religious Right in Southern Africa), newsletters (e.g., Crisis News), on the pages of prestigious academic journals (e.g., Journal of Theology for Southern Africa), and through the putative research of mainline religious organizations such as the Institute for Contextual Theology.

On page 18 of her book can be found the following assertion: «In academic circles some scholars spoke of relative truths, rejecting the notion that there was one version of the world that was necessarily right while another was wrong.»

«Mack was one of the hopes for a revival of the tradition,» said Ralph Hood, a University of Tennessee professor who's written two books on snake handlers and is probably the foremost academic expert on their culture.

Books on the subject tend to identify liberation theology with its most prominent proponents, usually academics.

If the Vatican puts out a statement saying that Sister Margaret Farley's book on sexual morality is not in accord with Catholic teaching, one can count on the usual suspects to tut - tut about «authoritarian tendencies» and the suppression of academic freedom.

But non-academics need not worry, because I plan on following it quickly with a much shorter work that will capture the gist of my argument, but without all the scholarly material that's packed into the larger academic book.

To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.

[4] Gail Buchwalter King, ed., ATS Fact Book on Theological Education for the Academic Years 1988 ~ 9 and 1989 - 90 (Pittsburgh: ATS, 1990), pp.4 - 10, 25,26, tables 1.01, 2.04, and 2.04 b.

The author of this book, a professor of history at the University of Delaware, is an academic of diverse interests, having published volumes on the maritime communities of colonial Massachusetts and the origins of fervent Protestantism in the American South.

He has to his credit 13 books on issues related to Asian Agriculture (with a focus on India) from publishers of repute such as Johns Hopkins University Press, Oxford University Press, Mac Millan, Academic Foundation, etc..

Since 1973 there has been unprecedented academic interest in the subject and a spate of books on different aspects of it.»

It's hard to blame the academic, so - called «book learned» types that typically compete (and often do extremely well) on TV's «Jeopardy!» when questions more of the pop culture nature, or say, sports variety don't exactly go their way.

I dove onto counseling, read proflically from academic papers, books and popular work on abuse.

Reports of academic dishonesty — within prestigious universities, on high school exit exams, by authors of bestselling books — have been widespread this fall.

Her articles and book reviews have appeared in academic journals, in online magazines, and on Web sites devoted to birth activism.

While the book was very helpful in general, I did find the language to be a bit on the academic side, and considering that the author suggests that parents might find the book accessible, it does take a bit of time to really get into this style of writing.

Looking back on something like a memory book that contains both their academic records and snapshots of their work samples throughout the years will give them good memories of what they've achieved kindergarten through 12th grade.

Denise Pope, the founder of Challenge Success, in August released a book, «Overloaded and Underprepared,» that provides practical recommendations for schools based on years of academic research on workload and achievement.

Sabato is also the author of 25 books and countless essays on politics, has served on many national and state commissions and is the recipient of more than two dozen major scholarships, grants and academic awards.

However, here is a link which cites various academics who have published books on the matter.

«The book follows the academics and maverick operatives reengineering a high - stakes industry previously run on little more than gut instinct and outdated assumptions.

He gained academic acclaim through publishing numerous articles and book chapters, and two books (Gause 1990, 1994) on the region.

We are particularly keen to promote recent research (books and journal articles) and academic commentary on current issues in the world of politics.

However, Robert Ford & Matthew Goodwin, academics (Manchester and Nottingham respectively) whose book on where support for UKIP comes from is published next month, present similar data for UKIP converts since 2010 (Con 47 %, Lab 10 %) but very different data for converts between 2005 and 2010 (Con 39 %, Lab 43 %).

The academic research enterprise has long functioned as a pyramid scheme based on cheap workers, notes labor market economist Paula Stephan in her magisterial book, How Economics Shapes Science.

While welcomed by the academic community, the newly created graduate scholarships and the much - needed additional funds to cover the indirect costs of academic research are only on the books for the next 3 years.

Now that he has secured an international research reputation and established a firm grip on the rungs of the academic career ladder, Crowdy encourages young mathematicians to take off the blinders, put on their metaphorical backpacks and hiking books, and seek career opportunities far and wide instead of just sticking close to some comfortable disciplinary home.