Sentences with phrase «academic books as»

Known for deconstructing institutional and academic books as a gesture of challenging historical and contemporary power structures, Jones unveils new paintings that incorporate found texts on black history, law and higher education.

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Bestselling books with titles like Snakes in Suits, movies such as Horrible Bosses and even academic papers trumpet the prevalence of people without empathy in the corner office.

«The room, board, books and laundry figures are based upon the rates which prevailed during the past academic year, and can be accepted as applicable for the year 1950 - 1951 unless national economic changes require their alteration,» according to the bulletin.

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.

We know a lot from various kinds of evidence: a) the experience of the real estate sector, where recent studies by Macdonald Realty and Re / Max have confirmed the dominance of foreign buyers at the top end of the market especially, as stated for years by individual realtors (accounts often denigrated as «anecdotal»); b) there is the digging of several investigative journalists, and most notably by Ian Young of the South China Morning Post who has boldly and effectively raised issues native journalists have sometimes shied from; c) academic work, including the books by Katharyne Mitchell (2004) Beyond the Neoliberal Line and David Ley Millionaire Migrants (2011).

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.

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).

Though she dedicates the book to her parents and in the end praises them for their adoption of two Haitian children, her account of her religious and academic education comes off as pretty nutty.

Lewis spoke frequently and with great fondness about the simple pleasures of his academic life — friends, books, nature — so it's easy to gloss over these thing as just that: simple pleasures.

Intended to provide an overview of the state of the academic discipline known as Christian ethics, this book achieves its purpose with essays by eighteen veterans of that enterprise.

ambitious book in the past twelve months, Judge Posner ransacks what must be an impressive file of clippings to support his charge that those who are called public intellectuals, and academics who moonlight as such, are frequently irresponsible.

Far from transcending the «biasing» particularities of biographical experience, in conformity to some positivist notions of «value freedom» and «objectivity,» the academic contributions of each of the scholars studied in this book were profoundly shaped by early childhood experiences, distinctive personality traits, and, as noted above, particular theological or atheological visions, as the case may be.

The reception of his books in Catholic academic institutions shows how the future must be thought as a growing consensus — even in theological matters — among those who are the servants of the Word and witnesses of the founding story of Christianity, the story that starts with Jesus of Nazareth.

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.

As you have probably guessed, my questions about the book of Job are not purely academic.

My reflections arose, as I have indicated, in part from formative books and teachers, but they also grew out of grappling with Scripture (one of the lightning bolts here was the simple but profound insight of realizing once again the ineradicable connection of form and content — for instance, what is said in a parable can not be said in any other way), and with the complex business, endemic to academic theologians, of, as Kierkegaard would put it, becoming a Christian (not in general or for someone else but in particular and for me).

Unlike some of his academic - level books (such as The Resurrection of the Son of God), this book contains almost no footnotes, scholarly discussion of Greek words, or involved critique of ideas from other scholars.

Palmer, a committed Christian, writes from a position peripheral to the academic establishment, yet his book continues to find large and receptive audiences within the secular academy as well as outside it.

The book either emerged from a thesis or a special academic paper, as evidenced by all the technical apparatus.

Though bioethicists may continue their academic debates for decades to come, there is no need to cause unnecessary confusion among couples navigating a rocky enough road as it is, so I hope these sections may be amended in future editions of the book.

There are a few points in the book in which it would appear that the authors depart from their own sense of what is licit and illicit out of deferrence to certain academic Catholic bioethicists who persist in arguing for the permissibility of so - called «borderline» assisted reproductive techniques such as Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer (GIFT) and Artificial Insemination by Husband (AIH) or insist that the Church may still allow for so - called embryo adoption.

In fact, so common has the terminology become in some Christian thinking that in a recent academic book it is even used as a verb: «It is good for us Christians (note the pronoun) to have these other missionary religions dispute the Gospel....

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Although not fully sympathetic with everything that some of the «deep ecologists» or «Gaia theorists» advocate, these works stand, more than any other works I know, as theological manifestos for an American Green Movement — one book is in a more academic form for the university and seminary, the other in a more confessional mode for the church and community study group.

Just re-reading one of your books - = - and having a fantasy of heading to the CIA as an academic to learn about academics in a new environment as I am obsessed with food... but that is not my profession...

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..

SportsInsights takes an academic view of the sports marketplace, as detailed in our popular and best - selling Sports Investing series of books and our recent article comparing the sports marketplace to the financial markets.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

As we head into the new academic year I'm excited to announce this year's and invite you along to bring books alive connecting and creating with your kids.

As a result these films can be more powerful than any number of biographies or academic books in shaping how we view politicians and their lives.

All the context readings included in the book were written by me and have also been published either as technical notes or academic articles or in newspaper columns or both.

With over 30 published books, countless learned papers, articles and reviews, and huge commitments to lectures and seminars, he is an academic Stakhanovite, with a touch of Maghdi Yacoub's gift for incision and a bit of provocative Socrates thrown in — except that he imparts knowledge with answers as well as questions.

The Ho Polytechnic Chapter of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana, (POTAG), has asked Government to speed up the payment of this year's book and research allowances, in order to avoid the distraction of the 2016/2017 academic year for tertiary institutions, as has been recorded in the past.

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.

Wang clearly wrote this book as a character study, not as an academic analysis of the grad school experience.

It was also a pleasant surprise that all scientists at Lilly spend time working in the lab regardless of seniority, and that the company allows their employees time for academic pursuits such as writing chapters of books.

And for decades, books and academic articles portrayed him as a benevolent figure who saved children with autism from the killing centers.

If I am lucky I may not have to give up either of them: hopefully the book contracts will keep on coming, and with the financial world as it is, academics soon probably won't be able to retire even if they want to!

See the relevent part of a text such as «An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation, 2nd edition, K.N. Liou, Academic press» or any other text book on the subject.

Nina and I are friends as well, even though I say her name wrong, who has also written some books about fat, but there's this national conversation where you have the old school low - fats, mostly paid for by big grain sort of research out there, and you're refuting some of that using very strong academics, randomized controlled trials, and the things that everyone wants, but no one has paid for except for maybe big drug companies and things like that.

What makes this book so powerful is that she is speaking as not just as an academic and a practitioner who has helped implement the ketogenic diet for many cancer patients, but most importantly and movingly as a mother learning the hard way how to help her son Raffi with his brain cancer.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women: Nice as the «Wonder Woman» movie was, I found this story about the sexually adventurous academics who created the iconic comic book heroine more compelling.

Ndalianis describes experiences as a gamer, movie / television viewer or fairground attraction goer that make her book feel more like a personal account crossed with incredibly illuminating academic analysis.

(xi) At the recent book launch in Sydney, Meaghan Morris nominated this as one of the 10 best - ever opening lines for an academic book.

As academics speculate on the scientific cause of this phenomenon theologians point to the Armageddon foretold in the Book of Revelation.

The DreamWorks comedy, based on Dav Pilkey's extremely popularized children's book series, marvelously boasts crisp and energizing CG animation to go along with a roguish tale of grade school pranksters as they challenge the patience of the bothersome authority figures that oversee their academic misery.

Amazon's latest pilot season consists of three series: I Love Dick, created by Transparent's Jill Soloway and based on a feminist novel about a couple's marital struggles in the academic community of Texas, starring Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn; Jean - Claude Van Johnson, a new action comedy starring the actor as a fictionalised version of himself, in which he moonlights as a secret hit - man in between Hollywood jobs; and The Tick, an updated adaptation of the offbeat comic book, starring Peter Serafinowicz.

Readers of this book will also be exposed to a riveting and well - documented object lesson as Hirsch recounts the sorry fate of academic achievement in France after that country abandoned its longstanding national curriculum.

Last year, when HGSE selected four books that all members of the Ed School community could read and discuss as part of the shared reading list instituted by HGSE's Academic Cabinet, it was not a surprise that one volume in the shared reading series focused sharply on school reform.

Besides seeing the importance and ubiquity of literacy in school settings, I also experienced the field from a different angle as an editor for an academic book publishing company.