Sentences with phrase «academic books because»

An index is useful for complex works of non-fiction and academic books because it allows the reader to quickly access specific topics and references.

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She doesn't read a lot of books or spend dozens of hours each week studying... but she always knows more theology than I do, and always asks penetrating questions which shoot holes through all my acadamagician ideas (Yes, I just coined that term... it's a cross between academic and magician... because that's what most theology is.

So because of the academic credibility that still remarkably adheres to scientific materialism I have chosen to devote much of the present book to a critique of it.

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.

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.

One more Wednesday that came way too fast, but I have particularly loved it because LONG awaited Starbucks cafe has opened this morning in Helsinki downtown at Academic book store on Keskuskatu / Esplanadi.

If the previous claim reads slightly clunky and definitely hyperbolic, it's likely because Cooper's book, on the whole, is torn between its academic and populist inclinations.

The distinction between academic language and academic vocabulary is an important one, because throughout this book we will use samples of text and student work that use academic language but not necessarily academic vocabulary.

Any real range can't be nailed down in part because the middle grade books parse down into so many categories, grade levels, and whether they are intended for academic or mainstream audiences.

Students come to us for persuasive essay writing, book reports, research papers, term papers, dissertations and all other types of academic writing assignments, because they know we can give them the best writing papers at the lowest price.

You are talking to a man whose mentor (John Ohliger) first brought me into the book review game because he wanted to take what had been a kind of academic white tower of book reviewing reserved for the literary elites into the province of the common folk — housewives, cab drivers, students, (and in my case) social workers.

The University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary Libraries book has become a standard selection guide in school libraries because of the assessment of titles through a peer review process that assures quality and relevance for academic as well as general interest needs in today's schools.

It is a realistic book, because most of us know that the basic principles of investing are straightforward, but they get clouded by academics and hucksters.

That said, many people will find this book a tough slog because they don't want to deal with the academic arguments.

We use BM rather than the more familiar price - to - book value or (P / B) notation because the academic convention is to describe it as BM, and it makes it more directly comparable with the Magic Formula's EBIT / TEV.

I can't even bear to pick up those books on the American Abstract Artists because, first of all, I don't like my own work; and secondly, the spirit that was there really was an academic spirit that disturbs me now very much.

(I call them «clubs» in my 2012 book Global Warming Gridlock in part because that aligns with some important academic work on how small groups of players can successfully cooperate on complicated problems.

Similar philosophies, similar types of distortion, similar pressures on politicians — even some of the present climate notables, are dissected in a book that is outstanding because it quotes no industry sources (tobacco is often mentioned as a topic), only academic and governmental, then quotes them verbatim and referenced.

I'm certain that if anyone with serious presentation chops looked at our academic slides they'd be horrified, because we probably make every mistake in the book.