Sentences with phrase «aimed at book»

Photo credit: Peter Menzel I once heard Eric Schlosser answer a similar question aimed at his book, «Fast Food Nation.»

The Mini will start at $ 329 and is aimed at book readers.

Opportunities abound for reviews of nonfiction books in blogs and publications that are geared to the topic of the book or aimed at the book's target audience.

The service, which will offer 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks for a monthly fee of $ 9.99, takes aim at book subscription forerunners Oyster and Scribd.

Not exact matches

Why he believes it's just as important to pen books aimed at teaching kids manners.

Aimed at mid-career professionals, the book outlines a roadmap for anyone feeling stuck and looking to chase their dreams and find the life they always imagined.

«The books that we can expect to see — rather than books about strategy and big things like vision or corporate culture — will be clearly and explicitly aimed at the individual.

«This book aims to help readers understand the habits and mindsets used to take the company that I started at 15 years old and turn it into one of New York's fastest - growing public relations firms.

In his new book, The Food Police: A Well - Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate, Lusk takes direct aim at Pollan, charging that he and other writers, like The New York Times» Mark Bittman, are «food socialists» who are «slowly leading us down the road to serfdom.»

The two companies have teamed up to provide same - day book delivery, a move aimed squarely at Amazon.

The book, which the first daughter and White House adviser wrote while her father was running for president, reads like a mashup of countless essays and articles written in the past decade aimed at female entrepreneurs.

Peter Thiel may be embroiled in controversy over his support for Donald Trump at the moment, but according to Ng his book Zero to One is well worth a read if you're aiming to start new and innovative ventures.

Their book explores questions of ethics and professionalism in the business world, and is aimed not just at business students but at anybody interested in a conversation on the subject.

Using the guidelines laid out in his book, TB12 Performance Meals deliver aim to «help athletes and active individuals stay at their peak» — just like the GOAT.

«One theme runs through all the promotions aimed at attracting investors and settlers to the New World,» writes Julian Sivulka in her book Soap, Sex, and Cigarettes.

Addressing the diverse challenges at all stages of business, each Entrepreneur Press book aims to provide actionable solutions to help entrepreneurs excel in all ventures they take on.

My fourth book on commodities, Higher Probability Commodity Trading, aims at bridging the gap between sophisticated futures and options traders, and the «average Joe».

Clark's most recent book is aimed at helping parents teach kids real - world financial skills for today and every day.

I learnt this eventually, in the course of general reading, from a book, «Influence», aimed at a popular audience, by a distinguished psychology professor, Robert Cialdini... I immediately sent copies of Cialdini's book to all my children.

Well, it's an academic book aimed at a popular audience that filled in a lot of holes in my crude system.

The sale — which included Rovio's TV animation studio, book publishing business and some non-Angry Birds properties — was part of a reorganization at the company's animation business aimed at reviving growth.

While the book has no shortage of references to the parade of government programs aimed at stopping the crisis — TARP, HARP, HAMP, Quantitative Easings, Operation Twist, among them — the memoir is also a highly readable account that adds a sorely missed perspective to the growing pile of post-crisis postmortems.

Two years later, QBE booked a $ 120 million loss on the sale of its American division in a deal aimed at shedding units that dragged on the company's performance.

Haaretz: With help of popular taboo - breaking book, Haredim teach children about sexual abuse The success of a new book aimed at helping ultra-Orthodox parents teach their children how to protect themselves from sexual abuse is a strong indication that a community once reluctant to acknowledge the crime is now beginning to face reality.

As long ago as 1970, in The Patient as Person, one of the truly important books at the dawn of bioethics, Paul Ramsey argued that, in a healthy society dedicated to research aimed at the conquest of disease, we would all regard ourselves as «joint adventurers» in the cause of medical progress.

Other church presses add to a steady stream of books, brochures, CDs, and DVDs aimed at a popular audience.

It is no coincidence that the American political scientist who has written most extensively on Ibero - Latin corporatism, Howard Wiarda, also wrote an exasperated book aimed at would - be exporters of American - style democracy called Civil Society, which would better have been called Against Civil Society as Tocqueville Understood It.

The book helps fill a gap in the history of thought and practice that aims at serving God through serving Mammon.

So this book was written to aim at setting people free, really.

And it's unlike any other book I've ever written, for in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of Scripture, while honoring the best in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.

In his book Jerusalem, published in 1783, he explained how Judaism constituted not a revealed religion but a system of divinely revealed legislation aimed at strengthening the Jews» grip on the universally accessible principles of natural religion as well as the rest of the world's awareness of them.

The Diocese of London has launched a new website aimed at welcoming musicians to book concerts and rehearsals at the city's churches.

Unfortunately, he has a book out aimed at children and he is not really going away.

I worried about buying another book that aimed at reducing things to a simple minimum, but the associations of the author along with the price gave me reason to hope and means to see.

by Leonie Caldecott, Granta Books, 110pp, # 6.95 p This is a persuasive, gently written, thoughtful paperback aimed at the non-Christian reader and is part of a series.

Moreover, unlike McGrath's biography, which follows Packer's life in chronological terms — from his birth in the English village of Twyning in 1926, to his education at Oxford and teaching tenure in Church of England theological colleges, to his move to become professor of theology at the newly - founded Regent College in Vancouver and his subsequent prolific output of articles and books and sermons — Ryken's biography aims to be a thematically organized portrait.

These five will at least serve to accomplish one of the central aims of this book — namely, to illustrate how an intelligible religious philosophy may be constructed.

In a published review of Hamburger's book, I wrote that while Hamburger «tries to convey the impression that separation represents only nativist, anti-Catholic, and ultrasecularist bigotry... [He fails to mention] that Catholic voters in Massachusetts, New York, California, and Michigan... have in recent years voted to reject attempts to remove state constitutional provisions aimed at preserving church - state separation.

Runciman himself insisted that his book aimed at «an epical quality.»

Its new offshoot publication, Books and Culture, does aim to stretch its readers intellectually, but its circulation remains at 16,000, and it's unclear that it could survive without its current subsidy.

This book aims at applying some insights from pastoral psychology to the major dimensions of a church's program — worship, preaching, the prophetic ministry, the church school, the group life, the family - life program, administration and evangelism — as a way of mining this ore.

In the 1970s and 1980s, his essays and fiction regularly took withering aim at the hypocrisies and absurdities of colonialism, and likewise at apartheid - era life in his native South Africa (this included, incidentally, a thoughtful, if critical, review of Dispensations, Richard John Neuhaus's own book about South Africa).

The book's aim, the author tells us, is «constructive,» at least in part.

This book is aimed at the general public but will also be of interest to scholars.

There were books about how to act when traveling on the railroads, books about behavior on the street or in the theater, books aimed at women, books aimed at men.

It is NOT a self help book aimed at telling us how we can improve our lives or better ourselves It is NOT a book with the primary aim of introducing societal changes such that the earth becomes a better place.

Publishers have responded to the demand with an array of books aimed at nonspecialists who want to know more about Islam in historical and contemporary perspective.

It is relevant to our present interest that the date commonly assigned to the basic core of the book is late in the eighth century or sometime in the first three quarters of the seventh; consequently, it was aimed at ameliorating contemporary conditions of the sort sketched above.

Campolo says there's a world of podcasts, books, events and more aimed at young evangelicals who are re-thinking historic evangelical doctrines on hell, sovereignty, biblical infallibility, sexuality etc..

In his engagingly titled book, What's Wrong With the World, G. K. Chesterton argued that his fellow citizens could not repair the defects of the family because they had no ideal at which to aim.