Sentences with phrase «balance in book reviews»

While I can't avoid this, I believe other book sites and retailers may offer some balance in book reviews I may receive in the future.

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In what is essentially a complimentary review of William Martin's book, A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story, Wacker credits the author with showing a balanced view of Graham, and summarizes Graham's appeal from political, social, cultural, as well as homiletical, ecclesiastical and theological perspectives.

If you look at the numbers in the emergency budget, which are due to be fleshed out in the Comprehensive Spending Review tomorrow, there is just no way that the Government's spending cuts will balance the books on their own.

Eli Kintisch's book Hack the Planet, published in April, 2010, was given a starred review by Publisher's Weekly, which called it a «fascinating wake - up call... engaged but balanced.»

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The Guardian's analysis focused on the reviewing of books for adults but, as a children's author interested in gender bias, I was curious to know about the gender balance of UK children's book reviewing.

So why doesn't it draw the same level of media coverage and righteous indignation as the lack of gender balance in adult book reviewing?»

Although I haven't paid much attention to reviews on either site, my impression has been that Goodreads offers fairly considered and balanced observations, while Amazon, more often, offers either blatant adoration of a book or a flippant rejection, all in one sentence.

I'm noticing a lot of bloggers (myself included) are looking for more balance in 2010... I think we all got a little overwhelmed in 2009 — there was so much going on and the review books exploded!

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That balances things out nicely because for all the 1 and 2 star reviews, the book is still holding it's own as a bestseller in the free Kindle store.

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To counter criticism of the business community from college campuses, business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce should support scholars who will defend the free enterprise system, develop speakers and support speakers» bureaus that will counter the liberal rhetoric coming from college campuses, subject textbooks to ideological review, insist on equal time for speakers exposing the views of the business community for speakers on campuses, insist that college faculties be balanced by those who will defend the free enterprise system, request that graduate schools of business include courses that support the free enterprise system, encourage local chambers of commerce to provide the views of the business community in high schools, establish staff who work with the media to communicate to the general public the views of the business community, monitor and criticize television programs that unfairly criticize the free enterprise system and where appropriate file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, monitor radio and other media and pressure them to cover the views of defenders of the free enterprise system, support scholars who support the free enterprise system to publish in scholarly journals, establish incentives for scholars to publish defenses of free enterprise in books, papers, and pamphlets, spend more money on advertising that expressly supports the free market system.

Although Dyson has been railing against the AGW consensus since at least 2005, his first prominent exposure in the mainstream press came in a fawning 2008 New York Review of Books piece on William Nordhaus's A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies.

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