Sentences with phrase «best early booking»

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Brad Stone describes an early version of Amazon's flywheel in The Everything Store (one of my best books of 2013):

The earlier you register, the better your chances of booking a room in one of the blocks the tradeshow has reserved.

Well, either way, here are three books I'm sure I would enjoy and benefit from reading earlier than I did.

You Can Negotiate Anything, a chatty and amusing book by consultant and «world's best negotiator» Herb Cohen, had been published just months earlier, becoming a bestseller.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

«For example, if I'm flying from the U.S. to London, and it's a seven - hour difference, I've found that it's better to book an early morning flight.

One piece of good news: Business travel tends to slow down in the days before Christmas, and some travelers flying for work are likely to have called off trips booked for early in the week because of the chaos in Atlanta, said Henry Harteveldt, travel industry analyst and founder of consulting firm Atmosphere Research Group.

I wrote the book because I believe that the best way to generate outsized results is to own stock in high - growth, private, early - stage technology companies.

Having been given a run - through of the new e-reader at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle earlier this week, and having had the chance to put it through its paces since, this is good news for book lovers.

I know my earlier book Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First has changed lives, and this book not only expands and amplifies those powerful concepts under a specifically eco-friendly lens, its also going to reach a lot more people because it has the support and power not only of my personal network, but also the resources of both a big NYC publisher (John Wiley & Sons) and my superstar co-author, Mr. Guerrilla Marketing himself, Jay Conrad Levinson — the man who brought us not only all the Guerrilla Marketing books but also Uniteds Friendly Skies, Allstates Good Hands, and even the Marlboro Man.

Good point Jack, but the «book» that muslims follow, regardless of training or translation, gives Christians chills because it places the dispensation of Jesus: «Love thy neighbor as thyself» under and beneath the later dispensation of Muhammed which in fact harks back to the old testament, earlier Hebraic tribal codes.

Well known due to its early days being chronicled in the book and film The Cross and the Switchblade, Teen Challenge is where Nicky Cruz first found faith and broke out of his gangland lifestyle.

Bonhoeffer's early and consistent resistance to the intrusion of Nazi ecclesial, political and military machinations is well known: his bold involvement in the Confessing Church, his directorship of the underground seminary community at Finkenwalde (from which time we have his book Life Together), his summons to costly discipleship, the increasing repression of the mid-1930s and his decision to return to Germany in 1939 (although he had the opportunity to become an exile in the United States).

A book called Disinformation, co-written by General Pacepa and the American professor of law Ronald Rychlak (best known for his book Hitler, the War and the Pope, a well - researched defence of Pius XII's record during the Second World War), which spells out these revelations at greater length, is «dubious at best» — or at least, the bits written by Pacepa are: the reviewer NCR admits that «what Rychlak contributes, drawn from his earlier work on Pope Pius, appears solid».

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When the attempt was made to apply it to individual destiny (which was scarcely in the minds of the earlier prophets), in the sense that the wicked are punished by misfortune and the good rewarded by prosperity, it appeared palpably untrue, not only to the sceptical author of Ecclesiastes, but also to the far profounder poet of the Book of Job.

One of the earliest books written in the Bible is about a good man named Job who loses everything — his children, his business, his possessions — to the sort of tragedies insurance companies call «acts of God.»

Meditation, focused devotion, transcendental perception — all of these have been vital in the earlier religious communities of the West, but of late the spiritual classics, the books of practical spiritual disciplines, have become the best - kept secret in the education of pastors and laypeople.

Our story of Judah and his daughter - in - law Tamar, as also in fact the book of Ruth, indicates that in early Israel the levirate obligation might be extended to any near male relative.9 We note finally that this is a good story, not, obviously, in the sense that it is morally elevating (it candidly reflects the morality of the age), but in the remarkably graphic portrayal of character, especially Tamar, the deft integration of plot, and the skillful employment of suspense.

He tells us he doesn't want the book to be about him or his ideas, ground «well - plowed,» he says, in his earlier books.

God or Nothing, by Cardinal Robert Sarah (Ignatius Press): It was the book being discussed at Synod - 2015 and with good reason, for this interview - style autobiography of a life of faith is moving, insightful, and a wonderful testament to the fruits of the European mission to Africa in the early twentieth century.

I would now classify Cobb as a neo-Whiteheadian as well, although his earlier book, A Christian Natural Theology (CNN), epitomizes the post-Whiteheadian endeavor.

Anyone with an interest in the Huguenots would be well advised to turn to this book for a full account of their origins and early history.

Perhaps if more students had early glimpses of better books, colleges would be a little bolder in what they beach.

By placing these conversations early in the book, Miller clearly means to defend the justice of progressive taxation by questioning the moral right of the well - off to enjoy their wealth without qualms.

Jeremy, some of the posts have simply confirmed what I was reading half an hour earlier in a book by a well - known Christian historian: «It is true, unfortunately, that the church is often the worst witness to Jesus and the early Christian movement».

A veteran of the anti-gay movement, Lively has been actively propagandizing against LGBT people since the early 1990s, but he's perhaps best - known for co-writing the thoroughly discredited, Holocaust revisionist book The Pink Swastika: Hom.ose.xuality in the Nazi Party (1995), which claims that the Nazi party was full of gay men who, because of their «sava.gery,» were able to carry out the Holocaust.

In short, there is good reason to suppose that the speeches attributed to Peter in the Acts are based upon material which proceeded from the Aramaic - speaking Church at Jerusalem, and was substantially earlier than the period at which the book was written.

There are several important books of this character, some earlier, some later, the Apastamba — the Baudhayana, the Institutes of Vishnu, and most important of all that of the Manavan School, the Manavan sutras, or, when, put into poetic form, as was actually done, the Manavan Dharma Sastras, better known as the Laws of Manu.

If I recall correctly, the Torah commentary I have actually compares the five books to various contemporary literature that survived along with the early documents so, yea, there's a good case to make for religious scriptures being a category of literature to explore critically.

The work of Amos Wilder, particularly his book Early Christian Rhetoric: The Language of the Gospel, which deals with major literary genres of the New Testament, as well as the work on parables as extended metaphors by such scholars as Robert Funk, Norman Perrin and Dan O. Via, Jr., has become important for many of us.

In the early pages of the book of Genesis is the well - known story of Cain and Abel.

Perhaps a generation of Methodist professionals and well - educated laity some decades hence, proud of their tradition, will display nice coffee - table books about Wesley and early Methodism, content to know that the scholarly archives have all the footnotes, but without any serious intention of taking up the early Methodist faith and mission.

«My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire... Second, that all their books — their prayer books, their Talmudic writings, also the entire Bible — be taken from them, not leaving them one leaf, and that these be preserved for those who may be converted... Third, that they be forbidden on pain of death to praise God, to give thanks, to pray, and to teach publicly among us and in our country... Fourth, that they be forbidden to utter the name of God within our hearing.

All the other books, non-cannonical as well, could be gathered together as «everything said before Jesus, by the Jewish writers, and everything post Jesus that was written about the early church, or early writings that were not specifically what Jesus said and did.

In fact, since many scholars believe that the events described in the book of Job occurred long before the author of Genesis was alive [1], what the book of Job records about the flood may well be the earliest description of what happened in that cataclysmic event.

The more scientific folks can correct or fill in the details here, but I remeber seeing it in Carl Sagan's book and PBS special COSMOS as well as I think Discovery magazine, way back in the late 70's early 80's.

In addition to relating details of some of the personal, sometimes quite extreme, interpersonal conflicts between some of the early figures in paleontology, the book also provides a good overview of how scientific estimates regarding the age of the earth and the development of life on earth have advanced over the last few centuries.

Mundanely enough, the early Church councils were in the best position to judge which biographies were reliable and they chose Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.Anthony McRoy, of Wales Evangelical School of Theology, says that the way the Church decided on the books of the New Testament bears little resemblance to the conspiracy theories of Dan Brown and Philip Pullman.

These led me to his earlier works, which consistently vindicated Kass's self - description in his justly acclaimed Towards a More Natural Science: «The author of this book is by reading a moralist, by education a generalist, by training a physician and biochemist, by vocation a teacher» and student» of philosophical texts, and by choice a lover of serious conversations, who thinks best when sharing thoughts and speeches with another.»

However, there is an important earlier passage in the same book that is the best starting point for understanding how the concept of God entered Whitehead's philosophical scheme.

The most we can say based on I Corinthians 15 in conjunction with Acts is that the earliest accounts of the resurrection appearances may very well have been less explicit and elaborate than the present ones in the Gospels (which we had already assumed), and were perhaps analogous to the accounts of Paul's experience on the road to Damascus as we find them in the Book of Acts.

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

If credence is given to the claim that the Katthavattu or fifth book was actually written in connection with the Third Council, then the scholastic development of Buddhism must go well back into early Buddhist times, because this book makes reference to at least two other parts of the pitaka.

Ideas that organic food could be healthier and better for the environment originated in the early days of the organic movement as a result of publications like the 1943 book The Living Soil [14][15] and Farming and Gardening for Health or Disease (1945).

In the early pages of the book Julie recalls one of the first recipes she made from the book, a potato and leek soup, and how her husband Eric told her it was «Really good.

While I really liked his earlier book, «World Sourdoughs from Antiquity» better, this is a very good book, and I really like some of the recipes in it.

A much earlier observer, Edward Long noted in his 1774 book, The History of Jamaica (London: T. Lowndes), «These [bird] peppers are used liberally in the West - Indies, gathered fresh from the bush, generally before they are ripe; though the bird - pepper has the best flavour in its mature state.

Especially good for the novice — a couple of years ago a book about the history of «Joy» was titled with an early instruction in the cookbook: First, stand facing the stove.

The ceremony will include a ribbon cutting for the library, a book reading by Batali of Dr. Seuss» Green Eggs and Ham, as well as remarks from the Mario Batali Foundation; Books for Kids; Variety Early Learning Center and a special thank you from the children.