Sentences with phrase «book about a century»

They then turn to Strang's book about a century - old case involving Italian anarchists and the famed criminal defense lawyer Clarence Darrow.

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The professor, who teaches at Sweden's Lund University, went straight to the authorities when he became suspicious about the provenance of a 16th - century prayer book he had purchased online.

«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

And it would be hard to compile any list of the best business books of the year without mentioning Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty - First Century — which «sparked a fantastic global discussion this year about inequality,» Gates writes.

This will be an entirely new kind of publishing process for me, and one that I hope delivers a great deal of learning about how to publish a book successfully in the 21st Century.

Learn more about how the generation gaps in business are affecting company health and profits in her book, Confident Leadership in 21st Century Business: Bridging the Generation Gaps, now available on Amazon (US and Canada).

As for the origins of the various books in the Bible there are massive bodies of research mostly in the 20th and 21st centuries about this and it's perhaps the most obvious sign of your utter ignorance that you seem to be unaware of this.

About the meaning of this book, called a revelation, there have been ages of war and centuries of sword and flame.

do I need any approval before I practice my religion, do I have to prove my religion before I practice, my holy book further describe that you must carry a gun in 21st century because there is too much crime in this world, but it doesn't say much about if I migrate to another country these rules will still apply, Or I should modified them according to my comfort, like talking in English which is not my religious language wearing pants or not, having education or not, standing in line or not, I am so confused what should I do can someone help me, should I go back to country where my religion originated or back in time ask my guru questions about western world confusion, or just decide by myself what suites me, or preach other develop country that you guys are wrong be peaceful.

Check out this link to find out about marriage to young girls claim.Very very interesting to know.I hope everyone has the patience to study history and reality of life centuries ago worldwide.This video also gives you references to online history books about facts it says.Simply, the average age of marriage was very young worldwide including church approved age of consent to marry.What Mohamed did, was very common back in the days and just to let you know, that girl was engaged to another man and then the engagement was broken due to his disbelief which tells you that that was common back in the days.Also, the age of 6 mentioned was age of engagement not age of marriage.marriage happened a few years later.

In fact the Book of Mormon talks about a separate civilization who arrived centuries before those of Jewish heritage; and not one verse of the Book of Mormon declares that there were NO other civilizations or peoples of other parts of the world also inhabiting the Americas.

Books about sexual deviancy among Catholic priests and nuns were popular in the nineteenth century.

Speaking about the value of catechism... Kevin DeYoung, pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, MI, and one of the bloggers here at Evangel, recently agreed to an interview about his new book The Good News We Almost Forgot: Rediscovering the Gospel in a 16th Century Catechism, which is....

Only a few books have appeared in English about these Alpine Christians since the last century.

Today, however, his importance is scarcely a rumor even to the very literate, and the best known book about him in English is a ghastly, feeble, and imbecile squib by one of the twentieth century's most indefatigably fraudulent intellectuals, Isaiah Berlin.

If you know about it once, you know about it always, or you have to accept that your bible is just a book written by men that has been edited and modified throughout the centuries and has no real bearing.

In the twentieth century, and especially since the establishment of the state of Israel, there has been renewed Jewish interest in Jesus and a number of books have been written about him by Jews.

Anyone interested in the twentieth «century story of traditional Judaism and its arrival in the United States or who desires to know more about non «Hasidic Jewish religiosity will enjoy and appreciate these books.

John Macquarrie's wonderfully lucid book An Existentialist Theology: A Comparison of Heidegger and Bultmann (Harper & Row, 1955) can give to English - speaking audiences who wish to understand a little more about the spirit of this century a thorough introduction to Bultmann's use of Heidegger.

Other than a book that was written down centuries after the events it speaks about occurred, what proof can you present?

In fact, it was written during the 6th - century BCE, about 100 - 200 years after the original author of the Book of Isaiah died.

James... I can certainly agree on yr point about self - deception, but remember how long it took the «entire package «to evolve as we know it today... the first list of «our 27 NT books» doesn't appear until the latter half of the 4th century and we know that many other books (that didn't make it in) were known, read and circulated for many generations after.

«For me,» he writes, «the most attractive Lewis is the author of English Literature «in the Sixteenth Century, a fluent, highly intelligent man talking about books in a manner which is always engaging.»

Neither can one short book convey the complexity of the doctrine of atonement or the centuries of debate about sin and grace.

A major part of the problem is that though Immanuel Kant wrote about dignity in the 18th century and the word was in use even earlier, strong efforts to elucidate and work with it have not been made (as have been made for, say, the notion of human rights, the subject of innumerable books, essays and court cases).

Centuries before the Karen people of Burma first heard the gospel, their poetry taught of one creator God who mankind had sinned against by eating forbidden fruit.Their poets also foretold the coming of a white man who would visit with a holy golden book that contained the truth about life.

-- What did the book of Daniel say to all its readers throughout the centuries if all these chapters are about an already determined future far, faraway?

It is significant that from the second century to the nineteenth, when modern historical scholarship became current, theories about the Bible were held which no competent historian now accepts, such as that Moses wrote the entire Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament) including the description of his own death.

Then everybody got together and wrote a whole bunch of stories about him... and centuries later, a Muslim convert got together with some of his homies and put them all into one book... kinda like Readers» Digest.

I was talking about the centuries of editing up to that point — multiple authors, rewriting etc, as books of the Torah coalesced.

The key to Greer's interpretation» one that makes her short book on Shakespeare for Oxford's «Past Masters» series one of the finest essays on Shakespeare this century» is her insight that the persona of the Fool in Lear and other plays largely coincides with the self «portrait of the poet in the Sonnets: both persons, Sonneteer and Fool, are self «deprecatory, marginalized, and contemned, yet for that reason are lethally insightful about the flaws of the nobility.

Most history books, not religious ones, give evidence about how down trodden and poor the Israelites were until the later part of the 20th century.

Miller registers «two major reservations» about the reading habits of this man who consumed staggering numbers of books: «Fosdick read too lightly in twentieth - century imaginative literature, and too frequently he rifled meretricious stuff for homiletical purposes.

In the early part of the second century various books began to be written in Christian circles about the apostle Peter, or even in his name, until one could have collected a whole New Testament bearing his name.

The book is wealthy in new insights, revisionist interpretations, and excavated conclusions about Protestantism's response to all the great political, social, cultural and religious developments of the first two - thirds of the 20th century.

Of particular importance in this process were the steps taken in the first quarter of the seventeenth century, for these had the consequence of the introduction of a new conception of nature, which appeared in a number of books about the year 1620, by Daniel Sennert in Germany, David van Goorle in Holland, Galileo in Italy, Francis Bacon in England, and most fully developed by the Frenchman Sebastian Basso in his Philosophia Naturalis, 1621.

In the 17th century, Galileo used the metaphor of the «two books» to help Christians of his generation understand the sacred truth that the earth moves about the sun.

Why is it in the book of Job it talks about the Earth being spherical yet centuries later the world was described as being flat.

My thesis consisted of an introduction, translation, and notes for the Testament of Job, a minor Jewish work about as long as the New Testament book of Romans and written in Greek in the first century B.C. or A.D..

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

The oldest Greek New Testament manuscript, Sinaiticus, contains just these books, and it is dated about the middle of the fourth century.

Even in the ninth century, many Greek - speaking Christians still had doubts about the book.

We may be tempted to leave out Philemon because it is so badly attested in the second century and because debates later arose about its inspiration; but we must finally — after all these calculations — remember that if the scribe wrongly calculated the number of pages for his book he could glue on others at the end.

And if nineteenth century books about Paris are to be believed, by then the city was teeming with macaron street vendors.

The book «Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing,» describes polls in the 1930s in which parents ranked their long lists of worries and describes the 20th century as a «century of anxiety about the child and about parents» own adequacy.»

The idea for the DADLY Dads: Parents of the 21st Century book came as a result of a conversation I had with fellow dad Austin Dowd about the lack of attention given to the responsible, active dads who we felt far outnumbered the irresponsible, absent dads the media continues to highlight.

After Austin and I collected forms and photos from 115 dads in 11 different countries, I decided to invite Elise Cohen Ho to create a companion coffee table book about moms titled Amazing Moms: Parents of the 21st Century.

Here we talk about two books that chart the country's path to 21st century superpower status.

To Dare More Boldly, written by American foreign policy analyst John Hulsman, and launched last night at Daunt's Books, explains how the study and execution of political risk strategies have evolved down the centuries and provides a guide for those thinking about how better to analyse such risk.

Mr. Jackson is a lecturer and public speaker, as well as an author and editor who co-edited the award winning book, The 21st Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges, and authored Queens Notes: Facts About the Forgotten Borough of Queens, New York.