Sentences with phrase «book about her observations»

Epstein's 1979 book about her observations, Children of the Holocaust, gave voice to that sense of alienation and free - floating anxiety.

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The truth is, The Book of Awesome was about the observation of awesome.

Over the weekend I listened to Russ Roberts» interview with Jason Zweig, who made an excellent observation of how vast the financial markets are and how little time investors spend thinking about this: I think if there's one overriding theme to the book, one of the things I've tried to get across in The Devil's...

It's not a religious book, and the author uses quite a bit of profanity, but he makes some astute observations about religion and politics in the United States.

After spending several hours comparing the two commentaries, and studying their own explanations of numerous variants, here are my observations about the two books:

Volf's discussion of the structures and catholicity of the free church prompts a final observation about this seminal book.

A detailed critique of the mainline U.S. media is available elsewhere and is beyond the scope of this book.15 However, I offer these observations about the mainline media, which plays such an important role in shaping our understanding of the world and the role of the United States within it.

We will look at some of the critical passages in future posts, but first, we must make a few preliminary observations about the role of baptism in the book of Acts.

Rodney Stark wrote an amazing book called «The Victory of Reason» where he argued that something like the Enlightenment is only possible in a monotheistic culture where a belief in a Creator leads to a belief in a created order, which in turn leads to the possibility of an orderly set of observations about the world that we today call «Science.»

That he would write about his brush with death was to be expected, for he wrote about everything: in books and magazine articles» not to mention his collection of observations and arguments published in the back of this magazine each month.

But it was also the case that, as Alter moved from making brilliant observations about a small selection of texts to writing large commentaries on entire biblical books, the weaknesses of his scholarship became more visible.

But because the book can not in itself be for the reader his encounter with history, but only information about any encounter with history, it does of course as a whole appear to him as a view, and I must define for him the point of observation.

Richard Sterling, writing in Fiery - Foods & BBQ magazine, noted that Bernal Díaz, the chronicler of the conqueror Hernan Cortes, made careful observations about the chocolate in his book, The Conquest of New Spain.

Saw a comment that complained about the little monologues at the beginning of each recipe in the new book and felt DRIVEN to offer the exact opposite observation.

Your observations about the book's core beliefs and theory align perfectly with what I got out of the book when I read it the first time, and it's why I chose to go with many of the methods in the book.

There is nothing more satisfying than seeing a child virtually devour good literature and know that you have taught her to read and helped her to discover the pleasure of reading books... or to hear another child begging you to listen to her trying to read on her own... or another tell you about his observations and discoveries out in the garden... to see your children enjoying drawing, writing poems and doing spontaneous narrations about what they have learnt.

The most important thing I learned about French parenting from reading books and observations is that as a parent you have an intrinsic authority you display.

A final critical observation about the book pertains to the scary scenario it sketches for the future of Pakistan.

Matthew Hancock, a former adviser to George Osborne, and his fellow Tory MP, Nadhim Zahawi, recently published a book, Masters of Nothing, with pungent observations about the behaviour of the City in which they ventured some good ideas about how it might be changed.

This book unfolds as a series of observations about light, including where it comes from, how it bounces off of people and objects, and what we mean when we say the colors of a rainbow are the colors in light.

Ethologist Frans de Waal has offered several observations of apparent empathy among nonhuman primates in his 1996 book Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, but richer insights come from a series of studies published about 40 years ago, when standards for animal welfare were minimal.

He wrote about his discoveries and observations in his 2000 book «The Accelerating Universe», which was praised by many as simplifying many complicated concepts in physics so that non-scientists could understand them without being condescended.

I enjoy reading your blog for the variety that you write about — travel, book reviews, fashion, intelligent observations.

Connecticut, USA About Blog Jennifer's book reviews, recommendations and observations.

For a book on dating girls, the majority of the content is on arbitrary observations about the culture of the Thai people and what.

His other books include «The Dream Team - The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks: Lessons from the New Hollywood» (2006), «I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies» (2008) and «Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and other observations about science fiction movies» (2011).

As any good writer would do, he jotted down his observations and wrote a book about high school kids.

Here are some of my own observations about some of the projects represented in my collection of bandwagon books:

Payne began to explain her observations to other teachers, and soon was in so much demand, that she found herself writing a book about the topic.

Though I still believe the concision of a Seth Godin blog appeals to many in our harried world, blogger buddy Andrew Butters at Potato Chip Math makes some interesting arguments and observations about book length, blog length and reader appeal at the link.

When you give info like this it means that the author Wayne has made an observation about ADHD in his book on page 32.

Maureen found this article, Essay: Why Most Readings Suck and How to Fix It, with some * colorful * observations about how to do a book reading.

Every time I've spoken with Sarah Jessica about the novel, I've had the thought that she is the ideal reader a writer might want for their book, as she is thoughtful and insightful, generous with her heart and precise in her observations, and her responses reflect how genuinely she feels for characters and how much time she spends thinking about them.

Despite my pleas, the authoring, editing, and design work for our books is rarely allowed to pause so that my eBook crew can offer observations about why the randomness of certain tables, figures, and odd arrangements of text keep the save - as - EPUB button from making the process simple and painless.

Although there's nothing autobiographical about the book (except my maternal grandparents have a brief cameo role), I learned a lot about the disease, both by researching it as much as I could when my mother was first diagnosed, and then by observation.

The book is full of beautifully wrought observations about bird - watching and life, about the scientific method and the mysteries of the universe.

From our discussion I drew out three interesting observations about business book publishing in the 21st century.

The cover blurb process is for another blog or even a workshop, but I have a few observations about book covers.

Along with discussing the current state of the book publishing industry from a refreshingly optimistic perspective, Eaves makes a spot - on observation about the futility of trying to predict book sales.

The bit about traditional publishers is also a correct observation, all Baen books are available here, so they are as usually doing their bit to raise the sanity waterline

Indeed, I just saw a different market share study, done by asking samples of book readers about their purchases, that said that ebooks were now about 15 % of book spending, but about 30 % of book sales, which dovetails with the observation of generally low price for the top selling ebooks.

Connecticut, USA About Blog Jennifer's book reviews, recommendations and observations.

And I do second Nathan's observations about the formatting capabilities with the fonts for reading epub books.

Frustrated their analytical articles about books and movies were rejected, founders Therese Walsh and Kathleen Bolton decided to create Writer Unboxed in 2006 so they could freely publish their observations.

I want digitisation to succeed, but I've got some worries about GBS, based on two main observations: Google Book Search isn't the same as Google Web Search, and Google, if not actually, intentionally lying, is certainly wilfully misleading publishers about its intentions.

Meanwhile, I'm going to steal this first Monday spot to write about other things, probably not cabbages and kings, but perhaps some observations about writing and the writing life, book promotion (or the lack thereof), new books on these topics, or just about anything else that might pop into my head.

I use that same observation about loaning out printed books when authors tell me they're reluctant to sell e-books because they're afraid they will get passed around too freely.

Below, are my favorite observations about what happens when we share our lives with pets made by Ms. Huffington, both in my interview and from her book Thrive.

Connecticut, USA About Blog Jennifer's book reviews, recommendations and observations.

Boas has more to say about this later on; the polarities and overlaps between the priestly Still and down - to - earth Park form some of the book's most original and interesting observations.