Sentences with phrase «book as a classic»

It's amazing how many people reference this book as a classic, entrepreneurs or otherwise.

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The company's other media offerings even diverged from the magazine's adult content; it produced movies such as Roman Polanski's Macbeth, Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different, and The Naked Ape, based on the classic sociobiology book of the same name.

(As articulated in the classic Clayton Christensen book The Innovators Dilemma, in industries with rapid technology or market shifts, disruption can not be ignored.)

Providing a scholarly and entertaining account of such topics as the history of crises, speculative manias and Lehman Brothers, this book has been hailed as «a true classic... both timely and timeless.»»

The other issue that faces all companies is, as you get to a large enough size, there are people whose job it is to protect business lines — they're just doing their job — but this is the classic case of «The Innovator's Dilemma,» the famous business book, which says that when companies ultimately fail, whether it's Polaroid or whoever, it's not because they were big and dumb; it's because they were actually really smart.

Abundance, as Stephen Covey describes it in his classic book The Seven Principles of Highly Effective People, is something that:

OUTLOOK: If you can read this business's bottom - line priorities as well as the current owner understands her customers» yen for books, then your tenure at this retailer could be a classic.

The book is beating out New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance,» which comes in at No. 2, as well as two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's horror classic, «It: A Novel.»

In the 1970s he cowrote, with his brother Justin Mamis, an investment classic, When to Sell, described by Barron's as one of the 10 books all serious stock players should have on their shelves.

His bestselling book, The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be has been hailed as the new self - improvement classic, now containing 67 of the most powerful secrets to success known to mankind.

Think of these soon to be classic business books as the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and Think and Grow Rich for the 21st century.

I use the Wizard of Oz — that great book, that classic American film — as one of the sort of parables that helps us sort of know how to work with the enneagram.

$ 17.95 Originally published in 1950, this classic work reviews and analyzes a wealth of Jewish sources, as the book's subtitle indicates, «On the Legends and Lore of the Command to Abraham to Offer Isaac as a Sacrifice: The Akedah.»

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Shūsaku Endō's classic novel about Christian persecution will likely be as controversial as the book.

Prepare yourself to leave these pages a changed person... this tremendous book... will be recognized as a classic work of art.»

W.W. Norton, the publisher of R. Crumb's best - selling The Book of Genesis Illustrated, was certainly aware of the reputation of the underground cartoonist» best known as the creator of the classic 1960s icons «Keep on Truckin»» and «Fritz the Cat»» and....

Werner Jaeger, who has written the classic history of the idea of paideia, [2] pointed out in a later book on Early Christianity and Greek Paideia that Clement not only uses literary forms and types of argument calculated to sway people formed by paideia but, beyond that, he explicitly praises paideia in such a way as to make it clear that his entire epistle is to be taken «as an act of Christian education.»

Dalin quotes Newsweek columnist Kenneth L Woodward as stating that Cornwell's book is «a classic example of what happens when an ill - equipped journalist assumes the air of sober scholarship... Errors of fact and ignorance of context appear on every page».

As I was coming to an end of writing this book, I came across the advice given by Henri de Lubac, author of a classic study on Catholicism, to Fr.

The very character of the book defies the effort to categorize it as a classic, since it does not articulate an elegant position but rather provides a close reading of Luke.

As a matter of fact, Bultmann's Jesus and the Word of 1926 was prefaced with a classic statement of the modern view of history, and on this basis he states that his book reflects his own encounter with the historical Jesus, and may mediate an encounter with the historical Jesus on the part of the reader.

Hubbard is echoing Edward J. Carnell, his predecessor as president of Fuller Seminary, whose book The Case for Orthodox Theology is perhaps the classic statement on modern evangelicalism:

Paul Jewett has an excellent, brief review of several classic theological statements regarding women in his book Man as Male and Female, pp. 61 - 82.

Great Illustrated Classics publishes abridged versions for children of otherwise adult books such as The House of the Seven Gables and Robinson Crusoe.

That being said, this moment happens to be a very good time to bring out a book that contains such documents as Leo XIII's Libertas Praestantissimum, Pius XI's Casti Connubii, and John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor, since the doctrine of these and other classic encyclicals is being contradicted regularly nowadays, even by those in high places in the Church.

Comic - book versions of many classics were published as a series by Classics Illustrated from 1941 classics were published as a series by Classics Illustrated from 1941 Classics Illustrated from 1941 to 1971.

The classic treatment of the problem, as everyone knows, is in the Dialogue of the Book of Job.

But as E. A. Burtt noted over half a century ago in his classic book The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studying it.

If you have no clue where the Bible came from or how we got the Bible as it is today, this classic book will provide the big picture overview and the history behind the development of the Bible.

Perhaps it would help clarify the point if I noted that, in my 1987 book Tranquillitas Ordinis, I «translated» St. Augustine's classic definition of peace as «the peace of dynamic and rightly ordered political community.»

There I only gave it a B + as a book of rock criticism, partly on the basis of its too - encyclopedic style, but in retrospect, my sense is the power of its basic ideas will make it something of a classic of the genre.

The Columbia tradition and the larger ideal of a core curriculum is perhaps best understood through Erskine's notion of the classics as books that «every educated person should have read.»

The classic example is the insertion of the «Epochal Theory of Time» in Science and the Modern World, forcing the eventual transformation of what, in that book, had initially been a Spinozistic approach to creativity as the one, undifferentiated underlying activity (with «events» of varied temporal duration as the «modes» of this underlying process) toward the Leibnizian monadology of actual entities (each a kind of time - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and Reality.

He did so by urging the expansion of the idea that the great books include the Eastern classics, as well as through his inspiring participation in Columbia's core courses on Asian humanities and through his many books making the cultural history of China and the rest of East Asia available to educated readers.

I have the utmost respect for Dr. Keller, and this slim book deserves status as a classic.

And while this book is unlikely to replace Lewis's classic in the canon of Christian apologetics, Eberstadt presents a convincing critique of what is often referred to as the «New Atheism» and an entertaining and accessible defence of Christianity in particular and religious faith in general.

Studies of cargo cults, messianic movements, and Third World millenarianism, including widely read classics such as Peter Worsley's The Trumpet Shall Sound and Bryan Wilson's Magic and the Millennium, have paid close attention to the effects of international relations on domestic religious developments.2 In increasing numbers, books have appeared on the religious situation in strategic parts of the globe, such as the Middle East and Latin America, and with growing frequency articles on American religion refer to issues such as global consciousness, nuclear disarmament, and the effects of U.S. involvement in foreign affairs.

GWBush is an obvious, classic, text - book sociopath and as such, is totally inconsistent with ever really being a «born again Christian»... to any objective observation his actions proved that.

In 1965, he published his most famous book, at once classic and immediately consequential as a study in the development of doctrine: Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists — 533 pages of dazzling historical research, unpretentious erudition, and contextual analysis that concluded by offering reasons why the papal magisterium could and should support some forms of contraception for married couples.

-- I used comfort food classics from around the world as inspiration for the recipes in the book, which also influenced the book's organization.

This is the ultimate DIY pantry book, doing double duty with recipes for vegan staples, plus ideas on how to use them as building blocks in both new and classic recipes.

Her book joins others such as Carol Fenster's just - released «Gluten - Free Quick & Easy» (Avery, 2007), Annalise G. Roberts's «Gluten - Free Baking Classics» (Surrey Books, 2006) and Vanessa L. Maltin's «Beyond Rice Cakes» (iUniverse, 2006).

Butter cake from Modern Classics Book 2: Cookies, Biscuits & Slices, Small Cakes, Cakes, Desserts, Hot Puddings, Pies & Tarts (Morrow Cookbooks) Cake: 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon (127g) unsalted butter, very well softened 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup + 1 1/2 tablespoons (218g) caster sugar 3 eggs 1 1/2 cups + 1 1/2 tablespoons (225g) all purpose flour, sifted 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, sifted 1/4 teaspoon baking soda, sifted pinch of salt 1/2 cup (120 ml) whole milk, room temperature Icing: 1 cup (140g) icing sugar, sifted 1 - 2 tablespoons lemon juice or water Preheat the oven to 160 °C; butter a 20 cm (8in) round cake pan, line the bottom with baking paper and butter the paper as well.

We always could tell it was different (as with any baked product not made with classic flour,) but to us, your health infield versions are ALWAYS better in our book, we prefer them.

A lot of the recipes are classic barbecue and grilling fare — ATBs, bacon - wrapped asparagus, spatchcocked chicken, brisket and ribs — but the book includes some non-traditional and interesting recipes as well.

WWE desperately wants to cement him as a top star, and after some of the questionable booking early in his Smackdown run, I think giving him the belt at the end of a (potentially) instant - classic match helps cement him as a WWE main - eventer.

Ahead of tomorrow's game, we rewound to 1997 to take a look at a classic meeting as The Bees booked a place at Wembley for the Division Two Play - Off final.

This book by the same author as «Katy,» is a classic for good reason.

Have a family read - aloud with classics such as Treasure Island and Charlotte's Web or newer book titles Percy Jackson and Harry Potter and then host a family movie night to watch the flick!