Sentences with phrase «book as a young man»

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Fitzgerald's less famous debut novel follows a privileged young man as he begins college at Princeton, which makes it the perfect book for the back - to - school season, claim Wang and Wolfson.

In his new book, Startup Rising, he makes a strong case for the Middle East, where a surprising number of young men and women are starting tech companies and where global corporations, such as Google, Yahoo and Cisco, are investing.»

As a young man, he traveled through Mexico, India and Nepal and, more recently, he wrote a book called, «Into the Heart of Truth: The Spirit of Relational Yoga.»

Describing his personal journey, Trower recalls rummaging through his father's library as a young man and finding a book entitled, «Trower on the Epistles.»

Because environments do influence the decisions and actions by which we constitute ourselves as one kind of person or another, this book should be mandatory reading for those who may like it least» mothers and fathers of college - bound young men and women.

I think Hamill, Donoghue, and nearly every other of the American critics who praised Angela's Ashes have equally misread the book as a chronicle of a young man's liberation from a «smothering Irish parochialism.»

As a theological guide, the book of Ecclesiastes instructs man (Qoheleth is writing to Hebrew young men) to take pleasure in his life.

(More excerpts here from Manent's new book of interviews, Le Regard Politique — i.e., Seeing Things Politically) When I met Aron I was carried away with admiration for him... Aron desired less than any man to exercise influence over people or to dominate a young man [such as I....

It is a book that a young man could probably not have written, inviting and encouraging us, as it does, to accept - indeed, to accept with gratitude -» the slowness of the good.»

Blackpool were the surprise package last season, by some distance in fact, as the club welcomed in a stray by the form of Ian Holloway and the bold Bristolian got out his spell book and somehow turned this group of frogs into charming young men.

While I would feel spritely in the fairy costume, I fear that my baby boy might resent being dressed as a butterfly for his first Halloween when, as a young man, he looks at his baby book.

-- «These taxpayer - funded Jewish schools are dooming young men to poverty» — Doree Lewak, for the New York Post: «Judaism refers to its followers as «people of the book.»

The book also quotes an unnamed source as stating: «Ed Miliband was well aware of the fact Balls jealously guarded his status as Brown's No 2 and saw the younger man as a rival, as a threat.

As portrayed in both Jon Krakauer's book and by Emile Hirsch in the movie, there seems to be an almost deliberate naïveté at work in the young man.

Her name is Parvana (voiced with strength and conviction by newcomer Saara Chaudry), and she is allowed to visit Kabul's market square only so long as she is accompanied by her father (Ali Badshah), a one - legged local teacher whose reverence for books upsets the militant young men — including one especially spiteful former student, hardly more than a child himself — who've since seized control of the region.

The book began the long - running series and clearly operates as an origin story about a group of young men who are seemingly...

Similar to the novel, the book is divided into two separate stories: Luke and Sophia's romance, and the flashbacks involving Ira Levinson's (Alda as an old man and Huston as his younger incarnation) and his wife Ruth.

Based on Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 children's book of the same name, Jumanji, the film, fleshes out the short book to include a story about Alan Parrish (Hann - Byrd, Little Man Tate), who, as a young boy struggling with isolation and abandonment in 1969, winds up finding a strange board game.

Another character, Vic, is central to the book: he appears as an awkward adolescent fixated on unattainable older girls, as a young man coping with the legacy of his father's alcoholism and abandonment, and as a middle - aged man unable to come to terms with his past.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, writer Jeff Hobbs — Peace's roommate at Yale — explores this question and discusses the book he wrote as a tribute to his friend, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League.

While I don't think that many of the young men I've encountered would «bite the usherette's leg in the dark» or «rub a pot roast all over his chest» during a family dinner (let alone kill a girl at the junior prom only to «dig up her body and make a cage with her bones») I do think - as the astonishing popularity of the book Raising Cain demonstrates — that we need to do a better job in terms of dealing with the free - floating and widespread anger felt by the males in our culture.

My favorite anecdote of the book is one in which Whyte tells of following his heart as a young man, of becoming a rock climber and scuba diver and traveling through Europe picking up languages.

He writes, «Men simply don't seem as interested as women in publishing books for the very young, in the same way that men seem less interested in teaching the very young in our schools.&raqMen simply don't seem as interested as women in publishing books for the very young, in the same way that men seem less interested in teaching the very young in our schools.&raqmen seem less interested in teaching the very young in our schools.»

Your book vividly conjures urban America twenty years ago, a time when the fracturing of families, the implosion of the inner city, and the sudden emergence of crack cocaine combined to create what felt like a catastrophic threat to the survival of young black men as a group.

Here, as in his previous books, he also shows that for teenage guys, vulnerability and bravado go hand - in - hand, that friendships and father - son relationships don't have to be treacly to be real and vital, and that buying condoms may, in fact, be simultaneously the most embarrassing and hilarious rite of passage that a young man ever has to undertake... (Reviewed by Norah Piehl).

Lin wanted an antidote to the raw competitiveness and frenetic activity he saw all around him in the early 1930s — not just in China, where he had grown up, but also in France and Germany, where he had worked and studied, and in the United States, where he had briefly attended college as a young man and where he was living when he wrote this book.

I am sure this is another best seller, perfect for book clubs, definitely more of a woman's book than a man's, probably not as appreciated by the young adult audience as by someone who has lived, and suffered, and loved (Laura M).

GoodEReader has hosted Spreecast events in the past as a way to connect authors and readers, namely with online book signings and hashtag social events, and the IndiesUnite event will connect donors with the family of this special young man.

From the book jacket: Michael — a.k.a. «Butcher» — Boone is an ex — «really famous» painter: opinionated, furious, brilliant, and now reduced to living in the remote country house of his biggest collector and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh, a damaged man of imposing physicality and childlike emotional volatility.

An encounter many years later with a young Japanese man, Yusuke, brings back Minae's memories of that time — as well as a ready - made story for the author's next book.

Were there any books you remember reading as a boy or young man that enabled you to see yourself in that way?

Scribd's selection of comic books is bound to widen the firm's appeal as it covers an extensive range from Spider - Man to My Little Pony to X-O Manowar, and from Transformers to Archie, together with Young Adult series Locke & Key and graphic novels by Alan Moore, Matt Fraction, Gail Simone and George RR Martin.

There are teenagers who perfectly fit the stereotypical image that the media loves so much of comic - book fans, little kids who love anime, young boys and girls out with their confused parents, cosplaying parents out with their confused children, entire families dressed up as the cast of Firefly or as Star Wars characters,, bemused grandparents being lead around with a smile on their face that suggests while they are a little baffled by the entire thing they're having a good time, middle - aged men and women who look like they've just come straight from work and enjoy a good comic and every other type of human in - between.

Proudhon, who had been deeply influenced by Fourier as a young man and had supervised the printing of one of Fourier's books.

Douglas Crimp's new book Before Pictures tells the story of Crimp's life as a young gay man and art critic in New York City from the late 1960s through the 1970s.

Kelley's heroine has to do a lot of listening — to young men almost as constrained as she by a preposterous stack of books, their own predatory instincts, or her nightmares of revenge.

Tiago Carneiro da Cunha was born in São Paulo in 1973, where - as a young man - he worked as a comic book artist and illustrator.

As a young man living in Africa, Kpomassie happened across a children's book about Greenland.

Published by David Zwirner Books, Proust's experimental essay is structured as a letter to a young man, much as Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet and Letters to a Young Painter, the latter of which Zwirner will publish later this young man, much as Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet and Letters to a Young Painter, the latter of which Zwirner will publish later this Young Poet and Letters to a Young Painter, the latter of which Zwirner will publish later this Young Painter, the latter of which Zwirner will publish later this year.

The book also features rare photographs of the artist as a young man and full - color reproductions of Noland's early formative work.

Exploring achievements far beyond his reputation as a leading illustrator and teacher, this exhibition spans evocative landscapes firmly rooted in the Neo-Romantic tradition, exotic subject matter inspired by international travel, figurative work including portraits of young men, book illustrations, posters and lithographs, and ambitious late work that sought a new context for history painting.

This overwhelmingly «christian» congress represents an overwhelming «christian» nation has that: performs a million abortions a year, has out 40 % of births out of wedlock (approaching 70 percent in minority communities), has a Supreme Court that has ruled that virtual child pornography is protected by the first amendment, has a culture that teaches ever younger girls (through movies, music, tv, books and magazines) that their primary function is as living sex toys for men, forces religions to provide insurance to include abortifacients against their faith, and is rapidly redefining marriage by judicial edict.

People who knew him as a young man thought him lazy, as he preferred to spend his time reading books.

Ross and Beattie did not warrant such deluxe cabins, but as wealthy young men they naturally booked first - class passage.