Sentences with phrase «book called the history»

Ego — there's a really good book called The History of the World in Six Glasses that dedicates its entire first chapter to the history of beer in the Fertile Crescent.

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Find out why Guy Kawasaki calls the books «A transformational work in the history of customer service.»
Leatherbarrow recently published a book, called «1:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster,» that recounts the catastrophe's history on its 30th anniversary.
Incidentally, why publish a book called «The Forever Portfolio» during the worst financial crisis in history.
Last month, Packer, a New Yorker staff writer best known for his writing on Iraq, published The Unwinding, a book he calls «an inner history of the new America.»
Specifically regarding SMS history and call logs, Facebook writes, «We also collect contact information if you choose to upload, sync or import it (such as an address book or call log or SMS log history), which we use for things like helping you and others find people you may know.»
«The problem with real ghosts, as opposed to the elegant fictional creations of the likes of MR James and Susan Hill, is that their behaviour is so erratic and irritating,» write the Telegraph «s reviewer of a new book called A Natural History of Ghosts.
Let's not forget what and how America was suposedly started as a place of relgious freedom by the pilgrams (according to so called american history books) these religious people proceeded to rob & kill the Indians who saved their lives, take & kill Mexicans for land & gold & oil enslave a whole group of people as property for financial gain all under the guise of being good «Christians» (WHITE) and now perceive all «Muslims» (NON-WHITE) are evil unless proven otherwise.
No one ever existed by the name of Jesus in human history, but hinduism, fabrication of hindu's, criminals of hinduism, racism to hind, fool humanity in to gentile ism, slavery of other human as their god, such as King's and their hindu criminal Prophets, criminal fortune tellers, profession of writers of book of hindu Mithraism, savior ism, called Bile.
As Bellah and his coauthors write near the end of their book, «We will need to remember that we did not create ourselves, that we owe what we are to the communities that formed us, and to what Paul Tillich called «the structure of grace in history» that made such communities possible.»
Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and now president of Purdue University, has been so accused — but not at all credibly — because of some remarks he made a few years ago in an e-mail, while he was governor, about the tired old ideology pedlar Howard Zinn, whose widely used book, A People's History of the United States, Daniels called «disinformation.»
I think Karen Armstrong, in the good book you mentioned, «A History of God», calls herself a «freelance monotheist».
In a book called «On the Road to Civilisation, A World History» (Philadelphia 1937) it said, «Early Christianity was little understood and was regarded with little favour by those who ruled the pagan world... Christians refused to share certain duties of Roman Citizens... they would not hold political office.»
There is a great resource for the history of the Bible & its translations in a book called «Misquoting Jesus» by Bart Ehrman.
It is significant that the history of the first - century church is called the book of Acts, not the books of Truths (p. 72).
Although this sounds like something out of a history book, the laws took place in the summer of 2016 under Russian law called the Yarovaya package.
In the first chapter of my book Through the Moral Maze, * I talk about the most significant of those periods of great intellectual change in human history, the so - called «Axial Period» about 2,5 OO years ago, also sometimes called the period of «The Great Awakening.»
Those who shudder at inscriptions on monuments or passages in history books which refer simply to «the Great War» or «the World War» — written as though what we call World War I would indeed prove to be «the war to end war» — will feel saddened to read her portentous observation that «we have no guarantee that it will not recur.»
Leahy is a deeply contemporary and a deeply Catholic thinker, and his first book, Novitas Mundi (1980), intends to be a revolutionary breakthrough to an absolutely new thinking, and while conceptually enacting the history of Being from Aristotle through Heidegger, at bottom this book is an apocalyptic calling forth and celebration of the absolute beginning now occurring of transcendent existence in pure thinking itself.
The final history is an editorial creation in which a work called «The Book of the Acts of Solomon» (11:41) is no doubt the source of reports of Solomon's varied administrative actions, but which freely incorporates long current lore about that fabulous reign, and here and there the candid editorial judgment of DH.
its called reading a history book and research.
The real evil here are the so called «christians», but that should surprise no one who can read a history book..
It is not without reason that some have called the Bible the bloodiest religious book in human history.
Saying that there is no Creator YHWH, is like saying that there was never a Nebuchadnezzar, no Solomon, no David, and that there was no Cyrus the Great the Persian, all who are wrote into our own world history, as well as in this book of remembrance, the so called OT, also called the bible.
Jeannine, you may say that the book of remembrance, the so called OT, is written over 2000 years ago, and that is true, but did you know that this book is juxtaposed, that means that it is a comparison to what has already happened, to what is going on today, and is now repeating itself, as is history repeats itself.
Samantha Power's «A Problem from Hell»: America and the Age of Genocide, Michael Ignatieff's work on the former Yugoslavia, Philip Gourevitch's book on Rwanda, and many other powerful works are both studies of the recent history of genocide and calls to action.
Four essays represent Wach's third and last phase: «Radhakrishnan and the Comparative Study of Religion,» which appeared in P. A. Schilpp, ed., The Philosophy of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1952), pp. 443 - 58; «Religion in America,» which was based on notes from lectures given at various universities in the United States; «On Teaching History of Religions,» which appeared in a memorial volume to honor G. van der Leeuw called Pro Regno Pro Sanctuario (Nijkerk: G. F. Callenbach, 1950), pp. 525 - 32; and «On Understanding,» which appeared in A. A. Roback, ed., The Albert Schweitzer Jubilee Book (Cambridge, Mass.: SCI - Art Publishers, 1946), pp. 131 - 46.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
«Conspiratorial theories of history are easy to create once you are prepared to ignore the realities on the ground, or regard those who do take them into account as part of the conspiracy too,» writes Ronald Radosh in a review of a new book called American Betrayal, by a conservative....
«Conspiratorial theories of history are easy to create once you are prepared to ignore the realities on the ground, or regard those who do take them into account as part of the conspiracy too,» writes Ronald Radosh in a review of a new book called American Betrayal, by a conservative writer named Diana West.
(ENTIRE BOOK) This book summarizes the history of the Christian religion, directing attention to the challenges it has met, the failures of many of its most loyal adherents to live up to «the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,» and some of the achievements in seeking to make that calling a realBOOK) This book summarizes the history of the Christian religion, directing attention to the challenges it has met, the failures of many of its most loyal adherents to live up to «the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,» and some of the achievements in seeking to make that calling a realbook summarizes the history of the Christian religion, directing attention to the challenges it has met, the failures of many of its most loyal adherents to live up to «the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,» and some of the achievements in seeking to make that calling a reality.
I would suggest a book called the god makers, and another called no man knows my history.
This darkness Thallus, in the third book of his History, calls, as appears to me without reason, an eclipse of the sun... Phlegon records that, in the time of Tiberius Caesar, at full moon, there was a full eclipse of the sun from the sixth hour to the ninth — manifestly that one of which we speak.
This book is deliberately called a history of Christianity rather than a history of the Church or Church history.
Leon Lederman, the well - know physicist in his book on the history of particle physics, The God Particle, (GP 175) expresses the unavoidable finitude as a limit of knowledge expressed by what Max Planck called the «quantum of action,» now known as Planck's Constant: «Heisenberg announced that our simultaneous knowledge of a particle's location and its motion is limited and the combined uncertainty of these two properties must exceed... nothing other than Planck's constant, b...
Which suggests that it always took sophistication, even on the frontier where books were few, to work one's way across history, to forget what today we call hermeneutics and to claim to be replicating, restoring, repristinating, the pure norms of early Christianity.
One reader noted that the reported history of the Book of Mormon has been seriously called into question by archeology.
Its long history attests to that fact, for as British food writer Jane Grigson tells us in her lovely book «English Food», as far back as 1660, Robert May in his «The Accomplisht Cook» has a recipe for «Cinnamon Toafts» that calls for putting a mixture of cinnamon, sugar and claret on toast and then warming it over the fire.
Loved this article from the author about how the novel relates to the world today, and this bit: «One of my rules was that I would not put any events into the book that had not already happened in what James Joyce called the «nightmare» of history, nor any technology not already available.
Indeed, The New York Times book reviewer observed: «Here at last is what may serve as the first textbook for what should become a new sub-discipline; call it Alimentary History I.» Tannahill continued, «And it came to pass.
This book is definitely one for the history buffs — we wouldn't exactly call it beach reading, but hey, at least there are illustrations.
«As I've gotten older, and I've read more books and talked to more people,» says Brian Fremeau of Football Outsiders, «the history of college football that I have come to understand more fully has produced such a rich culture, richer than what I would call the â $ ˜ sterile» culture of professional sports.
He's also written books, most notably a history with Alan Steinberg called Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African - American Achievement.
In 1944 he wrote another book called Childbirth Without Fear which stressed overcoming the fear of giving birth and the advantages of the type of physiologically normal childbirth pregnant women have had earlier in history.
I do wonder what the history books will write about the person who called this referendum.
He called on the the government to include the book among the History literatures in the country.
In the book, you will find the history of what we call MMM, which was started by the family of Late Alhaji Sanni.
I was working on a short story that later evolved into a novel called The Collapsium and eventually into a series of books collectively known as The Queendom of Sol, a future history of the solar system (and some parts beyond).
Davis's new book, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Basic Books, $ 27.50), is a wake - up call for all those who have accepted the poisons of our age of plenty without a blink.
Tucked away in a glass case in a corner of the American Museum of Natural History's new Darwin exhibit, the page is one of only 28 to survive from the original manuscript of what many called «the book that shook the world.»
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