Sentences with phrase «book essays for»

Maybe you have been editing your friends blue book essays for years.

Author Steve Hockensmith has written a hilarious behind - the - book essay for BookPage, in which he confesses to his life - long dream of writing a «prequel to a best - selling book about English girls who kill zombies with kung - fu.»

Ever since Dolen Perkins - Valdez wrote a behind - the - book essay for BookPage.com, I've been curious about her debut novel, Wench.

By the way, I will definitely be picking up Deadly Kingdom after reading Grice's behind - the - book essay for BookPage.

In a behind - the - book essay for BookPage in April, Gee told us that the story was inspired by her real - life experience.

Not exact matches

In an essay in Five Good Ideas: Practical Strategies for Non-Profit Success, a 2011 book edited by the Maytree Foundation's Alan Broadbent and Ratna Omidvar, Saul instructed his fellow non-profit leaders to «embrace your inner entrepreneur.»

The book, which the first daughter and White House adviser wrote while her father was running for president, reads like a mashup of countless essays and articles written in the past decade aimed at female entrepreneurs.

In his upcoming book, «Things Are What You Make of Them,» Kurtz shares a mini-collection of inspirational essays and «no - nonsense advice» for «creatives.»

In his upcoming book, «Things Are What You Make of Them,» Kurtz shares a mini-collection of inspirational essays and «no - nonsense advice» for anyone seeking encouragement.

This essay was prepared for a forthcoming book on the impact of law on the U.S. economy.

Endorsed by 22 prominent business and environmental leaders including Chicken Soup co-creator Jack Canfield and innovation blogger / author Seth Godin, the book also includes guest essays from Cynthia Kersey (author of Unstoppable and Unstoppable Women) and Frances Moore Lappé (author of Diet for a Small Planet and many other books on food and democracy).

These include the leading textbook on accounting used in law schools, a popular narrative on contracts, and best - selling books on Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett (The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America and Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values).

He has published numerous books, including The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, in collaboration with Warren Buffett, and The AIG Story, with Hank Greenberg.

In fact, he makes me suspect that what I really need for my Five Conceptions of Liberty project (see below) are books or essays that discuss the relation between the «libertarian» con - law guys I mention, and such fusionism.

We have expanded the essays on our web site to include short book reviews, and I thought he would be a good candidate for some of the offerings in ethics and philosophy that we receive from publishers every week.

For not taking up this point in my Simon lecture and this essay, I can only plead the limits of time and space; should my essay find itself growing into a small book some day, that crucial point (and others) will be addressed.

But for me the finest and most moving essay was the last one, devoted to one Matthew Shanahan, a man otherwise unknown to the world, who was going blind and whom the author met while he was reading aloud books at a Jewish home for the blind: «Matthew Shanahan was as Irish as Joseph Epstein is Jewish....

As Jacobs wrote several years ago in an essay titled «Christianity and the Future of the Book» for The New Atlantis, «There is an intimate connection between the Christian message, the Christian scriptures, and the codex.»

I just loved the original Winnie - the - Pooh books by A.A. Milne and all of those chapters started with «In which...» I have always hated titling posts — in fact, for a good long time, I just published essays without titles, if you can believe it.

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

Two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Turkish author Orhan Pamuk published an essay in the New York Review of Books (titled «The Anger of the Damned») in which Pamuk, who is often mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Prize, tried to explain the violent resentment that Muslim societies feel towards the West.

The title of Irving Greenberg's collection of essays» For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity» neatly captures the thrust of the book.

This perhaps reflects the fact that the book is a collection of essays and this may also account for the sense that the chapters are addressing different audiences.

His essays have appeared for 30 years in the New York Review of Books.

The introduction to notes that the book's essays «focus on the urgent and far - reaching changes in ecclesial governance, administrative style, and financial accountability called for if the congregation of the faithful in the future is to fulfill its hallowed aspiration to be the salt of the earth and the light of the nations.»

The book itself (published in London by the SCM Press and scheduled for publication in the U.S. in September by Westminster Press) consists of ten essays by a group of professional theologians.

Fox - Genovese's book, published posthumously by a former doctoral student who is effusive in her praise for her teacher, combines three lectures delivered at Princeton in 2003 with five previously published essays and concludes with a praise - filled eulogy by Princeton professor Robert George.

They think the five porches around the pool represent the five books of the Law, that the thirty - eight years the man has been coming to the pool stand for the thirty - eight years the children of Israel were in the wilderness before they essayed to fight their way into the promised land (Deut.

Derr has been thinking and writing about environmental ethics for many years, and his essay alone makes the book well worth the price.

Although these essays were written over a span of time and for different audiences, they are held together by K.Cs deep and passionate concern for justice, peace and the integrity of creation, This is a book that should be read and studied by churches, grassroots people, policy makers, theologians and others who are seeking to create a world that is safe for all.

Essentially, it continues the chase after the youth market for reasons first extrapolated in a 1954 Robert Warshow essay on then burgeoning pop culture (specifically comic books) that identified the appearance of «newness» as the basic attraction for a targeted audience.

In 2004 Rutba hosted a conference that led to the publication of a book, School (s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism (Wipf and Stock), which includes essays on such topics as «Relocation to Abandoned Places of Empire,» «Sharing Economic Resources» and «Peacemaking in the Midst of Violence and Conflict Resolution.»

I am grateful for Abingdon's permission to include in this book several paragraphs [see n. 25] that are almost identical with paragraphs in the earlier essay.

There are, as one would expect, several essays in the book on Jews and Judaism, some reflecting Kristol's religious interests» the need, for example, to sustain in Jewish identity a religious element and not merely a cultural one» others his political ones, exploring the relations of modern American Jews with a pluralistic American society that has given them an uncommonly large, though not unlimited, berth.

His idea of a «new synthesis», proposed mainly in his book Catholicism: A New Synthesis and developed in his many theological and philosophical essays, was an attempt to grapple precisely with the issues we have spoken of: the post-Cartesian «turn to the subject» (that is: the loss of faith in the objectivity of knowledge and the subsequent exclusive concern of philosophy with the self and the subjective idea as the norm of «truth») and the philosophy of evolution with its implications for a dynamic rather than a static universe.

With funding from the Lilly Endowment, the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford undertook the massive task of assembling scholars and data and producing eight books, each containing both demographic overviews and focused essays on the features that distinguish each region's religious life.

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).

See the concluding essay of Keen's book, To a Dancing God (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), entitled «The Importance of Being Carnal — Notes for a Visceral Theology.»

These essays are crucial for any assessment of MacIntyre's position: Arguments and observations he makes in his books were often first developed in articles, and defended later in other articles, not widely available.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A collection of essays written by Islamic leaders for Western readers.

The book is 230 pages of previously unpublished essays, lectures, and sermons, an unexpected feast for those who have a cultivated taste for Niebuhr.

However, as this book is basically just a collection of essays and interview transcripts, I do not think that this book is the most helpful for a reader who wants to understand Girard's mimetic theory.

The final essay was written by Eliade specifically for this volume and is of particular interest as it is his first public response to Altizer's book Mircea Eliade and the Dialectic of the Sacred.

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.

And when I asked for more, you sent me poems, essays, books, articles, encyclopedia entries, and even songs — little gifts that softened my defensive posture by infusing me with fresh curiosity.

For the sake of the individual authors, I won't say which essays I didn't care for, although, since I was looking for specific information for a book I am writing, the fault was probably not with the authors themselves, but with the question I was researchiFor the sake of the individual authors, I won't say which essays I didn't care for, although, since I was looking for specific information for a book I am writing, the fault was probably not with the authors themselves, but with the question I was researchifor, although, since I was looking for specific information for a book I am writing, the fault was probably not with the authors themselves, but with the question I was researchifor specific information for a book I am writing, the fault was probably not with the authors themselves, but with the question I was researchifor a book I am writing, the fault was probably not with the authors themselves, but with the question I was researching.

Here we shall profit from following the thought of R. P. Hanson, who in several recent essays and one or two books has urged that talk about «inspiration» has come to be very problematical for us.

Whitehead's ideas about education are contained in Whitehead, Alfred North, The Aims of Education and Other Essays (New York: A Mentor Book, The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1963), and in the final chapter of his Science and the Modern World (New York: A Mentor Book, The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1956), Chapter XIII, «Requisites for Social Progress,» pp. 192 - 208.

Schubert Ogden has written an essay on «The Strange Witness of Unbelief» (included in his book The Reality of God, SCM Press, London, 1967), in which he demonstrates how often it is the very negators of meaning whose way of life, attitude toward others, and struggle for a «better world» exhibit a dim yet pervasive feeling of significance in the world and in their own existence, a sense of meaning that (as Ogden argues and as I believe) is a hidden working of divine Love in their hearts.