Sentences with phrase «book recounts»

Post's book recounts how at one time a single person, Jon Postel, then a graduate student at UCLA, stood at the center of the labyrinth.

After explaining my lifelong efforts to promote environmental protection, the book recounts my personal journey of discovery into the climate issue, and explains why I believe that the environmental movement is pursuing a green energy fantasy, why a major course correction is needed to bring it back to reality, and how that might be achieved.

This excellent book recounts the 1900 hurricane, estimated to be a category 4, that made landfall on September 8, 1900.

In the process the book recounts Braque's early popularity in the United States, including his first major retrospective in America, and the critical reception of his work in Europe.

A new book recounts how Ernst Beyeler became one of the world's most powerful modern - art dealers Read More

The book recounts how Wardlaw was raised on a farm in Mississippi and emerged from his modest beginnings to become a member of the New York avant - garde art scene of the 1950s and 1960s and, later, an influential teacher.

Szpiro's remarkable book recounts the story of how a geometrical puzzle worthy of the most voracious sphinx finally yielded to an eccentric Russian genius who has since refused the honors proffered by an astonished world.

THIS BOOK RECOUNTS what happened at Memorial Medical Center during and after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and follows events through the aftermath of the crisis, when medical professionals were arrested and accused of having hastened the deaths of their patients.

Jason Dean Hall is set to write the script, and the book recounts Navy SEAL Chris Kyle's exploits as a Texas native who recorded the highest number of sniper kills for an American.

The book recounts the bizarre story of a man who

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The book recounts Barker's arrival in Kabul, what it was like being a woman in wartime Iraq and Pakistan, and dealing with spurts of boredom and violence in a «promiscuous war - correspondent culture.»

The book recounts the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack and in particular the siege of the iconic -LSB-...]

The author is a recovering vegan and in the first half of the book recounts his dietary experiences using some paleo foods to restore his health.

This book recounts this fascinating history and details all of the medicinal uses of ginger.

The book recounts the reductio ad absurdum of this system: a temporary employee doing very well at a job but disqualified from permanent hiring because she doesn't match the job's computerized criteria.

The book recounts some of the unnecessary pains we have had in the past but it also shows that we are somewhat a family.

Moving at a thriller - like pace, the book recounts the decisions he helps his patients to make and the operations he then undertakes — in both cases, often quite literally a matter of life and death.

This book recounts how the Pope turned to Fr John LaFarge, an American Jesuit on the board of America, the Jesuit magazine which had already published his analysis on racism, which Pius had read and appreciated.

The book recounts Piper's supposed experience of heaven following a severe auto accident and has sold 6.5 million copies in 46 languages.

As the year wore on, he made the discoveries this book recounts.

Countless articles and books recount the success stories of legendary value investors, yet there is very little information about:

Reinforcing the fact that this book is historical fiction and not a precise biography, my friend Dalia Mogahed (executive director of the Center for Muslim Studies at Gallup and member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) rightfully noted in her review that this «is not a book recounting Muhammad's life, but a beautiful story inspired by it... There was editorial license and creativity, and while many of the words and events have been recorded in authentic sources, many have not...»

The best chapters in this book recount O'Connor's time at the Iowa Writers» Workshop and later at Yaddo, where she met Robert Lowell (to whom she may have felt a romantic attachment) and her editor, Robert Giroux.

A review of Charles E. Shepard's book recounting the rise and fall of Jim Bakker and PTL.

History books recount the events on PT - 109 that earned JFK a medal for heroic conduct.

The «Persepolis» books recount her childhood first in pre-revolutionary Iran and then under the repressive fundamentalist regime; her teenage years as a student in Vienna, Austria, where her parents sent her after they began to fear their outspoken, free - spirited daughter might find herself in danger at home; her return to Iran in early adulthood; and, finally, her painful reckoning with the fact that it's possible to both love your homeland and find yourself utterly unable to live in it.

The title of British artist Jane Simpson's recent exhibition, «My Inheritance and Other Bloody Tales,» might have been cribbed from one of a recent crop of British books recounting sordid sagas of familial dysfunction.

Not exact matches

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.

In his book, Comey recounts Trump's many vociferous denials of a scandalous rumor from a largely unverified dossier that surfaced after the 2016 election.

But as Jill Lepore recounts in her new book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, the Amazonian princess was only as empowered as her (male) writers allowed her to be.

I discovered his first book, Investment Biker, an incredible recounting of his year - long investing trip around the world in the 1990s, while I was in college.

According to former Night Stalker CW4 Michael Durant (and recounted in his book, In the Company of Heroes), the DAP was developed in - house by the 160th using existing Black Hawks.

In «The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories,» Norris recounts a time in South Korea when he saw locals practicing martial arts.

In «The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Huck's Favorite Facts and Stories,» Norris recounts a time in South Korea when he saw locals practicing martial arts.

Goodman, whose 1998 The Mansion on the Hill is one of the definitive books on the pre-Napster music industry, recounts Edgar's rise through the ranks of the family business and his all - in bet on the music business just in time for its business model to be upended by MP3 file - sharing.

It's all recounted in Olen's entertaining book Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry.

«The Irishman» is based on the 2003 book «I Heard You Paint Houses» by Charles Brandt, which recounts the years Frank «The Irishman» Sheeran spent as a mob hitman.

Sandberg recounted the meeting in her book, Lean In:

Value investor Guy Spier, who won the lunch in 2008 bidding alongside his friend Mohnish Pabrai, recounted the experience in his book «Education Of A Value Investor.»

Memoirs would be a better book if the historian's interpretation more clearly grew out of the events recounted.

Memoirs in Exile is not a very well - written book, and it may be rather hard going for anyone not already initiated into the story it recounts.

Halfway through the book Harris» perspective changes from describing her sheltered and skewed childhood to recounting her coming of age: At college (the conservative Hillsdale), she finds her own identity, steeps herself in the humanities, embraces biblical egalitarianism, and develops an interest in journalism, which leads her to New York City to begin her career as a writer for a Christian magazine.

In the Catholic liturgy, we remember «Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, etc.» The first two of these were third century women, who, after refusing to renounce their Christian conversions, endured being sent into an arena to be trampled by wild bulls and then having their throats slit by the Romans, as recounted in Bill Bennett's well researched new book Trial by Fire.

Ravitch devotes much of her book to recounting how policy theorists and corporate executives imposed ineffective, top - down mandates on schools.

An Open Doors» worker recounts how he learned about the power of spiritual songs to fortify persecuted Christians in this extract from Anneke Companjen's new book Singing Through the Night.

Toward the end of the book, she recounts the reaction of the churchmen associated with the Christian Century to the emergence of Billy Graham — in particular, his....

Having overcome so much in her life — including agnosticism, depression, broken relationships, and even child abuse (revealed in her moving book, My Peace I Give You)-- Eden has decided to make yet another courageous decision, recounted in her last chapter: to make a promise of consecrated celibacy to Christ.

Chad is the author of God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC — a funny, insightful book that I especially enjoyed as an Alabama fan because it recounted the season in which Bama won its most recent national championship....

As the Book of Exodus recounts, Moses