Sentences with phrase «book stories of all time»

Long considered one of the very best comic book stories of all time, turning Watchmen into a film was considered to be a fool's errand; its thematic and structural complexities weren't made for movies.

Not exact matches

Some of the authors mentioned in the New York Times story worried that they'd sell fewer books if the company put higher price tags on them.

These outfits have been largely hoisted on their own financial petards and now they can't figure out a way to get their deals out the door and sell their story to the public suckers without the embarrassment of a downward valuation when the underwriters actually start writing the deal book; and (3) They're already a dead dog, living on borrowed time.

Neither is geologist Liz Hajek, but she makes an exception for this book: «I don't generally gravitate toward fiction, but this collection of short stories, set in a variety of compelling places and time periods, is so creative and rich, it's been really fun to read.»

He is also president of the board of directors for Traveling Stories, a nonprofit organization working to outsmart poverty one book at a time.

By the time the book was published, they were filled with stories of his passing.

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.

Happer published a book, «Abandoned Places: 60 Stories of Places Where Time Stopped,» that celebrates these eerie sites around the world.

• The Untold Story of Napoleon Hill, the Greatest Self - Help Scammer of All Time (PaleoFuture) • How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer (Dealbook) • The Rockefeller Family Fund Takes on ExxonMobil (New York Review of Books) • Uber wants to take over public transit, one small town at a time (The Verge) see also Uber said it protects you from spyTime (PaleoFuture) • How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer (Dealbook) • The Rockefeller Family Fund Takes on ExxonMobil (New York Review of Books) • Uber wants to take over public transit, one small town at a time (The Verge) see also Uber said it protects you from spytime (The Verge) see also Uber said it protects you from spying.

He is the author of The Recession - Proof Business: Lessons from the Greatest Recession Success Stories of All Time, Extreme Revenue Growth: Startup Secrets to Growing Your Sales from $ 1 Million to $ 25 Million in Any Industry, and Bookmercial Marketing: Why Books Replace Brochures in the Credibility Age.

We could probably swap negative stories for hours about being endlessly put on hold by the front desk, waiting too long for an appointment that you need, sitting in the waiting room for your appointment that was 30 minutes ago, or being told that you need to book another appointment to address an issue because you're out of time.

Lowenstein also wrote a book I like even better — one of my all - time favorite business books: When Genius Failed, which was the story of the LTCM collapse.

It's funny how most all those books were written by men in different time periods, and yet there stories all go back and match those of the ancient Egyptians.

Obviously, we shouldn't spend all our free time on them, but video games — like books, movies and all other types of stories — are a portal into a bigger world we could not access otherwise.

As I said, authorship of most of the books of the Bible are in question and tend only to be variants of the other stories, roughly in the same time period and «neighborhood» — most often with no specific author — therefore it is very reasonable to think they are just variations on the same story.

@mama k» As I said, authorship of most of the books of the Bible are in question and tend only to be variants of the other stories, roughly in the same time period and «neighborhood» — most often with no specific author — therefore it is very reasonable to think they are just variations on the same story.»»

Her latest novel, The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), is commanding attention as a considerably more ambitious book, part of a new phase of her work that includes the poems in True Stories and the novel Bodily Harm (both published in 1981) Exposing male / female power games within an alarmingly widened field of vision, Atwood bears prophetic witness to the largest, most subtle and most violent manifestations of power in our time.

Featuring new stories from Ann's blog, powerful excerpts from the New York Times bestseller The Broken Way, and Ann's signature photography from her farm and family, this gorgeous book will be a profoundly meaningful and needed gift — not only to your own weary soul, but any loved one looking for the relief of a bit of beauty and abundant joy.

CT's past coverage of North Korea includes a canceled plan by South Koreans to light up the border at Christmas time, an interview with the author of Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad, and Carl Moeller's top 5 books on Christianity in North Korea.

In his book In Praise of Play, Robert Neale discusses in detail these perversions of play: when peace is «inaction»; when freedom is bondage to one need in our psyche which is dominant; when delight is turned into a work agenda; when illusion is maintained at the expense of other needs and is a form of mental illness; when the story is believed, the time limits ignored, and pretending becomes pretension; when a game is played at the expense of others, breaking the rules; when the risk of adventure is perverted and the gamble removed or fatalistically accepted; or when play is done in secret.

And, at the same time, to be fair, what you may perceive as a «Love Story by God» and take it «literally» others perceive it at best, a book of fiction, with some good words of wisdom now and then, to at worst, a book of an insane deity who demands obedience, among other ridiculous things, and... sent «himself» to die for «us» as we are «broken» and «flawed» / sinful» creations, and by sending his - self... if... we just «believe» we go to eternal paradise with him.

When Time Shall Be No More is so thoroughly researched and so comprehensive in scope it is difficult to imagine that any critical historian will try to retell the story for decades to come, The only real problem with this truly magnificent book is that Boyer strains to locate the significance of prophecy belief where it does not exist, or exists only inconsequentially: in the realm of secular politics.

Eliade has also documented the extreme persistence of this style of ordering life into a story which is not open to the new, in the rural cultures of Europe right down to the time of his own youth, and not only so, but he brilliantly predicted the resurgence of this kind of life story in the counterculture in a book which he wrote as long ago as the 1940's.2

Tough - guy New York newspaperman Pete Hamill praised the book as a scathing indictment of the «culture of poverty» (yes, he really uses this phrase) fostered by «Eamon de Valera's Ireland,» while the literary critic Denis Donoghue, writing in the New York Times, presented the book in much the same way (though he clearly lacks Hamill's enthusiasm for the story).

I suggest that the story of Job is the book of our time, and that Job himself is our archetype.

So to accompany the book's release, I've put together a playlist of songs that were either mentioned in the book or that were a part of my life at the time when certain stories were written.

Now Rabinowitz has brought the pieces of the story together in a chilling book, No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times (Free Press, $ 25

For alcoholics who have tried and failed time after time to stay sober by themselves, for alcoholics who have tried and failed after using any one of innumerable techniques, that which finally does keep one sober becomes «God» (Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Modern Wisdom from Classic Stories [New York: Bantam Books, 1992], p. 208; bold face added).

He made some modifications and added to the book of Ether, in which is told the story of the Jaredites, who at the time of the building of the Tower of Babel migrated to the Western world.

You have verifiable fact type books, then moral carrying fictional stories of an oral tradition which as most oral traditions go, the base stories were built up on every time they were retold and so again every time they were rewritten and translated!!!

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

I read books that extended the original story 20 years into the future, played the video games, and have even recently spent an evening at Secret Cinema dressed as Han Solo, recreating A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back (two of the greatest films of all time).

CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien frequently discussed the issue of time during their years of friendship, and both wrote about their view of time in their books, usually in the form of stories.

While patriarchy is not an overt theme in the book of Esther, it is ever - present in the story, as it is in most of the books of the BIble, written in times and cultures in which patriarchy was the unquestioned norm.

We swap books and stories and frustrations, the rules are the same at her house as at my house and let's take some time to make fun of ourselves while we're at it.

My belief in Jesus has nothing to do with the stories of the greatest fiction book ever written (again and again and again... conveniently omitting any stories written by the women of the time, I must add!!

It isn't possible for me to go into these stories in any detail in such a short time, so I thought, instead of doing that, I would like to devote my time this morning to addressing some of the main questions people have asked me repeatedly over the course of the last two years, when I was working on the book, and after the book had come out.

This is the first time you can read the whole story in one book — the whole story of Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand, who eventually founded The Voices of Martyrs.

The bible is real, its not just some story or fairy tale theres a reason its the number 1 best selling book of all time.

My review of a book that reports the story of a man who died in 1940 does not in any way purport to compromise what, in 1965, Blessed Paul VI set down in Nostra Aetate, especially no. 4: «In her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel's spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.»

The resurrection comes into this story as an unexpected development, from what the book calls «Deeper Magic from Before the Dawn of Time,» something about which the evil powers know nothing.

why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.

I'm a champion back tickler, I make good food for him most of the time, I make all the necessary appointments for speech therapy etc, I praise him for all the wonderful attributes he has and good things he does, I help him write his comic book stories, clean his clothes, and give ample hugs and kisses every day.

Robert Weintraub is the author of three books, including the just - released «NO BETTER FRIEND: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII», and is a regular contributor to Slate, the New York Times, Grantland, and many others.

Her Modern Love essay in the New York Times was not only one of the most - read in the decade the column has been running, but it also lead to her publishing a just - released book, Love, Again: The Wisdom of Unexpected Romance, in which she shares stories of other couples that found love late in life, too.

Most of my reading right now is parenting books, but at least I can help my children to escape into a good story even if I don't have time myself.

I spent almost five years reporting in Harlem, attending parenting classes and sixth - grade math lessons and basketball games and parent - teacher meetings, and the time I spent there turned out to be a period of great change, not only for Geoff and the scope of his project but also for plenty of individuals whose stories I've tried to tell in the book.

As a New York Times bestselling author of two books of non-fiction and one novel, and a lifetime performer and storyteller, I can help you get to the heart of your story and provide the kind of feedback that connects you to your own unique voice and flow.

If you're tired of reading «Twas the Night Before Christmas» for the millionth time, check out these newly released Christmas books for children: The Gift of the Magi — I remember reading the classic O. Henry story in school.