Sentences with phrase «books about middle»

Or books about middle - aged women whose husbands have divorced them unexpectedly and now find love with a younger man.

Not exact matches

«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

«Diary of a Wimpy Kid» best - selling author Jeff Kinney talks about the tenth installment in the middle - schooler's book series, brick and mortar book - selling and the global phenomenon of growing up a wimpy kid.

Christopher M. Schroeder is an Internet venture investor and the Washington - based author of «Startup Rising,» a new book about a largely unrecognized revolution that has been quietly changing the landscape of the Middle East: tech start - ups.

Buddhism (in its true form) provides a guide to the elimination of suffering, not deity worship; in fact never talks about God or gods in the sense the west does... FYI Buddha was born 630 years before Jesus, and it is proven that Buddhism traveled from eastern India all the way to Syria and the Middle East via the Silk Road... i am quite sure Jesus had heard some of his teachings... some of the things that Jesus says are a direct reflection of the eightfold path from buddhism... Jesus was the greatest salesman of all time... sold the most books in history... he really honestly does nt deserve worship but an Academy Award

Margaret Pokiak - Fenton — This book about a girl's experiences within Canada's residential schools is geared for middle - grades.

Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan - Fenton and Margaret Pokiak - Fenton — This book about a girl's experiences within Canada's residential schools is geared for middle - grades.

Christan beliefs are based on nothing more than a collection of Bronze and Iron Age Middle Eastern mythology, much of it discredited, that was cobbled together into a book called the «Bible» by people we know virtually nothing about, before the Dark Ages.

The temptation for any lover of Middle Earth is to write a book which becomes «Everything I Ever Wanted to Say about Tolkien».

I was in the Middle East during 911 and we were all devastated by what happened, I learned more about the Koran and that no where in that book do they allow or encourage mass killings.

Hey, after we debate what people in the Dark Ages cobbled together in a book about a ranting, apocrophal prophet from the Middle East 2,000 years ago, lets have another really worthile debate about whether Zeus or Apollo was a more powerful god.

On the other side, the ever - irreverent Wittenberg Door (June / July) dismissed Lindsell's book with a parable about a frightened cub scout who awakened in the middle of the night with a full bladder — but who was so frightened by the «monsters» outside that in the dark he emptied his bladder all over his tentmates.

In contrast to what was said about possession in the Middle Ages and times like that, that there were individuals who sold themselves to the devil, I have an urge to write a book:

Now that they are in school it's all clicking by too fast and we're talking about middle school and sleepovers, Star Wars movies and Percy Jackson books, baseball and Minecraft.

She's usually in the middle of three books, planning a party, and thinking about when she can next get up to the family cabin.

Du Boulay has certainly led a varied and fascinating life, but this book is ultimately about her spiritual odyssey from what she describes as a «middle - class, Anglican upbringing» — via transcendental meditation, Catholicism and shamanism — to her current stance; an eclectic «pick - and - mix» spirituality.

May be you need to take a trip to the middle east and see how Christians are being treated... May be you need to read books about the history of Islam.

The above beliefs are based on nothing more than a collection of Bronze and Iron Age Middle Eastern mythology, much of it discredited, that was cobbled together into a book called the «Bible» by people we know virtually nothing about, before the Dark Ages.

The above beliefs are based on nothing more than a collection of Bronze Age and Greco - Roman Middle Eastern mythology, much of it discredited, that was cobbled together into a book called the «Bible» by people we know virtually nothing about, before the Dark Ages.

The oldest Greek New Testament manuscript, Sinaiticus, contains just these books, and it is dated about the middle of the fourth century.

so excited about ur new book, cant wait to get my hands on it very soon... my favourite cuisine would be anything middle - eastern but probably lebanese as top choice!

Check out these 10 Books about Football for Middle School Readers.

Considering the goals of the offseason, though, and the rumors swirling around them, it has to be more than a little disappointing to have Murphy be on the cover of a hypothetical book about the 2015 - 2016 offseason, especially if he's going to be hitting in the middle of the order.

I've made the change about the age the book is for (sorry), and, yes — middle - schoolers will greatly appreciate the topic.

You might remember I'm in the middle of writing a book about just that.

Spock was the author of several books on childrearing that were crucial throughout the middle of the 1900s, and Margaret Mead shaped Spock's writing about maternal health and breastfeeding with her research before she used him as a pediatrician.

What Geoff says, and as I write in book, is that over the last 20, 25 years in the United States, there's been this big revolution in what we think in middle - class communities about parenting, that there's just this emphasis on the zero - to - three years that didn't used to exist before, and that information didn't really penetrate communities like Harlem.

(By definition, the recent middle - school project I write about in the book can't possibly be responsible for any recent change in college - graduation rates; the kids receiving character growth cards at KIPP Infinity are many years away from college.)

I have a lot more to say about this topic — so much so that I'm in the middle of writing a book about it.

In the interim between the two campaigns he helped Schumer with his book about how to win back the middle class.

James Stern - Weiner is a graduate student in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, and is working on a book about resolving the Israel - Palestine conflict.

Criticising the pay freeze for top earners announced by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, last night, Osborne said: «To sneak out a public sector pay announcement in the middle of a Conservative conference shows these Labour politicians are better at writing books about courage than displaying it,» a reference to Gordon Brown's book Courage: Eight Portraits.

Humans, happily, live somewhere in the middle of those ranges — from where they can write and read beguiling books about the subject.

In his book «Serve to Win: The 14 - Day Gluten - Free Plan for Physical and Mental Excellence», he reminisces about the many moments when his body simply gave up in the middle of the match.

You can read about Rich's journey to Ultraman competitor in his book, «Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself.»

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The line isn't exactly «Call me Ishmael» or «Happy families are all alike», but this first line of what was published in 1937 as a children's book began what has proved to be a literary phenomenon, an alternative religion, an endless invitation to exegesis and a major industry that has led to an immensely successful trilogy of books and films about life in Middle - earth.

The writer finally arrived - a handsome middle - aged British man - and he begins to speak about his book, «Certified Copy», which is about reproductions of original pieces of art and his theory that all copies are just as authentic as the the original objects.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Most of what I love about the book was beautifully realized, and the movie is sure to be a middle school sleepover perennial and a family favorite for generations.

Based on the 1968 comedy of the same name (which itself was based on an autobiographical book by Helen Beardsley), this remake is about nothing more than 2 middle - aged newlyweds, their ten kids, and a whole lot of chaos.

Jackson goes all out to try to deliver the most epic, most prolonged battle sequences in any of the six films set in Middle Earth, but in so doing, he's lost sight of what Tolkien's book is supposed to be about.

Based (very loosely) on the non-fiction book Imperial Life in the Emerald City, the filmmakers took a political book about the American occupation and turned it into a middling action picture.

I'm actually right in the middle of shooting a new HBO series called «Boardwalk Empire», which is based on a book called Boardwalk Empire about the birth and high times of Atlantic City.

«I still have a thing that feels guilty about reading a book in the middle of the day — which is nuts,» Anderson told me.

Based on The New York Times bestselling book «Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10,» Lone Survivor doesn't stop to ask any big questions about what we're doing in the Middle East, let alone offer any Kubrick - ian treatise on the nature of war.

He has a kinship in this way with Deep Red's Marcus (a pianist), a man in a pursuit coded as feminine, and there's the intimation early on that the central tension of the film will again be a race between a masculine means of detection (effected (affected) by a woman, Rose, who reads a book about the Mothers as prologue to the film) and a feminine means of intuition (swooning Mark's maybe - encounter with the beautiful Mater Lachrymarum — the mother of tears — in the middle of a music class).

Tucked into the middle of the book, in a chapter about teacher evaluation, is a passage that gets to the crux of the debate on accountability:

The pack includes: A long colourful display banner A display border with colourful Hermit crabs An A4 word card to use when writing about the story and sea creatures A title poster for display Word and picture cards of the different sea creatures in the story Word cards with words relating to the story on sea shells Sea creature flash cards Sea creature fact cards with simple facts about the sea creatures in the story Tracing pattern worksheets Match the label to the correct sea creature worksheet Colour photographs of different sea creatures and underwater scenes - great for discussion and displays Design a new house for Hermit crab worksheet Label the sea creatures worksheets A Hermit crab fact book to make and complete Fact posters about Hermit crabs with colour photographs Sequencing picture cards for the story Cut and paste sequence worksheet What happens next worksheets My favourite part of the story worksheet Comparing my house to Hermit crabs house worksheet - with different version for different abilities Cut and paste the months of the year with pictures of the corresponding sea creature Month cards for display with corresponding sea creatures Beginning, middle and end worksheet Count the different sea creatures on the shell worksheets An alphabet line on Hermit crabs A number line to 30 on different sea creatures A crab face mask to make - in colour and black and white Writing paper with themed borders Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves.