Sentences with phrase «books about their culture»

«So,» I said, «it's this book about culture and... and um... trying to avoid the constant messages that get bombarded on us every day that... ah... define who we are.»

A fantastic new initiative to reach indigenous communities and publish bilingual books about their culture.

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.

No, this book won't offer you many chuckles, but it might help readers break through our culture's unhelpful silence around our inevitable end and think through how to go about the final chapter of life with some dignity.

Ms. Huffington writes about her vision for a society and workplace culture where sleep is prioritized over pushing the limits and burning the candle at both ends in her new book The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time.

«The books that we can expect to see — rather than books about strategy and big things like vision or corporate culture — will be clearly and explicitly aimed at the individual.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

I address this topic thoroughly in my new book, TakingPoint, which is about leading organizational transformation and the role culture plays in successfully leading change.

One: books about how the financial crash happened and why (Making it Happen, The Alchemists, The Unwinding, The Billionaire's Apprentice, After the Music Stopped) and two: books about the business and culture of technology (The Everything Store, Smarter Than You Think, as well as Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton and Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, by Fred Vogelstein.)

In their forthcoming book, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization, authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey take a deep dive into several companies where employees are expected to learn about their pain points — and promptly address them.

Glueck sought inspiration for how to evolve the company's culture, and referred to Good to Great, a book by Jim Collins about how 11 companies shook off mediocrity to become market leaders.

The Literary Review of Canada is the country's leading forum for discussion and debate about books, culture, politics and ideas.

Jacoby's occasion for recycling this tired truism is David Gelernter's new book, America - Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats), which he thinks is short on arguments and full of shrill right - wing clichés about tenured radicals and rootless intellectuals.

All those religion books that were written thousand years ago by people who had no idea about other cultures or how could they make sense one thousand years later are no better than cartoons.

That is, pop culture studies can not simply be about conservatives (or Christians, or Great Books educators) dwelling upon the best moments of such culture, or otherwise using it to prove the relevance of the traditions they want to convey.

John Wilson, editor of Books and Culture, wrote about Stern's stories as part of a year - end fiction roundup in our December 2005 issue:

Although there are undoubtedly hundreds of excellent books that can serve as wise and formative guides to growing spiritually, these seven will unsettle many of the ways you think about life and faith and culture.

I don't have any real issues about the principles promoted in the book however I believe the goal is developing healthy biblical culture within a church community.

However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was so in the culture, we could have a conversation about this, a substantive, civil, sober conversation on the meaning of life and the nature of reality.

I admit I am usually skeptical about books that claim to offer a «Christian perspective» on popular culture.

I haven't mentioned Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald, edited by Welty biographer Suzanne Marrs and Macdonald biographer Tom Nolan (the most touching collection of letters I've read in years), or the latest volume in The Complete Letters of Henry James, or Catherine Lampert's superb Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting (which the painter Bruce Herman will be writing about for Books & Culture), or James Curtis's fascinating and beautifully produced William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

The interview he granted me was the first in which May talked about the background of Paulus, its contents in relation to Mrs. Tillich's account, and his concern over what the reception of both books says about contemporary culture.

If they like self - referentiality and thinking deeply about sociology and culture as much as I think they do, they will find much of interest in this book.

In some recent surveys (reported in books like unChristian and They), it appears that most people in our culture believe that Christians are about as trustworthy as car salesmen and lawyers.

He was asked by Fuller Texas professor of theology and culture, David O Taylor to give one sentence answers to questions about the of hymn filled book.

It should be noted that the book was essentially written before September 11, and some last minute stitchings about what the war on terrorism might mean for the world and American culture do not sit well with the burden of his argument.

The Heart of Virtue by Donald DeMarco Ignatius 231 pages, $ 12.95 paper Despite their occasional presence on best - seller lists, books about virtue remain something of an anomaly in contemporary culture, the impulse for serious personal reflection choked out by the saturation of the entertainment media.

In some recent surveys (reported in books like unChristian and They Like Jesus but Not the Church), it appears that most people in our culture believe that Christians are about as trustworthy as car salesmen and lawyers.

Although the book reminds us of a time when deep social divisiveness was not at the core of the culture wars, was he right to suggest that religion was an under - acknowledged party in American discussions about pluralism?

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

In his second book, he talks about the politics, binding nature and religious slavery the VISION places upon both pastor and people in church culture.

In writing these books Joanna Bogle has provided an entertaining and robust alternative to reading about celebrity culture.

The recent revelation that Mars Hill Church in Seattle paid an outside company to boost sales of its pastor's books has raised questions not simply about personal integrity but also about the very culture of American Evangelicalism.

His book suggests a background of foreboding about our present political culture, turning to the South Dakota struggle for statehood in order to identify sources for renewal.

A book about fiction that is really about culture is really about metaphysics.

Rodney Stark wrote an amazing book called «The Victory of Reason» where he argued that something like the Enlightenment is only possible in a monotheistic culture where a belief in a Creator leads to a belief in a created order, which in turn leads to the possibility of an orderly set of observations about the world that we today call «Science.»

In this book, CS Lewis mixes autobiography with the religious / philosophical history of Western culture, and writes about it in the form of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

It is a healthy thing to recall that the alcoholic's conflicts are structured by the culture in which he lives, and that they are shared to a degree by even the so - called normal individuals Within that culture, including those who write books about alcoholics and those who try to help them.

Perhaps what's most interesting about his new book - The Difference God Makes: A Catholic Vision of Faith, Communion, and Culture (Crossroad, 384 pages,...

Perhaps what's most interesting about his new book - The Difference God Makes: A Catholic Vision of Faith, Communion, and Culture (Crossroad, 384 pages, $ 26.95)- is the sheer fact of it, for no one besides Cardinal George has both the talent and the ecclesial weight to attempt what he's after in the book.

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

No matter what you believe about the role of Christians in society and culture, especially in regard to social issues like hunger, poverty, and war, Shane's book will challenge you to think and act differently.

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.

A book I am reading now is called «Sea of Faith» and its about the interaction between Christian and Islamic culture in war and peace around the Mediteranean Sea from 600 to around 1700 I think.

Books about «lust» are popular because our culture has been saturated in sexual immorality where lust reigns supreme (especially online).

Though the word myth seldom appears in American Mythos, this is a book about the unexamined «deep narratives» that shape American culture.

But one thing I want to point out about the cheeses in my book that are different from what might be commercially available in vegan cheeses is that my cheeses are all cultured.

The book includes a Reading Guide that provides helpful historical context, and a Note to Parents, Caregivers, and Educators about the importance of teaching LGBTQ history and culture to children.