Sentences with phrase «books are more to your liking»

Previews are available by looking for the ebook edition at vendor sites, even if print books are more to your liking.

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That jibes with what Stewart suggests, that certain kinds of books — genre stuff like fan fiction or romance — work better digitally, but print is still a more desirable way to digest the really good meaty writing.

If you're looking for more reading material about the Trump White House and its rotating cast of characters, here's a quick guide to some books already published and yet to come in 2018 — some of which might seem like beach or airport reads until you remember the reports are rooted in real life.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

The draw for consumers to book directly with these on - demand platforms is not the allure of «finding the right professional», but more so the convenient, Uber - like customer experience.

If you have specific questions you'd like to answer about the material covered in a book, you're likely to dive in with more enthusiasm (and pleasure), contends Page19.

And so he took his own advice, creating the «relevant résumé,» which features highlights like «Have yet to finish a book I started writing years ago,» and «Should have been more aggressive.»

In Spark's new book, Three Feet From Seven Figures: One - on - One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows, he explains that each trade show attendee should be seen and treated like one of your top five best customers: a customer who over the course of their lifetime relationship with your business will easily spend over seven figures.

Compared to traditional distractions like books, mobile technology is described as much more commanding of attention that is unpredictable and requires a greater emotional investment.

So instead of being a prescriptive book that says, «Follow these steps and this will happen,» it's more like, «Open your mind to the possibilities and the fact that there might be more opportunity today for a different kind of leadership than there was in the past.»

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

The massive bookshelves that contour the library's walls, rolling across the ceiling like waves, were designed to hold more than books.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

There's a lot to like about the copyright proposals that the European Commission unveiled Wednesday — easier access to video across the EU's internal borders, more copyright exceptions for researchers, and more access to books for blind people.

That is: If you can create compelling online content around a local store — like announcements of in - store promotions, the ability to book appointments with salespeople, and identifying the music currently playing — shoppers are more likely to get up off the couch and visit in - person.

Earlier this year, Amazon launched a freight - delivery service, and is said to be building out its own Uber - like app for booking carriers, to try to penetrate the more than $ 150 billion industry.

«There's a feeling that CNBC would like nothing more than the book, me, Brad Katsuyama, to be totally discredited.

If you simply save these rewards up, and cash them out once you want to book a vacation, you can think of a reward program like this as being equivalent to one based on points or miles, except you are given much more freedom.

Ultimate Rewards (earned from the Sapphire Reserve / Preferred) can be used at a fixed - value when booking through UltimateRewards.com but can also be worth more when transferring to travel partners like Hyatt or United where you pay a fixed number of points in those programs which are not dependent on the cash cost of that room / flight otherwise.

Topics covered include: - How Booker's parents used a sting operation to desegregate a neighborhood, and why they did it - Why Ezra doesn't eat breakfast - Booker's disagreements with Ta - Nehisi Coates - How a 10 - day fast led to a (temporary) peace with Booker's worst political enemy - How spirituality informs Booker's approach to politics - The lessons Booker took from his early losses in with elections and city council fights - What it's like to be the only vegan in Congress - Why Booker hates penguins - Whether it's cynical or simply realistic to doubt America's political institutions - Which books have influenced Booker mostAnd much, much more.

I would like to get to your level however, and I'd be very interested to know of any books or other resources which you have found useful, specifically with regards to adjusting earnings numbers to the more real earnings numbers.

Matt Ridley, for example, in his recent book, The Rational Optimist, argues that the oil sands are a much more sane solution to current energy needs than things like wind (too unreliable and too little output) and biofuels (wasteful use of land).

Normally, my response to this is the one nobody wants to hear: put the money in a savings account or savings bond, check out a book about investing from the library, save more money while you read the book, and start investing once you have the $ 1000 minimum to open an account at a big mutual fund house like Schwab or Vanguard.

The purpose of the book is to teach the reader how to think more like Charlie Munger, the legendary thinker, investor, and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.

People sometimes mention to me that I must be bitter about Bancinsurance, because I thought it was worth at least 1 times book (I thought it was worth more, but I felt reasonable people could disagree about how much more) and yet the board approved a sale of the minority shareholders to the majority shareholder at something like 0.9 times book.

My hope is that this book will serve as a blueprint for many more success stories, just like the unconventional and unexpected entrepreneurs I talked to from all over the world.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

And just so you know, the fact that more and more people like you feel the need to speak up with your hatred of all things biblical or Christian, makes people like me very happy because it tells us that the very book, the Bible, that you diss, is absolutely right because it has been warning us for hundreds of years that thoughts like yours will increase.

In short, once the influence of the market economy is added to the mix, Griffiths finds that Taylor's book warrants a Catholic ecclesiology, «something more like a rapturous self - giving to the embrace of the sponsa verbi.»

I like to give you one more Scripture referance from Revelations, the last book of the Bible, Jesus Himself speaking:: «I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and End,» says the Lord, «who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty... Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.

I do know that if I followed the guidelines of one liturgical commission, suggesting that I greet each penitent at the church doors with an open Gospel book and then lead a procession to a reconciliation room which looks more like an occasion of sin than a shrine for its absolution, the number of confessions in the middle of the metropolis where I serve would be severely reduced.

I like to think of guys like you and Tim N. who have inglorious jobs, like prison chaplain and bus driver, and yet are moving the church forward more than those who do have the book deals and speaking engagements.

Instead books and blog posts like many of you my ministry has been more person to person (I am not diminishing your ministries in anyway, I am very grateful for them, but I have quoted many of you here many times!)

She's physically more like how Anne is described in the books, that's for sure — almost other - worldly, alien in her earnestness and her scrawniness and her big eyes that are too much for every adult to look into, always prompting comments on her appearance by the look of her.

Well today I am pleased to report that Pastor Jonathan's wisdom is on fine display in his debut book, Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?

This article though sounds an awful lot more like a sales pitch for their books now that they are here in the US and have a huge gullible crop of sheep to fleece.

I feel so blessed to be able to do what I love for a living, and I'd like to get a few more books under my belt (as well as pursue more speaking opportunities) before embarking on the full - time motherhood journey.

More importantly, I'd like to see Americans get over their fear of the concept of athiesm and actually acknowledge that a man (or woman) is perfectly capable of being morally sound without having to rely on a 2,000 + year old book for guidance.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

But like you say — if most of an author's ideas and content are being pulled from the ideas of authors in other books, it is only right and fair to give them more crthan two footnotes especially if content, argument structure and illustrations are similar (credit: Jeremy Myers).

In this sense they are more like books or magazines than television, and they are entitled to the same protection under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution accorded books and magazines.

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For this reason, I am tending to lean more toward a position like that taught in books by Walter Wink, Greg Boyd, John H. Yoder, and Stanley Hauerwas.

If you would like to be entered in the drawing for this book, leave a comment below about whether you view God and the Gospel as more restrictive or permissive in life.

I am overjoyed to see a book like this, and would love to use it to help reach out even more to my local and regional community.

And yes I did go through once for me to take out my endowments after that it has been a learning experience because, like reading a book over and over or seeing a movie more than once, you learn different things depending on what's happening in your life at the time.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

More generally, one is likely to be struck by the extent to which the book addresses itself to a world of male «female relations and childrearing that has been, for better or worse, consigned to the past, as vanished as the code of chivalry» although preserved in Freidan's book as (like Whyte's conformism) a summum malum ever to be guarded against.

The more that books like this get published, the more chance there is that people will read them and begin asking some important questions about church and how to follow Jesus into the world.

I do like the progressive Christian stance as you describe it — that there may be error in many of the books of the bible — but that people, even with our limited minds, can strive to see a more perfect vision than what was written.