Sentences with phrase «books are worth having»

Sometimes it can be hard to know which books are worth having permanently on your baby's bookshelf though.

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Gates showers praise on this exploration of poverty and housing insecurity in America, suggesting that the book is worth reading for every American who hasn't personally experienced the threat of eviction and homelessness.

You have to have an idea that doesn't exist on the market and would add value, a book that's worth the immensity of labor that will go into creating it and promoting it.

After spending all of 2016 meeting, befriending, and interviewing «top - performing» Millennials who've started companies worth billions of dollars collectively and influence hundreds of millions of people every month, Jared Kleinert wanted the readers of SBDIB to be the first to read his new book.

For example, we wanted to attract high - achievers and entrepreneurs (because we knew they'd be our best backers), so we designed a «Productivity Bundle» worth over $ 1,000, which included our journal, business books, a brain fitness tool and coffee.

Students have long tended to live on a campus while at university, and continuing this practice reassures parents and kids that they are getting their money's worth, just like people visiting lawyer's offices may be reassured by walls lined with leather - bound law books.

In total, they are worth more than $ 850 million, and collectively they have written more than 20 New York Times bestselling books.

Though somewhat tattered, the book, which has sold for more than $ 2 million in mint condition, was still worth about $ 200,000 - at least until he showed it to his aunt and the pair tore the back cover in a scuffle, reducing the value to a mere $ 137,000.

Beijing has proposed greater oversight on wealth management products, estimated to be worth some 29 trillion yuan ($ 4.39 trillion) outstanding at the end of 2016, with 80 percent off the books.

If you wanted to buy Tesla, you'd have to spend more than Ford is worth to acquire billions in debt and an EV order book that hundreds of thousands of vehicles from being fulfilled.

«This analysis is about figuring out what the brick and mortar and the machinery and the inventories and the accounts receivable are worth and subtracting the debt, and you've got a book value,» says Bertocci.

The co-author of 2 personal finance books, Jennifer has covered financial topics for several national publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Worth, Money, and Newsweek, where she was a staff writer and editor for seven years.

While Mr. Munger's own comments from the meeting are worth reading, I'd suggest reading Thorp's book first.

But if you are the kind of person who dreams of business and first class travel, or someone who occasionally has to book an expensive flight with little advanced notice, then it might be worth it for you to play the travel rewards game with frequent flyer miles and hotel points.

Most value stocks have low price - to - earnings (P / E) ratios, high dividend yields, low price - to - cash - flow ratios, and stocks with a market value (generally, the stock price) that is lower than the book value (how much the company's net assets are worth).

Got ta love them Canadian banks, with BMO I'm pretty sure they have had centuries worth of consecutive dividends paid to their shareholders so I would say that bank has some good merit in my books.

The MasterTrader book that I have bought from you is worth a million dollars which I lost before I bought the master trader.

Blue Sky has sold its childcare business at up to a 23 per cent discount to what it was worth on the books.

I just can't imagine that an elaborate «cover - up» was necessary or worth the energy to save book deals, speaking gigs that only a few hundred people would read or attend.

They found that even though, «Four in 10 [Americans] say it's a book worth reading over and over,» only 11 percent had even read the whole thing once.

According to a 1994 essay in the New York Review of Books by John Maynard Smith, the dean of British neo-Darwinists, «the evolutionary biologists with whom I have discussed his [Gould's] work tend to see him as a man whose ideas are so confused as to be hardly worth bothering with, but as one who should not be publicly criticized because he is at least on our side against the creationists.

can see the value of what she has gone through, and also feel that they can try it, to save their lives, then... don't you agree that the book, just «may» have been worth writing...?

I would really like all of you to read and study First four books of the New Testament... even if you are a non-believer or a believer... if there are any few hundred pages of literature that was ever worth reading it is those 4 books.

I guess because I am not FAMOUS and did not have a TV show or a mega-church my book was not worth buying.

Unless the discussion in the preceding pages has entirely failed to make its point, it will be plain that what is being proposed in this book is (as I have said) a «de-mythologizing» of the inherited notions of «life after death», with their (to many of us) impossible assertions; and also the «re-mythologizing» — or better, the re-conceiving — of their implicit intention so that we may have a valid way of affirming the value and worth of human existence, its significance and importance for God, and its preservation in God as a reality which has affected the divine life and in God has acquired an enduring quality which nothing can take away.

Derr has been thinking and writing about environmental ethics for many years, and his essay alone makes the book well worth the price.

I hope it was a good one, most free books I have gotten have been worth what I paid for them.

Refined through the sifting process commonly called canonization but now realized to have been merely a growing recognition of what was of worth, cherished in crisis after crisis when individual and even national life was at stake, accepted by the nascent church, which presently added its own documents and formed the Christian Bible, then carried by both Jews and Christians in their far dispersion, the Bible became the supreme book of the Western world.

They take a lot of time to prepare, record, edit, and publish, and since I have a full time job, a wife, three kids, and am trying to write books, prepare courses, and run my blog in there as well, I sometimes wonder if this Podcast is worth the effort.

The book still had some great insights and is worth reading.

I hate to say it, but books that have stood the test of time are generally more worth reading than the newest hot item on the market.

And for those going into the secondary teaching, or who'd just like to get a sense of how American teenagers really are when asked about serious things, I'm sure the book he wrote based upon his years of teaching, Meetings at the Metaphor Café, is very much worth reading.

I'd like to think we did it because we didn't want to press our luck anymore, because repairs cost more than the Blue Book said you were worth, because you didn't have anti-lock brakes or passenger - side airbags, because we really couldn't have you breaking down on a late - night drive home from the airport or on a busy interstate, because of fuel economy and our deepening concern over climate change.

Ferré says, «No book has caused me more pain of authorship than this one... If harder writing makes for easier reading, without forfeit of content, the pain is worth while.»

If she'd have spent a week reading a basic exegesis book (like most 1st year Bible students read) such as, «How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth» by Fee & Stuart, instead of a year being silly (so she could write a «pop» book to make money), we wouldn't be seeing ignorant articles such as this.

Will not the bookseller say: My dear child, your toy is not worth anything; it is true that when you still had the money you could have bought the book instead of the toy, but a toy is a peculiar kind of thing, for once it is bought it loses all value.

Why anyone thinks that thier god and thier book is worth killing for... when there have existed thousands of gods and thousands of stories... is beyond me.

i was a devout believer once... i have read the bible many times from an unbiased point of view — the issues came when i asked questions and people kept sayin you HAVE TO TAKE IT ON FAITH... if faith is all thats needed, why the book, why the 10 commanments????? i have seen horrors in life, and in my lifetime — stuff that if god existed then i find him no more worth worshiping then the pipe that helps me sleep at nihave read the bible many times from an unbiased point of view — the issues came when i asked questions and people kept sayin you HAVE TO TAKE IT ON FAITH... if faith is all thats needed, why the book, why the 10 commanments????? i have seen horrors in life, and in my lifetime — stuff that if god existed then i find him no more worth worshiping then the pipe that helps me sleep at niHAVE TO TAKE IT ON FAITH... if faith is all thats needed, why the book, why the 10 commanments????? i have seen horrors in life, and in my lifetime — stuff that if god existed then i find him no more worth worshiping then the pipe that helps me sleep at nihave seen horrors in life, and in my lifetime — stuff that if god existed then i find him no more worth worshiping then the pipe that helps me sleep at night.

The fact that I have spent around $ 45,000 on books makes me wonder if it was all worth it.

When you're talking about Revelation you're talking about Jesus» Second Coming, and there are a lot of Christians who think that their religion wouldn't be worth the effort unless they personally got to see their Lord and Savior slaughter all the liberals and end democracy like it says in that book.

Everything we had at Hartwood was unusual in the best sense of the word, and totally worth the splurge, and extra effort in planning and booking, and driving there, but this chocolate mousse somehow stood out.

One oversight worth mentioning: Just one thing is sadly missing: Oat flour being one of the greatest - tasting gluten - free flours (the greatest, in this cook's opinion), and lending itself beautifully to so many bread preparations, I deplore the fact that Kathy Hester has not once thought of tinkering with Gluten - Free breads and muffins in her gorgeous book.

You» ll have to buy the book to get the recipe (and really, you need to buy this book — it's definitely worth it) but I can tell you how I made them gluten free.

I've been lucky enough to test drive several of the recipes in the book, and I agree - they're worth knowing about.

I don't even buy cookbooks anymore - all the recipes are on line, or I check the books out from the library and copy down the few recipes that i like - but I took the gamble that yours would truly be worth owning and having on the shelf.

I had stopped looking for cook books and recipes many years ago, because they just weren't worth the time or money and had perfected some of my own.

Oh, the Vegan Mayo in the book that's on this sandwich is so delicious and diabolically simple that it's worth the purchase of the book alone: you'll have no more guilt over eating oil - laden store bought vegan mayo, but you'll also stop pretending that blocks of tofu seasoned with lemon juice and pureed, or the non-fat vegan mayo versions taste anything like real mayo.

Is it a book worth having?

It has room to further strengthen its balance sheet with its 17.9 per cent stake in a2 Milk worth $ 70 million, which Mr Macleod said was «materially above» the book value of $ 10.6 million.

I just received your book (The Keto Diet) yesterday and I have only read a couple pages worth, but already I can see the similarities to my life and how this is going to give me the confidence I'm needing to continues on and fight the «haters.»