Sentences with phrase «books as a generation»

If we are not careful we are going to go in (to) history books as a generation that ignored issues.

In fact, PlayStation 3's still selling so well in its twilight that there's a genuine chance it can surpass the Wii's 100 million mark and enter the books as this generation's biggest seller hands down (let's be clear: no - one is buying Wiis anymore).

Not exact matches

These links between happiness and time use are worrying news, as the current generation of teens (whom I call «iGen» in my book of the same name) spends more time with screens than any previous generation.

As William Strauss and Neil Howe put it in their seminal book Generations (almost anybody pontificating about generational cohorts is channelling Strauss and Howe, even if they don't realize it), «More than anyone, they have developed a seasoned talent for getting the most out of a bad hand.»

She joked that it was because her mom was «too lazy to roll the dice» as part of a password generation method called Diceware that she discovered in her book research.

«As a second - generation artificial intelligence technology entrepreneur, I believe anyone who wants to start their own business or has already started their own business can benefit from the proven techniques in this book.

As Oppenheimer airs out the dirty laundry of generation after generation of Johnsons, the book threatens to become a wearying trudge.

When we hit 5,000 backers, you got a free hour - long webinar from Alex Osterwalder as well as exclusive posters and excerpts from his books Value Proposition Design and Business Model Generation.

Also, much has been written over the past 2 - 3 years about the importance of buyer personas, but these articles, books, and blog posts have stressed them as profiles or lead - generation tools as opposed to a best practice that informs on business, sales, and marketing strategies that help best identify and reach buyers.

As MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee put it more recently than Keynes in their 2014 book about automation's economic impact, The Second Machine Age: «Our generation has inherited more opportunities to transform the world than any other.

And in his book, Children of the Great Depression, Glen Elder wrote that adolescents who experienced hardship in the 1930s became especially adaptable, family - oriented adults; perhaps, as a result of this recession, today's adolescents will be pampered less and counted on for more, and will grow into adults who feel less entitled than recent generations.

But as the rest of the interviews in the book show, placing social limits on art is one thing, and the Iranian revolution's destruction of a generation of artists in the name of ideology quite another.

@garbagemouth... A little inspired clarification for you.As far as Jesus telling His disciples «this generation shall not pass away» He meant the generation of humanity from the Flood to the Second Coming.There will be three judgements against sin and its author, Satan.The first was the Flood, the second at the war of Armageddon, and finally at the end of the Thousand years when the evil one is released for a short season... I pity the unbelievers who doubt the Word when the books of judgement are opened.

With these pastors, priest, popes, and elders all lying to the people, misleading the flocks, as was prophesied they would in Ezekiel 20, Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23:1 - 5, we are all a lost generation of pestilence, greed, and poverty, and this is not old people, as taught to us in Isaiah 43:11,13 - 19; that this book gives us the past, present, and future of what is going on, then, and now, it's juxtapose, meaning one must «compare» what is going on today with what went on long ago, for it has not changed any, not a bit from how people went astray then, full of pride, and are doing the same thing now, calling it good, or right, prophesied in Malachi 3:13 - 15.

As the volume's editor, Michael Sherwin, observes, this book is «nothing less than a theology of conversion and Christian vocation expressed in a narrative that traces the effects of God's mercy upon the lives of a generation searching for meaning.»

James... I can certainly agree on yr point about self - deception, but remember how long it took the «entire package «to evolve as we know it today... the first list of «our 27 NT books» doesn't appear until the latter half of the 4th century and we know that many other books (that didn't make it in) were known, read and circulated for many generations after.

There is no mention of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, published in 1992 and surely, as Bishop O'Donoghue in his document says, «the most important book published by the Holy See in this generation for Catholic education.»

For a generation to pick up a book and say, «The teachings of millenniums are wrong,» is about as self - centered and arrogant as I can imagine.

bob, gay is just another truth of the times, get over it, the book of remembrance gives us this truth in Jeremiah 50 vs. 37,38, of men being as women, and people being mad about their idols in the future generations.

For a generation or more biblical scholarship has been committed to what is known as the historical method — that is, to the aim of seeing the books of the Bible in their historical setting and understanding them as nearly as possible in the way their writers and first readers understood them.

Here he is introducing Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family by Evelyn Waugh's grandson, Alexander: Here is the story of four generations of Waughs, told with wit and brio... [it] reveals aspects of the novelist's poisonous relationship with his father, Arthur, that have never been given adequate attention... The book opens with a portrait of Arthur's father, Alexander, otherwise known as «the Brute» who... with his booming voice... and mad, piercing eyes... terrified family and associates alike.

Even before important Christian beliefs such as the canon of Scripture (list of books in the Bible) and the Trinity had been carefully articulated, the mainstream of Christian believers and leaders had a sense of the essential truths that had been handed down from the apostles and the prophets, and passed along to each generation of Christians through Scripture, sermons, and baptismal creeds.

The distinguished Cardinal Schönborn is frank in the Foreword of this book: «the period following the Second Vatican Council was one of confusion in... the Church,... not least in the educational sphere... teachers, professors, and administrators lacked an adequate understanding of their role as evangelists, charged with transmitting the faith to the next generation.

As I have said much is to be discerned in this book, for it has been tampered with by the enemies in Exodus 17 vs. 14 - 16 as prophesied it would from generation to generation, the spiritual war until this daAs I have said much is to be discerned in this book, for it has been tampered with by the enemies in Exodus 17 vs. 14 - 16 as prophesied it would from generation to generation, the spiritual war until this daas prophesied it would from generation to generation, the spiritual war until this day.

@palintwit: and we all thank you for all your hard work... maybe we should write a book of your magical feats and pass them along as holy to the next generation.

But that they were conscious of a unique vocation to write Jesus - shaped, Spirit - led, church - shaping books, as part of their strange first - generation calling, we should not doubt.»

We mention him because his Four Books of Sentences, known briefly as Sentences, for many generations constituted a major textbook in theology.

Naturally some of Novak's book has been superseded by events, such as Communism's defeat in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, liberation theology's virtual collapse throughout the Catholic world, and the rise of new generations of bishops and priests who know that economic policy is largely a matter of prudential judgment for the laity.

The bible is a story book of myths, passed down for generations, (and we know that stories get MORE accurate as they go from person to person.

It seems to the writer rather unlikely that so dynamic a figure and influence in the early church as Paul was should have faded into near oblivion, only to be revived by the publication of a book about him, nearly a generation after his death.

Both are now considered among the finest of their generation, and if Salah continues like this he may well write himself into the history books as well.

As a result of this sentiment, health care in the 19th century was primarily home - based, relying on advice books and wisdom passed through generations.

As psychiatrists and Harvard Medical School professors Jacqueline Olds and Richard Schwartz (and husband and wife) note in their book The Lonely American, we're raised a generation of individualists who don't know how to compromise.

While past generations of couples have taken the attitude of «grin and bear it» when difficulties have arisen in their relationship, these days most couples are less willing to tolerate an unhappy marriage for very long without trying something, such as books, DVD's, workshops, or couples» retreats.

Thanks for posting on this... Sadly, over the years as Babywise has gone more «mainstream,» a new generation of moms is being seduced by the promises and faulty logic in the book.

They grew their own food, built their own houses, published their own books, and, as word of their social experiment spread, created a model of care for women and babies that changed a generation's approach to childbirth.

I learnt my love of reading as a child and I hope JK Rowling's books will inspire a new generation of readers.

Magna Carta was repeatedly reissued over the course of the following century, as the 1225 version passed onto the statute books and became the authoritative standard handed down to future generations.

Perhaps a book that describes Bob Quick, the anti-terrorist policeman who decided to arrest me and later revealed the names and addresses of terrorist suspects before a raid as «one of the fi nest offi cers of his generation» should best be treated as a source of unconscious comedy.

However, the Coalition government elected in May 2010 accused Labour of having presided over «the most aggressive period of state interference in this country in a generation», typified by such things as ID Cards, the creation of a huge DNA database, and the amassing of thousands of new criminal offences on to the statute book.

manipulated historical reasons argued as this one has been included in school books for years, paving the way to a new generation of catalan - speakers that feels more catalonian than spanish

Governor Ambode also said that the feat has not only placed Lagos in the history books as the first state outside the Niger Delta to become an oil producing State, but has also opened up a new page for revenue generation in the State.

The new book Teaching and Learning of Energy in K - 12 is a product of that summit and the first volume to consider energy as a concept that cuts across the science disciplines, an approach that is consistent with the recommendations in the Next Generation Science Standards.

«The Population Bomb,» a controversial book by environmental scientist Paul Ehrlich predicting widespread starvation as a result of population growth, turned off a generation of thinkers, in part by being wrong (at least in the short term) and in part by seeming anti-human, continuing a tradition that stretches back to the «Dismal Theorem» of Thomas Malthus.

But Bell also read in Born's book that another great of the interwar generation, the Hungarian mathematician and physicist John von Neumann, had published a proof as early as 1932 demonstrating that hidden variables could not be made compatible with quantum mechanics.

As a pop - culture icon, he brought physics to the masses and inspired a generation of physicists, most famously with his book A Brief History of Time.

In addition to formal education, which only reaches the next generation, science also has to provide materials for the public at large, such as popular science books.

These increases didn't appear to be driven exclusively by people who identify as gay or lesbian, but by people who have had sex with people both sexes, says study author Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of the book Generation Me.

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Fast - paced and action - packed, the blockbuster franchise and comic book saga unfolds for the first time on next - generation platforms, as Banner scours the planet trying to find anything to help him fight his involuntary rage.