Sentences with phrase «books on practice»

He is the author of a number of books on the practice and theory of illustration, which have been published in numerous languages around the world.

He has co-authored two books on practice tips and has written numerous articles on avian anesthesia.

Five books on the practice of «pilgrimage» are reviewed.

Recently a request for biographical information led me to look again at my first book on the practice and theology of women's ministries in the church, Der vergessene Partner (The Forgotten Partner), published in 1964.

«The shift to DST has some drawbacks,» but many ill effects last just a few days, says David Prerau, who wrote a book on the practice.

He is co-editing a book on Practice with Gabriel Levine (MIT / Whitechapel, forthcoming) and is currently finishing a book on sound and ontology called The Politics of Vibration.

First book on the practice of Play Therapy in various countries throughout Asia.

Not exact matches

When McConlogue leaves to go to work, Leo spends 3 - 4 hours on his own, practicing writing code and reading one of the three javascript books McConlogue gave him alongside a Samsung Chromebook.

While conducting research for their book, The Mind of the Leader, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter interviewed more than 1,000 leaders and found that practicing mindfulness, meaning a focus on the present, achieved by meditation and other techniques, helped those leaders engage with their employees, create better connections and improve company performance.

He introduced the word in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, and used it as a way to describe how trends and societal practices catch on and become popularized.

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.

Along the way, the class also read books on leadership and discussed examples of it, so that thecourse included theory and practice.

I temporarily scaled back my consulting practice so I could focus on my new book on self - awareness.

Neil Pasricha, author of «The Book of Awesome» and «The Happiness Equation» on how to practice happiness like any other habit

Tom Cheesewright founded the applied futurism practice Book of the Future and is a regular presence on U.K. TV and radio.

Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor and leading scholar on legal ethics, argues in her book, Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice (2005), that lawyers bear an ethical duty to ameliorate «their monopoly's deleterious effects» by doing more pro bono work for those who are disenfranchised.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

This was propagated by a popular book some years back, but it's since been rebutted by many scientists who have stated that whilst practice and time spent certainly matter, the exact number of hours to become an expert on something will vary from person to person depending on multiple variables that differ from one person to the next.

Open - book management is a business practices based on radical transparency and consists of sharing financial and decision - making duties among all employees.

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.

He coleads Bain's Global Strategy practice, and he has cowritten several books on strategy, including Profit from the Core and The Founder's Mentality.

Any one focused on growing their business, no matter what stage the company is in, would do well to put the lessons in this book into practice.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)-- A small but growing number of science and math teachers aren't spending the summer at the beach or catching up on books, they're toiling at companies, practicing the principles they teach.

His books including, Influence: Science & Practice, are the result of decades of peer - reviewed research on why people comply with requests.

This post isn't an attempt to pick on Dell, but that company was highlighted in the book as one of the firms that practiced this type of behavior.

«I do find it a puzzling quality of liberal Christians that they tend to get excited when something that had been a cherished belief or practice of the Church is shown to have been false,» says Rod Dreher, commenting on a new book by a Notre Dame historian who says that the early Church's stories of martyrdom were false.

14:7) The above represents one of the most popular objections in the skeptics book, and this is their take on the meaning: Hares (or some say rabbits, but «hare» is what is in mind here) are not ruminants; they practice refection.

This model would be similar to the practice that used to prevail concerning the imprimatur, the permission granted from a bishop to print a book on Catholic matters.

In particular, there is no space for either analytic philosophy or the traditional kind of literary criticism, practiced by Robert Alter or Harold Fisch, that concentrates on the poetic imagery and the narrative contours of the book.

For more on Diana's perspective, check out this recent interview from Jonathan Wilson - Hatrgrove, or this article on the Huffington Post about the future of faith, or one of her excellent, informative books, particularly Christianity After Religion or The Practicing Congregation.

I dig deeply, remembering the cadence of the priest's voice, practicing to match the tone just right as I throw muddy socks and stained tee shirts into the washer, as I dump a basket of warm clothes on the bed, as I butter bagels hot and yeasty from the toaster oven.My kids glance warily at me over their books, leery of the chanting.

Though I do not have the time or space in the conclusion to this chapter to fully explain non-violent resistance, let me present a few of the guiding principles of this practice, and also suggest a few books so you can do further reading and research on your own.

This book does not address Scripture, but it sheds important light on the cultural norms and practices that would have shaped early Christians» understandings of same - sex sexuality.

Though I still have bad running days, my running has been on a gradual incline over the past few years, which came about through practice and by educating myself through running books, blogs and seminars.

In 167 B.C. Antiochus precipitated a full - scale revolt when, having already forbidden the practice of Judaism on pain of death, he set up in the Jewish temple an altar to Zeus and offered swine's flesh upon it (which the Book of Daniel refers to as the «abomination of desolation») Antiochus was an apostle of Hellenism and meant to bring his entire realm under the influence of Greek ways.

In his reflections on theology and politics, Catholic theologian William T Cavanaugh has focused attention on how Christian liturgical practices embody and inform — or should embody and inform — Christian political witness, His book Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics and the Body of Christ (Blackwell) is about the Roman Catholic Church's responses to the rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile during the 1970s.

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.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

In this, her second book on marriage during a career in Adult Religious Education in the Diocese of East Anglia, Anita Dowsing seeks to bite a very big bullet indeed: the gap between the Church's teaching on key aspects of marriage and the actual beliefs and practice of many lay Catholics today.

Illustrates clearly what Christopher Hitchens was saying in his book «The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice», specifically how her hospitals were more keen on proselytizing to the dying than actually helping them with their pain.

In fact, since my goal on this site is to Bring Scripture and Theology to Life, I also read lots of books about how to live life, and how best to put my theology into practice.

fat radical said, on February 5th, 2010 at 8:03 am So NP, is it ok in your book to be an openly practicing homosexual & a full paid up member of your local church, just so I am not missing the point here?

But on this occasion Taylor has reversed his usual practice and published the smaller book first.

The authors of the chapters in this book come from all sorts of church backgrounds and traditions, but rather than focus on the things that separate them from each other or from people who practice other forms of church, this book focuses on the things that unify us and bring us together in Christ.

It is possible, of course, that water baptism continued to be practiced as frequently as ever, and the writers simply stopped mentioning it, but when we understand the cultural and religious significance of water baptism in the first century Mediterranean world, and specifically the role of baptism within the book of Acts, it becomes clear that water baptism served a special and specific role within the early church which became unnecessary later on.

It was Wheeler who was asked to write the closing chapter, assessing the import of congregational studies for the future of the church, of the upcoming book reporting on the findings presented at the Atlanta conference (Building Effective Ministry: Theory and Practice of the Local Church, to be published by Harper & Row in early 1983).

After writing books on health, the «ageless body,» creating affluence, overcoming addictions, «healing the heart» and spiritual practices, he turned his attention to God.

It is a thoughtful book in which Smith reflects on the problems raised by the study of the religious thought and practices of the people of Asia, problems of historical method, of literary criticism, of language, of social organization, and of the values and standards by which men guide their lives.

In his book on AIDS, John Fortunato quotes an evangelical chaplain who began every initial conversation with gay AIDS patients with a harsh denunciation of the sin of homosexual practice (AIDS: The Spiritual Dilemma Harper & Row, 1987], pp. 103 - 104).

Moltmann's caricature of certain traditional models of pastoral care makes plain the advance demonstrated in Hunter's practice: the pastor visits from house to house, and from hospital room to hospital room, with Bible and prayer book in hand, reading a few verses from each to his parishioners, before moving on.