Sentences with phrase «classic book example»

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Dalin quotes Newsweek columnist Kenneth L Woodward as stating that Cornwell's book is «a classic example of what happens when an ill - equipped journalist assumes the air of sober scholarship... Errors of fact and ignorance of context appear on every page».

George S. Schuyler, for example, published a witty and acerbic column in an influential black newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier, for decades, and his book Black and conservative is a minor classic in Afro - American letters.

The classic example is the insertion of the «Epochal Theory of Time» in Science and the Modern World, forcing the eventual transformation of what, in that book, had initially been a Spinozistic approach to creativity as the one, undifferentiated underlying activity (with «events» of varied temporal duration as the «modes» of this underlying process) toward the Leibnizian monadology of actual entities (each a kind of time - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and Reality.

(The «We» of the book of Genesis is one early and classic example: God says, «Let Us make man in Our image and likeness» (Gen. 1:24).)

The classic example of this is in the book of Job where Job's four friends tell Job that the only reason bad things are happening to him is because God is punishing him for some sin.

AFACT and PBTL are classic examples of the types of front groups and campaigns described in the excellent book, «Trust Us We're the Experts,» by John Stauber, founder of the Center for Media and Democracy and PR Watch.

A classic example is an inspirational comic book, written about the life of Tom Landry, the Dallas Cowboy coach who is also chairman of the national board of trustees of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the best - known and most influential of the Sportian organizations.

Each classic serves as a different «primer» for a variety of categories, so — for example — Pride and Prejudice teaches counting, Les Misérables introduces French, and The Jungle Book covers animals.

In 2007, for example, he told an interviewer that his favorite book is the science fiction schlock classic Battlefield Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard.

Nevertheless, «Little Women» is a nice example of an idealistic, classic American book becoming a classic American movie.

As Bruno Manno and I note in our just - released book Customized Schooling, it's a classic example of the kind of problem - solving that becomes possible if we can think beyond the strictures of whole - school reform.

Mole Music is a perfect example of that classic picture book maxim.

For example, when I noticed that Shayla loved books about animals, particularly horses and dogs, I used her interest in Laurie Halse Anderson's Vet Volunteers series to suggest more challenging books like Anna Sewell's classic Black Beauty.

For example, The Accusers is probably best described as a courtroom thriller but other books in the series have been written in the style of police procedurals, classic whodunnits and thriller - style adventures.

An example would be the popular classic book How To Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie.

Here are just a few other great examples, which run the gamut from light - hearted to more serious: The classic book in the «body swap» genre is, of course, Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers.

For example, if you do a search for a classic book like Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, you see a lot of editions.

For example, I bought a series of classic children's literature at a used book store recently, but even though I've wanted to read this series for a long time, I can't bring myself to read them because I just don't like the weird, abstract covers of the edition I got.

In other places, classic trompe l'oeil works like that of Richard Shaw's 1980 ceramic sculpture rub up against more ironic examples of the genre, such as Robert Gober's 1989 handmade bag of kitty litter and Steve Wolfe's 1994 - 96 box of books, both of which fool the eye effectively.

For example, his books «Fin de Copenhague» (1957) and «Mémoires» (1959) were made in collaboration with the painter Asger Jorn and use the classic modernist drips of color prominently as means of composition.»

The book discusses the difference between «good» and «great» companies and the classic examples of the Hedgehog Concept and Getting the Right People On the Bus.

There are many ways to do so, from journaling exercises and career assessments to books (Richard Bolles» What Color is Your Parachute is the classic example) and career coaches.