Sentences with phrase «do of particular books»

The promotion that they do of particular books and the prices they charge for them are based in part on sales.

Not exact matches

If a particular author's book is just one of thousands available to a subscribing reader, for example, the idea of a refund doesn't apply anymore because there's no individual purchase being made.

The interesting thing is that you do nt have to study any religous book (and by religous book I take that to mean the authoritative book of a particular religion, like the bible, koran, etc.) to get to the truth.

Herbert Fingarette, in his book Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease (University of California Press, 1988), does not make the particular case I do here, but I believe he would support it.

(II Samuel xv - xviii) Again, if we isolate those parts which in our proposed classification would have to be labelled «Religion», some of them do not appear to have any particular relevance to the religious life as it is understood by civilized men in our contemporary world; such as the detailed regulations for the ritual slaughter of animals in the Book of Leviticus.

Everyone does this of course, but today I want to focus on how we Christians in particular tend to whitewash history, a phenomenon recently explored by blogger Neil Carter in a post engaging Tim Keller's book, The Reason For God.

Interestingly, the depictions are what would be expected of relatively primitive hunting societies, but to my knowledge, they certainly do not reflect a literate people, let alone a people who were familiar with the particular oral or written narrative contained in Genesis or this book's alleged supreme deity.

Christian theologians explore their faith within a particular community and tradition, though «keeping faith with tradition... is not at all being bound by the letter of the law; it is more a matter of the company you keep — or the books you reach for first — when you want to do your best thinking.»

Nor, in his view, do pastors fare much better in the parish, where they find themselves awash in books detailing the success stories of particular ministers and congregations and in practical how - to - do - it manuals on everything from evangelism to stewardship generated out of programmatic approaches to questions of growth, size and organizational effectiveness.

Perhaps the internet is doing all of the above and more: encouraging and unifying small religious and other movements; further facilitating scientific unification across geographic proximity, if not also creating new scientific theories and concepts; fostering the rise of new forms of spiritual irrationalism such as those discussed in Wendy Kaminer's wild book, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials; focusing the public even more on particular public personas in news, sports and everything else; creating new classes of investors who are willing to publish online just about anything, regardless of whether or not they agree with it; germinating new technological ideas that are luring capitalists who hold unreasonable expectations of financial bonanzas.

Browning's second purpose is to advocate a particular way of doing theology, one positioned between historicist and foundationalist approaches (what George Lindbeck terms, respectively, «cultural - linguistic» and «apologetic» perspectives in his book The Nature of Christian Doctrine).

Huffington Post: Shakespeare and the Book of Common Prayer One of the last mysteries left in the study of Shakespeare's plays is the biggest of them all: How do they achieve their particular magic?

I am an equal - opportunity atheist — I find nothing special about christians so don't pay much attention to their particular book - of - silliness.

If you want to dig deep into the Greek or Hebrew of a particular passage, there are scores of books that will help you do so.

How do you link a note with a particular portion of text in a book?

Sooo... The book dedicated to perpetuating a particular belief takes the low road of insulting anyone who doesn't believe it.

Do certain passages, or even certain books, reflect the structural procedures of a particular author?

If you don't have a particular ingredient for a recipe, chances are you have something on hand that could act as a substitute, and there is a whole chart of interchangeable mix - and - match ingredients in the book to help you work through that.

Yes of course I just bought your books, but I only have done some recipes and not read all of the books so I thought there was some particular reason as it is the only animal derivate I could find.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with this particular post, but I have to say this (long - winded though it is)... I currently have about 16 hours of documentaries recorded and waiting for me, 2 - 3 loads of laundry to wash, a pile of un-read books, baking of my own to do AND a beef & Guinness stew that needs making for my boyfriend's birthday dinner, and I just spent 3 hours straight reading your blog.

«We don't randomly buy product; we book long - term contracts with particular suppliers and track the quality and incoming quality of their product and grade them accordingly.

I knew of Rebecca and I knew I'd read some of her articles, but I didn't have a particular opinion of her or her writing before I learned that she was writing this book.

I think just also now from having so much more information from Alyssa's book and things like that, I know that there is a lot of other options, and so I think I feel pretty open to doing whatever would work for that particular situation, depending on my timeline and things like that.

Your personal opinion of a book as «being boring» does not make for a very objective answer — especially in light of the fact of the particular book we're talking about which, needless to say, has a few fans that disagree with you

The Bengal Famine of 1943, a defining scar on the Bengali psyche, has been infamous internationally since Sen demonstrated — first in an article and then in his book Poverty and Famines (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981)-- how famine did not occur due to «food availability decline» but rather the deterioration of «exchange entitlements» of particular groups in rural Bengal which denied them access to food.

But learning how to communicate well in stressful situations isn't something you can do by reading a book or two — this particular skill requires plenty of practice to master, and what better environment to practice it in than the gym?

It was extremely open - handed of people like you to offer without restraint precisely what numerous people could have offered for sale as an e book in order to make some money on their own, and in particular given that you might well have done it in case you wanted.

All the research of one particular ingredient like saturated fat, oils and protein are of no concern to me so I do not need any diet of the day that so many are writing books about.

He does have one particular obsession, and that is the so - called Darwin Awards, which are fictional annual awards (delivered in book and internet form) given to people who die through acts of sheer stupidity (a man straps a jet engine to his car, a woman puts an RV in cruise control thinking it will drive itself, etc.), thus taking the dumbest among us out of the human gene pool.

The research also found that although Ofsted says that its inspectors do not expect «particular frequency or quantity of work in pupil's books», 34 per cent were asked to see this type of evidence.

I give them their first choice if possible, but sometimes they get their second choice if I don't have enough copies of a particular book.

In the book, we talk about a variety of ways and we've studied a lot of great teachers who support the acquisition of vocabulary during the reading, whether it's through jotting a note or dropping in a definition or doing a little bit of practice during reading with a particular word.

In upper - middle - class and wealthy neighborhoods, in particular, they are too busy doing other things, like playing sports, studying, and following a full schedule of activities booked by their parents.

To be honest, a part of what's keeping me back from at least sneaking a few downloads to get the flavor of a particular book, is that I honestly can't do it.

They aren't having to go through gatekeepers who could — and sometimes do — keep out excellent books because they «didn't resonate» or aren't of the right «message» for that particular publisher.

Why did you vote for a particular book as your favorite of the year?

Do you think each of the mothers in this book represents her particular generation?

I don't identify with one character in particular but in most of my books the main female protagonist is a strong willed, independent and rebellious woman who struggles to beat the odds against her.

What did you think about the way Brian and Heather's relationship evolved over the course of the book, and in particular during the medical ordeals they faced?

I don't have a particular dog in the print - vs - eBook fight; I like print books and haven't yet felt the need to buy an eReader, but I see the appeal of eBooks and am generally just glad that people are reading, no matter the format.

There are endless stories of the difficulties authors have had selling a book because it didn't fit into a particular niche at the time, but once that book goes on to be successful then suddenly there are a flood of other books.

I spend a lot of time explaining why publishing in connection to a particular date or event doesn't matter if you don't have a plan and budget to get people to notice your book.

A note of caution: if your book style does not fit industry standards for your particular genre or looks too different from its immediate competition, you may be putting yourself at a disadvantage when it comes to book sales.

Regardless of which path you take, be mindful that a lot of developers do not know a lot about marketing in general, and book marketing in particular, and that's what your author website is — a book marketing tool.

(I note in particular for any of my readers in Quebec that Archambault does have the Rebels of Adalonia books for digital sale on their site, too.

I've never had any particular issues with the Nook as a device; the hardware is lovely and the current edition of the software on mine is simple and doesn't screw up what I want it to do, i.e., let me read books.

Inspired more by friends like Chuck Wendig, Will Hindmarch and Jane Friedman than Joe Konrath, et al, and emboldened by everything I learned from working with Joshua Tallent while running Digital Book World, my goal for the project was two-fold: do enough of it myself to have hands - on experience of what it takes, what's «easy» and what isn't; and to get the monkey of finally publishing this particular book off my bBook World, my goal for the project was two-fold: do enough of it myself to have hands - on experience of what it takes, what's «easy» and what isn't; and to get the monkey of finally publishing this particular book off my bbook off my back!

Instead of Bebook locking you into a particular ecosystem the way Pocketbook does with Book Land or mainstream companies launch their own store, Bebook empowers you to deal with whoever you want.

I also agree with many of the posts... - raynat Do you think each of the mothers in this book represents her particular generation?

There are lots of different characters in the book; do you view any particular character as central to the story?