Sentences with phrase «erudite book»

Had he stopped with late antiquity I would have expressed no such disappointment, but Fowden invites some criticism by concluding an intelligent and erudite book with a set of superficial and strained reflections on multiculturalism and the global village.

The latest issue of Modern Age (Winter 2009) is now available for general consumption and features a symposium on Remi Brague's amazingly erudite book The Law of God.

Even erudite books that go viral, like Iain McGilchrist's «The Master and His Emissary: the Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World» published in 2012 by Yale University Press has not the capability to change global brain hemisphere leadership.

Not exact matches

If you have never encountered author, reviewer and essayist Edward Short, you are in for a real adventure in the pages of this book; and if you know his work already, you know what to expect from this erudite, articulate writer of both catholic and Catholic interests.

A student who submitted a book - length paper that was impressively erudite received a short response from his teacher: «So what?»

I hear a «whispering hope» when the erudite Reynolds Price writes openly about his vision of Jesus during his cancer ordeal, or when thousands buy his translation of three of the Gospels; when books of interviews with writers — like Susan Ketchin's The Christ - Haunted Landscape or Dale Brown's Of Fiction and Faith — seep into the academy.

Because we are an erudite, intellectually curious, book - discussing kind of faculty.

After all, not many historians have the intellectual range to produce erudite essays on Primo Levi's novels, yet also turn their attention to US diplomatic history or a profound analysis of current events for The New York Review of Books.

An erudite man, he has written several books and memoirs and in First Confession A Sort of Memoir (Allen Lane) he outlines his philosophy and comments on political contemporaries.

His response, in this erudite and wide - ranging book, to those who lament the expansion of numerical methods into the humanities is that they fail to realize the degree to which math has been there all along.

The Natural History of Unicorns might sound whimsical, but in fact it is an erudite, scholarly book which uses the unicorn to illuminate millennia of social and geographical change.

Dawkins begins one chapter of the book with a witty and erudite introduction to the platypus, an animal renowned for the ducklike bill grafted onto its mammalian body.

Somerset is a bachelor, an erudite loner who spends his time with books (it is he who understands the significance of the quotation from Milton left by the killer at the first crime scene).

A quick Divergent refresher course - in the trilogy of YA books by Veronica Roth, and in the film franchise based on same, what's left of society is divided into five factions: Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intelligent).

Film criticism, not without its own scandals last year, is now dominated not so much by erudite journalists but white, male geeks who, somewhere between their love of comic book movies and web design, decided they had the chops to write about cinema without relevant education or experience.

Clarke was erudite, witty, friendly, and signed all my books.

David Berliner Regents» Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University «The Mismeasure of Education is a magnificent work, an elegantly written, brilliantly argued and erudite exposition on why the «what,» «how» and «why» of effective teaching can not be adequately demonstrated by sets of algorithms spawned in the ideological laboratories of scientific management at the behest of billionaire investors... This book will serve as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of the nation's educational tribunals and their adsentatores, ingratiators and sycophants in the business community... The Mismeasure of Education will have a profound resonance with those who are fed up with the hijacking of our nation's education system.

it had been poor on imdb boards too, before they too, were disbanded by (amazon)... in that case in particular, the disbandment and destruction of - years - of often erudite commentary on movies / tv shows was compared to a book burning... which I agree with.

Our reviewer declares: «Erudite and chatty, this is a book for everyone who has ever dreamed of flying.»

If pearls of wisdom from MAD Magazine are not your style, the erudite gems from The Literary Book of Answers may be.

For me, Publishers Weekly sums things up succinctly by saying, «erudite exposition is packed into the book, so that character study and discourse occasionally grind the plot to a halt.

In this novel, erudite citations are side by side with references to comic books or the movies, and not just art house movies but commercial blockbusters.

Here's a wonderful non-fiction book that is so lightly and entertainingly erudite that you can open it anywhere and be delighted by the writing.

In between erudite and amusing discussions on writing and the industry are subtle promos about the books.

Is the hard - to - follow ending harming the book's commercial potential, or is it particularly appealing to that publisher's especially erudite readership?

He also wrote some of the most lucid, erudite, poetic, penetrating books, catalogues and essays on the subject of art and artists and curated several crucial international exhibitions.

'... a highly readable and erudite account of autobiographical memory... A rich book for holiday reading.»