Sentences with phrase «essay collection as»

That's proven a useful concept in my reading life — having temporarily exhausted my interest in a particular branch of reading, I turn to a short work or essay collection as a kind of mental tornagusto.

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«Written in 1960s San Francisco and New York, Didion's collection of essays is not so much a bundle of nonfiction as it is a long, threaded musing on her own life, set to the daunting counterculture tempo of the times,» Wang and Wolfson note.

This book is a collection of essays and talks presented by Greenleaf as he attempts to apply servant - leadership to the fields of education, business, foundations, churches and government.

Clearly the best collection of essays from a Kentucky farmer - philosopher, this book demonstrates the breadth of Wendell Berry's work, as well as his status as one of the most important commentators of our time on matters of community, land and ecology.

In a collection of essays entitled The Sanctified Church, Zora Neale Hurston described the traditions of the African American holiness and Pentecostal churches as a «revitalizing element» in black music and religion.

Not as the World Gives is built out of a collection of essays written over several years.

In 1970 I published an intellectual autobiography that served as the introduction to my collection of essays titled Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional essays titled Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional World.

In this collection of essays he addresses questions as various as marriage and divorce, immigration policy, and the importance of national holidays.

The Bible as Rhetoric: Studies in Biblical Persuasion and Credibility is a collection of essays that explore «the ways in which the persuasive (and related literary) procedures of the biblical writers cut across or reinforce their concern with truth.»

The first witness, Professor Anthony Kenny of Oxford, is the editor of a collection of essays on Thomas's thought as examined by analytical philosophers.

Vance's work is a collection of essays that he had posted at various times over the past 10 years at an anti-war web site, therefore it is not as cohesive as «Blood Guilt.»

It is also pressed in various ways by several contributors to Beyond Clericalism: The Congregation as a Focus for Theological Education, a collection of essays edited by Joseph C. Hough, Jr., and Barbara G. Wheeler.

It is an approach G K Chesterton identified and criticised in his essay «The New Case for Catholic Schools», published in 1950 as part of a collection entitled The Common Man: «If Catholics are to teach Catholicism all the time, they can not merely teach Catholic theology for part of the time.

In his 1959 essay entitled «My Present View of the World,» he argued that the fundamental entities are discrete but overlapping «events,» that the fundamental entities of mathematical physics are «constructions composed of events,» and that entities like conscious minds and «selves» are best understood as collections of events «connected with each other by memory - chains backward and forwards.

However, as this book is basically just a collection of essays and interview transcripts, I do not think that this book is the most helpful for a reader who wants to understand Girard's mimetic theory.

This collection of fifteen essays - with such distinguished contributors as Alister McGrath, John R. W. Stott, Mark A. Noll, James M. Houston, Colin Brown, Kenneth Kantzer, Bruce Waltke, and Roger Nicole - is published in honor of Packer's seventieth birthday and pays due honor to an exemplary scholar whose distinguished career has had such wide influence.

One of the philosophers who has devoted extensive attention to the concept of supervenience in relation to the problem of mental action is Jaegwon Kim, who has been considered one of the leading analysts of the concept, especially since the publication in 1993 of a collection of his essays as Superveniece and Mind (henceforth SM).

Modern Trends in World Religions, edited by Joseph M. Kitagawa, is not a systematic introduction to world religions but is useful as a general introduction for it is a collection of essays on current trends and problems in the study of world religions as seen by competent scholars who have been reflecting on the results of their research.

This article, like our August cover story, appears as a chapter in Martyrs: Contemporary Writers on Modern Lives of Faith, a collection of essays edited by Susan Bergman (Harper San Francisco).

He has used also the works of Ronald Stone, Paul Merkley, Gordon Harland, Hans Hofmann and Dennis McCann, as well as several collections of essays about Niebuhr.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

I've been so moved by it's words - it's a wonderful collection of essays - and the following in particular struck me this weekend as it echoed what I was feeling in the air.

Finding Your Inner Mama is a collection of essays by women just like that - smart, funny, and thoughtful women who like being a Mama, but are realistic in their sharing of the challenges and struggles as well.

Oh, and while you're there, check out 101 Reasons to Breastfeed Your Child as well as their large collection of articles and essays on breastfeeding.

Ford, Judy WONDERFUL WAYS TO LOVE A CHILD Conari, 1995 This collection of brief, warm essays supports loving guidance and offers down - to - earth ideas for expressing love for your child as a part of everyday life.

It's not so long ago that I was commenting on drafts of a Demos Quarterly essay by David Goodhart, who also appears in this Blue Labour collection, on post-liberalism, never having previously encountered post-liberalism as a term.

A collection of essays intended to broaden the scope of the philosophy of biology through considerations of molecular biology as a unifying perspective on life.

His book is a collection of essays, some written with collaborators, recording his experiences from his time with the Manhattan Project which saw the birth of the atomic bomb, to his role as US ambassador during the nuclear test ban negotiations in Geneva.

The book, a wide - ranging collection of essays from artists, film critics and social analysts as well as doctors, nurses and scientists, has its origins in a women's conference at the University of Kentucky in 1989.

More recently, an essay by Chapman and Alan Harris in the Sept. / Oct. 2002 issue of «The Skeptical Inquirer,» «A Skeptical Look at September 11th» was selected by Richard Dawkins as one of the best science / nature essays of the year and was published in late 2003 in a compendium by Houghton - Mifflin; it was republished again in 2009 in a collection of S.I. articles ed.

Influential writer Roxanne Gay, author of Bad Feminist (a searing collection of essays I will forever recommend), is back with a collection of stories that are as thought - provoking as they are human.

Founded in autumn 2009 by Victor David Giron, Curbside has produced a bevy of diverse and incredible books such as Franki Elliot's stirring poetry collection Piano Rats, Samantha Irby's hilarious essay... our inherent advantages, and...

Finally, each disc includes an assortment of outtakes and photo galleries, and the set contains a 58 - page booklet with four essays, one on each individual film and one about the collection as a whole.

A collection of essays offers more information about the lives and legacy of the Roosevelts and includes transcripts of such notable speeches as the declaration of war on Japan.

It means, as the book's title states, teaching the whole student, which is what this collection of reflective essays by faculty members from across the country is about.

The book also presents a fine collection of short essays written by Prof. Krishna that serve as a good introduction to Krishnamurti's work.They examine either the fundamental aspects of his teachings or enquire into important matters of life in the manner Krishnamurti furthered.

A collection of resources including some short activities, note and presentations on key issues of the play as well as example essay questions.

My first book — a collection of essays about my time as a model — was published through a website I wrote for.

Sarah Gerard follows her breakout novel, Binary Star, with the dynamic essay collection Sunshine State, which explores Florida as a microcosm of the most pressing economic and environmental perils haunting our society.

In this compelling collection of thematically linked essays, veteran film historian Thomson defines screen as encompassing everything from early nickelodeons through tablets and smart phones.

I suspect the answer will be no, as McPhee tackles lacrosse, weird food and other topics in this collection of essays (out March 2).

Nor should anything in this collection of essays be construed as an implication of such.

Not bad for a Twitter account - turned essay collection, an undertaking I wouldn't trust anyone to pull off with as much realness and grace as Broder.

He jokes that the late writer's collection of essays «will make you look super smart» on a train or plane, as you'll appear to be reading about physics, even when you're reading about tennis.

Leaving whatever one considers home can cause many emotions, as experienced in this collection of short stories, poems, and essays.

This collection includes many entries never before published in book form, including transcripts of appearances on «Fresh Air» and «This American Life,» as well as many snarky, hilarious essays.

That odd — crudely drawn yet o - so - expressive — little being represents Brosh in this amusing (often laugh - out - loud), honest and touching collection of illustrated essays about her life, from her childhood antics to living with dogs to her struggle with chronic depression as an adult — and lots of moments in between.

A collection of short, smart essays inspired by Wilder - Taylor's experiences as a novice parent, the book is full of her hilarious observations on the joys and complexities of motherhood.

The challenge includes such categories as reading a horror book, a collection of essays, a middle grade novel, a biography, a book by a person of color, a play and so on.

The collection kicks off with essays on books that were foundational to the genre (such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes), then moves on to the the heyday of hardboiled crime fiction with contributions from David Peace, Michael Connelly and Laura Lippman on classics like Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister.