Sentences with phrase «essay collections about»

His books, ranging from essay collections about Paris and food to children's novels, include Paris to the Moon (2000), The King in the Window (2005), Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York, (2006), Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (2009), The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food (2011), and Winter: Five Windows on the Season (2011).

She has worked in museums including the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, and Tate, as well as for the artist Jenny Holzer and the investment firm D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. Amy is the author of Museum Legs, an essay collection about the creative life of museums and the public life of art.

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The first piece in the collection, the title essay, was written in the days immediately following the attack, and Amis himself expresses reservations about it in his author's note: It «indulges in... a reflexive search for the morally intelligible, which always leads to the chimera of «moral equivalence.

It is instead a collection of six free - standing essays about six very different writers: John Henry Newman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

On the other hand, if the pluralism is simply an ad hoc collection of exegetical tools, then, for all their several excellencies, these essays do not show much of anything about whether there is a useable process hermeneutics.

In the recent book, Why I Changed My Mind about Women in Leadership, which is a collection of essays from prominent scholars, theologians and pastors, more than one writer concluded that the same logic used to defend the «separate but equal» status of slaves, is still in use today.

• I came across Chamfort's observation about slavery and freedom in The Hall of Uselessness, a wonderful collection of essays by Simon Leys, the pen name of scholar and literary critic Pierre Ryckmans.

For those in a lectionary - based tradition, the collection of essays in Social Themes of the Christian Year demonstrates a way of thinking theologically about the liturgical seasons in order to discern their prophetic dimensions.

The book is a collection of introspective and irreverent essays where Miller writes about everything from questioning his faith to growing up without a father.

Also in October, Brazos Press published a collection of essays, Anxious About Empire, edited by Wesley Avrain of Yale Divinity School.

It is instead a collection of six free - standing essays about six very different writers: John Henry Newman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene,....

(ENTIRE BOOK) A collection of essays by prominent physicists, biologists, geneticists, zoologists, philosophers and other thinkers about the relationship between science and philosophy, particularly the teleological versus the mechanistic explanation of the universe.

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.

«Known for her wide - ranging feminist writing about everything from princess culture to breast cancer, Orenstein presents a collection of her essays that are both striking and timely (like «How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump»).»

Lela Davidson is the author of Blacklisted From the PTA, a collection of irreverent essays about motherhood and family.

Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting edited by Ann Hood — This collection of essays was not a complete hit, but the ones I connected with were worth wading through the others to get to.

Her call came in a collection of essays about the state of the economy compiled by thinktank ResPublica.

The 41 - year - old was co-author of the Orange Book, a 2004 collection of essays by Lib Dem rising stars about the party's future policy direction.

He is editor of a collection of short stories and essays about science written by Puerto Rican scientists and is currently piloting a project engaging K - 12 students in learning and conveying, through podcasts of their own, the concepts taught in the book.

«What matters is not the facts,» he wrote in The Devil's Chaplain, a recent collection of essays, «but how you discover and think about them.»

Her essays about food and travel appear in various publications, including The Austin Chronicle, and collections, including Greece: A Love Story, and Italy: A Love Story.

Here is a 2 - minute promotional video for humorist Mark Miller's «500 Dates: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Online Dating Wars», a collection of humor essays about Miller's experiences in the world of dating and romance.

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.

She's also kept busy with the Girls Trip momentum, releasing a Showtime stand - up special and announcing the release of an upcoming book, The Last Black Unicorn, a collection of personal essays about her tumultuous life and rise to stardom.

The titles of her collections of reviews and essays, with their suggestive sexual and romantic overtones — «I Lost It at the Movies,» «Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,» «Deeper Into Movies,» «Reeling,» «When the Lights Go Down» — told you everything about her approach to movies.

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, the beloved collection of poetic essays about the human condition, receives an animated treatment in the appropriately titled Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.

About Prieur I can say a little more, because I own a rather good 1980 collection of his film criticism, Nuits blanches («White Nights»), that includes an essay on «Artaud and the Cinema»; the book's jacket informs me that Prieur was born in Paris in 1951, writes on film and literature, and is — or was — the film critic for La nouvelle revue francaise.

I love the subgenre of memoirs about food, so I've loved Comfort Me with Apples, by Ruth Reichl, and Home Cooking and More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin — collections of very homey essays about dinner and cooking.

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 annual Title II collection asks providers about 15 common admission requirements, including the applicant's subject area, transcript, overall grade - point average (GPA), content GPA, professional GPA, credits, scores on ACT / SAT / basic - skills tests, essays, interviews, recommendations, fingerprint and background checks, and «other.»

Independently, in 2010 Edward edited the anthology 20UNDER40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century, a collection of 20 essays about the future of the arts sector written by young and emerging arts leaders under the age of 40.

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

I've kept essay collections next to my bed, mostly about eating, cooking, and sitting with family around the table.

In this riveting collection of personal essays about racial identity, blacks and whites, young and old, talk with candor and passion about both the privilege and the prejudice, and how they are negotiated, challenged, or ignored.

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.

Better yet, an essay earlier in the book from which that line was taken — Songbook, a collection of 31 essays about songs — centered on a Ben Folds song.

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.

Lethem has since published Men and Cartoons, a collection of short stories, and The Disappointment Artist, a collection of essays, in addition to his 2007 novel about a complaint - line phone operator who incorporates her callers» words into her band's lyrics, You Don't Love Me Yet.

Book reviewers, given their title, generally review novels, short story collections, nonfiction, biographies, memoirs, essay collections, and just about any bound set of...

After several years of physical therapy, he was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, an experience he wrote about in the collection of essays, Meditations from a Moveable Chair.

In this collection of essays and observations, Lende writes with grace and humor about challenges and triumphs both personal and communal, and captures the spirit of community that infuses her small town.

We asked Blauner to tell us more about how the collection was assembled and what he — a lifelong Beatles fan — learned from reading the 29 essays.

Former Gawker editor Emily Gould (who now is the co-proprietor of Emily Books) is known for her frank - to - a-fault writing — and the much - written - about (by Gould as well as others) flop of her 2010 memoir / essay collection, And the Heart Says Whatever.

Next up is a collection of short fiction, and after that a selection of essays about imagination, destiny, and the writing life.

Here's a fine example of a reference set that lends depth to its A — Z entries by offering introductory essays, more than 50 maps, a comprehensive bibliography of about 20 pages, a glossary defining more than 100 words and terms, and a collection of primary documents that should satisfy any scholar of the period.

Chozick discusses her time covering Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail, and Sloane Crosley talks about her new collection of essays, «Look Alive Out There.»

So I put my first ebook up about my disease (mostly a collection of stories and essays about dealing with a rare disease).

That is what qualitative research is about and that is what this collection of essays is about: How researchers seek to understand other human beings in their own terms in their own contexts and in their own...