Sentences with phrase «fascinating books on»

- Contemporary Psychotherapy «This is one of the most exciting and fascinating books on play therapy in recent years.

While most research in passive solar design during the 1970s was directed at individual buildings, one man began forty years of research into solar oriented cities: Ralph Knowles, professor emeritus at the USC's School of Architecture and author of three fascinating books on the topic (1974, 1981, 2006).

Very apologetically, I am belatedly posting this guest contribution from David Rothenberg, a philosopher, musician and author of fascinating books on whales, birdsong and a host of other facets of the natural world.

Peter Bernstein, author of the fascinating book on risk Against the Gods has noted that historically, low dividend payouts have a striking correlation with low earnings growth over the following decade.

He previously authored a fascinating book on Padre Pio, and is a long time student of all things Franciscan.

Indeed, according to A. Roger Ekirch's fascinating book on sleep, At Day's Close, it's only since the Industrial Revolution, with its rigid nine - to - five work schedule, that a long chunk of sleep has been so insistently prescribed.

Thomas Weber wrote a fascinating book on Hitler's First World War experiences and his soldiering in the List Regiment.

Indeed, this is why so much attention has been devoted to the benefits of the «gamification» of learning practice (for a fascinating book on this, see Greg Toppo's The Game Believes in You).

The Rockefeller Foundation held a conference and produced a fascinating book on The Century of the City.

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Check out his complete guide to better thinking, or read this fascinating recent interview on the Huffington Post, which includes the books that most inspired Boyden and his unique approach to note taking.

In another fascinating interview with Scientific American, Prinstein — who has now moved on to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and authored a book titled Popular — argues that many of us radically misunderstand the concept.

Her take on Pinterest makes this a fascinating book with a roadmap on how to use this popular platform to increase community engagement, brand visibility, and sales.

His fascinating analyses of crowd behavior on New York City streets, using time - lapse photography and extensive notes and graphs, are published in his 1988 book City: Rediscovering the Center.

This book is kinda fascinating and relatively cheap on Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/066423173X/?tag=christtoday-20

The Total Woman (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revel, 1973), Virginia R. Mollenkott, Women, Men, and the Bible (Nashville: Abingdon, 1977); Helen Andelin, Fascinating Womanhood (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Pacific Press, 1963); Don Williams, The Apostle Paul and Women in the Church (Van Nuys, Calif.: BIM Publishing Co., 1977); Larry Christenson, The Christian Family (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1970); Gladys Hunt, Ms. Means Myselj (Grand Rapids: Erdmans, 1972); Letha Scanzoni and Nancy Hardesty, Al1, We're Meant to Be (Waco: Word Books, 1974); Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman (Wheaton: Tyndale House, 1976); George W. Knight, III, The New Testament Teaching on the Role Relationship of Men and Women (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1977).

Today we conclude our discussion on Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw's fascinating book «Jesus for President.»

And the book certainly does offer some fascinating insights - what it is like to be on duty at the Vatican over Christmas, to be guarding the Pope when he is at his prayers, to be in attendance at one of the great events that are televised worldwide.

I had a fascinating conversation with Max Stackhouse of Andover - Newton Seminary who felt that one of our greatest needs in the subject area of this book was for an examination of the history of preaching on certain texts as the «Rich Young Ruler» to see how sermons related to different contexts.

Robert Dannin has opened a new and fascinating perspective on the subject in his recently published book Black Pilgrimage to Islam.

Modris Eksteins» disturbing and fascinating book ranges between the Sergei Diaghilev - managed opening night performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in Paris on May 29, 1913, and the suicide of Hitler in 1945.

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell - a fascinating book about the history of New York City, from the perspective of the oyster trade.

I'm so excited to get my hands on this book - it has all the things I most love: historical details, fascinating characters, an engaging story, and a WWII connection.

I've recently read a little more about how they started their winery, I found it quite fascinating that Ernest and Julio were out traveling the country selling grapes from the family vineyards, they always wanted to start a winery so they borrowed money from family, rented books on how to make wine and wala, their dream was born.

The Metcash court victory provides a fascinating book end to the tenure of former ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel who clearly pushed the boundaries too hard on the definition of a market.

Two new books explore the age - old complexities of fly - fishing on its most fascinating levels: the practical and the philosophical.

This book on the case is so fascinating.

This fun interactive book has fascinating moving images on each page that makes it hard to put down, even for adults.

Based on a favorite department in Nat Geo Kids magazine, this book is overflowing with fascinating facts, silly stats, and catchy little knowledge nuggets in all kinds of cool categories, from astronomy and sea creatures to revolutions and breakfast.

Brown's book sheds light on a fascinating economic period, and highlights the serious problems that can sometimes emerge from the operation of free markets.

All this comes out strikingly in his book, which is packed full of indiscrete anecdotes, including a fascinating one about Clegg and former Bank of England governor Mervyn King holding a summit on quantitative easing while in their underpants.

There's a fascinating moment in Steven Levy's generally fascinating new book «In the Plex» where, a few years back, early Google leader Marissa Mayer distills for agitated Google designers why their work on a... Read More

This book tells the fascinating story of Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity.

Embark on your very own whale - sighting excursion with this striking coloring book collection of fascinating marine mammals.

In his fascinating new book, The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness (Random House, $ 24.95), science writer Jeff Warren explores some familiar and some less familiar states of consciousness, everything from daydreams to lucid dreams.

As it is Halloween, I am republishing my old post (from February 04, 2006, reposted on July 1, 2010): Ampulex compressa I was quite surprised that Carl Zimmer, in research for his book Parasite Rex, did not encounter the fascinating case of the Ampulex compressa (Emerald Cockroach Wasp) and its prey / host the American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana, see also comments on Aetiology and Ocellated).

The book takes readers on a fascinating journey through the history of criminology and details where the field stands today.

While the entire first part of the book focuses heavily on genetic expression and how it impacts beauty (which is fascinating), the second half really provides the detailed explanation of the connection between diet and health problems, early aging, and the «diseases of civilization» we see today.

This is a most fascinating book and I have reads scores of books on nutrition.

Dr. Perlmutter, can't wait to read your book, saw it on the Garden of Life instagram account (the brand I have been buying my probiotics from for some time now) and then reached for your interviews online and found everything you say about gut health and brain diseases fascinating.

Indeed Korean Mythology is fascinating I have read books on their culture and beliefs and it is some amazing stuff if you can find the write stories and books.

But that could have also meant that we'd get a slapdash and rushed adaptation of Sestero's book, one of the most fascinating tales of unbridled cinematic creativity ever put on paper.

The brilliant and underrated Powers Boothe, also on villain duties, raised Peter Hyams» SUDDEN DEATH into something fairly watchable, while a re-teaming with Hyams with The Muscles From Brussels on an adaptation of the Dark Horse comic - book TIMECOP by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden, brought my favourite bout of Van Dammage, in part due to a fascinating concept and a slimy Ron Silver (you see a theme here).

Prolific documentary maker Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) steers a fascinating film about the Church of Scientology in Going Clear, based on the book by Lawrence Wright.

Existing in a fascinating universe that marks it as one of the better comic - book adaptations without origins in an actual comic book, it features Keanu Reeves as the titular angry guy, taking on the Russian mob because they killed his dog.

Fascinating stuff which further whets my appetite to read Alan's upcoming book Michael Curtiz: A Life on Film, to be published next month by University of Kentucky Press.

She coasts by on her natural charm, but when she is asked to do stupid things, calling her ex in the middle of the night just to hang up on him, you end up never taking the character seriously (Dhavernas has yet to top her fascinating depiction of Zoe Zermatten, in my books).

The intersection between film and philosophy in Kofman's writing is fascinating, as Conley explains the way that the insertion of The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938) into Rue Ordener, Rue Labat, alongside ruminations on Sigmund Freud and Leonardo da Vinci, turns the segments of the book into plan - séquences, with the entire work becoming a sort of «ciné - écriture» (p. 193).

Hitchcock / Truffaut (Kent Jones, 2015) A fascinating adjunct to Truffaut's 1966 book on Hitchcock, this feature documentary is both scholarly and charmingly anecdotal.

All credit should go to playwright Tony Kushner's screenplay, based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's fascinating and engrossing book Team of Rivals.

07/20/2000 [Ed and Technology, Literature, Special Education Grades 6 - 8 Submitted by Brenda McPherson - Fry] Students discuss what makes the Harry Potter books popular and / or controversial, create a questionnaire to learn why Harry Potter fans find the books fascinating, practice online writing skills by sending e-mail messages to friends who are Harry Potter fans, and write a screenplay based on a selected chapter of a Harry Potter book.