Sentences with phrase «first book we studied»

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His findings feature in textbooks and management training courses, and his debut book, The Procrastination Equation, combines the first meta - analysis of the topic (encompassing some 800 studies) with original research, including some for which the professor served as his own subject.

In the book Negotiation, Adam D. Galinsky of Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and Roderick I. Swaab of INSEAD in France write: «In our studies, we found that the final outcome of a negotiation is affected by whether the buyer or the seller makes the first offer.

Based on his studies during the 1960s and his practical experience in the early 1970s, Milken was determined to focus, first, on future cash flow rather than the past as reflected in book value and reported earnings; and second, to consider human capital part of the balance sheet.

Problem is «the bible» is used by Judaism — namely those first 39 books and have been studied for some 2200 + years plus.

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

I'm concerned about Tony's theology, whose philosophical foundations I criticized pretty consistently while I was involved in EC in 2004 - 7 before bowing out because Tony seemed more into pushing with some arrogance a pomo philosophy he never really studied in school than he was into fostering dialogue (I went back to just reading the wonderful books of Brian McLaren which is how I got involved in the first place).

Written toward the end of a long career dedicated to the study of religion» his The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions has been a staple on college syllabi since it first appeared in 1958» this book has a definite valedictory feel.

What a furor was created when first, under the influence of the scientific spirit of the times, men began to study the Bible critically just like any other book.

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

I would really like all of you to read and study First four books of the New Testament... even if you are a non-believer or a believer... if there are any few hundred pages of literature that was ever worth reading it is those 4 books.

At the time of this book's first edition (The University of Chicago Press, 1955) it represented the first comprehensive study of Buber's thought in any language, and it is still the only comprehensive study in English.

Van Harvey's book is the first volume in a new series: Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought.

But teaching that course was a lightning bolt to me: all sorts of things fell into place, and without intending to (or having the time for it), I wrote the first draft of another book, Speaking in Parables: A Study in Metaphor and Theology (Fortress Press, 1975).

The most thorough recent examination of the hypothesis of Pauline influence upon Mark is the book by Martin Werner of the Swiss University of Berne, The influence of Pauline Theology in the Gospel of Mark: A Study in New Testament Theology, which appeared in 1923 as the first Beiheft to the Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft.

Jeremy, I have found the Chumash to be a very interesting help in studying Jewish thoughts on the first five books of the Old Testament.

Michael P. Morrissey, a professor of theology, has produced the first book - length study of the questions posed to Christian theology, and theology in general, by Voegelin's work.

Propaganda was the first of Ellul's books to isolate one element of The Technological Society (19S4) for in - depth study.

The first book we planned to study was Francis Chan's Forgotten God, a relatively short title about the Holy Spirit, the one - third of the Trinity that Chan believes the Church has forgotten.

Micah told the story of how he took a graduate course on Joshua and Judges in which the professor, on the first day of class, went around the room and asked each student why he or she elected to study these two Old Testament books.

This book is a study of the great missionary conferences covering the period of the first world missionary conference at Edinburgh 1910 to the last ecumenical conference at Salvador 1996.

His book The Evolution of Early Christianity a Genetic Study of First Century Christianity in Relation to its Religious Environment, published in 1914, was a manifesto of the socio - historical programme.

It's even more true on the heels of the study that 43 % of christians can't name the first book of the bible.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Aristotle also supplied the essential basis for the logical studies; the first text book on logic had been written by Luther's own lecturer Trutvetter, who was also Rector of the University.

I am working on a book that shows by means of medieval rabbinical commentary, Hebrew semantics, and biblical genre studies, that Genesis 1 is scientifcally accurate and the first part of a semitic chiasm.

When the Azusa Street Mission (generally considered the cradle of modern Pentecostalism)[1] was born in Los Angeles, a Methodist congregation in Valparaiso had already taken its first steps toward Pentecostalism by holding prayer groups and studying the book of Acts.

I did not know until much later that the new books we were given at the first of every school year... the social studies, history, geography books... would be the books used by those children next year.

Vaughn stays behind to study — first on his knees with the book on the bed («my espa «Äö √ † √ ∂ ¬ ¨ ¬ ± ol position,» he says) and then on the bed with the book near the pillow («my business position»).

This is the complete first chapter of Bill Connelly's book «Study Hall: College Football, Its Stats and Its Stories», an accessible, enjoyable look at the world of college football through the eyes of coaches, writers, and numbers geeks.

Alice Ford's book is the first complete biographical study since Herrick's.

It was like that when I learned my first numbers and letters through books presented by my father and board games I used to play with my sister, when I perfected my motor coordination and posture through dance classes encouraged by my mother, when I really understood about equilibrium and confidence in the moment that I learned to ride a bike, and when I received encouragement from my parents while I was studying my homework.

Her parents moved to US about 3 month with her and they son, so, my niece're studying english as a second language for the first time, I think this book will be very useful for her

Recognizing the important information in scientific studies of infant sleep, this is the first book I have seen that translated many of these insights into a usable form for parents.

In researching my books, «The Expectant Father» and «The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year,» I found the same thing as the Harvard study Rabbi Boteach cites: that new parents experience a tremendous decline in their love life in the first year after the birth of a cFirst Year,» I found the same thing as the Harvard study Rabbi Boteach cites: that new parents experience a tremendous decline in their love life in the first year after the birth of a cfirst year after the birth of a child.

And yet, no matter how many books, blogs, podcasts or videos you study while you're pregnant, life with a newborn — especially your first newborn — is nothing you can ready yourself for.

This book represents the first comparative study of the politics behind the scenes at the United Nations, NATO and the European Union concerning the use of military force.

Just 38 % of the women included in the study had their first antenatal care booking and blood screening appointment within the first trimester, as recommended by Nice guidelines.

According to a short section of the 200 - page book that accompanied the governor's speech Wednesday, the college «will be the first civilian degree - granting college to integrate emergency preparedness, security and counter-terrorism studies through interdisciplinary programs that involve law, public and international affairs, information technology, cyber engineering, critical infrastructure protection and science.»

That's the story of paleoanthropology, at least according to Ann Gibbons's book The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Doubleday, $ 26), a deliciously soap - operatic account of efforts to trace human ancestry through the study of fossils.

Charles Tart, a psychologist at the University of California at Davis, who did the first major study of out - of - body experiences in 1969, and Raymond Moody... designed experiments of questionable rigor and made matters worse by ignoring the peer - review process and publishing their results in best - selling books.»

Facts: My first major study of out - of - body experiences was published in 1968, not 1969, and was published in a peer - reviewed journal, not a best - selling book.

The Musical Temperament by Anthony E. Kemp (Oxford University Press, # 14.99, ISBN 0 19 852362 9) claims to be the first book to study the fascinating personality differences between musicians.

So it may seem odd that the book's first - time author, 49 - year - old physicist Paul McEuen, is a leader in the field of nanoscience, the study of structures smaller than a micron, or a millionth of a meter.

Starting with his Ph.D. work and continuing with his many reviews, essays, and books (see «A Short Course on Aging»), Finch is one of the first people to offer a convincing argument that senescence can and should be studied in the same way that other developmental processes are, Mobbs adds.

And Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who studies how infants learn language and was only an infant himself when Chomsky first outlined his theory, has attempted to explain this ambitious quest in a provocative book, The Language Instinct (Review, 26 February).

The late Yale University physicist William Bennett — co-inventor of the first gas laser — dedicated a considerable amount of time prior to his 2008 death studying some of Kimura's techniques, writing in his 2006 book The Science of Musical Sound about what he termed «subtones» produced by her violin.

As the first analyses of what may well become the best studied earthquake in history start to filter through, there is already talk of rewriting the rule book on how «megathrust» quakes happen.

Since publishing his first scientific article in Lepidopterists» News in 1948, Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University, has written nearly a thousand articles, reviews, opinion pieces, prefaces, white papers, and some 30 books.

Morton again drew wide attention when Stephen Jay Gould used his skull research as a case study, first in a 1978 Science paper [1] and then in his 1981 book The Mismeasure of Man [5].

When yoga first began, the yogis didn't have books to study from.