Sentences with phrase «first modern book»

Leoni followed his Palladian volume with an English translation of Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria («On Architecture»), the first modern book on the theories and practice of architecture.

Dr. Hazelbaker, the pioneer of the contemporary understanding of the significance of tongue - tie, has written the first modern book on the subject.

Not exact matches

The business of getting people to give to charity has changed remarkably little over the 125 years since Andrew Carnegie first ushered in modern philanthropy with his book «The Gospel of Wealth.»

His new book, Hug Your Haters, is the world's first modern customer service manual, showing how companies large and small can benefit from the enormous increase in online complaints and customer feedback.

That's why Hug Your Haters is the first - ever customer service book for modern times — it's based on the realities of customer expectations TODAY, not one, five, or 20 years ago.

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.

From a book review highlighted by our friends at First Thoughts: «Marxists can account for the singular, closed character of modern society by invoking Marx's theory of historical materialism.

Christopher Calderhead, author of Illuminating the Word: The Making of the Saint John's Bible (Liturgical), points out that in the case of a modern book the reader is the first to see any particular copy — it is sometimes wrapped in cellophane at the printer's and opened for the first time by the purchaser.

John B. Kienker, managing editor of Claremont Review of Books, has a positive review of Peter's Modern and American Dignity in the June / July issue of First Things.

It is significant that from the second century to the nineteenth, when modern historical scholarship became current, theories about the Bible were held which no competent historian now accepts, such as that Moses wrote the entire Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament) including the description of his own death.

In Jakim's rendering, the voice of the Underground Man achieves something of the startling novelty it no doubt had in the ears of those who first heard it, when the book made its debut and a new, altogether indispensable fictional personality entered the canon of modern literature.

In a new St Augustine's Press book The Regensburg Lecture Fr James Schall S.J. argues that «far from being disrespectful of Islam or of modern thought (the lecture) is almost the first time the ultimate dimensions of both have been taken seriously and seen in their relationship to each other and to reason.»

Tyler Ward is married with two kids, blogs at tylerwardis.com, and just released his first book, Marriage Rebranded: Modern Misconceptions & the Unnatural Art of Loving Another Person.

Somewhere in the book, I admit, a clever conceit lies buried: that behind so many of the deranged conspiracy theories that arose during a particularly volatile period in modern European history, and that in countless ways contributed to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, lurks a single malevolent figure» cruel, cynical, a little psychotic, a liar who delights in the destruction his lies cause.

In his first book, entitled The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, Hartshorne announces his agreement with the Whiteheadian idea that the materials of all nature are events composed of aesthetic feeling,» claiming the additional support of modern physics for the contention; and he has never wavered in this conviction.17 Moreover, he also expounds in this work the further Whiteheadian notion, which he tirelessly repeats in his later works, that what the Constituent experiences or feelings of the universe experience are other experiences.

But Tinder's neglect of the great tradition of political thought that the first 1500 years of Christianity have delivered to us and his commendable but unsuccessful attempt to escape the language of a modern notion of rights and social justice make the book deficient both in what is said and what is left unsaid.

It is my own belief that the explanation for the enormous sale of Honest to God is simply that great numbers of men and women who wish to be both modern and Christian found in that book a presentation of Christianity which on the one hand they felt was absolutely honest and which on the other hand (and for the first time) opened to them the basic meaning of what we may style «the religious question»: what man is, what his world is like, how one can find significance and dignity for living, and the like.

The striking works of Pratt, India and Its Faiths (1915) and A Pilgrimage of Buddhism (1928) did much to make these religions come alive for the first time for many Western readers; for Pratt had a gift not only of brilliance but of extraordinary human sympathy.10 These are clear instances of the increasing mobility of modern man: each book was written as the result of travel in the East.

In the first place, the quiet but drastic step taken by Robinson between the publication of his book and his essay, of abandoning the concept of an existential encounter with Jesus mediated by a modern historiography in favor of something much less dramatic, is an absolutely essential step to take.

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.

Editor's note: Since 2004, Shmuel Herzfeld has been the Rabbi of Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue, the oldest and largest Orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C.. His first book will be published within a year, titled: The Relevance of the Torah for our Modern Lives.

My first book «A Modern Way to Eat» was acclaimed as cookbook of the year across the media and my next book «A Modern Way to Cook» comes out on July 16th.

The title of the book — one of the first to come from Blizzard Books, the publishing arm of the quarterly magazine devoted to the arcane, the obscure and the otherwise - unpublishable - in - this - modern - age — describes Erbstein as «football's forgotten pioneer,» and the contents don't disappoint.

One of the first things discussed was relationship contracts — yep, the contract in The New I Do that asks couples to talk, agree to and write down how they want to structure their relationship based on their goals and values, the same contract that Modern Love essayist and creative writing professor Mandy Len Catron used when moving in with her romantic partner, Mark, and that she highlights in her book, How to Fall in Love With Anyone.

It's no surprise that Many Len Catron's Modern Love essay went viral and led to her getting her first book published this year, How to Fall in Love With Anyone.

Her first book — Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less — will be published March 2013.

Check out her book: The Modern Princess: A Simple Guide to Pregnancy & Baby's First Year (co-written with her mom, Magdalene Smith, and sister, Marisa Smith)

It all started with Boston Mamas - a lifestyle portal for families in Boston and beyond - and so many wonderful and unexpected things have happened as a result of my blog... including publishing my first book - Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less - this year!

Resources mentioned in this podcast include her website and DVD at http://pottywhispering.net, her book Infant Potty Training: A Gentle and Primeval Method Adapted to Modern Living by Laurie Boucke (available here), and my book, Go Diaper Free, which Laurie applauds as the first ever multimedia guide to the practice.

He went on to graduate at the top of his class with first class honours in Politics and Modern History at Manchester University, winning the Robert McKenzie Prize for political science, his first book contract and election to the (sabbatical) leadership of the students» union, Labour Students» National Committee and NUS National Council.

First, it's a piece of music intended to make a political point about a modern conflict, one inherent in the nature of networked digital communications — authors and copyright holders have long profited from creative works by charging to distribute them, but in a digital world, books, music and movies can be made in unlimited copies and shared essentially for free.

First published anonymously in 1818, the book and subsequent films and plays have become what Jon Turney, author of the book Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, calls «the governing myth of modern biology»: a cautionary tale of scientific hubris.

The huge collection of books belonging to Dr John Dee, adviser to Queen Elizabeth I and proto - modern scientist, is being exhibited for the first time

As historian Richard D. Mandell described it in his 1976 book on the first modern Olympic Games, Coubertin had intended that the last paragraphs of his speech would have the greatest impact.

In 2001, David Wilson, an MIT engineer and inventor of one of the first modern recumbent bicycles, invited Papadopoulos to co-author the third edition of the book Bicycling Science.

Modern mimic: The first formalized suggestion that we should be relying on meat and modeling ourselves, at least food-wise, after our cave - dwelling ancestors came from The Stone Age Diet, a 1975 book by gastroenterologist Walter Voegtlin.

As a control, they also mapped the social networks for modern works of fiction: Les Misérables, Shakespeare's Richard III, The Fellowship of the Ring, and the first book in the Harry Potter series.

His first book, The Happiness Diet: A Nutritional Prescription for a Sharp Brain, Balanced Mood and Lean, Energized Body (Rodale 2011) explores the impact of modern diets on brain health.

This pamphlet was really the first modern diet book.

So send me your screenshot and I will send you back the first half of my unreleased book, «Eat Right For Your Mind Body Type,» which infuses ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern nutritional science.

Modern scholars point to mid-19th-century commentary on the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the manual for hatha yoga, as the first reference to a Sun Salutation practice, but they say written instructions did not appear in any books until the early 2oth century — a time when the rajah of Aundh (a former state in India) sought to strengthen society physically and spiritually via a series of asanas.

In her first book, Fresh American Spaces, designer Annie Selke created a primer with five aesthetics for the modern home.

Although it may seem a bit unconventional for our modern society — it sparked a bit of criticism upon its release — this first book from author Joshua Harris is an insightful book, touching on concepts from genuine purity, purposeful singleness, and sincere love.

Inspired by the popular comic book series produced by Top Cow Productions, Inc., The Darkness II is an intense first person shooter that delivers a twisted and gripping narrative of tragedy, modern crime drama, and supernatural horror.

The two both star in Marvel's hotly anticipated upcoming superhero film — the first of the modern era of comic book movies to star an almost all - black cast — and posed together for pictures at the annual ceremony.

In a fierce battle between the two comic book superhero studios, DC bested rival Marvel with «Wonder Woman», the first big budget modern day female comic book adaptation, and now it's Marvel's turn to break new ground with «Black Panther» being arguably the first black superhero (just don't say that to Wesley Snipes).

Based on the popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1941, the film picks up after the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers and finds Steve Rogers living quietly in Washington, D.C., trying to adjust to the modern world.

The first 2 books in the series were surprisingly well written, witty and full of good observational humor about modern commercialism and the way we rationalize shopping.

Hugh Jackman first played the character of Wolverine back in 2000 in the film that launched the modern day, comic book blockbuster - Bryan Singer's X-Men.

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