Sentences with phrase «for ancient authors»
It is common for ancient authors to refer to beheading and the sword even when many of those they are speaking of were executed by other means.
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His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamfor David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of MesopotamFor Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.
An ancient book by unknown authors, which makes wild extraordinary claims such as snakes talking, a man living in a giant fish for days, the dead rising, and so on.
For instance, there are the hermeneutical questions of whether the image of Christ emerging through the glasses of Islamic mysticism is what the Bible or Biblical authors «intended»; If the purpose of the crystallization of the supposed authorial intention or purpose is to connect the ancient and the present «viewpoints» or the worldviews, one may ask if such a possibility of a pure state of intention possible to extract at all, or is it not that the reader often always creates» at least some elements of the supposed «intentions».
Though it might be true that the ancient Israelites had undeveloped cosmology, this is not true of God, and so for this view to be correct, we must either deny inspiration, or have God inspiring the authors of Scripture to write about Himself in inaccurate ways.
Nonetheless it is remarkable to find these ancient authors employing all the modern devices of the literary craftsman, surprise and suspense, rapidity and delay, humor and solemnity, vividness, realism, untempered callousness, dramatic shift of scene — all permeated with their feeling for what is intrinsically interesting, what makes a good story.
John Gay in his Beggar's Opera notes that «A covetous fellow, like a jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it» Ancient Greek authors tell how a jackdaw, being a social creature, may be caught with a dish of oil which it falls into while looking at its own reflection.
We need to invent a new word for people willing to believe the writings of unknown authors, of unknown origin, of an unknown but ancient time, which is badly worded, internally AND externally (with modern science) inconsistent, full of statements with no actual arguments to back them up, with the only decently educated people to back it all up are theologians who twist the meaning of words and commit logical fallacies and still only try to prove that SOMETHING must exist, not that christianity is the truth.
To suggest that a collection of ancient texts, written by multiple authors and in multiple genres, spanning thousands of years and countless cultural contexts provides a single, uniform prescription for how to be a woman is absolutely ridiculous.
I'm the author of the new whole grain cookbook «Ancient Grains for Modern Meals» whose recipe Heidi so beautifully showcases here.
That's Maria Speck speaking, author of Ancient Grains for Modern Meals, and Simply Ancient Grains.
; Susan Reid, editorial director of Sift (King Arthur Flour's publication); Alice Medrich, the author of the new alternative (non-wheat)- flour cookbook, Flavor Flours and baker extraordinaire; and Maria Speck, food writer and author of the thoughtfully - researched Ancient Grains for Modern Meals.
Plus, as an athlete, I require carbs as a quick source of energy — when the book The Paleo Diet for Athletes: The Ancient Nutritional Formula for Peak Athletic Performance came out, the authors finally acknowledged that the right carbs have a time and place.
The award - winning author of Ancient Grains for Modern Meals, Maria Speck makes cooking with ancient grains faster, more intuitive, and easier than ever before in this collection of recipes, most of which are gluten Ancient Grains for Modern Meals, Maria Speck makes cooking with ancient grains faster, more intuitive, and easier than ever before in this collection of recipes, most of which are gluten ancient grains faster, more intuitive, and easier than ever before in this collection of recipes, most of which are gluten - free.
The Food Pyramid's now ancient history, but What To Expect author Heidi Murkoff has your how - to guide for serving up healthier family meals according to the new food - plate standards.
She is also the author of the book, Birthing from Within written in 1998, and next year she will be publishing an updated version with Virginia Bobro called Ancient Map for Modern Birth.
According to Vimala McClure, author of Infant Massage, A Handbook for Loving Parents, «Infant massage is an ancient art that connects you deeply with the person who is your baby, and helps you to understand your baby's particular nonverbal language and respond with love and respectful listening.
I'm the author of the book: She Births: A Modern Woman's Guidebook For an Ancient Rite of Passage.
Some 700 years after Josiah's murder, John of Patmos — the likeliest author of the New Testament's book of Revelation — predicted an apocalyptic battle for Earth that will roil the ancient tel. «How did he think of that?»
A New Look at Ancient Art «M. Morin - Jean [a pseudonym for Jean Alexis Morin], the author of Le Dessin des Animaux en Grèce, wields the brush and the pen with equal facility.
The authors summarized work that investigated the genomes of more than 20 ancients in the Eurasian family tree, including the 45,000 - year - old Ust» - Ishim individual from Central Siberia, for their paper.
«Prior to this study, we had no understanding of the origins of HAV, an ancient and common threat to health in many regions of the world,» says Stanley M. Lemon, M.D., one of the study's authors and a professor of medicine at UNC's School of Medicine and UNC's Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases (IGHID).
By contrasting patterns of genetic variation in ancient and present - day horses, the authors found support for a significant demographic collapse during the last 2,300 years, which resulted in an important reduction of genetic diversity within horse domesticates.
Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»
«The study of ancient microbiomes helps us understand the evolutionary history of human health and disease,» says Professor Frank Rühli, a senior author of the study and Head of the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zürich.
The new flood of genetic information represents a «coming of age» for the nascent field of ancient DNA, says lead author David Reich, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Harvard Medical School — and it upends cherished archeological orthodoxy.
Anthropologist Shara Bailey, an expert in ancient human teeth at New York University in New York City, says that «the barium method is novel and appears to be even more powerful» than previous approaches, adding that despite small sample sizes, «the authors present a strong argument for the utility of this method for extrapolating weaning history.»
As the authors show with examples from ancient and modern teeth, the method is valuable for understanding a health condition that today affects more than 1 billion.
«Our study shows that the ability of malaria parasites to engage red blood cells is driven by an ancient mechanism for cellular attachment,» said lead author Aditya Paul, a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard Chan School.
«Although hundreds of ancient genomes have been reported for individuals of European and western Eurasian ancestry, this is the first study to recover ancient whole genomes of genetic East Asians,» said Choongwon Jeong, first author of the study, University of Chicago.
«You've got your work cut out if you're looking at the ancient sedimentary rock for microfossils here on Earth — and even more so on Mars,» said the paper's lead author and an associate professor at the University of Kansas, Craig Marshall.
We knew that the craton in northern Quebec had been formed by partial fusion of an ancient precursor crust, but for the first time we have specific information about the age and the nature of this older source,» lead author Jonathan O'Neil from the University of Ottawa's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences said in a statement.
The authors raised the possibility of ancient habitability in their paper, but that remains a contentious topic for Martian exploration.
In ancient Greece, Dioscoriodes authored a book with approximately 600 different plants and herbs, including milk thistle, which was considered a cure for snakebites.
The ancient Aztecs and Mayas prized cocoa for its medicinal properties and used it to treat a wide array of ills, writes Stephen T. Beckett, author of «The Science of Chocolate.»
«Baths have been used since ancient times for healing and purification,» says KG Stiles, Oregon (South) director for the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy and author of The Essential Oils Complete Reference Guide.
Some ancient grains, like quinoa and millet, have already gone mainstream, but the authors argue that the time is ripe for more diversity when we reach for bread loaves at the grocery store.
This set includes twelve Latin quotes, by both famous and lesser known authors, with their English translations, to use as display posters in the classroom, for example when teaching a unit on Romans or Ancient History or in any Latin class.
Michael Armstrong, author of several books on human capital and performance management, is quoted as saying, «The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.»
Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, Allen is the author of The World of Prometheus: the Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004), Why Plato Wrote (2010), and Our Declaration (2014) and co-editor (with Rob Reich) of Education, Justice, and Democracy (2013).
That prepping has taken her all over the world: working as a research assistant for an author in Venice, Italy; getting a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Cambridge in England; helping on an archeological dig of Ancient Tiberias in Israel, where she unearthed a stack of ninth - century vases; working in Iraq as a public diplomacy officer and conducting research for generals; raising money for schools in Afghanistan for Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (R - OH); traveling to China to learn about how children of migrant workers access education; learning Arabic.
Hi Linda — I saw your hauntingly beautiful trailer on Silvia's blog, and I've got Yakimalli's Gift on my Amazon List for my next order — who can resist an Indie author recommended by one of my favorite bloggers, coupled with Native American flute music and historic photos of «our Ancients»?!?
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- David Freeman, author of One of Us, the adventures of an Englishman in pre-war Egypt «Maio's detailed research brings alive the ancient city and creates a vibrant setting for her twisting, racing story.
When I started writing fiction about the ancient world, I did seek inspiration back with the Latin authors - Martial and Juvenal, Horace, Ovid, Virgil, with Tacitus and Josephus for period history, especially the lives of Caenis and Vespasian in «The Course of Honour».
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Dr. Jones has contributed to various publications, including serving as co-editor and author of the introduction for The Art and Archaeology of the Moche: An Ancient Andean Society of the Peruvian North Coast, and contributing to the University of Texas Collections Book.
Join us for a discussion moderated by Stephanie Butnick with authors Rachel Kadish and Lisa Moses Leff to unravel the meaning behind ancient texts, piece together mysteries, and reveal the power of distance in the pursuit of truth.
He had the good fortune of turning to Sarah Ruden, whose translations of a range of Greek and Latin authors have illuminated ancient worlds for a new generation of readers.