Sentences with phrase «for general book»

Preference for the ebook format is lower among podcast consumers (16.1 %) than for general book consumers (18.9 %), once again suggesting that it might not be the overall technological advancement of a given format attracting podcast consumers, but rather the audio form itself.

It's important to note that the penthouses are not open for general booking via the Plaza's website as they are typically reserved for VIP guests.

These include Newbooks (for specialist books) or goodreads for general books.

Not exact matches

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

It's expected to be a noisy quarter for bank earnings in general, thanks in part to the tax law, which has caused many banks to book losses on repatriated cash and deferred tax assets that declined in value.

E-ink screens in general aren't as responsive as LCD, so the actual buttons are a nice solution for navigating books and menus.

Why It's Worth Reading: Because this is a general book about communicating effectively, it's perfect for people who don't normally negotiate.

But there are woefully few books on the general subject of scandal, and for the age of Clinton and Spitzer — and, of course, Davidar and Hurd — Kipnis attempts to define a theory of scandal and map its psychodynamics.

Finally, A Handbook for Business To Change the World and Make a Profit — As General Motors, Patagonia, Ben & Jerry's, the City of New York, and Others Have Done (book launch press release)

If you read this one book you'll know enough to invest sensibly for retirement without getting ripped off by financial product salespeople, and you'll understand more about investing than 85 % of the general population.

Indeed, the impetus for our book, «JP Madoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America's Biggest Bank and America's Biggest Crook» was Holder's refusal as Attorney General to prosecute a single criminal banker for the litany of indisputable crimes committed in the last eight years and his sale of get - out - of - jail - free cards to senior officers of JPMorgan Chase so that they were not prosecuted for their complicity in Madoff's crimes and for their dishonesty with respect to the «London Whale» scandal.

Unlike other marketplace software providers that offer one general template for all purposes, we enable you to choose from marketplace types to Buy and Sell Goods, Book Services, and Rent Space or Items.

Shrem also spoke about his personal life behind bars, reporting that he's already read 70 books while serving as a general education development (GED) teacher for other inmates.

It's funny, I was chatting with god the other night, you know about girls and money and basically life in general, and then from out of no where god was like, «Yo, Chuckles, I have a job for you, it's very important that you do it, I need you to go and vote this upcoming election and I need you to vote for Rick Perry, he seems a little crazy, but don't worry, he's all good in my book».

The Book of Discipline (2004) makes this clear: «No person, no paper, no organization, has the authority to speak officially for The United Methodist Church, this right having been reserved exclusively to the General Conference under the Constitution.»

Some historians, such as Jonathan Phillips or Thomas Asbridge, have even written books for a general audience, seeking to bridge the gap between what historians know and what most people think about Christianity's holy wars.

For 175 years the leaders and general membership of the Mormon Church have believed American Indians and Polynesians are descended from Israelites based on their understanding of the Book of Mormon.

A book called Disinformation, co-written by General Pacepa and the American professor of law Ronald Rychlak (best known for his book Hitler, the War and the Pope, a well - researched defence of Pius XII's record during the Second World War), which spells out these revelations at greater length, is «dubious at best» — or at least, the bits written by Pacepa are: the reviewer NCR admits that «what Rychlak contributes, drawn from his earlier work on Pope Pius, appears solid».

Yes Please by Amy Poehler — I'm not usually one for reading humour books or books by comedians in general, but I loved Tina Fey's Bossypants and so I decided to grab this one from the library as a bit of light reading one weekend.

Easily the best «Jesus book» of our time, this has to be read with the consciousness that its author was writing for the general public rather than specifically for theologians or theological students.

The latest issue of Modern Age (Winter 2009) is now available for general consumption and features a symposium on Remi Brague's amazingly erudite book The Law of God.

These revisions of the Darwinian theory of evolution have been interestingly summarized for the general reader in George Gaylord Simpson's The Meaning of Evolution (Yale University Press, 1949), and in 1958 published as a Mentor Book in a paper - bound edition.

Later sections of the book, which are more accessible and engaging for the general reader, focus on Duns Scotus» Divine Command Theory (DCT).

I wrote the book out of love for and loyalty to the Christian tradition in general and the Roman Catholic Church in particular, and out of a desire to support the church's moral authority.

This time last year, for instance, I wrote down that I wanted to write 100,000 words, the general requirement for a book or novel, and pay off a specific amount on my car loan.

Testimonies to the Bible's uniqueness and popularity come in all forms, from the advertisement for a new translation that required «ninety leading Bible scholars laboring prayerfully for seven years to assure the accuracy and readability» of Scripture, to General George F. Patton's habit of reading the book «every goddamned day.»

Whitehead's theme, begun in the first chapter and maintained throughout the book and, in our judgment, for the rest of his philosophy, is that mathematics begins in experience and as abstracted becomes separated from experience to become utterly general.

The latest book in a series of which he is general editor offers a reflection on sex, marriage, and Christian love that appeals for solid grounding in the Bible and a tradition of moderate Calvinism.

The background assumption of this book means, finally, that so far as its content is concerned the best hope of saying things of general relevance to persons involved in all types of theological schooling today lies in making some particular and fairly concrete proposals that may turn out to be directly pertinent only to a few types of theological schools but may provoke and help other persons in other types of schools to think through these issues for themselves.

It's a book that would be useful to share and discuss in a Catholic young mums group, especially for those who need a good general introduction to the idea of daily prayer and friendship with Christ.

To speak for a moment of the general argument of the Intelligent Design movement before getting specifically to Professor Johnson's latest book, I would like to make the following point clear.

Save in the tenth book of the Rig - Veda, the Vedas in general, like the Old Testament, take the gods for granted.

In that book, written for the general public and not for scholars, I suggested that love includes the following elements or aspects: commitment, mutuality, fidelity, hopefulness, union — and that its goal is fulfillment in and with another or with others.

This book is written, in the field of process thought, for a general, non-specific audience.

This is not, however, an addition to the legislation of the Qur» an, for a careful study will show that each of these traditions expresses the spirit of a more general teaching in the Book, even though the ties connecting each tradition with its appropriate foundation in the Qur» an are not easily discovered.

This book is not written by a technical scholar and not written for technical scholars but for the general public.

My reflections arose, as I have indicated, in part from formative books and teachers, but they also grew out of grappling with Scripture (one of the lightning bolts here was the simple but profound insight of realizing once again the ineradicable connection of form and content — for instance, what is said in a parable can not be said in any other way), and with the complex business, endemic to academic theologians, of, as Kierkegaard would put it, becoming a Christian (not in general or for someone else but in particular and for me).

The governmental office of the Director of Religious Affairs has published books on Islam and is responsible for general supervision of Islam in Turkey.

However, his book is not a contention for this position; it is an argument that the General Synod, rather than advocating an orthopraxis, should recognize that Christians may reasonably hold diverse opinions on such issues.

In this lively, tightly written book for a general audience, he teaches readers to train their «baloney detectors» on the doublethink, ad hominems, rhetorical tricks, and logical gaps that characterize the public propaganda for Darwinism.

I wouldn't even consider that now, of course, (as it would be an unintended mockery) but I still think Biblical literacy is good for literary purposes in general and critical for anyone who claims to base their lives on the book.

The general writings mention him, but for a fuller treatment the best sources are two books by Y. P. Mei: Motse, Rival of Confucius, a biography and systematic discussion of his thought, and The Works of Motse.

An utterly fascinating ramble through the constituting stories of Jewish and Christian tradition, combining solid scholarship and intellectual liveliness with a winsome style that makes the book a delight for both the specialist and the general reader.

Teachers of Asian religions tend to look upon general introductions to the religions of the world as useful only for quick reference, and to prefer books dealing with a specific religion, supplemented with readings from original sources.

And so she set out to write a book that would provide an overview of Byzantine history and culture for the general reader.

Contrary to general opinion, the public school may indeed teach the Bible — or for that matter, the Koran or the Book of Mormon or the I Ching.

A Book Forged in Hell is, to be sure, the product of a prestigious university press and definitely not in any respect dumbed down, but it has very few footnotes and is clearly designed for the general» although not the innocent» reader.

further proof that Elohim is «spirit» in a general sense can be found in the Book of Exodus Chapter 12 Verse 12 where it reads: «For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.»

6Douglas H. Hofsteader has summarized current topics in the study of hierarchically - organized systems in an excellent hook for general readers: Goedel, Escher, Bach (New York: Basic Books, 1979).

There was general agreement that Whitehead's earlier books, up to and including Science and the Modern World of 1926, would be likely to be more fruitful for this purpose than the later Whitehead of Process and Reality.