Sentences with phrase «for more books like»

So I hope that The Perfect Capital is a pathfinder for more books like this.

So, Gone Girl (or The Goldfinch, or Wild) was a hit with your book club, and you're looking for more books like it.

Not exact matches

If you're looking for more reading material about the Trump White House and its rotating cast of characters, here's a quick guide to some books already published and yet to come in 2018 — some of which might seem like beach or airport reads until you remember the reports are rooted in real life.

The draw for consumers to book directly with these on - demand platforms is not the allure of «finding the right professional», but more so the convenient, Uber - like customer experience.

The years New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova spent interviewing con artists for her book The Confidence Game didn't make her like these expert hustlers any more, but it did make her respect their skills.

So instead of being a prescriptive book that says, «Follow these steps and this will happen,» it's more like, «Open your mind to the possibilities and the fact that there might be more opportunity today for a different kind of leadership than there was in the past.»

The Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO appears with his tummy painted (like a yo - yo)-- along with more than 100 pregnant women who had their bumps transformed for «The Belly Art Project,» a coffee table book put together for charity by billionaire Spanx founder, Sara Blakely.

Digitizing comic books seems like an easy sell, but for David Steinberger of Comixology a whole lot more strategy was involved.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

We read books like Crazy Rich for the same reason we watch The Real Housewives TV shows or follow the exploits of the Trumps in Us Weekly or the Kennedy's in the superficially more upmarket Vanity Fair.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

There's a lot to like about the copyright proposals that the European Commission unveiled Wednesday — easier access to video across the EU's internal borders, more copyright exceptions for researchers, and more access to books for blind people.

Earlier this year, Amazon launched a freight - delivery service, and is said to be building out its own Uber - like app for booking carriers, to try to penetrate the more than $ 150 billion industry.

For more charts like the one below, see the second edition of our chart book, Putting a Face on America's Tax Returns.

But the deal could help American capture more traffic between the United States and China through arrangements like code sharing, an industry term for a partnership that allows two airlines to more easily book passengers on each other's flights.

Matt Ridley, for example, in his recent book, The Rational Optimist, argues that the oil sands are a much more sane solution to current energy needs than things like wind (too unreliable and too little output) and biofuels (wasteful use of land).

Comey's book, «A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership» is already looking like a best - seller, with publisher Macmillan ordering an initial print run of 850,000 copies, more than five times the 150,000 in the initial pressing for Michael Wolff's «Fire and Fury.»

My hope is that this book will serve as a blueprint for many more success stories, just like the unconventional and unexpected entrepreneurs I talked to from all over the world.

It was more like a motivational book about why Facebook might be good for you.

And just so you know, the fact that more and more people like you feel the need to speak up with your hatred of all things biblical or Christian, makes people like me very happy because it tells us that the very book, the Bible, that you diss, is absolutely right because it has been warning us for hundreds of years that thoughts like yours will increase.

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I do know that if I followed the guidelines of one liturgical commission, suggesting that I greet each penitent at the church doors with an open Gospel book and then lead a procession to a reconciliation room which looks more like an occasion of sin than a shrine for its absolution, the number of confessions in the middle of the metropolis where I serve would be severely reduced.

Instead books and blog posts like many of you my ministry has been more person to person (I am not diminishing your ministries in anyway, I am very grateful for them, but I have quoted many of you here many times!)

She's physically more like how Anne is described in the books, that's for sure — almost other - worldly, alien in her earnestness and her scrawniness and her big eyes that are too much for every adult to look into, always prompting comments on her appearance by the look of her.

This article though sounds an awful lot more like a sales pitch for their books now that they are here in the US and have a huge gullible crop of sheep to fleece.

The post would explain why Christians should spend their time on more important things, like helping the poor, and it would make everyone feel really guilty for tweeting about their breakfast or sending their books on blog tours or having opinions about the new Facebook layout.

I feel so blessed to be able to do what I love for a living, and I'd like to get a few more books under my belt (as well as pursue more speaking opportunities) before embarking on the full - time motherhood journey.

I hope that in his next book, Turner does a little more of this, for it transforms his funny, sometimes bizarre anecdotes into more relatable, human stories and makes the reader feel more like a participant and less like an observer.

My preference has been books, though the Internet and the graphical user interfaces that preceded it have been great sources for information that made the computer user in the hinterland feel like part of the modern conversation in a more immediate way.

The book revolves around seeking justice for the marginalized and includes quotes from people like Oscar Romero, Dietrich Boenhoeffer, Christena Cleveland, Lisa Sharon Harper, Henri Nouwen, John Perkins, Martin Luther King Jr., Shane Claiborne, Miroslav Volf and many, many more.

More importantly, I'd like to see Americans get over their fear of the concept of athiesm and actually acknowledge that a man (or woman) is perfectly capable of being morally sound without having to rely on a 2,000 + year old book for guidance.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

For this reason, I am tending to lean more toward a position like that taught in books by Walter Wink, Greg Boyd, John H. Yoder, and Stanley Hauerwas.

If you would like to be entered in the drawing for this book, leave a comment below about whether you view God and the Gospel as more restrictive or permissive in life.

And yes I did go through once for me to take out my endowments after that it has been a learning experience because, like reading a book over and over or seeing a movie more than once, you learn different things depending on what's happening in your life at the time.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

More generally, one is likely to be struck by the extent to which the book addresses itself to a world of male «female relations and childrearing that has been, for better or worse, consigned to the past, as vanished as the code of chivalry» although preserved in Freidan's book as (like Whyte's conformism) a summum malum ever to be guarded against.

I feel that God has something more for me than the tiny little blogging and book publishing empire I have built for myself (Which is not an empire at all, but more like a cool - aid stand on the corner...)

Exactly like myself, Tim (Jesus without baggage) believe that the Bible is not in and of itself more inspired than other books https://lotharlorraine.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/on-the-inspiration-of-the-bible-and-other-books-von-der-interpretation-der-bibel-und-anderen-buchern/ So there can be theological mistakes in the act of the apostles (for instance) like there are mistakes in the books of Luther or Wesley.

«14 He adds,»... we must break once for all with the idea of death as simple destruction of an individual... individuals are eternal realities... «15 Using the illustration of a book he says, «Death is the last page of the last chapter of the book of one's life... «16 And he comments,»... death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the book.

Sounds more like an advertisement for a book than anything realistic.

[Dennett's] limited and superficial book reads like a caricature of a caricature - for if Richard Dawkins has trivialized Darwin's richness by adhering to the strictest form of adaptationist argument in a maximally reductionist mode, then Dennett, as Dawkins» publicist, manages to convert an already vitiated and improbable account into an even more simplistic and uncompromising doctrine.

More like the devil... and in the same book the evils has been hidden for centuries... there are angels and demons that walk among us... and in disbelief we give up or faith because the action of others..

I would recommend cracking a book and learning how to communicate in English if you'd like for people to take what you type a bit more seriously.

If one would like to have a story written on a similar theme but more touching for the fact that the passion of repentance was not awakened, one might use to this effect a tale which is narrated in the book of Tobit.

Nor could Abraham explain more, for his life is like a book placed under a divine attachment and which never becomes publici juris.

(However, if you'd like some more organized suggestions for using the growth insights of a book like this, you'll find these at the end of the companion book to this

She started, unfortunately, with a novel (the only novel I've written), and later wrote me a very nice note thanking me for the lunch and saying she had read the book but would like to have more «added on» to it.

In Ogden's book there is a chapter called «The Promise of Faith» and I should like to commend it to you, for it seems to me that with a rather different approach, yet much more adequately, Ogden says in it much that I have been trying to suggest in what I have been putting before you.

Given the secular climate of our age, the aspirations of this little book seem like the highest and steepest mountain to climb, yet for a young person setting out on life and seeking to understand more fully their own vocation, this is definitely a book to be read, to be treasured and to be used as a reference.