Sentences with phrase «from modern authors»

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Greenleaf passionately writes from an abstract, theoretical perspective and more practical stories may have helped readers connect more to this selection, but the author is clearly committed to providing solid groundwork for modern - day servant leaders.

Best - selling author Geoff Smart said he himself felt fortunate to have learned this reality, when he was a student, from the «father of modern management,» Peter Drucker.

He draws conclusions from Darwinism and modern astronomy, freely invoking decidedly un-Islamic names like Voltaire and Dominique Aury, a pseudonym of the author of the pornographic Story of O. Rediger's domestic situation also appeals to the middle - aged Frenchman.

Drawing mainly from Protestant authors of the early modern period, John Witte, Jr. discusses «the interplay among law, theology, and marriage in the West.»

He is the author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press.

The Bible, The Qur «an and Science by Dr. Maurice Bucaille THE HOLY SCRIPTURES EXAMINED IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE Translated from French by Alastair D. Pannell and The Author

Its ideological presuppositions are difficult to specify: the author takes his theoretical framework from the radical historians Charles Beard and William Appleman Williams, but much of his cultural critique of modern American society carries echoes of Pat Buchanan.

Modern authors can learn much from his advice.

In the interesting and stimulating book, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, the authors John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler compare passages from two of Whitehead's works — The Concept of Nature and Science and the Modern World — and declare them to be mutually incompatible (ANC 216).

We search almost in vain for a modern Catholic writer who can show us that the grace of God not only redeems nature but loves and completes it, for one who can imagine a world where God is not simply a specter haunting our consciences from the alleyway, but the author of all things.

The author describes the history and problems of the Islamic society from the time of the prophet Mohammad as it matures to modern times.

Their chosen quote, and I hope you can read it with as much incredulous merriment as I did, «When the intellectual authors of the modern right created its doctrines in the 1950s, they drew on nineteenth - century political thought, borrowing explicitly from the great apologists for slavery, above all, the intellectually fierce South Carolinian John C. Calhoun.»

This sounds good from the perspective of modern Christianity David, but couldn't it also be the case that in the primitive polytheistic world of the author, they felt that worshiping «their god», and «only their god» was of greater value than even human life?

From my early years in Brooklyn just learning how to make my own tamales and create vegan translation of my favorite foods, to my adulthood as a cookbook author taking over the world with cupcakes, and finally, my current life in Omaha, opening a vegan restaurant — Modern Love — in the heart of cattle country, these recipes will tell the story of my life.

«The idea in the past, of chicken as an afterthought in restaurants, has changed dramatically,» says Ashley Christensen, the chef / owner of several popular restaurants in Raleigh, North Carolina (including Beasley's Chicken and Honey) and author of Poole's: Recipes and Stories from a Modern Diner.

9 Alexander Cartwright The New York - born author of modern baseball rules is buried in Honolulu, where he began teaching the sport to kids on his way home from an aborted visit to China in 1849 and decided to stay.

Author Malcom Gladwell approached the same topic from another angle in his 2009 New Yorker article, «How David Beat Goliath,» and that's a modern update of theme that drives this method of leadership — which is that winning is all that matters.

And Reva Seth, author of First Comes Marriage: Modern Relationship Advice from the Wisdom of Arranged Marriages, reveals the No. 1 «secret» of a successful marriage: Your man doesn't have to be your best friend.

The Fashionable Gal is giving away «City Chic; The Modern Girl's Guide to Living Large on Less» the new book from author Nina Willdorf.

Aside from Your Modern Family, she is also the author of best - selling book «Potty Train in a Weekend.»

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.

Robert Skidelsky «s two volume biography is now much in demand from libraries, and in September the author will be publishing Keynes: The Return of the Master (Allen Lane # 20.00) which will consider the man and his economic theories in a modern context.

However, the author argues that the purpose of uniforms in modern international law is not to distinguish different armies, but only to distinguish combatants from civilians, as Protocol I, Article 48 says:

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.

The authors of the study, an international team from Portuguese, Spanish, Catalonian, German, Austrian and Italian research institutions, say their findings suggest that the process of modern human populations absorbing Neanderthal populations through interbreeding was not a regular, gradual wave - of - advance but a «stop - and - go, punctuated, geographically uneven history.»

In a fairly concise survey, the authors chart the shifting interpretations of the concept of heredity from the early modern period through to the present.

«Our goal was to diagnose which species are vulnerable in the modern world, using the past as a guide» says study lead author, Assistant Professor Seth Finnegan from the University of California Berkeley.

«There are certain classes of genes that modern humans inherited from the archaic humans with whom they interbred, which may have helped the modern humans to adapt to the new environments in which they arrived,» says senior author David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

«It was a big challenge to extract the DNA sequences from the fossil mammoths and mastodons and then to line these up with DNA from the modern elephants,» says Nadin Rohland, an evolutionary geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston and the study's lead author.

Dr Paul Howard - Jones, author of the article from Bristol University's Graduate School of Education, said: «These ideas are often sold to teachers as based on neuroscience — but modern neuroscience can not be used support them.

The authors claim the discovery «represents one of the most significant records of a marine Paleocene bird from the Southern Hemisphere» and supports the»em erging view that most modern birds were already diversified in the earliest Paleogene».

«The anterior sclerite has been lost in modern arthropods, as it most likely fused with other parts of the head during the evolutionary history of the group,» said Dr Javier Ortega - Hernández, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences, who authored the study.

The Animals Among Us: How Pets Make Us Human By John Bradshaw From the dawn of domestication to pampered modern pets, anthrozoologist Bradshaw, author of the best - selling Cat Sense and Dog Sense, traces the evolution of predators into companions in this riveting read.

Modern corn, the author argues, had not one ancestor but two: it is derived from a cross between a primitive corn and a perennial form of the wild grass teosinte.

Dr David Poznik, from Stanford University, California, first author on the paper, said: «We identified more than 60,000 positions where one DNA letter was replaced by another in a man with modern descendants, and we discovered thousands of more complex DNA variants.

The authors conclude that unless the feather structures of Confuciusornis and Archaeopteryx were greatly different from those of modern birds — for example if their rachis were solid rather than hollow like those of modern birds, a possibility they consider unlikely — then flapping flying must have been a later development.

The authors infer — from the way modern photosynthetic organisms react to changing marine arsenic concentrations — that this event was due to widespread ocean toxicity resulting from the release of toxic elements into the oceans when the ice melted.

For example, Senegal has «switched virtually its entire population from traditional stoves to modern ones, so it can be done,» climate scientist Drew Shindell of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, lead author of the study, wrote in an e-mail.

The two teams did differ on one question, however: whether Middle Eastern farmers first spread from the Levantine coast (modern day Israel, Lebanon, and Syria), the conclusion of the Fernández group; or from the southern coast of modern - day Turkey, as found by the Proceedings authors.

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.

Martin Kuhlwilm, co-first author of the new paper, identified the regions of the Altai Neanderthal genome that come from modern humans.

The authors compared these ancient DNA sequences to genetic data from diverse modern humans, including four Sherpa and two Tibetans from Nepal.

1) The authors provide stature and mass estimates from the footprints using both modern human and australopithecine reference samples.

The authors should be more circumspect in reporting their results, acknowledging that the stature estimates from modern humans are likely exaggerations, and focus their interpretations on the more appropriate (but still tenuous) australopithecine - based predictions — still with the caveat about the limitations of the data from which the predictor is derived.

Dr Ricardo Rodríguez Varela, researcher at Stockholm University and lead author of the study, explains: «By generating the first autosomal genetic data from these populations we can conclusively demonstrate that the Guanches were most closely related to modern North Africans of Berber ancestry than to any other population we included for comparisons, supporting previous studies but adding more detail and nuance.»

From looking at these patterns of relatedness the authors infer that despite the genetic variation in the modern Jewry, most...

More specifically, using digital scans of paper maps based on aerial imagery acquired by the U.S. Geological Survey, along with modern - day satellite imagery from a variety of platforms, the authors digitized a total of 49 maps and images from which they calculated changes in the terminus positions, ice speed, calving rates and ice front advance and retreat rates from 34 glaciers in this region over the period 1955 - 2015.

She holds a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, has authored numerous articles and two books: Myths of the Asanas, an accessible practitioner's guide to stories behind beloved poses; Sacred Sound, a yoga «hymnal,» illustrating the role of chant and mantra in modern practice.

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