Sentences with phrase «idea of books does»

«The core idea of books doesn't change,» explained Lobo.

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If a particular author's book is just one of thousands available to a subscribing reader, for example, the idea of a refund doesn't apply anymore because there's no individual purchase being made.

But as bestselling author and Oprah - anointed happiness expert Shawn Achor pointed out on in an excerpt from his new book on the TED Ideas blog recently, that sort of praise — well intentioned as it might be — actually does more harm than good.

You have to have an idea that doesn't exist on the market and would add value, a book that's worth the immensity of labor that will go into creating it and promoting it.

They liked the idea of checklists at the end of the chapter, but couldn't we tell them what they should do about what they just read, and why did the book need to be so wordy?

Those contrarian ideas of mine didn't come from a book or from a consultant.

While the book is stuffed with helpful big picture observations, it doesn't offer much in the way of specific on - the - ground ideas — though Keen does call for reforms to data privacy and gig economy labor laws, and for a serious discussion of a universal basic income.

This is how long ago it was: He had the idea of doing a phone book for fax numbers because the fax was relatively new.

He was part of a New York City dinner circuit that includes people who believe the US should go back to the gold standard, rich people who don't think they should have to give back to society in the form of taxes, and anyone interested in either of those ideas who wanted to write a book about them.

-- Jonathan Blum, Principal, Blumsday, a creator of audio, print and video content Can't Live Without It «When the Kindle first came out, I didn't like the idea of having to charge a book's battery.

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«It's a sound idea, but it gets a lot harder to do the bigger the company gets,» says Bruce Ellig, former worldwide head of human resources at Pfizer Inc. and author of several books on compensation.

Many people who use their knowledge for consulting business ideas work from the comfort of their homes and diversify later on, if they so choose, by selling books, attending speaking events, holding online courses, and even doing podcasts.

And many value investing books do say that's the basic idea of what you should be doing.

Thinking about that I think your right.Or getting all this free attention to promote a book free.We got believers and non-belivbers & do n`t knows.I have a good idea, but I can not prove it.I think whatever or whoever created us exists on the other side of the universe.That would probably be infinity.Then infinity would have to have an intelligence to know all things.Some deep $ h1t man.lol

What fishon fails to realize is the teachings of the NT (synoptics for sure) are based on teachings of the Torah (5 books of the law)... he does not understand law and the debating of law for the formation of understanding the idea better.

King Tut didn't leave behind a book of dubious authorship full of ideas on how to control the population for fun and profit...

I am not making a judgment on Stephen King; I hope he is a Christian, but I don't understand the need for the constant filthy language in a book of interesting ideas.

I don't support the idea of desecration of any religious book of any religion.

The sorts of books, ideas, authors that make it into a traditional canon do so because they are taken to have been influential expressions of such interests.

It is interesting, because if you were to do a study of the book of Ephesians, and take note of all the key terms and ideas found throughout the book, you would discover that Paul repeats them all in these next eleven verses.

The metaphor of moving a mountain as it relates to doing the work of peace - making and justice - seeking since my first visit to Haiti crops up often in my life and work — in fact, I ended up dedicating an entire chapter of my book to this beautiful idea).

I agree; Chapter 1 of the book Alcoholics Anonymous states that Bill Wilson did not accept the idea of a God until Ebby asked him «why don't you choose you own conception of God».

And if things don't move in that direction - well, you might find he has nice friends, or he might turn out to be right for one of your friends, or you might just have a pleasant evening, or he might introduce you to some new ideas, books, music or interests.

Each chapter of the book takes a different aspect of these ideas and suggests how that could be done, for example within the categories of communion, forgiveness, education and art.

At the end of the book Mother Dolores writes: «Many people do not understand the difference between a vocation and your own idea about something.

In his book The Neoconservatives (1979), Peter Steinfels described those on our side of the barricades as «counterintellectuals,» people who move in the intellectual world but who do not share that world's dominant sense of alienation and estrangement from the ideas, values, and institutions of the middle - American majority.

I didn't really get to the theme I wanted to talk about: the important role the idea of friendship plays in the book of Job.

In the books of those of us with the intelligence to be critical of ourselves and the ideas around us... it doesn't count.

I think if these people had worried less about what others might be sharing, and just stayed focused on getting their own book done, maybe we'd be talking about how great their book is because it would be published, rather than all the lives they destroyed in trying to control others and make sure none of their ideas leaked out.

Maybe the Holy Spirit is at work around the world to bring multiple authors and pastors and theologians to similar ideas about similar things all at once, and so when I read something in someone else's book that sounds a lot like something I have written, but they don't give me credit, it is not that they «borrowed» from me, but because both of us were listening to what the Spirit has been whispering to minds all over the world.

The entire book of 1 John is engaged in this idea about good and evil, light and darkness, truth and error, and John is intent on showing his readers that based on who God is and what Jesus has done for all people, we can choose to live in love, light, and righteousness, rather than abide in hatred, darkness, and evil.

While this book itself is too late in origin to have affected Christian thought since it comes from perhaps the ninth century A.D., it is probably true that Zoroastrian beliefs concerning eschatology, here carried to such an extreme, did materially affect late Hebrew and early Christian ideas of the ending of the world and the final judgment.

Though I did not initially set out to write a book on this subject, the idea for the book began about 15 years ago when I wrote a paper in Seminary about the origin of violence and evil.

It's a pretty good book, though it seemed to me that the further you got in the book the less it became about discussing interesting ideas about applying Christian ideals in the society we find ourselves in and more it became a lot of his personal prescriptions for what needs to be done and a venting of his worst pet peeves, filled with just a bit to much anger.

And, yes Jeremy, I do agree with you but also disagree with some of the things you say but still great ideas, books, blog and podcast.

Though many Calvinists argue that double predestination is the only logical conclusion to the Calvinist position on God's election of some (but not all) to receive eternal life, I am not going to belabor the point or try to refute the idea since most Calvinists claim that they do not teach or believe it... (for more on reprobation and double predestination I recommend this book: Vance: The Other Side of Calvinism, pp, 250 - 333).

But I do not intend simply to repeat their ideas nor to make this book a mere summary and classification of the various theories on our subject.

It includes questions for discussion and ideas for action corresponding with each chapter as well as a list resources for those wishing to learn more about the topics addressed in the book, (perhaps from people who don't conduct their research from the rooftops of their homes).

I worry that they might confuse me with a preacher or a teacher or a message - bringer, when the thought of speaking to groups of people makes me very nervous, and don't get me started about fill - in - the - blanks being developed or book clubs convening, and I sort of resent the idea of being a mascot or, heaven forbid, a spokesperson or representative for anything.

It's probably not a good idea generally to buy a book out of spite, but in some ways that is precisely what I did when I picked up Sarah Palin's Going Rogue.

This is true, not because it contains, as it does, more exalted religious ideas than any other book, or expresses them better (this would be an explanation of the Bible's superiority, not of its uniqueness), but because it stands in a unique relation to some unique and supremely significant events.

She doesn't read a lot of books or spend dozens of hours each week studying... but she always knows more theology than I do, and always asks penetrating questions which shoot holes through all my acadamagician ideas (Yes, I just coined that term... it's a cross between academic and magician... because that's what most theology is.

If God truly did create all of us, why did he or she make us so narrow minded that we refuse to entertain ideas that call into question the validity of the book that is supposed to be used merely as a guide?

I am a one - man show, however, and so this book gave me some ideas of what I can do to help get my books out faster, better, and into the hands of more people.

He did so by urging the expansion of the idea that the great books include the Eastern classics, as well as through his inspiring participation in Columbia's core courses on Asian humanities and through his many books making the cultural history of China and the rest of East Asia available to educated readers.

you want to write for the rest of your life, so perhaps you should save this story, or save this sentence, or this metaphor, this idea would do well in its» own book perhaps.

Bearing in mind the sequence in which the New Testament books were written, what do we find as to the growth of the idea of the incarnation?

Her story (whose theme, by the way, is «the lot of single women in rural Palestine») may seem to have a happy ending, but don't be fooled, girls; The Book of Ruth is actually «a pernicious, exploitative tract,» reinforcing the idea that «a woman's happiness and fulfillment require men, that is, a husband and sons.»

Christian authors might be a little put - off by his use of profanity and his idea of God and angels, and praying to the Muses, but the premise behind the book is sound: There are forces at work to keep us from being and doing what God has made us for, and until we fight off those forces and get to doing what we were created for, we will be miserable.