Sentences with phrase «ideas than any other book»

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.

Not exact matches

Giving a new college graduate an 832 - page book by a professor sounds like a terrible idea — except your gift will probably register when you say it's on the recommendation of none other than Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.

All those religion books that were written thousand years ago by people who had no idea about other cultures or how could they make sense one thousand years later are no better than cartoons.

When someone is accused of «cherry - picking» verses from the Bible, it means that they have a particular doctrine or idea they want to teach to others, and rather than considering «the whole counsel of God,» they pick a choose a few select verses from various books of the Bible which seems to prove their point or present their case in the strongest possible way.

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.

At least Author A reworded and summarized the ideas which are found in the books of Author B, but again, I feel that if most of an author's ideas and content are being pulled from the ideas of authors in other books, it is only right and fair to give them more credit than two footnotes.

If you are going to argue a point, support your ideas with something other than a «good» book.

Rather than being excited about some new insight from Scripture or idea about theology which I get to pass on to others, my writing has become more about pageviews, backlinks, ad revenue, email subscriber stats, book sales, and comment counts.

The time it takes to read and digest a book requires us to engage someone else's ideas with more seriousness than almost any other activity.

By this we do not mean just the temporal development that historical criticism discerns in the redaction of these codes, the evolution of moral ideas that may be traced out from the first Decalogue to the Law of the Covenant, on the one hand, and from the Decalogue itself through the restatements and amplifications of the book of Deuteronomy to the new synthesis of the «Holiness Code» in the book of Leviticus and the legislation subsequent to Ezra, on the other; more important than this development of the content of the Law is the transformation in the relationship between the faithful believer and the Law.

In fact, much of Nussbaum's own rather unconventional view of democracy in this book derives from the Gandhian idea of Swaraj (self - rule), in which control of one's inner life and respect for other people create self - aware and engaged rather than passive citizens.

And it is not that John was unaware of the idea of repentance, for aside from Luke, he uses the term repentance more than any other New Testament writer in the other books of the Bible he has written.

While some kids might be more sensitive to some media content than others — what's scary or upsetting for one child might have no affect on another — it's a good idea to know what might upset your child, limit violent media content, and stick to age - appropriate movies, books, video games, and other media.

These «doctors of obstetrics» wrote books and gave advice on something they knew nothing about other than ideas they'd heard over the ages.

Other than the comfort items, it's also a good idea to bring a small amount of compact toys and cloth cover books.

You'll get dozens of fresh ideas on how to cope with the reality of labour from this and many other sections of the book, which will help you on the day whether your birth is easy as falling off a log, much tougher than you expected, or somewhere in between.

Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

And since agents and most publishers don't have the slightest idea what will sell and what won't sell, there is no magic formula for success other than having people read your books.

Here's an idea: what if we decided to declare the Amazon format the winner so that readers using a Kindle could actually get books for other stores than Amazon?

The idea that books are somehow more special than other forms of entertainment (or even other consumer products) is elitism, and like all forms of elitism it falls apart under even the most basic scrutiny.

KDP Rocket is a book idea research tool which is much more powerful than any other free or paid option on the market.

I have no idea what criteria KS uses to determined which books to publish — other than the crowdsourcing part — but there's mention that the more complete and ready a book is, the better its chances.

I certainly took a gamble by beginning the story in the way I did: chronologically, the book begins at the end of the story, so at this point we have no clear idea of why Glyver has felt it necessary to take the life of a completely innocent man, other than as a vaguely described preparation for the murder of his enemy.

John Kremer's «1001 Ways To Market Your Books» His 6th Edition published in 2006 describes more than 1000 ideas, tips, and suggestions for marketing books — all illustrated with real - life examples showing how other authors and publishers have marketed their bBooks» His 6th Edition published in 2006 describes more than 1000 ideas, tips, and suggestions for marketing books — all illustrated with real - life examples showing how other authors and publishers have marketed their bbooks — all illustrated with real - life examples showing how other authors and publishers have marketed their booksbooks.

Handwriting Support Now a Reality on the Kindle Touch Puzzazz clearly had other ideas — that the Kindle could be put to use for more entertaining stuff rather than just reading e-books... Interactive e-books are what the future of digital books will be like and the new handwriting recognition technology from Puzzazz has already made a start on this.

If you would like prompts on subjects other than Hanukkah writing prompts, try a thousand writing prompts all in one place, in my book 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts: Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More.

And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.

That was precisely my experience: The viewing angle was better than on other tablets, an important point given that the company's NookKids encourages the idea of using the device to read picture books to children.

When I'd first written a book, I had no idea what I was doing other than putting words on paper.

Sometimes books become something other than what we intended them to be, plus having a general idea of word count and the ability to put together a book blurb and some excerpts for promotional use is necessary.

It's hard when you're a writer and you have no idea what to do with your books, other than write them.

On the one hand it reinforces the idea of ebooks being «worth» less than physical books and on the other, the price of physical books is too high, why else would retailers be selling them at such large discounts.

What better way to find best selling niches and get ideas for your next book than by modelling what's already working for other Kindle publishers.

While written for a more general audience than some of the other books on this list, it is helpful to balance out the ideas of value investors focused on very cheap securities with the ideas presented in this book which focus on underappreciated growth businesses.

I'll get to some other gift - of - travel ideas other than making actual nonrefundable bookings.

The idea behind the scheme is to reward travel planners for booking with Starwood rather than with the competition by awarding them Starpoints and elite night credits for bookings made for others.

After putting together a mish - mash of resources (book, tapes, etc. - many from my now - friend Dan Kennedy), I built a marketing system designed around a very simple idea: ATTRACT ONLY THE BEST CLIENTS and stop doing marketing designed to appeal more to others in the profession than my actual clients.

On the other hand if you wrote an independent book on the topic, happened to reflect the original author's ideas, and even copied a small amount of text by way of illustrative quotes, then that resembles an independent creation rather than copying.

I replied that I not only had German cookbooks, but plenty of others, and that one doesn't need a book necessarily; other than only to get ideas from.