Sentences with phrase «in scholarly books»

She sounds like a typical conservative critic of modern academia, except that she's complaining about this kind of thing in scholarly books on sexual «kink,» particularly bondage and sadomasochism.

Editing, audio, book recommendation, and metrics in scholarly book downloads — all played a role in the contest for the award.

Not exact matches

Reporting suggests the company did just this in 2013, by hiking prices on scholarly and small - press books and creating the risk of a «two - tier system where some books are priced beyond an audience's reach.»

McGill - Queen's University Press is a scholarly publisher of books that engage in public debate, current events, politics, contemporary thought, and the arts.»

The participants express the hope that those responding with critical evaluations of the statement will consult the scholarly papers prepared for their deliberation and to be found in the book.

His 1994 book Reasonable Faith (Crossway) argues that «Evangelicals have been living on the periphery of responsible intellectual existence... there is an intellectual war going on in the universities and in the professional journals and scholarly societies.

Back in the 1980s, Jane Schaberg wrote a scholarly book called THE ILLEGITIMACY OF JESUS which also touched on these controversial subjects.

And, on the «new nonfiction» table at my local book store, I've spotted both the schmaltzy — A Travel Guide to Heaven — and the scholarly — a 700 - page tome by an Ivy League professor, Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion.

While many of the books about Jesus are written in scholarly language and primarily for other scholars, Viola and Sweet have written a well - researched and documented biography of Jesus, but in a way that the average Christian can read and understand.

It is difficult to imagine a book that lays out more carefully, calmly, and rationally the basic disputes in Jesus research today than this thorough and accessible scholarly exchange.

the evidences cited above are all from a scholarly book published in 1975 — and all of which speak directly to the contrary of the supposed «absence» of evidence necessary to generate this «headline.»

Scholarly research shows that most of the books of the New Testament were not likely written by the names they bear (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, etc,), and the quotes in the NT that are attributed directly to Jesus himself are guesses at best.

The latter approach has gained considerable traction over recent years, in part because of the impressive scholarly work of Brad Gregory in his book The Unintended Reformation.

I read this book, not primarily because I was interested in finding out how the Jewish Rabbinic tradition developed, but to learn what I could about how the Christian scholarly / church tradition is developing.

The book is not elegantly written nor is it scholarly in a conventional way.

Columba Stewart's book is a scholarly monograph that situates Cassian in his historical context, searches out the sources of his thinking, and analyzes the central features of his spiritual teaching.

This is new territory for me, doing a book - length study of Jesus and the origins of Christianity, but I have read everything I could get my hands on, weighed all the scholarly debates, and hope my book will be useful to the book - reading public in explaining what we can really know, historically, about Jesus.

According to Edward J. Larson's scholarly, informative, Pulitzer Prize - winning book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, the prosecution of young John Scopes for presumedly violating a state law restricting the teaching of evolution in the public schools need not have resulted in the now legendary high - pitched standoff between the atheistic radical Clarence Darrow and the robustly religious populist William Jennings Bryan.

For instance, Huston Smith, in the book to which reference has been made (above, n. 15), states in his Preface that he has had scholarly members of the faiths concerned read some of his chapters.

(ENTIRE BOOK) These essays in methodology are concerned with the need to establish the history of religion and comparative religion as a leading scholarly activity at the modern university.

Into it had gone something of Luther's new theological assurance but also of a new spirituality which was to be seen in his other «first» book, in the more scholarly sphere.

It is remarkable that in spite of the massive scholarly work on medieval science there are still books on the history of science that begin with an account of the achievements of the ancient Greeks and pass immediately to the Renaissance, completely ignoring the contribution of the Middle Ages.

Virtually every verse in the book — including some of the most decisive ones — has been subjected to scholarly debate.

Through my writings (books, scholarly articles, popular articles, and website), my lectures at conferences (for physicians, lactation consultants, health departments, and LLL groups), and my university classroom teaching (I manage to work this material into every class, no matter what the official topic might be), I have been able to pass along the lessons I learned from LLL to thousands of people, who in turn have passed them along.

She found great resistance to publishing her findings in peer reviewed journals, with only the one scholarly reference in a journal (18) and the rest of her findings published in a chapter of a book and her own book.

He has co-authored several book chapters and scholarly publications in peer - reviewed journals, including Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review and Journal of Traumatic Stress.

Also in the 1960s C.F. Holt published a scholarly book on Magna Carta.

It was Robert Silvers, the well - respected editor of The New York Review of Books, who urged Judt to expand his intellectual horizons: he «taught me in spite of myself that I really could do this sort of writing; that I could think and comment upon subjects far removed from my formal scholarly concerns.

In addressing the subject of exit strategies, this book necessarily delves into and contributes to one of the most important unresolved scholarly debates of modern times: namely the characteristics and requirements of a sustainable peace.

As such, this book argues that much of the scholarly literature in the electoral domain has the wrong object in view in focusing on the outcomes of this work, rather than the processes that create information environments.

In addition to providing a rich look at the tools and practices that make up contemporary campaigning, this book contributes to scholarly understanding of new media and politics.

A noted, Mexica Empire had a specific religion which required human sacrifices to War God (Danielle Bolelli's recent History on Fire podcast had several excellent episodes on Cortez and the Spanish conquest of Mexica empire, for those not in the mood for more scholarly history books on the topic; and it covered pre-Cortez Mexica pretty well).

Evidence of the foreign scientist?s authorship of scholarly books or articles published by scholarly journals with an international circulation in the academic field.

Schneider recommends «three rules» of advocacy: explicitly stating when one's views reflect values rather than science; using colorful, easy - to - grasp metaphors; and producing a «hierarchy of products,» ranging from sound bites to op - eds to scholarly papers to lengthy books «where you can put in all the caveats.»

The Natural History of Unicorns might sound whimsical, but in fact it is an erudite, scholarly book which uses the unicorn to illuminate millennia of social and geographical change.

His scholarly contributions, reported in well over 650 publications, book chapters, and reviews, have earned Dr. Jain scores of awards and honors in the U.S. and internationally, including election to the United States National Academies of Medicine (2003), Engineering (2004), and Sciences (2009).

the ethical obligation of a professional scientist to share his / her discoveries with other scientists through publication in scholarly literature or books.

His book Demonic Males popularized ideas he has developed in scholarly research focused on the influence of ecology on the evolution of primate social behavior.

This book contains the collective wisdom of many years of practice and scholarly research on gut health, and includes: evidence - based science and background information to expand readers understanding of digestive health; practical nutrition strategies with menus and recipes to restore digestive function; natural remedies and supplements helpful in healing the gut; and mind body practices for long - term health and healing.

In addition, and unlike much English - language film scholarship even today (and certainly television studies), the book is far from Anglophone - or even Francophone - centric in its account of both cinema and criticism / theory's history, being at pains to emphasise the reality of new - century scholarly discourse as truly global in scopIn addition, and unlike much English - language film scholarship even today (and certainly television studies), the book is far from Anglophone - or even Francophone - centric in its account of both cinema and criticism / theory's history, being at pains to emphasise the reality of new - century scholarly discourse as truly global in scopin its account of both cinema and criticism / theory's history, being at pains to emphasise the reality of new - century scholarly discourse as truly global in scopin scope.

An anthropologist who visited Amish schools in five states has published a scholarly book showing such schools are not frozen in time and are diverse in how they educate children to live apart from the world.

I also encourage you to get your hands on some of the phenomenal books of haiku that are out there right now, from the scholarly anthology Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years to the more whimsical, illustrated Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys and the hilarious Suburban Haiku: Dispatches From Behind the Picket Fence, which brings satire to the form.

The book emerged from the authors» study of choice programs in the schools of San Antonio, but it became an attempt at a sweeping synthesis of scholarly work on education policy, drawing on literature in philosophy, economics, political science, education, and law.

Broadly speaking, the scores generally draw about 40 % on scholarly influence in terms of bodies of work and citation counts, 25 % on book authorship and current book success (which frequently overlaps with scholarly work), and about 35 % on presence in new and old media, as well as in the Congressional Record.

All ten are veteran, accomplished scholars who have each authored a number of (frequently influential) books, accumulated bodies of heavily cited scholarly work, and are often seen in the public square and working with state and district leaders.

Although he is neither a career educator nor a member of the House Education Committee, Representative Charles Thomas of Georgia is making it his business to stockpile scholarly articles and books on the latest in educational research.

But in scholarly and policy terms, this book is a failure.

While she has published extensively in scholarly journals, her new book reads more like a self - help volume than an academic one.

In my book, The Collapse of Parenting, I share data from many sources — including the National Institutes of Health, international databases such as the PISA program, scholarly papers by researchers such as Professor Jean Twenge, and many other sources — showing that American kids are indeed more likely to be obese, less likely to be physically fit, more likely to be anxious and depressed, compared with American kids 30 years ago — and in the case of academic achievement, doing much less well compared with kids in other countries, again a big change compared with American kids 30 years agIn my book, The Collapse of Parenting, I share data from many sources — including the National Institutes of Health, international databases such as the PISA program, scholarly papers by researchers such as Professor Jean Twenge, and many other sources — showing that American kids are indeed more likely to be obese, less likely to be physically fit, more likely to be anxious and depressed, compared with American kids 30 years ago — and in the case of academic achievement, doing much less well compared with kids in other countries, again a big change compared with American kids 30 years agin the case of academic achievement, doing much less well compared with kids in other countries, again a big change compared with American kids 30 years agin other countries, again a big change compared with American kids 30 years ago.

«This book brings together some of the leading minds in the scholarly study of the Latino population of the United States,» says Suárez - Orozco.