Sentences with phrase «just academic books»

But I am definitely faster than I was back in college when I had to read just academic books and homework seemed to take so long!

Not exact matches

It occurs to me that, despite the unprecedented flood of writings of all sorts — books, blog - posts, newspaper op - eds, and academic journal articles — addressing just about every monetary policy development during and since the 2008 financial crisis, relatively few attempts have been made to step back...

Lewis spoke frequently and with great fondness about the simple pleasures of his academic life — friends, books, nature — so it's easy to gloss over these thing as just that: simple pleasures.

Last year I read Tom Harpur's book The Pagan Christ, which for a noted academic like Harpur, makes wild claims, yet there is no real historic basis to them, just blind bigotry and prejudice and an extreme liberal licence to make such claims.

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.

To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.

Just re-reading one of your books - = - and having a fantasy of heading to the CIA as an academic to learn about academics in a new environment as I am obsessed with food... but that is not my profession...

For instance, analysis of the modes and mechanisms of exit, the economic impacts of exit, and the norms that underpin the dominant paradigms of exit — these are just a few of the academic issues that we address in the book.

Now that he has secured an international research reputation and established a firm grip on the rungs of the academic career ladder, Crowdy encourages young mathematicians to take off the blinders, put on their metaphorical backpacks and hiking books, and seek career opportunities far and wide instead of just sticking close to some comfortable disciplinary home.

Sure, there are a handful of academics and scientists who could EASILY give you this exact answer, but none of them are willing to take time out from their busy schedules to actually sit down and write a book just for you — much less one that wasn't full of confusing scientific jargon and annoying fence - sitting.

Of course, you may have tried this and it may not have worked; in that case I'm useless to you, since I'm just a guy that has read the books and some of the research, but my interest is far from professional and neither is it backed by any sort of academic degree in the field.

What makes this book so powerful is that she is speaking as not just as an academic and a practitioner who has helped implement the ketogenic diet for many cancer patients, but most importantly and movingly as a mother learning the hard way how to help her son Raffi with his brain cancer.

Articles, books, and journals have been written about how to support our new teachers — guidance on lesson planning, suggestions for classroom management techniques, and support in professional decision - making are just a few of the many components our novice teachers need as they begin their academic journey.

And the academic wall of silence seemed to be cracking just a little, perhaps especially after William Julius Wilson's The Truly Disadvantaged (1987) was released and sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's book Growing Up with a Single Parent (1994) powerfully documented the detrimental effects of family breakdown on children.

Erik is looking for the following: literary / upmarket fiction with an emphasis on plot (as in, nothing too slow / quiet / static); popular and academic / trade science nonfiction, especially evolutionary biology; narrative history and biography; contemporary culture criticism (think Klosterman); sports books, if it's got a scope that extends past just games and players and into culture / larger issues.

Academics are eliminating print reference, magazines have gone digital and bookstores are turning into to books that just happen to have a few books.

In Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What They Want — and Why We Should Let Them, authors Jeffrey D. Wilhelm (Boise State University) and Michael W. Smith (Temple University), explain that there has to be more to books for young people than just the typical academic requirements.

Germany's book market is among the top three in size in the world, though e-books remain only a small percentage of overall sales, accounting for 21.2 million Euros in revenue in 2010, or 0.5 % of the total market (excluding academic books and textbooks) and just 5.4 % of sales, according to a new joint study between the German Publishers» Association and GfK Panel Services called «Breakthrough in the Book Marbook market is among the top three in size in the world, though e-books remain only a small percentage of overall sales, accounting for 21.2 million Euros in revenue in 2010, or 0.5 % of the total market (excluding academic books and textbooks) and just 5.4 % of sales, according to a new joint study between the German Publishers» Association and GfK Panel Services called «Breakthrough in the Book MarBook Market?

By Publishing Perspectives staff Germany's book market is among the top three in size in the world, though e-books remain only a small percentage of overall sales, accounting for 21.2 million Euros in revenue in 2010, or 0.5 % of the total market (excluding academic books and textbooks) and just 5.4 % of sales, according to a new joint study between the German...

While there are of course legitimate academic reasons to study the text and regular folks may just be plain curious about the book, reading Mein Kampf isn't exactly the sort of thing people will want to do on the commute to work - which could be exactly why it's proving so popular in ebook format.

This observation is borrowed from a book of academic Robert Shiller, but I don't think it came with empirical analysis, just a hypothesis.

INVESTING; An Academic Way to Beat the Market — New York Times — Dr. Arbel has a book (just got a used copy) that is on the recommended book list at Columbia's value investing program.

I just love it when journalists or academics take it upon themselves to write books or articles explaining how fully one half of Americans are deluded by propaganda.

Just like there are references academic papers and in some popular history books.

Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom: Promoting Mental Health and Academic Success by Kenneth W Merrell, PhD and Barbara Gueldner is just one publication offered by Guilford Press, a publishing company focused on providing «books, periodicals, software, and DVDs in mental health, education, geography, and the social and behavioral sciences.»