Sentences with phrase «less a book about»

Finally, there's The 99th Monkey, which is less a book about spirituality and more an exposé of the humans behind the revered guru figure.

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But while male billionaires» reading choices get plenty of press coverage, we hear relatively less about the books that have been most inspirational for super successful, but slightly less high - profile women — the kinds of books that are most likely to provide similar wisdom and mental nourishment for the generation of leaders coming up behind them.

Calacanis says the move is less about selling books and more about building out the company's online retail ecosystem.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

Shaq's book report revealed it had been less than transformative: «This is about a young man who has power, wealth, and women (much like me), and gives them all up to pursue a holy life (not so much like me).»

Alexander would like to see Morneau produce a plan to balance the books, while Perrault is less concerned about it as long as Ottawa keeps lowering the debt - to - GDP.

The broader TOPIX trades for about 1.3 times book value which is way up from 0.8 before the rally but a heck of a lot less than the US ratio of 2.7.

In fact, I find Guy's book amazing because it talks less about value investing rules and more on a value investor's character development.

Neither light reading nor cheap (it's hard to find online for less than about $ 75), this book is the most thoughtful and objective analysis of the long - term returns on stocks, bonds, cash and inflation available anywhere, purged of the pom - pom waving and statistical biases that contaminate other books on the subject.

Despite my general sympathy with what Dreher seeks to do in this book, I am less enthusiastic about other facets of his argument.

In my book «Religious Literacy,» I argued that the United States is one of the most religious countries on Earth, and yet Americans know very little about their own religions and even less about the religions of others.

It also assess monetary value for humans with women being about half... It also states any child less than a month has no monetary value... There are certainly better books in the bible...

But the book is less than half - way finished... and if I can not prove the thesis to my satisfaction, I see no way out of the dilemma about how to reconcile the love of Jesus with the violence of Yahweh other than to say that in some way or another, the Old Testament is wrong in its portrayal of God.

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.

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.

I had spent so much money buying books about fishing, attending fishing conferences, going to Africa to fish, and founding the World Fishing Training Center that although it was true that I had never caught any fish, this did not make me any less of an expert in fishing.

It seems most books on church health focus on the big and popular churches, forgetting that about 90 % of American churches have 100 people or less.

Conversations in Religion & Theology is the journal of the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, and the current issue is largely given over to responses to a book about your scribe that is less than complimentary.

Glen Stassen points out: «The farther the book goes, the less specific it gets about the ethics of the New Testament Jesus....

I often read books that are more about the idea / theology of parenting and less about the practical tips and strategies and examples so this was helpful.

Andy — What about those of us, like myself, who have read her books (as I have, a couple of times) and still find them lacking, or less than admirable?

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

A fellow named John Loftus wrote a book (which I'm not going to link to; sorry John) about his journey into atheism, and he dedicated no less than two chapters -LRB-!)

God could had it been both ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...

God could had creation either ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...

... wow, lot's of mis - statements here by people speculating about the Bible and Jesus, including those of you who think the books of the Bible were written a few hundred years ago (Moses penned it around 1400BC)... the Bible is a collection of the most investigated writings of all time, so there is a tremendous amount of credible archeological and scientific material in this world available for review rooted in verifiable investigations... my response, read the Bible, do your own investigation, determine the Truth for yourself... hopefully, anne rice's denouncement of faith in the God of the Bible (it's difficult for me to believe she ever had Saving Faith in the first place) will bring some readers to investigate and find the Truth... God will call the Elect, not one more, not one less...

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warningby timothy snydertim duggan books, 462 pages, $ 30 F aced with the challenge of finding something new to say about the Holocaust, a lesser author will offer a picture of Nazism that resembles his present - day political opponents.

So anyway, I like the main message that J. D. Greear was trying to get across in this book, but I wish he would have stuck with it, and not tried to get this second subject in there about how to know for sure you are saved, for that is where his book goes off track and becomes much less helpful.

But a body of newer work on the apostle — including, perhaps, as Hurtado notes, Wright's own new books (which I haven't had the chance to finish reading yet)-- reveals that Paul may, after all, look less like a liberal Westerner than the New Perspective has taught us to think and more like a Christ - haunted figure whose radical social practices arose directly from his pioneering, innovative thinking about the identity and achievement of Jesus Christ.

In a letter to a friend at Zwickau, Luther wrote about Eck's text in desperate apocalyptic mood: «The book... is nothing less than the malice and envy of a maniac... Rejoice, Brother, rejoice, and be not terrified by these whirling leaves... The more they rage the more cause I give them...»

I myself am an author on Amazon, and I list my digital books for about 50 % less than my paperback books.

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

I agree with a lot of the lesser reviews of this book, but felt that it still should get four stars, whilst it has recipes which cooks and chefs would not call recipes in the wider sense I don't personally think that Ella in both her books is neccesarily all about the recipes.

You're the second person in less than three days I've heard talk about this book, and it's definitely on my amazon.com wishlist:) the scones look great, and i have some fig jam in the pantry that i made in the start of fig season.

it does not matter if the player is cheap or not the bigger problem would be that very player will be on our books for four years so he better be good, that's why when I look at Chelsea and city these clubs throw players out with in a season un less that player is expensive or injured, so waiting to sign wclass 4 years is better than signing just to compete for a season to complain about more signings

Plus, every parenting book I read as my kids became adolescents themselves talked about the changing role of a parent — you become less of a manager and more of a consultant.

This book is mainly written for mothers who feel nervous and less confident about breastfeeding as it's their first time.

Thankfully I found Andrea's first book about EC when my daughter was less than 1 so our learning curve wasn't too late.

Because parenting is about so much more than discipline, Rebecca hits on important topics less spoken about, making this more than a parenting book.

Performance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars The more cloth diapers I try, the less I am on the fence about what is the best choice for me next time around (for my pocket book and my baby's bottom).

I asked her recently to write up a few things about what it was like breastfeeding at a time where even less women breastfed than today and there was no internet, no Google to search things up, no information except the odd parenting book or La Leche League meeting.

I heard a lot of horror stories, but somewhere along the way someone mentioned the book about potty training in a day [Toilet Training in Less Than a Day by Nathan Azrin and Richard M. Foxx].

In our book, Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less, my co-author Christine and I go into detail about chores for both younger and older kids — why they're so important (and why it's never too late to begin), which jobs to delegate, and how to get started.

We talk about decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection or expectations — expanding upon what we wrote about in our book Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less (Routledge, 2013).

My new book Love Warrior is about my husband's infidelity (we're just gonna keep saying that out loud «till it gets less scary); and

A great book for kids to help them think about why they worry, and what they can do to feel less worried!

The book gives lots of practical tips and troubleshooting, including common issues dealing with pain and latching as well as less - talked about issues like thrush and mastitis.

If you have kids older than that, though, this book will give you a nice framework for thinking about all the areas of family life so you can assess what you can control and streamline things so you can process the chaos as it happens and spend more time enjoying life and less time feeling like it's dragging you around.

Dina's the author of It's Not About the Broccoli: Three Habits to Teach Your Kids a Lifetime of Healthy Eating, a thought - provoking book which encourages parents to worry less about nutrition and more about instilling good eating habits — a philosophy that's well reflected in today's About the Broccoli: Three Habits to Teach Your Kids a Lifetime of Healthy Eating, a thought - provoking book which encourages parents to worry less about nutrition and more about instilling good eating habits — a philosophy that's well reflected in today's about nutrition and more about instilling good eating habits — a philosophy that's well reflected in today's about instilling good eating habits — a philosophy that's well reflected in today's post.