Sentences with phrase «less read books»

Sure, they can more or less read a book while listening to music (if it stays in the background), but they can't watch TV while reading a book (both of them touch verbal centers).

(Or to put it another way, as we spend more time on - line and less reading books and magazines, longer pieces like this - no matter how well considered and written - will be read by fewer and fewer people.

Not exact matches

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.

We compared children from the same social backgrounds who achieved similar tested abilities at ages five and 10, and discovered that those who frequently read books at age 10 and more than once a week when they were 16 had higher test results than those who read less.

Here's an example of a book review from InsightSquared's blog, which sums up The Challenger Sale in what they promise is an eight - minute read or less.

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.

How is Paul being «divinely inspired» to write books of the Bible any less rediculous than reading out of a hat.

If any of them actually read their holy book completely, we'd see less christians in this world.

It's missing the point on a scale that is arguably worse than someone reading the Book of Genesis and concluding that the earth is less than 10,000 years old...

«Great potential for growth in the Baby Boomer market,» one of the book's memos reads, «but will require awareness campaigns to promote the concept of «guilt,» which 53 — 68 - year - old respondents to a survey reported they are «less likely» or «unlikely» to experience.»

Perhaps, Katie, the book you read was one of his less stellar efforts, but one book doesn't begin to cover a career that has spanned 35 years.

While Adamson's treatment of Aristotle, particularly Aristotle's Physics, is somewhat superficial, the real strength of this book is its treatment of more neglected figures and works, including some of the less widely read elements of the Platonic corpus.

We all know we have tribal tendencies — we attend conferences to hear speakers we agree with, we read books by the same speakers and we mix less and less with people who think differently.

eerdmans, 160 pages, $ 16 In the seven years since its release, Charles Taylor's A Secular Age has entered a particular category of books: frequently referenced, less frequently read.

I'm thinking especially of the relationship a reader has with a living writer whose books he or she has been reading more as less as they appeared over the years.

According to the Barna study, the percent of engagement people have with the Bible — from being engaged (reading the Bible at least four times a week), friendly (engaged with the Bible less than four times a week), neutral (read the Bible once a month or less and see the Bible as the inspired word of God, but acknowledge it can have some errors) and skeptical (see the Bible as «just another book of teachings written by men)-- has started to stabilize and return to its normal rates after the rate of skepticism increased by 4 percent to 14 percent and the rate of friendliness dropped 8 percent to 37 percent in 2011.

I was then more or less compelled to read Guardini's Letters from Lake Como, a book that bridges the other two.

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.

Many Americans wish that politicians would spend less time arguing and more time reading the Good Book.

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?

If someone told Wendy that she needs to «be more balanced» and spend less time cooking and with children and more time reading books, she wouldn't do so well.

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.

«This book is made for need and profit of all good folk,» writes Caxton in his Less Modern English introduction, «as far as they in reading or hearing of it shall more understand and feel the foresaid subtle deceits that daily be used in the world, not to the intent that men should use them, but that every man should eschew and keep him from the subtle false shrews that they be not deceived.»

Moreover, he contends that reading this early book as Ford does makes the text «less rather than more intelligible» (WPSP 11).

Jackson takes so many liberties with the plots and themes that not reading the books ahead might make for less criticism.

This is, I repeat, less a book to be summarized than to be read and contemplated.

«While reading the book, I felt the need to define roles to be less and less important, and my desire to become like Christ to be more and more significant.»

... 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...

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.

It means reading less self - help Christian books with an inward focus and feeling more empowered to be mission minded — whether in our home, in our neighborhoods or across the ocean.

Just as less and less theological writing is being put into books, the theological reader is reading fewer and fewer books.

My former church was very anti-mormon (and in Utah no less) and I even read a coupld of anti-mormon books.

I just recived the new book on the door less than an hour ago and I've already finished reading it!

Somewhere during all that I actually had time to read a book — gasp — and a book on marriage, no less.

so no time for blog reading, much less book reading.

One of the overarching themes in Radical Homemakers, the book I'm currently reading, is that our society should be less reliant on corporations, particularly Big Food.

lol calm down son, i'm mad as hell, but i ain't reading all that, that is what we call a article (book / atlas of words) this is a comment section, so be a little less delicate when someone points that out in the future.

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.

These behaviours include, putting the infant on their back to sleep, being less likely to breastfeed, and being less likely to participate in playing games, reading books or singing songs to their infants.

You might also get some comfort from reading some of my books which will help you feel less alone.

Reading that book, and finding a doctor who was less alarmist, saved my sanity.

With ten numbers and ten types of fruits, My Very First Book of Numbers takes less than three minutes to read.

William Camann, MD, and Kathryn Alexander, MA, have authored a book titled «Easy Labor - Every Woman's Guide to Choosing Less Pain and More Joy During Childbirth» which every pregnant woman should read prior to delivery!

(All these labels get less confusing once you sit down to read the book.)

Common questions regarding some of Attachment Parenting's less orthodox tenets are answered, and each section of the book provides lengthy reading and resource lists, Web sites, and e-mail addresses.

While I haven't finished the entire book I feel like the majority of what I have read so far has basically been a very critical piece on what's wrong with hospitals and formula companies, and less on good advice / tips for breastfeeding.

The complexities of pregnancy and infant loss are explored by survivors themselves rendering this must - read book a first hand personal narrative that invites people to feel less alone in the aftermath of such devastating experiences.

But once you stop playing this particular game with her, you can go back and give Satter's book a more thorough read, and introduce other strategies (proper meal and snacktime spacing, optimizing her nutrition via the few foods she eats, chilling the eff out overall, etc.) that will make mealtimes more pleasant and less of a power struggle over... well, whatever thing your toddler has decided to turn into a power struggle this week.

I haven't read the attachment parenting book, but I have read big chunks of the baby book, and I found him a little less than balanced.

Many parents (and grandparents) make the mistake of giving books to children that are far too difficult for them to read independently, much less in a 15 - minute read - aloud session.