Sentences with phrase «library of books about»

Axelrod has also donated his extensive research library of books about African American artists to the Museum, as well as funds to support scholarship.

We have a lending library of books about breastfeeding, childbirth, and parenting.

At home I've a large library of books about mythology.

Not exact matches

You could go to any library and find bookshelves full of books about curing procrastination.

I had to go to the library to find a book on beginner's mind, the Internet still being a thing of the future, and I learned that what he expected from me was an attitude of openness, a lack of preconceived ideas about how things had to be, and a wealth of questions that started with, «what if» and «why not.»

Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.

Better World Books started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partBooks started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partbooks online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partners.

Here was a band politically committed in a way that smacked of the idealism of the 60s I had been reading about in library books, and that, sound-wise, was a bridge from the hard rock I was familiar with to the «new wave» I was becoming fascinated by.

The writers accurate use of common names of the time shows they had access to reliable information about the people and places involved in the history of Jesus and that their writings took place at about the same time as the events (there would have been no way to access information regarding names of that time hundreds of years after the period, remember, no books, no libraries, etc..)

Maya Angelou and the entire Little People, Big Dreams series of books by Isabel Sanchez Vegara — Another library find, we all adore these biographical but accessible books about strong and influential women.

I couldn't be positive about the present identity of what had been our Freedom Center: a three - room house stuffed with library books, sports equipment, telephone (the only one in the black section) and mimeograph machine and a thousand posters and handbills.

Find everything your library has to say about a book of the Bible in one place.

I've got a few books in my library about the Canon of Scripture and I am getting through them slowly.

Visit the library regularly to have a trove of good books lying about.

The Fatherhood Institute, supported by the Nuffield Foundation, has been compiling (and continues to compile) a literature library of mainly academic articles, book chapters and reports about fathers and fatherhood in the UK.

You also can learn about babies by getting books out of the library.

Or then go to the library and check - out a bunch of books that have to do with things going to sleep and talk about it over and over and over.

Last month, the council surprised library officials with an action to reconsider its previous approval of an $ 18.6 million budget for a 93,000 - square - foot facility after questions were raised about book and equipment purchases.

Since the children's reading room — the Margaret and H.A. Rey Children's Room — is named after the couple who created the monkey, it makes sense that the library would keep a large selection of books about Curious George.

According to the Swedish Book Review, she advocated for animal rights, protected threatened trees and campaigned against the closure of library branches, but was especially vocal about her views of world peace.

We got lots of picture books from the library about having a new baby and being a big sister that we would read before bedtime in the months leading up to that baby being born.

Local sling library — When someone first suggested a sling library to me I didn't have a clue what they meant, I was honestly picturing a building full of books about slings (yes I know, idiot).

I'll be checking some books out from the library about homemade stuff, and I wonder if there will be a good make up remover recipe in one of them.

Wuthrich loves her decorations so much, she wrote a book about them coming to life at night, a copy of which can be found in the school library.

I will definitely pick up a copy of that book... they have it at my library and I was wondering about what it was all about.

You will find a letter of the week goat craft, a letter G Do a Dot printable, a handwriting practice worksheet that is all about the letter G, a book list for the library, and a snack idea!

So whether you're picking up a slew of library books, getting groceries, or hopping in the car to visit grandma, you don't want to worry about handling your load.

I don't know about you, but I am always on the look out for good children's books to add to our growing library, so on that note, I thought I'd share some of our favorite bedtime books.

For more information about Battle of the Books and all of the free library services, materials, programs and events, visit your neighborhood Buffalo & Erie County Public Library or go to the website at www.BuffaloLib.org.

The site is a potpourri of useful material: audio files telling the story of Snow's investigations; an exhaustive collection of Snow's original writing; a vast library of articles written about Snow's legacy; annotated maps of London, including Snow's famous map of the Soho outbreak; short biographies of the major figures in Snow's life; excerpts from books that mention him; dozens of photographs, including images of Snow and landmarks in London related to his life; modern - day scientific explanations of the cholera bacteria; and much more.

But Gardner was wrong by half in his prognostications: «The current flurry of discussion about Velikovsky and Hubbard will soon subside, and their books will begin to gather dust on library shelves.»

For years, he says, he told the story of how he had gone «deep into the bowels» of Harvard's library to find a book by his father about what should be done with Nazis «too unimportant to be hung at Nuremberg.»

We don't like to boast about that school's handsome new library — but yes, we gave them a whole bunch of paper books.

On the morning of 5 January, according to witnesses, about 150 people barged into the institute, severed the telephone lines, ransacked the cupboards, tore thousands of books, and damaged the writings on palm leaves, rare artifacts, and old photographs in the library.

Back in the good old days of 2007, when dinosaurs walked the Earth, nobody had really heard about eBooks, less still grasped how popular they'd become, allowing old books a new lease of life; and how devices capable of holding entire libraries in their diminutive frames, and still capable of being used as — of all things, telephones — would be ubiquitous.

She has done a great service educating America about this healthy beef and her book is a «must have» in your library of health books.

All prices include: purified water, one private consultation of 20 min., access to book and video library, printed information material about fasting and latest research, access to afternoon relaxation hour in our lounge room, two re-feeding meals and tea / coffee at the end of the water fast.

We've created an extensive new library of health articles, books and videos to provide you with a wealth of information about perimenopause, menopause, hot flashes, night sweats, pms, hormone balance, natural hormones, hormone testing, men's hormone balance, weaning yourself off of synthetic hormones, picking the best natural progesterone for you, prostate health and much more!

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During my college freshman year summer, I checked out a bunch of fashion books from the library, most containing lots advice about what to wear and what not to wear.

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The prominent American film critic spent almost 40 years at Time Magazine, as well as a library of books and created many documentaries about film.

The big ones are what the book is actually about, why its success has become a negative for the author, and what leads him to flee from the world, traveling west across the country, while burning copies of his own books in stores and libraries along the way.

Thanks in part to these grassroots efforts, Room to Read can boast some astonishing results: During its seven - year existence, the organization has opened nearly 5,000 school libraries and about 400 schools, donated more than 1.4 million English - language books, published 146 local - language titles, and touched the lives of roughly 1.5 million students in developing countries.

The library highlights books about that particular bay or area of the United States.

They don't have to get a library card, or return a book, or take care of it, or worry about losing it.

The book offers ideas about setting up libraries in classrooms and the value of offering students a wide selection of books, adults reading aloud, and many other things that go into Calkins's idea of helping children live a «richly literate life.»

It was a sign of your great status to have a garden, a library stocked with books and art works about the garden and so forth.

School safety: A perusal of library books on the topic turned up friendly prose about the importance of not splashing water on the floor in the bathroom and waiting for the crossing guard's signal to venture across the street.

Most of the Kitengesa library's users are secondary school students, and they are eloquent about how it has helped their education and given them a measure of independence: «When teachers don't cover the whole syllabus, you can find a book and read it,» one student told me.