Sentences with phrase «life of an academic book»

So, while it may not have the lure of the multicoloured Epindorff tube, or the glamour of fiction publishing (the life of an academic book editor is certainly not one long launch party), I wouldn't want to do anything else... well, except maybe work with those spotty monsters!

Not exact matches

In their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisions.

Finally, from the true - life experiences of a highly - successful entrepreneur, comes a how - to book that is more than an academic compendium.

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.

This is a remarkably daring text, the sort of book many academics avoid like the plague: a book aimed at a wide reading public, written with the hope that it might actually change the lives of some of its readers.

The book made him famous and for ever closed all academic doors to him, for it was received with exclamations of horror, and there began a process of academic persecution which was to follow him all his life through.

Lynch's academic habit of writing often leaves non-specialists, for whom the book is clearly intended, feeling that we would do better to live in our world and ponder it, rather than read a book about how we know.

About the Book: Most parents spend more time helping their kids succeed at academics or athletics than infusing shared spiritual experiences into the rhythm of everyday family life.

As a result these films can be more powerful than any number of biographies or academic books in shaping how we view politicians and their lives.

Carl Honore's best - selling book «In Praise of Slow» has gained increasing traction across corporate and academic life, espousing the theory that when we slow down we end up working better and faster.

When I met with the writer and academic Paul Wapner, whose ideas I'm stealing here, he told me that a colleague had warned him not to publish his book on this subject, titled Living Through the End of Nature.

(Stephen T. Warren, PhD, FACMG, William Patterson Timmie Professor of Human Genetics, Chairman of the Dept. of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine)» [T] he book takes the guesswork out of an academic life and environment.

In addition to several academic articles, book chapters and extensive editing and health communications work, Dr. Weinberg is the author of the powerful stress management and personal empowerment book, The Whole Cure: 52 Essential Prescriptions to Overcome Overwhelm, Reclaim Balance and Reconnect with a Life You Love!

Story: A young man in 1980s England pursues academic glory only to discover that knowledge can be fickle and life comes full of endless complications that can not be researched in text books.

JESSICA CHASTAIN: Basically, the film follows along with the book, but also a lot of very interesting things happened to Molly after the book came out, which includes being arrested by the FBI, and so [Aaron Sorkin] really has woven together the different parts of her life: her athletic and academic excellence, alongside with going to Los Angeles and trying to figure out what one has to become to be a leader and to find success — and all that is also woven with her court case.

Like its later companions «Margot at the Wedding» and «Greenberg,» «The Squid and the Whale» is a deeply sad comedy about how no amount of book learning and so - called academic knowledge can prepare you for the pain and disappointment that real life can bring.

Kids Thrilled by Chance to Publish Own Books Students spend a great deal of their academic life writing, yet very few ever see their prose published.

She included in the book questions for students and a workbook they can use to help them take charge of their personal and academic lives.

Paul Tough, author of a book about the Harlem Children's Zone, describes the philosophy behind «no excuses» secondary schools that target at - risk students: «The schools reject the notion that all that these struggling students need are high expectations; they do need those, of course, but they also need specific types and amounts of instruction, both in academics and attitude, to compensate for everything they did not receive in their first decade of life.»

I have to make the writing accessible to a variety of people as well as take something that, at times, can be academic and dry, and punching some life into too, so the reader is engaged throughout the book.

In his sixth book on Beethoven, Suchet eschews musical analysis and the source references academics demand to limn the life and personality out of which the music arose.

Suchet, eschewing musical analysis and the source references that academics demand, limns the life and personality out of which Beethoven's music arose, presenting what should be considered an ideal «first book» on the subject.

I've listened to some extraordinary cases and have talked with mothers of children who spoke of past lives, and have read fascinating books that ranged from more academic texts like Dr. Stevenson's Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects and Death and Personal Survival by philosopher Robert Almeder to personal stories like Soul Survivor.

I was 23 years old, nine months into a year - long fellowship to live and paint, no academic strings attached, in Paris — and to roam from city to city, looking at works of art that I had studied only in books.

My father is William Julius Wilson, a famous academic in the field of urban poverty and race relations; my mother spent most of her young life in a convent then «busted out» to raise a family and started making artists books; my brother is a spiritual speaker and Bitcoin enthusiast; my one half sister is a powerhouse business woman; the other half sister was a lesbian erotica writer but transitioned to writing romance novels and is now a conservative and a huge Trump supporter.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

Thanks to our friend Allison Jack, Agroecology Professor and Director of Jenner Farm at Prescott College, for highlighting NWEI's course book resources in a recent Prescott College blog post on integrating concepts of sustainable agriculture in the academic, co-curricular and personal lives of students through the Summer Institute in Sustainable Agriculture at Willamette University's Zena Farm.

In his academic work, Light is the author of over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters primarily on the normative dimensions of climate change, restoration ecology, and urban sustainability, and has authored, co-authored, and edited 19 booksincluding Environmental Values (2008), Controlling Technology (2005), Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice (2003), Technology and the Good Life?

Craig wrote the first book dedicated to embodied carbon in construction and gained his PhD by the rare route of publication, which involved publishing 9 academic articles on the topic of embodied carbon and life cycle assessment.

«I'm «cashing out» with 186 published journal articles and two books,» Curry wrote of her academic life.

For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.