Sentences with phrase «modern books by»

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The modern - day bible for this way of thinking is a 2014 book by Belgian organizational behaviour consultant Frederic Laloux called Reinventing Organizations, which posits that reporting structures (and, indeed, job descriptions) have no purpose in the workplace of the future.

It's just one manifestation of our soft spot for «filter bubbles,» exploited by everything from Amazon's book recommendation engines to the elaborate audience - tailoring of modern media.

It is not a substitute or replacement but a modern companion to the original best - selling Think and Grow Rich book by Napoleon Hill because the people and principles are timeless.

This pattern, practiced by modern superconnectors, unfolds exactly as Wharton professor Adam Grant's soon - to - be-released book, Give and Take, suggests: Helping others increases net productivity and success for both helper and helped.

The new book is fully endorsed by the Napoleon Hill Foundation and is the modern - day version of the original classic «Think And Grow Rich ``.

Written by Sylvain Labs, «The Dots» is a book that deconstructs the role of influence for brands and institutions in the modern age.

The book is further weakened by the author's effort to enlist Solzhenitsyn in his enthusiasm for E. F. Schumacher's «small is beautiful» critique of the modern world, and for Chesterton's notion of economic «distributism.»

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience by Richard Landes Oxford, 520 pages, $ 35 This is a disturbing and momentous book, for modern political thinking has trouble making sense of the intrusion of irrationality.

Recently this seems to have involved a clearer call for a modern «apologetic» in defence of Christianity, encouraged, among other things, by the poplar success of Richard Dawkins» recent book The God Delusion.

In his stunning new book Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Harvard University Press, 1983), Harold J. Berman argues that the roots of modern universalistic principles of law, morality, science and scholarship derive from essentially theological insights which are now in peril of being lost by neglect.

Of these five books, by far the most significant for the study of his doctrine of God are Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Process and Reality.

The quotation captures the noble project of the book in this way: «The old Catholic religion - culture of Europe is dead... the inheritance of classical culture... has been destroyed, overwhelmed by a vast influx of new knowledge, by the scientific mass civilisation of the modern world.

It generates great loyalty among its readers, many of whom discover the book in adolescence and are inspired by the nobility, heroism and beauty with which, unusually in modern literature, the book is charged.

Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by charles taylor harvard university press, 601 pages, $ 29.95 To describe Sources of the Self as a learned book would be a little like describing Michael Jordan as a skilled basketball player: accurate, but hardly adequate to the....

I always attributed this disconnect to my general frustrations with modern evangelicalism — that it's been hijacked by the Republican Party, that it's in a perpetual state of defensiveness and «wartime» posturing, that it has closed itself off to science and independent thought, that it has lost sight of the message of Jesus regarding the Kingdom of God, that it has become commercialized and shallow — all the things we «emergers» like to write books and articles about.

Holmes concludes the book by describing the beliefs of modern presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush, proving that since World War II the presidents have moved in a more orthodox and even evangelical direction, which seems ironic considering the assumed rise of secularity in America.

A fascinating recent book by historian Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt To Sunbelt, shows how a vast migration of «plain - folk» religious migrants from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas flocked to Southern California during World War II, winning the region for Christ and the modern Republican right.

Perhaps also this book not only may throw light on the fundamental purposes by which education should be directed, but may at the same time suggest the outlines of a relevant and mature faith for modern man — a faith that grows directly out of the daily struggle to make responsible decisions.

In his recent and final book Catholicism and Democracy, the late Cambridge scholar Émile Perreau - Saussine attempts to defuse that anger by presenting a long view of modern Church history.

That means, it seems to me, rejecting the ancient vs. modern distinction as the key to understanding the West and even reason vs. revelation the way it is understood by many Great Books teachers.

While it was prominent in German pietism in the post-Reformation period, and was particularly important in the Calvinist Reformation (where Psalm texts dominated), the modern hymn book is heavily influenced by the 19th - century tradition of the English hymn.

Not surprisingly, in a book by a modern academic, Rosenzweig turns out to be much like any other academic looking for tenure.

From a book review highlighted by our friends at First Thoughts: «Marxists can account for the singular, closed character of modern society by invoking Marx's theory of historical materialism.

In his book The Secular City, theologian Harvey Cox in 1965 presented a significant challenge to Western theological thought by highlighting the difference which existed between the natural agricultural environment in which biblical thought had developed and the urban social environment of modern life.

BOOKS BY WHITEHEAD Science and the Modern World, I 925 Religion in the Making, 1926 Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology, 1929 (best read in conjunction with D. S. Sherburne, A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality, 1965) The Adventures of Ideas, 1938 Modes of Thought, 1938 All published by Cambridge University PresBY WHITEHEAD Science and the Modern World, I 925 Religion in the Making, 1926 Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology, 1929 (best read in conjunction with D. S. Sherburne, A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality, 1965) The Adventures of Ideas, 1938 Modes of Thought, 1938 All published by Cambridge University Presby Cambridge University Press.

We need cult christians who do nt abide by the dead, wet noodle, dishwater Christianity of modern man, we need BOOK OF ACTS, Christians.

BOOK REVIEW: Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, by Charles Taylor.

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

Interesting response, Kris, but I'm more intrigued by a modern Mormon's ability to reconcile fallacies in the Book of Mormon.

Amid various modern fantasies about her, one can also find books by scholars.

Christopher Calderhead, author of Illuminating the Word: The Making of the Saint John's Bible (Liturgical), points out that in the case of a modern book the reader is the first to see any particular copy — it is sometimes wrapped in cellophane at the printer's and opened for the first time by the purchaser.

For alcoholics who have tried and failed time after time to stay sober by themselves, for alcoholics who have tried and failed after using any one of innumerable techniques, that which finally does keep one sober becomes «God» (Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Modern Wisdom from Classic Stories [New York: Bantam Books, 1992], p. 208; bold face added).

11 - You believe in a book (New Testament) that was written 80 years after your Messiah died by men who never met him and who believed the earth was flat and the Sun revolved around the Earth, but continuously deny modern science books.

His book The Word as Truth Myth: Interpreting Modern Theology is to be published this year (1997) by Westminster John Knox.

This material is taken from the book published by The Modern Library, New York, 1902.

Since insufficient time has passed to assure to the books here discussed a permanent place among the sacred books of the world, such as that enjoyed by the ones that have so far been discussed, I feel it necessary to draw up a definition of a sacred book which will enable me to pick out of our modern world what may be called its sacred books.

That book of thirty thousand couplets and his other mystical writings are widely studied in modern times by the intellectuals of Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.

This book has been hailed by the editor of The Christian Century as «the most important interpretation of Christian missions that has appeared since the modern missionary enterprise was launched, a little more than a hundred years ago.»

Throughout most of the book the traditional notation for dates, BC and AD, has been replaced by the modern convention, BCE (Before the Common Era) and CE (Common Era).

Published by Word Books, Waco, Texas, 1973, as part of the series «Makers of the Modern Theological Mind,» edited by Bob E. Patterson.

Moreover, recent research by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has devastated the optimistic assumptions of modern developmental psychology which has set the terms for much modern educational theory (see Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences [Basic Books, 1983] and The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach [Basic Books, 1991]-RRB-.

Her famous book Revelations of Divine Love, with its account of the «showing» of her «courteous Lord», is loved by modern readers more than ever.

If the Bible needs to be interpreted for modern times that just proves it's nothing more than an ordinary book written by ordinary ancient people, and there's no more reason to base our laws or our lives off it than the Iliad or Beowulf.

The book's format, excerpts from a modern translation divided into short sections by commentary, would lend itself well to group study.

Sana Hasan, an Egyptian scholar best known for her Enemy in the Promised Land, has written another important book in Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt» a book in which she honestly confronts the sorry condition of Christians in Egypt, where the «problems faced by the Christian minority are for many... a taboo subject.»

Islam in Modern History, by Wilfred Cantwell Smith, is a study of what is happening to Islam in a time of rapid transition; it is a thoughtful, sometimes disturbing, book which should be read by anyone who is teaching about Islam.

Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by modris ecksteins houghton mifflin (a peter davison book), 396 pages, $ 24.95

I have a high view of Scripture too, but that is NOT the same as claiming that the 66 - book anthology of ancient writings selected and assembled centuries later by men with political agendas («picking and choosing» the scriptures they liked and omitting others BTW) that we moderns call The Protestant Canon is without error.