Sentences with phrase «modern books on»

I felt like I was a slave to my kids every need and only now with more modern books on AP, like Mayim Bialik's Beyond the Sling am I seeing warnings to make sure that marital and personal relationships as well as... [Read more...]

Dr. Hazelbaker, the pioneer of the contemporary understanding of the significance of tongue - tie, has written the first modern book on the subject.

Leoni followed his Palladian volume with an English translation of Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria («On Architecture»), the first modern book on the theories and practice of architecture.

Not exact matches

In the decade following Katrina, I would write a book on the digitization of modern sexuality well before it was popular and co-found a platonic connection app that would kickstart an entire industry.

But Mackey, who co-authored a bestselling book on the theme in 2013, has become the closest thing to a modern - day spokesman for an idea that, dare we say, has found its time.

«There's an old saying that goes, «If you paid for porn, you flunked the Internet,»» says Patchen Barss, author of The Erotic Engine, an upcoming book on the way pornography shaped modern technology.

Written for all B2C sales professionals, this sales training book takes you on a 30 - day journey with Jeff Shore to strengthen both your closing mindset and your closing technique using modern methods (and without feeling sleazy or manipulative!).

That's why Hug Your Haters is the first - ever customer service book for modern times — it's based on the realities of customer expectations TODAY, not one, five, or 20 years ago.

We even wrote a best - selling book on the topic of platform digital transformation, Modern Monopolies.

Buffett learned that lesson after reading up on the most noteworthy figure in value investing — Benjamin Graham, who along with David Dodd in 1935 wrote «Security Analysis,» which is perhaps the most widely read book in the modern era of investing.

What most of us think of today as modern medicine is heavily dependent on an understanding of genetics, but certainly the term «modern» is relative and those who still think a book of myths beats science might consider pasteurization and basic sanitation the height of modernity.

Nietzsche's scorn for «modern ideas» made a profound impression on his admirers: «This book [Beyond Good and Evil],» he said, «is a criticism of modernity, embracing the modern sciences, arts, even politics, together with certain indications as to a type that would be the reverse of modern man, for as little like him as possible: a noble, yea - saying man.»

In his fair and generally sympathetic review of my book Bergson and Modern Physics, David Sipfle raised some important and significant questions which clearly show how extremely complex the questions concerning the nature of time are and how difficult it is to agree on their solutions even for those who share a basic philosophical view.

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.

Their argument for including the Bible completely ignores its unparalleled influence on history, how it has shaped modern thought and the fact that it remains one of the world's best - selling books every single year.

In our post-Nietzschean age of AIDS and rampant venereal disease, the remark now carries with it a certain unintentional irony, but one finishes reading Bloom's book not entirely sure why erotic relations nowadays are so dreary: Is it because of the relentless reductionism of Freud and Kinsey or because, as Nietzsche held, Eros and Institution will always be at war — and Christianity, with its rigorous stress on monogamy, now symbolizes for modern society the institution of marriage par excellence?

The latest issue of Modern Age (Winter 2009) is now available for general consumption and features a symposium on Remi Brague's amazingly erudite book The Law of God.

This acceptance of what he takes to be «the essence of Christianity» explains why it is possible for Whitehead, in other books such as Religion in the Making and in the chapter on science and religion in Science and the Modern World, to reveal himself as generally sympathetic to the Christian enterprise.

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.

Although Strauss himself was big on reading Hegel and, I'm told, was planning to write a book on him, he turned our attention to the «dyad» Strauss - Kojeve, which he seemed to present as equivalent to Ancient - Modern and Eternity - Time.

I thank Brian C. Anderson for his analysis of recent books on whether markets can be blamed for the moral breakdown of modern society.

A compelling aspect of Kilde's book is her reading of the buildings themselves in order to understand the religious culture that produced them: bold, confident, masculine and modern — yet slightly on the defensive.

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

As a matter of fact, Bultmann's Jesus and the Word of 1926 was prefaced with a classic statement of the modern view of history, and on this basis he states that his book reflects his own encounter with the historical Jesus, and may mediate an encounter with the historical Jesus on the part of the reader.

Hubbard is echoing Edward J. Carnell, his predecessor as president of Fuller Seminary, whose book The Case for Orthodox Theology is perhaps the classic statement on modern evangelicalism:

There are, as one would expect, several essays in the book on Jews and Judaism, some reflecting Kristol's religious interests» the need, for example, to sustain in Jewish identity a religious element and not merely a cultural one» others his political ones, exploring the relations of modern American Jews with a pluralistic American society that has given them an uncommonly large, though not unlimited, berth.

The pastor and author of the new book There Is More went on to offer his thoughts on the modern Church.

I'm just amazed at all the atheists here who act like the rest of us who believe have never read a modern book, don't believe in Science, and all work on a dairy farm without electricity.

As the editor of this series of books on «Makers of the Modern Theological Mind,» I exercised my privilege of «divine right monarchy» and greedily chose to write on Reinhold Niebuhr myself.

Michael A. Ledeen is the Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and author of more than twenty books, including Machiavelli on Modern Leadership and Tocqueville on American Character.

See the diffidence concerning the ability of modern knowledge of nature to be convincing evidence for God referred to in our review of Paul Haffner's quality book and our Cutting Edge column, as well its presence on our Letters» page.

Strickland normally speaks and writes on topics such as human trafficking and modern slavery, so it may seem odd for someone with such gravitas in the Christian faith to stop to write a book about a TV show.

mzh, why does your omnipotent being rely on something as primitive as a book to get its message out, rather than use more modern and more direct means?

We can imagine a modern seeker going to a noted philosopher, or Zen Master, or Indian guru, or the writer of a popular book on psychology and asking a similar question.

An article became a book, and the two major modern figures of neo-Aristotelian metaphysics were brought into dialogue, all on account of Ford's intransigence... and his kind (if militantly skeptical) assistance.

The genre of the book of Esther has been debated, but very few scholars would identify this as a strictly historical text, particularly based on our modern, Western understanding of history as a relatively objective recounting of facts.

Two recent books on what may be called «environmental theology,» one rooted explicitly in the Christian tradition, the other in a kind of loose deism, reveal an oft - overlooked theme of modern environmentalism.

This man needs to put his book back on the shelf and start living with the modern world.

Through his earlier books on Hegel, Taylor has introduced a generation of students to one of the most important modern thinkers.

For in the earliest round of the debate, Griffin remarked on how forced, unnecessarily cautious, or simply unnatural are Ford's readings of relevant passages in Science and the Modern World and Religion in the Making — readings claiming that panpsychism is not truly found in either book, and that the appearance to the contrary is due to our reading into them ideas derived from the canonical portions of Process and Reality (REWM 194 - 201).

In the preface to Science and the Modern World, he expresses the same sentiment regarding the additions or expansions to the Lowell Lectures 0f 1925 — additions or expansions that were meant «to complete the thought 0f the book on a scale which could not be included within that lecture course» (SMW viii).

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

For the modern era the book is the shaping technology on our conceptions of God.

She sounds like a typical conservative critic of modern academia, except that she's complaining about this kind of thing in scholarly books on sexual «kink,» particularly bondage and sadomasochism.

This essay is excerpted from her book The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Though, which will be published this month (September 1998) by Houghton Mifflin.

In the context of this book it is a change from the dominant modern worldview to a postmodern worldview to use the terminology of my earlier book, On Purpose (Birch 1990).

As Saint John Paul often declared, Christians today are called on to be «signs of contradiction» (rather than signs of the kind of unvarying conformity with «progress, liberalism and modern civilisation» which you will find in the pages of The Tablet and of Cornwell's books).

his book Religion in the Secular City, «In our day while the fundamentalists attack all that is wrong with the modern soul, they almost never mention the advent of nuclear weapons with their capacity to end human life on the globe.

Perhaps best known for his text on the sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues of development and public policy and in the nature of religious belief in the modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question of Faith in an Age of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience.

It is my own belief that the explanation for the enormous sale of Honest to God is simply that great numbers of men and women who wish to be both modern and Christian found in that book a presentation of Christianity which on the one hand they felt was absolutely honest and which on the other hand (and for the first time) opened to them the basic meaning of what we may style «the religious question»: what man is, what his world is like, how one can find significance and dignity for living, and the like.