Sentences with phrase «moving book by»

A Compassionate and deeply moving book by a veterinarian with a rare understanding of the emotional as well as the physical needs of his patients.

(LONG FOOTNOTE CONTINUES: The same view is expressed in the very beautiful and moving book by John Baillie, Our Knowledge of God (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939).

Not exact matches

This collection of short stories by a National Book award - winning writer, «feature telepathic zoo animals, a zealous toy collector and an eavesdropping Abraham Lincoln,» reports the FT.. Other commentators agree it's a whole lot of fun, while still managing to be moving and insightful.

The government expects the anti-smoke move will increase federal tax revenues by $ 685 million in 2014 - 15 — a major piece of the puzzle in Tory efforts to balance the books over the next two years.

The book posits that companies get ruined by their own success, staying committed to a product even after technology (and customers) move on, like Blockbuster did with physical movie rentals.

His book, released in January, promises to get you moving like you used to by spending just 10 minutes a day working through a sequence of movements based on a combination of stretches and gymnastics.

Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

SAP had been slow to move into the cloud, said Reuner, but after making the shift with acquisitions such as procurement software company Ariba in 2012, the first quarter of 2017 saw it sell more subscriptions than expected, with new cloud bookings increasing by 49 percent to 215 million euros ($ 244.9 million) and shares hitting a record high.

Better still, it's resistant to distortion by speculation, since nobody books a freighter unless they need to move cargo.

Moved by the story of her life, Bieber took a second to write in the guest book (or maybe he thought it was her autograph book, who knows): «Truly inspiring to be able to come here.

The book is a record of his attempt to realize the New American Dream, as modeled by Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: moving out West and founding a successful startup.

From moving overseas and real estate, to travel and asset protection, you'll find a book, a kit, or a publication on every topic you need to know, written by the experts.

And if the market can accomplish that move by the end of May, it will provide a fine opportunity to book some excellent gains in my Hi - Tech Trader advisory service, which is loaded with market leaders identified by active artificial intelligence models that screen all the leading tech stocks for those with the highest probability of capital gains over the next month.

Particularly targeted are practices banks use to move loans off their books by repackaging them as investments.

Here he moves into territory explored by fellow atheist Daniel Dennett in his recent book Breaking the Spell.

The majority of the book is written in the first person, inviting the reader to share in the honest and sometimes deeply moving accounts of the journeys taken by each woman to her current position of church leadership.

The Swallows and Amazons books follow the basic trajectory established by Roger in the first book: that move from the purely imaginative, with its made - up stakes, to the real, with life and death in the balance.

Harriet Beecher Stowe sat in a little church in Brunswick, Maine, and deeply moved by the communion service envisioned the death of Uncle Tom and went out to write her influential book.

Theologians, however, can still be moved by the question: The Lutheran Church historian Carter Lindberg, for instance, offers a strong defense of the classic Protestant understanding of almsgiving in his book Beyond Charity: Reformation Initiatives for the Poor.

I had first read this little book a year earlier, and remembered being deeply moved by Wolterstorff's reflections on the tragic death of his son Eric.

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.

By a geographical expansion shattering anything that either his cosmopolitan detractors within paganism or, for that matter, the author of the Book of Acts within Christianity could have imagined, his name has moved out far from that «small corner of the earth somewhere» and has come to be known «unto the uttermost part of the earth.»

As early as the third century Clement of Alexandria spoke of this book as a «spiritual gospel,» and this it has been through the centuries as Christians have loved it and been moved by it to greater inward depths.

The book features a preface by the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who said it was time to move on and appreciate John Paul I's legacy and historic value to the Catholic Church.

The Poet's Book of Psalms By Laurance Wieder Harper San Francisco, 311 pages, $ 25 That moving from Robert Burns» rendition of the first psalm to John Milton's of the second doesn't doom this collection from the start testifies to the Psalms» vitality.

The book moves back to the judge's childhood and youth, marked by his dead mother's absence; his father's stroke, damaged speaking ability, and death; his courtship; and his professional advancement built on his father's political connections, while moving forward to encompass his wife's stroke and subsequent decline and his effort to sustain his self - sufficient mode of existence while mourning her death.

This book the Holy Bible which is much more than a book, but is in fact the Spoken & Written Word of God, God Breathed & Inspired given not «by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

Basically they imply that God has, after all, given us the wrong sort of book and it is our job to turn it into the right sort of book by engaging in these hermeneutical moves, translation procedures or whatever.

God or Nothing, by Cardinal Robert Sarah (Ignatius Press): It was the book being discussed at Synod - 2015 and with good reason, for this interview - style autobiography of a life of faith is moving, insightful, and a wonderful testament to the fruits of the European mission to Africa in the early twentieth century.

Within a few months of its modest first printing (10,000 copies), and even though it was scarcely noticed by reviewers, the book began to sell so briskly the publisher moved to multiple reprintings.

Does it not appear that the great book of the present and, much more, of the future, is the work of a Jew, basically motivated by the great stirrings of social concern that moved the prophets, yet writing a work of far different portent?

Augustine, it will be remembered, was helped in his move to the Catholic faith by reading the libri Platonici, which meant of course the books of the neo-Platonists, Porphyry and Plotinus.

Of course, Jim recognizes this tension, and spends a couple chapters at the end of the book saying that while this tension exists, we can still move toward unity by focusing not on doctrines and dogmas, but on Jesus Christ and the grace of God.

A refusal to make use of these tools to ascertain the proper text reading, its relation to other literature, and the cultural - historical milieu out of which it arose, is a move toward dishonesty prompted either by a fear of what might be discovered or by an impatience to get a sermon that can not tarry at books that are not heavy with homiletical fruit.

However, the reader who overcomes all the barriers that this book presents may find themselves unexpectedly touched and moved by the humility, love and moments of grace that the stories record.

(Anyone who thinks that Orthodox Judaism is a fossil faith, taken seriously only by a few grey - bearded rabbis, should read Herman Wouk's book This Is My God, a moving testimonial of what it means to be an Orthodox Jew in twentieth - century America.)

«And this is why our holy founder wished the superiors to test their monks somewhat as God tested Abraham, and to put their poverty and their obedience to trial, that by this means they may become acquainted with the degree of their virtue, and gain a chance to make ever farther progress in perfection,... making the one move out of his room when he finds it comfortable and is attached to it; taking away from another a book of which he is fond; or obliging a third to exchange his garment for a worse one.

This book situates Borgman's analysis within the postmodern critique of modernity and argues for what he calls a postmodern realism» which both appreciates postmodernism and moves beyond it by way of recovering «the world of eloquent things.»

As it happens, I had just begun reading a book by another of these famous converts when I heard word of Saltzman's move to the Roman Catholic Church.

Their world is mediated by moving pictures, not primarily by books.

But when historian Jan Tomasz Gross saw the photo, he was moved to write Golden Harvest, a controversial new book in which he argues that many Poles enriched themselves during the war by exploiting Jews, from plundering mass graves to ferreting out Jews in hiding for reward.

I do not care if you are more of a topical teacher, or a book - by - book teacher, I believe that we must move away from the monologue model, and allow interaction from those we are teaching.

We did all the packing and unpacking ourselves, which is no small feat, especially since my books and her teaching materials fill over half a Ryder moving van all by themselves.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

My review of a book that reports the story of a man who died in 1940 does not in any way purport to compromise what, in 1965, Blessed Paul VI set down in Nostra Aetate, especially no. 4: «In her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel's spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.»

He was moved to fierce expostulations against an Alsatian priest, Jakob Wimpfeling, who had written a Little Book on Purity attacking the worldliness and self - indulgence of clergy, both those in the monasteries and the ordinary massing priests, and had specially attacked the Augustinians for accepting the well - known Sermon to the Eremites as written by St Augustine himself.

This sermon seeks to accomplish this by showing that such controversies miss the major point of the book and then by moving to the issue that will be the concern of the sermon.

Josiah's secretary, Shaphan, reads the book to the king, who is profoundly moved by the disparity between present practice and the book's, admonition (22:11 - 13).

harry potter is the first book I read all by myself and while i never really went back once i was done with the 7th volume, i remember the lessons on togetherness and bravery very well, and recalling certain paraghraps still moves me.

Professor Charles Spence shares some insights into how the psychology of perception can be used to move (nudge) consumers towards healthier food choice from his new book, The perfect meal, co-authored by Dr. Betina Piqueras - Fiszman.