Sentences with phrase «much less book»

With horrible writing out there, it's tough to tell who is a good author and who should never write a grocery list, much less a book.

I'm a writer myself, so I know how challenging it is to write just one book, much less book after book after book.

so no time for blog reading, much less book reading.

Not exact matches

The much discussed 2010 book delves into the financial arrangements of the world's poorest citizens, the billions among us who make do with less than $ 2 a day.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

Shaq's book report revealed it had been less than transformative: «This is about a young man who has power, wealth, and women (much like me), and gives them all up to pursue a holy life (not so much like me).»

Obviously, comic book villains are the stuff of fiction — investors make for much less interesting stories.

as this book documents so well, a foolish attempt to beat the market and get rich quickly will make one s broker rich and oneself much less so.»

A math formula called «present value» (a good calculator is here, web page here, video here, book here) shows exactly how much less valuable money received in the future is compared with money received today.

Based on government valuations, companies deciding to renew their concessions under MP 579, such as Eletrobras, would be forced to receive indemnity payments as much as 50 % less than the book value of their assets.

«To succeed in the Gig Economy, we need to create a financially flexible life of lower fixed costs, higher savings, and much less debt,» Diane Mulcahy, a senior analyst at the Kauffman Foundation and a lecturer at Babson College, writes in her book «The Gig Economy,» which is part economic argument and part how - to guide.

Displacing ideas and institutions that are now long established is not merely a matter of writing a few books, much less a few blog posts.

Russ Christian thinking at its best, 5 billion people totally ignore or think the bible is just another poorly written of fiction, sure to your lot it may be the most influential book in history, not so much to everyone else and is getting less and less influential as time goes by.

But your knowledge of science is so much less than so many Catholic Priests such as Gregor Mendel (1822 - 1884) the father of modern genetics, Georges Lemaître (1894 - 1966) the person who proposed the Big Bang Theory and Stanley Jaki Born in Hungary, he earned doctorates in Systematic Theology and Nuclear Physics, is fluent in five languages, and has authored 30 books.

If the city assumed that Cochran's beliefs would continue to lead him to treat his subordinates with the love and respect taught by his faith, perhaps his impropriety in publishing the book could have been dealt with in a much less severe manner.

Readers of Last Testament may wonder, however, what in this fourth of Seewald's book - length interviews with the man who became Benedict XVI is going to change the views of a world media locked into its own certainties and «narratives», much less the views of Ratzinger's longtime Catholic critics.

Computer programmer Barry Goldstein translated the book for fun, the work being «much less stressful than wrestling with a recalcitrant computer.

Mormonism is more than Christianity, of course — most obviously by adding the Book of Mormon to the Bible — and that makes it much less than Christianity as well.

A book by Michigan megachurch pastor Rob Bell, «Love Wins,» presenting a much less harsh picture of hell than is traditional, stirs discussion in evangelical circles.

In the face of his predecessor Sydney Ahlstrom, who made much of the Puritan thread in American religion, Butler announces a program that attaches less importance to Puritanism and more to what he calls throughout the book «religious eclecticism.»

It's a pretty good book, though it seemed to me that the further you got in the book the less it became about discussing interesting ideas about applying Christian ideals in the society we find ourselves in and more it became a lot of his personal prescriptions for what needs to be done and a venting of his worst pet peeves, filled with just a bit to much anger.

I had spent so much money buying books about fishing, attending fishing conferences, going to Africa to fish, and founding the World Fishing Training Center that although it was true that I had never caught any fish, this did not make me any less of an expert in fishing.

When Islam started spreading by murdering and beheading all those who refused to convert to it, there was no Internet, much less Face Book, Twitter or You Tube where their possible future atrocities could be exposed to the world.

Second, since the inherency of evangelical truth in the book is focused on its main claims, it follows that there is much in the text that is «lesser,» not a main claim, but probes and attempts over the generations to carry the main claims to specificity.

The kingdom of God is referred to in Paul's letters, the book of Acts, and elsewhere, but much less attention is given to it than to Christ, the crucified and risen Lord.

What astonishes me is that anyone would publish these silly claims much less buy any of her books.

Though these two books are quite different in tone and style, both navigate the intricate frustrations and blessings of couples who chose to take the much less traveled route.

She's clearly too divorced from reality to make any educated psychological evaluation, much less use human psychology to hammer her square religious beliefs into a round book review.

In many developing countries, wages are much less, and as journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have noted in their widely - acclaimed book Half the Sky, the empowerment and employment of women can have a direct and profound effect in curbing poverty, infant mortality, maternal mortality, and violence.

So anyway, I like the main message that J. D. Greear was trying to get across in this book, but I wish he would have stuck with it, and not tried to get this second subject in there about how to know for sure you are saved, for that is where his book goes off track and becomes much less helpful.

In the first place, the quiet but drastic step taken by Robinson between the publication of his book and his essay, of abandoning the concept of an existential encounter with Jesus mediated by a modern historiography in favor of something much less dramatic, is an absolutely essential step to take.

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

After two cross country moves in less than 18 months, packing up box after books got old fast, so we ended up donating much of our book collection.

A new spice I've been playing around with is New Mexico chile powder, a dry ground form of ají colorado basically, and it seems to have a brilliantly similar effect to that of the pureed version, but with much less hassle (always a plus in my book!)

Between book writing and editing though, my family is lucky to have meals this week at all, much less those made with love!

Teams are on a much more level playing field, and sharper books like Bookmaker or Pinnacle are less likely to adjust the spread based on public money.

I'm much less impressed by this book.

Granted, that net spend is considerably higher this season but that's because several high earners were removed from our books while the new arrivals came in on much less wages than many of the departing players.

Because parenting is about so much more than discipline, Rebecca hits on important topics less spoken about, making this more than a parenting book.

In fact, Gayle did this so text book that her daughter made the decision herself to change, taking responsibility for her life, and as such will be much less likely to digress.

Somehow, sitting in a closet quietly singing to a much - loved babydoll, hiding in the leafy bower of an old grandfather oak with my nose in a book, or throwing a blanket over an end - table and crawling under it with a flashlight just made the world a little smaller, a little friendlier, a little less overwhelming.

I seriously don't cook, ever, but your recipe book was beyond easy to follow and the food processor was much easier to use and took much less time than I expected.

Many parents (and grandparents) make the mistake of giving books to children that are far too difficult for them to read independently, much less in a 15 - minute read - aloud session.

My family and I live in Massachusetts, home of Cape Cod and Plymouth Rock (it's much less exciting than in the history books, promise!)

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's latest report is a reminder of how much of New York's government is «off the books» — handled by state and local authorities, with far less...

Judicious decisions about how much to divulge today may make that future easier to navigate, but they do make for a less revealing book.

The book «Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less» by Greg McKeown explains the concept of spreading yourself thin by undertaking too much.

At the conclusion of their book, For the Common Good, Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr. find hope in thinking that «on a hotter planet, with lost deltas and shrunken coastlines, under a more dangerous sun, with less arable land, more people, fewer species of living things, a legacy of poisonous wastes, and much beauty irrevocably lost, there will still be the possibility that our children's children will learn at last to live as a community among communities.»

Online bookstores like Amazon can maintain vast inventories of lesser - known titles because they don't have the real estate constraints of traditional bookstores and because the Internet makes it so much easier to find the niche readers who will buy those books.

During the period covered by the book, however, some things changed much less than others.