Sentences with phrase «of a new novel by»

They're at the center of a new novel by John Grisham.

British - born Kenyan aviator Beryl Markham is the subject of a new novel by Paula McLain.

Not exact matches

But «Ready Player One,» based on a 2011 novel, is vying for moviegoers at a time when the box office has been dominated by serial tales of comic - book superheroes and sequels to established hits, making it tougher for new material to shine.

Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the controversial 1955 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, which gives an alternative fate for Jesus Christ, was banned in numerous counties, and in the US cities that had successful bans during the film's release included: Savannah, Georgia; New Orleans; Oklahoma City; and Santa Ana, California.

What is interesting here is not simply that the everyday language of «a fine day» is determined by a set of new - fangled scientific abstractions, but also the fact that a novel written after the war dares to inhabit the virtual outlook of before.

He structured his new firm in a completely novel way — as a «mutual mutual fund,» or an investment company that would be owned by its member funds and operated wholly in the interest of its shareholders.

It's based on the 1966 Shusaku Endo novel, and adapted for the screen by Scorsese's longtime collaborator Jay Cocks («Gangs of New York»).

And a third, different kind of gene therapy from Spark Therapeutics — to treat a rare inherited form of blindness — is likely to be approved by the end of 2017, too, making this year a landmark for treatments that manipulate the body's own biological mechanisms in novel new ways to fight deadly diseases.

Summary: «This five - part limited series based on the acclaimed novels by Edward St. Aubyn tracks Patrick from a privileged but deeply traumatic childhood in the South of France through severe substance abuse in his twenties in New York and, ultimately, toward recovery back home in Britain.»

Ferguson considers our time to be the second era, following the advent of the printing press, in which «superannuated hierarchical institutions have been challenged by novel networks, their impact magnified by new technology.»

And that is a nightmare scenario because the primary corporate objective of the typical Vancouver promoter lies not in the realm of a new gold discovery or near - term cash flow or added reserves, but rather in the novel concept of «distribution» and by that I don't refer to the «distribution» of profits to shareholders by way of dividends but rather the distribution of the one - cent paper they manufactured when they put the shell together.

The company is led by its founder Len Schleifer who maintains a culture focused on internal development of novel new drugs.

It's just too easy to start with a gibe at The Gospel According to the Son, Norman Mailer's new attempt to retell the life of Jesus as a novel narrated by its hero, the Son of God Himself.

What makes this novel a powerful description of the dawning new age is the fact that Jim can ward off the power of society to define him, and he does so not by way of a heroic loyalty to conscience (Rousseau, Emerson) or will to power (Nietzsche), but with the inchoate sense of the socially constructed contingency of society's imprisoning walls of honor and shame.

This basis of morphogenesis is dismissed by Meyer due to his fixation on novel genes and new protein folds as prerequisite of emergence of new species.

Anne Lamott is the New York Times best - selling author of Some Assembly Required, Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies, as well as several novels.

Although the press kit does not mention it, an excellent book on the events that served as the basis for Moore's novel was published in 1996: Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs, edited by Richard J. Golsan (University Press of New England).

It seems to me that these latter novels are all illuminated by discussing them in terms very similar to the ones we used to discuss parables: they evoke the graciousness of the transcendent by means of a distortion of the familiar, for the purpose of providing a new and extraordinary context for ordinary experience.

In Crooked Heart, a first novel by Cristina Sumners (herself a parish priest), we meet Kathryn Koerney, rector of a small church in a New Jersey college town that resembles Princeton.

Go Set a Watchman by harper lee harpercollins, 288 pages, $ 27.99 It might be the greatest American literary controversy of recent years: In summer 2015, millions of excited readers discovered to their great dismay ugly racial elements in Harper Lee's new / old novel, Go Set a Watchman.

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (releases November 6, 2012, available for pre-order)-- Kingsolver's new novel takes place in a small - town Tennessee and tells the story of a woman who must confront «her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.»

It is reproduced and added to, by the new bonds of feeling with the novel actualities which transcend it and include it.»

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 88) Whitehead further comments that God's «primordial nature directs such perspectives of objectification that each novel actuality in the temporal world contributes such elements as it can to a realization in God free from inhibitions of intensity by reason of discordance.»

In him there is the appearance of a novel response to a complex situation; and as such, he brings about new ways of understanding and new kinds of adjustment to the world which then may be shared and developed by those who hear him and accept his message.

The author of this article appears to have not read one complete novel or non-fiction essay by Rand or, apparently, the Old and New Testaments.

After attending classes in Eastern religion and the 19th - century English novel, she walks down the main street of this small university town with her new friend, Helen Kim to one of their favorite eating spots, Hoagie Haven, which is owned by Greek immigrants and run by Guatemalans.

There are many recent novels in English, written by Indians, which reveal new dimensions of Indian religious life and illuminate the historical, philosophical, and religious studies of Hinduism: R. K. Narayan is one contemporary novelist whose works have excited students to further study of Hinduism and Indian culture.

The student of Hinduism who becomes familiar with those records by hearing them several times, who reads several Indian novels, and who becomes acquainted with some of the best examples of Indian art, will find that he understands Hinduism better and brings new insight to his study of the history of India.

In C. Lloyd Morgan's terminology, Whitehead seems to hold that human mind and self - consciousness are «resultants»; novel reorganizations of potentialities and principles present from the beginning and common to all; whereas for Morgan himself, by contrast, mind represented an emergent quality, wholly new, different and inexplicable in terms of what had come before.

In which I both challenge the trans community to face up to the implications of their own logic and, in honor of the season of goodwill, selflessly offer the New Left a helping hand by coining a term for a novel and pernicious form of oppression.

With the approach of Updike's 50th birthday, and with the publication of this his 25th book, it is time to offer an assessment of his work as a whole: to trace his natively Lutheran vision of life as cast by God into an indissoluble ambiguity, to examine his treatment of death and sex as the two phenomena wherein the human contradiction is most sharply focused, to set this new novel in relation to the earlier «Rabbit» books, and to determine what is religiously troubling and compelling about Updike's art.

These novels by McDermott and Hijuelos are meditations on sainthood in the same vein as Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, but instead of a protagonist as priest hunted by totalitarian thugs, they show us New Yorkers as unlikely saints: an advertising executive and a worker for Con Edison.

Does biological givenness (the law of nature) dictate the structure of human action, or does the equally God - given human ability to reason (confusingly called «natural law» by Aquinas and Roman Catholic tradition) direct human beings to establish sometimes quite novel goals and discern new ways of achieving them?

His main argument is that the prehension (by God) of the «many» must, in God's case also, lead to an «increased by one» and, therefore, to a new entity («Whitehead's Novel Intuition,» Alfred North Whitehead Essays on his Philosophy, edited by George Kline [Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice - Hall, 1963], 18 - 26, at 23).

The exercise is intended to help people to see the familiar in new contexts, by juxtaposing the ordinary familiar meanings with novel associations: thus Camel filters are juxtaposed with the rich man who wanted to get into the kingdom of heaven, and the ad reads: «This is the one to try.»

Observing devices, either within the region of the dissipative structure or outside of it, may detect regular oscillations caused by variations of components of the structure, or, if their temporal or spatial resolving power is not high enough for that, they may detect only a new, averaged reading, corresponding to a novel state of affairs brought about by the closure of the set of relationships which defines the dissipative structure.

It might even be called «radical,» if by this we intend what the word itself indicates: that is, a getting at the roots of our tradition and then a seeking to discover ways in which these may be adapted to and used in a new age with its own particular questions and its own novel opportunities.

The Organic Trade Association's amended complaint — filed on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia — argues that this new claim by USDA is a «novel and erroneous» view of OFPA that «conflicts with every prior administration's approach to rulemaking under the OFPA and the National Organic Standards Board.»

Delving into the emotional strife of three anthropologists battling their own demons as well as each others», King's historical novel set in 1930s New Guinea gave insight into a time and place that had been previously unknown - unthought of, even - by me.

Jillian Lauren is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and the novel, Pretty, both published by Plume / Penguin.

By: Jillian Lauren Tariku came with me last Sunday to a party celebrating the release of Jim Krusoe's wonderful new novel Erased.

The 2004 paper, reporting on a novel method of synthesizing new materials through the use of RNA catalysts, has been investigated by two universities and NSF.

Compared with a stripped - down version of the network that didn't use this novel approach, the partially generative algorithm reduced errors by close to 30 %, the team reported at the Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES) conference this month in New Orleans, Louisiana.

This novel, less invasive way of detecting disease using light salient properties was employed for the first time in 1991 to identify a fingerprint for cancer in tissue by a team led by Robert Alfano, a Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at The City College of New York, and director of The Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) of the City University of New York at City College.

By observing how the genes changed during the course of embryonic development, scientists could track the emergence of a novel physical trait, the first step toward the creation of a new species.

This new study of non-military, civilian trauma patients visiting the emergency department builds on recent research conducted by Dr. Samadani, supported through the Cohen Veterans Center, which found that the use of this novel eye - tracking technology could reveal edema, or swelling, in the brain as a potential biomarker for assessing brain function and monitoring recovery in people with head injuries.

The reason for the sudden, explosive growth of the microbes, new evidence shows, may have been their novel ability to use a rich source of organic carbon, aided by a sudden influx of a nutrient required for their growth: the element nickel, emitted by massive volcanism at just that time.

«New innovative method for delivering genes into cells: Modification of cell physiological function with novel parallelized electroporation of mammalian cells by using electrostatic manipulation in a water - in - oil droplet.»

The new steel is an «interesting and novel development» that stands a good chance of eventually being adopted by industry, says metallurgist P. Chris Pistorius of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

«In some sense it is an eerie return to some of the histories of the novel written by Victorians themselves, which tended to single out Austen and Scott as progenitors,» says Nicholas Dames, chair of the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York.