Sentences with phrase «of great books at»

I also find a lot of great books at thrift stores for a dollar or two each.

Not exact matches

Since everyone at the outset is doing multiple jobs and since you can't be everywhere at once, you've got to trust your people to do the right things in the moment, since there's no rule book, no time for extensive preparation and instruction, and there's rarely a second chance to make a great first impression with a lot of new and prospective customers.

Beijing has proposed greater oversight on wealth management products, estimated to be worth some 29 trillion yuan ($ 4.39 trillion) outstanding at the end of 2016, with 80 percent off the books.

Reading a lot of books is prerequisite to being a great business owner, or great at anything.

Tom is also a two - time author, including How Clients Buy: A Practical Guide to Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services (2018) and Bread and Butter, a critically - acclaimed book that describes his work at Great Harvest and how he and his team created a nationally recognized corporate learning community and culture of best practices using collaborative networks.

I have taken issue with some of Robert Kiyosaki's teachings for years and have found it difficult to explain to people how it is a great book but a horrible one at the same time.

Now in her ninety - first year, the Professor Emerita of Economics at McGill University has published a new book entitled From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization: On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays

Author or contributing author of dozens of scholarly and practitioner articles, books and programs, Richard's work has been described by various faculty at Harvard, Yale, London Business School and elsewhere as «great & much needed,» «wonderful and pragmatic,» «thorough» and «nothing short of remarkable,» as well as by Fortune 500, NYSE, FTSE and other company leaders as «leading edge,» «ground - breaking,» «valuable guidance,» «indispensable,» «compelling» and «exceptional.»

Here, he takes a page from the book of another investor great, Peter Lynch, who as a fund manager at Fidelity urged investors to invest in companies that make products they know and like.»

«Active Value Investing has the hallmarks of all great investing books — easy to read, humorous at times, and, most of all, it demonstrates Vitaliy's investing process in terms accessible to the novice and expert alike.

These are some great books — been looking at buying a couple of them for some time now.

It would be great to see the author maintain an up to date set of data (or at least checked links) on his website for the book and guarantee to do this for as long as the book is on sale at least.

Book review: Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World Joshua Freeman's book looks at the rise, decline and possible fall of the great institution that is the production lBook review: Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World Joshua Freeman's book looks at the rise, decline and possible fall of the great institution that is the production lbook looks at the rise, decline and possible fall of the great institution that is the production line.

(Musk slipped at least one reference to the book into the software of the Tesla Model S.) As a teenager, Vance writes in his biography, Musk formulated a mission statement for himself: «The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment.»

I'm enjoying reading «small giants» a secular business book that argues againt the «grow or die» received wisdom through a study of businesses that turned down opportunites to grow in size and profits in order to be great at quality (http://www.anglicancelluk.org/blog/p,12/).

Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.

I've been keeping busy, preparing for classes that were supposed to start yesterday, reading a book for a review due at the end of the month, shoveling the driveway (the first one on the block to do so, with the only emulator being the ex-Marine across the street), and watching DVDs we rented in anticipation of the great blizzard of 2011 (8 inches of snow and ice!).

check out the great reviews and discussion of the book over at Patheos: http://www.patheos.com/Find/Religion-and-Faith-Book-Club.html

Religious people the world over are great at picking and choosing what they want from their various books of magic spells.

During the mashup of songs from Coloring Book, Chance, along with Kirk Franklin, employed a full gospel choir, at one point leading the crowd in a worshipful rendition of «How Great Is Our God.»

In worship, art, architecture, literature, communal life, language, beliefs, moral values, models of a virtuous life, views of the past, the persistence of an aristocratic culture» in all of these aspects of life, a profound and far - reaching transformation of the society was underway, and the book would have benefited from greater attention to at least some of them.

a cursory look at amazon will show you there are a great number of books about atheism spanning a wide range of topics under that heading.

And the last book of the Bible prophetically pointed to the gradual depletion of religion, that is false religion, by its members at Revelation 16, which says: «And the sixth one (of seven angels) poured out his bowl (symbolizing God's anger) upon the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.»

A book called Disinformation, co-written by General Pacepa and the American professor of law Ronald Rychlak (best known for his book Hitler, the War and the Pope, a well - researched defence of Pius XII's record during the Second World War), which spells out these revelations at greater length, is «dubious at best» — or at least, the bits written by Pacepa are: the reviewer NCR admits that «what Rychlak contributes, drawn from his earlier work on Pope Pius, appears solid».

At any rate, Deleuze himself invites the comparison, referring to Process and Reality as «one of the greatest books of modern philosophy,» and linking his own use of «descriptive notions» to that deployment of «empirico - ideal notions [which] we find in Whitehead» (cf. D&R 284).

Lest it appear that this book proposes to substitute piety and devout words for action, let it be said at once that only by a great deal of determined action can even a minor dent be made on the evils just mentioned.

Despite concerns with some of the authors» theological opinions, this book has a great deal going for it, and at 136 pages the authors have done extraordinarily well to cover so much important material so clearly and thoughtfully.

At the moment of writing this book, for example, we know that the Communists hold as slave laborers in Siberia great numbers of wretched human beings who are treated with deliberate brutality.

So then, at the Great White Throne Judgment, if their names are not found in the Book of Life, it will show them to be unsaved and worthy of partaking in this particular judgment.

Daniel T. Rodgers, in his book The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850 to 1920 University of Chicago Press, 1978), enlarges upon Weber's original thesis, suggesting that «at the heart of Protestantism's revaluation of work was the doctrine of the calling, the faith that God had called everyone to some productive vocation, to toil there for the common good and for His greater glory.»

It seems to me that now, more than at any time in history, the church looks like the great multitude described in the Book of Revelation — a multitude from every tribe and nation.

Or such at least is the claim of those who defend the canon of great books.

Jesus had a cousin... named John... who spent a great deal of time pointing to everyone else in his last book of Revelations, making sure that nobody ever pointed the finger at him.

And I have admit that I always give the «lawyer's argument» for the great book I'm teaching, while often merely alluding to criticisms both tentative and pointed.The Catholic approach is not appropriate for a teacher at a non-Catholic college, and my approach usually has the effect I can't completely explain of making my smart Christian students more Christian.

Finally, I would suggest that though one can't do everything in a single book, at a certain point the global ethic project must engage more fully and critically the various symbols and tenets of the great faiths.

For Jones» great schism to occur, he demands that we leave churches that are not egalitarian; that ministers, pastors and leaders of non-egalitarian denominations and churches quit; that egalitarian authors not publish their books by houses that also publish complimentarians; and that if you speak at conferences without fair representation you decline the invitation.

Of course his beliefs pervaded the «Great Book» such as stoning children and woman to death as capital punishment because this was likely was considered «okay» at the time.

I think the whole book of romans is a great book to read about faith and grace Jeremy, I am sure I may frustrate you at times, but just understand all this interaction is growing me.

But a friend of mine at work gave me a book today called The Great Derangement, and although I'm already reading several books (see my reading list to the right), I decided -LSB-...]

In his first Hasidic books Buber exercised a great deal of freedom in the retelling of the Hasidic legends in the belief that this was the best way to get at the essence of the Hasidic spirit.

The book is at its best in its portrayal of a man who, even while being praised as one of the greatest living American writers, was swamped by loneliness and despair.

And the book certainly does offer some fascinating insights - what it is like to be on duty at the Vatican over Christmas, to be guarding the Pope when he is at his prayers, to be in attendance at one of the great events that are televised worldwide.

So many churches lose an expository pastor, and then bring in some guy who has a lot of charisma, or he's published a few books, or he is great at fundraising.

In a substantive new book, Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine, Robert Dodaro, professor at the Institutum Patristicum in Rome, draws on these letters to frame the discussion of Augustine's understanding of a just society and of his great work the City of God.

However all this may be, even if we were obliged to qualify the belief that in the opening oracles of the Book of Amos we actually see Israel's monotheism taking its nascent form right under our eyes, yet at least the passage reveals the sort of thinking that certainly at some time led to Israel's great discovery.

The next stage of Kass's education was the «educational prejudice» he acquired at the University of Chicago «in favor of discussing the great questions and reading the Great Books.&rgreat questions and reading the Great Books.&rGreat Books.»

And I think that we live in a generation that looks at the scholars of our own day and the past and says, «Well, that's great that they could recite the Bible backwards, but what did they do with that knowledge except for write a bunch of books and preach a bunch of sermons?

So sacred was it held to be at the time of the making of the Code of Manu, greatest of the law books, that it was therein decreed that a lowly Sudra, i.e., low caste man, who so much as listened to the sacred text would have molten metal poured into his ears, and his tongue cut out if he pronounced the sacred words of the holy Vedas.1 «Whether such laws were ever actually enforced may be doubted.

Of these, Books II through VII contain the greater number of the oldest hymns and were the first to be brought together, possibly at the command of some famous chieOf these, Books II through VII contain the greater number of the oldest hymns and were the first to be brought together, possibly at the command of some famous chieof the oldest hymns and were the first to be brought together, possibly at the command of some famous chieof some famous chief.

The Book of Revelation envisions the great wedding feast at the end of time, the union of the Bridegroom and his bride.