Sentences with phrase «of modern books»

Our Research Library contains Soane's collection of 30,000 architectural drawings and 10,000 books, along with a small working Library of modern books and information files on Soane, Robert Adam and other relevant architects.

[5] Tens of thousands of modern books were made available from four [6] and then 150 libraries and publishers [7] for ebook digital lending.

Kindles: Amazon has a larger catalog of modern books because amazon has been in the e-book market longer than anyone other.They have 2,00,000 Kindle exclusive e-books with many from the famous authors who publish directly via amazon.There are not many choices to buy e-books for the kindle from other stores or free book sites.The bought books are stored in the cloud.Just keep the local copies of the books.You can also lend a book to a friend once for 14 days.Amazon also has kindle lending library which is currently available only to amazon prime subscribers.Thus via this service borrow books and read without buying.You can also read e-books loaned from the public libraries.Getting the loaded books onto the device is simpler on kindle unlike the nook.The books can easily be downloaded wirelessly via whisper sync service (an AT&T 3G powered connection).

• An 18th - century German physicist's journals in three bound volumes, which Trinks found in a box of modern books he purchased at auction in Sweden

Christopher Calderhead, author of Illuminating the Word: The Making of the Saint John's Bible (Liturgical), points out that in the case of a modern book the reader is the first to see any particular copy — it is sometimes wrapped in cellophane at the printer's and opened for the first time by the purchaser.

Additionally, we stress on such values as efficiency and diversity, which represent our view for the reasonable requirements of the modern book market.

Despite Gutenberg's cultural status as the forebear of the modern book production process — Time magazine named him «Person of the Millennium» in 1999 — relatively little is known about the details of his life.

They are not a plague to avoid, but an important source to support authors and books in the hard world of modern book publishing.

The eternal nature of the modern book is vastly underappreciated, because the development is so new.

It presents a sample of the anecdotes added since 2012 on bi-lingual posters, reflects on the place of self - published literature in the economy of the modern book trade, and offers free - to - take Xerox copies of the expanded manuscript in English for the first time.

The design of the book is both minimal and warm, which makes it feel very much of the moment, but Kurashima was strongly influenced by Hans Knuckel and Jurg Nanni's Seesaw (1994), also produced by Swiss masters of the modern book, Lars Müller Publishers, which he says taught him about the sense of invisibility.

Not exact matches

The modern master of suspense has sold more than 400 million books.

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.

The modern - day bible for this way of thinking is a 2014 book by Belgian organizational behaviour consultant Frederic Laloux called Reinventing Organizations, which posits that reporting structures (and, indeed, job descriptions) have no purpose in the workplace of the future.

The business of getting people to give to charity has changed remarkably little over the 125 years since Andrew Carnegie first ushered in modern philanthropy with his book «The Gospel of Wealth.»

In his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years past.

The book exemplifies how people have gained and lost power throughout the ages, which is what I find really interesting: Learning from iconic figures from past centuries and applying them to our drastically different, hyper - modern business models of the present.

How we came to do this is a twisting tale that science writer Maryn McKenna elegantly unspools in her extraordinary new book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats, which was published in September.

According to Brian Halligan, the CEO of Hubspot and author of the book Inbound Marketing: Attract, Engage, and Delight Customers Online, the way modern consumers shop and make purchases has changed dramatically, and as such, businesses must adapt in order to survive.

However, as he argued in his most recent book, The End of Energy Obesity, modern societies have at their disposal the technological tools, and possibly the social pressure, to consume less energy in absolute terms, not just per capita or per dollar of GDP.

A comparable crossover is about to happen with Bruce Feldman's new book, The QB: The Making of Modern Quarterbacks.

Twice Pulitzer - nominated, history professor Brands has elsewhere given book - length treatment to some of the threads he combines in this account of the 35 years that gave birth to the modern economic order.

Career coach Barbara Pachter outlines modern phone etiquette rules in her latest book «The Essentials Of Business Etiquette.»

«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.

It's just one manifestation of our soft spot for «filter bubbles,» exploited by everything from Amazon's book recommendation engines to the elaborate audience - tailoring of modern media.

As I argue in my forthcoming book, «The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America,» big corporations (in this case, Facebook) and political interests (in this case, right - wing parties and campaigns) but also ordinary Americans (social media users, and thus likely you and me) all had a hand in it.

The new book is fully endorsed by the Napoleon Hill Foundation and is the modern - day version of the original classic «Think And Grow Rich ``.

«a welcome change from the standard business books... Scott and Halligan provide examples of modern - day companies that are illustrating the lessons.»

Written by Sylvain Labs, «The Dots» is a book that deconstructs the role of influence for brands and institutions in the modern age.

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.

The modern day tycoon can take a few pages out of his book, and still not get it right.

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.

«The benefits of home ownership can far outweigh the costs,» writes Lesley - Anne Scorgie in her book The Modern Couple's Money Guide.

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Wolff's other books include, TELEVISION IS THE NEW TELEVISION, a look at the war between old media and new; AUTUMN OF THE MOGULS, about the men who transformed the modern media business; and BURN RATE, his now - classic memoir of the early internet yearOF THE MOGULS, about the men who transformed the modern media business; and BURN RATE, his now - classic memoir of the early internet yearof the early internet years.

Modern science is the cornerstone of your belief system, as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern scModern science is the cornerstone of your belief system, as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern scmodern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern scmodern science.

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.

Folman's adaptation attempts to update some of the themes of Lem's book to fit our modern obsession with entertainment, but the original novel is more about the use of psychotropic drugs to create a dream world in which everyone thinks himself happy.

``... as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.»

We would need, of course, a large book to cover accurately and fairly the thousand shades of modern epistemology, and another large book to demonstrate their failure, and yet another to propose an alternative.

Their presence is most obvious in the Reform branch of modern Judaism, which altered the traditional prayer book to soften or even erase the affirmation that God will raise the body from the dead at the end of time.

Pfau is much more appreciative of much of Gregory's work («a book whose courage and ambition I applaud, if for no other reason than that it exemplifies what an engaged form of historiography [and humanistic inquiry more generally] can and should do»); what makes his piece especially worthwhile is its trenchant engagement with critics of Gregory's work and their often uncritical allegiance to the modernity of the modern academy.

The book is further weakened by the author's effort to enlist Solzhenitsyn in his enthusiasm for E. F. Schumacher's «small is beautiful» critique of the modern world, and for Chesterton's notion of economic «distributism.»

For those interested in Gregory's book, the emergence of modernity, and the modern academy, Pfau's piece is well worth reading.

Mormons believe in modern prophesy and messages from God, so The Book of Mormon and teachings of the church have the ability to change.

Do you believe in modern day prophesy and with it The Book of Mormon can be changed / edited / updated.

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.»

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.

To establish modern republican democracy the way our Founders did means to enter into a perpetual race against the triumph of crude, but home - grown, democratic mindsets (see Republic book VIII, or Tocqueville's discussions of a «desire for equality» throughout Democracy in America), and a perpetual multi-sided persuasion - battle against a host of more sophisticated but nonetheless errant democratic mindsets built upon the cruder ones.