Sentences with phrase «of obscure books»

Instead, they could sell just a handful of copies of millions of obscure books.

He was an essayist, writer of manifestos, commender of obscure books, critic of the New York Times, chronicler of the passing scene, defender of the magisterium, and, above all, teacher of the gospel.

Not exact matches

Inside, a vintage wooden bar lines one wall, with bottles of whiskey and gin sharing space with colorful sweaters, a case of old Rolex watches and money clips, and various books and obscure fashion magazines.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

In this obscure indie film, two little read - comic books come together in a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern world.

An extreme example is to be found in the exploitation of the more obscure «apocalyptic» writings» such as the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament and the book of Revelation in the New, which became the licensed playground of every crBook of Daniel in the Old Testament and the book of Revelation in the New, which became the licensed playground of every crbook of Revelation in the New, which became the licensed playground of every crank.

These omissions are regrettable, because detailed literary analysis may afford the best opportunity of redeeming the full register of voices and moods in Job from the temptation either to attribute to the book a uniform message or to reduce it to a series of obscure fragments.

• Fact # 7: Mark Batterson is the author of the recent book, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day based on an obscure reference in 1 Chronicles 11:22 «Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a brave man from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits.

This is no rarefied battle of the books, no mere esoteric disagreement among obscure scribblers.

Seen against the background of McGovern's book, however, Sigmund's invitation to liberation theologians to make an either - or choice between «revolution or democracy» seems too simple, and in the long run it obscures the kind of fundamental freedoms for which Latin America still awaits.

For those who Have seen the palace and Have made it their home, they surely can attest to the fact that the Lord of the palace Does indeed Live there (a somewhat obscure reference to one of my favorite books).

In a recent article in the «New York Review of Books» on the television and stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel's historical novels «Wolf Hall» and «Bring up the Bodies,» the Irish critic Fintan O'Toole tries to explain the present popularity of a story about Henry VIII's obscure....

In its exaltation of the book it has obscured the Christ.

Oddly enough, Augustine was writing about the mysteries found within the book of Genesis, when he said, «in matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

A unique feature of the book is the inclusion of philosophers, both well - known and obscure, from both Eastern and Western traditions.

The content and value of the book were obscured amid the posturing and hyperbolic assertions of the many conservative politicians, clergy and outraged talk show hosts who criticized university officials.

It requires 166 pages in translation in the Sacred Books of the East, including extensive footnotes designed to explain the more obscure references in the text.

I was reminded of something the British writer G.K. Chesterton wrote in his book Orthodoxy (Chapter 4): «Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors.

The same flawed reasoning led the authors of Dabru Emet to obscure the central theological differences between the two faiths, by asserting that Jews and Christians «worship the same God» and find religious authority «in the same book.»

In my judgment the grouping together of Whitehead's Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge (PNK) and The Concept of Nature (CN) by such scholars as Victor Lowe and Nathaniel Lawrence, coupled with the dramatic impact of Whitehead's attack on theories of the bifurcation of nature in the later of the two books, has almost completely obscured the epistemological subtlety that is to be found in the Enquiry, by one year the earlier of the two books.

The latter part of this statement unfortunately obscures the earlier in Grof's RHU because the book is opaque as to the relation between (Un) consciousness and mentality.

The sixth book is a very obscure one, «The Book of Double Questions,» and the seventh, «The Book of Causal Relationships,» deals with the twenty - four kinds of relationships which are supposed to exist between the body and mind, or the corporeal and psychibook is a very obscure one, «The Book of Double Questions,» and the seventh, «The Book of Causal Relationships,» deals with the twenty - four kinds of relationships which are supposed to exist between the body and mind, or the corporeal and psychiBook of Double Questions,» and the seventh, «The Book of Causal Relationships,» deals with the twenty - four kinds of relationships which are supposed to exist between the body and mind, or the corporeal and psychiBook of Causal Relationships,» deals with the twenty - four kinds of relationships which are supposed to exist between the body and mind, or the corporeal and psychical.

I love The Gift of Healing Herbs by Robin Rose Bennett and Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz, as well as so many books from the 70s by obscure hippies and natural living advocates.

By stumbling on a key entry in an obscure Indian encyclopedia during a Google Books search, I believe I have unlocked a major mystery in the world of chile peppers: how was a New World crop, «Bhut Jolokia», «the ghost chile,» introduced into India?

The title of the book — one of the first to come from Blizzard Books, the publishing arm of the quarterly magazine devoted to the arcane, the obscure and the otherwise - unpublishable - in - this - modern - age — describes Erbstein as «football's forgotten pioneer,» and the contents don't disappoint.

Heaney's stories could lead to a significant change in the state's Freedom of Information Law that would open up the books at some of the most obscure state entities.

Naomi Oreskes is a science historian, professor at the University of California, San Diego, and co-author (with Erik Conway) of «Merchants of Doubt,» a book that examined how a handful of scientists obscure the facts on a range of issues, including tobacco use and climate change.

The book majors on tricky memory management, which of course, has to be done properly, but C++ makes it unnecessarily obscure and unreliable.

With her death, the book deal she had made with a major publisher disappeared, and sex ratio theory stayed mainly in the obscure recesses of various academic specialties.

I hope that the publication of this book will inspire more researchers and birdwatchers to seek out these obscure and little - known birds.

Anatomy books often didn't even show fat because it obscured the view of the structures underneath.

A fan of independent films and obscure books.

The passage of thirty years has rendered the miniseries Under Capricorn quite obscure, but it's a decent period drama that should interest those who know the book and those who appreciate Alfred Hitchcock's earlier films.

To understand why a motion picture based on a book about the origins of what a film professor once dubbed «the Citizen Kane of bad movies» was made, you must acquaint yourself with the obscure source material.

An extremely loose, glossy adaptation of the relatively obscure 2006 independent studio graphic novel of the same name by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens isn't the first mash - up of Westerns and science fiction (Westworld, Wild Wild West and Back to the Future Part III are other examples), but it is one of the first in a popular burgeoning trend in mixing genres that has seen books like «Pride and Prejudice & Zombies» become popular.

The ongoing march of the comic book movie genre stumbles a bit with Warner Bros.» sporadically entertaining adaptation of the slightly obscure Green Lantern.

Relegated to hawking his new book at hotel chains, Roth is approached by a pair of concerned parents (Beth Grant and Chris Ellis), who claim their 28 year old daughter Claire (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has been brainwashed into joining a new obscure cult simply called Faults.

As the most obscure comic book adaptation due for release in 2017, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is something of an underdog this year.

Indeed his hedge fund, Caxton, is named after the first printer of books in English, in the 1400s, and his own collection is said to include obscure illustrated works from Eastern Europe.

A 17th - century German girl with a passion for caterpillars and butterflies may seem like an obscure topic for a children's book, yet Newbery Honor winner Joyce Sidman has painted a stunningly beautiful and accessible portrait of the relatively unknown scientific illustrator and ecologist Maria Sibylla Merian.

Glose (n.): from the latin glosa or glossa, designates a handwritten annotation made in the margins or between the lines of a book, intended to clarify for the reader an obscure word or passage.

Too many competitors and too many published and self published books are obscuring good or excellent works maybe written at the cost of big, big endeavours.

It analyzes a range of books, according to HipType, «including everything from major bestsellers to obscure titles that only a few thousand people have read.»

Unfortunately, the book also fell very short in terms of readability, as it referenced the first book in very obscure ways that left the reader wondering what had happened in book one.

As for his methods, he wrote, «It is my habit to buy cheap editions of old, obscure books and see what I can discover there.

After thinking about it, I realized my wish list is mostly made of pretty obscure books.

After becoming fascinated by one of Kiharazaka's photographs — of black butterflies obscuring a possibly female figure — the story's narrator sets out to write a book about the murders.

This data, ranging from the obvious things like titles purchased to the more obscure data on how long consumers read certain passages, how much time was spent interacting with different sections of books, and how much of a book was finished, can be used for very real world information gathering.

As he tracks down the pieces of Lev Nussimbaum's deliberately obscured life, Reiss discovers a series of shadowy worlds — of European pan-Islamists, nihilist assassins, anti-Nazi book smugglers, Baku oil barons, Jewish Orientalists — that have also been forgotten.

Maria Popova over at Brain Pickings has compiled a list of 7 Obscure Children's Books by Authors of Grown - Up Literature, including one of my favorites, T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, as well as 6 others I did not expect.