Sentences with phrase «of those rare books in»

The collection is regarded as world heritage, being one of the finest private collections of rare books in the world.

April in Paris is one of those rare books in which the emotional force of the love story is matched by page - turning suspense.

Not exact matches

Authorities tracked down the seller, a university student in Bologna, who had in turn purchased the rare book from one of Turin's major book dealers.

«No doubt emotional intelligence is more rare than book smarts, but my experience says it is actually more important in the making of a leader.

Rare praise for the readability of a book about math from computer scientist Roger Antonsen: «I recently picked up Foolproof at a local bookstore in San Francisco, and I simply couldn't put it down!

Princeton University received nearly $ 300 million worth of rare books and manuscripts, marking the largest donation in the school's history.

Whether you purchase one of her publicity books, participate in her media training seminars, or are fortunate enough to become one of her media coaching clients, count yourself lucky to learn from this rare and wonderful gem.

Searching For and Finding Value» 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Charlie Tian, Founder & Director of Research, Guru Focus Topic: «What Worked in the Market from 1998 - 2008: Undervalued Predictable Companies» 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Robert Miles, Author & Conference Organizer & Host [USA] Topic: «Portrait of a Disciplined Investor: Beating the S&P 500 by 6.8 % Annually For 25 Years» 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Optional Tour depart from Ayres Hotel LAX to Huntington Library 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Briefing by the Chief Curator of Rare Books on the history of the Huntington Library and the Munger Research Center 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Continue to Pasadena 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Charlie Munger's Wesco Financial Annual Meeting [The Pasadena Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA.]

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Yet, once again, contradiction rares its ugly head, in their book of hate, murder, intolerance... their god can't decide on anything.

I started with Anne of Green Gables, like most kids in Canada, but that initial sojourn turned into the entire series of eight (now nine, depending on who you ask) and then all of the Emily books, the one - offs and novels, the short - story collections and rare volume of poetry, the journals and the letters.

I have a hunch that this type of book is quite rare, because its subject matter is homosexuality and the struggle involved in «being gay» as well as embracing orthodox Christianity's teaching on the homosexual orientation.

His book thus gives an importance to philosophy that is quite rare in books of this genre.

This book was written with love and grace, which is so rare in books of this kind.

In our book, we summarize the rare efforts to develop indices of economic well being.

Perhaps that's one of the reasons why I loved Rob Bell's book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God — the unabashed science of wonder particularly in quantum physics that he connects to the complexity and even ambiguity of God is so rare in non-academic religious publishing or thought.

This last is a rare instance of explicit theological reflection in the book, which tends as a whole towards the emotional rather than the intellectual.

(CNN)-- Law enforcement agents have recovered a rare first - edition copy of the Book of Mormon that was reported stolen from a Mesa, Arizona, bookstore in late May.

The rarest of rare books, a one - of - a-kind family Bible, has surfaced in Salt Lake City.

In his book The Hills Beyond, Thomas Wolfe declared: «The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.»

The exhibit is described as «a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to see a rare selection of original manuscripts, letters, fragments, rare books, archival materials and even a recipe for coconut cake belonging to Emily Dickinson.»

Tamar is one of those rare cooks who also happens to be an incredible writer, and the book is like a love letter not just to preparing nourishing meals at home, but to doing so in a balanced and resourceful manner.

Ella suffered from a rare illness that left her mostly bed - bound but discovered a vegan lifestyle and has cured herself - and now she's sharing her story in the glossy pages of her new recipe book

Piled high to the ceiling with new books, old books, rare imprints and out - of - print titles, it's the kind of place one might have found Jack Burden doing research in All The King's Men.

The actor is set to star in a film directed by veteran stunt coordinator Nick Powell (The Bourne Identity, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cinderella Man), which centers on Frank Walsh (Cage), a big game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white jaguar.

As a result of reading the latest from Kingsolver, whom I've worshipped ever since I read The Poisonwood Bible, I've had one of those gifts that seem rare in adulthood - a transformative change of perspective in response to reading a book.

Here at Little Hearts our readers have BIG hearts full of love for little people and have joined together to Give the Gift of Gentle Parenting and Give the Gift of Life, raising funds to donate gentle parenting books and resources in bulk to hospitals for new parent bags, to children's hospitals, and to crisis family centers and also to help with author L.R.Knost's medical expenses as she battles a rare neuroendocrine cancer.

He really became a rare authority on childcare in Germany which went through forty reprints of his books from 1858 till 1950's.

A rare few quiet moments after both kids are asleep and my husband and I can actually have a conversation, where, instead of talking about politics or the latest new release, we inevitably talk about how amazing it is to us that our daughter can recite entire books, or how cute our son is when he tucks his lower lip in and hums like he's talking to us.

And here is a link to the Help L.R.Knost Fight a Rare, Incurable Cancer & Continue Sharing the Gift of Peaceful Parenting with the World which, in conjunction with YouCaring, is a campaign the positive parenting community is joining together in to raise funds to donate peaceful parenting books and resources to hospitals and crisis family centers and to translate peaceful parenting resources into Spanish and expand distribution internationally along with a fund to help with my medical expenses as I battle neuroendocrine cancer.

Mindset is one of those rare audio books that can help you make positive changes in your life and at the same time see the world in a new way.

Chua's book was a somewhat tongue - in - cheek memoir of her experiences raising her two daughters with her (non-Asian) husband, which involved hours of forced music practice every day, severe restrictions on extracurriculars, outright bans on social activities like sleepovers, and punishment and shaming on the rare occasions her children failed to attain their mother's high expectations.

Ina May also went into some detail about the traveling she has done as a speaker and a researcher and how much, rich information on natural birth is being lost to history and can now only be found in very rare and often out of print medical books.

A Senior Partner in the Buffalo law firm of Kavinoky Cook LLP; Mr. Wisbaum is a Trustee of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System, Vice Chairman of the Library Foundation and Commissioner of Rare Books for Erie County.

The Library System has more than three million items in its collection of books, periodicals, rare publications and documents, DVDs, CDs and e-content materials.

Smith has already worked through a considerable amount of Saugerties history, using OCR to digitize artifacts like the Saugerties portion of The History of Ulster County, compiled in 1881; and The Pearl, a rare and excellent book published in 1875 that had a limited run of 200 copies.

October 19: A 1515 woodcut of a rhino and Robert Hooke's 1667 illustration of a flea star in «Natural Histories,» an exhibit of images from rare books in New York's American Museum of Natural History Library.

«In the case where a library has been destroyed, all of the books — especially those that are out of print or rare — may not have to be thrown away,» he said.

His team also uncovered unexpected measurements from World War II at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and rare numbers from the icy seas around Russia and Norway in an obsure book tucked away in the New York Public Library.

The image of an intact gynandromorph at left — the more brilliant blue left side is the male half — is included in the magnificently strange book Rarest of the Rare, a sampling of curious artifacts from the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

The author Donald Schueler in his 1991 book, Incident at Eagle Ranch, presented a rare portrait of a private man who avoids the public eye.

«In a sense, this forgotten fish has been hiding in plain sight in this old monograph but that monograph is so rare that it now resides only in rare book collections of a few large museums,» Stewart saiIn a sense, this forgotten fish has been hiding in plain sight in this old monograph but that monograph is so rare that it now resides only in rare book collections of a few large museums,» Stewart saiin plain sight in this old monograph but that monograph is so rare that it now resides only in rare book collections of a few large museums,» Stewart saiin this old monograph but that monograph is so rare that it now resides only in rare book collections of a few large museums,» Stewart saiin rare book collections of a few large museums,» Stewart said.

Flies were the most abundant, followed by spiders, beetles, ants, and book lice, whereas fleas and the American cockroach were relatively rare, the scientists report in today's issue of PeerJ.

On the morning of 5 January, according to witnesses, about 150 people barged into the institute, severed the telephone lines, ransacked the cupboards, tore thousands of books, and damaged the writings on palm leaves, rare artifacts, and old photographs in the library.

The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in the 1960s, but a new study claims it is both genuine and likely the most ancient of all surviving manuscripts from ancient America.

It's mentioned in the book, because it is one of the rare conditions that is aggravated by fasting.

It's rare that I am able to purchase a bookstore book and get any new ideas, but I immediately put some of your ideas in to use with my clients.

As a matter of fact, Professor William Bean, Chief of Medicine at Iowa University, wrote a book called Rare Diseases, and he included my syndrome in that book.

Clark in her book the cure for all diseases said that in all tests she knew of the rare salmanella issue with raw eggs was from the outside of the shell.

/ / ⇒ It sometimes seems that there are so many things that go wrong in our world we live in, but through my discovery of one of our participants, Mary from Mary - meandering writes of an experience that shares a miracle a true story and post she wrote about Linda Kuhar, her battle of a rare cancer to beat all the odds, through countless battles a induced comma, she came back to raise from her bed, write and book, run a marathon and continue her journey.