Sentences with phrase «old books about»

I enjoy reading really old books about stuff I have always been interested in mythology.

A 17 - year - old book about the state of America's forests is similar to current books about climate change.

While writing about the Porsche Design Tower tower nearing completion in Sunny Isle Beach, a post about real estate and climate in Florida, I remembered a great old book about real estate and climate in Florida, Condominium, by John D MacDonald, published in 1977.

Not exact matches

After someone tweeted about visiting the Barnes & Noble in Redwood City, California, Sutherland responded, suggesting that the person check out Kepler's Books, a 55 - year - old bookstore in Menlo Park.

But the short answer for anyone who doesn't want to buy a book is that the standard old - fashioned clinical trial is designed to answer a specific question about a population with lots of different specific characteristics.

In excerpts released from the book, Princess Caroline (his older sister) was candid about her relationship with her parents, specifically her mother who was film - star - turned - princess Grace Kelly.

Ever since Amazon opened its first physical bookstore in late 2015, there's been a question burning through industry circles: This retail initiative can't really be about selling good old - fashioned books.

You Can Negotiate Anything, probably the most entertaining of the books, skips any allusion to scholarship about the human tendency to defer to authority, instead citing an old Candid Camera episode in which a surprising number of highway drivers confronted with the sign «Delaware Closed» actually turned around.

If anything — as a recent crop of books about Apple, Google, Amazon and Twitter makes plain — they mark the sly triumph of old - style corporate manners in a bright new skin.

«I think it's a book about a 50 - year - old guy trying to reinvent himself and create a new career,» he says.

When the 54 - year - old world leader manages to steal a few fleeting moments to unwind past dark, he reportedly reads good, old paper books, and not always about politics and domestic and foreign affairs.

Greenleaf's book is now about 30 years old, but in it you see a depth and rootedness that most writing in this genre lacks.

This book 7 Money Rules of Life steps out a bit of her old - style comfort zone to comprise lots of facts about financing, retiring, investing and preparation for your financial future.

Just two days ago, I was reading a book to our one - year - old about the Disney princesses.

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 years.

I'm not sure what you think your book reference actually shows, but the mere fact that it is over 10 years old means that the «current trends» it talks about is completely out of date.

I would say read the Holy Books start with the «Quran» being the latest Holy book that came combined to correct the older version ones read just for knowledge and not for finding a religion but to learn what they say about God..

That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..

No... they're about ignorant fairytales from an archaic old book of ancient mythology.

People like you really have to get your head out of the bible; spirituality is about your own PERSONAL relationship with god, not the dogma in some stupid old book

You mean that plagiarized retelling of Joseph from the Old Testament, which along with the story of Moses and creation and just about everything else in both books were lifted directly from Egyptian and Sumerian mythology, that New Testament?

When he was 12 years old, I think he was writing his first book about the Spanish American War while I was watching Brady Bunch reruns and snacking on Cheetos.

Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and now president of Purdue University, has been so accused — but not at all credibly — because of some remarks he made a few years ago in an e-mail, while he was governor, about the tired old ideology pedlar Howard Zinn, whose widely used book, A People's History of the United States, Daniels called «disinformation.»

We only met a couple times and we talked about how the Book of Mormon came from Joseph's son (Ephraim) and was mentioned in the Old Testament.

Christmas is about the birth of a person called Jesus in a book of old stories.

I understand how you feel about this issue, the book Protocols of the Elders of Zion, speaks about how the Jews run the world from the back seat, but just like in the Old Testiment many failed God, but His promise was to them and He will return to them first and we will walk with Him and them.

i can referrence any «bible» when talking about any holy book and still use it properly but not change the topic of discussion... this is the times when i wish i was still in talking terms with my old professor, such mistakes would not have happened and a grand conversation may have ensued... whatever... as i said

The same person who started Mormonism as a convicted fraud who told a story about using a black hat and a magic rock to translate the Book of Mormon, the world's most perfect book that has had 3000 corrects had two 14 year old wiBook of Mormon, the world's most perfect book that has had 3000 corrects had two 14 year old wibook that has had 3000 corrects had two 14 year old wives.

Others do, however, making this book a very useful guide to religio - moral thinking about the new world order or, as the case may be, the new old world order.

Those nut cases have kids dying from hunger and freezing to death but all they are worried about is an old book.

I have never known a group of people so addicted to judging other people and finding lines in an old book to make them feel better about doing it.

The Books of Law are a part of the Old Covenant (they are not required for those reconciled to God by Christ's sacrifice), yet we can learn about God's desire to be near His people through them.

However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.

It's the fact that you keep spewing the same old rhetoric from the same out - dated book and don't care about true evidence.

Referring to a story in Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book, Half the Sky, I write about Dina, a seventeen - year - old Congolese girl who was gang - raped by five men on her way home from working in the fields.

For most of the Church's history (the early Church, the Church during medieval times, and the Reformation era), the Old Testament was read in this way — as a book about Christ and the Church.

The early Church read the Old Testament as the Word of God, a book about the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the God who «was and is and is to come.»

So since it's a hot topic, and I've been getting a bunch of tweets about it, I figured I'd just link to some old posts and share some of my favorite book recommendations before we find time to talk about it sometime next week:

Allegory in Christian usage means interpreting the Old Testament as a book about Christ.

On the contrary, the humiliated child's desire for total revenge is the real engine that drives these books, which are not only about deferred vengeance (Cromwell's revenge on his enemies) but are themselves Mantel's own long - deferred, carefully plotted strategy for settling old scores.

When the 5 - year - old asks you to tell her about what love is you can crack open an anatomy book and explain about the biochemical hormonal changes that happen in the brain when you fall in love (fact).

Those 2000 year old books, umm, yeah, I'm talking about the one you are using as a reference.

But the book is less than half - way finished... and if I can not prove the thesis to my satisfaction, I see no way out of the dilemma about how to reconcile the love of Jesus with the violence of Yahweh other than to say that in some way or another, the Old Testament is wrong in its portrayal of God.

Raymund Schwager states that the Old Testament books «contain over six hundred passages that explicitly talk about nations, kings, or individuals attacking, destroying, and killing others.

One of the accounts in the Hebrew Scriptures which does a masterful job of portraying this age - old question about the nature and character of God is the book of Jonah.

The same old relic of a book that has spiritual meaning to many, but that's about it.

So... some old men, living two millennia ago, whose ignorance by today's standards was towering, and who wrote about god without putting their own names to it, but demanded that those words be believed, notwithstanding, have collectively written a book we call the «Bible,» and we're all supposed to bow down and believe it.

Reading Old Testament books in the light of this principle, which was long ago expressed in the jingle «the New is in the Old concealed, the Old is in the New revealed,» I find in their teaching about God and godliness a significance which a Jewish colleague would miss.

Perhaps our oldest references to how gifts are not just about relationships, but also carry a sublimated logic of exchange comes in Book VI of the Iliad, when Homer tells us about a gift exchange between two hereditary hospitality friends:

There is a lot of valuable information in this book, and if you are interested in learning more about Jesus and the development of Messianic themes in the Old Testament, in the Intertestamental period, and in the New Testament, I highly recommend Jesus the Messiah by Bateman, Bock, and Johnston.