Sentences with phrase «old books at»

The electricity meter is on the wall behind the shelves, so the owner bought lots of old books at a junk shop, cut them in half, and glued them into place where the shelving is only a few centimeters deep because the box is jutting out!

lol I find gotten most of my old books at Scott's Antique Market in Atlanta.

But it seems like a lot of publishers just list ebooks of old books at brand - new prices and never lower them.

Not exact matches

Fast - forward six decades and one of the remaining posters was discovered by a bookseller who bought a box of old books (where the poster was hidden) at auction.

At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.

«When I was 14 years old, right after my first book [the 1978 classic This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall!]

And while some older people may discount Mulcahy's strategy of using a chat box on her website as impersonal, she sees it as a way to communicate with customers on their time table — maybe at 11 p.m. when they happen to need a tutor or want to book an appointment.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

«The AHCA takes the opposite approach, so that old and poor people will drop their coverage,» says Matthew Fiedler, an economist at the Bookings Institution.

Families traveling with children, who have come to rely on movie and game - filled tablets for entertainment, should make sure to pack «some good old - fashioned unplugged entertainment, such as books, puzzle books, and coloring pads,» said Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, family travel expert at About.com.

This classic career book may advertise that it's practical, but I used in it when I was 21 years old to help me find my purpose at the time.

«This book aims to help readers understand the habits and mindsets used to take the company that I started at 15 years old and turn it into one of New York's fastest - growing public relations firms.

The 35 - year - old has many interests in life — in high school he played every sport he could try out for, and at home, he'd watch every movie and read every comic book he came across — but his chief interest is simply listening to his mind wander.

Travis Isaacson, senior director of organizational development at Access Development, a Salt Lake City, affinity marketing business, doesn't want anything that fancy, just an iPod Classic with 120 GB of memory instead of the old 80 GB model he has now so he can squeeze in more of the business books he downloads from Audible.com.

And if it's a young person you're putting on your books, the Fair Labor Standards Act sets the minimum age for employment in non-agricultural employment at 14 years old.

When asked if their old firms» male culture led them to go off on their own, Fonstad stated that it has been challenging at times and mentioned that she's experienced some of the «penalties women take for being aggressive and tough» that were highlighted in Sheryl Sandberg's book, Lean In.

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've made a decent profit selling old things I had, valuable books that people placed in the compactor room as well as some items found at deep discounts either at thrift stores or the clearance section.

I'm sure I'm not using the right wording but it is easy to say something is outdated dogma by only looking at the last line of a book that has been in process for 2,000 years (i.e. 9 times older than the government trying to tell it what to do).

Christians destroyed the old Roman Gods Temples, destoyed the Library at Alexandria, destroyed all non Christian books they could find.

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.»

This is a few hundred years old at best and as pointed out «Because both sides of the fragment have writing on them, King said it could have come out of a book rather than a scroll.»

Recently I watched the PBS series on the Book of Genesis with a dozen older women at a retirement home.

Meanwhile we have believerfred that has his oh so supernatural god that can change the natural laws of the universe at whim; why because it says so in a 2000 year old book of myths, so there take that.

I could not narrow down the books properly, so the compromise is this: a post now for picture books, and a post later today of the chapter books for the 4 - 7 year old kids, and no baby board books at all.

He recommended a few books that I plan to order on my oh - so - old - school Kindle: The Myth of Certainty by Daniel Taylor and Faith at the Edge by Robert Wennberg.

At three - years old, my daughter saw the Jungle Book and woke up afraid.

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

Here's my blurb: «With this book, Austin Fischer brings fresh insights to a very old conversation with a perspective that is at times piercing, at times deeply personal, and always thoughtful and rooted in scripture.

But this rejection, in turn, prompted Hamann to compose and publish a piece called To the Witch at Kadmanbor, a «letter» supposedly written by Nicolai to an old sorceress, asking her to translate Hamann's Monologue from the Chinese of the «Mandarin» who wrote it» a letter that, midway through its course, suddenly becomes a delirious monologue of its own (in which the witch now appears as the Fury Alecto, but with two faces, «a calf's eye like Juno's, and the watery eye of an owl») before concluding with the recommendation that Hamann be forced like his illustrious ancestor Haman — from the book of Esther — to mount the scaffold.

They show that the Old Testament can, and must, be read as a Christian book, prophetic of Jesus; that the paradox that the Messiah should suffer death can be understood in the light of the scriptures; and that the risen Lord's presence, even if it is not recognized at other times, is to be discerned when he encounters his people in the breaking of bread (the Church's Eucharist).

Mathew, I have no problem with gays, because everyone on this earth is responsible for his, or her own righteousness, Ezekiel 14 vs. 14 - 21, but how are you able to dispel the old test, is beyond me, for the new test, should fulfill the old, when one read a book, they don't begin at the back of it do they?

This is why, at one point in the book, I grant the Gnostics of old the validity of their questions, though I go on to revile the answers at which they arrived.

The book essentially looks at the warfare tactics and military weapons used by various cultures in the Old Testament era.

Jeremy Rabkin, professor of government at Cornell, has written an important book, Why Sovereignty Matters (1998), that addresses that old question in a way both thoughtful and provocative.

(Today we have become conscious of the need to be somewhat reserved in our using the adjective «old» to refer to books which are not at all obsolete either for Jews or for Christians.)

Some older people were offended by the latest effort at revision of the Book of Common Prayer, feeling that because they would not live to use the new prayer book, their opinions were likely to be discounBook of Common Prayer, feeling that because they would not live to use the new prayer book, their opinions were likely to be discounbook, their opinions were likely to be discounted.

Christianity requires little more than belief and a 2,000 year old book that you can buy at any store for a few dollars.

A few days after the September 11 attacks, I bought an old copy of his The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power at a used book sale.

But an intelligent person will search for the answers, knowing he doesn't know, and THAT is what drives him to seek an answer, not blindly accepting the answer from someone who looks at a 2000 year old book, filled with 3000 year old stories and gives up after reading it.

You are very weak - minded to really take at face value a 2000 year old book filled with 3000 year old stories, when there isn't one iota of proof that ANY «god» at all was behind those writings.

Last week, Louizandre Dauphin, a 33 - year - old former high school English teacher, decided to relax by reading Mere Christianity and another book by pastor Timothy Keller at a nearby wharf.

I'll take my personal relationship with God over some be-suited hilligan screeching fables at me out of some dusty old book any day.

At the time of the research, Cone's book was used to teach the first - year courses in both «Mission and Ministry» and «Introduction to the Old Testament.»

considering an Ivy league historian (Richard Bulliet) has relatively definitive book on the topic that is over 40 years old («The Camel & the Wheel», 1975) and which arrives at the exact opposite conclusion based on KNOWN evidences, it certainly would appear this a media - generated ratings grab without scholarly basis.

At the risk of sounding «flaky» and «corny» and although process thinkers and readers once they have finished this book will understand, I need to mention three very special creatures in my life: Buksi, my eighteen year old cat who died Easter Sunday, 1987; Csibi, my two year old cat; his mother, Whiskers, now four.

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 chief.

To the centuries - old debate over why any universe exists at all, Krauss» book contributes — precisely nothing.

-- It was the custom in the day of the author to refer to the older more prominent prophet as the source (as there was but one book of prophets) in this case Jeremiah 32:6 - 9 «The word of the Lord came and said buy my field at Anathoth.....

Have you even thought about looking at the updated evidence or do you think that all 2000 year old books tell the complete truth?