Sentences with phrase «on books i am interested in»

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«You can see it in the number of deals being struck but also in the number of conferences, books, and articles on the subject and in the cocktail - party interest I get when I tell people what I do.»

And while the book doesn't have anything useful to say about Canadian business leaders, it does raise some interesting questions about what's going on in Canadian business schools.

This is easily one of the most interesting books I've read in terms of why ideas «catch on.»

One of the most interesting things I found in researching my book Mapping Innovation is that the firms that invested in basic exploration eventually hit on something big, What's more, the massive return on investment it generated paid for all of the failed projects many times over.

Here's how it works: I run Facebook ads that invite coaches and experts to try a free training session on how to write a book that would get clients interested in working with them.

In one study, «the number of books «liked» on Facebook profiles was negatively correlated with [psychopathy]-- a finding the authors suggested might indicate that an interest in books contradicts psychopathic tendencies such as thrill seeking, impulsivity, and affect deficiencies,» reports Psychology TodaIn one study, «the number of books «liked» on Facebook profiles was negatively correlated with [psychopathy]-- a finding the authors suggested might indicate that an interest in books contradicts psychopathic tendencies such as thrill seeking, impulsivity, and affect deficiencies,» reports Psychology Todain books contradicts psychopathic tendencies such as thrill seeking, impulsivity, and affect deficiencies,» reports Psychology Today.

As the company meets one - on - one with institutional money managers, their tentative commitments to buy given numbers of shares — known as «indications of interest» — are jotted down in the book.

Their book explores questions of ethics and professionalism in the business world, and is aimed not just at business students but at anybody interested in a conversation on the subject.

The reason fairness would require that this ratio be equal to one is that, as argued by the Italian economist Luigi Pasinetti in his 1981 book, Structural Change and Economic Growth: A Theoretical Essay on the Dynamics of the Wealth of Nations, a fair interest rate is such that the purchasing power of one hour of labour stays constant through time even when its monetary equivalent is lent or borrowed.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Even though he'd clicked on a specific property, the agent asked which hotel he was interested in booking, along with his name and Marriott rewards number.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

I've read two very interesting books on this: Jeremy Siegel's book, The Future for Investors, where his philosophy is in line with yours.

Interested parties have been told Nimble Money is on track to make about $ 15 million in earnings this year, following significant growth in its loan book over the past 12 - months.

If you're interested in an excellent 100 page book on investing, I recommend The Elements of Investing, by Malkiel and Ellis.

In his famous book, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,» Keynes writes, «a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic... if the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die; though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before.»

There are a lot of books out there that explain how to do DCF valuations and I would highly recommend Aswath Damodaran's free online course on valuation where he teaches how to do DCF valuations if you are interested in those kinds of valuation techniques.

After having read some books on Judaism, I decided I was not interested in pursuing what he calls «the lifelong task of learning Torah.»

He was doing a book tour, and we were hanging out and talking about his graphic novels, and I had told him that I was interesting in maybe collaborating with him on something if he had any pages he didn't know what to do with to send them over to me, and I would try to write some songs or something.

One thing I found really interesting is that one conclusion the book came to is that these «faith wars» had a direct impact on the fall of the Roman Empire because the gov» t had to deal with the internal struggle and the external enemies had to take a back seat in importance or at least drastically distracted the leadership.

Although written by a supporter of Amendment 2 (which was overturned by the court in a decisionnow on appeal), the book provides a convincing analysis of the crosscutting interests and passions engaged when citizens attempt to hold government democratically accountable.

For a Catholic - ish novel — for a novel of any kind, really — the book is aggressively sexual in its interests, and McKenna's dismissal of Church teaching on sex is more casual than is sustainably credible.

I am not making a judgment on Stephen King; I hope he is a Christian, but I don't understand the need for the constant filthy language in a book of interesting ideas.

All of this information is not without a certain interest, but even someone like myself, unusually interested in the man, closes this book reflecting on Gadamer's epigraph to his own academic memoir of 1977, Philosophical Apprenticeships: «De nobis ipsis silemus»» about oneself one must keep silent.

There's lots of books, videos and articles on this if you were interested in anything more than mocking.

Who would be interested in a book supporting and trying to gain acceptance for the doctrine based on biblical and historical evidence that Jesus died on March 25, 31 CE, at 15.00 hours, on a TUESDAY and was resurrected by His Father, Yahweh God, at about 18.00 hours, on a FRIDAY, thus fulfilling His own prophecy contained in Mat 12:40, whereas He would be three days and three nights in the tomb?

We are adult third culture «kids» who have spent all of our developmental years abroad... and then returned to our HOME country, where we must endure the commonplace ignorance and poorly educated adults who lack any interest in foreign policy and base all their opinions on what only goes on in their own backyard... Please give your head a good shake and crack open a book every little now and then!

If your ministry is interested and willing to reach unreached and untold in Pakistan with the materials in native languages, I can arrange to translate for messages, bible studies, biblical tracks, books and also Urdu page on your ministry website.

Reading aloud to the children has been like gathering kindling daily — lighting children to read books on their own, flaming their interest in books they might have otherwise passed over.

Commentaries on Virgil and Virgilian legends» in which Virgil appears as a powerful magician» make up the last half of the book, which will be of great interest to scholars and devotees of the poet.

Our «early traditions about Jesus» (to use the title of a little book by the late Professor Bethune - Baker) are not interested so much in what has been called the «biographical Jesus» as they are concerned with what Jesus did and said as he was remembered by those who believed him to be their Lord, the Risen Messiah, and who were therefore anxious to hand on to others what was remembered about him.

I know this just scratches the surface of the topic but if you're truly interested in this, there is a much larger section on slavery in Paul Copan's book «God is not a Moral Monster» that you might find interesting.

I'm especially interested in your feedback after this post, as Christian marriage books based on mutual submission can be hard to come by.

As to obligations of a more personal nature I have many people to thank — colleagues who have advised me, students at Union Theological Seminary who have stimulated me with their responsive interest, members of the congregation of The Riverside Church, New York, who, by their attentive listening to mid-week lectures on the subjects handled in this book, have kept alive my confidence that even difficult and recondite problems concerning the Bible are of vital, contemporary importance.

If you're interested in contemporary / feminist midrash, don't miss The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah, edited by Ellen Frankel, which offers creative contemporary womens» response to Torah.

Religious interest, in this sense, is growing, but it is not on the whole being fed solid food through the books that are published.

I find it interesting that we don't see demons on the streets preaching their doctrines, but we do see their doctrines on television every day, in movies, books, newspapers, in some churches and in the laws that are governing the land.

In light of the book I am working on, Close Your Church for Good, I was also interested to read Bock's views on church leadership and structure.

One of the things that makes the book the most interesting, is that Wallace begins each chapter explaining some of the tools and approaches he used as a homicide detective, and then he goes on in the rest of the chapter to show how he used this tool or approach to investigate the claims of the Gospels about Jesus Christ.

The most interesting new book on the theotokos in terms of its form is Mary; A Catholic - Evangelical Debate, by two graduates of the fundamentalist Bob Jones University, one now an evangelical Episcopalian and the other a Catholic convert and professional apologist (2003).

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There are, as one would expect, several essays in the book on Jews and Judaism, some reflecting Kristol's religious interests» the need, for example, to sustain in Jewish identity a religious element and not merely a cultural one» others his political ones, exploring the relations of modern American Jews with a pluralistic American society that has given them an uncommonly large, though not unlimited, berth.

In the absence of a need to «prove it» to sceptics, the authors are free to touch on many areas of interest that are normally excluded in books that seek to answer rather than explorIn the absence of a need to «prove it» to sceptics, the authors are free to touch on many areas of interest that are normally excluded in books that seek to answer rather than explorin books that seek to answer rather than explore.

I've included several tips for those of you who are interested in writing a book yourself, and will keep a permanent link to the story on the «about me» page:

My purpose, therefore, is not to provide a systematic critique of the book, but rather to comment on two of its more interesting aspects, namely: (1) its argument that the Federalists, in writing the Constitution, were actually defending the principle of the «neutral» state, and (2) its attempt to apply «neutral state» principles to the issues of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

You might be interested in this online commentary «Putting God on Trial: The Biblical Book of Job» (http://www.bookofjob.org) as supplementary or background material for your study of the Book of Job.

You may also be interested in learning Makoto's Top 5 Books on Creativity, via Christianity Today.

One of the epigraphs in Paul Mariani's book is from Flannery O'Connor:»... if the writer believes that our life is and will remain essentially mysterious, if he looks upon us as beings existing in a created order to whose laws we freely respond, then what he sees on the surface will be of interest to him only as he can go through it into an experience of mystery itself.

You have some interesting ideas on the subject, I ran across this blog while researching a class I'm teaching on the conversions in the book of Acts.