Sentences with phrase «polemical books»

While we don't have a culture of right - wing shock jocks in Britain, right - wing polemical books do sell well.

There are profound issues at stake, such as the ones raised in Martin Buber's polemical book Two Types of Faith.

This charge, drawn from Robert Katz's polemical book Black Sabbath (1969), has been reproduced by many of Pius» recent critics, despite the fact that it is based on thirdhand information that has never been verified by historians.

Not exact matches

In that polemical film, based on the book he wrote of the same title, Navarro argues in racially tinged language that China is bent on global domination and is a threat to the US akin to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The book's most irritating flaw is the author's relentlessly polite Episcopalian - scholarly prose: readable and informative, but not the penetrating or polemical critical analysis for which this topic calls.

Lindsell's book is a work of apologetics, a polemical discussion backing up his claim that to be an evangelical demands a commitment to the notion of inerrancy.

In what must surely count as the most polemical passage in the entire book, Besançon even makes bold to claim that iconographers have substituted their art for true religion and even believe that their art comprehends God:

The casual reader of the introduction to The Five Gospels might suppose that no serious New Testament scholar would differ materially from the consensus represented by this book, were it not for the single telltale polemical reference to anonymous «elitist academic critics who deplored the public face of the seminar.»

Barbara H. Rossing's book is more polemical.

Some of the essays here are polemical and others apologetic, but the book taken all in all is a proposal.

The shortcoming of this brief book, perhaps inherent in the author's polemical task, is that it is negative, and to see how well Kimball conveys his own appreciations of great art a reader must look to his other works (his rich essays on Eakins and Delacroix, for instance, in his collection titled Art's Prospect).

Milo Yiannopoulos, a polemical Breitbart editor and unapologetic defender of the alt - right, lost both his speaking post at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference and his book deal after publication of a video in which he condones sexual relations with boys as young as 13 and laughs off the seriousness of pedophilia by Roman Catholic priests.

Why We Get Fat is still as I say, it's the airplane reading, polemical version of the book.

New additions to our Great Directors database include Christian Long on Albert Brooks and Steve Rybin on Alan Rudolph, and we also have reviews of recent books on filmmakers as diverse as Jim Jarmusch, Straub / Huillet and Jess Franco, as well as new work on contemporary Eastern European cinema and André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion's recent polemical title

New additions to our Great Directors database include Christian Long on Albert Brooks and Steve Rybin on Alan Rudolph, and we also have reviews of recent books on filmmakers as diverse as Jim Jarmusch, Straub / Huillet and Jess Franco, as well as new work on contemporary Eastern European cinema and André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion's recent polemical title The End of Cinema?.

As a healthful supplement I should like to recommend an earlier, polemical view of the major problem that confronts us in education: Albert Lynd's Quackery in the Public Schools, a neglected 1953 book whose title is not yet out of date.

His larger reputation, however, was based on the books and articles to which he gave both his abundant energies and his finely honed polemical skills.

I read Flannery's book, liked it and am not sure what you mean by saying it is «too polemical to appeal to those not already convinced».

To the second part of RP's question: I feel that a book with an advocacy and polemical role has to take especial care with facts and inferences, and more clearly delineate where the author is being imaginative.

I feel that a book with an advocacy and polemical role has to take especial care with facts and inferences, and more clearly delineate where the author is being imaginative.