Sentences with phrase «powerful book about»

This is a powerful book about the devastating effects of war.

Aside from the questions of trust and lies the characters must confront, Easy is a very powerful book about the shame that victims feel and the lies that bystanders tell themselves when they don't want to see the truth.

Baby Signing with my Toddler Cousin I read a powerful book about a girl using A.S.L. (American Sign Language) So I started about 6 mos.

A truly powerful book about a young black girl who wins a Bible - quoting contest... and then discovers how hard it is to live out that Bible's call to forgive.

In the literature of the Vietnam era, there are powerful books about soldiering, excellent analyses of American foreign policy in Southeast Asia, and many dealing with the sixties» culture of protest, but this is the first book to connect the three worlds and present them in a dramatic unity.

Not exact matches

«This is technically not a book about moments, despite the title; instead it's about what creates powerful experiences and memories.

In his best - selling book «Outliers,» which investigates the psychology of success, Malcolm Gladwell makes a powerful point about what helps people commit to and enjoy their work.

This is a quote from the book that captures the powerful positive feeling you get from this book about the opportunity we all have to live in the present and to act, to create positive change in your life and the lives of others.

No is a powerful, productive word (James also wrote a book about it).

The ratio of a company's stock price to its economic book value per share (PEBV) sends a clear message about market expectations for the stock and can be a very powerful tool for investors.

It's a book about how to develop an idea and a voice powerful enough to deserve a powerful following and real influence.

it a self - help book all about how our thoughts are powerful forces in the universe; what we think will be attracted to us from «the Universe».

On Wednesday, Jamal Parris and Spencer LeGrande, now in their early 20s, gave an exclusive interview to CNN Atlanta affiliate WSB, saying that they are haunted by their experiences with Long and that they are writing a tell - all book about what they say happened between them and the powerful pastor.

The main thrust of his new book, and its most powerful and original feature, consists of a series of highly specific charges about the greed and rapacity of Jewish organizations seeking compensation for victims of the Holocaust, especially the WJC.

Hey, after we debate what people in the Dark Ages cobbled together in a book about a ranting, apocrophal prophet from the Middle East 2,000 years ago, lets have another really worthile debate about whether Zeus or Apollo was a more powerful god.

But along with the praise, Wilson offers insights about the reasons these books are powerful: Lewis's generosity toward the authors he discusses, the way he finds passages that make them seem interesting; his sense of «wonder and enjoyment» in all he reads; his willingness to take up the great themes that engaged his authors, to put to work in criticism his «creative intelligence.»

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

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The book doesn't give you a get out jail card when it comes to grief, but in a clear and Biblically consistent way it helps you to understand something about why such things happen in a world ruled by a loving and all powerful God.

Sirota gets the last word, calling Ford «an avatar of the most powerful people in this country,» adding: «In this economy, and you've written a book about courage... I don't really get it.»

In your new book you get into some quite serious stuff about how self - deception fuels warfare and other evils... Regarding warfare, if you can get the group believing the same deception, you have a powerful force to impose group unity.

From risk taking to competitiveness, we need to take an axe to powerful myths about sex differences, argues Cordelia Fine in her book Testosterone Rex

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In my book, Wholey Cow A Simple Guide To Eating And Living, I talk about how eating a healthy diet is the best way to give your body the vitamins and minerals it needs and some of the best sources of these powerful nutrients come from fruit and vegetables.

Rosalee De La Foret, author of the new book Alchemy of Herbs says, «Chamomile is one of my favorite herbs to talk about because it is so readily dismissed as a wimpy herb, but when you know how to use it correctly, it really packs a powerful punch.»

United Kingdom About Blog Our Brexit Blog» is the companion to the powerful best - selling book «In Limbo: Brexit testimonies from EU citizens in the UK.

This book has such a powerful impact that 14 self - help gurus and luminaries from Dr. Christiane Northrup to Arielle Ford are raving about it.

I'm talking about those team up books that defied convention: the ones that weren't just about the most powerful (and popular) superheroes -LSB-...]

Hunger is a powerful motivating force, one made palpable in the first film adaptation of Suzanne Collins» bestselling, alternate - history, young - adult book series about a nation of have - nots under the boot of a fascistic ruler.

In his book, Junger wrote about giant «rogue waves» that are so powerful «they seem to exceed the forces generating them.»

There's something fundamentally powerful about the film's (and book's) understanding of humankind as the push - and - pull between enslavement and freedom, though the directors are better off expressing its themes in a flurry of gorgeous images than in the overly explicit voiceover narration.

The Tower Heist director reunites with screenwriter Jeff Nathanson for this adaptation of the young adult book series about the most powerful family in the world.

In this comic book fantasy about a powerful, isolationist country with a superhero for a king, Black Panther grapples with difficult subjects that even high school history classes gloss over: That of the terrible legacy of colonialism.

Variety describe the book as «a visually inventive world with a powerful coming - of - age story about a boy finding his place in the universe», which is horribly reductive, but might be a useful angle for Bekmambetov to take in trying to make the project palatable for a studio.

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017), because it's the most powerful popular feminist statement in mainstream cinema thus far, inspiring countless young women and girls to dare to succeed; because Patty Jenkins more than deserved it after languishing in the wilderness of episodic television after her masterful film Monster (2003), when any male director would have gone on to direct four of five features on the strength of that one film; because it's about damned time that a female comic book feature got made; because Jenkins still had to fight to get a fair payday to direct WW 2 — enduring months of fight - to - the - death negotiations to get a directorial fee comparable to that of Zack Snyder or J.J. Abrams for the sequel; and finally because she's better than either of those two directors, who are overrated hacks with little or no vision at all.

Children engaging in meaningful conversations about books is really powerful for me.

Give students ready access to books: There's something powerful about having a good book immediately available to hand a student.

This book offers a powerful entry to conversations about entertainment, the internet, and contemporary culture.

Not just another book about «big weather,» this is an amazing work that uses narrative very effectively in weaving the story of these powerful storms.

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After all, this is a book written by a Pulitzer Prize — winning columnist for the world's most influential newspaper, guaranteed a wide and careful reading by millions, including the rich and powerful, and he is about to make a compelling case for urgent and radical school reform.

But there is something deeply powerful about hearing a classroom of your peers read life into a text by reading it with passion and understanding and inflection and... Instead of thinking when you're reading silently, «I wonder if anyone cares about this book,» seeing that every other kid in the class loves this book, wants to bring it to life, enjoys it, is relishing the fiction and the words in the story.

Among the books educator Lisa Signorelli has read about teaching children in high poverty schools, she finds Disrupting Poverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices is the easiest to understand and contains very impactful strategies to use in the classroom.

This is one of the most powerful books I have read about slavery.

This book brings about powerful, precision teaching for K - 12 through intentionally designed guided, collaborative, and independent learning.

Brainstorm with other teachers your ideas about powerful young adult books that would be valuable supplements to the content areas.

With powerful quotes like this in our pop culture references, honestly, I can't blame my fellow book aficiandos for being so passionate about books as physical objects.

Stories like this woman's form a powerful backbone of Truevine, which ended up being just as much a book about race as it is about the circus.

Although occasionally overly - digressive, this is a powerful book that is likely to add value to those who are very familiar with the period, through reading about it, living through it, or both; and be especially enlightening to those who open its pages with little prior knowledge.

The ending is so powerful that weeks later, I am still thinking about this book.