Sentences with phrase «reader of books about»

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No, this book won't offer you many chuckles, but it might help readers break through our culture's unhelpful silence around our inevitable end and think through how to go about the final chapter of life with some dignity.

When a prospective reader sees the title of your book — particularly if it is non-fiction — it should leave no question in their mind about what the book is about.

Reading this book, readers will get warnings about four mistakes that companies commonly make — blindness to interactions between systems, getting locked in to existing ways of doing business, falling victim to cognitive biases, and derailment by short - termism.

«I might lose whatever credibility I have with readers if I suggested flat out that a book centered around the subject of oil, written by an economist, was a page - turner, but I am willing to say with conviction that Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, by former CIBC Chief Economist Jeff Rubin, is a fantastically compelling read.

What's so great about the book, and what makes it different from the countless other books and articles written about the «Oracle of Omaha,» is that it offers readers valuable insight into how Buffett actually thinks about investments.

Accordingly, this book offers readers interested in the history of political theory and in the roots of the modern European project much to think about.

I would say to any person commenting on your 10 Ways the Non-Violent Atonement Changes Your Theology blog, to read your book first (its not an expensive purchase) before launching into any detailed discussion or disagreement.It answers many of the potential concerns people have and gets the reader to reflect very strongly on what they have been taught about the atonement and to put on a new set of glasses when reading scripture.

Questions such as whether torture is permissible in Tolkien's world view, whether war is glorified (with a side - debate about how the films differ from the books in this respect), and how victory and defeat are characterised, are worth considering and will encourage readers to think more deeply about LOTR and appreciate how nuanced Tolkien's treatment of these issues is.

-LRB-(Throughout his book he tries to ease his traditionally biased readers into some of the radical statements heâ $ ™ s about to make, like a good pastor would.)-RRB-

The entire book of 1 John is engaged in this idea about good and evil, light and darkness, truth and error, and John is intent on showing his readers that based on who God is and what Jesus has done for all people, we can choose to live in love, light, and righteousness, rather than abide in hatred, darkness, and evil.

3Eslick points out that at the crucial passage in Process and Reality in which Whitehead says Descartes» concept of substance is a true derivative from Aristotle's, Whitehead refers the reader not to Aristotle's Categories but to W. D. Ross's book about Aristotle (SCCW 504).

But readers need to be cautious about the book jacket's claim that Ellis is «one of today's foremost Jewish theologians.»

By the end of the book, I think your average reader will be brimming with anger toward the religious right and fired up mostly about progressive politics.

The author covered the sex abuse crisis for Newsweek and has produced a big book, mainly about people and events in Boston, that will hold the attention of readers interested in a journalistic account that tries to be fair - minded, although it is not untouched by moments of legitimate, indeed necessary, outrage.

One woman recently balked at me for including my own book in a list of upcoming fall releases I wanted my readers to know about.

-- What did the book of Daniel say to all its readers throughout the centuries if all these chapters are about an already determined future far, faraway?

Perhaps most poignantly, one reader who read the book in light of the pedophilia scandals and the church's early secrecy about them says, tentatively but tellingly: «With all that is going on in the Catholic Church today, it makes you wonder if some of the fiction is actually true.»

Then everybody got together and wrote a whole bunch of stories about him... and centuries later, a Muslim convert got together with some of his homies and put them all into one book... kinda like Readers» Digest.

The bibliography at the end of each chapter will direct the reader into deeper study, though even here, there are glaring omissions from the lists of books about the various topics.

If it interests you or any of your readers, I wrote a book called Nine Lies People Believe About Speaking in Tongues, and deal with many things I see come up in these comments like Paul said you can't speak in tongues in a meeting unless you have an interpreter, speaking several languages allegedly being the same thing as speaking in tongues in the Bible, etc...

The subtitle of this book, «the unity of knowledge,» will strike some readers as abstruse, yet it directs us to important questions: Can we think about the world and ourselves in anything resembling an integrated manner?

Thus David Spanier, a «diplomatic correspondent for Independent Radio News in London,» could tell readers of the New York Times Book Review that «the Berlin Wall was not about bricks and barbed wire in defense of Marxism, but about people.»

More than that, if a reader wants to know about the stories of Genesis, again he should turn to Walter Schenck and read his book First voices, which also received outstanding praises.

This book is about the major theological themes in the Book of Revelation and how modern readers can understand and apply this difficult book to our lives tobook is about the major theological themes in the Book of Revelation and how modern readers can understand and apply this difficult book to our lives toBook of Revelation and how modern readers can understand and apply this difficult book to our lives tobook to our lives today.

First Things readers in America interested in obtaining Rupert Shortt's new book, Christianophobia, about the relentless persecution of Christians throughout the world (which I described here), will be pleased to learn that Eerdmans will be bringing out an American edition of the book in....

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

Some have applauded the book as creating a teaching moment about the contours of Christian history and theology, and thoughtful readers might well be intrigued by complex questions the novel raises about Christian origins.

Kimberly Parker is author of Radical Love... Forever Changed, a book that identifies the misconceptions about God's love and guides the reader to experiencing more of it (RadicalLoveBook.com).

Thankfully, my parents were voracious readers of such Carmelite luminaries as Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, and Thérèse of Lisieux, and their shelves brimmed with books by and about the saints.

... wow, lot's of mis - statements here by people speculating about the Bible and Jesus, including those of you who think the books of the Bible were written a few hundred years ago (Moses penned it around 1400BC)... the Bible is a collection of the most investigated writings of all time, so there is a tremendous amount of credible archeological and scientific material in this world available for review rooted in verifiable investigations... my response, read the Bible, do your own investigation, determine the Truth for yourself... hopefully, anne rice's denouncement of faith in the God of the Bible (it's difficult for me to believe she ever had Saving Faith in the first place) will bring some readers to investigate and find the Truth... God will call the Elect, not one more, not one less...

If you are a blog reader, this is a great way to read a book which may challenge your thinking, while interacting about the ideas of the book with other people around the world.

As we have already remarked, the Western reader of a Western book about what used to be exotic religion will increasingly himself have Asian friends, or African experience, or international responsibilities.

Assuming that Dawkins has equal confidence in all parts of his book, I shall simply challenge him at representative points, and let readers draw their own conclusions about the overall reliability of his evidence and judgement» (p. xii).

But because the book can not in itself be for the reader his encounter with history, but only information about any encounter with history, it does of course as a whole appear to him as a view, and I must define for him the point of observation.

Over the years, readers have come up with all kinds of theories about why the book concludes this way:

Whether you believe the Book of Job is historical fiction or historical fact, everybody agrees that it is a theological masterpiece which was written to teach the readers something about God.

In one of those funny coincidences our online book group The Kitchen Reader has made each of its last three choices books that are particularly relevant in my quest for knowledge about our food system.

Project Animal Farm Sonia Faruqi takes her readers on a «journey into the secret world of farming to tell the truths about our food» in her debut book, Project Animal Farm.

The Book of Booty is a tremendous documentary of the historical progression of the New Day, along with offering inspiration for its readers about turning dreams into reality.

Manson got his start blogging about dating for men; started coaching men on having luck with the ladies at a time when the world traveler was partying and sleeping around; came out with a self - published book, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty, written when he was on the fringes of the PUA movement; and along the way gathered millions of avid readers and more than his share of detractors.

The title of the book alone tells you that Gerstner and Kutcher are not out to scare the reader, not out to make sensational, scientifically unproven, claims about the long - term effects of concussions, but that they prefer instead, like I, to live in the «land of the real.»

I've found that this works very well for beginning readers, as it's a great way to add a slight bit of movement and critical thinking (thinking about what they just read) to the book.

I'm wondering if any readers know of any books specifically about caring for babies that take the same calm, matter - of - fact tones that Between Parent and Child by Haim Ginott (and two excellent books based on Ginott's work, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Faber and Mazlish and Playful Parenting by Lawrence J. Cohen) does.

Today I'm pleased to give TLT readers a chance to win a free copy of a beautiful new children's book designed to get young readers excited about cooking, eating and trying new fruits and vegetables.

Readers interested in learning more about origins of female self - disdain may read about this in my book on Interaction and relationships in breastfeeding families, http://www.ibreastfeeding.com/keren-epstein-gilboa-phd-med-bsn-rn-facce-lcce-ibclc-rlc Specific reference to this topic is also available in my chapter entitled «Breastfeeding envy: Unresolved patriarchal envy and the obstruction of physiologically - based nursing patterns.

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Several readers have written in the past month to complain about the Baby Trend Diaper Champ, a diaper pail we recommended in the 7th edition of our book.

This month I've decided to pick a book that at first may only seem applicable to about a third of our readers, but in... -LCB- read more -RCB-

So begins chapter one of therapist Susan Pease Gadoua and journalist Vicki Larson's new book The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, which challenges readers to consider alternate marital agreements in a world where lovers live together without tying the knot, more couples are having children out of wedlock and about half of all marriages end in divorce.

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