Sentences with phrase «reader of books on»

He is an avid reader of books on Behavioral finance, Psychology and Value Investing.

Not exact matches

ENTREPRENEUR: You're an avid reader [Haile keeps a log of the books he's read on tonyhaile.com].

Rather than point readers to another weighty tome on a serious issue of the day, Gates used his latest post to suggest a book that's quite out of character.

Slywotzky's book takes readers under the hood of companies that fire on all pistons, at least as far as exciting consumers is concerned.

In Dorie Clark's new book, Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It, she urges readers to begin working on their reputation in and out of the workplace to ensure they are a necessary commodity throughout their career.

Such advice comes as no surprise to readers of Fried's 15 years of posts on his company's popular and influential blog, Signal vs. Noise or who have read any of his books, like Rework, the New York Times best - seller he co-wrote with his Basecamp partner, David Heinemeier Hansson.

UPDATED for 2015 - This book reveals the potential land mines and pitfalls of active investing and educates readers on the benefits of passive investing with index funds.

My hope is that this book will enable readers to discover their True North, and to stay on course of their beliefs and values throughout their lifetimes, so they can realize the fulfillment of leading others with a common purpose.

I have been completing research on and working with family offices of different types for almost 10 years now, and I think it is important to share what my perspective has been of family offices so that readers can understand where I am coming from in this book.

Marion must be aware of this dual approach to God in St. Augustine, and the reader puts down the book thinking that Marion owes us greater clarity on this duality.

Finally, Eberstadt draws the reader to focus on the parent - child bond «in all its elemental simplicity,» crediting Harris's book for reminding us that «we are stewards of our children, and not their Svengalis.»

First Things continues to bring its readers each month the most insightful and lively information and commentary on religion, books, politics, science, cultural trends, and the great moral questions of our time.

The reader is encouraged to take that seriously, to weigh the statements in this book against research and observations on the knowable world, and to consider them in relation to the thousands of other religions from throughout history that also profess with absolute certainty to be the one «Truth.»

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.

I think that every Bible should have a big «STOP» sign on the first page along with that passage of scripture letting the reader (or potential reader) know that this book is not for everybody, but only for those that have been enabled by God to read and understand it.

The Bible can't be used to verify claims any more than the Quran or the Book of Mormon, as all religious texts first require a basic belief on the part of the reader that they (the texts) are right in order to be viewed as such.

After carefully reading the Quran and examining it based on his many years of study, a leading American theologian has concluded that via the holy book God is speaking to all human beings around the world, a voice that, in his astonishing book, he said he tried to transmit to readers and students, as well to himself, to deepen his understanding.

But perhaps the most important chapter was the one on cross-cultural interactions, particularly Cleveland's perspective on the importance of confronting power differentials, which she wisely inserts near the end of the book, after she has long gained the respect and trust of the reader.

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Later sections of the book, which are more accessible and engaging for the general reader, focus on Duns Scotus» Divine Command Theory (DCT).

... If a record could be compiled of all that has happened between the white and the coloured races, it would make a book containing numbers of pages which the reader would have to turn over unread because their contents would be too horrible [On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, p. 115].

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.

A notice on the copyright page assures the reader that the book was produced in accordance with wartime standards, and the worn pages exhaled evidence of a previous reader's smoking habit.

As a matter of fact, Bultmann's Jesus and the Word of 1926 was prefaced with a classic statement of the modern view of history, and on this basis he states that his book reflects his own encounter with the historical Jesus, and may mediate an encounter with the historical Jesus on the part of the reader.

But on the other hand, one of the things I value most in books, is when they make the reader think.

At the same time, he (1) carefully introduces sections which are to come in his book; Revelation 1:12 - 20 prepares the reader for the letters to the churches already mentioned in 1:11; chapters 4 and 5 lead up to chapter 6; and (2) on the other hand, introduces various matters without explaining them until later (the «morning star» of 2:28 is not explained until 22:16; the «seven thunders» of 10:3 are never explained).

But what makes this book different than others on the same topic is Tverberg's gift of guiding the reader through practical application.

It invites readers to pick up the central book of Western civilization and engage with it on its own terms.

In the early part of the book especially, Charlton has a tendency to wander off on what appear to be tangentialdiscussions that serve to illustrate his impressively wide range of reading but left this reader without a sense of clear structure and form.

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.»

Nevertheless, if a reader wants a broad, generalized overview of some of the primary perspectives on various theological topics, this book will be a helpful introduction.

What makes this novel approach perfection — and two comments on the book jacket actually employ the word — is the way Ishiguro leads the reader into Stevens's life through his own words, enabling us to feel his pride in being a «great» butler and at the same time experience the pain of personal loss which he is utterly unable to acknowledge.

For the reading of the Book of Concord, there is a beautiful new Reader's Edition at Concordia Publishing House, which also gives decent introductions and explains some of the context, including the difficulties encountered later on with the insinuation of Calvinists of themselves into Wittenberg.

A recent article in the C. S. Lewis Bulletin maintains that while Reflections on the Psalms (Harcourt, 1958) is «one of the lesser known works in the Lewis Canon,» it «remains the one book on the Psalms that would satisfy the general reader in our time» (Carol Ann Brown, «Mirrors of Ourselves: Reflections from the Psalms,» CSLB X: 8, June 1979, pp. 1 - 5).

The blurbs on the back cover of this book create in the potential reader an expectation of something new» a creative, original approach to the morality of homosexual acts, not just a rehashing of standard....

Phillip Johnson, law professor at the University of California at Berkeley and author of two earlier books on Darwinism, hopes to teach readers to spot those bad habits and restore rational debate.

He did so by urging the expansion of the idea that the great books include the Eastern classics, as well as through his inspiring participation in Columbia's core courses on Asian humanities and through his many books making the cultural history of China and the rest of East Asia available to educated readers.

In fact, the reader will perhaps be surprised to learn, David Novak's book is not only a most effective and learned defense of the use of natural law in Judaism, it is also one of the most brilliant expositions of natural law theory I know, fully worthy to join ranks with works on natural law by Yves Simon, Russell Hittinger, and John Finnis.

What the book does is it helps the reader think of large, and sudden moves in the economy in terms of monetary and banking policy and helps correct for narratives of economic events that tend to overwhelmingly focus on questions of taxation, spending and labor regulation.

In any survey on this scale, however distinguished, specialist readers are bound to find something to criticize: All the same, it seems to this British historian that the least satisfactory sections of Eire's book are quite certainly those dealing with England.

Lewis» Space Trilogy, consisting of the books Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength is a very good allagory on Christianity from a more «adult» viewpoint, without the obvious appeal to the young reader, even though they read like science fiction stories.

Appointed to the faculty of Colgate Rochester Divinity School where he would soon assume the school's chair of historical theology, Hamilton established himself by frequently contributing to theological journals and writing Reader's Guides to the Gospels and short books on theological anthropology, including the well - received New Essence of Christianity.

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.

All the other habits of composition that Ford attributes to Whitehead rest on the two attributions we have just put into question; for we are told that the insertions of later writings into earlier ones, and the overall arrangements of writings in a given book, are meant to induce readers to disregard passages conveying abandoned doctrines or positions or, if the doctrines and positions are kept in modified form, to reinterpret them in terms of their final or mature formulations.

Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy calls to mind Berger's caution because the governing ambition of the book» though expressed sotto voce» is to challenge its readers to promote and build cities that aspire to equal if not surpass the most beautiful cities of the Western world» and because its author, David Mayernik, is as aware as anyone that the culture and institutions of modernity are not currently conducive to the creation of such cities.

The book was relatively controversial among some Christians for it's metaphorical depictions of God and some of its theology, but became a run - away hit among religious readers: Though it was originally self - published, The Shack has gone on to sell more than 10 million copies.

P.S. Webb does a great job of grabbing his readers» interest at the beginning of the book by asking them to look through a list of a few dozen verses and mark which biblical instructions are «still in force for us today exactly as they are articulated «on the page.

This book, indeed, virtually recognizes, or at least confirms, the point that I am making in this present essay, for the author explicitly states in his Preface that the reader should turn to other (earlier) books for the data of the religions, while he is moving on from these to proffer an interpretation of those data (cf. his note 1 to chap.

A recent article in the C. S. Lewis Bulletin maintains that while Reflections on the Psalms (Harcourt, 1958) is «one of the lesser known works in the Lewis Canon,» it «remains the one book on the Psalms that would satisfy the general reader in our time» (Carol Ann Brown, «Mirrors of Ourselves: Reflections from the...

Noonan served on the board of the National Right to Life Committee for many years, and readers who want to see how he addressed abortion's moral and legal dimensions should read the elegant arguments in his short book, A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the Seventies.