Sentences with phrase «set of books which»

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I had a box set of several Judy Blume books, but my mom actually removed this one from the set and hid it from me for a while — which made me want to read it even more.

In his book, Navy Seal Training Guide: Mental Toughness (which by the way goes for $ 790 on Amazon), author Lars Draeger says there four pillars of mental toughness: goal - setting, mental visualization, positive self - talk, and arousal control.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

Currently corporate taxes are paid where firms have a physical presence, which allows digital multinationals to book most of their profits where they have set up headquarters as opposed to where they make their money.

Silverberg set a target of $ 9,500, which he felt was the minimum amount needed to print 1,000 hardcover, 32 - page picture books.

One of them was the mid-1990s hit Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler, in which the author, a Brazilian CEO, describes running a democratic, open - book company in which people set their own salaries.

Services are still a small part of Apple's sales compared with the iPhone, which booked more than $ 38 billion during the quarter, but services provide a high - margin, steady and quickly growing revenue stream as smartphone sales are set to slow worldwide.

Prior to 2009, many publishers set a wholesale price for e-books at a 20 % discount from the equivalent physical book, at which point Amazon's $ 9.99 price point roughly matched the wholesale price of many of its e-books.

The assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, is substantially higher than the net tangible book value per share of our outstanding common stock immediately after this offering.

I read when I want, set my own work hours, and feel very little compulsion to produce anything but tangible results, which are usually the outcome of having harvested good ideas from books.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention the fact that this set of fifty favorite books, which obviously serves to satisfy reader's need for gift suggestions (chefs!)

I pointed to a set of books near the end of the row which had boring brown covers.

Unfortunately, the history books of formal education almost always overlook the more human stories of America's bloodiest conflict to focus on battles, dates and generals, which is what Uncivil sets out to correct.

One significant feature of the book, which sets it apart from other books in the third period, is Altizer's effort to reconcile his present thought with his early work on Buddhism.

As has been related, this Mohammed wrote many ridiculous books, to each one of which he set a t - itle.

Which is why it is useful to have a book which sets things out in their chronological order, and in a spirit of faithfulness to what occurred and loyalty to the Church to which the young Fatima visionaries entrusted all that they had seen and hWhich is why it is useful to have a book which sets things out in their chronological order, and in a spirit of faithfulness to what occurred and loyalty to the Church to which the young Fatima visionaries entrusted all that they had seen and hwhich sets things out in their chronological order, and in a spirit of faithfulness to what occurred and loyalty to the Church to which the young Fatima visionaries entrusted all that they had seen and hwhich the young Fatima visionaries entrusted all that they had seen and heard.

Together the three novels form the «Deptford trilogy,» named for the Ontario village where the snowball first was thrown and which remains, despite the European settings of much of the action, the chief point of reference in all three books.

Rather than setting us loose in a sea of uncertainty and relativism, the Bible becomes a book which spurs imagination, dialogue, critical thinking, discernment, reason, intelligence, compassion, justice, and mercy.

In 167 B.C. Antiochus precipitated a full - scale revolt when, having already forbidden the practice of Judaism on pain of death, he set up in the Jewish temple an altar to Zeus and offered swine's flesh upon it (which the Book of Daniel refers to as the «abomination of desolation») Antiochus was an apostle of Hellenism and meant to bring his entire realm under the influence of Greek ways.

The books of the Old Testament were, of course, written before the coming of Christ; one task of interpretation, therefore, will always be to set them within the context in which they were first composed.

In an earlier book, Anno Domini, the author has attempted to sketch the course of this influence and has sought to set forth what seems to him to be its significance for history and what it appears to him to disclose of the meaning of the universe in which man finds himself and of the fashion in which the universe deals with man.

Since Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church and placed good men in charge of it, and because it was the Catholic Church which put the Books of the Bible in the Bible and coined the word «Bible», and because the Bible tells us that the Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth, and because these good men [that you refer to as misguided] are the ones ordained and «sent», [just like Jesus was «sent» by the Father], are at the «helm» of His Church and have the absolute authority to interpret the Bible, I am so inclined to be ever so thankful that Jesus Christ set it all up this way so that the burdens and crosses that I may bear will become as light as the yoke that Jesus Christ promised if we are willing to follow him, and not our will be done but His.

A second type is historical (sometimes called higher) criticism, which aims to provide a better understanding of the message of the Bible by viewing its different books from the standpoint of the period when they were written and the social setting, historical circumstances, and climate of thought in those times.

Not surprisingly we read a kindred passage in Professor Abe's review of Tillich's book referred to above, which sets forth a Christian - Buddhist contrast here in fine style:

Even though a belief in the Book of Mormon is mistaken, it is a valid religious belief so long as it is an integral part of a set of beliefs that promotes the right relationship which is the purpose of religion.

The sense of inescapability that pervades the book is strengthened by the longer history in which Friedman sets the current form of globalization.

Fundamentalism, he said, «represents a mind - set confined within one Prophet, one Book, a single way of worship» which by nature led to the «concept of believers going to heaven and nonbelievers going to hell, with a religious duty cast upon its followers to convert the rest by any means whatsoever» (Indian Express?

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

I'm reminded of the chapter in Donald Miller's book Blue Like Jazz in which he and his friends set up a confession booth at Reed College.

This tradition probably comes from a second - century Christian book known as the Infancy Gospel of James, which says that Joseph «saddled a donkey, and he set her upon it» (17:2).

We must try to meet the terms of the contract life sets us, asSammler says in the astonishing affirmation with which Bellow ends his book.

But there is another set of lists which God keeps which I am thankful my name is in, and these are the book of life and the Lamb's book of life.

This inquiry received a sudden jolt when Albert Schweitzer wrote The Quest of the Historical Jesus, a book which showed, first of all, that the attempt to rediscover the historical Jesus had largely failed, and secondly, that the life of Jesus was set in a context largely foreign to us, this being marked by the expectation of the imminent end of the known world.

Here is the testimony of the 3 witnesses to the Book of Mormon as set forth in the introduction to the Book of Mormon: «Be it known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, unto whom this work shall come: That we, through the grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, have seen the plates which contain this record, which is a record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites, their brethren, and also of the people of Jared, who came from the tower of which hath been spoken.

Their reading of biblical teachings about particular kinds of sexual activity often fails to account for the cultural setting and circumstances in which each book of the Bible was written.

Some of the books of the Bible were probably still being written about 100 AD, but a few hundred years later the bishops met to set canon, which meant ruling the various books based on accepted theology at the time.

Moreover, recent research by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has devastated the optimistic assumptions of modern developmental psychology which has set the terms for much modern educational theory (see Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences [Basic Books, 1983] and The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach [Basic Books, 1991]-RRB-.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

It would be invidious to mention the names of popular books which commend prayer and set forth techniques of praying, but are so alien to the whole Christian position — although written sometimes by ministers of Christian bodies — that it is astounding that they are accepted so readily by people who profess and call themselves Christians.

Rodney Stark wrote an amazing book called «The Victory of Reason» where he argued that something like the Enlightenment is only possible in a monotheistic culture where a belief in a Creator leads to a belief in a created order, which in turn leads to the possibility of an orderly set of observations about the world that we today call «Science.»

I recall the reaction of a priest friend to a text setting out the conservative version of Anglicanism, one which espouses fidelity to the monarchy, to the liturgical tradition of the Book of Common Prayer, and to the rural pastoral tradition, of such great comfort to the people.

Like several recent books in the same vein (Thomas Eisner's For Love of Insects and Piotr Nasrecki's The Smaller Majority, for example), Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth explicitly sets out to change the way in which people see and think about all manner of creeping things that creepeth upon the earth, as Leviticus puts it, and some that fly, too.

In the Athanasian Creed, that ancient canticle of Christian faith still found in the service books of many Christian communions, there is a fine statement which gives the proper setting for any discussion of Christian worship and, a fortiori, for a discussion of the central act of Christian worship, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, the Eucharist, the Holy Communion, the Divine Mysteries, the Liturgy, the Mass — call it what you will.

In consequence, we can now see that what we have in the New Testament is what I have called throughout this book «the witness of apostolic faith», while the Old Testament has its particular Christian significance in giving us the background of the event of Jesus Christ in the religious faith, worship, and teaching about God's will and way in the world as these were set forth in the Jewish scriptures which then became part of the Christian Bible.

In the second edition (1970) of Kuhn's book and in subsequent essays, he distinguished several features which he had previously lumped together: a research tradition, the key historical examples («exemplars») through which the tradition is transmitted, and the set of metaphysical assumptions implicit in its fundamental conceptual categories.

Luther indicated the inferior value he set on four books of the NT by the very way in which he printed the index page of his New Testament.

But in fact it is an unsentimental and interesting book, which sets out the facts of this unusual story very well.

On the other hand, the work of other younger theologians like Schubert Ogden, in his book Christ without Myth and more recently (and admirably) in The Reality of God, has shown a way of employing the insights of a soundly based biblical hermeneutic within the context of a specifically process - thought understanding of the human situation and the world in which man's existence is set.

(This, of course, is partly due to the fact that the chapters of the book consist in his Wednesday allocutions, which are, by tradition, a set of papal sermons on the Bible.)

Although this book is not part of the Protestant Bible, it does show that in a setting in which matter is held to be virtually eternal, the biblical understanding of God as Creator leads naturally to a creatio ex nihilo position since the alternative compromises the sovereignty of God over nature).