Sentences with phrase «sets of books on»

«I like the contrast of the white against black — much more interesting than sets of books on the shelves!»

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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.

«That set of rules and those thought processes are so ingrained in society today that it's hard to communicate exactly what the vision is, and I think «Reinventing Organizations» does a better job than any other book on communicating that vision and communicating that this is not just a hypothetical like, «Oh, wouldn't it be cool if we did this,»» Bunch said.

These books are listed in order of when they should be read based on setting the proper mindset and then gradually building the skills needed to succeed in sales.

LOCAL advertising and marketing company JMG has set its sights on attracting big blue - chip clients on to its books following a strategic realignment of the business.

The most fundamental idea, of course, was the whole basis for the research and the new book itself: an exploration by Brené to uncover the common qualities among those who had set out on a journey, failed once or twice, sometimes spectacularly, but who had then picked themselves up, started forward again, and ultimately succeeded.

Stack, CEO of Springfield Remanufacturing, is one of the few who have put all the pieces together — from setting goals based on open - book management, to bonus plans, cost accounting, and employee ownership.

With millions of copies sold on Amazon alone, it seems folks gladly took a break from their ball - point pens and to - do lists for a set of colored pencils and an «age - appropriate» coloring book.

«We inked the deal in October, and the first set of books was on my doorstep in March,» Rusk said.

She has amassed 190,000 followers on her Instagram account @theslowtraveler through sharing perfectly poised photos of cosy - looking settings involving copious cups of coffee and stacks of books — the one below has been liked more than 10,000 times.

If you purchase shares of our common stock in this offering, you will experience immediate and substantial dilution of $ in the net tangible book value per share, assuming an initial public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the price range set forth on the front cover of this prospectus).

With the inaugural launch of the super-powerful Falcon Heavy rocket now in the books, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is ready to set his sights on an ambitious project known as Starlink.

But like Cruz many mass killers exhibit a common set of traits that include depression, troubled family backgrounds, a fascination with guns and violence and aspirations of becoming a soldier, said Peter Langman, a psychologist and author of two books on school shooters.

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.

Therefore, if you purchase our common stock in this offering, you will incur an immediate dilution of $ in net tangible book value per share from the price you paid, based on an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover of this prospectus).

APRA introduced its first set of macroprudential reforms late in 2014 when it introduced speed limits on the banks» investor loan books by capping growth at 10 per cent per annum.

It would be great to see the author maintain an up to date set of data (or at least checked links) on his website for the book and guarantee to do this for as long as the book is on sale at least.

In this book, he moves away from social philosophy and toward metaphysics, where he sets out to rebuff atheistic criticisms that focus on the doctrine of God.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

The Bible is the only Holy book written by numerous authors that are all in agreement and show how the Father's plan of salvation was set before the creation of the world, then tells us of His time here on earth in the New Testament and also explains the tribulations of the end times and how false religions will abound and that we can be ready for His return so that we can all spend eternity with Him in Heaven.

The Pelikan volume on the Book of Acts sets a very high standard for a series that promises to make a historic contribution to understanding the Bible within the living tradition that is the Church.

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.

While I do not consider myself an expert on all the religious writings of all of the main religions in the world, I have read most of the main religious texts for most of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find violent events being described in these other religious books, no other set of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Little did we know it then, but in just a few months» time Merryn and I would be setting off on an adventure we'd never forget — walking the streets of Rome, climbing the Alps of Switzerland, and settling into our new city of Oxford, United Kingdom, where Merryn would get a dream job at the University and I would write a book helping others recover from their broken dreams.

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.

Mosul, the second - largest city in Iraq, is built on and adjacent to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, the setting for the biblical book of Jonah and once the most powerful capital of the ancient world.

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.

Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

The second recent book to advance the response of process theology to liberation theology significantly is Delwin Brown's To Set at Liberty.7 This is not so much a critical response to the challenge of the liberation theologies as a reflection on freedom stimulated by this literature.

The stage is set, and what follows is Eco at his best — arcane debates on the medieval problem of universals or the poverty of Christ interspersed with monks thrown off balconies and poisoned by secret books.

He preached an average of five sermons a week, and wrote numerous books, tracts, as a well as a set of commentaries on almost every book of the Bible.

Ludwig Feuerbach shocked the western Christian world in 1841 with what might be called in current terminology the «deconstruction» of Christianity in his book The Essence of Christianity.12 While he set out to expound Christianity positively, he did so on a completely natural basis and without any reference to supernatural forces.

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.

Among his publications are: The Scripture Principle, Harper & Row, 1984; Reason Enough: A Case for the Christian Faith, InterVarsity Press, 1980; (editor) Grace Unlimited, Bethany Fellowship, 1975; Truth on Fire, The Message of Galatians, Baker Book House, 1972, Biblical Revelation, Moody Press, 1971, Set Forth Your Case, Craig, 1968; and A Defense of Biblical Infallibility, Presbyterian and Reformed, 1967.

Berger has subsequently and substantively changed his thinking about religion and secularization, but the theory set forth in that book continues to have enormous influence on the discussion of these questions.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

Nowhere does he set forth the argument of the book, and on natural rights jurisprudence generally, he uses Arkes as a kind of foil for his own reservations — again, without ever delineating Arkes» position.

Though I did not initially set out to write a book on this subject, the idea for the book began about 15 years ago when I wrote a paper in Seminary about the origin of violence and evil.

Along the way to proving his thesis, Jenkins rewrites the book on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (his reading, and his devastating criticisms of Oxford's influential Jonathan Barnes, set the standard for such scholarship) and he shows how even the most decorated of contemporary «philosophers of religion» (Plantinga, Stump, Penelhaum, et al.) grossly misread Aquinas.

I understood Professor Hartshorne to say in conversation recently that he is now at work on a book setting forth his own metaphysical categories; it might be that with the publication of this book we will see that the process metaphysics involved has undergone a sea - change commensurate with, and integrated into, the sea - change that Hartshorne has wrought in Whitehead's concept of God.

Had he stopped with late antiquity I would have expressed no such disappointment, but Fowden invites some criticism by concluding an intelligent and erudite book with a set of superficial and strained reflections on multiculturalism and the global village.

(CNN)-- Prof. Richard Bushman shares his insight in CNN's «In the Arena» off - set interview on how the award - winning Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon, is not the best insight to Mormon beliefs.

I never set out to write a trilogy on our increasingly endangered democracy, but as I kept stumbling on ever more evidence of the legacy of the imperialist pressures we put on many other countries as well as the nature and size of our military empire, one book led to another.

Thus, Hartshorne's semantics for the modal operators in the ontological argument is constructed along the lines of a de re modality of temporal becoming rather than a de dicto modality of sets of consistent sentences — Goodwin (1978) is admirably clear on this point in his book.

In a recent book, The Geography of Genius, Eric Weiner sets out on what he calls «a search for the world's most creative places, from ancient Athens to Silicon Valley.»

the immensity of existence is so beyond what we can imagine that we narrow our beliefs to such a ridiculous set of arguments based on one book or another.

Merle M. Ohlsen describes group counseling of adolescents and children in schools.9 Helen Driver reports on two groups for high school seniors, three groups for college students, and four leaderless teachers» groups.10 The second part of Driver's book reports on forty - four projects using small groups in elementary, high school, college, and graduate professional schools (as well as mental health settings), as described by the leaders of each group.

But sometimes, especially on the cold nights of winter, I like to set aside my highest intentions and simply burrow into a good book that feels as cozy and satisfying as a freshly laundered quilt.

Two books that changed me in late high school (they set me firmly on the path I still follow): Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (it grounded my faith in reason)[and] Out of the Saltshaker by Rebecca Manley Pippert (for many reasons: loving Jesus so much that it overflows into your relationships with non-believers, and it gave me a picture of a strong, intelligent woman who was doing ministry)-- Laura Mott Tarro

As we journey on to the final rejoicing, we fix our eyes on the joy set before us — a place where there is no more weeping or tears, where our eternal reward awaits (Matthew 5:12) and our names are written in the book of life (Luke 10:20).