Sentences with phrase «strong points of book»

One of the strong points of Book Creator is that allows you to import content from all kinds of apps.

The strong points of the book are, first and foremost, that it centers on the Cross of Christ as God's means of reconciling us to Himself even as it stands in judgment over our grasping domination of others.

Carroll does address this, and one strong point of the book is his exploration of the church - state - culture relationship since Constantine's time.

Not exact matches

When someone is accused of «cherry - picking» verses from the Bible, it means that they have a particular doctrine or idea they want to teach to others, and rather than considering «the whole counsel of God,» they pick a choose a few select verses from various books of the Bible which seems to prove their point or present their case in the strongest possible way.

Reading Christian books has not been one of my strong points (hang over from too much study), but in the case of the Atonement of God I couldn't put it down.

The strongest evidence on that point appears on the first page of her book, where «Bill,» a member of Grace, talks about his identity as a Christian and an American and about his volunteer work, through the church, at a local shelter for disadvantaged teens.

In sum, the book is strongest at pointing up links and connections and sensitively observing the use of these links to forge a typology of the nation in the patriarchal stories.

The book is especially strong at pointing out links between the stories, especially the parallels between the pairings of Isaac and Rebekah and Judah and Tamar; both women covered their faces before meeting the men, both meetings occured near a well with a name that puns on the act of seeing, and both have twins who struggle in the womb, with one twin associated with the color red.

With Ricky Silberman's assistance he reassembled his brief of facts and allegations, suppressed disconfirming evidence, strong - armed a hostile witness, and blasted Mayer and Abrahamson's book to the point of denying at least one claim that he knew was true: «Up to this point in my career, even when I fell short, I had always believed I was pursuing accurate information.

Jesus, Paul, John, Peter, and pretty much every other New Testament book points out strong areas of disagreement with others and made those disagreements clear.

I haven't read the book but am looking eagerly forward to more discussion until and after I get around to buying it!Sleep is one of my «trigger points,» one of the points of parenting that I really have strong opinions on and readily give strong advice about.

To the right, he points out Mount Tabor, where Deborah, mentioned in the Old Testament's book of Judges, calls on her general, Barak, to lead an Israelite army 10,000 strong in about the 12th century B.C..

Gates: The key point the book makes is that reuse is a stronger benefit energy-wise than recycle, because in recycle you, in the case of the metals, you molt it again, and so you're actually using almost as much energy — aluminum say half as much — but almost as much energy — actually, it's less than half.

Boasting a strong cast, but an anemic screenplay, and an enthusiastic approach to lensing in the great outdoors, The Missing might not be one of the guy's very best movies, but he sure gets points in my book for trying something a little more... grown - up... this time around.

Making a movie out of Michael Finkel's book True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa is such a great idea that someone should try it again — someone with a stronger point of view and a more jaundiced eye.

The musical has great music and a strong book, but Columbus was a bland choice who doesn't bring any passion or point of view to the story.

Take for example a book on American politics, not because that kind of book is fun to read, but because such a book always has two characteristics: a strong point of view that practically begs for counter arguments, and debatable errors either in actual facts or in the interpretation of them.

And the presence of the child was neither the strong point nor the weakness in this book.

Posting success stories of how your book information was implemented could be interesting and very strong selling points for your book.

Two of the strongest points in the book have to be the depiction of the savant mastery of criminal enterprise that is the Kingpin, and the tough as nails tactical grand master and ultra spy that is Nick Fury.

Balcells has retained digital rights to all of their books up to this point, putting them in a strong position to negotiate with publishers on their own terms.

One of the strong points of being text - laden is readers can browse the book's quick summary before being transferred to the second or third link on the banners.

An author of books for young adults points to research showing that strong school library programs led by a certified school librarian help ALL students do better in school, including students whose parents can't afford to provide all the resources kids need to do well in school: «[Research] tells us that even after adjusting for factors such as parental education, father's occupation, and social class, the impact of having books available in the home is as strong a predictor of school success as socioeconomic status.»

Aaron, You're right about the income, depending on the price of the ebook and what p - book you're comparing it to... but the point I was trying to make wasn't about what authors can earn, but about the promotional advantage lower - priced ebooks have, given ebook enthusiasts» strong feelings about how ebooks should be priced.

It's always been our strongest point to be personal, HONEST, and helpful to our customers.That's one of the reasons we find so much satisfaction and fulfillment in self - publishing, because every word we write about in each of our books comes from our OWN personal experience!

We'll point out strong points and areas of improvement so that you can publish a quality book and worry less on avoiding obstacles, road blocks, and pitfalls in the self publishing industry.

In this regard, it was instructive to hear HarperCollins» Kristen Rens refer to the value of Angie Thomas» The Hate U Give, for example, a National Book Award longlisted title, and to take note of Walter's view into how backlist growth is stronger at this point than frontlist.

Over the last few weeks, Comixology's role within parent company Amazon has gotten much stronger: Amazon is now part of the CX logo, you can log in to Comixology with your Amazon account, and as a couple of people pointed out, purchasing a book from Comixology is now linked directly from the main entry for a book.

Howey points out that the 5,643 number is only the tip of the iceberg and there are many strong - selling authors and books that never appear on Kindle best - seller lists as they are in highly competitive genres where even dozens of sales a day are not enough to reach the top 100 on any sub-genre best seller list.

They've got strong presence in Canada and US, and a bit of exposure to Asia, and as you pointed out, are trading at an appealing price based on dividend yield and price to book.

Later, a little research revealed this excerpt from «Cruising Beyond Desolation Sound,» John Chappell's book on sailing the Northwest: «Strong evidence points to the existence of a Sasquatch family on the island.

While Hilton's points can have variable value, and you have to be careful about how the system prices out awards (See: Hilton stinks at math: book award nights separately), this is still a pretty strong offer to pick up a bunch of Hilton points.

Rail: Two years ago, I had a conversation here at Marie Walsh Sharpe open studios with Katy Siegel about her book Since» 45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art, and at one point she talked about the theme ofblack and white, which refers to different things, like the apocalyptic light of Protestant Evangelical ecstasy, the American gothic, the strong sun of the Southwest that creates blinding light and casts deep shadows, and above all the issue of race — the obsession of writers like Melville and Faulkner.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»