Sentences with phrase «studying academic books»

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We know a lot from various kinds of evidence: a) the experience of the real estate sector, where recent studies by Macdonald Realty and Re / Max have confirmed the dominance of foreign buyers at the top end of the market especially, as stated for years by individual realtors (accounts often denigrated as «anecdotal»); b) there is the digging of several investigative journalists, and most notably by Ian Young of the South China Morning Post who has boldly and effectively raised issues native journalists have sometimes shied from; c) academic work, including the books by Katharyne Mitchell (2004) Beyond the Neoliberal Line and David Ley Millionaire Migrants (2011).

Matt Hall, cofounder and president of Hill Investment Group, introduces his 2016 book, Odds On: The Making of an Evidence - Based Investor, by stating that: ``... the evidence - based movement has been studying market data and academic research to identify the groups of stocks and other investments that provide better odds of long - term success.

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

Far from transcending the «biasing» particularities of biographical experience, in conformity to some positivist notions of «value freedom» and «objectivity,» the academic contributions of each of the scholars studied in this book were profoundly shaped by early childhood experiences, distinctive personality traits, and, as noted above, particular theological or atheological visions, as the case may be.

Publication of The Black Book of Communism in November 1997 in France stirred up a major political and intellectual debate, propelling this academic study of the nature of tyranny onto the best - seller list.

She doesn't read a lot of books or spend dozens of hours each week studying... but she always knows more theology than I do, and always asks penetrating questions which shoot holes through all my acadamagician ideas (Yes, I just coined that term... it's a cross between academic and magician... because that's what most theology is.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Although not fully sympathetic with everything that some of the «deep ecologists» or «Gaia theorists» advocate, these works stand, more than any other works I know, as theological manifestos for an American Green Movement — one book is in a more academic form for the university and seminary, the other in a more confessional mode for the church and community study group.

Finally, numerous studies have shown access to books is an indicator of future reading and academic success.

They might choose regular text books from big educational bookshops if they want to study academics, and follow their children's interests.

Tough's book affirms what every study has shown that intelligence alone is not a predictor in academic or life success, but character.

Sources for the book included over 300 interviews with key players from all the main parties, election literature, media, including print and social, and some academic studies.

Wang clearly wrote this book as a character study, not as an academic analysis of the grad school experience.

(1) In my section of that book I say that film studies has opened up a huge gap between film criticism and academic, theoretical writing on film.

THE STUDY SKILLS FOR EXCELLENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE is a book let of blue prints for awakening the sleeping giants in learners.

The flap in Girard, Pa., over the mandatory use of Studs Terkel's book Working reveals an interesting irony: the use of «academic freedom» as a lever to force students to study a book they find morally objectionable.

Interestingly, as I did my initial research for the book I kept finding studies that linked higher student academic performance to the positive personal attributes and classroom presence of their teachers.

Over the duration of the last academic year I have been studying this theory, using learning observations, meetings with teachers, student voice, book looks and learning walks (supportive strolls) as sources of information from which I could hopefully draw some conclusions.

In particular, prior research studies have shown that access to books during the school day leads to higher test scores and academic achievement, even offsetting the -LSB-...]

These range from having students choose their own reading books, using student polls, asking students to weigh in on school policies and other issues, and having students select their own academic program including electives and independent study.

Multiple research studies reported in this book demonstrate that social and emotional learning programs pave the way for better academic learning.

Academic libraries, on the other hand have been a bit more relaxed on this stance especially if the book is in a subject that is trending in pop culture or represents the scholarship being studied on its campus.

McGraw Hill says academic libraries will be interested in reference works, and public libraries will find «a wealth of titles» on careers and business skills, student and career exam study guides, and «How to Do Everything» books on consumer technology.

As an academic I wanted to have three books available for people who would demonstrate my ability in reflective study, movie review, and teaching - learning.

The core of academic publishing is in textbooks, monographs (detailed written studies, either long or short, of a specific subject) and books intended for an audience mainly outside academia.

They have an academic division (ACU), which publishes commentaries and Christian textbooks, and a non-fiction division (Leafwood), which publishes Bible studies and Christian living books.

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Academic libraries, on the other hand have been a bit more relaxed on this stance, especially if the book is on a subject that is trending in pop culture or represents the scholarship being studied on its campus.

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The acceptance of comics into the larger world of American art and books has generally come through awards, reviews, and academic study of longer form, «literary» comics, the kinds of books to which terms like «graphic novel» and «sequential art» are routinely attached.

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Germany's book market is among the top three in size in the world, though e-books remain only a small percentage of overall sales, accounting for 21.2 million Euros in revenue in 2010, or 0.5 % of the total market (excluding academic books and textbooks) and just 5.4 % of sales, according to a new joint study between the German Publishers» Association and GfK Panel Services called «Breakthrough in the Book Marbook market is among the top three in size in the world, though e-books remain only a small percentage of overall sales, accounting for 21.2 million Euros in revenue in 2010, or 0.5 % of the total market (excluding academic books and textbooks) and just 5.4 % of sales, according to a new joint study between the German Publishers» Association and GfK Panel Services called «Breakthrough in the Book MarBook Market?

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While there are of course legitimate academic reasons to study the text and regular folks may just be plain curious about the book, reading Mein Kampf isn't exactly the sort of thing people will want to do on the commute to work - which could be exactly why it's proving so popular in ebook format.

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This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting («hanging in chains»), since the nineteenth century.

While the book is littered with study citations, it is far from dry academic work.

The library in its current form contains around 100 entries — academic papers and books, as well as some blog and news articles — with links to the content and, when available, direct links to PDF copies of the studies.

I was 23 years old, nine months into a year - long fellowship to live and paint, no academic strings attached, in Paris — and to roam from city to city, looking at works of art that I had studied only in books.

Inspired by her father's commitment to books and political ideals, she was drawn to academic study and to art making, and fell in with the burgeoning Greenwich Village bohemian scene of the 1940s.

Nick Thurston is the author or co-author of four books plus some twenty journal articles and artists» pages, and is an academic in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds.

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The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

Consisting of case studies and contextual analyses by curators, artists, critics and academics, including Hyunjoo Byeon, Carson Chan and Joanna Warsza, Chris Fite - Wassilak, Olga Fernandez Lopez, Kate Fowle, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Liam Gillick, Georgina Jackson, Sidsel Nelund, Simon Sheikh, Henk Slager, tranzit.hu, Jelena Vestic, Marion von Osten and Vivian Ziherl, and edited by curators Paul O'Neill and Mick Wilson, the book is an indispensible resource for all those interested in the current state of art and in the intersection between research and curating that underlies exhibition - making today.

A study last year by Mark Bauerlein looked at books and essays in English literature at several public American universities, and found the vast majority attracted very little attention from other academics.

Personally, I've never been particularly seduced by the history of books and publishing, nor seen it especially as a topic for academic study.