Sentences with phrase «than a textbook of»

The ability to break off and digest information in chunks is much less daunting than a textbook of information, which means learners are more likely to be motivated to try.

Not exact matches

I defaced more than my share of voluminous textbooks with pictures in the bottom corner that, when flipped quickly, would make a moving picture.

If you've read the books above and are looking to deepen your knowledge of consumer psychology, look no further than Michael Solomon's classic textbook.

And highlighting important passages has been shown to be worse than useless, yet my clearest memory of my dutiful pre-med college roommate is her hunched over a textbook, highlighter in hand.

This was a better way to learn the twists and turns of the body than studying anatomy in a textbook.

That fits the textbook definition of a «value stock» with a PEG ratio of less than 1.0.

Decades later, Warren Buffett still sits at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway and his annual reports contain more investment advice than your typical business school textbook.

One reason why it is so important to describe real estate behavior in terms of economic theory is that a rising proportion of the economy's industrial investors are behaving more like real estate investors than like the textbook models based on manufacturing.

Driscoll is a textbook case of someone who thinks that his ability to attract a following means that he's right about everything, or at least MORE right than anybody who hasn't been able to attract a following.

But its validity was suggested as early as 1969, when a Gallup Poll revealed that 58 percent of all Americans had never finished reading a book other than a textbook or the Bible, and only 26 percent had read a book in the previous month.24 One reason for this near - illiteracy is America's addiction to television.

As Elaine Scarry points out in The Body in Pain, to someone who suffers pain, nothing is more certain than the pain; she suggests that the experience of pain may be as close to a textbook case of «certainty» as we have.

In my own teaching of theology I find it best to use, rather than a single textbook with a single point of view, a reader which presents several angles of interpretation on specifics and on the whole because it forces students confronting a plurality of systems to decide for themselves what the Scriptures say.

Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes... The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible.

The attempts to rewrite textbooks in Texas and to twist the words of our founding fathers (a la David Barton) are not much different than the Taliban blowing up Buddhist shrines in Afghanistan or destroying Hindu tombs in Pakistan.

The biblical text was strictly defined, there were no subtexts, and hermeneutics was more like a home repair manual than an intuitive art, a set of rules for applying textbook formulas to problematic situations.

Regrettably, she does little more than provide us with a reminder of a textbook example of eisegesis (reading «into» the biblical text one's own ideology) rather than exegesis (reading «out of» Scripture with attentiveness to historical and literary context, even if it conflicts with one's own personal views).

A study of school textbooks found that the pronouns he, him, and his occurred four times more often than the pronouns she, her, and hers.

Icons of evolution such as Haeckel's embryos, peppered moths, and classic origin «of «life experiments have been shown to be more mythic than scientific, even though they still live as textbook orthodoxy.

It is quite possible to question it, all the more so as the change of view has taken place more rapidly in the oral teaching of lectures (which are much more numerous and livelier than printed textbooks), than in printed books, which are few and always voice the views of only a small number of theologians.

It's not a happy thought, that a leading textbook in intercultural communication is accompanied by an instructor's guide that suggests having students undertake an act of symbolic communication of a kind that early Christian saints went to their deaths as martyrs rather than commit.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

This is partly because the problems of the Church today are less quotable and dependent on idiotic liturgies or heretical textbooks than was the case from the late 1960s and through to the 90s.

Indeed, in my experience, visiting the Bodies exhibit was much more like reading the scientific writings of a J. Henri Fabre or an Erwin Straus (in short, of scientists who reveal beauty, order, and meaning in the natural world) than like reading a clinical biology textbook.

Now he must teach, and preach, and express what he had so far been able only to set down in the margins of his textbooks, or give to his students, or express informally to his brethren, who were not always either interested or in agreement, though never less than aware of his gifts.

For instance, if photons and neural impulses are really no more than what the textbooks say they are, then I have to believe that this bright, beautiful, panoramic experience miraculously arises out of insentient chemical reactions inside my brain.

Its abilities are no less than astonishing, and yet coconut oil remains a relatively undiscovered gem in the medical community (who seems to have its communal head so far up its... er, textbook... that it refuses to acknowledge the healing power of traditional foods).

Cooperstown is going to become even more of a bland high - school - history textbook than it already is, distilled to names, numbers, and nothing more, with prominent figures and events removed to keep the idea of sanctity alive and well, rather than risk telling a story someone might not want to recall.

am tired of fans selecting textbook teams rather than watching ao arsenal really play.

While many kids — including my own — are sad to see summer end, for too many of our of nation's children, back to school is more than new textbooks and teachers — it's about the relief of getting access to school meals again.

Evie was a much better textbook kind of delivery with the exception of being in a DOUBLE compound; yet still was an easier delivery than Diana.

Quite apart from the potential loss of income when a parent is home full - time, any textbooks, art supplies, writing materials, musical instruments, and so on must be paid for, rather than supplied by the school.

Rather than using textbooks, teachers give the students a meaningful experience, building a picture out of it, and the students themselves arrive at the concepts.

While the separation of powers may a phrase more commonly found in legal and political textbooks than the mainstream press, it is fundamental part of the debate in America.

He is the co-author of more than 130 scientific publications, four textbooks (including four editions of the Biochemistry textbook first written by Lubert Stryer), Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry with Stephen J. Lippard, and a book on how to interact effectively with NIH, written with Michelle Kienholz.

Those issues encompass more than just the latest conflicts about the age of the universe or climate change - related language in textbooks, she said.

I'd first read about H.M. in my freshman psychology textbook at college, in the fall of 1971, less than twenty years after the experimental surgery that robbed him of most of his existing memories and also of ability to form new ones.

«The biosonar system of the porpoise uses different principles than what we learn in textbooks,» says co-author Wenwu Cao of Pennsylvania State University.

More than a century later, the textbook description of episodic memory (conscious knowledge of an event) is a more sophisticated version of that same basic idea.

Overturning textbook knowledge, the researchers discovered that the trees «exhale» less carbon dioxide during the day than previously thought, and that forest photosynthesis doesn't decline over the course of the summer.

For the study, researchers analyzed the race and skin tone of more than 4,000 human images in four medical textbooks: Atlas of Human Anatomy, Bates» Guide to Physical Examination & History Taking, Clinically Oriented Anatomy and Gray's Anatomy for Students.

Dr. Ferguson is the author of more than 85 chapters in medical textbooks.

She's co-written two nutrition textbooks, has more than two decades of experience as an educator and is a nationally recognized researcher.

The first detailed genetic comparison of purebred domestic dogs promises to rewrite the textbooks with new information about breed classification and insights that may improve canine health by boosting understanding of the more than 350 inherited disorders, including cancer, heart disease, epilepsy, blindness and deafness, which affect dogs.

He is the author or coauthor of more than 80 journal articles, publications and abstracts, as well as several book chapters and textbooks.

Prof. Patrinos has more than 160 publications in peer - reviewed scientific journals and textbooks, he is the Editor of the textbook Molecular Diagnostics, published by Academic Press, now in its 2nd edition, while serves as Communicating Editor for the prestigious peer - reviewed journal Human Mutation.

The author or co-author of five pathology textbooks and teaching aids, Dr. Kumar has published more than 100 original articles in scientific journals, a dozen book chapters, and nearly 20 review articles.

A prolific researcher up until his death, Davidson was the author of four graduate - level plasma physics textbooks and more than 500 articles.

Author or editor of six books and more than 400 articles, Dr. Weinberg is best known for his comprehensive cancer textbook, «The Biology of Cancer» 2nd edition.

As a health writer I know these aren't textbook signs of a heart attack, but I also know that dangerous cardiovascular events in women can be more subtle than those in men.

Although the textbook definition of «severe» psoriasis is a case that affects more than 10 % of the body, psoriasis can also be considered severe if only, say, the hands or genitals are affected, since it can cause major problems in those areas.