Sentences with phrase «where subsequent books»

More common than not is what's known as the «death spiral,» where subsequent books do less well, so bookstores order fewer copies of the following book.

First - time authors in this genre will sometimes leave room in the plot for sequels, and often a reader can guess from the various loose ends where subsequent books will lead.

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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.

Where prices are not quoted inclusive of all taxes, the taxes (VAT and / or tourist tax) will be specified during the subsequent phases of the booking process.

After his recent protracted lawsuit and subsequent ruling against him for his appropriated use of images from his Canal Zone series — where he «creatively transformed» photographs of Rastafarians from an in - print book into paintings — you'd think that he'd shy away from such gestures.

Given that sabbatical (during which the Hong Kong - born, New York - based artist set up his Badlands Unlimited publishing house), perhaps it's fitting too that the first section of the book brings together a series of texts — «What Art Is and Where It Belongs» and «On Art and the 99 Percent» among them — that, at their heart, consider questions concerning the definition of art and its role in society, with a particular focus on its relation to ideas of home and community, much of it in the context of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the subsequent global economic recession.

One area where the boundaries are unclear is domestic violence, which the authors have excluded from their primary inquiry due to the fact (they explain in the book and subsequent forums) that most jurisdictions no longer limit applicability of domestic violence laws based on family status alone, and treatment of the crime is uneven in terms of whether defendants are subject to criminal law burdens or benefits.