Sentences with phrase «which number this book»

If you want readers to see which number this book is in the series, you can enter the number into the series title so that the number shows up in parentheses.

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The problem of confirmation bias — a tendency to place weight on data that back up our beliefs, which can prevent us from exploring alternatives — has recently been explored in a number of pop psychology books.

According to Goodman, your book should have three things upon launch: social proof, i.e., a number of Amazon reviews; an «intangible,» e.g., a quote from a renowned expert in the field, say a New York Times bestselling author; and lastly a good book (which may seem obvious, but...).

You Can Negotiate Anything, probably the most entertaining of the books, skips any allusion to scholarship about the human tendency to defer to authority, instead citing an old Candid Camera episode in which a surprising number of highway drivers confronted with the sign «Delaware Closed» actually turned around.

I was tired of books with stories about generals, parables about mice, and endless scientific studies with numbers that could point any which way.

Speake's other uses for VisiCalc range from balancing his personal checkbook register (he has created a tidy five - column grid, which indicates the date, check number, deposit and debit columns, and running totals) to reconciling an ailing company's account books with those of one of its suppliers.

Ultimate Rewards (earned from the Sapphire Reserve / Preferred) can be used at a fixed - value when booking through UltimateRewards.com but can also be worth more when transferring to travel partners like Hyatt or United where you pay a fixed number of points in those programs which are not dependent on the cash cost of that room / flight otherwise.

(The 10,000 hours number was inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, in which he describes that it takes about 10,000 hours of practice or experience to achieve mastery in a certain field.)

I would like to get to your level however, and I'd be very interested to know of any books or other resources which you have found useful, specifically with regards to adjusting earnings numbers to the more real earnings numbers.

The number one digital currency's spot price was little changed at around $ 9,100 on Tuesday, while futures, which have ended lower for five consecutive sessions, according to FactSet data, appeared ready to book modest gains.

Even though he'd clicked on a specific property, the agent asked which hotel he was interested in booking, along with his name and Marriott rewards number.

However, Buffett has noted that the metric has underrepresented Berkshire's intrinsic value because of the number of operating businesses Berkshire has acquired, which are held on the books at cost.

All crosses are captured and normalized which creates a unique sequence number, details on where the trade took place, and other relevant order book data such as quantity, price, currency and timestamp.

In the original Hebrew manuscripts from which we get our King James Old Testament there were no breaks between certain books such as 1st and 2nd Samuel..., and Ezra and Nehemiah are rendered as one book, but the content is the same, only a different number of the same books.

I do know that if I followed the guidelines of one liturgical commission, suggesting that I greet each penitent at the church doors with an open Gospel book and then lead a procession to a reconciliation room which looks more like an occasion of sin than a shrine for its absolution, the number of confessions in the middle of the metropolis where I serve would be severely reduced.

Eventually I got hold of Christian Schwarz's book «Natural Church Development» which was developed based on his research with thousands of churches across the world looked at the «quality» of churches because his findings seemed to surprisingly indicate that the quality of a church was the number one factor in the nemerical growth of a church.

Unlike the Catholic Church's old Index of Forbidden Books, which specified a relatively small number of offenders, the Index of Approved Books forbids all books that are not explicitly apprBooks, which specified a relatively small number of offenders, the Index of Approved Books forbids all books that are not explicitly apprBooks forbids all books that are not explicitly apprbooks that are not explicitly approved.

The Sabbath days were mainly devoted to teaching the Pentateuch, which consists of the first five books of the Bible — Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

Fearful of having their books omitted from lists of «acceptable» texts, a number of publishers have acquiesced to creationist demands in various ways: by considerably reducing the space given to discussion of evolution, by referring to evolution as «only a theory,» by including creationist materials, or by placing references to evolution in a final chapter which the teacher could conveniently Omit.

A few years ago when the number of languages into which it had been rendered was approaching the one thousand mark, it was decided to publish a volume in celebration of that event, to be called The Book of a Thousand Tongues, based doubtless upon the old hymn, «O, for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise.»

He claimed to have experienced a number of visions, including one in which he was directed by an angel to a buried book of golden plates.

But the encyclical's generalizations and «isolated passages» could too easily furnish partisans with cudgels with which to censure certain books and theologians, to say nothing of any number of merely half - baked ideas that were not mentioned in the encyclical itself.

... If a record could be compiled of all that has happened between the white and the coloured races, it would make a book containing numbers of pages which the reader would have to turn over unread because their contents would be too horrible [On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, p. 115].

Henry is torn between the emerging parties, insisting on the one hand that he is closer to Lindsell than to Fuller Seminary (where he once taught) but on the other hand scrambling in a number of interviews, articles and reviews to counteract the book's threat to the evangelical unity to which he has given so much of himself.

Green's biggest success to date is number one best - seller The Fault in Our Stars (Penguin), a beautiful, low - concept wonder of a book, the plot of which is alluded to above.

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.

Their other new venture is the Science — Faith Archive, which gathers together a number of on - line resources — books, papers and magisterial discourses — on the theme of the debate and dialogue between science and faith.

I propose as that definition, realizing that it would probably exclude some of those already discussed, the following: The sacred book contains writings that purport to have been produced under divine or extra human inspiration or impulse, and which have come to be recognized by a substantial number of people as the basis of their religious faith, since it is regarded by them as the authentic revelation of God to them and to the world.

Bumper stickers announce that Christ is coming soon, and a spate of books are being published which, whether read or not, are being sold in very great numbers.

Beyond this work, he produced a staggering number of books, lectures, articles and letters — most of which were of the very highest order.

I own way more than this number of books already, which is depressing for me to think about!

The Catholic Herald in September published a long article by Lord Black, abbreviated from an even longer chapter, which will appear in a book about the conversion to Catholicism of a number of well - known Canadians.

Ford's strategy of genetic analysis rests on a number of claims — often boldly stated as if they reported obvious or well - documented facts — concerning the development of Whitehead's metaphysical thought and the manner in which Whitehead composed his books.

There are a countless number of people whose good books you and I have read and from which we benefited so very heavily — to pay debts back on that and to say, well, this might be of some use to someone, somewhere.

In the Bible book of Numbers, for instance, the writer Moses admits his own serious error for which he was severely reproved.

As happened in the case of a number of books in the Old Testament, material which the editors could not appropriately insert elsewhere, they placed at the end of the book.

Of particular importance in this process were the steps taken in the first quarter of the seventeenth century, for these had the consequence of the introduction of a new conception of nature, which appeared in a number of books about the year 1620, by Daniel Sennert in Germany, David van Goorle in Holland, Galileo in Italy, Francis Bacon in England, and most fully developed by the Frenchman Sebastian Basso in his Philosophia Naturalis, 1621.

This attitude is of one piece with the story in the Book of Numbers according to which a plague slew twenty - four thousand of the people before its cause was located in an Israelite's marriage to a Midianite and was removed by the execution of the couple.

But on the whole, the American scholarly scene is one of frenetic decadence, with the publication of vast numbers of articles and books which fewer and fewer people read.

It was a lady with an kind, understanding voice who answered the phone at the number in the back of the book, «Recovering from Churches that Abuse» that put me onto Ezekiel 34, which I read through tears which made it nearly impossible to see that gave my soul the smallest ray of light and an even smaller feeling of hope.

It is my own belief that the explanation for the enormous sale of Honest to God is simply that great numbers of men and women who wish to be both modern and Christian found in that book a presentation of Christianity which on the one hand they felt was absolutely honest and which on the other hand (and for the first time) opened to them the basic meaning of what we may style «the religious question»: what man is, what his world is like, how one can find significance and dignity for living, and the like.

On the other hand, by taking account in Critique et Religion of previous attempts at synthesis, he allows for the point about what may already be considered as dismissed and for the elimination of a certain number of false ideas which would compromise the research to which his books invite us.

But yet it is still sadly true that large numbers of our more thoughtful contemporaries are repelled from the Church because they find in it what looks to them like sheer unthinking obscurantism, a shockingly immoral attitude towards truth (of which Mr. Blamires» book is an example), and a cavalier disregard of patent fact about the world in which we live.

I say this because I wonder why is it that in Numbers I think or Genesis (I know it was the 1st few books) that mention the lineage in which Christ would be born which Ruth is his grandmother leaving him to be the descendant of King David and Solomon.

One is tempted to present a number of such examples as a relief from the more or less solemn material which has perforce been drawn from most of the books discussed here.

Firstly that Waterstones are selling a limited number of signed Deliciously Ella books which you can now pre-order here, and secondly that I'm running a competition to give away two tickets to my Deliciously Ella supper club at Raw Press on the 17th of September — this is being held through my instagram so have a look there if you want to enter!

Firstly that Waterstones are selling a limited number of signed Deliciously Ella books which you can now pre-order here, and secondly that I'm running a competition to give away two tickets to my Deliciously Ella supper -LSB-...]

- While I appreciate those who are on special or restricted diets, there are a number of books out there which address ice cream recipes that are specifically tailored for those seeking recipes on that nature and it's best to check those sources for recipes and for making modifications.

It's a paint by numbers cupcake book which is perfect for me.

As it happens, I also included a number of protein - enhanced treats — such as the Protein Power Pudding pictured below — in my second book, Practically Raw Desserts, which will be released next month.