Sentences with phrase «who read a selection»

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Our reading for the day was a selection from Daly's second book, Beyond God the Father (1973), which decries a sexist cycle that has patriarchal cultures creating patriarchal divinities who then sanctify in turn the patriarchal cultures that gave them birth.

We hope you enjoy reading up on our selections and hope that you'll share your own thoughts on what we got right and who we may have missed.

Since the children's reading room — the Margaret and H.A. Rey Children's Room — is named after the couple who created the monkey, it makes sense that the library would keep a large selection of books about Curious George.

Having spoken at length to people who had read the Labour Party's internal investigation and to a number of those directly involved in the selection, it became pretty clear that this -LSB-...]

«Over generations you get directional Darwinian selection favouring infants who are a little better at mind - reading and a bit more inclined to quest for engagement with others.»

The Blu - ray debut features all the supplements of that release: three commentary tracks (one by director Terry Gilliam, one by stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and one by producer Laila Nabulsi and author Hunter S. Thompson), deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam, the 1978 BBC «Omnibus» documentary «Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood» (with Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman), the ten - minute featurette «Hunter Goes to Hollywood,» an audio documentary on the controversy over the screenplay credit, a survey of the marketing campaign, selections from the correspondence between Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson (read on camera by Depp), an excerpt from the 1996 audio CD «Fear and Loathing» starring Maury Chaykin, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Glenne Headly, background notes on Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life activist and attorney who inspired the character of Dr. Gonzo), and galleries of storyboards, stills, and Ralph Steadman art.

There were so many good ones in 2017, in fact, that we surely left out some of your favorites, including (spoilers for the few who have opted to read this preamble before scrolling through the selections below) The Shape Of Water, Blade Runner 2049, The Post, Faces Places, Wonder Woman, The Disaster Artist, Coco, and Mudbound.

Although our data do not allow us to address this issue directly while still accounting for the self - selection of students into charter schools, simple comparisons indicate that students who entered charter schools in the later grades made smaller gains in math (but not reading) than students who entered earlier.

I got my Kindle on the case and imported a selection, thinking flash fiction would make the perfect speedy bedtime reading for people like me who always end up going to bed much later than they should do.

«Now, with Kindle, we can offer customers who choose to read digitally the world's best - selling e-reader and the largest selection of Brazilian - language eBooks».

Ball discovered the book through Charlaine Harris, who included it in a boxed selection of her favorite reads.

While users can read as many books as they want, the selection doesn't include books from the five major publishers, who are already wary of Amazon and may be afraid of subscriptions undercutting full - price sales.

He followed the stories with a longer essay about airplane travel, which was my favorite piece of the night, and then he read some selections from his diaries and took questions from the audience — including a couple who had cut short their honeymoon in order to come to the show!

I've read so many that my selections are based on authors who are exceptional and ones I've read more than one of their books.

The selection committee was lead by Nancy Pearl, the former librarian and author of Book Lust who is one of the nation's best known champions of books and reading.

The current selection of popular apps is likely enough to satisfy customers who are more focused on reading or who only use a few.

According to Murray, the number of people who choose to do their reading on dedicated e-reader devices has not gone down in the face of widespread tablet availability and selection, although a growing number of people own both an e-reader and a tablet, and a still tiny sliver of the population owns three or more of these devices.

Those who want a device primarily for eBook reading will prefer The Nook Tablet's larger selection, better eReading software, and sharper screen.

platform further reinforces our long - standing commitment to authors and writers, and offers a significant opportunity to provide an even greater selection of reading material to our millions of customers,» said Theresa Horner, then director of digital products of Barnes and Noble who currently holds the position of VP of digital content.

For the tenth annual Everybody Reads program at Multnomah County Library, the selection is «The Girl Who Fell from the Sky» by Heidi W. Durrow.

I have twitted your site in the hope it brings together more active members from not only us Idnie Authors; but also builds a bond with reader who seek the type of stories any Author has to offer in their favorite reading selection themes.

If you haven't read anything by British author David Almond, here — in the words of reviewers who covered his first novel, Skellig, winner of the Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year Award as well as a Printz Honor — are some of the themes you're missing: «the transforming power of caring and love» (Publishers Weekly); «worlds enlarging and the hope of scattering death» (NY Times Book Review); «loneliness, friendship and grace» (ALA; Printz Award Selection Committee); «the fearful, wonderful fragility of life» (author Richard Peck); «essential goodness, faith, truth, and love» (author Karen Cushman); and «miraculous happenings» (The ALAN Review).

In fact, I believe that simply taking a garden - variety fund manager who diligently reads the FT and WSJ every day, and substituting his normal daily reading with a selection of less stuffy, more open - minded glossy magazines (e.g., Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, Wired, Popular Science, National Geographic etc.), would add at least 2 % to his CAGR without any other changes whatsoever.

This year will feature the full selection of TV replay camera angles all backed up with commentary from David Croft and Anthony Davidson who have been reading thousands of lines for inclusion into what could be an epic and much sought after addition to the series.

INTERSECTIONS VISITING ARTIST: ANDREA DEZSÖ Gallery Walkthrough (as a part of SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF ARM AND ROLLER PRESS exhibition) Tuesday, March 15 / the Art Gallery / 3:00 - 4:00 pm Public Lecture Thursday, March 17 / ART Building Room 101 / 4:30 - 6:00 pm Andrea Dezsö is a visual artist who works across a broad range Continue Reading»

Anyone who wants the complete picture should read the original papers, not just this selection of extracts.

I think it was responsible behaviour for lawyers with less time to read them all to delegate, even by implication, the selection to those who wanted to spend the time to understand.

The plaintiff appealed on two grounds: that the motion judge erred in i) interpreting the scope of the forum selection clause and ii) staying the action against the defendants who were not party to the... Read More

The current selection of popular apps is likely enough to satisfy customers who are more focused on reading or who only use a few.

It comes with a nice page layout and a good selection of colors that will make your portfolio much more appealing and presentable to those who will read it.

Government has no skin in the game, except at the ballot box, and non-professional Realtors (the vast majority of the Realtor population, in my opinion) are mightily outnumbered by the masses of consumers... who read (unlike most Realtors) and think about stuff that affects their lives... which leads to their determination of vote selections.