Sentences with phrase «whose books he studied»

In his notebooks, written during his spiritual retreats, we can find something concerning his study of John Ruysbroeck, the famous Flemish mystic whose books he studied in an old version of Dutch.

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Justice Alito is one of many current justices whose face you would like to be studying as he reads this book.

Tom's studied hundreds of millionaires over the years whose habits are the main focus of his blog (RichHabits.net) and his book (same name — Rich Habits), so I feel like if it's working for them it would work for us too;)

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

I'm concerned about Tony's theology, whose philosophical foundations I criticized pretty consistently while I was involved in EC in 2004 - 7 before bowing out because Tony seemed more into pushing with some arrogance a pomo philosophy he never really studied in school than he was into fostering dialogue (I went back to just reading the wonderful books of Brian McLaren which is how I got involved in the first place).

Fr William Massie on Cardinal Ratzinger's last book, a study of religious relativism and defence of religious truth; Marisa March on a anatomist whose...

He studied closely several churches in addition to the original two and deployed students to probe several dozen more, whose stories now serve as illustrations throughout the book.

Fr William Massie on Cardinal Ratzinger's last book, a study of religious relativism and defence of religious truth; Marisa March on a anatomist whose science brought him closer to the Creator and into the Catholic Church; Cyprian Blamires on the restoration of Our Lady's shrines in England and the growth of Marian devotion.

Critical thinker, You study a little science and suddenly you feel you have it figured out, Your meaning of life and the after life is based on other men's hypotheses, Yet it makes such good sense to you that you make a life choice based on it, then you stand up and criticize a person whose made a life choice based on A holy Book written 2000 years ago, When it comes down to it how are you any different, Your choices based on science which changes daily and theirs on the prophets.

Those whose interest in the religions of Asia has been aroused to the point that they want to consider some of the comparative problems raised by the study of religions other than one's own will find thoughtful and searching discussions in two books recently published: World Religions and World Community, by Robert Lawson Slater, and The Meaning and End of Religion, by Wilfred Cantwell Smith.

Jones» father, S. Jameson Jones (to whose memory the book is dedicated), was the renowned editor of motive magazine and a former Dean of the Divinity School at Duke University, where the younger Jones studied as a graduate student under such mentors as Stanley Hauerwas, Geoffrey Wainwright, and Kenneth Surin.

Margaret Mead, whose seminal book Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) informed the sexual revolution, observed in her field studies as an anthropologist that the most violent tribes were those that withheld touch in infancy.

I've walked the fields of mega-tournaments, watched countless instructional DVDs and books, appeared on television to promote new football helmets, and, over the years, have turned down the chance to promote hundreds, if not thousands, of products, many making claims that could not be backed up by peer - reviewed studies, some whose advertisements were later found to be misleading by the Federal Trade Commission.

«Social smiles are quicker to occur in babies whose loving parents have been interacting and using «parentese,» or baby talk, since birth,» says Dr. Alice Sterling Honig, professor emerita in the Syracuse University Department of Children and Family Studies and author of several parenting books.

«There are things that men and women do differently when staying at home,» says Kyle Pruett, M.D., a professor of child psychiatry at Yale University whose book, The Nurturing Father (Warner Books, 2000), is based on a 1983 study of 18 families in which dads cared primarily for the children.

The study was spurred by a conversation about an untranslated book, says Shahar Ronen, a Microsoft program manager whose Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) master's thesis formed the basis of the new work.

This photograph of Laloo, a circus performer whose child - sized parasitic twin seems to emerge from his abdomen, was published in Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, a 19th century book on teratology - literally «the study of monsters» - by George Gould and Walter Pyle.

Such studies are revealing the organisms that interacted with ancient books, from the animals whose skins are preserved as parchment to the bookworms and people who once lingered over the pages.

One of the studies was conducted by Dr. Stephen Badylak, whose work was profiled in my book.

Dr. Lee was joined in this conclusion by many scientists and doctors whose studies appear in the book.

Once I was empowered with the knowledge that I had Hashimoto's, I sought out a practitioner in my area who specializes in treating Hashimoto's, and who actually studied with Dr. Kharrazian, whose book, Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms?

The benefits of meditation are many, according to Herbert Benson, M.D., whose studies in the 1970s at Harvard Medical School inspired the technique and the book, The Relaxation Response.

In cropped gray hair and mannish pants, Mirren is an androgynous, asexual sorceress whose cold, weathered face recalls that she has acquired her magic the hard way, plugging away at thick books while insisting on her right to study in a man's world.

He wants to go to Stanford to study with Marcus Skinner, whose book caused Shaun to decide to be a writer.

Alain Silver is a Santa Monica - based writer / producer of independent feature films, whose books include genre surveys on the samurai film and the vampire film, director studies of Robert Aldrich and David Lean, and seven volumes on film noir.

The book thus gravely misuses the qualitative research method, a method whose very essence is the close, direct, careful, unbiased observation of the institution under study.

«We started out the study at Johns Hopkins looking at the effects of loneliness on heart patients, trying to determine what governs their length of survival,» says Lynch, whose latest book is The Cry Unheard: New Insights into the Medical Consequences of Loneliness.

Even the most «standard» curriculum decides whose history is worthy of study, whose books are worthy of reading, which curriculum and text selections that include myriad voices and multiple ways of knowing, experiencing, and understanding life can help students to find and value their own voices, histories, and cultures.

In this politically timely work, Greenblatt (whose book The Swerve earned him a Pulitzer) offers a compact study of tyrants as portrayed in the works of William Shakespeare.

According to the Symposium's program, Atwood (author of 40 books) is a giant of modern literature, «a rare writer whose work is adored by the public, acclaimed by the critics and studied on university campuses around the world.»

In 1979 Harvard Press released a book in which Michael Rutter and his colleagues discuss the three - year study of a dozen secondary schools in a large urban area that highlighted how schools whose students consistently performed better, were able to promote that success.

RoseLee Goldberg RoseLee Goldberg, Founding Director and Curator of Performa, is an art historian, critic, and curator whose book Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979, pioneered the study of performance art.

RoseLee Goldberg, Founding Director and Curator of Performa, is an art historian, critic, and curator whose book Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979, pioneered the study of performance art.

Robert Lawlor, whose book Sacred Geometry has had a great influence in reawakening us to the importance of geometrical principles, symmetries, and proportions — not only for art and architecture but also for science and consciousness studies, speaks with Dorothea Rockburne, Christopher Bamford, and Robert Lawlor.

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.

When Riley later met the art historian EH Gombrich, whose famous book Art and Illusion is a study of how we see and represent reality, they got on famously.

Bad Paper has already published a small book by sculptor Daniella Mooney, whose wood and stone sculpture, Holy Water: A Study in Rainmaking (2014), may still be called upon to demonstrate its powers.

Such questions lie at the heart of this new book, whose thirty chapters cover doctrinal questions as well as a range of thematic and regional case studies.

Harper, who is also the author of the book The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis and whose comments on the study were syndicated in The American Lawyer wrote: