Sentences with phrase «whose idea the book»

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He was known to order the killing of scholars whose ideas he disagreed with and the burning of «critical» books.

The process takes longer but may also result in more carefully considered books, or weed out people whose ideas aren't fully formed.

I found this book to be largely anecdotal and whose primary message was that other people found a variety of ideas for start ups that fit their lives.

According to a 1994 essay in the New York Review of Books by John Maynard Smith, the dean of British neo-Darwinists, «the evolutionary biologists with whom I have discussed his [Gould's] work tend to see him as a man whose ideas are so confused as to be hardly worth bothering with, but as one who should not be publicly criticized because he is at least on our side against the creationists.

Atheist Terry Eagleton wrote a review for the London Review of Books entitled «Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching» that began with the memorable quote: «Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.»

Ultimately I think with Newman — and with the Notre Dame historian Brad Gregory, whose brilliant book The Unintended Reformation crystallizes the idea — that there is no stable middle ground between Catholicism and atheist materialism.

Her story (whose theme, by the way, is «the lot of single women in rural Palestine») may seem to have a happy ending, but don't be fooled, girls; The Book of Ruth is actually «a pernicious, exploitative tract,» reinforcing the idea that «a woman's happiness and fulfillment require men, that is, a husband and sons.»

After all, he states in the prologue of his first anthology of short stories (1941): «It is an arduous and impoverishing whim to compose vast books, to extend for five hundred long - winded pages an idea whose perfect oral exposition lasts a few minutes.

Second, Orwell's book may well be a classic, but it's conceptually quite simple and not at all obtuse in style, meaning that even the chumps whose idea of searing economic commentary is tweeting «All taxation is theft, amirite?»

When I met with the writer and academic Paul Wapner, whose ideas I'm stealing here, he told me that a colleague had warned him not to publish his book on this subject, titled Living Through the End of Nature.

This is, essentially, a movie that has no idea of whom its audience consists, or better, it's a movie that realizes its audience will be made up of two different age groups: adult fans of the book and children who like animated movies or whose parents believe introducing their kids to this material will be good for them.

As the film begins, Disney, whose children loved the books, has been pursuing Travers for the film rights for twenty years, and the novelist is now only beginning to entertain the idea because she's flat broke.

For a book whose title sounds like an affirmation of faith but whose story is about an atheist refuting the existence of God, reading it is a spiritual experience... Many of the positive reviews laud the wit and entertainment Goldstein provides, but honestly, the breadth and depth of ideas covered require close and thoughtful reading... This novel can be read on a few different levels: a romance, a mystery, an intellectual thriller or a philosophical / religious treatise.

You complain about indie authors with no idea of how to market their books, that's fair, but at the same time I talk to more and more aspiring and even newly published authors whose publishers and prospective publishers all want THEM to do the marketing campaign.

The Invention of Nature By Andrea Wulf Vintage • $ 17 • ISBN 9780345806291 Wulf's biography of visionary German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, whose ideas paved the way for modern environmentalism, was named one of the 10 best books of 2015 by the New York Times.

I really am going to be positive in this book, instead of dwelling on the negative aspects of turning 50, such as that you get wrinkled and forgetful and achy, and you gain weight merely by watching food commercials, and the warranties are expiring on all your remaining teeth and internal organs, and your idea of a big night is to stay up late enough to see the previews for Letterman, whose actual show you have not watched since the Reagan administration.

That's what happened in the Dan Brown case: while he was certainly aware of the earlier book, and even used the authors» names to create a character name in The DaVinci Code, the courts found that Brown did not violate copyright because at best the books shared the same idea: Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene married and had a child, whose descendants are guarded by a secret cabal.

Publishers are always looking for innovative ways to promote books, and it seems that Sarah Mlynowski has found a winning idea to spread the word about Gim me a Call, a teen novel about a high school senior whose phone can only call her freshman self.

Adaptive Studios (a media company whose credits include HBO's Project Greenlight) creates and acquires intellectual property such as unproduced screenplay ideas and scripts, and repurposes it across a range of traditional and digital entertainment platforms including books, film and TV properties, and digital series.

His book Make Your Story a Movie: Adapting Your Book or Idea for Hollywood (Macmillan) shares advice from authors, screenwriters, directors, and producers whose films have earned a combined total of over $ 50 billbook Make Your Story a Movie: Adapting Your Book or Idea for Hollywood (Macmillan) shares advice from authors, screenwriters, directors, and producers whose films have earned a combined total of over $ 50 billBook or Idea for Hollywood (Macmillan) shares advice from authors, screenwriters, directors, and producers whose films have earned a combined total of over $ 50 billion.

The book is co-published with Dancing Foxes Press, an independent publishing platform whose projects render ideas that emerge from the minds of artists, writers, and scholars, and are often driven by content and collaboration.

I freely admit that I gently borrowed the title from French professor Serge Guilbaut, whose book How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War, written back in 1983, is still by far one of the most fascinating books about abstract expressionism and its controversial use as propaganda in the Cold War years.

The texts embedded in these paintings include many ideas from the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, whose book The Poetics of Space was important in my conceiving of these works.

In two seminars, Vladimir Kozlov will discuss books by punk musicians of the past and present day — and authors whose ideas and style resonate with punk ideas and aesthetics.

AA Bronson, the last living member of General Idea, was instrumental in creating this book, whose design in based on Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture, an influential publication from his childhood.

Cramer, whose works often suggest a subjective perception of the world surrounding us, brings to this exhibition a combination of thoughts represented through a variety of media — from his intimate artist books to site - specific installations such as Empty Room, where for the duration of the exhibition, a room in a house somewhere in the countryside of Portugal is kept completely empty, making one reflect on ideas of presence, absence and the human collective unconscious.