Sentences with phrase «with school books»

to the report the main rises in 2013 were connected with the school books.

The idea is simple; transfer a country's entire education curriculum onto a digital format, along with sounds, animations and interactivity, and you no longer need a satchel crammed with school books.

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Along with the classic Ferrari Testarossa poster and the biography of Bo Jackson, this Newberry Award Winner was usually among the first items to sell out at the elementary school book fair.

They outfitted a school bus to look like an English professor's library, with oak bookshelves, old books and maps, and leather sofas.

The books I was selling were for parents to help children with subjects in school.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

When I was a youth in school, I often filled my class notes and homemade, brown - paper - bag book covers with everything from ornate graphic designs to stick figures.

Author and London Business School professor Lynda Gratton, along with her coauthor, Andrew Scott, had a simple premise in mind for their 2016 book, The 100 - Year Life: What is going to happen to us all, when everyone starts living to 100?

The book, Swimmy, by Leo Lionni, which Kalin read with the careful intonation of an elementary school teacher, is about a small fish that bands together with other fish to scare away a hungry tuna.

After careful consideration, Brad has decided to continue to make Kid President videos, write a book, and work to connect with schools across the country to empower students, teachers and families.

With 600 seats and hundreds of thousands of databases, books and periodicals, the school also has the largest bilingual business library in the country.

Inspired by the book Different by Harvard Business School professor Youngme Moon, I learned our brains don't work well with «Choice A or nothing,» scenarios.

I read books about the female brain, met with science and math elementary school teachers and nonprofit educators who were doing programs to get kids interested in STEM.

The 25 - employee company has already teamed up with Simon & Schuster to publish three new books, including Dr. Spock's the First Two Years and Dr. Spock's the School Years.

This inspiring book follows Adam Braun, the founder of Pencils of Promise, and how he turned $ 25 into over 250 schools by combining a for - profit business approach with social sector idealism for an idea known as «For - Purpose.»

But like Cruz many mass killers exhibit a common set of traits that include depression, troubled family backgrounds, a fascination with guns and violence and aspirations of becoming a soldier, said Peter Langman, a psychologist and author of two books on school shooters.

Within Mandelbrot's book lies many truisms of the market, with one of the most recurring themes being that traditional business school financial models are quite simply, wrong.

Rhys Kesselman is Canada Research Chair in public finance with the School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University, and author of an award - winning book on payroll taxes.

With this book, and his other teachings, Graham laid the foundation for one of the two major schools of thought when it comes to investing — an approach that Warren Buffett follows and borrowed from this work.

As I recall, Plymouth actually stayed rather small and insular for some time while the Boston Bay Company took off with their colonies in what's now called Boston, New Bedford, and I believe the Cape Ann area but I'd have to re-read a book I read while going to school down on Cape Cod a few years back.

In fact, according to the cleverly rewritten history books that I use to home school my children with, there is a copy of The Globe tabloid newspaper from 1776 showing an image of George Washington wearing a yarmulke, under the headline «WASHINGTON SECRETLY JEWISH — MIDDLE NAME IS MORDECAI».

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

Theology Without Boundaries: Encounters of Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Tradition by Carnegie Samuel Calian Westminster / John Knox Press, 130 pages, $ 14.99 paper Calian, President and Professor of Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (a Presbyterian school), has written a book intended to acquaint Western Christians with the ecumenical contribution of Eastern Christians.

He was arrested in 2009 after he lodged a protest with local education officials after learning his child was being forced to read from the Quran, the Muslim holy book, in school.

our sharpest minds would be schooled HARD by a supreme creator... not the other way around... an average joe off the street could write a better, more moral book than the Bible and utterly destroy the god of any of the holy books in a general knowledge debate with ease.

The books are published by the Oxford University Press as a direct response to something that has been worrying educationalists for some while - the fact that boys vastly outnumber girls in illiteracy rates, and that many start secondary schools with very poor reading skills and no apparent interest in acquiring any.

She's been reading aloud to her six kids (preschool to high school) ever since, and has spent the last few years chatting with experts, authors, parents, and leaders, discovering how a simple choice to pull a book off a shelf and share it with a child is one of the very best decisions a parent can make.

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).

Do you really think a new book or computer is going to make a difference when a gang banger comes to school with drugs and guns?

It's school days and backpacks filled with Roald Dahl books and packed peanut - free lunches.

The scholar metaphor is useful for worship and Bible study, but books like Andrew Murray's With Christ in the School of Prayer don't have much to say about faithfulness in the workplace.

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

This school is one part of the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, an interdisciplinary project which engages in wide - ranging research, publishes the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol as well as a variety of books and articles, and maintains the «Classified Abstract Archives of the Alcohol Literature» with over 10,000 entries on punch cards for automatic retrieval by topic.

Probably gave him a good deal on the Book of Morman so he could teach sundy school with them and tell all the children about how Mormans can have two and three wives, how placks are the cursed of the earth.

Teachers in Ecuador's public schools often must contend with overcrowding (60 students per class), a dearth of books — even at the university level — and students fainting from hunger (according to the government's own figures, half the nation's children suffer from malnutrition)

I think I would enjoy Dylans book, I have only been reading books for a short time now, my friend from church, loaned me Angels in my hair, by Lorna byrne, I was hooked straight away,,,, Not having much schooling as a child this is also helping me with reading skills....

More than 14 years» labor went into the writing of the book, and the author tells us that his preoccupation with Feuerbach goes back further still — to the time when he first encountered him in a graduate seminar at Yale Divinity School and found himself «strangely disturbed.»

This book grows out of my experience teaching theology in a university divinity school that has no organic relation to any Christian denomination, was historically associated with the Reformed, in contrast to Lutheran or Anabaptist, branch of the Protestant movement, and has now become thoroughly interconfessional in both student body and faculty.

Kwok Pui - lan, who teaches at Episcopal Divinity School and is the author of Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology, says Rieger's book reveals «how theological depictions of Christ have been laden with colonial biases.»

With his subsequent usher textbooks, autobiography (There Is life Beyond Name Tags, Dude Books, 2001), magazine (Badge and Bulletin, the only ushering magazine including a centerfold portrait) and cultlike following, Glibface had almost singlehandedly brought ushering into the sunlight of ecclesiastical celebrity ~ To his fame are credited such innovative strategies as parhug valets; tour guides, computerized seating readouts - for latecomers, and Roy Dude University's School of Usherology.

When asked how the glossary will help he said: «People will sometimes have particular words they struggle with but on the whole this will be a helpful school in parishes and sometimes with clergy as well but it's part of the wider training to enable people to use this liturgical tool and explore the riches of the prayer book going forward.»

Two books that changed me in late high school (they set me firmly on the path I still follow): Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (it grounded my faith in reason)[and] Out of the Saltshaker by Rebecca Manley Pippert (for many reasons: loving Jesus so much that it overflows into your relationships with non-believers, and it gave me a picture of a strong, intelligent woman who was doing ministry)-- Laura Mott Tarro

My Pick: Brynnda Chambray with Black and White Stripes $ 207 USD — This work / school bag is the perfect size — not to big and bulky but large enough to fit your gadgets and your books.

It's more than the fact that Brian is done with school and home with us again, more than circumstances aligned, more than footie jammies and Golden Books.

Marc Herman's job with PAW, he writes in Harper's magazine, «was to research book banning in the public schools and, particularly, to investigate evidence of censorship promulgated by the religious right.»

How dumb you all are, get real... why don't you feed the poor, provide books for schools with no budget, get the homeless shelter, instead you have some senile old fart making predictions and you're all running away to hide in caves because it's the end?

Hit with books, pointers, slapped, choked by my Catholic school tie.

The book as a whole focuses mainly on the relationship between parents and children within a large Catholic family in a suburban setting, often home - schooling, with a non-working mother.

In 1841, Tracy praised boys from the boarding school who went into the streets and bazaars distributing books and conversing with all who would listen, even in the midst of opposition.

Together with Timothy George, dean of Beeson Divinity School, I recently edited a book of documents issued by ECT over the past twenty years.