Not exact matches
Bootyfunk — The last
book I read about Biblical
error cited more examples than there are
words in the Bible.
They could point to differences
in terminology and
word usage, «
errors» of the text which «pre date» or «post date» the author, and why certain elements of his
book show clear evidence of redaction and editing.
According to the Barna study, the percent of engagement people have with the Bible — from being engaged (reading the Bible at least four times a week), friendly (engaged with the Bible less than four times a week), neutral (read the Bible once a month or less and see the Bible as the inspired
word of God, but acknowledge it can have some
errors) and skeptical (see the Bible as «just another
book of teachings written by men)-- has started to stabilize and return to its normal rates after the rate of skepticism increased by 4 percent to 14 percent and the rate of friendliness dropped 8 percent to 37 percent
in 2011.
Paul Zoch manages to achieve what some might have thought impossible
in the opening
words of his new
book, Doomed to Fail: he criticizes the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (Chester E. Finn Jr.) and the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (Linda Darling - Hammond) for committing the same
error.
My comment to WGBH Innovation Hub can be stated
in few
words: Before interviewing pro corporate reformers read Diane Ravitch's
book «Reign of
Error»
The authors who have received these not so polite threats of having their
books pulled from Amazon (costing them their rankings and their reviews, even if Amazon later realizes the
error and reinstates the
book) have repeatedly stated that they are entitled to use a very old
word in their titles.
Both pieces of software have drawing tools and text tools that will allow you to circle
errors, insert missing
words, and make notes
in the margins without disrupting the
book designer's layout.
Once you upload your ebook file (which can be a
Word document or one of many other formats), you'll be automatically alerted to spelling
errors in your
book; you'll also be informed if the file conversion went poorly.
However, there are some steps you can make when writing your
book in Microsoft
Word that will make the job of formatting your
book easier and help prevent
errors in the
book formatting process.
Nothing makes a
book look terribly amateurish or results
in more bad
word of mouth than page after page of spelling
errors and grammar mistakes.
Typos, sentence structure
errors, inconsistent tenses, continuity mistakes, and misused
words can detract from your
book and result
in bad
word - of - mouth among readers and reviewers.
(I should qualify that, I suppose, because some indie
books are riddled with
errors — EE had maybe 20
in 105,000
words, which isn't a ton, but it bothers me when that many things slip through.)
To repeat, Judith Curry first states that Tamino's review contains (
IN HER OWN
WORDS) «numerous factual
errors and misrepresentations, failure to address many of the main points of the
book».
Steyn's
book «A Disgrace to the Profession, The World's Scientists â $ «
in their own
words â $ «on Michael E. Mann, his Hockey Stick and their Damage to Science â $ «Volume One» illustrates the magnitude of Mann's
error...
However, some people have made a good start: Stephane Foucart, a science journalist at Le Monde, wrote a piece on Le cent - fautes de Claude Allegre (the «Hundred
Errors» — this is a play on
words, «un sans - faute» (pronounced the same way) means a perfect score) and Sylvestre Huet from the Liberation started a series of debunkings and is now at part five (also
in French) and which he has turned into a short
book!