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Cornell professor and economist Robert Frank, who wrote a book in the 1990s titled The Winner - Take - All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us, made popular the belief that a big portion of the increase in the income gap has to do with the way a global market values its best performers, be they CEOs or athletes or actual performers.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

Written by two authors with numerous awards and best - sellers to their credit (this is lead author Horowitz's 10th book; Levinson has done more than 60)

Had they done so they would have written a much more interesting and compelling book.

Now men who know more than God [sarcasm] decide they don't like that saying, and it doesn't fit in their thinking, so off they go and write books and develope a following of other people who don't like the truth of what Jesus said.

Do you believe that jesus had a daughter that has direct descendants that are alive today as written in a more modern book?

DO NOT think that claims about science and the natural world are more likely true because they are written in new books.

Falk wrote that the book contains many incorrect claims such as «Meyer correctly concluded that no RNA molecule had ever been evolved in a test tube which could do more than join two building blocks together.

You need to both do a little more research on Jefferson, whom I've read many books on and written research papers on, as well as be a little more understanding of the time in which he lived.

Christians of a more intellectual persuasion often believe that the bible was inspired by God, but that God didn't literally instruct the scribes who wrote its various books on exactly what to write.

Yes it was written by men 2000 years and above ago in a different culture but that doesn't mean that it supports patriarchal oppression any more than a book written by Germain Greer at the height of the feminist movement's popularity is sexist and supports matriarchal oppression.

There are more people who believe in peace, unity and the pursuit of truth and slog daily to make a difference in this crazy world, without recognition or praise... writing a book doesn't make him credible or noble..

So what you're trying to tell me is that jesus can perform miracles, he did so for a crapload of people, but since it was also thrown into the bible that he can't perform for evil people (or wicked generation or whatever) and since we're all sinners he can't perform miracles so we just have to trust him, actually not him necessarily, a book written by a bunch of people 100's of years after jesus who also weren't seeing miracles done, so they decided that since no more miracles were happening, it's our fault.

If you want to believe in your god, then more power to you, but don't make yourself look stupid by trying to refute scientific fact based on what someone told you or what you've read in an outdated book written to scare and control mankind though fantastical and highly embellished stories meant to inspire fear and obedience to ancient laws and beliefs.

So you think that just because a book written BY PEOPLE around 2k years ago is more credible than research done by people in the last 150 years?

I am an alcoholic with 32 years of sobriety, Lets look at what this woman does for a living, She writes books and I see this as nothing more than a effort to promote her product.

Makes much more sense to believe a book written 1850 years ago by a bunch of goat herders that thought the world was flat and didn't even have the sense not to use their drinking water as the toilet.

I do like the progressive Christian stance as you describe it — that there may be error in many of the books of the bible — but that people, even with our limited minds, can strive to see a more perfect vision than what was written.

Others may feel like the schoolgirl who was assigned to write a review of a book on penguins, and did it in one sentence: «This book tells me more about penguins than I really wanted to know.»

Does it not appear that the great book of the present and, much more, of the future, is the work of a Jew, basically motivated by the great stirrings of social concern that moved the prophets, yet writing a work of far different portent?

Simply put — we don't believe that an invisible «divine» being wrote this book, nor were the authors of the various sections «divinely inspired» and therefore this is no more than another Aesop's fable.

Also, I have written several books of my own on this topic (and am writing more), and while these didn't make my «Best Christian books» list (how arrogant would that be?)

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

Or we can use your method of relying on a book written by bronze age goat herders that claims «magic did it», that is no more reliable that any other book of supersi.tious mythology.

One side effect of the research I've done in writing the book, is that when somebody presents 10K verses to support their claim, I can write a short reply: «Thank you for providing so much scriptural support that conclusively proves my position, and demonstrates that your position has no basis in scripture», and, if challenged, go through each cited verse, and, using one or more specific techniques / methods of Bible study, show how the cited verse either refutes the position they present, or supports the position I present.

DO NOT think that claims about magic and the supernatural are more likely true because they are written in old books.

There is a great book written by 2 NON christians on the emotional roller coaster of «hooking» up Our brain has more to do with it than anything.

You are blinded by your faith (belief without evidence) and obviously don't care if what you believe is true or not, you only care that you get to think you're more intelligent because you have a book written 2000 years ago, by 40 different men that provides what you believe to be the answers.

I believe there is something more than us, but I do NOT believe what was written in some book.

I think I accomplished so much more than I ever thought I would that I'm astonished to look back and see that I wrote as many books as I did.

This attitude, however, did not go unrebuked, and two books in the late Old Testament specifically represent the larger view: the Book of Ruth, written to encourage a more generous interracial policy, and the Book of Jonah, written to enforce the worldwide mission of Israel.

... wow, lot's of mis - statements here by people speculating about the Bible and Jesus, including those of you who think the books of the Bible were written a few hundred years ago (Moses penned it around 1400BC)... the Bible is a collection of the most investigated writings of all time, so there is a tremendous amount of credible archeological and scientific material in this world available for review rooted in verifiable investigations... my response, read the Bible, do your own investigation, determine the Truth for yourself... hopefully, anne rice's denouncement of faith in the God of the Bible (it's difficult for me to believe she ever had Saving Faith in the first place) will bring some readers to investigate and find the Truth... God will call the Elect, not one more, not one less...

Why don't you spend some more time dreaming up all the possible combinations, and then write a book about it?

Later on, he wrote another book called In God's Underground, which was a more complete picture of his martyrdom, and filled in the blanks that the first book didn't touch on.

What I think is really important for me about the book is, I wrote it as if I were dying, and I finished the manuscript, and then they told me I had cancer and that it expanded further than they'd hoped and that it was more advanced than we would want, and I didn't know if it was going to be my last Christmas.

Just because one or more books have been written or images of a god repeatedly carved on pyramid walls does not prove of that god's existence any more than the writings of various people in various books proved the validity of «spontaneous generation» or that the earth is the center of the universe.

He was in fact already writing the «big books», in the form of the commentaries or, Galatians and Psalms, though they did not seem «big» to him — and he was right that the little books, were in a way, more difficult, involving genuine communication with the less well educated.

The speculation that it was in a «section on preaching to the «half breeds» / Samaritans» might be some handy way someone sections off that section of the book, but to assume every incident within a certain part of scripture is there like a Science book identifying the phylum and genus of an animal, that is, that everything mentioned under the Raccoon Family is in the Raccoon Family (the ring - tail cat, kinkajou, coatimundi... three other members of the raccoon family), is an assumption that does not seem to apply to the Bible and how it is written... it is more human, and living, and not sterile, everything in its tight little unmovable section, etc..

There is a manner of writing, employed by the best reporters when they go book - length, which implies that the writer knows at least as much about his subject as God does, and maybe a little more — perhaps because God knows when to avert His gaze.

Not only did it lead to a book that was translated into at least four languages, more writing and a work path that I couldn't love more (or have imagined at the start), but it has connected me with so many of you through the years, and I couldn't be more grateful for that.

Of course you must receive numerous emails like this but i just wanted to thank you for being so kind hearted to have written your book so to spread the much needed pearls of wisdom throughout the world!!!! To be honest with you, toilet training my daughter has done more than just got my daughter out of nappies, it has inspired me to have belief in myself and my daughter to be able achieve goals together.

I write books, draw, paint, cook, sew, parent and homeschool 3 young children, try to do yoga more often than not, and am constantly using my creativity to both express myself and not take life too seriously.

This is an excellent book about birth trauma and it opens one's eyes to the medical field and how some doctors, nurses, midwifes really do not care... The imagery is incredible the poem is well written — more so because it is from your heart and your pain.

I had planned out my schedule of all the things I was going to do, from learning German, to cleaning my house, making dinner every day and writing 3 more books.

There is nothing more satisfying than seeing a child virtually devour good literature and know that you have taught her to read and helped her to discover the pleasure of reading books... or to hear another child begging you to listen to her trying to read on her own... or another tell you about his observations and discoveries out in the garden... to see your children enjoying drawing, writing poems and doing spontaneous narrations about what they have learnt.

Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).

We talk about decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection or expectations — expanding upon what we wrote about in our book Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less (Routledge, 2013).

He is the author of numerous articles and chapters and has written four books: When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along (HarperCollins) The Marriage Makeover: Finding Happiness in Imperfect Harmony (St. Martin's Press); The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework (St. Martin's Press); and Married with Twins: Life, Love and the Pursuit of Marital Harmony.

If you try writing down what you and your children do in any one day, including all questions they ask, any time you read to them, cooking, laundry, going for walks etc, you'll probably find many educational opportunities that are not related to text - books or school «subjects», but are all the more valuable for that.