The Intellectual Devotional

Author : David S. Kidder
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1609616898
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual Devotional written by David S. Kidder and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning will arouse curiosity, refresh knowledge, expand horizons, and keep the mind sharp Millions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection—collections of daily passages to stimulate spiritual thought and advancement. The Intellectual Devotional is a secular version of the same—a collection of 365 short lessons that will inspire and invigorate the reader every day of the year. Each daily digest of wisdom is drawn from one of seven fields of knowledge: history, literature, philosophy, mathematics and science, religion, fine arts, and music. Impress your friends by explaining Plato's Cave Allegory, pepper your cocktail party conversation with opera terms, and unlock the mystery of how batteries work. Daily readings range from important passages in literature to basic principles of physics, from pivotal events in history to images of famous paintings with accompanying analysis. The book's goal is to refresh knowledge we've forgotten, make new discoveries, and exercise modes of thinking that are ordinarily neglected once our school days are behind us. Offering an escape from the daily grind to contemplate higher things, The Intellectual Devotional is a great way to awaken in the morning or to revitalize one's mind before retiring in the evening.

Author : David S. Kidder
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1605290882
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual Devotional: Biographies written by David S. Kidder and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth installment of the bestselling Intellectual Devotional series features 365 captivating entries about the most celebrated personalities in history. Like its compulsively readable predecessors, The Intellectual Devotional Biographies is organized into seven categories, one for each day of the week. With their trademark wit and style, authors David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim offer an array of fascinating facts about major figures from Atilla the Hun to Desmond Tutu. In this daily devotional, you will learn about: • authors and artists, from Homer and Ovid to Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf • leaders, such as Queen Elizabeth I, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, and Napoleon Bonaparte • innovators, from Johannes Gutenberg to Isaac Newton to Werner Heisenberg • philosophers, including Socrates, Epicurus, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Jean-Paul Sartre • rebels and reformers, from Joan of Arc and Spartacus to Galileo and Che Guevara • preachers and prophets, including Lao-tzu, John the Baptist, Martin Luther, and Gandhi • villains, such as Benedict Arnold, Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, and Jack the Ripper This volume shares the personal histories, accomplishments, and troubles of 365 people who have left an indelible mark on the world.

Author : Macy Halford
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307947971
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Utmost written by Macy Halford and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised as an Evangelical, Macy Halford eventually left Dallas for college and a career in New York City, where she found her life and beliefs evolving in a more secular direction. Yet every day she continued to read My Utmost for His Highest, a classic Christian text beloved by millions of Evangelicals. Eager to understand the book’s unique ability to bridge her two worlds, she quit her job at The New Yorker and began to look more deeply into the background of the devotional and its author, Scottish preacher Oswald Chambers. As Halford wrestles with what Chambers believed and why his book is so important to her, she gives us a captivating and candid meditation on what it means to be a Christian, a reader, and a seeker in the twenty-first century.

Author : Tom Nissley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393241491
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year written by Tom Nissley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion. At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it nonsense, or is it brilliance?" Fictional events that take place within beloved books are also included: the birth of Harry Potter’s enemy Draco Malfoy, the blood-soaked prom in Stephen King’s Carrie. A Reader's Book of Days is filled with memorable and surprising tales from the lives and works of Martin Amis, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Roberto Bolano, the Brontë sisters, Junot Díaz, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Keats, Hilary Mantel, Haruki Murakami, Flannery O’Connor, Orhan Pamuk, George Plimpton, Marilynne Robinson, W. G. Sebald, Dr. Seuss, Zadie Smith, Susan Sontag, Hunter S. Thompson, Leo Tolstoy, David Foster Wallace, and many more. The book also notes the days on which famous authors were born and died; it includes lists of recommended reading for every month of the year as well as snippets from book reviews as they appeared across literary history; and throughout there are wry illustrations by acclaimed artist Joanna Neborsky. Brimming with nearly 2,000 stories, A Reader's Book of Days will have readers of every stripe reaching for their favorite books and discovering new ones.

Author : Sarah Philpott
Publisher : BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
ISBN 13 : 1424555280
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loved Baby written by Sarah Philpott and published by BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close to one in four American women experience the silent grief of pregnancy loss. Loved Baby offers much-needed support to women in the middle of psychological and physiological grief as a result of losing an unborn child. In Loved Baby, author Sarah Philpott gently walks alongside women as they experience the misguided shame, isolation, and crushing despair that accompany the turmoil of loss. With brave vulnerability Sarah shares her own and others’ stories of loss, offering Christ-filled hope and support to women navigating grief. This fresh and compassionate devotional offers: · Real talk about loss · Christ-filled comfort · Tips to manage social media, reconnect with your partner, and nourish your soul · Knowledge that your child is in heaven · Strategies to walk through grief · Ways to memorialize your loss Whether your loss is recent or not, Loved Baby can be your companion as you move from the darkness of grief toward the light of hope.

Author : The New York Times
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 142993140X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New York Times Presents Smarter by Sunday written by The New York Times and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy, smaller, and more focused version of our popular New York Times knowledge books—organized by weekends and topic Fell asleep during history class in high school when World War II was covered? Learned the table of elements at one time but have forgotten it since? Always wondered who really invented the World Wide Web? Here is the book for you, with all the answers you've been looking for: The New York Times Presents Smarter by Sunday is based on the premise that there is a recognizable group of topics in history, literature, science, art, religion, philosophy, politics, and music that educated people should be familiar with today. Over 100 of these have been identified and arranged in a way that they can be studied over a year's time by spending two hours on a topic every weekend.

Author : Peter Trachtenberg
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0738215260
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Another Insane Devotion written by Peter Trachtenberg and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the mysteries of love and marriage, pleasure and obligation--through the lens of cat ownership

Author : David Kidder
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0525573607
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New to Big written by David Kidder and published by Currency. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serial entrepreneurs David Kidder and Christina Wallace reveal their revolutionary playbook for igniting growth inside established companies. Most established companies face a key survival challenge, says David Kidder, CEO of Bionic, lifelong entrepreneur, and angel investor in more than thirty startups: operational efficiency and outdated bureaucracy are at war with new growth. Legacy companies are skilled at growing big businesses into even bigger ones. But they are less adept at discovering new opportunities and turning them into big businesses, the way entrepreneurs and early-stage investors must. In New to Big, Kidder and Wallace reveal their proprietary blueprint for installing a permanent growth capability inside any company--the Growth Operating System. The Growth OS borrows the best tools, systems, and mind-sets from entrepreneurship and venture capital and adapts them for established organizations, leveraging these two distinct skills as a form of management for building in a future that is uncertain. By focusing on what consumers do rather than what they say, celebrating productive failure, embracing a portfolio approach, and learning from the outside-in, Kidder and Wallace argue any company can go on offense and win the future. This isn't about a one-off innovation moonshot. It's about building a permanent ladder to the moon.

Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Publisher : Augsburg Books
ISBN 13 : 080665368X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 40-Day Journey with Dietrich Bonhoeffer written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and published by Augsburg Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for use during Advent or Lent, these volumes includes passages from Scripture and opportunities for reflection and prayer.

Author : John Leslie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Value and Existence written by John Leslie and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: