One of the main benefits of an abridged book — whether in print or in audio format — is to make the book accessible to younger readers. I'm reminded of the collection of Great Illustrated Classics that introduced me to classic books likeThe Red Badge of Courage,The Count of Monte Cristo...
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An individual session may last anything from a few minutes to several hours, but the most usual practice is for it to last for one hour. Sometimes this becomes 50 minutes, if the practitioner is heavily booked throughout the day and needs ten minutes between sessions. Normally you would ...
Abstract THERE is an astonishing amount of information upon a variety of subjects in this book. The volume is, in fact, a kind of “Enquire Within for Everything,” but with this difference—matters of fact are, perhaps, less frequent than matters of opinion. The introduction of this person...
For many people, their first exposure to the word “allegory” is in Plato's “Allegory of the Cave.” If you take the story at (extremely abridged) face value, it's about people chained in a cave who believe reality is the shadows projected onto the cave walls, and when one of them...
And there is the previous investment thing that Ken Campbell mentions in the hockey book. The longer you pursue a particular goal, the more resources you put into the pursuit, the harder it is to stop, even when success isn’t likely. This explains why gamblers can’t seem to stop ...
2024. Christmas is firmly in site and the next 7.5 weeks will be great for Christmas-lovers and tough for Grinches (The Grinch is a grumpy, green-furred creature who despises Christmas, a fictional character created by Dr. Seuss in the 1957 children’s book “How the Grinch Stole ...
Now somewhere Lonergan quotes C.S. Lewis to the effect that a good book is constituted by a good reader—and it seems to me that’s what happened between Lonergan’s serious reading ofFeeling and Formin 1959, his translation of what he learned into his famous “notebook” and the giving...
I could see why a reader might criticize a book that does not have the complete plot arc for a romance. A conflict that turns into no problem is usually only an acceptable conclusion in children’s books and literary works. And, the book in question was obviously not either one of these...
Chapter 2 - This is what Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. Zion, the Royal City of God - In days to come, The mountain of the