Sentence examples for book of predictions from inspiring English sources

Klein herself observed at the outset that this is "not a book of predictions, but of first-hand observation".

Writing to his friend Elizabeth Healy, he described Anticipations, his 1901 book of predictions, as "designed to undermine and destroy the monarch, monogamy, faith in God and respectability – and the British empire, all under the guise of a speculation about motor cars and electric heating".

We will be contemplating various aspects of 2014 in a live video forum with Daniel Franklin, editor of The Economist's annual book of predictions, "The World In", at 3pm London time (10am New York time).Daniel will highlight our predictions for next year and will discuss with viewers items such as the world economy, space travel and sporting events in Brazil.

Soon, the inventor of the world's most logical detective was preaching to the nation on life after death, fairies, automatic writing, spirit photography and ectoplasm, as well as publishing books of predictions from his wife's spirit guide, Pheneas.

Coming across these findings, as I have in the process of writing a book on prediction that is due to be published by Penguin Press next year, has had a somewhat radicalizing effect on my own views about forecasting.

The Chilam Balam books are full of predictions of a markedly direful character.

He brings out special bulletins on the stock market and a yearly book of national & international predictions.

He said that many of the book's predictions had been borne out and that it would be "stupid" not to consider the possibility that the book was true, even if the chance was "one in a million".

Now, of course, as the book is released this week in paperback, the book's prediction of a populist uprising has come true, and I think the book therefore has even more relevance today.

The book's prediction of increased conflict as China enters the World Trade Organization suggests the complex challenge to those hoping for more democracy.

IN THE latest wave of criticism of Thomas Piketty's wonky blockbuster, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", Per Krusell at Stockholm University and Tony Smith at Yale University argue that the book's prediction of rapidly rising inequality is based on extreme and implausible assumptions.