The book, published in 1927, has been selling steadily ever since.

Nineteenth-century virtues, however, seem somehow to have gone out of fashion and the Bright book has never been particularly popular.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

and has then gone on to argue, with unimpeachable consistency, that all the obviously non-propagandistic aspects of the book are simply inadvertent `` contradictions ''.

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

we want to know why that book has kept on selling the way it has ; ;

In one now-historic first interview, for example, the transcript ( reproduced from the book, The First Five Minutes ) goes like this: The therapist's level tone is bland and neutral -- he has, for example, avoided stressing `` you '', which would imply disapproval ; ;

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

The following discussion of this subject has been adapted from the book Causes Of Catastrophe by L. Don Leet.

I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts, and I think Mr. Jameson Campaigne has done it well in his new book American Might And Soviet Myth.

In this carefree sentence he summed up the essence of the prevailin' custom of buyin' by book count, and created a sayin' which has survived through the years.

Publisher Richardson has updated the Blue Book `` but it still remains the compact reference book used by so many for those ever-changing telephone numbers, addresses, other residences, club affiliations and marriages ''.

In some parts of the country, however, a co-operative movement has begun to grow, under the wing of state governments, whereby, with the financial help of the state, libraries share their book resources on a county-wide or regional basis.

The outcome of such an experiment has been in due time the acceptance of the Bible as the Word of God inspired in a sense utterly different from any merely human book, and with it the acceptance of our Lord Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, Son of Man by the Virgin Mary, the Saviour of the world.

If the church has followed the plan of cultivation of prospects and carried through a program of membership preparation as outlined earlier in this book, the process of assimilation and growth will be well under way.

But the book is written around a somewhat dizzy cartoonist, and it has to be that way.

Of another colleague, George Santayana, he could write: `` The great event in my life recently has been the reading of Santayana's book.

This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.

This slim book, while giving the reader only a fleeting glimpse of the scientific mind confronting the universe, has the appeal that informed conversation always has.

One looked forward to Mr. Remarque's ninth book if only because not even a reasonably good novel has yet been written grounded on automobile racing, as dramatic a sport as mankind has devised.

Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.

If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.

He described the string construction of the ellipse and he wrote a book on conic sections, which was excellent preparation for designing the elaborate vaulting of Hagia Sophia.

The scene of the book burning gives us an excellent list of Cervantes's likes and dislikes about literature.

Throughout history, the Britannica has had two aims: to be an excellent reference book and to provide educational material.

The Irish and Highland Harps by Robert Bruce Armstrong is an excellent book describing these ancient harps.

The brothers mention that they think " the cover to Naomi Klein's book No Logo would make an excellent logo ".

Not all scholars agreed with this negative assessment: Richard Rorty, for example, declared that " book includes more concrete information relevant to Heidegger's relations with the Nazis than anything else available, and it is an excellent antidote to the evasive apologetics that are still being published.

An excellent book for beginners, covering many aspects of origami overlooked by other books.

An excellent reference to Hunab Ku can be found in a book dated 1955.

The book, Pirates on the Prairie is an excellent history of those 7 months in which Halstad was the darlings of Minnesota.

In Commander Nigel Ward's book, Sea Harrier Over the Falklands, Prince Andrew was described as " an excellent pilot and a very promising officer ".

In the review, Jordan describes Patai's book as an excellent example of a second type of cultural analysis.

Mark Fisher's ( a former DCMS minister ) book " Britain's Best Museums and Galleries " gives this museum an excellent review.

A popular book, Lasagna Gardening by Patricia Lanza ( Rodale Press, Inc .) provides excellent instructions for the novice user.

Although he is regarded by most as an excellent prose stylist, Professor John Lachs ( who is sympathetic with much of Santayana's philosophy ) writes in his book On Santayana that the latter's eloquence may ultimately be the cause of this neglect.

( According to the book, the secret was the literal practice of doing good deeds secretly, and thereby reaping spiritual power to use in becoming an excellent doctor.

L. Sprague de Camp, however, recommended the novel highly, praising it as " excellent ; one of the few really mature and professional jobs available in book form 1950..

*: This is an excellent book about modular origami, and serves as a great introduction to geometric models and designs.

Essex ( Letter to Sir Philip Stapleton, Rushworth Collection ) calls him " an honest, judicious and stout man ", an estimate of Deane borne out by Clarendon's " bold and excellent officer " ( book xiv.

: One example of the text, not especially indicative of its broader contents, is Agrippa's analysis of herbal treatments for malaria in numeric terms: " Rabanus also, a famous Doctor, composed an excellent book of the vertues of numbers: But now how great vertues numbers have in nature, is manifest in the hearb which is called Cinquefoil, i. e. five leaved Grass ; for this resists poysons by vertue of the number of five ; also drives away divells, conduceth to expiation ; and one leafe of it taken twice in a day in wine, cures the Feaver of one day: three the tertian Feaver: foure the quartane.

The non-fictional preface to this book by this eminent architectural historian is an excellent introduction to the Hypnerotomachia.

Johnson's book People in Quandaries: The Semantics of Personal Adjustment ( 1946 ; still in print from the Institute of General Semantics ) is an excellent introduction to general semantics applied to psychotherapy.

Neil Postman acknowledges the influence of People in Quandaries in his own excellent general semantics book Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk ( 1976, Delacorte, New York ):