*--: " The kingdoms and peoples of Chad ", in: D. T. Niane ( ed.

*--: The Founding of Kanem by Assyrian Refugees ca.

Admirably written, it is a perfect introduction to Swedish history for readers of other countries.

* Uchronia has an introduction to the topic, and lists over 2000 works of alternate history.

The Aldine Press is famous in the history of typography, among other things, for the introduction of italics.

One of the earliest was Paul Prudhomme, who in 1984 began the introduction of his influential cookbook, Paul Prodhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, by describing the over 200 year history of Creole and Cajun cooking ; he aims to " preserve and expand the Louisiana tradition.

In his introduction to The Portable Cervantes, Samuel Putnam, a noted translator of Cervantes ' novel, calls Avellaneda's version " one of the most disgraceful performances in history ".

He provides an introduction to the debates and issues of postmodernist history.

According to his introduction: " Scrooge being my favorite character in comic history and Barks my favourite pure cartoonist, I'll try not to get carried away too much.

Mayr is sometimes credited with inventing modern philosophy of biology, particularly the part related to evolutionary biology, which he distinguished from physics due to its introduction of ( natural ) history into science.

Although the use of the term infantry in English dates from the 15th century ( from French Infanterie, itself from the Italian Infanteria ), the foot troops of the previous eras in history who fought with a variety of weapons before the introduction of the firearms are also referred to as infantry.

A key event in the economic history of Luxembourg was the 1876 introduction of English metallurgy.

Following the Islamic concept that before Islam there was the time of Jahiliya ( ignorance ), in the history books used by Maldivians the introduction of Islam at the end of the 12th century is considered the cornerstone of the country's history.

The November 1935 issue of the Annales contains Febvre's introduction that defines three essential approaches to a history of technology: to investigate technology, to understand the progress of technology, and to understand the relationship of technology to other human activities.

His book The Amazing Book of Mazes ( 2006 ) contains examples and photographs of numerous methods of maze construction, several of which have been pioneered by Fisher ; The Art of the Maze ( Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1990 ) contains a substantial history of the subject, whilst Mazes and Labyrinths ( Shire Publications, 2004 ) is a useful introduction to the subject.

It requires freshmen to take Humanities 110 – an intensive introduction to the Classics, covering ancient Greece and Rome as well as the Bible and ancient Jewish history.

The Nuova Cronica, a 14th century history of Florence by the Florentine banker and official Giovanni Villani, includes much statistical information on population, ordinances, commerce and trade, education, and religious facilities and has been described as the first introduction of statistics as a positive element in history.

All battles mentioned in the introduction are ranked among the most costly traditional battles of human history ; in addition there were a few successful ambushes of armies that also ended in their annihilation.

** Ibn Khaldun ( 1332 – 1406 ) – in his Muqaddimah ( later translated as Prolegomena in Latin ), the introduction to a seven volume analysis of universal history, was the first to advance social philosophy and social science in formulating theories of social cohesion and social conflict.

According to the theory of the Deuteronomistic history proposed by Martin Noth and widely accepted, Deuteronomy was a product of the court of Josiah ( late 7th century ) before being used as the introduction to a comprehensive history of Israel written in the early part of the 6th century ; later still it was detached from the history and used to round off the Pentateuch.

Thucydides has been dubbed the father of " scientific history ", because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.

Its introduction in the 1960s, and emergence as the prominent model of computing in the 1970s, represents a major technological shift in the history of computing.

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

* David Harvey ( social theorist and geographer ), Paris Capital of Modernity, especially the introduction and prologue.

Each book consists of about 4, 000 verses and contains its own prose introduction and prologue.

The introduction movie serves as a prologue, giving players an idea of the story right from the start.

The prologue opens with the introduction of triad boss Hon Sam ( Eric Tsang ), who sends a number of young gangsters to the police academy as moles, among whom include a young Lau ( Edison Chen ).

The experimentation carried out by Euripides in his tragedies can be observed mainly in three aspects that characterize his theatre: the prologue, which becomes more of a monologue that informs sull ' antefatto exhibition, the introduction of deus ex machina and the gradual devaluation of the choir from the dramatic point of view in favour of the monody sung by the characters.

It consists of a historical prologue ; an introduction ; the law code followed by blessings and curses ; and a conclusion.

The introduction to the code ( chapters 4: 44-11-32 ) was added during Josiah's time, thus creating the earliest version of Deuteronomy as a book, and the historical prologue ( chapters 1-4: 43 ) was added still later to turn Deuteronomy into an introduction to the entire Deuteronomistic history ( Deuteronomy to Kings ).

Following the character list, there is a short introduction ( two paragraphs ) to the play ( similar to the original dramatic use of a prologue ): " A man " ( Beckmann ) returns to his German home town, but there is nobody to go to.

Molière revived the Plautian prologue in the introduction to his Amphitryon.

This unnarrated introduction is wrapped with sounds of nature and Buddhist music that is in homage to Kawai's previous score on the prologue of Oshii's Patlabor 2: the Movie which takes place in a Cambodian forest and features a giant Buddha statue.

They are uniformly constructed with an introduction and a dialogue ; the introduction is composed of from five to ten strophes of four heptasyllabic verses ; the dialogue between two persons or two groups of persons contains forty four strophes ( twenty-two for each interlocutor ) similar to those in the prologue and forming an alphabetic acrostic.

* The Diary and Copybook of William E. P. Hartnell, Visitador General of the Missions of Alta California in 1839 and 1840, translated by Starr Pait Gurke, edited with annotations, introduction, and prologue by Glenn J. Farris, 153 pages with Index, limited edition of 150 hardcovers and 100 paperbacks published in 2004 by the California Mission Studies Association and the Arthur H. Clark Company, Santa Clara, California and Spokane, Washington, including black and white Frontispiece reproducing another painting of William Edward Petty Hartnell by Ellwood Graham, circa 1943.

Similarly, a prologue is typically an introduction to a novel, fitting in with the genre and storyline of the main text, rather than a section in the author's voice.

While the former source of the word could have preface meaning the same as prologue, the latter strongly implies an introduction written before the body of the book.

Since its introduction at games by the " Roar from 34 ", led by Wild Bill Hagy and others, in the late 1970s, it has been a tradition at Orioles games for fans to yell out the " Oh " in the line " Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave " in " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

It was clearly unpopular in the parishes of Devon and Cornwall where, along with severe social problems, its introduction was one of the causes of the " commotions ", or rebellions in the summer of that year, partly because many Cornish people lacked sufficient English to understand it ,.

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

Although Kent is described in the show introduction as " mild-mannered ", he can be very assertive, often giving orders to people and taking authoritative command of situations, though, as in the Pre-Crisis Superman stories at that time, Clark is still considered the secret identity.

However, the efforts in integrated circuit development culminated in the introduction in early 1971 of the first " calculator on a chip ", the MK6010 by Mostek, followed by Texas Instruments later in the year.

Cross-cultural psychiatrist Arthur Kleinman contends that the Western bias is ironically illustrated in the introduction of cultural factors to the DSM-IV: the fact that disorders or concepts from non-Western or non-mainstream cultures are described as " culture-bound ", whereas standard psychiatric diagnoses are given no cultural qualification whatsoever, is to Kleinman revelatory of an underlying assumption that Western cultural phenomena are universal.

There are also 134 species of plants classified as " weedy " or " naturalised alien species ", being those unintentionally introduced by man, or intentionally introduced as ornamentals or crop plants which have now " gone native ", including 32 new species recorded since 1995, indicating a very rapid rate of introduction.

The " beliefs " of school districts are optimistic that quite literally " all students will succeed ", which in the context of high school graduation examination in the United States, all students in all groups, regardess of heritage or income will pass tests that in the introduction typically fall beyond the ability of all but the top 20 to 30 percent of students.

However, " his plays continued to be applauded even after those of Aeschylus and Sophocles had come to seem remote and irrelevant ", they became school classics in the Hellenistic period ( as mentioned in the introduction ) and, due to Seneca's adaptation of his work for Roman audiences, " it was Euripides, not Aeschylus or Sophocles, whose tragic muse presided over the rebirth of tragedy in Renaissance Europe.

Confusion arises from the introduction of the additional term svartálfar " black elves ", which at first appears synonymous to the " dark elves "; Snorri identifies with the dvergar and has them reside in Svartálfaheim.

In the Talmud ( Tractate Yoma 29a ), Esther is compared to the " morning star ", and is considered the subject of Psalm 22, because its introduction is a " song for the morning star ".

* Supplements: Audio commentary by producer Paul M. Heller and screenwriter Michael Allin, Isolated music score, an all-new introduction and interview with Linda Lee Cadwell, " Location: Hong Kong with Enter the Dragon " original 1973 documentary, " Backyard Workout with Bruce ", " Bruce Lee In His Own Words ", theatrical trailers, TV spots, cast and crew biographies, " Significance of Belts in Martial Arts " notes, " Heir to the Throne " – Jackie Chan notes, retrospective of Hong Kong martial arts films notes and stills, behind-the-scenes notes, reel recommendations – 16 movies

* Supplements: Audio commentary by producer Paul M. Heller and screenwriter Michael Allin, isolated music score, an all-new introduction and interview with Linda Lee Cadwell, " Location: Hong Kong with Enter the Dragon " original 1973 documentary, " Backyard Workout with Bruce ", " Bruce Lee: In His Own Words ", theatrical trailers, TV spots, cast and crew biographies, 10 exclusive Enter the Dragon postcards, 8 reproductions of original lobby cards, reproduction of the original press brochure

Thus began what is now often called " The Golden Age of Hollywood ", which refers roughly to the period beginning with the introduction of sound until the late 1940s.

" It provides an introduction to Guattari's theories on " schizoanalysis ", a process that develops Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis but which pursues a more experimental and collective approach towards analysis.

* Canadian poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen recited the poem as an introduction to his own song " The Darkness ", during a couple of shows on his 2010 world tour, most notably at his State Kremlin Palace show on 7 October.

* " Meritocracy and the Erosion of Self-Respect ", lecture by Sjalling Swierstra und Evelien H. Tonkens ( with a German introduction )

Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

He included a " pastoral year ", an introduction into the practice of parish work.

In the book's introduction, Schwartz states that the word " myth ", as used in the book, " is not offered to mean something that is not true, as in the current popular usage ".

Universal Studios Home Entertainment released a " Collector's Edition " DVD on October 18, 2005 with extra features that included an " introduction by Mortimer Young ", " Jeff Bridges ' Photography ", " Making of The Big Lebowski ", and " Production Notes ".