The film examines and refutes the urban legend of the alleged introduction of HIV to North America by a single individual, Gaëtan Dugas.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection, the epilogue of Billions and Billions, and her own novel, A Famous Broken Heart.

Jerome, in the introduction to his Latin translation of the books of Samuel and Kings ( part of the Vulgate ), referred to the book as a chronikon (" Chronicles " in English ).

* Ch. 1: various poems, possibly compiled as an introduction to the final form of the book

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.

This introduction to the book illustrates the severity of the situation which Malachi addresses.

In addition to his novels, Campbell also wrote a column for X Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, comic book adaptations of his Man With The Screaming Brain and most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making.

Before the end of the Civil War and the introduction of the 1662 prayer book, something like a half a million prayer books are estimated to have been in circulation.

In the introduction to his 1947 " Kinetic theory of liquids " book, J Frenkel ( see Yakov Frenkel ) proposed that " The kinetic theory of liquids must accordingly be developed as a generalization and extension of the kinetic theory of solid bodies.

The introduction to the book asserts that it " contains, as does the Bible, the fullness of the everlasting gospel.

Since the introduction of the comic book format in 1933 with the publication of Famous Funnies, the United States has produced the most titles, along with British comics and Japanese manga, in terms of quantity of titles.

B. Rives points out in his introduction to Tacitus's Germania ( book ) and moreover that the name Boiorix can work in Proto-Germanic as well as Celtic.

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.

The book consisted simply of an introduction followed by 32 annotated plates, with views from the Pantheon illustrating the Corinthian order and the Theatre of Marcellus for the Doric order.

The Loeb Classical Library introduction characterizes the book as

Particularly important for establishing him in the field was his seminal book Language ( 1921 ), which was a layman's introduction to the discipline of linguistics as Sapir envisioned it.

* TIB = The Interpreter ’ s Bible, The Holy Scriptures in the King James and Revised Standard versions with general articles and introduction, exegesis, exposition for each book of the Bible in twelve volumes, George Arthur Buttrick, Commentary Editor, Walter Russell Bowie, Associate Editor of Exposition, Paul Scherer, Associate Editor of Exposition, John Knox Associate Editor of New Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Samuel Terrien, Associate Editor of Old Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Nolan B. Harmon Editor, Abingdon Press, copyright 1955 by Pierce and Washabaugh, set up printed, and bound by the Parthenon Press, at Nashville, Tennessee, Volume XI, Philippians, Colossians and Exegesis by Francis W. Beare, Exposition by G. Preston MacLeod, Thessalonians, Pastoral Epistles First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and the Epistle to Titus, Philemon, Hebrews

" ISBN 1-904555-05-5 ( The book comes with a related DVD of the Arthur C. Clarke documentary introduction to the fractal concept and the Mandelbrot set.

The following discussion is a summary based on the introduction to Appel and Haken's book Every Planar Map is Four Colorable.

It was in the aftermath of 1968 that Guattari met Gilles Deleuze at the University of Vincennes and began to lay the ground-work for the soon to be infamous Anti-Oedipus ( 1972 ), which Michel Foucault described as " an introduction to the non-fascist life " in his preface to the book.

Much of his personal correspondence with those and other figures is featured in the book The Groucho Letters ( 1967 ) with an introduction and commentary on the letters written by Groucho, who donated his letters to the Library of Congress.

For four of the trips a photography book was made by Pao, each with an introduction written by Palin.

An additional topic considered in this book is the science reform movement of the late 1970s that resulted in the introduction of a named science degree, thus facilitating the subsequent inclusion of other named degrees in addition to the traditional BA.

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.

The introduction of simple auxiliary terms, due to C. F. Gauss ( Dioptrische Untersuchungen, Göttingen, 1841 ), named the focal lengths and focal planes, permits the determination of the image of any object for any system ( see lens ).

For a conversational introduction to these ideas, see John Baez, ' A Tale of n-categories ' ( 1996 ).

For a better high-level introduction to Cyclone, the reasoning behind Cyclone and the source of these lists, see this paper.

Practical introduction took some time ( see Use of ephemeris time in official almanacs and ephemerides ); ephemeris time ( ET ) remained a standard until superseded in the 1970s by further time scales ( see Revision ).

: For an elementary introduction to how Lie algebras are related to particle physics, see the article Particle physics and representation theory.

The coming years also will see the introduction of 96 EF2000 Eurofighter Typhoons, replacing the leased F-16 Fighting Falcons.

For an introduction to the economic analysis of property law, see Shavell ( 2004 ), and Cooter and Ulen ( 2003 ).

The introduction of the miniature tube base ( see below ) which could have 9 pins, more than previously available, allowed other multi-section tubes to be introduced, such as the 6GH8 / ECF82 triode-pentode, quite popular in television receivers.

It involves a great departure from the methods of political action established in this country, where reforms, and especially financial reforms, have always been considerate and even tender ... I do not yet see the ground on which it can be justly held that any one description of property should be more heavily burdened than others, unless moral and social grounds can be shown first: but in this case the reasons drawn from those sources seem rather to verge in the opposite direction, for real property has more of presumptive connection with the discharge of duty that that which is ranked as personal ... the aspect of the measure is not satisfactory to a man of my traditions ( and these traditions lie near the roots of my being )... For the sudden introduction of such change there is I think no precedent in the history of this country.

It went some way towards discouraging the practice of " clipping ", though this practice was further discouraged and largely eliminated with the introduction of the milled edge we see on coins today.

Prior to the introduction of standard time, each municipality around the civilized world set its official clock, if it had one, according to the local position of the Sun ( see solar time ).

But see the caveat regarding Lebesgue-measurable functions in the introduction.

The real change, as some see it, was the apparent abandonment of all other gods, especially Amun, and the debatable introduction of monotheism by Akhenaten.

While Lewis Thorpe's translation of The History of the Franks is more accessible than Brehaut's, his introduction and commentary are not well regarded by contemporary historians ( see Secondary Sources, below ).

Although currently the Fleet Air Arm is an all rotary wing force in terms of its front-line operations, the introduction of the F-35B Lightning II will see a restoration of fixed wing operations.

It also appears in his Expanded Universe in 1980, but this version is the way it appeared in Astounding without the modifications: " I now see, as a result of the enormous increase in the art in 33 years, more errors in the ' 46 version than I spotted in the ' 40s version when I checked it in ' 46 ," he writes in the introduction to the story.

( In continuity, the prose introduction says: " Ægir, also named Gymir, had made ale for the Æsir, when he had received the great kettle of which was told " ( see Hymiskviða ).

At the introduction stage, a manufacturer ( Sony ) trail-blazes a new product ( a portable cassette player with the trademark name " Walkman ") with the most basic feature set ( play, pause, stop, fast forward, rewind, eject ) in order to engage the consumer and support use and acceptance ; meanwhile, competitors " wait and see " if the product will create a market worth investing in.

Some of Stanton's work during this period shows Ditko influence ( see below ), and the introduction to one book of Stanton's work says, " Eric Stanton drew his pictures in India ink, and they were then hand-coloured

Glottochronology itself dates back to the mid-20th century ( see Lees 1953 ; Swadesh 1955, 1972 ) An introduction to the subject is given in Embleton ( 1986 ) and in McMahon and McMahon ( 2005 ).

Team Associated followed suit with the introduction of the RC100 1 / 8 scale gas on-road car, RC12 1 / 12 scale on-road electric car, and RC10 1 / 10 scale off-road electric racing buggy in 1984 ( see below ).

For some years following the introduction of solid state amplifiers, their perceived sound did not have the excellent audio quality of the best valve amplifiers ( see valve audio amplifier ).