In the Algebra preface of his book Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell, Professor George F. Simmons wrote that the New Math produced students who had " heard of the commutative law, but did not know the multiplication table.

His encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 76 ) includes numerous examples of Baconian investigative methodology ; its preface even paraphrases lines from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning.

* The preface to George Bernard Shaw's On the Rocks includes a dramatization of the meeting between Jesus and Pilate.

A detailed booklet includes thoughts from producer Gert-Jan Blom and a preface by Robert Fripp.

* The American author Armistead Maupin includes a quote from Religio Medici in the preface to the third in his Tales of the City novels, Further Tales of the City, first published in 1982.

The short play is often printed with a preface that includes a long examination of the Gospels by Shaw, in which Shaw analyzes the Bible and proclaims his findings.

She wrote Cooke a letter in English, postmarked New York, 8 May 1963, which Cooke includes in the preface pages to the score:

* The, also known as the Jindai no Maki, or " Book on the Age of the Gods ", includes the preface of the Kojiki, and is focused on the deities of creation and the births of various deities of the kamiyo period, or Age of the Gods.

It includes a preface by Maurice Girodias and an essay titled " Wonder Waif Meets Super Neuter " by Paul Krassner.

In addition to Journey to the West, Wu wrote numerous poems and stories ( including the novel Yuding Animals, which includes a preface by Wu ), although most have been lost.

As Hamelin writes in his preface to this étude, the idea to combine these came from the composer Alistair Hinton, the finale of whose Piano Sonata No. 5 ( 1994 – 95 ) includes a substantial section entitled " Alkanique ".

The new preface of the second edition also includes a slightly revised plan of the complete treatise, now divided into twelve chapters.

* Prochiron sive Enchiridon Judiciarum, 1558, includes a preface De ordine judiciario apud veteres usitato.

In his preface to the Heimskringla ( which includes the Ynglinga saga ), Snorri writes:

Hypertext is related to paratext, which includes information that accompanies the text itself ( illustrations, preface or introduction ).

The preface to the test report includes the following:

These documents include: a letter from the unknown librettist of Le nozze d ' Enea in Lavinia, which discusses Monteverdi's setting of Il ritorno ; Badoaro's preface to the Il ritorno libretto, addressed to the composer, which includes the wording " I can firmly state that my Ulysses is more indebted to you than ever was the real Ulysses to the ever-gracious Minerva "; a 1644 letter from Badoaro to Michelangelo Torcigliani, which contains the words " Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in patria was embellished with the music of Claudio Monteverdi, a man of great fame and enduring name "; and finally a 1640 booklet Le Glorie della Musica which lists the Badoaro-Monteverdi pairing as the creators of the opera.

The 2007 edition published in Paris by J ' ai Lu -- " L ' Étudiante suivi de Le Lien ", Éditions Blanche, ISBN 978-2-290-00617-7 — which includes an avant-propos by Duriès ' editor Franck Spengler and a preface by Florence Dugas, is dedicated: " À la mémoire de Vanessa Duriès, Nathalie Perreau, Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris et leur fils décédés tragiquement le 13 décembre 1993 ".

Rutter's preface to the score includes the following discussion regarding the authenticity of the third version:

The book includes lengthy preface and acknowledgement sections, a list of tips to help better enjoy the book ( including several tips not to bother reading large sections of the book ), and a guide to its symbols and metaphors.

This thesis, which runs to fourteen hundred pages, includes a discussion of the intellectual and literary background, a collation of some forty editions of the text, annotations to the five parts, preface and postscript, and an account of the theatrical history of the play.

The preface to Milton includes the poem " And did those feet in ancient time ", which became the lyrics for the hymn " Jerusalem ".

In technical writing, the introduction typically includes one or more standard subsections: abstract or summary, preface, acknowledgments, and foreword.

The author includes a brief preface in the book stating that, due to restrictions of the magazine format, she could not develop the story as she wished and, consequently, " various short passages have been inserted, and several new chapters added.

" Alexander Murray, in his preface to the third volume of Bruce's account, further describes it as " on the east it includes Foggora, Dara, and Alata ; on the north-east Gondar, the metropolis, and the rich district beneath it ; on the southwest, the district of Bed ( the plain barren country ) and, on the west, the lands around Waindaga and Dingleber.

The original text is found on the preface Blake printed for inclusion with Milton, a Poem, following the lines beginning " The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato & Cicero, which all Men ought to contemn: ..."

In its prologue, the author gratuitously insulted Cervantes, who not surprisingly took offense and responded ; the last half of Chapter LIX and most of the following chapters of Cervantes ' Segunda Parte lend some insight into the effects upon him ; Cervantes manages to work in some subtle digs at Avellaneda's own work, and in his preface to Part II, comes very near to criticizing Avellaneda directly.

Pólya notes in the preface " that the following pages will be useful, yet they should not be regarded as a finished expression.

With the modern foundations for a general theory of systems following the World Wars, Ervin Laszlo, in the preface for Bertalanffy's book Perspectives on General System Theory, maintains that the translation of " general system theory " from German into English has " wrought a certain amount of havoc ".

The following is a translation from Stein's preface to the exhibition by Francisco Riba Rovira at Roquepine Gallery in May 1945:

In response, Southey attacked what he called the ‘ Satanic School ’ among modern poets in the preface to his poem, A Vision of Judgement, written following the death of George III.

They added a " second edition preface " endorsement by Lin Biao, dated 16 December 1966 ( which was torn-out following Lin Biao's death and public disgrace in September 1971 ).

Roth wrote in the preface to the book's 30th anniversary edition, " With clarity and with crudeness, and a great deal of exuberance, the embryonic writer who was me wrote these stories in his early 20's, while he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, a soldier stationed in New Jersey and Washington, and a novice English instructor back at Chicago following his Army discharge ... In the beginning it simply amazed him that any truly literate audience could seriously be interested in his store of tribal secrets, in what he knew, as a child of his neighborhood, about the rites and taboos of his clan — about their aversions, their aspirations, their fears of deviance and defection, their underlying embarrassments and their ideas of success.

The preface concludes with the following malediction:

" In Waugh's preface to the 1959 revised edition of Brideshead the author explains the circumstances in which the novel was written, in the six months between December 1943 and June 1944 following a minor parachute accident.

This personal style is exemplified by the following words from the preface to Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong ( 1977, p. 3 ):

In Book V, after an interesting preface concerning regular polygons, and containing remarks upon the hexagonal form of the cells of honeycombs, Pappus addresses himself to the comparison of the areas of different plane figures which have all the same perimeter ( following Zenodorus's treatise on this subject ), and of the volumes of different solid figures which have all the same superficial area, and, lastly, a comparison of the five regular solids of Plato.

Professor Gervacio Miranda who also wrote a book in Chabacano said in his preface the following thing ," My only objective to write this book is to possibly conserve in written form the Chavacano of Cavite for posterity ," fearing the extinction of the dialect.

His first and longest booklet, a treatise on moral education, is printed on only the left-hand pages, and begins with the following preface:

Hammond also wrote the preface to Brother Asaiah, As Remembered by Martha Ellen Anderson and Friends, a memoir of the life of Homer businessman and peace activist Brother Asaiah Bates, which was published in 2006 following the deaths of both Bates and Hammond.

The first index of the book ( following the royal dedications and author's preface ) is entitled " A collection of the Names and Titles given to Jesus Christ ", with 198 names listed, each accompanied by a biblical reference.

A second edition appeared in the following year with extra commendatory verses in Latin and English, some of which bore the names of Nahum Tate, Thomas Otway, Aphra Behn, Richard Duke, and Edmund Waller ; and when Dryden published his translations from Theocritus, Lucretius, and Horace, he made flattering comments on Creech's work in the preface.

The portion of the preface referred to is substantially the following: " Before we could finish the task entrusted to us of editing our Logic, to which we were bound by many promises, certain German publishers fraudulently brought out a work professing to be from us, abounding in errors and inaccuracies which were really their own.

It is thought, however, that the first book was meant to be a sort of preface to the following three books, and so shorter than the others.

in 1897 dedicated his new book Following The Equator with the following quipping preface:

This is in keeping with the king ’ s philosophy of following a " middle path ", as reflected in the preface to the 1611 King James Bible.

The first paragraph of the preface makes the following brief statement about the agencies which led up to the formation of DTRA.