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The pivotal event of the book is an appearance of Jesus Christ to the Americas shortly after his resurrection.
Although Oxford University Press offered to publish the work, he instead chose to release the book through Penguin Books because they would sell it at a cheaper price, something he believed was pivotal to providing his knowledge to " the masses.
A movie called " Taking Woodstock " was released in August 2009 based on the book of the same title by Elliot Tiber, whose parents owned the nearby El Monaco Motel in White Lake and played a pivotal role in bringing the Woodstock nation to Bethel.
This situation came to a head with the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, a pivotal event described in Nat Brandt's book The Town That Started the Civil War.
Webb co-authored, with his wife, a pivotal book on the History of Trade Unionism ( 1894 ).
Though it seems not to be the most pivotal death in the book, Vonnegut declares that this death is the climax of the book as a whole.
The pivotal change in the English-speaking world seems to have come with the permission to charge interest on lent money: particularly the 1545 act " An Act Against Usurie " ( 37 H. viii 9 ) of King Henry VIII of England ( see book references ).
* Astronomer Clifford Stoll plays a pivotal role in tracking down hacker Markus Hess, events later covered in Stoll's 1990 book The Cuckoo's Egg.
She also referred to the Sponsorship scandal as " a pivotal event with a lasting impact " and " broke just about every rule in the book ".
Curt Flood is a nonparticipating but pivotal character in the book Our Gang by Philip Roth.
Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would eventually write in his book Finding the Trapdoor.
Belisarius ' actions and magnanimous behavior as victor in the first book will pay a pivotal role as the third book develops and the secret war against the Malwa turns hot.
However, some conspiracy theorists use the research findings of American journalist Edwin Black, author of the 2009 book Nazi Nexus, to claim that some American corporations and philanthropic foundations — whose complicity was pivotal to the Third Reich's war effort, Nazi eugenics and the Holocaust — are now conspiring to build a Fourth Reich.
While she did not explicitly mention this in The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman was a witness to one of the pivotal events of the book: the pursuit of the German battle cruiser Goeben and light cruiser Breslau.
Georges Auguste Escoffier's Le Guide culinaire ( pronounced ) is a pivotal book in the history of European haute cuisine, being Escoffier's largely successful attempt to codify and streamline the common French restaurant food of the day.
She also illustrated the poetry that Andrade wrote during their travels, including his pivotal book of poems entitled Pau Prasil, published in 1924.
The publisher, Random House, says of the book: " Drawing on interviews with power brokers like Senator Obama, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and many others, as well as her own razor-sharp observations and analysis of such issues as generational conflict and the ' black enough ' conundrum, Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history.
The ' 07 season for Mussina and Mets ' pitcher Tom Glavine was the subject of a 2008 book by John Feinstein, Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember, showcasing a pivotal season for two New York City pitchers as Mussina nailed down milestone career win # 250 with the Yankees and Glavine earned win # 300 with the cross-town Mets.
Jane plays a pivotal role in the development of the book.
His son followed in his footsteps and was a pivotal player in the popularization of Copernicus's book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
Reflecting the author's interest in different languages, one pivotal letter in the book is written in the ( fictitious ) idiom of Twang's ( fictitious ) homeland, and to translate it the reader must refer back to earlier chapters to find the meanings of the words.
The book recounts the author's time with the United States Marine Corps on Guadalcanal in the early stages of the pivotal months-long battle there starting in 1942.

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It was a level at which some of the investors standing on the sidelines were thought likely to buy the pivotal issues represented in the averages.
" Alternate History " looks at " what if " scenarios from some of history's most pivotal turning points and presents a completely different version, sometimes based on science and fact, but often based on conjecture.
In a pivotal swing game that would either see the Rockies leave San Francisco with a 1. 5 game lead or a 3. 5 game lead, Colorado once again built a large lead against Matt Cain in the finale of the series on September 16.
Many effective therapies have been based on the principles of applied behavior analysis, including pivotal response therapy which is used to treat autism spectrum disorders.
In one of the pivotal experiments in the history of optics, the young Newton shone a narrow beam of sunlight through a prism to produce a rainbow-like band of colors on the wall.
* In 1999, as chair of the Senate's subcommittee on patents, he played a pivotal role in extending patents for several drugs, most significantly allergy medication Claritin, to prevent the marketing of less-expensive generics.
Kabir played pivotal roles in Columbia Pictures ' The Beast of War, a film on the Russian war in Afghanistan, directed by Kevin Reynolds, as well as the acclaimed Italian film Andata Ritorno, by Marco Ponti, winner of the prestigious David di Donatello Award.
" great god ") on the Japanese game cover, makes a play on words between the word for wolf ( 狼 ) and the word Kami, as 大神 and 狼 are pronounced the same way ; the pivotal protagonist is a statue of a wolf possessed by Amaterasu.
In 1970, after having appeared earlier in a pivotal one-hour musical special called " Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman ", Moore and husband Grant Tinker successfully pitched a sitcom centered on Moore to CBS.
* Francis Parker Yockey claimed Spengler was a pivotal influence on him and wrote Imperium as a sequel to The Decline of the West.
Through his decisive influence on Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes, among others, Jakobson became a pivotal figure in the adaptation of structural analysis to disciplines beyond linguistics, including anthropology and literary theory ; this generalization of Saussurean methods, known as " structuralism ", became a major post-war intellectual movement in Europe and the United States.
The Sampo is a pivotal element of the plot of the Finnish epic poem Kalevala, compiled in 1835 ( and expanded in 1849 ) by Elias Lönnrot based on earlier Finnish oral tradition.
It eschewed the thematic groupings in favour of focusing on pivotal moments of twentieth-century art.
* The Battle of Tangdao and Battle of Caishi, on the Yangtze river between the Jurchen Jin Dynasty and the Chinese Song Dynasty, result in two pivotal Song naval victories.
Enthusiasts within the British armed forces were inspired in the creation of airborne forces ( including the Parachute Regiment, Air Landing Regiments, and the Glider Pilot Regiment ) by the example of the German Luftwaffe's Fallschirmjäger, which had a major role in the invasions of Norway, and the Low Countries, particularly the attack on Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium, and a pivotal, but costly role in the invasion of Crete.
The club intended to break the hold that the Tredegar Iron and Coal Company had on the town by becoming members of pivotal groups in the community.
R. T. France argues for plausibility on the grounds, inter alia, thatthe murder of a few infants in a small village not on a scale to match the more spectacular assassinations recorded by Josephus ”; Schnackenburg follows this line also, and Gordon Franz points to Josephus ' failure to mention other pivotal events in the first century AD, such as " the episode of the golden Roman shields in Jerusalem which was the cause of the bad blood between Herod Antipas and Pontus ( sic ) Pilate ".
A pivotal moment in the history of Canterbury Cathedral was the murder of Thomas Becket in the north-west transept ( also known as the Martyrdom ) on Tuesday 29 December 1170 by knights of King Henry II.
The success of Athens in securing the 2004 Games was based largely on Athens ' appeal to Olympic history and the emphasis that it placed on the pivotal role that Greece and Athens could play in promoting Olympism and the Olympic Movement.
In the ‘ history plays ’ of William Shakespeare, Lord Stanley features in a pivotal role throughout the play Richard III as an initially loyal but troubled royal servant whose misgivings as to Richard ’ s ‘ true ’ nature lead him towards collaboration with his stepson Henry Tudor and active assistance in placing him on the throne.

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