According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

According to Lathbury, Salinger was deeply concerned with the proposed book's appearance, even visiting Washington to examine the cloth for the binding.

According to editor Jacob Hay, the book's final form was " reached with the approval of Mrs. Betty Grissom.

According to the first book's introduction Allen devised the New Laws in discussion with Asimov himself.

According to Fried and Schultis, criteria for a good self-help book include " claims made by the author as to the book's efficacy, the presentation of problem-solving strategies based on scientific evidence and professional experience, the author's credentials and professional experience, and the inclusion of a bibliography.

According to Mayr, the book's style resembles that of a modern " do-it-yourself " book.

According to book's publisher, Dusty Spark Publishing it is regarded as " one of the literary achievement of postwar Liberia and contemporary Africa.

According to noted folklore scholar, D. K. Wilgus, the book's publication " sparked a great surge of interest in folk songs of all kinds, and in fact, inspired a search for folk material in all regions of the nation.

According to Frank Menetrez, who recalled the book's reception in CounterPunch ( April 30, 2007 ), “ when a number of scholars examined the book carefully, they concluded that it was of no scholarly value whatsoever.

According to the experts at TNA, documents now shown to be forgeries supported controversial arguments central to each of Allen's books: in Hidden Agenda, five documents now known to be forged helped justify his claim that the Duke of Windsor betrayed military secrets to Hitler ; in The Hitler / Hess Deception, thirteen forged papers supported Allen's contention that, in 1941, British intelligence used members of the Royal Family to fool the Nazis into thinking Britain was on the verge of a pro-German putsch ; in Himmler's Secret War, twenty-two counterfeit papers also underpinned the book's core claims that British intelligence played mind games with Himmler to encourage him to betray Hitler from 1943 onwards, and that ultimately they murdered the SS chief.

According to a later newspaper article, as a result of the book's mention of JPUSA, " scores " of members decided to leave the group.

According to the book One Red Paperclip, in June 2006, Bernsen traded a role in the Public Media Works film Donna on Demand to the book's author, blogger Kyle MacDonald, for a snow globe of the band KISS.

According to Posner, the media reports detailing his journalistic transgressions were actually the result of a " coordinated effort " to " discredit my book Miami Babylon " because of the book's " unvarnished and investigative history ".

According to the book The Teachings of Don Juan Matus, a Mexican shaman by the name of Don Juan Matus, who had taught his student Carlos Castaneda, the book's author, about the true nature of the physical universe and how intense concentration can summon, apport, and even materialize objects out of thin air.

According to the book's preface, under 100 copies were made by the author.

According to the National Coalition Against Censorship, parents and schools have objected to the book's depictions of lesbianism, premarital cohabitation, pornography, and violence.

According to the reviewer, the book's portrays Hindus and the British as " villains " and Muslims as " victims ".

According to the book's promotional website, " Basing itself on extensive evidence taken from EWTN ’ s own content, and comparing that content to the perennial belief and practice of the Church, the book shows that EWTN ’ s ' moderately Modernist ' version of the Faith is precisely what St. Pius X had in view when he condemned Modernism in all its forms, including what His Holiness called ' the Modernist as reformer '".

According to Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool, this was done on Adams ' request, who wanted nothing to do with the publisher, and took action to keep his name off the book's cover.

According to Virginia Woolf, the plan broke down when Hall objected to the wording of the letter, insisting it mention her book's " artistic merit – even genius ".

According to Iwasaki, she agreed to speak with Golden on the condition that her involvement would be kept confidential, but Golden revealed her identity by mentioning her name in the book's acknowledgments, as well as several national interviews.

According to the book's foreword, the opening section of the novel is almost directly taken from the journal he kept when he was a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade mountains of Washington state.

" According to the New York Times, " the book's popularity seems driven more by the mix of cloak-and-dagger atmospherics and Mr. Perkins's Damascene conversion " than by insight into " the larger issue of America's role in emerging economies.

According to his own testimony, he never actually saw things as shaped but only as generally amorphous `` blots '' of color of a more or less indefinite size ; ;

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to Porphyrion, the hymn to Hermes was imitated by Horace in one of his own ' sapphic ' odes ( C. 1. 10: Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis ).

According to Herodian, the Roman armies suffered a number of humiliating setbacks and defeats, while according to the Historia Augusta as well as Alexander's own dispatch to the Roman Senate, he gained great victories.

According to Herodotus, when Anacharsis returned to the Scythians he was killed by his own brother for his Greek ways and especially for the impious attempt to sacrifice to the Mother Goddess Cybele, whose cult was unwelcome among the Scythians.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

According to Critias, the Hellenic gods of old divided the land so that each god might own a lot ; Poseidon was appropriately, and to his liking, bequeathed the island of Atlantis.

According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

According to his own statement, he was deterred from presenting himself at Rome by the warnings of Cardinal Contarini, whom he found at Bologna, dying of poison administered by the reactionary party.

According to Tacitus, they drew inspiration from the example of Arminius, the prince of the Cherusci who had driven the Romans out of Germany in AD 9, and their own ancestors who had driven Julius Caesar from Britain.

According to Tacitus, he amassed a force including his own Legio XIV Gemina, some vexillationes ( detachments ) of the XX Valeria Victrix, and any available auxiliaries.

According to Brownlow and Gill, Chaplin developed a unique method of filmmaking after achieving independence to direct his own films.

According to, the attackers retreated after realizing that they would have to become rebels against the state and against their own lord.

According to political scientist Arthur Stinchcombe, citizenship is based on the extent that a person can control one's own destiny within the group in the sense of being able to influence the government of the group.

According to Barks, this period of his life would later influence his best known fictional characters: Walt Disney's Donald Duck and his own Scrooge McDuck.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

According to Mircea Eliade, the Middle Ages witnessed " an upwelling of mythical thought " in which each social group had its own " mythological traditions ".

According to Bent Corydon, Hubbard created the illusion that Dianetics was the first psychotherapy to address traumatic experiences in their own time, but others had done so as standard procedure.

According to author Steven Levy, IBM had discovered differential cryptanalysis on its own, and the NSA was apparently well aware of the technique.

According to their own actions, some are drawn closer, and some are driven farther away.

According to Montesquieu, the difference between absolute monarchy and despotism is that in the case of the monarchy, a single person governs with absolute power by fixed and established laws, whereas a despot governs by her or his own will and caprice.

According to the World English Bible translation, Titus 1: 12-13 reads ( in part ) " One of them, a prophet of their own, said, ' Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.

According to his own account, each day he would walk in front of the hospital in which Giulio died until he was inured to the pain.

) According to the Muratorian fragment, Marcion's canon contained an epistle entitled Epistle to the Laodiceans which is commonly thought to be a forgery written to conform to his own point of view.

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".