Among the many severe measures taken by the First Emperor, Shih Huang-ti, in his efforts to insure the continuation of this hard-won national unity, was the burning of the books in 213 B.C., with the expressed intention of removing possible sources for divergent thinking ; ;

Among the sixty-nine items in these three books, twenty-four deal with physics, seventeen with psychology, eleven with logic and metaphysics, and six with questions of fate and providence.

Among the minority, in Trent, that showed opposition to these books ' inclusion were Cardinals Seripando and Cajetan, the latter an opponent of Luther at Augsburg.

Among Orthodox, the term is understood to mean that they were compiled separately from the primary canon, as explained in 2 Esdras, where Esdras is instructed to keep certain books separate and hidden.

Among them were editions of Chaucer, Plutarch, two books in Italian, and folio editions of Cicero and Plato.

Among books on the list considered to be the Great American Novel were: Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, The Catcher in the Rye, Invisible Man and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Among the books found in his library ( as evidenced in Lovecraft's Library by S. T. Joshi ) was " The Seven Who Were Hanged " by Leonid Andreyev and " A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder " by James De Mille.

Among other accomplishments of the Great Assembly, the last books of the Bible were written at this time and the canon sealed.

Among her awards are an ABBY Honor award for books in the Mitford series, set in the fictional community of Mitford, North Carolina.

Among Agricola's other theoretical works is Musica instrumentalis deudsch ( 1529 ), a study of musical instruments, and one of the most important works in early organology ; and one of the earliest books on the Rudiments of music.

Among the books he authored are Guilty Men ( an attack on Neville Chamberlain and others for the policy of appeasement ), a biography of Jonathan Swift ( The Pen and the Sword, 1957 ) and a biography of Aneurin Bevan.

" Among fans of the nearly forty year old books, this film was mostly disappointing.

Among the rejected Lake translation: " not genuine " writings must be reckoned also the Acts of Paul, and the so-called Shepherd, and the Apocalypse of Peter, and in addition to these the extant epistle of Barnabas, and the so-called Teachings of the Apostles ; and besides, as I said, the Apocalypse of John, if it seem proper, which some, as I said, reject, but which others class with the accepted books.

Among these groups are comic book fandom, media fandom, the Society for Creative Anachronism, gaming, and furry fandom, sometimes referred to collectively as " fringe fandoms " with the implication that the original fandom centered on science fiction texts ( magazines and later books and fanzines ) is the " true " or " core " fandom.

Among leading language-usage commentators, Garner's Modern American Usage acknowledges that " website " is the standard form, but Bill Walsh, of The Washington Post, argues for using " Web site " in his books and on his website ( however, The Washington Post itself uses " website ").

Among his early books was Contes à Ninon, published in 1864.

In the 1980s, Seymour began a career as a writer of self-help and inspirational books, including Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living ( 1986 ), Two at a Time: Having Twins ( 2002 ), Remarkable Changes ( 2003 ), and Among Angels ( 2010 ).

* Among the treasures of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam are books on the Gnosis and the Corpus Hermeticum as published in Florence in 1471.

Among the books accompanying him as he traveled were, Adam Smith's " The Wealth of Nations ", Voltaire's " Letters ", and when he wrote the Bolivian Constitution, Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws.

Among his best-known books is The Carpetbaggers – loosely based on a composite of Howard Hughes, Bill Lear, Harry Cohn, and Louis B. Mayer –

Among the humor books, Beat, Beat, Beat was a 1959 Signet paperback of cartoons by Phi Beta Kappa Princeton graduate William F. Brown, who looked down on the movement from his position in the TV department of the Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn advertising agency.

Among the wisest of the Noldor were Rúmil, creator of the first writing system and author of many epic books of lore.

§ Among the rejected books by both the Judaic and Catholic canons was found the Book of Enoch, the Manual of Discipline or " Rule of the Community " ( 1QS ) and " The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness ".

Among the most famous anti-Tom books are The Sword and the Distaff by William Gilmore Simms, Aunt Phillis's Cabin by Mary Henderson Eastman, and The Planter's Northern Bride by Caroline Lee Hentz, with the last author having been a close personal friend of Stowe's when the two lived in Cincinnati.

Among these sacred works there survives a Mass in C major written without a " Gloria " and in the antique a cappella style ( presumably for one of the church's penitential seasons ) and dated 2 August 1767.

Among his compositions written for the chapels needs were two complete sets of vespers, many graduals, offertories, and four orchestral masses.

Among critics, it is almost universally considered to be among Beethoven's greatest works, and is considered by some to be the greatest piece of music ever written.

Among the pieces he played was his own first composition, written two years previously: a short piece called " The Course of the Danube " ( de Toth 1999 ).

Among his various musical credits, Mumy has recorded and written songs with America, toured with Shaun Cassidy, and played in Rick Springfield's band in the film, Hard to Hold.

Among the advantages to unfretted instruments are flexibility in tuning ( the temperament can be easily altered ) and the ability to play any music exactly as written without concern for " bad " notes.

Among the singles from the album was " Through Being Cool ," written as a reaction to their newfound fame from " Whip It ," an attack on their new fans that misinterpreted the song — and Devo's — message.

During the XII and XIII centuries many encyclopedic works have been written. Among them De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomeus Anglicus ' ( 1240 ) was the most widely read and quoted encyclopedia in the High Middle Ages while Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum Majus ( 1260 ) was the most ambitious encyclopedia in the late-medieval period at over 3 million words.

The first encyclopedias in vernacular language were translations or abridgements of works in Latin. Among them the most famous is Li livre dou Trésor, written in French by

Among the Indo-European languages, its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now extinct Anatolian languages.

Among the forefathers of the new journalism movement, Thompson said in the February 15th, 1973 issue of Rolling Stone, " If I'd written the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people — including me — would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today.

Among his written works there are Siete años enterrado vivo en una de las mazmorras de Gomezuela: Horripilante relato de un resucitado ( 1932 ) and Mis prisiones, mis destierros y mi vida ( 1929 ) which talk about his many adventures while living his life as an adventurer, activist and vagabond, as well as his thought and the many times he was imprisoned in different countries.

Among his last completed works were the illustrations for Balzac's Droll Stories ( 1961 ) and for his own poem The Rhyme Of The Flying Bomb ( 1962 ), which he had written some 15 years earlier.

Among the theorists are philosophers, such as Robert Pepperell, who have written about a " posthuman condition ", which is often substituted for the term " posthumanism ".

Among Rolf Nevanlinna's later interests in mathematics were the theory of Riemann surfaces ( the monograph Uniformisierung in 1953 ) and functional analysis ( Absolute analysis in 1959, written in collaboration with his brother Frithiof ).

Among these, the Book of Fixed Stars ( 964 ) was written by the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, who observed a number of stars, star clusters ( including the Omicron Velorum and Brocchi's Clusters ) and galaxies ( including the Andromeda Galaxy ).

Among Italian composers, the minuet was often considerably quicker and livelier, and was sometimes written in 3 / 8 or 6 / 8 time.

Among the most famous of all cantatas is Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, written 1935 – 36 ; the introductory and concluding movement, O Fortuna, has been used in countless films, and has become some of the most recognizable music ever written.

Among his activities with the Institute, which concentrates in part on helping liberal candidates and politicians with re-framing political metaphors, Lakoff has given numerous public lectures and written accounts of his message from Moral Politics.

Among other awards, Newman's Own co-sponsors the PEN / Newman's Own First Amendment Award, a $ 25, 000 reward designed to recognize those who protect the First Amendment as it applies to the written word.

Among the Hurrian texts from Ugarit are the oldest known instances of written music, dating from c. 1400 BCE.

" In Moscheles edition of Schindler's biography he quotes Schindler as follows: " Among all the masters who have written for pianoforte, Beethoven assigned to Clementi the very foremost rank.

Among those who have written their memoirs, the Italian Luciano Lutring ; he called his book of recollections: Il solista del mitra, or The machine-gun soloist.