`` Books are for schnooks ''.

" The Four Books on Measurement " were published at Nuremberg in 1525 and was the first book for adults on mathematics in German, as well as being cited later by Galileo and Kepler.

Dürer's work on geometry is called the Four Books on Measurement ( Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt or Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Ruler ).

In some published editions of the Bible, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah have been presented together as a single book, for example, in The Modern Reader's Bible ( 1907 ) and The Books of the Bible ( 2007 ).

The two Books of Samuel () are part of a series of historical books ( Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings ) that make up a theological history of the Israelites and affirm and explain God's law for Israel under the guidance of the prophets.

It has often been compared to the first half of the Book of Daniel and to the deuterocanonical Books of Tobit and Judith for its subject matter.

It became common for Prayer Books to print the 1662 and 1928 forms of service in parallel columns, although the legal basis of the revision remained unclear.

ISBNs for the Potomac Books and Skyhorse Publishing reprints of the Factbook are noted as well.

This fact was one of the main inspirations for the 1980s reboot of the Clark Kent half of the Superman character, according to writer and artist John Byrne in the article " Super-Discussions " published by Attic Books in Comics Values Monthly Special # 2 ( 1992 ).

: Chronicler redirects here ; " the Chronicler " is a term used for the anonymous compiler of the Hebrew Books of Chronicles.

" He had little respect for the professors of his time, telling a friend in 1735, " there is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.

* Full text of A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library ( Dewey Decimal Classification ) ( 1876 ) from Project Gutenberg

He did pay Tolkien, and he was responsible for making not only Tolkien but Ballantine Books extremely wealthy.

Upon leaving Ace, he founded DAW Books, named for his initials.

The enormous encyclopedic work in China of the Four Great Books of Song, compiled by the 11th century AD during the early Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), was a massive literary undertaking for the time.

The Internet, facilitated by the development of search engines, has grown into a common source of information for many people, and provides easy access to reliable original sources and expert opinions, thanks in part to initiatives such as Google Books, MIT's release of its educational materials and the open PubMed Central library of the National Library of Medicine.

His book, Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles ( Six Books of Optics, useful for philosophers and mathematicians alike ), published in Antwerp in 1613, was illustrated by famous painter Peter Paul Rubens.

Basic Books, 2001, pp. 187 – 207 ; see p. 191 for the description: A French doctor, Jacques Lantier, who attended an FGM procedure in Somalia in the 1970s described how the inner and outer labia were separated and attached to each thigh using large thorns.

At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp sf and fantasy magazines in the U. S. were being edited by Futurians: Frederik Pohl at the Popular Publications offshoot Fictioneers, Inc. ( Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories ); Robert Lowndes at Columbia Publications, most notably with Science Fiction and Future Fiction ( though through the decade to come, Lowndes's responsibilities would expand to other types of fiction magazine in the chain ), and Donald Wollheim at the very marginal Albing Publications with the short-lived, micro-budgeted Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories ( Wollheim soon moved on to Avon Books ; Doë " Leslie Perri " Baumgardt also worked on a romance fiction title for Albing ).

* Books for Cooks An online exhibit of historical cookbooks at the British Library.

* George Orwell – Penguin Books official website for George Orwell

This was necessary so that there would be a legal bench mark with which to compare and contrast the scholarship of an objective historian against the methods employed by David Irving, as before the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial there was no legal precedent for what constituted an objective historian.

Books by stage hypnotists sometimes explicitly describe the use of deception in their acts, for example, Ormond McGill's New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnosis describes an entire " fake hypnosis " act that depends upon the use of private whispers throughout.

The Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Exeter in collaboration with The Rumi Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus, and Archetype Books, Cambridge published the first volume of the Mawlana Rumi Review in 2010 and published the second volume in May 2011.

Ribbentrop is also a key figure in the historical novel Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley ( Penguin Books 1982, ISBN 0-14-006268-8 ) and Harry Turtledove's alternate history series Worldwar where his Soviet counterpart Molotov frequently expresses contempt for his lack of intelligence.

Between 1220 and 1227, he wrote a Glossa in quatuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi ( A Gloss on the Four Books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard ), which was particularly important because it was the first time that a book other than the Bible was used as a textbook during biblical study.

Books with a quick and inexpensive printed format of tape binding and printed cardstock covers, the four monographs ( Players Book, Magic Book, Creatures Book, and Gamemaster Book ) were printed in order to assert Chaosium's copyrights in the run-up to the publishing and distribution of Deluxe Basic Roleplaying, a game system that is essentially RuneQuest 3rd Edition but with additions to allow play in other genres.

The British Statute of Anne ( 1710 ) further alluded to individual rights of the artist, beginning: " Whereas Printers, Booksellers, and other Persons, have of late frequently taken the Liberty of Printing ... Books, and other Writings, without the Consent of the Authors ... to their very great Detriment, and too often to the Ruin of them and their Families :" A right to benefit financially from the work is articulated, and court rulings and legislation have recognized a right to control the work, such as ensuring that the integrity of it is preserved.

It includes the seven Deuterocanonical Books which are generally rejected by Protestants and a small number of other books that are in neither Western canon.

HBC also has other HBC Rewards corporate partners such as: Imperial Oil / Esso, M & M Meat Shops, Chapters / Indigo Books, Kelsey's / Montana's Restaurants, Thrifty Car Rental, Cineplex Entertainment Theatres, etc.

Lovecraft's poetry is collected in The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft ( Night Shade Books, 2001 ), while much of his juvenilia, various essays on philosophical, political and literary topics, antiquarian travelogues, and other things, can be found in Miscellaneous Writings ( Arkham House, 1989 ).

The corrected texts were released by Arkham House in the 1980s, and many other collections of his stories have appeared, including Ballantine Books editions and three popular Del Rey editions.

* Makapan's cave and other storie ( 1987 ) edited by Stephen Gray ISBN 0-14-009262-5 Penguin Books.

Digitisation of books, particularly those that are out-of-print, in projects such as Google Books provides resources for library and other online users.

* Books and other items that are being held for library users who asked the librarian by phone to set them aside for them to pick up later the same day, or within the next few days.

In the first 9 days of the lunar 9th month festival, an oil lamp of 9 branches may also be lit to honour both the Northern Dipper and 2 other assistant stars ( collectively known as the Nine Emperor Stars ), sons of Dou Mu appointed by the Taoist Trinity ( the Three Pure Ones ) to hold the Books of Life and Death of humanity.

After being rejected by four publishers, The Warrior's Apprentice was accepted by Baen Books, who agreed to a three-book deal to include the two other novels.

* Books and other writings

Linguistic amendments were also included ; the line in the preamble emphasising that authors possessed books as they would any other piece of property was dropped, and the bill moved from something designed " for Securing the Property of Copies of Books to the rightful Owners thereof " to a bill " for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies ".

Especially interested in the literary contacts made at the meetings, Wright formally joined the Communist Party in late 1933 and as a revolutionary poet wrote numerous proletarian poems (" I Have Seen Black Hands ", " We of the Streets ", " Red Leaves of Red Books ", for example ), The New Masses and other left-wing periodicals.

He had also, in Battle of the Books and in general in A Tale of a Tub, expressed a preference for the Ancients ( Classical authors ) because their art was based directly upon nature, and not upon other art.

Despite the new name, Baen Ebooks continue to sell e-books for other publishers, notably SF genre rival Tor Books and Night Shade Books.

Twenty-four academics, belonging to different schools and groups – often in disagreement with each other and with deconstruction – signed a letter addressed to The New York Review of Books, in which they expressed their indignation for the magazine's behaviour as well as that of Sheenan and Wolin.

Forthcoming are two books collecting post-1994 texts, one from Little Black Cart Press, the other, in Russian translation, from a Moscow publisher, Hylaea Books.

In 1977, Word Books, Inc. commissioned Hank Ketcham Enterprises, Inc. to produce a series of ten comic books under the title Dennis and the Bible Kids, with the usual cast of characters reading ( and sometimes partly acting out ) the stories of Joseph, Moses, David, Esther, Jesus, and other Biblical characters.

The other were used for both the National Alliance headquarters and the National Vanguard Books business and warehouse, and were denied tax exemption.