" 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.

" The Four Books on Human Proportion " were published posthumously, shortly after his death in 1528 at the age of fifty-six.

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.

Books of homilies were compiled from the writings of SS.

It published hardcover editions in England, which were republished in the United States by the Del Rey imprint of Ballantine Books.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Four Books and Five Classics were the subject of mandatory study by those Confucian scholars who wished to become government officials.

All of his works were placed on the Index of Prohibited Books by Pope Paul IV, and some of his works continued to be banned or viewed with caution in the later Index of Pope Pius IV.

The books were originally published by Thomas Nelson Inc. and later, by Lodestar Books.

They were also published by Scholastic Inc. and Bantam Books through arrangement with those publishers.

Books were ruthlessly abridged and degraded to accommodate a shorter attention span.

Books became blander and blander due to censorship measures, and eventually, books stopped selling and authors were either locked away in insane asylums or gave up their profession and lived in exile.

" To lead delegates, " Books of grievances " ( cahiers de doléances ) were compiled to list problems.

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 ).

These were published by Ace Books from 1969 through 1977.

In 1599, the Church published the Indexes of Prohibited Books in which many grimoires were listed as forbidden, including several mediaeval ones like the Key of Solomon which were still popular.

The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses were amongst the works that later spread to the countries of Scandinavia, where, in the Danish and Swedish languages, grimoires were known as ' black books ' and were commonly found amongst members of the army.

Even in his own time, forgeries and unscrupulous editions of his work were a problem, prompting him to write On his Own Books.

In obedience to the Books of Destiny, some strange and unusual sacrifices were made, human sacrifices amongst them.

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.

Books, works of art, mirrors, cosmetics, sculptures, gaming tables, chess pieces, musical instruments, fine dresses and women ’ s hats were burnt in public view.

Books were usually chained to the shelves, and these chained libraries reflected the fact that manuscripts, created via the labour-intensive process of hand copying, were valuable possessions.

Wizard Books acquired the rights to the Fighting Fantasy series in 2002, and have since published reprints of older titles and several new titles in a revised order.

In 2002, Wizard Books acquired the rights to the Fighting Fantasy series and reprinted many of the original titles in a revised order to fit the reduced number of books ( initially only the gamebooks by Jackson and Livingstone were published ) and to incorporate the Sorcery!

De Camp's personal library of about 1, 200 books was acquired for auction by Half Price Books in 2005.

In 1989, Frederick Warne, a division of Penguin Books since 1983, acquired the Flower Fairies properties.

Golden Books Family Entertainment was acquired by Classic Media Inc. and Random House in a bankruptcy auction for $ 84. 4 million on August 16, 2001, with Classic gaining rights to Golden's film and TV library ( including Lamb Chop, Lassie, the pre-1974 Rankin / Bass library, among other titles ) as well as the production, licensing and merchandising rights for Golden's characters, while Random House grabbed Golden's publishing rights.

DragonQuest appeared in four editions: first edition and second edition, a revised second edition in conjunction with Bantam Books, and a third edition published by TSR when they acquired SPI.

In March 2011, the New Zealand branch of Penguin Books acquired the rights to publish three new editions of Frame's work.

The American publishers Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and Pantheon Books were acquired by Random House in 1960 and 1961, respectively ; works continue to be published under these imprints with editorial independence, such as Everyman's Library, a series of classical literature reprints.

The series is now published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., which acquired Hungry Minds ( the new name for IDG Books as of 2000 ) in early 2001.

Longman was acquired in 1968 by Pearson, the global publisher ( owner of Penguin Books and Financial Times ).

John Wiley & Sons acquired IDG Books ( renamed Hungry Minds ) in 2001.

When Smithbooks was acquired by Chapters Books Inc., it became the Chapters / Books in Canada First Novel Award.

The award was reorganized when Books in Canada was acquired by Adrian and Olga Stein in 1995.

He has also acquired the rights to produce a film based on the popular role playing game by Palladium Books, Rifts.

When Classic Media took over Golden Books, it acquired the underlying rights to Underdog.

The publishing rights were later acquired in June, 2003, by Green Key Books of Holiday, Florida, and in 2008 rights to God's Word were acquired by Baker Publishing Group.

Books were acquired mostly through donations.

In June 2010 Obverse Books, publishers of the Iris Wildthyme short story anthologies, announced that it had also acquired a license to produce collections of Faction Paradox short stories and longer fiction.

In 1989, the rights were acquired by Morris Genealogical Books, who brought out a thoroughly revised two volume 106th edition in 1999.

On September 29, 2011, it was announced that the CBLDF acquired intellectual property rights of the Comics Code Authority seal from the now-defunct Comics Magazine Association of America ; the sale coincided with Banned Books Week.

In 2006, the Ebury Publishing division of Random House acquired a majority shareholding in BBC Books.

In September 2009, Rebellion acquired Solaris Books from Games Workshop.