, Dungeons & Dragons remained the best-known and best-selling role-playing game, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US $ 1 billion in book and equipment sales.

On 1 April, the city celebrates the publication of his best-known book The Praise of Folly.

Irenaeus ' best-known book, Adversus Haereses or Against Heresies ( c. 180 ) is a detailed attack on Gnosticism, which was then a serious threat to the Church, and especially on the system of the Gnostic Valentinus.

Machiavelli's best-known book, " Il Principe ," contains a number of maxims concerning politics, but rather than the more traditional subject of a hereditary prince, it concentrates on the possibility of a " new prince.

His best-known work was a book on education, De Disciplinis, published in 1531, and his writings on rhetoric included Rhetoricae, sive De Ratione Dicendi, Libri Tres ( 1533 ), De Consultatione ( 1533 ), and a rhetoric on letter writing, De Conscribendis Epistolas ( 1536 ).

Published in 1846, Typee was Melville's first book, and made him one of the best-known American authors overnight.

Perhaps its best-known appearance is in Lewis Carroll's whimsical poem " The Walrus and the Carpenter " that appears in his 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass.

Most of his best-known artworks are relatively close, but not exact, copies of comic book panels, a subject he largely abandoned in 1965.

Hoare in the influential book Structured Programming of 1972 by Dahl, Edsger Dijkstra and Hoare, perhaps the best-known academic book concerning software in the 1970s.

One of the best-known works on the history of HIV is 1987's book And the Band Played On, by Randy Shilts.

In New Zealand, the writings of one chief, Wiremu Te Rangikāheke, formed the basis of much of Governor George Grey's Polynesian Mythology, a book which to this day provides the de facto official versions of many of the best-known Māori legends.

In his best-known book, The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages ( 1971, with numerous reprints ), Lopez argued that the key contribution of the medieval period to European history was the creation of a commercial economy, centered at first in the Italo-Byzantine eastern Mediterranean, but eventually extending to the Italian city-states and over the rest of Europe.

Condorito remains the best-known Chilean comic book character.

Her best-known book, The Camomile Lawn, set on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, was turned into a television series, and is an account of the intertwining lives of three families in rural England during World War II.

In the autumn of 1928, Kästner published his best-known children's book, Emil und die Detektive ( Emil and the Detectives ).

Two years later Grey produced his best-known book, Riders of the Purple Sage ( 1912 ), his all-time best-seller, and one of the most successful Western novels of all.

The best-known of these accounts is provided by the opening paragraph of his 1918 book Jungle Peace:

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey's best-known book, has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide since its first publication in 1989.

These events were recalled in his best-known book Paper Lion, which was later adapted into a feature film starring Alan Alda, released in 1968.

Janosch ( real name Horst Eckert ) ( born March 11, 1931 ) is one of the best-known German artists and children's book authors.

At first only planning a short book on nationalism, he started work on Nationalism and Culture, which would be published in 1937 and become one of Rocker's best-known works, around 1925.

His best-known book is the Panarion which means " medicine-chest " ( also known as Adversus Haereses, " Against Heresies "), presented as a book of antidotes for those bitten by the serpent of heresy.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).

It was during this time that he mentored Fernand Braudel, who would become one of the best-known exponents of this school.

An image of the Indian rhinoceros, the image has such force that it remains one of his best-known and was still used in some German school science text-books as late as last century.

The show's best-known and Sondheim's biggest hit song was almost an afterthought, written several days before the start of out of town tryouts.

She was one of the best-known sex symbols of the 1960s.

Among the famous mathematicians and cryptanalysts working there, the most influential and the best-known in later years was Alan Turing who is widely credited with being " The Father of Computer Science ".

One of the best-known of these was the English standard of candlepower.

Among his best-known films are Cleopatra ; Samson and Delilah ; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful film.

The best-known of these was the Twitchell Case in Massachusetts, in which parents David and Ginger Twitchell were convicted in 1990 of involuntary manslaughter in the death of their two-year-old son Robyn, who succumbed to a bowel obstruction.

The best-known FDD for the C64, the 1541 was a single-sided 170 kilobyte drive for 5¼ " disks.

He worked with an octet ( the recording bears his name only because Brubeck was the best-known member at the time ), and a trio including Cal Tjader and Ron Crotty.

It was not until 2004 that Reprise Records released a single-disc retrospective of his best-known tracks, titled Greatest Hits.

One of the best-known draugr in the modern world is Glámr, who was defeated by the hero of the Grettis Saga.

Atchison's law practice flourished, and his best-known client was Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr .. Atchison represented Smith in land disputes with non-Mormon settlers in Caldwell County and Daviess County.

The best-known of these women was actress Eve Arden.

The most famous early practitioner of progressive education was Francis Parker ; its best-known spokesperson was the philosopher John Dewey.

Erasmus's best-known work was The Praise of Folly ( published under the double title Moriae encomium ( Greek, Latinised ) and Laus stultitiae ( Latin )).

Among the wave of EC fanzines that followed, the best-known was Ron Parker's Hoo-Hah !.

This epistle contains some of the best-known phrases in the New Testament, including ( depending on the translation ) " all things to all men " ( 9: 22 ), " without love, I am nothing " ( 13: 2 ), " through a glass, darkly " ( 13: 12 ), and " when I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child " ( 13: 11 ).

For the next four years Orwell mixed journalistic work – mainly for Tribune, The Observer and the Manchester Evening News, though he also contributed to many small-circulation political and literary magazines – with writing his best-known work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was published in 1949.

Paula Maxa was one of the Grand Guignol's best-known performers.

Another writer in this tradition was Henry Farrell whose best-known work was the Hollywood horror novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?