The strip began as a specific parody of the comic book itself, set loosely within the office structure of Dilbert, with Hörnell doing an emulation of Adams ' cartooning style.

* Slapped Together: The Dilbert Business Anthology ( The Dilbert Principle, The Dilbert Future, and The Joy of Work, published together in one book )

In 1996 The Dilbert Principle was released, his first business book.

Adams then expanded his study of the Dilbert principle in a satirical 1996 book of the same name, which is required or recommended reading at some management and business programs.

In the book, Adams writes that, in terms of effectiveness, use of the Dilbert principle is akin to a band of gorillas choosing an alpha-squirrel to lead them.

The Joy of Work ( 1998 ) by Scott Adams is a two-part book, the first offering recommendations as to how office workers can find happiness at their cubicle desks and the second sharing Adams ' formula for creating humor, based on his experience penning the Dilbert comic strip.

The book includes a response to Norman Solomon, who attempted to depict Scott Adams as a proponent of downsizing in his 1997 book, The Trouble with Dilbert.

The Dilbert Future ( 1997 ) is a book published by Scott Adams as a satire of humanity that breaks the net motivations of humanity down into stupidity, selfishness, and " horniness ", and presents various ideas for profiting from human nature.

Scott Adams did publish in issue 15 of his Dilbert Newsletter ( sent to all members of Dogbert's New Ruling Class ) an excerpt from this book with permission for it to be re-published ( if kept with the copyright text ).

Given Adams ' fame as the author of the Dilbert comics, publishers were wary of publishing any book by Adams without Dilbert content.

Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel is a satirical Dilbert book written by Scott Adams.

The book was largely considered to be a rehash of Adams ' other books, most notably The Dilbert Principle.

Sales were further hampered by the backfiring of Adams ' announcement that he would dedicate a strip to Dilbert having sex if the book became the number one seller on Amazon. com, a marketing promotion that Adams himself characterized as " what will someday be hailed as the worst idea of the century.

Dilbert author Scott Adams responded in his 1999 book The Joy of Work, which included an imaginary interview between Norman and Adams ' canine character Dogbert.

Hierarchiology is the term coined by Dr. Laurence J. Peter, originator of the Peter Principle described in his humorous book of the same name, to refer to the study of hierarchical organizations and the behavior of their members.

It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise, which also introduced the " salutary science of hierarchiology.

The satirist D. Dolson Dolson has argued in his book Rule Zero that the Peter Principle is in fact not really applicable, because it implicitly assumes that higher levels of competence are required at higher levels of an organization.

In their influential book The Kingdom of the Cults ( first published in 1965 ), Walter Ralston Martin and Ravi K. Zacharias disagreed with the Divine Principle on the issues of the divinity of Christ, the virgin birth of Jesus, the Unification Church's belief that Jesus should have married, the necessity of the crucifixion of Jesus, and a literal resurrection of Jesus as well as a literal second coming of Jesus.

* Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull publish their book The Peter Principle: why things always go wrong in New York.

The book echoes some of the concerns and predictions of Thomas Malthus in An Essay on the Principle of Population ( 1798 ).

He appropriated the decorated borders for use in his book Jaloj Kexoj and PHI-64: The Dual Principle Core Paradigm of Mayan Time Philosophy and its Conceptual Parallel in Old World Thought ( 1994 ) and also a version republished with modifications as Mayan Sacred Science ( 1994 ).

Hierarchies were satirized in The Peter Principle ( 1969 ), a book that introduced hierarchiology and the saying that " in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

The Divine Principle, the central book of Unification Church teaching, asserts that love is the strongest force in the universe, more powerful than law or principle, and true love is Unificationism's highest value.

A related principle is the " Dolson Principle ," formulated by The satirist D. Dolson Dolson in his book " Rule Zero.

In his book, The Peter Principle, Laurence J. Peter explains " percussive sublimation ", the act of kicking a person upstairs ( i. e. promoting him to management ) to get him out of the way of productive employees.

In his short book Essai sur le principe générateur des constitutions politiques et des autres institutions humaines (" Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and other Human Institutions ," 1809 ), Maistre argued that constitutions are not the product of human reason, but come from God, who slowly brings them to maturity.

Eric S. Raymond, in his book The Art of Unix Programming, summarizes the Unix philosophy as the widely-used KISS Principle of " Keep it Simple, Stupid.

* Principle of computational equivalence, a concept developed by Stephen Wolfram published in the book A New Kind of Science

Elliott published his theory of market behavior in the book The Wave Principle in 1938, summarized it in a series of articles in Financial World magazine in 1939, and covered it most comprehensively in his final major work, Nature ’ s Laws: The Secret of the Universe in 1946.

In 2007, Kamm published a book that presents new theory that incorporates aspects of her " Principle of Permissible Harm ", the " Doctrine of Productive Purity ".

In his introduction to Lupasco ’ s The Principle of Antagonism and the Logic of Energy, Nicolescu points out that once the reader gets beyond the ( relatively few ) mathematical formulas in this book, Lupasco ’ s language is perfectly accessible.

Rudhyar gave the subtitle " A New Principle of Musical and Social Organization " to his book Dissonant Harmony, writing, " Dissonant music is thus the music of true and spiritual Democracy ; the music of universal brotherhoods ; music of Free Souls, not of personalities.

While still a young man, he wrote a substantial book called The Principle of Contradiction.

Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System: The book has sometimes been described as a critique of mercantilism and a synthesis of the emerging economic thinking of Smith's time.

* The Zulu Principle, a 1992 book on financial investment

In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).

* 1960 – Batem, French comic book artist

* Ambrós ( Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza ( 31 August 1913 – 30 September 1992 )), a distinguished comic strip cartoonist, most famous for the comic book series Capitán Trueno ( Captain Thunder ).

* 1953 – James Vance, American comic book writer, author and playwright

* 1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.

* 1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

A Chinese book on houseplants written in 1st – 3rd centuries BC mentioned a medical use of Ephedra and opium poppies.

* 1971 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist ( d. 2008 )

* 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics # 27 ; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.

In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).

The book, initially anonymous, was purportedly written by a " man of fashion " – someone who moved in high society.

Jenkinson's book ( p. 374 – 375 ) lists 78 foul balls near the foul pole in Ruth's career, claiming that at least 50 of them were likely to have been home runs under the modern rule.

Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.

The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.

This idea was already rejected as untenable by John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ), and by the time of Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) it was recognised that the book must have been written much later than the period it depicted.

Justin Martyr ( c. 100 – 165 AD ) who was acquainted with Polycarp, who had been mentored by John, makes a possible allusion to this book, and credits John as the source.

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

Domitian, according to Eusebius of Caesarea ( c. 263 – 339 ), started the persecution referred to in the book.

The traditional ascription of the whole book to the prophet Joel was challenged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by a theory of a three stage process of composition: 1: 1 – 2: 27 were from the hand of Joel, and dealt with a contemporary issue ; 2: 28 – 3: 21 were ascribed to a continuator with an apocalyptic outlook.