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While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
In a recent book called `` World Peace Through World Law '', two distinguished lawyers, Grenville Clark and Louis Sohn, call for just such an overhaul of the U.N., basing their case on the world-wide fear of a nuclear holocaust.
David Roberts, in his book " In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest ", explained his reason for using the term " Anasazi " over a term using " Puebloan ", noting that the latter term " derives from the language of an oppressor who treated the indigenes of the Southwest far more brutally than the Navajo ever did.
Braudel's first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ) was his most influential.
The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a soldier who — urged on by his school teacher — joins the German army shortly after the start of World War I. Bäumer arrives at the Western Front with his friends and schoolmates ( Tjaden, Müller, Kropp and a number of other characters ).
A memorial pipe organ in Convovation Hall, Acadia University is dedicated to the members of Acadia University killed during the First World War A book of remembrance in Manning Chapel, Acadia University was unveiled on 1 March 1998 through the efforts of the Wolfville Historical Society
Green Archaeoastronomy is named after the cover of the book Archaeoastronomy in the Old World.
In addition, El Lissitzky's book Russia: an Architecture for World Revolution published in German in 1930 featured several illustrations of Vkhutemas / Vkhutein projects there.
Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.
Since the turn of the millennium, notable successes among cult and midnight movies have been Donnie Darko ( 2001 ), the 2001 comedy Wet Hot American Summer, an absurdist parody of the pre-MTV summer camp genre, and the comic book adaptation Ghost World.
In his book Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, James Bradley details several instances of cannibalism of World War II Allied prisoners by their Japanese captors.
Derek Parfit described Brad Hooker's book on rule-consequentialism Ideal Code, Real World as the " best statement and defence, so far, of one of the most important moral theories.
The company's effort to regain its footing is the subject of Tom Barbash's 2003 book On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9 / 11: A Story of Loss and Renewal.
The progression of the nickname can be seen in the book The Addicks Cartoons: An Affectionate Look into the Early History of Charlton Athletic, which covers the pre-First World War history of Charlton through a narrative based on 56 cartoons which appeared in the now defunct Kentish Independent.
Sagan's book, The Demon-Haunted World ( 1996 ), included his memories of this conflicted period, when his family dealt with the realities of the war in Europe, but tried to prevent it from undermining his optimistic spirit.
On 17 September 2010 Coronation Street entered the Guinness World Records book as the world's longest-running television soap opera after the American soap opera As the World Turns had its final episode.
Upon reading Calef's More Wonders of the Invisible World, Increase Mather publicly burned the book in Harvard Yard.
His book Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic adventure, and inspired many others to take to the seas.
This includes three of Engelbart's key papers, edited into book form by Yuri Rubinsky and Christina Engelbart to commemorate the presentation of the 1995 SoftQuad Web Award to Doug Engelbart at the World Wide Web conference in Boston in December 1995.
In 2009, the World Union of Deists published a book on deism, Deism: A Revolution in Religion, A Revolution in You written by its founder and director, Bob Johnson.

book and Pooh
A. Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner.
He is the only new major character to be introduced in The House at Pooh Corner ; all of the others had been established in the earlier Winnie-the-Pooh book.
He also appears in Chapters V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X of that book, as well as being one of the few characters to appear in all ten chapters of The House at Pooh Corner.
In the second book, he helps build a house for Eeyore, meets Tigger, finds Small while trapped in a gravel pit, plays Poohsticks, gets lost in the mist, and helps rescue Pooh and Owl after they are trapped in Owl's fallen house.
He also appears in chapters VII, VIII, IX and X of that book, as well as in chapters III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X in The House at Pooh Corner.
" Such is the style of the book in which Roo first appeared .</ ref > to the North Pole ( and getting an impromptu swimming lesson ), attending Christopher Robin's party for Pooh, getting stuck in a tree with Tigger, and playing Poohsticks.
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, sometimes abbreviated WDC or WDC & S, is an anthology comic book series that has an assortment of Disney characters, including Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Chip ' n Dale, Lil Bad Wolf, Scamp, Bucky Bug, Grandma Duck, Brer Rabbit, Winnie the Pooh, and others.
Books include The Disney Studio Story and Mickey Mouse: His Life and Times ( with Richard Holliss ); The Land of Narnia, illustrated by Pauline Baynes ; The Treasury of Narnia ( with Alison Sage ); Shadowlands: The True Story of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman ; The Book of Guinness Advertising ; a biography of Wilbert Vere Awdry, entitled The Thomas the Tank Engine Man ; A Christmas Carol: The Unsung Story ; Cracking Animation: The Aardman book of 3-D Film-making, ( with Peter Lord ); Chicken Run: Hatching the Movie ; Three Cheers for Pooh ; and The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-earth with artist John Howe.
He is also the author of the children's book, The Frightful Food Feud, and has edited, among other books, The Pooh Sketchbook and The Pooh Book of Quotations and The Wisdom of C. S. Lewis.
The book Winnie-the-Pooh is the second in a series of books published in the 1920s about Winnie the Pooh and friends.
According to a 1998 article published in the Queens Quarterly ( 105 / 4 ), by Ross Kilpatrick entitled " Winnie the Pooh and the Canadian Connection ," the first chapter of Milne's book entitled " Winnie-the-Pooh ", was adapted by Milne from " Teddy Bear's Bee Tree ," by Canadian author Charles G. D. Roberts.
Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, by David Benedictus was the first official post-Milne Pooh book written with the full backing of A.
The Tao of Pooh is a book written by Benjamin Hoff.
The Te of Piglet is a 1992 New York Times Bestselling Taoist philosophical non-fiction book written by Benjamin Hoff as a companion to his 1982 work The Tao of Pooh.
The book goes through the other characters — Tigger, Owl, Rabbit, Eeyore and Pooh — to show the various aspects of humanity that Taoism says get in the way of living in harmony with the Tao.
The Palm Beach Post stated that although the first book was a " sleeper hit ", the Te of Piglet " falls short as a companion to Tao of Pooh ".
In 1960 HMV recorded a dramatised version with songs ( music by Harold Fraser-Simpson ) of two episodes from the book, starring Ian Carmichael as Pooh, Denise Bryer as Christopher Robin ( who also narrated ), Hugh Lloyd as Tigger, Penny Morrell as Piglet, and Terry Norris as Eeyore.
Chapter 2 was also released from Disney as a book, under the title " Winnie the Pooh meets Tigger ".
In 1968 Jefferson Airplane referenced the book in their song The House at Pooneil Corners, a surrealistic depiction of global nuclear war co-written by Paul Kantner and Marty Balin, ending with the line " Which is why a Pooh is poohing in the sun ".
* In her New Yorker review of A. A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner ( 1928 ) Dorothy Parker, writing under the book reviewer pen name Constant Reader, purposefully mimics baby talk when dismissing the book's syrupy prose style: " It is that word ' hummy ,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
Milne gave the original stuffed animals that inspired the Pooh characters to the editor of the books, who in turn donated them to the New York City Public Library ; Marjorie Taylor ( in her book Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them ) recounts how many were disappointed at this, and Milne had to explain that he preferred to concentrate on the things that currently interested him.
Although heffalumps ( elephant-like, assumingly predatory characters that were created for the Winnie-the-Pooh children's book series ) have appeared briefly in past Pooh films and programs in recent years prior to 2005, Pooh's Heffalump Movie served to be the definitive on-screen follow-up and response to 1968's Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day in regards to Winnie's nightmare about heffalumps and woozles.

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