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Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.
And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).
On the way they tried to discover all they could about Burma, and they were disturbed to find that Michael Symes's book had not presented an altogether true picture.
To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.
This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.
Screwed, stewed, and tattooed, as Krim might say after reading a book about sailors.
He knew all about it and had put it down in journal form in The War In A Black Shirt, a wonderful book not, for some strange reason, published in the U.S..
William Sansom writes only about Europe in this book and frequently of such familiar places as London, Vienna, the French Riviera and the Norwegian fjords.
the book was a fine historical novel about Edward 3,, and I did a week of research to get the details just right: the fifteenth-century armor, furnishings, clothes.
There are two things here about Surviving in the Wilderness, and a book called ' Tom Swift and His Speedy Canoe ' ; ;
She asked him and, laughing, she added, `` I was nervous about buying a book with a title like that, but I knew you'd like it ''.
* Barbara Younger has written a children's book about the writing of the song: Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and " America the Beautiful ".
* A book about flora and / or fauna of an area or region ( see for example Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland )
He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.
Simultaneous with debates about social theology and ethics, the Anglican Communion has debated prayer book revision and the acceptable grounds for achieving full communion with non-Anglican churches.
He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.
In 2008, Penny Sartori, an intensive care nurse from Swansea, published a book about near death experiences following 10 years of research.
However, the book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, which has long been ascribed to Aristarchus, says that he calculated the distance to the sun to be between 18 and 20 times the distance to the Moon, whereas the true ratio is about 389. 174.
Alcott asked Niles if he would publish a book of short stories by his daughter ; instead, he suggested she write a book about girls.
Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

book and discovery
This reviewer read the book when it was first brought out in England with a sense of discovery and excitement.
Their magnum opus, a book claiming a complete and detailed proof ( with a microfiche supplement of over 400 pages ), appeared in 1989 and explained Schmidt's discovery and several further errors found by others.
In addition, the story partly concerns the discovery of Aristotle's book on Comedy, which is in fact a lost book.
George Papashvily in his book Anything Can Happen ( 1940 ), claimed that there was a discovery in the Caucasus mountains of a cavern containing giant human skeletons " with heads as big as bushel baskets " and also of an ancient tunnel nearby which leads down into the inside of the earth.
The emergence of nanotechnology in the 1980s was caused by the convergence of experimental advances such as the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope in 1981 and the discovery of fullerenes in 1985, with the elucidation and popularization of a conceptual framework for the goals of nanotechnology beginning with the 1986 publication of the book Engines of Creation.
The book describes the scientific discovery, scenic tropical vistas, and exotic flora and fauna experienced during the adventure.
He wrote the story of the discovery in 1853 in his autobiographical book Gum-Elastica.
The book is about Prentice's journey of discovery about himself, those he loves, and the ways of the world.
The book examines the personality of Georg Steller and depicts the Kamchatka expedition during which the discovery of the Steller's sea cow was made.
The Vinland Map first came to light in 1957 ( three years before the discovery of the Norse site at L ' Anse aux Meadows in 1960 ), bound in a slim volume with a short medieval text called the Hystoria Tartarorum ( usually called in English the Tartar Relation ), and was unsuccessfully offered to the British Museum by London book dealer Irving Davis on behalf of a Spanish-Italian dealer named Enzo Ferrajoli de Ry.
In his book The Keyboard Music of J. S. Bach the scholar and keyboardist David Schulenberg notes that the discovery " surprised twentieth-century commentators who supposed gigues were always fast and fleeting.
In a preface to the first book, Fraser described the discovery of General Flashman's memoirs in an antique tea-chest in a Leicestershire saleroom in 1965.
In a translation of an ancient Nabataean text by Kuthami the Babylonian, Ibn Wahshiyya ( c. 9th-10th century AD ), adds information on his own efforts to ascertain the identity of Tammuz, and his discovery of the full details of the legend of Tammuz in another Nabataean book: " How he summoned the king to worship the seven ( planets ) and the twelve ( signs ) and how the king put him to death several times in a cruel manner Tammuz coming to life again after each time, until at last he died ; and behold!
Every book in the Hebrew Bible was represented in this discovery except Esther.
By scanning the enormous content of the Internet, some computers " know " literally every single piece of public information ( every scientific discovery, every book and movie, every public statement, etc.
After the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic in 1985 sparked a new wave of public interest in the disaster he wrote a follow-up book, The Night Lives On ( 1986 ).
Although Eddy claimed to have first privately published biblical studies as early as 1862 ( Eddy, 1934: pp. viii: 24 – 32 ), she wrote that her discovery of Christian Science, which inspired the book, took place in 1866.
In 1875, after several years of testing the effectiveness of her healing method, Mary published her discovery in a book entitled Science and Health ( years later retitled Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures ), which she called the textbook of Christian Science.
" An editor's enthusiasm is soon chilled by the discovery that Isidore's book is really a mosaic of pieces borrowed from previous writers, sacred and profane, often their ' ipsa verba ' without alteration ," W. M. Lindsay noted in 1911, having recently edited Isidore for the Clarendon Press, with the further observation, however, that a portion of the texts quoted have otherwise been lost: the Prata of Suetonius can only be reconstructed from Isidore's excerpts.
The discovery in 1822 of large parts of Cicero's De re publica was one of the first major recoveries of an ancient text from a palimpsest, while the most famous recent example is the discovery of the Archimedes palimpsest ( hidden in a much later prayer book ).
" The attribution of the line to Barrington is considered apocryphal since the 1911 discovery by Sydney book collector Alfred Lee of the 1802 book in which the line first appeared.

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