This calculated duality means that Contarini ’ s doge, which the second book of De magistratibus is almost entirely devoted to discussing, represents the closest point in his text to what actually occurred, because the Doge served as a literal embodiment of the idealisation of the reality of Venetian politics.

The following month, DC Comics premiered American Vampire, a monthly comic book series written by King with short story writer Scott Snyder, and illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque, which represents King's first original comics work.

A book released in 2012, Tourism and Archaeological Heritage Management at Petra: Driver to Development or Destruction ?, represents the first in a series of important books to address the very nature of these deteriorating buildings, cites, sites, and regions.

John Clute, for The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ( in which capitalized typesetting represents literary themes and categories for that book ), wrote: " an ANIMAL FANTASY about a philosophical gull who is profoundly affected by FLYING, but who demands too much of his community and is cast out by it.

The excess over 100 % ( or overround ) represents profit to the bookmaker in the event of a balanced / even book.

For example, consider an address book entry that represents a single person along with zero or more phone numbers and zero or more addresses.

The statue represents a university student who, while reading a book, lets wisdom flow into his head as liquid from a glass.

# It represents a book on alchemy.

John Bishop has been the most vocal supporter of treating Finnegans Wake absolutely, in every sense, as a description of a dream, the dreamer, and of the night itself ; arguing that the book not only represents a dream in an abstract conception, but is fully a literary representation of sleep.

The book represents a predestination philosophy.

For example, the Toledo Blade reported that the book “ is a faithful portraiture of the conditions it represents, showing how the tangle of human life is knotted thread by thread ” but that it was “ too realistic, too somber to be altogether pleasing ”.

In Beethoven: The Last Decade 1817 – 1827, Martin Cooper writes, " The variety of treatment is almost without parallel, so that the work represents a book of advanced studies in Beethoven's manner of expression and his use of the keyboard, as well as a monumental work in its own right ".

The Chicago Manual of Style, followed by many book publishers and magazines in the United States, recommends Webster's Third, along with Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary for " general matters of spelling ", and the style book " normally opts for " the first spelling listed ( with the Collegiate taking precedence over Webster's Third because it " represents the latest research ").

George sides with the nuclear disarmament side of the debate and the only character in the book with vociferous views on the subject, the daughter of the lead character, probably represents his own views.

Fundamentally, analytical bibliography is concerned with objective, physical analysis and history of a book while descriptive bibliography employs all data that analytical bibliography furnishes and then codifies it with a view to identifying the ideal copy or form of a book that most nearly represents the printer ’ s initial conception and intention in printing.

The book represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction.

In Masami Kurumada's Saint Seiya comic book, which is inspired by Greek myths, the character Perseus Algol is one of the warriors known as the Saints of Athena, and he wears an armor known as the Perseus Cloth, which represents the mythological figure and also his constellation.

While Mind and World represents an important contemporary development of a Kantian approach to philosophy of mind and metaphysics, one or two of the uncharitable interpretations of Kant's work in that book receive important revisions in McDowell's later Woodbridge Lectures, published in the Journal of Philosophy, Vol.

In his 1970 book Do It: Scenarios of the Revolution, American activist Jerry Rubin wrote " All money represents theft ... shoplifting gets you high.

Examples of other media which take part in metafictiveness are Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick in Li ' l Abner, the Tales of the Black Freighter in Watchmen, or the Itchy and Scratchy Show within The Simpsons, as well as the computer game Myst in which the player represents a person who has found a book named Myst and been transported inside it.

Seth Lerer, in his book Children ’ s Literature, finds that Charlotte represents female authorship and creativity, and compares her to other female characters in children ’ s literature such as Jo March in Little Women and Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden.

Among members of Alcoholic Anonymous, the name John Barleycorn, represents the demon of alcoholism, as the name is represented in the Big Book, " Alchoholics Anonymous " as well as the book, " 12 Steps & 12 Traditions ", which are the main books of the organization.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

Apart from the lost Handboc or Encheiridion, which seems to have been a commonplace book kept by the king, the earliest work to be translated was the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, a book greatly popular in the Middle Ages.

The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE ; this sets an earliest possible date for the book.

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.

The combined book Ezra-Nehemiah of the earliest Christian and Jewish period was known as Ezra and was probably attributed to him ; according to a rabbinic tradition, however, Nehemiah was the real author but was forbidden to claim authorship because of his bad habit of disparaging others.

The earliest citation for " big apple " is the 1909 book The Wayfarer in New York, by Edward Martin, writing: " Kansas is apt to see in New York a greedy city.

The Exhortation and Litany, the earliest English-language service book of the Church of England, was the first overt manifestation of his changing views.

One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

The book publisher Berkley in 1977 issued three volumes using the earliest published form of the texts from Weird Tales, but these failed to displace the edited versions.

The earliest hymn book published was the " Sacred Melodist " which was published by Benjamin Wilson in Geneva, Illinois in 1860.

As such the book offered one of the earliest published versions of the Stab-in-the-back legend.

His book includes the earliest known reference to roux using pork fat.

His principal book, the Kitab al-Muwatta, is one of the earliest surviving books on hadith and fiqh.

The earliest known source for the story thus far is the 1834 book Der Jüdische Gil Blas by Josef Seligman Kohn.

A Buddhist scripture printed in 868 is the earliest known printed book.

The very earliest published work on growing terrestrial plants without soil was the 1627 book Sylva Sylvarum by Francis Bacon, printed a year after his death.

The earliest written record of inoculation is thought to be found in 8th century India, when Madhav wrote the Nidāna, a 79-chapter book which lists diseases along with their causes, symptoms, and complications.

The Liber Memorialis is an ancient book in Latin featuring an extremely concise summary — a kind of index — of universal history from earliest times to the reign of Trajan.

The book contains the earliest known description of some of these games, including many games imported from the Arab kingdoms.

The earliest known explicit Renaissance depiction is one of the many woodcut illustrations to Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a book published in Venice in 1499.

The earliest printed book from the Netherlands that has been dated with any certainty is from 1473.