He appealed to ALA members to donate books and volunteer for service, and by June 1918 the association had purchased 300, 000 books, sent 1, 349, 000 gift books to camps, and distributed 500, 000 magazines .” In the time after World War I, the services of the Library of Congress towards the war effort provided a new outlook for the American public on the possibilities of what a successful library could accomplish.

That aggressive research — tracking rebel guerrillas in the Peruvian jungle at age 67 for The Evening News ( 1990 ), or reading 27 books on the hotel industry for Hotel — gave his novels a realism that appealed to readers, even as some critics complained that he used it to disguise a lack of literary talent.

Gaines ' comics may have appealed to adults, but comic books were ( and to a degree, still are ) considered by the general public to be aimed at children.

These books strongly appealed to the English upper classes in the late fifteenth century.

The first two books appealed to many readers as a realistic and humorous treatment of the inner life of an adolescent boy.

Claiming that there were discrepancies between the total number of ballots cast and the number of signatures in the poolling books, Pfeifer appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court to review the results, but the court refused.

Bryan appealed for assistance to George McCready Price, Johns Hopkins University physician Howard A. Kelly, physicist Louis T. More, and Alfred W. McCann, all of who had written books supporting creationism.

By the time Harper & Row purchased the company in 1969, Basic was renowned for producing intellectual books that appealed to both the academic and trade markets.

She had a stint illustrating books, but soon began writing her own stories, inspired by the sorts of stories that had appealed to the deprived children she had worked with.

Godin decided to create books that appealed to children who played video games.

His books appealed to the Iraqis: for he had written resistance against occupiers, urged Muslims to comply with the Qur ' an, but appealed to them to study modern science to keep apace with the West.

It is danced by some thirty-five men and no women, and it contains everything in the books -- lusty comedy, gregarious cavorting, and tricks that only madmen or Russians would attempt to make the human body perform.

Alfred sought to remedy this through an ambitious court-centred programme of translating into English the books he deemed " most necessary for all men to know.

Also in these books, Athanasius put forward the belief that the Son of God, the eternal Word through whom God created the world, entered that world in human form to lead men back into the harmony from which they had earlier fallen away.

He met Engels in Paris, and the two men worked together on a series of books.

Historically, the Christian church and lay-people have believed that more women than men are involved in paganism and witchcraft, which can be seen as far back as 1487 with the printing of the Malleus Maleficarum Several modern authors of Wiccan books state that, in current Wicca, the situation is the same.

Traditionally, four prophets are believed to have been sent holy books: the Tawrat ( Torah ) to Moses, the Zabur ( Psalms ) to David, the Injil ( Gospel ) to Jesus, and the Qur ' an to Muhammad ; those prophets are considered " messengers " or rasul ( Ule al A ' zm men al Rusul أولي العزم من الرسل ).

These books, which he describes as " an enormous and cohesive literature by and for gay men ", have not been reissued and are lost to later generations.

In the United States, in particular, the canon has been attacked as a compendium of books written mainly by " dead European men ", that does not represent the viewpoints of many in contemporary societies around the world.

* September 25 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspector Dr. Diane Seaman catches several Iraqi men sneaking out the back door of an inspection site, with log books for the creation of prohibited bacteria and chemicals.

: In composing the sacred books, God chose men and while employed by Him

That is known only to God, and perhaps to wise men learned in books ".

The widespread practice is that on the first Sabbath of his thirteenth year, a boy is called up to read from the weekly portion of the Law ( five books of Moses ), either as one of the first seven men or as the last, in which case he will read the closing verses and the Haftarah ( selections from the books of the Prophets ); and if he is unable to read, to recite at least the benediction before and after the reading.

What if there were serious men in long coats that came to your house and fetched the books if you did not return them in time?

In Tolkien's books, it was mostly populated by men, but hobbit servants worked at the Prancing Pony Inn and special hobbit-sized rooms were available there ; there were also some hobbit homes on the hill.

Stewart Holbrook documented the emergence and westward migration of the classic American lumberjack in his first book, Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack, and often wrote colorfully about lumberjacks in his subsequent books, romanticizing them as hard-drinking, hard-working men.

He carried his enquiries so far into the occult sciences of abstruse and hidden nature, that, after having given most ample proofs, by his writings concerning physiognomy, geomancy, and chiromancy, he moved on to the study of philosophy, physics, and astrology ; which studies proved so advantageous to him, that, not to speak of the two first, which introduced him to all the popes of his time, and acquired him a reputation among learned men, it is certain that he was a great master in the latter, which appears not only by the astronomical figures he had painted in the great hall of the palace at Padua, and the translations he made of the books of the most learned rabbi Abraham Aben Ezra, added to those he himself composed on critical days, and the improvement of astronomy, but by the testimony of the renowned mathematician Regiomontanus, who made a fine panegyric on him, in quality of an astrologer, in the oration he delivered publicly at Padua when he explained there the book of Alfraganus.

Wild men in the Middle Ages, New York: Octagon books, 1979, ISBN 0-374-90616-5

" Although the books share little in terms of plot and narrative, they all examine the lives of middle-aged men, exploring the sordid, debauched, and post-apocalyptic undercurrents of life in late 20th-century Britain.

* Alan Cantwell, in self-published books entitled AIDS and the Doctors of Death: An Inquiry into the Origin of the AIDS Epidemic and Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot, says that HIV is a genetically modified organism developed by U. S. Government scientists and that it was introduced into the population through Hepatitis B experiments performed on gay and bisexual men between 1978 – 1981 in major U. S. cities.

The books featured celebrities, as well as everyday men and women, including his mother, in makeup and costume ( and sometimes prosthetics ) designed to make them look like other celebrities or historical figures.

In the last 10 years or so, the interest in these banners has been rekindled, and many books, videos, postcards and the like have been produced to help people rediscover and celebrate this part of the history of working men and women.

Along with this the high-ranking men heavily studied books filled with tactics and drills to better themselves in leading the others.

" One review of published children's books and popular artwork found the tooth fairy to also be depicted as a child with wings, a pixie, a dragon, a blue mother-figure, a flying ballerina, two little old men, a dental hygenist, a potbellied flying man smoking a cigar, a bat, a bear and others.

From that time, he resided permanently in Italy, doing much, by his patronage of learned men, by his collection of books and manuscripts, and by his own writings, to spread abroad the new learning.

However, with increasing availability, people lower down the social scale and women began to have access to books on magic ; this was often incorporated into the popular folk magic of the average people, and in particular that of the cunning folk, who were professionally involved in folk magic.

In 1934, she earned a Ph. D. in mathematics from Yale under the direction of Øystein Ore .< ref > Though some books, including Kurt Beyer's Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, reported that Hopper was the first woman to earn a Yale PhD in mathematics, the first of ten women prior to 1934 was Charlotte Cynthia Barnum ( 1860-1934 ).

In about 1791 Utamaro gave up designing prints for books and concentrated on making single portraits of women displayed in half-length, rather than the prints of women in groups favoured by other ukiyo-e artists.

This part of his life remains hazy: it is hardly ever mentioned in the books set in the same period ; most of the scanty information on the subject is given in flashbacks from later times, after he met Harriet Vane and relations with other women became a closed chapter.

Gold Medal Books was overwhelmed with mail from women writing about the subject matter, and followed with more books, creating the genre of lesbian pulp fiction.

Many of the books used cultural references: naming places, terms, describing modes of dress and other codes to isolated women.

: The Western World will find out much more about the situation in Poland from hearing that I was sent to jail for handing out sanitary pads to women, than from reading books and articles written by other members of the opposition.

The series is noteworthy for its appeal to a non-traditional audience, in particular women who would not ordinarily consider themselves readers of comic books.

Earlier books such as What Every Girl Should Know ( Margaret Sanger, 1920 ) and A Marriage Manual ( Hannah and Abraham Stone, 1939 ) had broken the silence in which many people, women in particular, had grown up in.

In addition to having twelve children, writing books, helping companies with their management skills, and managing women consumers, Lillian was instrumental in the design of a desk in 1933 ( in cooperation with IBM ) for display at the Chicago World ’ s Fair.

In the 17th century, Murasaki's work became emblematic of Confucian philosophy and women were encouraged to read her books.

Henry de Monfreid stated in his books that before World War II, in the Horn of Africa, whips were made from the tail of big stingrays, and these devices inflicted cruel cuts, so in Aden the British forbade their use on women and slaves.

In the 1830s, Lydia Maria Child wrote to encourage women to write a will, and Frances Wright wrote books on women's rights and social reform.

These women are sometimes window dressing, sometimes pivotal characters in the unpredictable twists and turns of the books.

Despite this positive reaction from readers, for decades literary critics dismissed the style found in Uncle Tom's Cabin and other sentimental novels because these books were written by women and so prominently featured " women's sloppy emotions.

More than half of these anti-Tom books were written by white women, with Simms commenting at one point about the " Seemingly poetic justice of having the Northern woman ( Stowe ) answered by a Southern woman.

" Aegea " is found in modern baby-name books and carried by some contemporary women.

That is not to say they thought books which treated women badly couldn't be good, they simply felt that the author should make it clear he didn't favour or bless that sort of treatment.

In 1903 she wrote one of her most critically acclaimed books, The Home: Its Work and Influence, which expanded upon Women and Economics, proposing that women are oppressed in their home and that the environment in which they live needs to be modified in order to be healthy for their mental states.

These women have authored many books depicting Italian American women in a new light.