Such ranchers as Coble and Clay and the Bosler brothers carried him on their books as a cowhand even while he was receiving a much larger salary from parties unknown.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

I used to go with Watson to call on the eminent neurologist at his apartment, to sit among the doctor's excellent collection of statues, paintings, and books and drink Oriental coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become almost affable.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

Whereas a high percentage of the regular students can be expected to read other texts which more or less plow the same ground in a little different direction, the married students chose whole books on specific areas and went into much greater detail in their areas of interest.

Narrow four-story buildings ran the length of the block like books tightly packed on a shelf.

He told the committee the measure would merely provide means of enforcing the escheat law which has been on the books `` since Texas was a republic ''.

The opinion continues here that with a 162-game schedule, pitching spread thin through a 10-team league and a most inviting target in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field Jr., Mantle just might break the most glamorous record on the books, Babe Ruth's 60 homers of 1927.

In their suburban cottage the crown charges, the Krogers received secrets from the mystery man, usually on the first Saturday evening of each month, and spent much of the week-end getting the secrets off to Moscow, either on a powerful transmitter buried under the kitchen floor or as dots posted over period marks in used books.

Public libraries in Nassau County have been lending books to each other by mail for a quarter-century, but the system enables this process to operate on an organized and far more comprehensive basis.

Sample copies of new books are on display at headquarters, where librarians may evaluate them by themselves or in workshop groups.

but, as he had a special fondness for magic and divination, he ordered that books on these subjects should be spared.

As for The Book of the Dead, it along with his other books on religion had been incarcerated in a furnace in the basement of the building in which he had lived in New York.

He then decided to become a lawyer and began teaching himself law by reading Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and other law books.

Other influential writers in the 1970s include Pierre Clastres, who explains in his books on the Guayaki tribe in Paraguay that " primitive societies " actively oppose the institution of the state.

* Sir Patrick Moore, presenter of the BBC's long-running The Sky at Night and author of many books on astronomy.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Almost all of Agatha Christie's books are whodunits, focusing on the British middle and upper classes.

Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.

CHS produces and maintains seven volumes of Tides and Water Levels books, 25 Sailing Directions books, and prints and distributes a number of publications such as the Annual Notices to Mariners and Radio Aids to Marine Navigation.

Starting in the 1980s, an expanding community of neuroscientists and psychologists have associated themselves with a field called Consciousness Studies, giving rise to a stream of experimental work published in books, journals such as Consciousness and Cognition, and methodological work published in journals such as the Journal of Consciousness Studies, along with regular conferences organized by groups such as the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

Learning is mostly done using books to Study from.

His books The Myth of Mental Illness ( 1960 ) and The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement ( 1970 ) set out some of the arguments with which he is most associated.

He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study ( Princeton ), an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has penned several books.

He is the author, coauthor, or editor of a dozen books including: A New History of Kentucky ; Kentucky: Decades of Discord, 1865 – 1900 ; Kentucky: Portrait in Paradox, 1900 – 1950 ; William Goebel: The Politics of Wrath ; The Breckinridges of Kentucky ; Our Kentucky: A Study of the Bluegrass State ; and History Mysteries.

Bernstein's books with author Warren Lehrer, ' French Fries and Grrrhhhh: A Study of Social Patterns are a part of the special books collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Louvre in Paris.

* Study Guide to Philosophical Logic and the Philosophy of Logic Annotated selection of books on the subject

It was there, under those circumstances, myself sitting near an open window, the rain occasionally blowing in and wetting my bare back, that I did my first writing ... I wrote it, as I wrote them all, complete in the one sitting ... The rest of the stories in the book came out of me on succeeding evenings, and sometimes during the day while I worked in the advertising office ..." Study of his manuscripts show that, though it is probably true that most of the stories were written within a relatively short span of time in late 1915, like a number of facts in Anderson's retelling of his writing process ( for instance, his claim that he had written the Winesburg, Ohio stories after his earlier books were already published ), it is inaccurate to say that the final versions of the stories published in 1919 were exactly the same as the ones written whole four years earlier.

He is the author of numerous publications including The Declining Significance of Race, winner of the American Sociological Association's Sydney Spivack Award ; The Truly Disadvantaged, which was selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as one of the 16 best books of 1987, and received The Washington Monthly Annual Book Award and the Society for the Study of Social Problems ' C. Wright Mills Award ; When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor, which was selected as one of the notable books of 1996 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review and received the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award ; and The Bridge Over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics.

The Center for the Study of the Great Ideas advances the Great Conversation found in the great books by providing Adler's guidance, and resource materials through both live and on-line seminars, educational and philosophical consultation, international presence on the Internet, access to the Center's library collection of books, essays, articles, journals and audio / video programs.

His latest books include ' Help Your Child Succeed At School ', ' Brilliant Memory Training ', ' Number Training Your Brain ' and ' Improve Your Memory For Study '.

He himself said that his major books are Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye ( 1954 ), Visual Thinking ( 1969 ), and The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts ( 1982 ), but it is Art and Visual Perception for which he was most widely known.

Among his books were " The Office of Lieutenant-Governor: A Study in Canadian Government and Politics ," which won the Delancey K. Jay Prize at Harvard University.

His other books in sociology and power structure research include Finding Meaning in Dreams ( 1996 ) and The Scientific Study of Dreams ( 2003 ).

* At the beginning of Study in Scarlet, the first of the Sherlock Holmes books, Dr. Watson is mentioned as having been wounded in the Second Anglo-Afghan War and invalided home.

Ji was chief editor of several books on marketing, trading and management, the most recent being " A Comparative Study of International Business Education " in 1998.

Other than A Study of War, Wright published a further 20 books and nearly 400 journal articles during his career.

Several of his books became standard texts, including Mandates Under the League of Nations ( 1930 ) and The Study of International Relations ( 1955 ).

After retiring from the Senate he wrote two books: Duty to Man: A Study of Social Conditions and How They May Be Improved and What's Wrong With the World?

Geaves has published books entitled Study of Religion written in collaboration with George Chryssides of Wolverhampton University.

In his closing years Lord Redesdale edited and wrote extensive effusive Introductions of two of Houston Stewart Chamberlain's huge books: Foundations of the Nineteenth Century and Immanuel Kant-A Study and Comparison with Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato, and Descartes, both two volumes each, translated into English by John Lees, M. A., D. Litt., and published by John Lane at the Bodley Head, London, in 1910 and 1914.

Sexton has written several books and many articles, including Redefining the Supreme Court's Role: A Theory of Managing the Federal Judicial Process ISBN 0-300-03734-1 ( with Samuel Estreicher ( Yale University Press, 1986 )), and the 141-page A Managerial Theory of the Supreme Court's Responsibilities: An Empirical Study published in the NYU Law Review in October 1984.