In college libraries, 57 per cent of the total number of books are owned by 124 of 1,509 institutions surveyed last year by the U.S. Office of Education.

In fact, during the first century B.C., an extensive literature sprang up devoted to these subjects, finding its typical expression in the so-called `` wei books '', a number of which were specifically devoted to the Lo Shu and related numerical diagrams, especially in connection with divination.

Under these schemes, authors are paid a fee for the number of copies of their books in educational and / or public libraries.

) As well as portraying Miss Marple on television, Hickson also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audio books.

He wrote a number of books and papers two of which are of immense importance namely ( 1 ). India in Transition, about the prepartition politics of India and ( 2 ). World Enough & Time-The Memoirs of Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, his autobiography.

Sometimes, Roman numerals are still used for enumeration of lists ( as an alternative to alphabetical enumeration ), for sequential volumes, to differentiate monarchs or family members with the same first names, and ( in lower case ) to number pages in prefatory material in books.

They rented the apartment of an American man who was away for the summer, and Nin came across a number of French paperbacks: " One by one, I read these books, which were completely new to me.

In the monastic library at Jarrow were a number of books by theologians, including works by Basil, Cassian, John Chrysostom, Isidore of Seville, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome, Pope Gregory I, Ambrose of Milan, Cassiodorus, and Cyprian.

Modern scholarly thinking is that the books originated by combining a number of independent texts of various ages when the larger Deuteronomistic history ( the Former Prophets plus Deuteronomy ) was being composed in the period c. 630-540 BCE.

A large number of books have claimed to solve the difficulties, but the results differ, sometimes widely, and none have achieved consensus status.

The present division of the oracles results in a total of twelve books of minor prophets — a number parallelling the sons of Jacob who became the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel.

As a result, British and American operatives intercepted and photographed a manuscript of the novel and secretly printed a small number of books allegedly published by Feltrinelli in the Russian language.

The Book of Common Prayer is the short title of a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion, as well as by the Continuing Anglican, " Anglican realignment " and other Anglican churches.

Between then and 1764, when a more formal revised version was published, a number of things happened which were to separate the Scottish Episcopal liturgy more firmly from either the English books of 1549 or 1559.

Ley was best known for his writings on rocketry and related topics, but he was trained in paleontology, and wrote a number of books about animals.

He began but did not complete a number of books.

Jefferson sent back a number of books on the subject and in return asked for a gift of apples, pecans and cranberries.

Some Christian denominations ( such as Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox ), include a number of books that are not in the Hebrew Bible ( the biblical apocrypha or deuterocanonical books or Anagignoskomena, see Development of the Old Testament canon ) in their biblical canon that are not in today's Jewish canon, although they were included in the Septuagint.

Jones would later collaborate with Seuss on a number of adaptations of Seuss ' books to animated form, most importantly How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

He published a number of books decrying the breakdown of the social order, such as The Great Law of Subordination Considered ( 1724 ) and Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business ( 1725 ) and works on the supernatural, like The Political History of the Devil ( 1726 ), A System of Magick ( 1726 ) and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions ( 1727 ).

Books are catalogued in ascending numerical order ; when two or more books have the same classification number, the system sub-divides the class alphabetically, by the use of a call number ( usually the first letter, or letters, of the author's last name, or the title if there is no identifiable author.

The DDC has a number for all books, including fiction.

* According to an IDC paper sponsored by EMC Corporation, 161 exabytes of data were created in 2006, " 3 million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever written ," with the number expected to hit 988 exabytes in 2010.

By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

From maturity one looks back at the succession of years, counts them and makes them many, yet cannot feel length in the number, however large.

Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

the halls were empty and they passed down the stairs to number nine and listened at the door.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

On the remainder of the clear channels, the dominant ( class 1 ) -- B stations are protected as described above, and the relatively small number of secondary ( class 2 ) ) stations permitted to operate on these channels at night are required to operate directionally and/or with reduced power so as to protect the class 1, stations.

The original machine, bearing its famous serial number, is still on exhibition at the Brown & Sharpe Precision Center in Providence.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

This, of course, depends on the character of the site itself, the previous experience of the investigator, and the number of factors needed to arrive at a good decision.

There may be possible economies at any one of a number of links in your marketing and distribution chain.

Are you careful to restrict the number of people on leave at one time so that your total employment obligation is minimized??

The number depends on who is talking at the moment.

If no specific organization plan exists limiting the number of scientists at each salary level, the result is a department top-heavy with high-level, high-salaried personnel ''.

Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.

We note that two such curves C and Af, cannot coincide at more than a finite number of points ; ;

For it is clear that the total number of ordinary intersections of C and Af must be even ( otherwise, starting in the interior of C, Af could not finally return to the interior ), and the center of rotation at T is the argument of the function, not a value.

The number of ordinary values of the function f{t} at T will be called its multiplicity at T.

The remaining ( incomplete ) components all have an even number of ordinary points at any argument, and are defined only on a proper sub-interval of Aj.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

So a quick count could be made at any time, even by an illiterate clerk, of the number of registered persons in four age-and-sex classes.

The reason for the value of this procedure was simply that the applicants were tested `` at work '' in different situations by the judgment of a number of experts who could see how the salesmen conducted themselves with different, but typical restaurant owners and managers.