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book and Billion
The first book about the subject, Bill Kaysing's self-published We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, was released in 1974, two years after the Apollo Moon flights had ended.
* The Discovery Channel produced a documentary entitled The Real Eve: 6 Billion People ... from ONE Woman ( or Where We Came From in the United Kingdom ), based on the book The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa by Stephen Oppenheimer.
Greene first drew significant national attention with his book, Billion Dollar Baby ( 1975 ), a diary of his experiences while touring with rock musician Alice Cooper and portraying Santa Claus during the show.
* Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, a book by Richard Fortey
The phrase " we see Tibet with the binoculars of the people " first appeared in the essay " Ten Years and a Billion Dollars ," in The Adding Machine, amongst a group of random phrases selected from Konstantīns Raudive's book Breakthrough.
Five Billion Years of Change: A History of the Land is a book by Denis Wood that attempts a holistic view of reality that ranges from the Big Bang to the World Wide Web.
The development economist Paul Collier in his book The Bottom Billion suggests that Christian Aid " deeply misinformed " the UK electorate in 2004 and 2005 with a campaign against reducing trade barriers in Africa based on a " deeply misleading " study conducted by an economist without the requisite expertise and whose purported review " by a panel of academic experts " who were two gentlemen chosen by said economist who were also not noted for their expertise on international trade.
The term was coined by A. Kuzmich ( Anatoly Tsikunov ) in his book The Plot of World Government: Russia and the Golden Billion, and used in his articles.
Dr. Beyster has written or co-authored approximately 60 publications and reports, as well as the recent book, The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $ 8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company, published by John Wiley & Sons in 2007.
In 2011, Garant and Lennon released a book about writing for film called Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at The Box Office and You Can Too!
* A semiconductor firm started in Silicon Valley in 1972 ( mentioned on page 178 of the book " Crystals, electrons, transistors: from scholar's study to industrial research ", written by Michael Eckert and Helmut Schubert and published by the American Institute of Physics in 1990, and on the documentary " Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy ", broadcast by BBC Two on December 14, 2011 )

book and Year
Indeed, as Rebekah Nathan suggests in her book, My Freshman Year, we are actually drawn to developing communities totally based on sameness, despite stated commitments to diversity, such as those found on university websites.
The book was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
The book itself won the 1997 British Book of the Year award.
The character later appears in the sequel story released first as a book, 2010: Odyssey Two and then as a movie, 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
In his book In the Fourth Year published in 1918 he suggested how each nation of the world would elect, " upon democratic lines " by proportional representation, an electoral college in the manner of the United States of America, in turn to select its delegate to the proposed League of Nations.
Most IHO publications, including the standards, guidelines and associated documents such as the International Hydrographic Review, International Hydrographic Bulletin, the Hydrographic Dictionary and the Year book are available to the general public free from the IHO website.
" In their 2009 book The 10, 000 Year Explosion, Harpending and Gregory Cochran later described Rushton as one of the researchers to whom they are indebted.
* Spengler's concept of the ' Faustian ' outlook was an important part of Herman Kahn's book The Year 2000.
Scott teamed up again with Gladiator star Russell Crowe, for A Good Year, based on the best-selling book by Peter Mayle about an investment banker who finds a new life in Provence.
* London Institute of World Affairs, The Year Book of World Affairs 1957 ( London 1957 ) full text online, comprehensive reference book covering 1956 in diplomacy, international affairs and politics for major nations and regions
* London Institute of World Affairs, The Year Book of World Affairs 1957 ( London 1957 ) full text online, comprehensive reference book covering 1956 in diplomacy, international affairs and politics for major nations and regions
In 2003, Scott Lobdell and Fabian Nicieza wrote a Year One-style run on the Buffy comic book series which filled the gap between the film and the first season of the show.
The author of a piece is named in certain circumstances: when notable persons are invited to contribute opinion pieces ; when journalists of The Economist compile special reports ( previously known as surveys ); for the Year in Review special edition ; and to highlight a potential conflict of interest over a book review.
After the war Lussu wrote the book A Year on the High Plateau ( Un anno sull ' altipiano ) about his experiences of trench warfare on the Plateau.
In the Wake of the Flood, a documentary film by Canadian director Ron Mann released in October 2010, followed Atwood on the unusual book tour for her novel The Year of the Flood.
In 2007, Redgrave played Joan Didion in her Broadway stage adaptation of her 2005 book, The Year of Magical Thinking, which played 144 regular performances in a 24-week limited engagement at the Booth Theatre.
The novel won the 1998 British Book of the Year, and Tracie Bennett won the 2000 Audie Award for " Solo Female Narration " for her audio book narration.
Priced at five shillings ( equal to £ today ), the first run of 6, 000 copies sold out by Christmas Eve and the book continued to sell well into the New Year.
In that same sense, the Van Nuys of the 1990s has suffered the criticism of another humorist, Sandra Tsing Loh, in her book, A Year In Van Nuys.
* The Guy's Guide to Surviving Pregnancy, Childbirth and the First Year of Fatherhood ( book )
She also produced a cartoon coloring book, Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela in the Year 2000.
She documented her experience in the book Another Planet: A Year in the Life of a Suburban High School ( ISBN 0-06-050585-0 ).
The Chovot HaLevavot became, a popular book among the Jews throughout the world, and parts of it were recited for devotional purposes during the days before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
The book won the Creative Freedom Award in 1999 and was shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.

book and Spree
* Twilly Spree reappears in Hiaasen's newest children's book, Scat
In the book, Hornby describes the people who run The Believer as being " all dressed in white robes and smiling maniacally, sort of like a literary equivalent of the Polyphonic Spree.
According to Pamela Klaffke, author of the 2003 book Spree: A Cultural History of Shopping, the idea of " being trapped inside the walls of a store or mall " had become a " cinematic cliché " by the time this episode aired.

book and History
His work in Early Modern European History focuses on the history of education, the history of the book and the history of reading.
There, next door to Peabody's book store on West Street, Bronson Alcott hosted a series based on the " Conversations " model by Margaret Fuller called " A Course on the Conversations on Man — his History, Resources, and Expectations ".
In the early 20th century William McDougall defended a form of animism in his book Body and Mind: A History and Defence of Animism ( 1911 ).
Through his work in Vienna, he was given leave of absence for half the year in order to let him travel the world to collect musical information to include in his History of Music book.
" The book Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in America published by Stanford University Press defines the plea as one in " which the defendant adheres to his / her claim of innocence even while allowing that the government has enough evidence to prove his / her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt ".
Herbert Lindenberger in his book Opera in History, for example, views Mahagonny alongside Schoenberg's Moses und Aron as indicative of the two poles of modernist opera.
In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).
The narrative was told in great detail in Tacitus ' History, book iv, although, unfortunately, the narrative breaks off abruptly at the climax.
There was also a special coffee table book called The History of The Beano: The Story So Far, published by Waverly Books.
In response, one month later, the Soviet Union published Falsifiers of History, a Stalin edited and partially re-written book attacking the West.
* History of Chile ( book by Chilean historian Luis Galdames )
In the book Queen of Games: The History of Croquet, Nicky Smith presents two theories of the origin of the modern game that took England by storm in the 1860s and then spread overseas.
Ian Bottomley in his book " Arms and Armor of the Samurai: The History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan " shows a picture of a kusari armour and mentions kusari katabira ( chain jackets ) with detachable arms being worn by samurai police officials during the Edo period.
The progression of the nickname can be seen in the book The Addicks Cartoons: An Affectionate Look into the Early History of Charlton Athletic, which covers the pre-First World War history of Charlton through a narrative based on 56 cartoons which appeared in the now defunct Kentish Independent.
Rabbi Simcha Weinstein's book Up, Up and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero says that Superman is both a pillar of society and one whose cape conceals a " nebbish ," saying, " He's a bumbling, nebbish Jewish stereotype.
In 1709 Defoe authored a rather lengthy book entitled, The History Of The Union Of Great Britain ; an Edinburgh publication printed by the Heirs of Anderson.
The magazine has since excised the article from subsequent editions of the Illustrated History book ; a transcription of it can be found at the link below ( despite his scathing view of Young's career, Marsh gave the album the highest possible rating ).
* Edward Gibbon ( 18th century historian ) dismissed his testimony on the number of martyrs and impugned his honesty by referring to a passage in the abbreviated version of the Martyrs of Palestine attached to the Ecclesiastical History, book 8, chapter 2, in which Eusebius introduces his description of the martyrs of the Great Persecution under Diocletian with: " Wherefore we have decided to relate nothing concerning them except the things in which we can vindicate the Divine judgment.
Eusebius of Nicomedia is not to be confused with his contemporary Eusebius of Caesarea, the author of a well-known early book of Church History.
In his book On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, Carlyle set out how he saw history as having turned on the decisions of " heroes ", giving detailed analysis of the influence of several such men ( including Muhammad, Shakespeare, Luther, Rousseau, and Napoleon ).
Among modern critics of the theory of Great Man one should mention Sidney Hook, whose book The Hero in History is devoted to the role of the hero and in history and influence of the outstanding persons.
His book, The Outline of History was read by José Figueres Ferrer in 1920 while at MIT, the Costa Rican revolutionary and 3-time president, who took the book to heart, and permanently abolished the military of Costa Rica in 1948, and banned the military in the Constitution.
Marx's clearest formulation of his " Materialist Conception of History " was in the 1859 Preface to his book " A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ," whose relevant passage is reproduced here:
The Histories, otherwise known as The Researches or The Inquiries, were divided by later Alexandrian editors into nine books, named after the nine Muses: the " Muse of History ", Clio, representing the first book, then Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope for books 2 to 9, respectively.

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