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book and Abolition
The essay was part of Black's first book, an anthology of essays entitled The Abolition of Work and Other Essays published by Loompanics Unlimited.
As Minister, Stevenson piloted the SNP Government's first Bill, Abolition of Bridge Tolls ( Scotland ) Bill, to the statute book on 24 January 2008. and when he signed The Port of Cairnryan Harbour Empowerment Order 2007 he became the first SNP Minister to sign a piece of legislation.
This use of poetry in the service of his political beliefs is illustrated by his book Poems Written during the Progress of the Abolition Question.
Joel Olson has written about a theoretical vision in his book The Abolition of White Democracy.
C. S. Lewis, President of the Socratic Club, is mentioned twice in this book, once as an influence on Joad through Lewis's book The Abolition of Man.
Here, notably, Weaver echos the sentiments of C. S. Lewis in his book The Abolition of Man, ( which was written nearly contemporaneously with Ideas Have Consequences ), and anticipates the modern critique of consumerism.
The Abolition of Man is a 1943 book by C. S. Lewis.
* Christian hip hop duo Mars ILL named the track " The Abolition of manCHILD " from their 2002 album Raw Material after the book.
* In 2003, the Post-Hardcore band Thrice based the lyrics of the song " The Abolition of Man " on the book.
* The band Point of Recognition also allude to Lewis ' book in the lyrics of their song " Abolition of Man.
The Natives ( Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents ) Act, 1952, commonly known as the Pass Laws Act, made it compulsory for all black South Africans over the age of 16 to carry a " pass book " at all times within white areas.

book and Britain
* A book about flora and / or fauna of an area or region ( see for example Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland )
Following his tour of the UK, he wrote about his experiences in a book entitled An American Four-in-hand in Britain.
This collection of short Latin verse texts and accompanying woodcuts created an entire European genre, the emblem book, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe and Great Britain.
The development of this department at the British Museum moved the focus for the development of conservation from Germany to Britain, and in 1956 Plenderleith wrote a significant handbook called The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, it was this book rather than Rathgen's that is commonly seen as the major source for the development of conservation as we know it today.
Tacitus, the most important Roman historian of this period, took a particular interest in Britain as Gnaeus Julius Agricola, his father-in-law and the subject of his first book, served there three times.
The 120-page book, first published in the United States and then in Britain, was illustrated by Osbert Lancaster and became an instant best seller.
Indeed John Morris, the English historian who specialized in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain, suggested in his book The Age of Arthur that as the descendants of Romanized Britons looked back to a golden age of peace and prosperity under Rome, the name " Camelot " of Arthurian legend may have referred to the capital of Britannia ( Camulodunum, modern Colchester ) in Roman times.
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.
Defoe also wrote a three-volume travel book, Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain ( 1724 – 27 ) that provided a vivid first-hand account of the state of the country.
It was first published in Britain by Routledge in March 1944 and was quite popular, leading Hayek to call it " that unobtainable book ," also due in part to wartime paper rationing.
In the frame of the book's plot, Wimsey's diplomatic obligations serve as a plot device to keep him away from Britain, and leave Harriet on her own for most of the book, to try to resolve the mystery at Oxford without his help.
In Insular Gospel Books ( copies of the Gospels produced in Ireland and Britain under Celtic Christianity ), the first verse of Matthew's genealogy of Christ was often treated in a decorative manner, as it began not only a new book of the Bible, but was the first verse in the Gospels.
In chapter 10 of book 6 of Historia Regum Britanniae, Geoffrey records that three brigandines ( or long galleys ) full of armed men commanded by two brothers, Hengist and Horsa, arrived in Britain.
British sociologist Eileen Barker titled her 1984 book, which was based on seven years of first-person study of members of the Unification Church in the United States and Great Britain and has been influential in the field of the sociology of religion, The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing ?.
When a comic strip satirizing England's royal family was reprinted in a Mad paperback, it was deemed necessary to rip out the page from 25, 000 copies by hand before the book could be distributed in Great Britain.
* Seder ha-Tefillot: Forms of Prayer: Movement for Reform Judaism, London 2008, ISBN 0-947884-13-0 ; ISBN 978-0-947884-13-0 Official prayer book of the Reform movement in Britain
The book ends with the narrator awakening from his dream of heaven into the unpleasant reality of wartime Britain, in conscious imitation of The Pilgrim's Progress, the last sentence of the " First Part " of which is: " So I awoke, and behold, it was a Dream.
In March 2009, British family care activist and a best-selling novelist Erin Pizzey reportedly declined to comment on the temporary withdrawal by its publishers of the book Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain following her complaint it had falsely linked her to The Angry Brigade.
The book ends in the year 1999, with a description of a prosperous and peaceful Britain governed by women.
In 1992, the publication of Alan Dawson's book Relative hills of Britain, showed that three tops not already considered summits, had a prominence of more than.
He also regularly cites St. Paul in Britain, an 1860 book by R. W. Morgan, and advocates other tenets of British Israelism, in particular that the British are descended from the lost tribes of Israel.
* 1953: Arts Council of Great Britain Prize for the best first book of poems for Poems
This time is chronicled in the novel Cain's Book, which at the time became something of a sensation, being an honest study of heroin addiction with descriptions of sex and drug use that got it banned in Britain, where the book was the subject of an obscenity trial ; in America, however, it received favourable reviews.

book and Hitchens
* In the opening chapter of his book God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens quotes from Richard Le Gallienne's translation of Khayyam's famous quatrain:
Author Christopher Hitchens wrote in 12 August 2007 edition of The New York Times that, in the final book, Voldemort " becomes more tiresome than an Ian Fleming villain.
The book earned praise from atheist Christopher Hitchens for Dinesh ’ s argumentative skills.
By providing information about voting intentions, opinion polls can sometimes influence the behavior of electors, and in his book The Broken Compass, Peter Hitchens asserts that opinion polls are actually a device for influencing public opinion.
" Hitchens responded by standing by his criticism of Sheehan and then defending his deposition to U. S. House of Representatives prosecutors regarding Blumenthal during the impeachment of Bill Clinton and his critical review of Said ’ s book, Orientalism ( Hitchens stating that the review was determined by the 25th anniversary of the book ’ s original publication and not the state of Said ’ s health ).
Hitchens expanded his criticism in a 1995 book, The Missionary Position .< ref name = MacIntyre >
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by Christopher Hitchens about Mother Teresa's life and work.
In The London Review of Books Amit Chaudhuri praised the book, " Hitchens ’ s investigations have been a solitary and courageous endeavour.
Hell's Angel is a 1994 Channel 4 television documentary about Mother Teresa by Christopher Hitchens, a precursor to his book, The Missionary Position.
Christopher Hitchens described it as the funniest book of the second half of the 20th century, and Toby Young has judged it the best comic novel of the 20th century.
Author Christopher Hitchens accused Baker of ahistoricism and wrote that the book served as a reminder of how " fatuous the pacifist position can sound, or indeed can be ".
In January 2011 Hitchens announced he was working on a new book entitled The War We Never Fought, about what he sees as the non-existent war on drugs.
* The Broken Compass, a 2009 book By Peter Hitchens that discusses at length how the British political right and left jostle for position in the centre
Christopher Hitchens describes the book as " unlikely even to rate a footnote in the history of piffle ".
* God Is Not Great, a 2007 book by Christopher Hitchens
" Nevertheless, Hitchens expressed strong agreement with some of Steyn's points, calling the book " admirably tough-minded.
Christopher Hitchens, introducing the 2000 Penguin Classics edition of Scoop, said " n the pages of Scoop we encounter Waugh at the mid-season point of his perfect pitch ; youthful and limber and light as a feather ", and noted: " The manners and mores of the press, are the recurrent motif of the book and the chief reason for its enduring magic ... this world of callousness and vulgarity and philistinism ... Scoop endures because it is a novel of pitiless realism ; the mirror of satire held up to catch the Caliban of the press corps, as no other narrative has ever done save Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's The Front Page.
His most recent book, " Living on Our Heads ," singles out liberals Chris Matthews, Bart Stupak, Mia Farrow and the late Christopher Hitchens for praise.
The writer Christopher Hitchens, in particular, devotes much of a chapter of his book on Clinton, No One Left to Lie To, for what he regards as the immorality of the then Democratic candidate's decision to condone, and take political advantage of, Rector's execution.
In the book, which addresses the leadership techniques of Hitler and Churchill, he delivered a rebuttal to many of the assertions made by Clive Ponting and Christopher Hitchens concerning Churchill.
His most recent book, in English, is Men of a Single Book: Fundamentalism in Islam, Christianity, and Modern Thought ( United States, World Wisdom, 2010 ), a critique both of religious and anti-religious fundamentalism ; the later represented specially by polemicists such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.

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