Apart from the lost Handboc or Encheiridion, which seems to have been a commonplace book kept by the king, the earliest work to be translated was the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, a book greatly popular in the Middle Ages.

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.

In the Pearl of Great Price's section containing part of Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible's book of Moses, it refers to " a Book of Remembrance ", written in the language of Adam.

In his book America's Great Comic Strip Artists ( 1989 ), Marschall's analysis revealed a decidedly misanthropic subtext:

( This fable-like story was collected into an educational comic book called Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery !, and distributed by the Anti-Defamation League of B ' nai B ' rith later that year.

The second book begins with the death of Gregory the Great in 604, and follows the further progress of Christianity in Kent and the first attempts to evangelise Northumbria.

The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE ; this sets an earliest possible date for the book.

The phrase Great White Way has been attributed to Shep Friedman, columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph in 1901, who lifted the term from the title of a book about the Arctic by Albert Paine.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

() According to the book of Leviticus, blood from sacrificed animals may only be placed on the altar of the Great Temple in Jerusalem ( which no longer existed at the time of the Christian blood libels ).

Following a Royal Commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book, work that was to take twenty years due in part to the demands of the Great War ( 1914 – 18 ) and in part to the constitution of the Church Assembly in 1920 which " perhaps not unnaturally wished to do the work all over again for itself.

In Harper's book ( The Passions Of Great Fortune ), his comment on the song ends ".. there must always be some hope that the children of ' Bloody Sunday ', on both sides, can grow into some wisdom ".

In the late 800s, Alfred the Great assembled the Doom book ( not to be confused with the more-famous Domesday Book from 200 years later ), which collected the existing laws of Kent, Wessex, and Mercia, and attempted to blend in the Mosaic code, Christian principles, and Germanic customs dating as far as the fifth century.

* Doom book, or Code of Alfred the Great

Heuvelmans ' 1955 book On the Track of Unknown Animals traces the scholarly origins of the discipline to Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans and his 1892 study, The Great Sea Serpent.

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.

Rummel has responded that the 20 million estimate is based on a figure from Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror, and that Conquest's qualifier " almost certainly too low " is usually forgotten.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, John Maynard Keynes authored a book entitled The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money outlining the key theories of Keynesian economics.

The " European War " became known as " The Great War ", and it was not until 1920, in the book " The First World War 1914 – 1918 " by Charles à Court Repington, that the term " First World War " was used as the official name for the conflict.

* 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.

Lionel Robbins himself, who had embraced the Austrian theory of the business cycle in The Great Depression ( 1934 ), later regretted having written that book and accepted many of the Keynesian counter-arguments.

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.

The Greenwich Village of the 1950s and 1960s was at the center of Jane Jacobs's book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which defended it and similar communities, while critiquing common urban renewal policies of the time.

( Excerpts from the book / guide to the “ Great Pianists of the 20th Century ”, published and © in 1998 by the Philips Music Group ).

In 1973 he published the book Pianister i Sverige ( Pianists in Sweden, with a summary in English ), an overview based on a series of lectures in Swedish radio on the history of piano music in Sweden from the end of the 18th to the middle of the 20th century.

The former option is one presented in the book ; the latter is known in the Amber community as an " Amethyst " game.

The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.

A big eater with a grudge against the former postman-turned corporal Himmelstoß ( thanks to his strict ' disciplinary actions '), he manages to forgive Himmelstoß later in the book.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

According to John Gillespie, a former investment banker and co-author of a book critical of boards,: " Far too much of their time has been for check-the-box and cover-your-behind activities rather than real monitoring of executives and providing strategic advice on behalf of shareholders ".

* Chord ( comics ), a comic book character who is the former mentor of the New Warriors

If he didn't meet Pitman, Severin points out that Defoe, upon submitting even a draft of a novel about a castaway to his publisher, would undoubtedly have learned about Pitman's book published by his father, especially since the interesting castaway had previously lodged with them at their former premises.

Jarrett stated that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is " continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book ", adding that the images being shown were " some of the pictures just coming in to us ....

Both prefaces were addressed to Theophilus, and the preface of Acts explicitly references " my former book " about the life of Jesus.

In 2007, Demme's film Man from Plains, a documentary about former U. S. President Jimmy Carter's book tour in promotion of his book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals.

In his book Stairway to Heaven, former Led Zeppelin road manager Richard Cole writes that Jimmy Page considered Moon top of his list as he was looking for a drummer for his new band, which would become Led Zeppelin.

Peter Wright, former senior MI5 officer, said in his 1987 book that Litzi Friedmann was " almost certainly the person who recruited him to the Soviet cause.

Tom Moon, former music critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer, included " Forever Changes " in his 2008 book " 1000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die.

In his 2000 book, The Informant, Kurt Eichenwald, a former New York Times reporter, portrays Whitacre as a complex figure: while working for the FBI as one of the best and most effective undercover cooperating witnesses the U. S. government ever had, Whitacre was simultaneously committing a US $ 9 million white-collar crime.

This phenomenon was described in detail by John Elder Robison ( a former Milton Bradley engineer ) in his book Look Me in the Eye.

Dan Stone, a former Drexel executive, wrote in his book April Fools that Milken was under nearly-constant scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1979 onward due to unethical and sometimes illegal behavior in the high-yield department.

In further response to this issue, rock critic Jim DeRogatis, a former Rolling Stone editor, published a thorough critique of the magazine's lists in a book called Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics ( ISBN 1-56980-276-9 ), which featured differing opinions from many younger critics.

The major semiotic book series " Semiotics, Communication, Cognition ", published by De Gruyter Mouton ( series editors Paul Cobley and Kalevi Kull ) replaces the former " Approaches to Semiotics " ( over 120 volumes ) and " Approaches to Applied Semiotics " ( series editor Thomas A. Sebeok ).

" Uncle Willie ", former Residents fan club president, wrote in his book Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide to The Residents that, while searching through the band's archives, he came across " a suite named ' The Ballad of Stuffed Trigger '," but not a complete album.

Occultist and former student of Crowley, Israel Regardie argued that Aiwass was an unconscious expression of Crowley's personality and that the book reflected Crowley's moral and religious values.

Throughout the book, President Durling faces another, less important political crisis: Vice-President Ed Kealty is forced to resign after being accused of drugging and raping a former member of his staff.

Norma Jean Almodovar, a former officer with the Los Angeles Police Department and former call girl who authored the book From Cop To Call Girl about her experiences, ran on the Libertarian Party ticket for California lieutenant governor in 1986 and was actively supported by the party.

" The debate seems part and parcel of an attendant effort at increasing biblical literacy amongst Unitarian Universalists, including the publication of a book by the UUA's Beacon Press written by former UUA President John Buehrens.