* A 1912 book, The Depths of the Ocean by Sir John Murray, records the depth of the Challenger Deep as, reporting the sounding taken by the converted navy collier USS Nero in 1899.

In his book, " Last Man Out ", H. Robert Charles, an American Marine survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, writes in depth about a Dutch doctor, Dr. Henri Hekking, a fellow POW who probably saved the lives of many who worked on the " Death Railway ".

* Big Red ( book ), a book featuring the crew of the USS Nebraska

In his book, he states that the USS Maine was designed incorrectly because the boiler room was right next to the gunpowder storage room and that an overheating in the boiler room may have heated the adjacent metal wall, causing the powder to explode.

Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, written and illustrated by Shane Johnson and published by Pocket Books, is a book describing the post-refit USS Enterprise ( with some information on the Enterprise-A ) from the Star Trek fictional universe.

However, in the book, Richardson is ashore recovering from a broken leg ( after suffering a serious injury during action ), and working on the torpedo exploder problem when his first command, USS Walrus, is sunk with the loss of all crew including Jim Bledsoe.

Nautilus 90 North ( 1959, with Clay Blair ) was the first book Captain Anderson wrote about the Arctic missions of USS Nautilus.

Commander Calvert wrote the book Surface at the Pole about this and the other Arctic missions of USS Skate.

In his book " A Rumour of War " covering the 4th Marines tour of Vietnam the journalist Philip Caputo states that USS Reasoner ( FF-1063 ) was named after Reasoner.

Fort also briefly touched on UFOs again in this book, and wrote extensively on a number of other topics which he felt can be explained by teleportation: cryptozoology ( including the Jersey Devil and various out of place animals ), animal mutilations and attacks on people, strange swarming of insects, the appearance of various strange people from nowhere ( the famous cases of Princess Caraboo and Kaspar Hauser ), and the mysterious disappearances of others ( including the diplomat Benjamin Bathurst, and vessels such as the Mary Celeste, Carroll A. Deering, and USS Cyclops, presaging later interest in the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon ).

The hurricane and the sinking of the USS Warrington are documented in the 1996 book The Dragon's Breath-Hurricane At Sea, written by Commander Robert A. Dawes, Jr. ( a former Commanding Officer of the Warrington ), and published by Naval Institute Press.

The book opens with Schofield's ten-man Marine Recon team parachuting onto the deck of the soon-to-be-decommissioned aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz CVN-68, along with three other special forces squads-a Delta Force team, a squad of SEALs and a force from the 82nd Airborne Division.

In a highly negative review of the book, Dewey wrote a series of articles in The Social Frontier which began by applauding Hutchins ' attack on " the aimlessness of our present educational scheme.

One famous example, formulated by Ed Hutchins in his book Cognition in the Wild, is that of navigating a naval ship.

* ARK ( 1996 ), a book of poetry by Ronald Johnson

Law professor Ken Gromley's book The Death of American Virtue reveals that Clinton escaped a 1996 assassination attempt in the Philippines by terrorists working for Osama bin Laden.

Sagan's book, The Demon-Haunted World ( 1996 ), included his memories of this conflicted period, when his family dealt with the realities of the war in Europe, but tried to prevent it from undermining his optimistic spirit.

Heavy metal band Iced Earth, released their 1996 album The Dark Saga which is based upon the comic book character Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane.

* 1996 — Ralph Kimball publishes the book The Data Warehouse Toolkit.

E. P. Thompson wrote another book about his brother in 1996 .< ref > Rattenbury, A., 1997.

In their book The Fourth Turning, William Strauss and Neil Howe write of 1996 Presidential candidate Bob Dole as " not a person who could grok values in the now-dominant Boomer tongue ".

In 1996, Orchises Press, a small publishing house in Virginia, started the process to publish " Hapworth " in book form.

He first used the term " irreducible complexity " in his 1996 book Darwin's Black Box, to refer to certain complex biochemical cellular systems.

His second book, The American Family: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong, was published in 1996 and a third book, Worth Fighting For, in 1999.

In his 1996 book, I Was Wrong, he admitted that the first time he actually read the Bible all the way through was while he was in prison, and that it made him realize he had taken certain passages out of context — passages which he had used as " proof texts " to back up his prosperity teachings.

The biological anthropologist C. Loring Brace criticized Rushton in his 1996 review of the book, Race, Evolution and Behavior ( 1996 ):

The anthropologist Paul Rabinow wrote a book on the history of the PCR method in 1996 ( entitled Making PCR ) in which he discussed whether or not Mullis " invented " PCR or " merely " came up with the concept of it.

* Marine ( book ), a book about the United States Marine Corps written by Tom Clancy in 1996

It was originally detailed in a research paper by NASA engineers Robert Zubrin and David Baker in 1990, and later expanded upon in Zubrin's 1996 book The Case for Mars.

Huntington later expanded his thesis in a 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.

In July 1996, one observer commented on the Jevons book in this way:

The 1996 pilot to the TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures also features Pellucidar, as well as the character Jana from the book Tarzan at the Earth's Core.

After Huntford's book, debunking Captain Scott became commonplace ; Francis Spufford, in a 1996 history not wholly antagonistic to Scott, refers to " devastating evidence of bungling ", concluding that " Scott doomed his companions, then covered his tracks with rhetoric ".

" King dedicated his 1989 book The Dark Half, about a pseudonym turning on a writer, to " the deceased Richard Bachman ", and in 1996, when the Stephen King novel Desperation was released, the companion novel The Regulators carried the " Bachman " byline.

In 1996 The Dilbert Principle was released, his first business book.

In 1996, the story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted into a holiday musical " Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus " by David Kirchenbaum ( music and lyrics ) and Myles McDonnel ( book ).

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

" The official name is Philotic Parallax Instantaneous Communicator ," explains Colonel Graff in Ender's Game, " but somebody dredged the name ansible out of an old book somewhere.

) The theological program of the book explains the many problems its chronological structure presents.

The book opens with a vision of Yahweh, God of Israel ; moves on to anticipate the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, explains this as Yahweh's punishment, and closes with the promise of a new beginning and a new Temple.

In the foreword, Hofstadter explains that the book ( originally published in 1958 ) exerted a profound influence on him when he was young.

Maynard Smith explains further in his 1982 book Evolution and the Theory of Games.

The book explains that the West Coast is a no-man's land, and the country's population is gradually being driven crazy by nerve gas as a result of World War III.

Lay responses to ELIZA were disturbing to Weizenbaum and motivated him to write his book Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, in which he explains the limits of computers, as he wants to make clear in people's minds his opinion that the anthropomorphic views of computers are just a reduction of the human being and any life form for that matter.

The books, which are referenced many times in the Harry Potter books, even have footnotes about other books, which do not exist, for future reading, and a foreword by Albus Dumbledore, which explains why they are releasing the book to a muggle audience.

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

Pullman's preface to that book explains that the setting is " a universe like ours, but different in many ways ".

She was also awarded the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for her book Pranic Nourishment — Living on Light, " which explains that although some people do eat food, they don't ever really need to.

Master animator Richard Williams explains the KISS principle in his book The Animator's Survival Kit, and Disney's Nine Old Men write about it in Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, which is considered " the animation bible " by CG, traditional, and stop motion animators.

The book immediately following Omni, the Words of Mormon, is an editorial insertion that explains how the first first person narrative came to be inserted into the Book of Mormon and how subsequent narrative will differ, being mostly third person narration by Mormon that summarizes more lengthy accounts taken from the Large Plates of Nephi.

As Massimo Introvigne of the Center for Studies on New Religion explains, Preacher was " among the popular comic book series which ... focused interest on the subject.

Such a book fell within the broad tradition of natural theology works written during the Enlightenment ; and this explains why Paley based much of his thought on Ray ( 1691 ) and Derham ( 1711 ) and Nieuwentyt ( 1750 ).

Paulhan also explains his own belief that the themes in the book depict the true nature of women.

The book explains the methodology of his previous theoretical works.

Uriah explains in another part of the book that his ambition and greed are fueled by resentment from the double-standard of his schooling and from his treatment as a child, and by encouragement from his parents.

Immortal Technique explains how party content played a big part in old school hip hop, in the book How to Rap: " hip-hop was born in an era of social turmoil ... in the same way that slaves used to sing songs on a plantation ... that's the party songs that we used to have ".

* In his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter explains how Shepard scales can be used on the Canon a 2, per tonos in Bach's Musical Offering ( called the Endlessly Rising Canon by Hofstadter ) for making the modulation end in the same pitch instead of an octave higher.

The book ' Where there's a Will, there's a way ' explains how.

In an appendix to a later edition of the book ( 1996 ), Dawkins explains how his experiences with computer models led him to a greater appreciation of the role of embryological constraints on natural selection.

The Star Wars: Legacy comic book series, set 130 years after Return of the Jedi, explains that, during a civil war, the New Galactic Empire known as the Fel Empire declares war on the Galactic Alliance, the successor state of the New Republic.

The CIA World Fact book number has since been adjusted with a note of former inconstancies, and explains the difference on the old numbers from the government not including the " first modern census of Bhutan, conducted in 2005 ".