* A Far Off Place, film, starring Reese Witherspoon and Ethan Randall, based on the books A Story Like the Wind and A Far Off Place by Laurens Van Der Post

His publishing firm also released three anti-Semitic books for children, including the 1938 Der Giftpilz (" The Toadstool " or " The Poison-Mushroom "), one of the most widespread pieces of propaganda, which purported to warn about insidious dangers Jews posed by using the metaphor of an attractive yet deadly mushroom.

* In a key scene of the film " Der alte und der junge König "( The Old and the Young King ), a German Historical film made under Nazi rule in 1935, King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia is shown throwing into an open fire the beloved French-language books of his son, Crown Prince Friedrich ( the future Friedrich II ), as well as the Prince's flute.

Taschen has published one of the most expensive books in publishing history, the $ 15, 000, 75 pound, 700 page GOAT ( Greatest of All Time ), a tribute to the American boxer Muhammad Ali which Der Spiegel called " the biggest, heaviest, most radiant thing ever printed in the history of civilization.

In addition to " The Long-Lost-Friend ," Hohman also wrote and published, or at least had attributed to him, a number of further books in German, including Unsers Herran Jesu Christi Kinderbuch, oder, Merkwurdige Historische Beschreibung Von Joachim Und Anna ( Our Lord Jesus Christ's Childhood-Book, or, The Strange Historical Description of Joachim and Anna ), and Albertus Magnus, oder, Der Lange Verborgene und Getreuer und Christlicher Unterricht fur Jedermann ( Albertus Magnus, or, Long Lost and True and Christian Instructions for Everyone ).

Eventually Der Spiegel has joined the ranks of the proper grammar and jargon guardians with the Zwiebelfisch ("( printer's ) pie ") column on the magazine's website, which has even spawned several best-selling books.

He wrote many comedies ( Der König von Crucina, 1892 ; Bubi, 1912, with G. Meyrink ), tales and novels ( Soldatengeschichten, 2 voll., 1904 ; Der Ehegarten, 1913, Der Schnaps, der Rauchtabak und die verfluchte Liebe, 1908 ; Die Panduren, 1935 ) and autobiographical books ( Irrfahrten eines Humoristen 1914 – 1919, 1920 ; Roda Rodas Roman, 1925 ).

In 1902, his magnum opus, Der moderne Kapitalismus ( Historisch-systematische Darstellung des gesamteuropäischen Wirtschaftslebens von seinen Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart ), appeared in two volumes ( he expanded the work in 1916, and added a third volume in 1927, all three volumes where then split into semi-volumes for a total of six books ).

According to David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye's assessment, Przhevalsky's books on Central Asia feature his disdain for the Oriental — particularly the Chinese — civilization.

Dufresne was an unsuccessful novelist under the anagrammatic pseudonym E. S. Freund, but wrote several chess books, one of which, Kleines Lehrbuch des Schachspiels ( 1881, known in Germany as Der Kleine Dufresne ) ran to many editions and taught several generations of players.

* Borowski's books are mentioned in the award-winning 1995 novel The Reader (" Der Vorleser ") by the German author Bernhard Schlink, in which a former concentration camp guard commits suicide in remorse after reading his and other survivors ' memoirs.

In books of collected journalism such as Der rasende Reporter ( The Raging Reporter ) ( 1924 ), he cultivated the image of a witty, gritty, daring reporter always on the move, a cigarette clamped doggedly between his lips.

1911-18 ); " Duden " ( dictionaries on every aspect of the language, since 1880 ); " Meyers Reisebücher " ( guide books, 1862-1936 ); " Meyers Klassiker " ( home and foreign literature ); atlases (" Meyers Handatlas ", " Der Grosse Weltatlas "), and others.

One of her best known books is Der kleine Unterschied und seine großen Folgen ( The little difference and its huge consequences ), which was released in 1975 and made her famous beyond the borders of Germany.

Among his more than 80 books are dozens of titles presenting non-moralistic reinterpretations of nearly all biblical texts, including a monumental three-volume scholarly treatise on Genesis 2-11 ( Strukturen des Bösen, 1977-8 ) and a two-volume commentary on the Gospel of Mark ; a number of titles on urgent social issues such as war ( Der Krieg und das Christentum, 1981 ), the environment ( Der tödliche Fortschritt, 1982 ), and burning moral issues such as abortion, living will, suicide ( Psychoanalyse und Moraltheologie ', 1982-4, 3 vols ); and, most recently, half a dozen volumes on the question of God in light of the findings of modern anthropology ( 1998 ), biology ( 1999 ), cosmology ( 2002 ), neurology ( 2006 – 2007 ); a depth psychological analysis of more than twenty of the most well-known fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and one by Hans Christian Andersen.

His greatest success “ The Outsiders of Oskoken Castle ” was soon followed by similar books about working class children: “ Der Trommler von Faido ” ( The Drummer of Faido ), “ Matthias und seine Freunde ” ( Matthias and his Friends ) and the four volume series “ Giuseppe und Maria ”.

* Der Atheismus und seine Geschichte im Abendlande ( 4 books ), 1920-23

Using the title of princess, which would create controversy for her in both China and the United States in the future, Der Ling wrote down her unique experience in court in her memoirs Two Years in the Forbidden City, which were published in 1911, and wrote about the experience through her next seven books.

The Man Without Qualities ( 1930 – 42 ; German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften ) is an unfinished novel in three books by the Austrian writer Robert Musil.

Ruth was also the author of several books, including two novels (' Compensation ' and ' A History of Departed Things '), a collection of the works of Thomas Hardy ( with a foreword by her husband ) and a translation of ' Der kleine Tod ' (' The Little Death ') by the German author Irene Forbes-Mosse.

Gromit graduated from " Dogwarts University " (' Dogwarts ' being a pun on ' Hogwarts ', the wizard school from the Harry Potter books ) with a double first in Engineering for Dogs.

'" Gromit enjoys eating " KornFlakes " and reading many books, including The Republic, by Pluto ( a nod to the Disney character of the same name and a pun on Plato ); Crime and Punishment, by Fido Dogstoyevsky ( a pun on Fyodor Dostoyevsky ); and a " how-to " guide entitled, Electronics for Dogs.

His books also feature the names Eduard Blutig (" Edward Gory "), a German language pun on his own name, and O. Müde ( German for O. Weary ).

The name Xanth is in itself an unintentional pun, which matches the playful tone of the books.

A recurring joke in the series and associated books is that " the peasants are revolting " ( a pun that works because the word " revolting " can mean " rebelling " or " foul ").

Shows are typically named with a pun on a then-current pop culture reference: usually a movie but computer games, political slogans, television shows and books have also featured.

The literal name of the band, ' The mummies ' troll ', is a pun on Moomin Troll, the series of Finnish children's books by Tove Jansson.

Catholic Christians, following the Canon of Trent, describe these books as deuterocanonical, meaning of " the second canon ," while Greek Orthodox Christians, following the Synod of Jerusalem ( 1672 ), use the traditional name of anagignoskomena, meaning " that which is to be read.

It does not have the duality of positive and negative volume ( while in physical space for example a room has the negative volume of usable space delineated by positive volume of walls, internet users cannot enter the screen and explore the unknown part of the internet as an extension of the space they are in ), but spatial meaning can be attributed to the relationship between different pages ( of books as well as webservers ), considering the unturned pages to be somewhere " out there.

The Book of Exodus or, simply, Exodus ( from Greek ἔξοδος, Exodos, meaning " going out ";, Šemot, " Names "), is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, and of the five books of the Torah ( the Pentateuch ).

While going over the stolen books ( and nearly getting caught by the firehouse's Mechanical Hound ), Mildred argues with Montag that books have no meaning and questions why Montag dragged her into this.

The Book of Leviticus ( from Greek Λευιτικός, Leuitikos, meaning " relating to the Levites ";, Vayiqra, " And He called ") is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, and the third of five books of the Torah ( or Pentateuch ).

The Old Testament contains 39 ( Protestant ) or 46 ( Catholic ) or more ( Orthodox and other ) books, divided, very broadly, into the Pentateuch ( meaning " five books "), the historical books, the " wisdom " books and the prophets.

) maintain their own Late Model rule books, and even individual racetracks can maintain their own rule books, meaning a Late Model that is legal in one series or at one track may not be legal at another without modifications.

Scholars usually refer to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible as the Pentateuch, a term first used in the Hellenistic Judaism of Alexandria, meaning five books, or as the Law, or Law of Moses.

Jung continued to publish books until the end of his life, including Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies ( 1959 ), which analyzed the archetypal meaning and possible psychological significance of the reported observations of UFOs.

A book is not made up of individual words on a page, each of which has meaning, but rather " is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences.

This was the truth, although not in the sense that children and reviewers understood it: Carroll would not explain the meaning of his books because " a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant ".

He set out a fictional etymology for the name in an appendix to Lord of the Rings, to the effect that it was derived from holbytla ( plural holbytlan ), a speculative reconstruction of Old English, meaning “ hole-builder ” ( in the books, Old English stands in for words in the language of the fictional Rohirrim ).

Some mathematics books use U and E to represent the Identity Matrix ( meaning " Unit Matrix " and " Elementary Matrix ", or from the German " Einheitsmatrix ", respectively ), although I is considered more universal.

Most books explain this name as a British root ceto ( like Welsh coed ) plus Old English ham, thus meaning a forest settlement.

She clarified her meaning on the difference between speculative and science fiction, admitting that others use the terms interchangeably: " For me, the science fiction label belongs on books with things in them that we can't yet do .... speculative fiction means a work that employs the means already to hand and that takes place on Planet Earth.

The word Zend or Zand, literally meaning " interpretation ", refers to late Middle Persian ( see Pazend and Pahlavi ) language paraphrases of and commentaries on the individual Avestan books: they could be compared with the Jewish Targums.

The second period is that of the Amoraim ( from the Aramaic word for " speaker ") rabbis and their students who continued to debate legal matters and discuss the meaning of the books of the Bible.

In a talk at the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles held on 11 May 2009, Serafini stated that there is no meaning hidden behind the script of the Codex, which is asemic ; that his own experience in writing it was closely similar to automatic writing ; and that what he wanted his alphabet to convey to the reader is the sensation that children feel in front of books they cannot yet understand, although they see that their writing does make sense for grown-ups.