His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

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 ).

On the Reckoning of Time ( De temporum ratione ) included an introduction to the traditional ancient and medieval view of the cosmos, including an explanation of how the spherical earth influenced the changing length of daylight, of how the seasonal motion of the Sun and Moon influenced the changing appearance of the New Moon at evening twilight, and a quantitative relation between the changes of the Tides at a given place and the daily motion of the moon.

New pressures also saw introduction of the third weekly episode on 20 October 1989, broadcast each Friday at 19: 30.

New technology is not without problems in its introduction.

* TIB = The Interpreter ’ s Bible, The Holy Scriptures in the King James and Revised Standard versions with general articles and introduction, exegesis, exposition for each book of the Bible in twelve volumes, George Arthur Buttrick, Commentary Editor, Walter Russell Bowie, Associate Editor of Exposition, Paul Scherer, Associate Editor of Exposition, John Knox Associate Editor of New Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Samuel Terrien, Associate Editor of Old Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Nolan B. Harmon Editor, Abingdon Press, copyright 1955 by Pierce and Washabaugh, set up printed, and bound by the Parthenon Press, at Nashville, Tennessee, Volume XI, Philippians, Colossians and Exegesis by Francis W. Beare, Exposition by G. Preston MacLeod, Thessalonians, Pastoral Epistles First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and the Epistle to Titus, Philemon, Hebrews

New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. introduction

* Ezra Abbot & J. Rendel Harris, Notes on Scriveners ' " Plain introduction to the criticism of the New Testament ," 3rd edition ( 1885 )

The New Stone Age, or Neolithic, begins with the introduction of farming, ultimately from the Middle East, around 4000 BCE.

The decade opened with the shut-down of the Pagewood, New South Wales production plant and introduction of the light commercial Rodeo, sourced from Isuzu in Japan.

In 1986, Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni ( his introduction to American audiences ) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailhouse.

It has also been argued that the introduction of New Zealand's compulsory bicycle helmet law contributed to the decline in the popularity of cycling.

In the 19th century, one of the most important changes for New Zealand shipping – and for New Zealand itself – came with the introduction of refrigerated ships, which allowed New Zealand to export meat to overseas, primarily to the United Kingdom.

New cellular phone introduction has fixed the communication problem to a large part.

* Braschi, Giannina ( 1994 ), Empire of Dreams, introduction by Alicia Ostriker, Yale University Press, New Haven, London.

Pseudo-Dionysius: A commentary on the texts and an introduction to their influence ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 ).

Many of his government ’ s reforms were due to his Minister for Justice, John Maddison, and Attorney-General Sir Kenneth McCaw, who initiated the establishment of the Law Reform Commission of New South Wales, the introduction of consumer laws, an ombudsman, legal aid, health labels on cigarette packs, breath-testing of drivers, limits on vehicle emissions, the liberalisation of liquor laws, and compensation for victims of violent crime.

The report picked up on an article originally written in 2002 by Jonathan Kay of the New York Times regarding the recent introduction of " Nazi protagonists " in the online gaming market ( referring specifically to Day of Defeat and Wolfenstein ).

Gary K. Wolfe, professor of humanities and English at Roosevelt University, identifies the introduction of the term New Wave to SF as occurring in 1966 in an essay for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction written by Judith Merril, who was indirectly yet it seems unambiguously referring to that term in order to comment on the experimental fiction that had begun to appear in the English magazine New Worlds, after Michael Moorcock assumed editorship in 1964.

There is no consensus on a precise starting point of the New Wave-Adam Roberts refers to Alfred Bester as having singlehandedly invented the genre, and in the introduction to a collection of Leigh Brackett's short fiction, Michael Moorcock referred to her as one of the genre's " true godmothers ".

This edition is the basis of Ephraim Emerton's selection and translation in English, The Letters of Saint Boniface, first published in New York in 1940 ; it was republished most recently with a new introduction by Thomas F. X.

He also secured the abolition of the purchase of commissions in the army, and of religious tests for admission to Oxford and Cambridge ; the introduction of the secret ballot in elections ; the legalization of trade unions ; and the reorganization of the judiciary in the Judicature Act.

Elizabeth issued Oxford a licence to travel in January 1575, and provided him with letters of introduction to foreign monarchs.

* Tacitus: Germania ( with introduction and commentary by J. B. Rives ), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.

* The Political writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, edited from the original MCS and authentic editions with introduction and notes by C. E. Vaughan, Blackwell, Oxford, 1962.

* Shawn Hedman, A first course in logic: an introduction to model theory, proof theory, computability, and complexity, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-852981-3.

* Eagleton, T. Literary theory: an introduction Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1983.

* Paley, William, Natural Theology, with an introduction and notes by Matthew D. Eddy and David M. Knight, Oxford University Press, 2006.

* Okasha, Samir (), " Philosophy of science: A very short introduction ", Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

An introduction ", Oxford University Press.

Some are of the same type as the ancient epitome, such as various epitomes of the Summa Theologiae of St Thomas Aquinas-originally written as an introductory textbook in theology, and now accessible to very few, except for the learned in theology and Aristotelian philosophy-such as A Summa of the Summa and A Shorter Summa: many epitomes today are published under the general title, " The Companion to ...", such as The Oxford Companion to Aristotle or " An Overview of " or " guides ", such as An Overview of the Thought of Immanuel Kant, How to Read Hans Urs von Balthasar, or, in some cases, as an introduction, in the cases of An Introduction to Søren Kierkegaard or A Very Short Introduction to the New Testament ( many philosophical " introductions " and " guides " share the epitomic form, unlike general " introductions " to a field ).

The fragment of Book II and the additional evidence for Aristoxenean rhythmic theory ( Oxford ), Greek texts with introduction, translation, and commentary, ISBN 0-19-814051-7

* Theocritus: Idylls, ( 2003 ) translated by Anthony Verity with an introduction and notes by Richard Hunter, Oxford University Press.

Legal pluralism ; an introduction to colonial and neo-colonial laws ( Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975 ).

On The Indian Frontier, Edited with an introduction by Dhara Anjaria ; ( Oxford U. P.

Machaut's Mass: An introduction ( Oxford University Press, 1992 ).

In his 2001 introduction to Henry VI: Critical Essays, Thomas A. Pendleton makes a similar argument, as does Roger Warren, in his 2003 edition of 2 Henry VI for The Oxford Shakespeare.

pp. 82, 83 ; also the introduction to the Dialogus de Scaccario in the Oxford edition of 1902.

* Aitken, M. J., Introduction to Optical Dating, Oxford University Press ( 1998 ) – Good introduction to the field.

* F. L. Lucas, A Greek Garland: A Selection from the Palatine Anthology ( text of 149 poems, introduction, notes, and verse translations ; Oxford, 1939 )

* Holmwood, J., ( 2005 ) “ Functionalism and its Critics ” in Harrington, A., ( ed ) Modern Social Theory: an introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 87 – 109

A translation of Isḥaq's " Sirat Rasul Allah ", with introduction and notes ( Oxford University 1955 ), xlvii + 815 pages.