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 ).

She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection, the epilogue of Billions and Billions, and her own novel, A Famous Broken Heart.

Jerome, in the introduction to his Latin translation of the books of Samuel and Kings ( part of the Vulgate ), referred to the book as a chronikon (" Chronicles " in English ).

* Ch. 1: various poems, possibly compiled as an introduction to the final form of the book

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

This introduction to the book illustrates the severity of the situation which Malachi addresses.

In addition to his novels, Campbell also wrote a column for X Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, comic book adaptations of his Man With The Screaming Brain and most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making.

Before the end of the Civil War and the introduction of the 1662 prayer book, something like a half a million prayer books are estimated to have been in circulation.

In the introduction to his 1947 " Kinetic theory of liquids " book, J Frenkel ( see Yakov Frenkel ) proposed that " The kinetic theory of liquids must accordingly be developed as a generalization and extension of the kinetic theory of solid bodies.

The introduction to the book asserts that it " contains, as does the Bible, the fullness of the everlasting gospel.

Since the introduction of the comic book format in 1933 with the publication of Famous Funnies, the United States has produced the most titles, along with British comics and Japanese manga, in terms of quantity of titles.

B. Rives points out in his introduction to Tacitus's Germania ( book ) and moreover that the name Boiorix can work in Proto-Germanic as well as Celtic.

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

The book consisted simply of an introduction followed by 32 annotated plates, with views from the Pantheon illustrating the Corinthian order and the Theatre of Marcellus for the Doric order.

The Loeb Classical Library introduction characterizes the book as

Particularly important for establishing him in the field was his seminal book Language ( 1921 ), which was a layman's introduction to the discipline of linguistics as Sapir envisioned it.

* 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

" ISBN 1-904555-05-5 ( The book comes with a related DVD of the Arthur C. Clarke documentary introduction to the fractal concept and the Mandelbrot set.

The following discussion is a summary based on the introduction to Appel and Haken's book Every Planar Map is Four Colorable.

It was in the aftermath of 1968 that Guattari met Gilles Deleuze at the University of Vincennes and began to lay the ground-work for the soon to be infamous Anti-Oedipus ( 1972 ), which Michel Foucault described as " an introduction to the non-fascist life " in his preface to the book.

Much of his personal correspondence with those and other figures is featured in the book The Groucho Letters ( 1967 ) with an introduction and commentary on the letters written by Groucho, who donated his letters to the Library of Congress.

For four of the trips a photography book was made by Pao, each with an introduction written by Palin.

An additional topic considered in this book is the science reform movement of the late 1970s that resulted in the introduction of a named science degree, thus facilitating the subsequent inclusion of other named degrees in addition to the traditional BA.

His book The Amazing Book of Mazes ( 2006 ) contains examples and photographs of numerous methods of maze construction, several of which have been pioneered by Fisher ; The Art of the Maze ( Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1990 ) contains a substantial history of the subject, whilst Mazes and Labyrinths ( Shire Publications, 2004 ) is a useful introduction to the subject.

In the introduction to The World of O. Henry: Roads of Destiny and Other Stories ( Hodder & Stoughton, 1973 ), William Trevor writes that when Porter was in the Ohio State Penitentiary " there was a prison guard named Orrin Henry, whom William Sydney Porter.

As noted in the introduction, Bézout's identity works not only in the ring of integers, but also in any other principal ideal domain ( PID ).

In his introduction to The Portable Cervantes, Samuel Putnam, a noted translator of Cervantes ' novel, calls Avellaneda's version " one of the most disgraceful performances in history ".

Nevertheless it should be noted that in a referendum in the 2000s the introduction of blanket speed limits was refused by the population, suggesting that a large number appreciate the freedom.

This makes the Wimseys an unusually ancient family, since " Very few English noble families go that far in the first creation ; rebellions and monarchic head choppings had seen to that " ( as reviewer Janet Hitchman noted in the introduction to Striding Folly ).

Recently the notions of metamodernism, Post-postmodernism and the " death of postmodernism " have been increasingly widely debated: in 2007 Andrew Hoborek noted in his introduction to a special issue of the journal Twentieth Century Literature titled " After Postmodernism " that " declarations of postmodernism's demise have become a critical commonplace ".

M. Hammond, A. H. Mack, and W. Moskalew have noted in their introduction to the text of the Miles Gloriosus that Plautus was, “ free from convention ... that he sought to reproduce the easy tone of daily speech rather than the formal regularity of oratory or poetry.

King noted in the book's introduction that he does not use cell phones.

The enduring, widespread popularity of the theorem was noted in the introduction to a 2001 paper, " Monkeys, Typewriters and Networks: The Internet in the Light of the Theory of Accidental Excellence " ( Hoffmann and Hofmann ).

The Short Text of the Revelation of Love was finished by 1413, as noted in its introduction in the fifteenth-century Amherst Manuscript, now in the British Library, which named Julian and referred to her as still alive.

It should also be noted however, that the 1970s saw the introduction of martial-arts film to western audiences.

At a 2005 workshop in Las Vegas, a seminar noted the introduction of telemetry equipment which would allow vending machines to communicate sales and inventory data to a route truck or to a headquarters.

Notable achievements included the introduction of the first turbocharged engine in 1962 ( the Turbo Jetfire ), the first modern front-wheel drive car produced in the United States ( the 1966 Toronado ), the Vista Cruiser station wagon ( noted for its roof glass ), and the upscale 442 muscle car.

This view was echoed by an article in TV Zone magazine, which noted that Timeslip “ was probably the general public's first introduction to what are now everyday scientific concepts, such as cloning and climate change ”.

Written in an academic style, its introduction noted that, to discourage lay readers, the author had deliberately chosen a scientific term for the title of the book and that he had written parts of it in Latin for the same purpose.

He furthermore noted that there was a " disconcerting randomness about the introduction of the supernatural " into the book's plot, with the supernatural elements simply appearing without having been worked into a wider world universe.

A number of the early editions carried an introduction by Rev James Sherman, a Congregational minister in London noted for his abolitionist views.

As well, the original planned introduction of Wilson galloping into town was replaced with him simply walking in on his horse, which was noted as improving the entrance by making him seem more threatening.

Maggin wrote Superman # 400 ( Oct. 1984 ) which featured work by several popular comics artists including the only major DC work by Jim Steranko as well as an introduction by noted science-fiction author Ray Bradbury.

With the introduction of radio for commercial and military uses, it was noted that periods of extreme static or noise occurred.

The book includes an introduction and afterword by noted historian Stephen E. Ambrose.

O ' Dalaigh was also a noted critic of the curtailment of free speech and was highly critical of the introduction of Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act, which forbade the broadcast of the voices of Sinn Féin members.

John Dee, noted Elizabethan philosopher, magician and scientist and also responsible for the introduction to the first English translation of Euclid was educated at the Chantry School ( later re-founded as the Grammar School ) in the sixteenth century.

Bartelt noted that Hovind's dissertation is incomplete ( it contains four chapters totaling 101 pages, but Hovind's introduction claims the work is 250 pages with 16 chapters ), of low academic quality, with poor writing, poor spelling, and poor grammatical style.

Admitting that he was " immensely proud " of Divine and the cause which he " strived for ", Jay noted in the book's introduction that he wrote the work because he felt that Divine deserved a " memorial " that would act as a " record for posterity ".