Women's speed skating was not very high-profile ; in Skøytesportens stjerner ( Stars of the skating sport ), a Norwegian work from 1971, no female skaters are mentioned on the book's nearly 200 pages, though they had by then competed for nearly 30 years.

Concurrently with the 1971 film, a line of candies was introduced by the Quaker Oats Company in North America, Europe, and Oceania that uses the book's characters and imagery for its marketing.

" In each book, the Cat in the Hat, Thing 1 and Thing 2, teach Dick ( the boy's name in The Cat in the Hat was not revealed, but the 1971 animated special suggested it was Conrad ) and Sally about the book's topic.

Women's speed skating was not very high-profile ; in Skøytesportens stjerner ( Stars of the skating sport ), a Norwegian work from 1971, no female skaters are mentioned on the book's nearly 200 pages, though they had by then competed for nearly 30 years.

The Oompa Loompa's design is based on the version used in the 1971 film adaptation Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ( the book's most recognizable adaptation at the time ), which Kirkland watched in order to " get design right.

The LDS Church's 1981 edition also contains two " Official Declarations " at the book's conclusion, the first renouncing polygamy in 1890, and the second in 1978 announcing the opening of priesthood ordination to all worthy male members including previously restricted members of African descent.

Escoffier updated Le Guide Culinaire four times during his lifetime, noting in the foreword to the book's first edition that even with its 5, 000 recipes, the book should not be considered an " exhaustive " text, and that even if it were at the point when he wrote the book, " it would no longer be so tomorrow, because progress marches on each day.

To commemorate the 75th anniversary ( May 2011 ) of the publication of Gone with the Wind in 1936, Scribner published a paperback edition featuring the book's original jacket art.

In part due to the criticism of the first edition, Wilde subsequently attempted to moderate some of the more homoerotic references in the book, and to simplify the book's moral message.

* June 24 – First published review of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, in a British magazine ; the book's first edition had appeared earlier in June in England.

The book's first edition was published in 1982.

In the foreword to the book's 30th-anniversary edition, Dawkins said he " can readily see that book's title might give an inadequate impression of its contents " and in retrospect thinks he should have taken Tom Maschler's advice and called the book The Immortal Gene.

To celebrate the centennial of the book's publication, the University Press of Kansas published a new edition titled The Kansas Centennial Edition.

Other than the new sub-title, all that is added is, a preface to the second edition and a 37-page afterword relating the book's content to the 2000 US presidential election.

Roth wrote in the preface to the book's 30th anniversary edition, " With clarity and with crudeness, and a great deal of exuberance, the embryonic writer who was me wrote these stories in his early 20's, while he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, a soldier stationed in New Jersey and Washington, and a novice English instructor back at Chicago following his Army discharge ... In the beginning it simply amazed him that any truly literate audience could seriously be interested in his store of tribal secrets, in what he knew, as a child of his neighborhood, about the rites and taboos of his clan — about their aversions, their aspirations, their fears of deviance and defection, their underlying embarrassments and their ideas of success.

Though only a modest commercial success, the Browne-produced Warren Zevon ( 1976 ) would later be termed a masterpiece in the first edition of the Rolling Stone Record Guide and is cited in the book's most recently revised ( November 2004 ) edition as Zevon's most realized work.

The 2001 edition has a foreword by writer Marianne Williamson, in which she notes the book's reputation as being a classic, or even a primer, in the teaching of " esoteric " principles and ideas.

The new edition contains three new dedicatory epistles, signed by Gascoigne, which apologize for some offense that the original edition had caused and effect to transfer sole responsibility for the book's content to Gascoigne himself.

For the antiquarian collector, how a particular book's production fits into a larger historical context can be as important as the edition, even if it may not be a first edition.

Tracing the history of an antiquarian book's possession history, referred to as " provenance ", can markedly affect the value of a book, even if it is not a first edition per se.

It was in this edition that the Notes and the " Apology for the & c ." ("& c ." was Swift's shorthand for Tale of a Tub: Nutt was supposed to expand the abbreviation out to the book's title but did not do so ; the mistake was left ) were added, which many contemporary readers and authors found a heating up of an already savage satire.

Moore has said that the character of " the Glyph ", introduced in Book Two, clinched book's success ( according to his comments in the introduction to the collected edition ( Titan Books ) in 1986 ).

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the book's original publication ( 15 May 2008 ), a new edition was published by Steidl.

In the preface of the book's 1st edition, its British publisher casts doubt on the accuracy of Mahathir's assumptions and facts.

* It can also refer to a finer distinction of a book's version than " edition ".

Supporting the latter stance, Van Hulle finds that the " characters " in Finnegans Wake are rather " archetypes or character amalgams, taking different shapes ", and Riquelme similarly refers to the book's cast of mutable characters as " protean ".

The book's phenomenal popularity may be because it was essentially an unofficial requirement for every Chinese citizen to own, to read, and to carry it at all times during the latter half of Mao's rule, especially during the Cultural Revolution.

In the book's latter half, a strong empiricist tendency evidences itself in Mao's thought.

The absence of a son may be what leads him to take a shine to Stephen, for whom he goes out of his way in the book's latter episodes, rescuing him from a brothel, walking him back to his own house and even offering him a place there to study and work.

The latter role was loosely based on a Marine aviator, Colonel Donald Conroy, the father of the book's author Pat Conroy.

In the back of the latter book's original edition there was an invitation by William Tyler Olcott of the AAVSO to contribute to the advancement of astronomy by observing variable stars.

Pharaoh comprises a compact, substantial introduction ; sixty-seven chapters ; and an evocative epilogue ( the latter omitted at the book's original publication, and restored in the 1950s ).

The latter film was shot on location in Africa and is notorious for adventures that rivaled the source book's and film's plot of a " great white hunter " and a white blonde jungle queen, the lost daughter of a missionary.

The first was a picture of a forest as per the setting of the initial death, and the latter signified the signing of the town charter and its " Oath " with the book's titled penned in blood.

Coverage lessens during the book's latter chapters.

Many Nevada sports books will allow these bets to be used in parlays, just like team point spread bets, making it possible to bet, for instance, " the Packers and the over ", and be paid if both the Packers " cover " the point spread and the total score is higher than the book's prediction.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

The book's style was innovative, combining naturalism with gothic melodrama, and broke new ground in being written from an intensely first-person female perspective.

This book's method was adopted by the University of Oregon, as described in The Oregon Experiment ( 1975 ), and remains the official planning instrument.

According to Lathbury, Salinger was deeply concerned with the proposed book's appearance, even visiting Washington to examine the cloth for the binding.

Subsequent to the book's publication, Chernyi was imprisoned in Siberia under the Russian Czarist regime for his revolutionary activities.

His prewar writing career was not mentioned in the book's publicity, and people were allowed to assume that it was a first novel from a previously unknown writer.

Kahane claimed in the book's preface that one of his cellmates was a Bedouin from the Negev about to be released after serving an eighteen-year prison sentence for the rape and murder of a Jewish girl.

After the book's release, Klein was heavily criticized by the news magazine The Economist, leading to a broadcast debate with Klein and the magazine's writers, dubbed " No Logo vs.

A nonfiction essay that is embedded in There Will Be Time and attributed to the book's fictional protagonist, but seems to reflect Anderson's own views, sharply criticizes the American Left of 1972 ( when it was written ) for two instances of a double standard: for neglecting to address human rights violations in the Soviet Union and for failing to notice Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

Referring to the book's original 1987 publication in a Rolling Stone review pegged to the book's republication in 2002, the critic Jon Caramanica wrote, " It might well be the most comprehensive biography ever written about a pop act while it was still in its prime.

In 1996, Bachman's The Regulators came out, with the publishers claiming the book's manuscript was found among Bachman's leftover papers by his widow.

Ivanhoe was also remarkable in its sympathetic portrayal of Jewish characters: Rebecca, considered by many critics the book's real heroine, does not in the end get to marry Ivanhoe, whom she loves, but Scott allows her to remain faithful to her own religion, rather than having her convert to Christianity.

The first prize was publication by Harper and Hughes garnered widespread critical acclaim with the book's release in September 1957, winning a Somerset Maugham Award.

According to editor Jacob Hay, the book's final form was " reached with the approval of Mrs. Betty Grissom.

Despite the book's one-sided and prejudiced statements about gay men, one middle-aged matron from a small town in Wisconsin was heard to say " Until I read this book, I never actually knew precisely what it was that homosexuals did ".

The change was spearheaded by Twain scholar Alan Gribben in the hope of " countering the ' pre-emptive censorship '" that results from the book's being removed from school curricula over language concerns.

Boole was apparently disconcerted at the book's reception just as a mathematical toolset:

Hence, the book's theme of homophobia was changed to one about racism and antisemitism.

Although Balzac was a supporter of the crown, Balzac paints the counter-revolutionaries in a sympathetic light – even though they are the center of the book's most brutal scenes.

The poem received mixed reviews from critics, and Coleridge was once told by the publisher that most of the book's sales were to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook.