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book's and conclusion
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.
The film and the city are recurring motifs in Larry McMurtry's 1972 novel All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers, and the book's conclusion takes place in and around Roma.
* At the conclusion of Umberto Eco's " The Name of the Rose ", the unique Medieval library which is at the center of the book's plot is burned and totally destroyed.
Rand's first experience with channeling that he recognizes as such comes when he battles two Forsaken ( and Ishamael, subsequently ) at the actual Eye of the World at that book's conclusion.
The book's main conclusion is that development-driven policies, formed when settling the West was the country's main concern, are having serious long-term negative effects on the environment and water quantity.
He is also a contribution to the book's theme of the struggle to make sense of life and his conclusion may be taken to some extent to be DeLillo's own.
Most scholars dismiss the theory as a fantasy, and the book's conclusion is now widely discredited.
The change was presumably required because the book's conclusion was in contradiction to the conventions of Hollywood, in which dashing European officers, played by leading movie stars like Stewart Granger, are not expected to lose out to gauche, mixed-race railway-workers played by less-established actors ( as Bill Travers was in 1956 ).
At the book's conclusion, Marlowe is rewarded by providence when an old flame ( Linda Loring from the previous novel, The Long Goodbye ), gets back in touch.
By the book's conclusion, Hofstadter has effectively done this.
The differences between the film's conclusion and the book's are numerous and have substantial bearing on their respective outcomes.

book's and becomes
Another parallel between the book's characters / themes and Hardy's actual life experience occurs when Sue becomes obsessed with religion after previously having been indifferent and even hostile towards it.
Instead of delivering it to the Master Librarians, Nepenthe decides to transcribe it herself ; she soon becomes obsessed with learning the book's outcome.
Jonathan becomes convinced of the book's authenticity when an unsuccessful spell to summon a spirit results in breathing fire.
Jonathan quickly grows excited and becomes obsessed with the book's powers, but begins to dramatically age due to the rapid depletion of one's life force required to cast the spells.

book's and Prophet
The book's sequel, second in the tales of Alvin's life, is Red Prophet.
The book's 27 chapters were grouped into sections on Prairie, Prophet, Prospector, Puncher, Plow, Panic, and Planning.

book's and ending
Sue K. Hurwitz said in her review for the School Library Journal that it is " a catalog of Heinlein's sins as an author ; it is sophomoric, sexist, militantly right wing, and excessively verbose ", and comments that the book's ending was " a devastating parody of SF conventions — will have genre addicts rolling on the floor.
" Riquelme finds that " passages near the book's beginning and its ending echo and complement one another ", and Fargnoli and Gillespie representatively argue that the book's cyclical structure echoes the themes inherent within, that " the typologies of human experience that Joyce identifies Finnegans Wake are essentially cyclical, that is, patterned and recurrent ; in particular, the experiences of birth, guilt, judgment, sexuality, family, social ritual and death recur throughout the Wake.
* In the book's ending, Hayes was moved to another prison on an island from which he escapes eventually, by swimming across the lake and then traveling by foot as well as on a bus to Istanbul and then crossing the border into Greece.
The issue is still hotly debated, nearly half a century after the book's publication ( See Podkayne of Mars # Two versions of the ending ).
In " Tehanu " there is a reference to " a woman on Gont " being destined to fill the position of Archmage, left vacant since Ged lost his power, and the ending of " Tehanu " leaves the impression that the book's eponymous character would be that woman.
Indeed, some of Stapledon's contemporaries were appalled at the book's philosophy: in a letter to Arthur C. Clarke in 1943, C. S. Lewis described the ending as “ sheer devil worship .”
The book's ending was clearly intended to leave readers in suspense:
In the book's ending notes, King relates that this story had one of the shortest gestation periods of any of his pieces — he conceived and wrote it feverishly over a mere three days.
# The God of the Hive The adventure picks up directly from the previous book's cliff-hanger ending, as Russell, Holmes, and their companions have been forced to split up in an attempt to make their way back to London, and safety.
This interpretation stems from the authors themselves describing Q as a " handbook of survival skills ", which might cast a revealing light on the book's ending.
The film's ending does not mirror the book's ending.
When the two Red Dwarf novels were printed together as an omnibus, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor took the opportunity to alter the ending of Better than Life in order to clear up confusion about the book's ending.
However, the book's ending is unusually optimistic compared to those of lesbian pulp novels, as it suggests that Carol and Therese may stay together and be happy after all.
Something Leather concludes with a section entitled Critic Fuel-An Epilogue, in which Gray describes the circumstances surrounding the book's development and offers an extended ending.
come in the form of long e-mails that bog down the plot ", the discussion of the Chinese people " verge on racism " and the book's ending " falls flat ".

book's and church
The church membership at the time had not yet seen the Doctrine and Covenants manuscript as it had been compiled and revised solely by the committee ; however, various church members who were familiar with the work " bore record " of the book's truth.
In the fall of 1991 former church Archivist Lee Johnson presented a six-page letter of the book's unusual history.
The book's popularity is due to its personable style and content which most appeals to twentysomething and thirtysomething, post-modern Christians in the emerging church movement.

book's and be
I mention these features of the book because they are inherent in the book's character and therefore must be mentioned.
Such mannerisms would be less worthy of remark, were it not that in Great Expectations, as in no other of Dickens' novels, hands serve as a leitmotif of plot and theme -- a kind of unifying symbol or natural metaphor for the book's complex of human interrelationships and the values and attitudes that motivate them.
Scholars agree that the Deuteronomists ' hand can be seen in Judges through the book's cyclical nature: the Israelites fall into idolatry, God punishes them for their sins with oppression by foreign peoples, the Israelites cry out to God for help, and God sends a judge to deliver them from the foreign oppression.
The book's title refers to the temperature that Bradbury understood to be the autoignition point of book paper.
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.
The delay in publication is thought to be due to the time necessary to complete the book's many woodcuts.
Facts about my life and my origins, I felt, should not be used to test the book's authenticity, any more than they should be used to encourage readers to read The Painted Bird.
Next, a call number ( essentially a book's address ) based on the classification system in use at the particular library will be assigned to the work using the notation of the system.
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.
There is also an evident consensus among popular authors that he predicted whatever major event had just happened at the time of each book's publication, from the Apollo moon landings, through the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, to the events of 9 / 11: this ' movable feast ' aspect appears to be characteristic of the genre.
Critics have doubted that any of the annotations in the Bible can be reliably attributed to de Vere and not the book's other owners prior to its acquisition by the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1925, as well as challenging the strictness of Stritmatter's standards for a Biblical allusion in Shakespeare's works and arguing that there is no statistical significance to the overlap.
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.
The book's main idea is that high levels of fat intake are the cause of many health disorders common in the U. S., and thus that cutting fat consumption down to 10 % of the total calories consumed would be optimal for most people.
The copyright could be gained through two stages ; first, the registration of the book's publication with the Company, to prevent unintentional infringement, and second, the deposit of copies of the book at the Stationers ' Company, the royal library and various universities.
It provides interpretative strategies, so that UUs ( among others ) might be able to engage in public debate about what the Bible says from a liberal religious perspective, rather than relinquishing to religious conservatives, and other more literal interpretations, all control over the book's contents and significance in matters of public and civic import.
Thackeray meant the book to be not only entertaining but also instructive, an intention demonstrated through the book's narration and through Thackeray's private correspondence.
The book's < tt > info </ tt > element is that because it is a direct child of the book ; it does not need to be named specially for a human reader.
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.
The book's protagonist is Friday Baldwin, an artificial person both mentally and physically superior in many ways to an ordinary human, but she faces great prejudice and will most likely be killed if her " non-human " status is discovered.
If he occupies himself with dthikr, He ( God ) will unveil to the secrets of the vegetable world, then the secrets of the animal world, then the infusion of the world of life-force into lives, then the " surface sign " ( the light of the Divine Names, according to Abdul-Karim al-Jeeli, the book's translator ), then the degrees of speculative sciences, then the world of formation and adornment and beauty, then the degrees of the qutb ( the soul or pivot of the universe-see # 16 ) ( 59 ) Then he will be given the divine wisdom and the power of symbols and authority over the veil and the unveiling.
The New Monthly Magazine, for example, thought the book's physical magnificence kept it from being available to the poor and recommended the tale be printed on cheap paper and priced accordingly.

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