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A book frontispiece ( decorative illustration facing a book's title page ) for Apicius, a collection of Roman cookery recipe s, circa the late 4th or early 5th century Common Era | CE.
However, unlike Johnson, Hodge confined the term to exclude those like Asa Gray who combined Christian faith with support for Darwin's natural selection theory, before answering the question posed in the book's title by concluding: " It is Atheism.
There are many possible translations of the book's title:
The book's title refers to the temperature that Bradbury understood to be the autoignition point of book paper.
Singer credited Ryder for having coined the term, and used it in the title of his book's fifth chapter: " Man's Dominion ... a short history of speciesism ," defining it as " a prejudice or attitude of bias in favour of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species ":
The book's title comes from the bell-shaped normal distribution of intelligence quotient ( IQ ) scores in a population.
* Similarly, the band Pearls Before Swine had a song by the same title of the book's " The Rocket Man ".
The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical story The Pilgrim's Progress, first published in 1678 and still widely read at the time of Thackeray's novel.
The book's title is a reference to the increasing coldness of Rand al ' Thor's personality and to the return of winter following the reversal in the previous book, The Path of Daggers, of the unnatural heat caused by the Dark One's manipulation of climate.
The book's title comes from the ballad " Mary Ambree ", which starts, " When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt ".
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.
The book's title was borrowed from Rose Estes ' Greyhawk Adventures line of novels and used the same front-cover banner design.
The book's title is in reference to the theory of everything, a physicists ' jargon term for a theory in physics which unifies the four fundamental forces of nature: gravity, the strong force, the weak force, and the electromagnetic force.
Lord Hailsham revisited themes of faith in his memoirs A Sparrow's Flight, and the book's title alluded to remarks about sparrows and faith recorded in Bede's Ecclesiastical History and the words of Christ in the Gospel of Matthew.
This began with the debut of the book's opening chapter, under the title " Opening Pages of a Work in Progress ", in April 1927.
The " King Solomon " of the book's title is the Biblical king renowned both for his wisdom and for his wealth.
" He focuses especially upon the " openness " of relativism as leading paradoxically to the great " closing " referenced in the book's title.
The book's title was taken from an incident in the Aeneid, illustrated by the British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner: Aeneas and the Sibyl present the golden bough to the gatekeeper of Hades to gain admission.
This is where the " New " and " Science " parts of the book's title originate.
: The cartoon on the cover that provides the book's title would turn out to be one of his most famous and often-cited cartoons.
The book's title is a reference to the means by which farm-based societies conquered populations of other areas and maintained dominance, despite sometimes being vastly out-numbered – superior weapons provided immediate military superiority ( guns ); Eurasian diseases weakened and reduced local populations, who had no immunity, making it easier to maintain control over them ( germs ), and centralized government promoted nationalism and powerful military organizations ( steel ).
These economic and technological advantages eventually enabled Europeans to conquer the peoples of the other continents in recent centuries by using the " Guns " and " Steel " of the book's title.
The European diseases – the " Germs " of the book's title – decimated indigenous populations so that relatively small numbers of Europeans could maintain their dominance.
E. M. Forster borrowed the book's title from Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass.

book's and Hardy
Emma was also very disapproving of Jude the Obscure, in part because of the book's criticisms of religion, but also because she worried that the reading public would believe that the relationship between Jude and Sue directly paralleled her strained relationship with Hardy ( which, in a figurative sense, it did ).
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities ( ISBN 1-890159-01-8 ) is an English language non-fiction narrative written by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy ( given as pseudonym Catherine A. Liszt for the book's first edition ).
Just prior to the book's first ( underground ) publication, Hardy was wracked with uncertainty as to whether it was ethical to include the episode: he was worried about the book's impact on the " living innocents ".

book's and uses
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.
End the Fed author Ron Paul uses a passage from The Frogs that recounts the debasement of the Greek drachma as an epigraph to one of the book's chapters, reflecting it comment on modern day inflation.
In Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ), a character named Faber constructs a hidden radio earpiece that he uses to guide the thoughts and actions of the book's protagonist, Guy Montag.
" Patricia K. Ladd wrote in The ALAN Review that Ritter " addresses themes of autonomy and independence common to young adult readers and portrays plot through authentic dialect and well-developed characters ," and his uses of dialogue, similes, metaphors, and imagery " add dimensions to the plot that leave readers pondering the book's messages long after turning the final page.
The book's epilogue describes the pair splitting up ; Sy flops as a solo act while Max joins up with the Rebellion and uses his musical talents to entertain the troops.
The book's title uses a phrase that was well known at the time.
However, the source code available on the book's website has been updated for ANSI C conformance ( but uses the implicit int rule, which is disallowed in C99 ).

book's and word
In the book's introduction, Schwartz states that the word " myth ", as used in the book, " is not offered to mean something that is not true, as in the current popular usage ".
The toneless pinyin phrase Wu Li in the title is most accurately rendered 物理 in hanzi ( one Chinese translation of the word " physics ") in the light of the book's subject matter, but appears to be somewhat of a pun as there are many other Chinese characters that could be rendered as " wu li " in atonal pinyin.
* In her New Yorker review of A. A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner ( 1928 ) Dorothy Parker, writing under the book reviewer pen name Constant Reader, purposefully mimics baby talk when dismissing the book's syrupy prose style: " It is that word ' hummy ,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
The influence of Lugones was evident in the book's tendency to avoid common settings, the use of vocabulary then considered unpoetical, the unusual adjective use, unexpected metaphors, the use of word games, the frequency of proparoxytones, and the humorous use of rhyme.
Years went by without any word on the book's progress and Wentz even expressed on his Twitter account that he didn't think it would ever come to fruition.

book's and sense
" Although much has been made of the numerous world languages employed in the book's composite language, most of the more obscure languages appear only seldom in small clusters, and most agree with Ruch that the latent sense of the language, however manifestly obscure, is " basically English ".
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.
Karla is finally defeated, but the similarity of Smiley's methods to the cold and ruthless techniques of Karla himself robs Smiley of any apparent sense of triumph in the book's closing sentences.
The book's style is summarized by one reviewer as " a book that reads like a movie ", and another notes that Ellis ' writing " can be sharp ", and succeeds in creating a " creepy sense of dread about our culture ".

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