A Chinese book on houseplants written in 1st – 3rd centuries BC mentioned a medical use of Ephedra and opium poppies.

American consul James W. Davidson described in his 1903 book, The Island of Formosa, how the Chinese in Taiwan ate and traded in the flesh of Taiwanese aboriginals.

The book served as Confucianism's seminal textbook for Chinese women for two millennia, but cementing the " cult of chastity " as an exemplar of Chinese superiority also condemned many widows to lives of " poverty and loneliness.

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

In Chinese terms, the book changed the format of histories from biographical style ( 紀傳體 ) to chronological style ( 編年體 ), which is better suited for analysis and criticism.

* The The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, a mathematics Chinese book composed by several generations scholars of Han Dynasty.

In the book of the Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao, published in 1092 by the Chinese scientist Su Song, a star map on the equidistant cylindrical projection.

The original form of the theorem, contained in a third-century AD book The Mathematical Classic of Sun Zi ( 孫子算經 ) by Chinese mathematician Sun Tzu and later generalized with a complete solution called Da yan shu ( 大衍术 ) in a 1247 book by Qin Jiushao, the Shushu Jiuzhang ( 數書九章 Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections ) is a statement about simultaneous congruences ( see modular arithmetic ).

The Tao Te Ching, Daodejing, or Dao De Jing ( 道德經: 道 dào " way "; 德 dé " virtue "; 經 jīng " classic " or " book ") also simply referred to as the Laozi, is a Chinese classic text.

His book Language provides everything from a grammar-typological classification of languages ( with examples ranging from Chinese to Nootka ) to speculation on the phenomenon of language drift, and the arbitrariness of associations between language, race, and culture.

As noted in the book Huai Nan Zu, in the 2nd Century BC Chinese astronomers effectively inverted Eratosthenes ' calculation of the curvature of the Earth to calculate the height of the sun above the earth.

In 1983, British journalist Anthony Grey published a controversial book in which he claimed that Holt had been an agent for the People's Republic of China and that he had been picked up by a Chinese submarine off Portsea and taken to China.

Robert Temple quotes an account from Zhang Yan's Zhongdou xinshu ( 種痘新書 ), or New book on smallpox inoculation, written in 1741 during the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1912 ), which shows how the Chinese process had become refined up until that point:

Han Chinese scholar Liu Xiang established the first library classification system during the Han Dynasty, and the first book notation system.

He studied the Chinese language, traveled extensively researching the history, traditions and customs of the Chinese, which he intended to use as material for a book about life in contemporary China, and regularly sent detailed reports to the General Staff and Foreign Ministry.

* A system of book classification for Chinese libraries ( Liu's Classification ) library classification for user

British author Alan D. Millington revived the Chinese classical game of the 1920s with his book The Complete Book of Mah-jongg ( 1977 ).

Written by Chinese general Sun Tzu in the 6th century BC, The Art of War is a military strategy book that, for managerial purposes, recommends being aware of and acting on strengths and weaknesses of both a manager's organization and a foe's.

Later that year, Chinese media reported that Miyazaki's final film project would be I Lost My Little Boy, based on a Chinese children's book.

His most recent book on globalisation, ' A World Without Walls ', has also been published in Chinese and Turkish.

In this book, Stephenson returns with a thriller set in the present with a plot that involves a medley of game developers, Chinese cyber-criminals, Russian mafia, and other stranger inhabitants of the new global village.

* The Origin, a comic book reinterpretation of the movie script

In his book Systematics and the Origin of Species ( 1942 ) he wrote that a species is not just a group of morphologically similar individuals, but a group that can breed only among themselves, excluding all others.

During his time at the museum he produced numerous publications on bird taxonomy, and in 1942 his first book, Systematics and the Origin of Species, which completed the evolutionary synthesis started by Darwin.

Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.

Julian Jaynes ( February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997 ) was an American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind ( 1976 ), in which he argued that ancient peoples were not conscious.

The term was introduced by Darwin in his groundbreaking 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which natural selection was described by analogy to artificial selection, a process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by human breeders are systematically favored for reproduction.

The term was later brought into the English-speaking world by Theodosius Dobzhansky in his book Genetics and the Origin of Species ( 1937 ).

The term was introduced by Darwin in his influential 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which natural selection was described as analogous to artificial selection, a process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by human breeders are systematically favored for reproduction.

* The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin's 1859 book

* Origin ( comics ), a comic book mini-series published by Marvel Comics in 2002

* Manifold: Origin, a 2001 science fiction book by Stephen Baxter

Sexual selection, a concept introduced by Charles Darwin in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, is a significant element of his theory of natural selection.

The Origin of Species as a book of wide general interest became associated with ideas of social reform.

* The Origin of Species: An Outline, A short, accessible outline of the book.

* Excerpt from Wilkinson's book Chinese Origin Of Playing Cards

ME Games Ltd ( formerly Middle-earth Play-by-Mail ), which has won several Origin Awards, uses the Battle of Five Armies as an introductory scenario to the full game and includes characters and armies from the book.

However, he later developed his theory of evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, which offers an alternate explanation of biological order.

This study of natural history was most powerfully advanced by Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution first published in his book On the Origin of Species in 1859.

After reading the Edwin G. Lutz book Animated Cartoons: How They Are Made, Their Origin and Development, Disney considered cel animation to be much more promising than the cutout animation he was doing for Cauger.

His subject matter was central to Victorian anxieties, which might be one reason Natural Theology continued to appeal to the reading public, making his book a best seller for most of the 19th century, even after the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species.

* November 24 – British naturalist Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, a book which argues that species gradually evolve through natural selection ( it immediately sells out its initial print run ).

* The anonymously written Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation is published and paves the way for the acceptance of Darwin's book The Origin of Species.

Galton was influenced by the book On the Origin of Species written by his cousin, Charles Darwin.

Although this film is not in continuity with the later television series, in 1999, author Christopher Golden adapted Joss Whedon's original script into a comic book entitled " The Origin ", which Whedon later confirmed to be " pretty much " canonical.