Stephen Jay Gould's book Wonderful Life, published in 1989, brought the Burgess Shale fossils to the public's attention.

Baum and Tietjens had worked on a musical of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1901 and based closely upon the book, but it was rejected.

In the children's book and movie, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a pair of red ruby slippers play a key role in the plot.

* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a 1900 book by L. Frank Baum and W. W. Denslow

* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( comics ), the first of a series of comic book adaptations published by Marvel Comics

* Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the sources of the images in relation to the politics of the era in which the book was written

An angry tomte is featured in the popular children's book by Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige ( Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden ).

The work also sets textual passages from the book as songs, including The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs and Nowth upon Nacht.

In his book Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould argues that if the tape of life were re-wound and played back, life would have taken a very different course.

The women's analysis of Zed's mental images earlier had revealed that in the ruins of the old world Arthur Frayn first encouraged Zed to learn to read, then leading him to the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

In the book The Patchwork Girl of Oz, it is revealed that there are two yellow brick roads from Munchkin Country to the Emerald City: according to the Shaggy Man, Dorothy took the harder one in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Such a dream frame was added to the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for the movie version ; in the book, Oz is clearly defined as an actual place.

Map of the Land of Oz, the fictional country in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

There are political interpretations of his book, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which have often been related to Coxey's Army.

* Wonderful tribute to Elsa Brandström by Protestant theologian Paul Tillich The tribute appears in Chapter 3, " The Power of Love ," of Paul Tillich's book " The New Being.

While they are living happily in England, the BFG writes a book of their adventures, which is stated to be the same book in which the afore-mentioned story is narrated ( a literary device also apparent in James and the Giant Peach and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar ).

The method of logarithms was publicly propounded by John Napier in 1614, in a book entitled Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio ( Description of the Wonderful Rule of Logarithms ).

* 1953: Wonderful Town – Music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov.

In his first year, 1898-1899, he published Henry James's In the Cage ; Leslie Stephen's English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century ; Jocelyn by John Sinjohn, a nom-de-plume of John Galsworthy ; a translation of August Strindberg's Der Vater ; and Mother Goose in Prose, the first children's book by L. Frank Baum and the first book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish ( Baum's most famous work The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in Chicago just a year later ).

Onstad has published several books: nine anthologies of Achewood comics ; a humorous cookbook featuring recipes purportedly invented by the strip's characters ; A Wonderful Tale, a book written from the perspective of a character from the strip ; and that same character's second novel A Hilarious Comedy.

Later, it is revealed that the destruction of their farmhouse by the cyclone in the original book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has left Uncle Henry in terrible debt.

Walcott would be little known today if he had not been brought to attention by Stephen Jay Gould's book Wonderful Life ( 1989 ).

* Wonderful Life ( book ), a 1989 book on evolution by Stephen Jay Gould

The realm of Mspellsheimr appears as ' Muspel ' in Gene Wolfe's book series, The Wizard Knight.

The Wizard, his partner and two boarders were lucky to escape with their lives, and the wizard's extensive book and video collections were destroyed.

In that book, the Wizard puts on a grand appearance but is later revealed to be merely a man hiding behind a curtain.

* Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz, including book, stage, film, television and game adaptations

Wizard and Glass is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

The sight of these led to him being dubbed Wilson of the Wizard ( an comic book character ).

He had even an affectionate nickname of Wizard of Tuorla ( Observatory / Optics laboratory ), and there is a book with the same title in Finnish describing his works.

Usagi has appeared in stories published by Cartoon Books, Oni Press, Sky Dog Press, Wizard Press, and most recently in the benefit book Drawing the Line, the proceeds of which went to Princess Margaret Hospital and The Hospital for Sick Children, both in Toronto, for cancer research.

* Wizard book

It has to be said, though, that he's only known as " The Hobgoblin " in the English translation — in the Swedish edition of the book, The Hobgoblin is simply referred to as " Trollkarlen " (" The Wizard ") and his species is not mentioned.

This version of Doctor Octopus is ranked as 179th greatest comic book character of Wizard.

Nightcrawler was ranked as the 133rd greatest comic book character of all time by Wizard magazine.

Wizard magazine ranked him as the 135th greatest comic book character of all time while IGN ranked Groo as the 100th greatest comic book hero of all time stating that "... while he may not be the brightest bulb on the battlefield, Groo is an earnest and kind-hearted adventurer whose travels are never short on laughs and adventure.

Several times during the development of the Oz series, Baum declared that he had written his last Oz book and devoted himself to other works of fantasy fiction based in other magical lands, including The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus and Queen Zixi of Ix.

His final Oz book, Glinda of Oz, was published on July 10, 1920, a year after his death.

As Willow gives a book report in front of her high school class, she discovers herself wearing the same mousy outfit she wore in the first episode of the show (" Welcome to the Hellmouth ") as her friends and classmates shout derisively at her, and Oz and Tara whisper intimately to each other in the audience.

In 1914, Baum adapted the book to film through his " Oz Film Manufacturing Company.

In the previous Oz book, The Emerald City of Oz, magic was used to isolate Oz from all outside worlds.

Baum did this to end the Oz series, but was forced to restart the series with this book due to financial hardships.

Glinda, using her book that records everything that happens, is able to know that someone is using a telegraph to contact Oz, so she erects a telegraph tower and has the Shaggy Man, who knows how to make a telegraph reply, tell the story contained in this book to Baum.

The remainder of this book is Ojo's quest through Oz to retrieve the five components of an antidote to the Liquid: a six-leaved clover found only in the Emerald City, three hairs from the tip of a Woozy's tail, a gill ( a quarter of a pint ) of water from a dark well ( one that remains untouched by natural light ), a drop of oil from a live man's body, and the left wing of a yellow butterfly.

The new Oz book is at this stage .... But ... it's a long way from being ready for the printer yet.

The book was a popular success, selling just over 17, 000 copies — though this was somewhat lower than the total for the previous book, The Emerald City of Oz, and marked the start of a trend in declining sales for the Oz books that would not reverse until The Tin Woodman of Oz in 1918.