Based on the ideas in the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, the novel shows a dystopian early 21st century America dominated by computer networks, and is considered by some critics to be an early ancestor of the " cyberpunk " genre.

* Alvin Toffler publishes his book Future Shock.

The futurists Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler reported comprehensively on this phase of the history of non-lethal weapons in their 1993 book, War and Anti-War.

Alvin Toffler claimed in his book Future Shock that adhocracies will get more common and are likely to replace bureaucracy.

In the book Future Shock, Alvin Toffler used the phrase super-industrial society to describe this type of society.

Future Shock is a book written by the futurist Alvin Toffler in 1970.

An early example is the book of Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, which Pine and Gilmore quote in their work.

The phrase was coined by Alvin Toffler in his book Future Shock and was expanded on in the 1978 book Anticipatory Democracy, edited by Clement Bezold.

" Information overload " ( nicknamed infobesity ) is a term popularized by Alvin Toffler in his bestselling 1970 book Future Shock.

:* Alvin Toffler / Future Shock, book by Alvin Toffler ( 1970 )

In the 1980 book, The Third Wave, futurologist Alvin Toffler coined the term " prosumer " when he predicted that the role of producers and consumers would begin to blur and merge ( even though he described it in his book Future Shock from 1970 ).

* The Third Wave ( Toffler ), 1980 book by Alvin Toffler

For the book by Alvin Toffler, see Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century.

* Future Shock, 1970 book written by the sociologist and futurist Alvin Toffler

The Third Wave is a book published in 1980 by Alvin Toffler.

In the book Toffler describes three types of societies, based on the concept of ' waves ' - each wave pushes the older societies and cultures aside.

A closer reading of the book, however, may mistake its central theme as a partial completion of the questions left open by Toffler concerning the nature of Third Wave society at the global level, rather than another major historical watershed.

" The book Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in America published by Stanford University Press defines the plea as one in " which the defendant adheres to his / her claim of innocence even while allowing that the government has enough evidence to prove his / her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt ".

Coined by Karin Knorr-Cetina in her book Epistemic Cultures ; she defines epistemic cultures as an " amalgam of arrangements and mechanisms-bonded through affinity, necessity and historical coincidence-which in a given field, make up how we know what we know ".

The book Perl Best Practices defines grok as understanding a portion of computer code in a profound way.

In the seventh volume of his book The Histories, Polybius defines the historian's job as the analysis of documentation, the review of relevant geographical information, and political experience.

Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith, in his Most Holy Book ( the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, also known as his book of laws ), first ordains the institution of the House of Justice and defines its functions.

The book defines a witch as evil and typically female.

Wheeler, in his 2004 book, defines sustainable urban development as " development that improves the long-term social and ecological health of cities and towns.

In his book General Morphology ( 1866 ), which defines the term " ecology ", he stresses the importance of the concept of habitat as a prerequisite for an organism's existence.

Coon further defines Large Group Awareness Training in his book Introduction to Psychology.

Wayne Jancik's book The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders ( Billboard Books, 1998 ) defines a one-hit wonder rather strictly, as " an act that has won a position on Billboard's national, pop, Top 40 just once.

" Love " < http :// www. catholiceducation. org / articles / apologetics / ap0019. html > Accessed: May 22, 2009 </ ref > In his book, The Pilgrimage, author Paulo Coelho defines it as " the love that consumes ," i. e., the highest and purest form of love, one that surpasses all other types of affection.

For instance, Vera Dika rather strictly defines the subgenre in her book Games of Terror, only including films made between 1978 and 1984 whereas Carol Clover in her book Men, Women, and Chainsaws has a looser definition, including films like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its sequels.

In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Kuhn defines a scientific paradigm as: " universally recognized scientific achievements that, for a time, provide model problems and solutions for a community of researchers ", i. e.,

In a sermon also titled " A Christian Manifesto ", Schaeffer defines secular humanism as the worldview where " man is the measure of all things ," and in the book he claims that critics of the Christian Right miss the mark by confusing the " humanist religion " with humanitarianism, the humanities, or love of humans.

Philip Wayne Powell, in his book Tree of Hate, also defines the Black Legend:

Some palpigrades have three pairs of abdominal lung-sacs, although these are not true book lungs as there is no trace of the characteristic leaflike lamellae which defines book lungs.

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Specifically, John Locke as part of his argument against the " Divine Right of Kings " in his book Two Treatises of Government defines it this way: “ Tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to ; and this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private, separate advantage .” Locke's concept of tyranny influenced the writers of subsequent generations who developed the concept of tyranny as counterpoint to ideas of human rights and democracy.

Richard Belzer defines The Big Lie, in his book UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have To Be Crazy To Believe, this way: " If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you are telling the truth, even when what you are saying is total crap.

Author Adler explains for whom the book is intended, defines different classes of reading, and tells which classes will be addressed.

This book defines and uses an alternative Gödel numbering.

In his book Social Theory and Social Structure, Merton defines self-fulfilling prophecy in the following terms: e. g. when Roxanna falsely believes her marriage will fail, her fears of such failure actually cause the marriage to fail.

David Roberts, in his book " In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest ", explained his reason for using the term " Anasazi " over a term using " Puebloan ", noting that the latter term " derives from the language of an oppressor who treated the indigenes of the Southwest far more brutally than the Navajo ever did.

" This term apparently also inspired the name of the alternate history book list, uchronia. net.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

The term was taken and redefined by the anthropologist Sir Edward Tylor in his 1871 book Primitive Culture, in which he defined it as " the general doctrine of souls and other spiritual beings in general.

) The book also introduces the term " Absalonism ", as a generic term for a son's rebellion against his father.

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The book of Daniel uses the term " Chaldean " to refer both to an ethnic group, and to astrologers in general.

Whenever the book was written and whatever the historicity of the events recounted in it, clearly by the time it was written the term " Yehudim " ( יהודים-Jews ) already gained a meaning quite close to what it means up to the present — i. e. an ethnic-religious group, scattered in many countries, organised in autonomous communities and a target of hatred.

The phrase Great White Way has been attributed to Shep Friedman, columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph in 1901, who lifted the term from the title of a book about the Arctic by Albert Paine.

Another relatively early use of the term in a German-language work was in a book by Fritz Sternberg, a Jewish Marxist political economist who was a refugee from the Third Reich.

One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.

This book was responsible for supplanting the chemical affinity for the term free energy in the English-speaking world.

The abomination of desolation ( or desolating sacrilege ) is a term found in the Hebrew Bible, in the book of Daniel.

Ulric Neisser coined the term " cognitive psychology " in his book Cognitive Psychology, published in 1967 wherein Neisser provides a definition of cognitive psychology characterizing people as dynamic information-processing systems whose mental operations might be described in computational terms.

The term was first used in a 1994 book by Joseph Jenkins that advocates the use of this organic soil amendment.

One of the first mentions of the term " computational chemistry " can be found in the 1970 book Computers and Their Role in the Physical Sciences by Sidney Fernbach and Abraham Haskell Taub, where they state " It seems, therefore, that ' computational chemistry ' can finally be more and more of a reality.

The term " comic book " arose because the first comic books reprinted humor comic strips.

While the Platinum Age saw the first use of the term " comic book " ( The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats ( 1897 )), the first known full-color comic ( The Blackberries ( 1901 )), and the first monthly comic book ( Comics Monthly ( 1922 )), it was not until the Golden Age that the archetype of the superhero would originate.

In the reworked version of the book in 1955, Philip Hershkovitz and Hartley Jackson led him to drop Thos both as an available scientific term and as a viable subgenus of Canis.