She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection, the epilogue of Billions and Billions, and her own novel, A Famous Broken Heart.

The introduction of foreign bacteria into the human GI tract via infusion of fecal enemas is, moreover, an established medical practice in cases of ulcerative colitis, especially where the patient's own intestinal flora has been significantly depleted by antibiotic therapy applied for other maladies.

From DARPA's own introduction,

This dual rôle allowed the Committee, to which Clarke and MacDermott added themselves shortly afterward, to promote their own policies and personnel independently of both the Volunteer Executive and the IRB Executive — in particular Volunteer Chief of Staff Eoin MacNeill, who supported a rising only on condition of an increase in popular support following unpopular moves by the London government, such as the introduction of conscription or an attempt to suppress the Volunteers or its leaders, and IRB President Denis McCullough, who held similar views.

Only fragments of the latter's work survive ( and the authenticity of these is debatable ) yet they allow us glimpses into the kind of tradition within which Herodotus wrote his own Histories, as for example in the introduction to Hecataeus's work, Genealogies:

* Canadian poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen recited the poem as an introduction to his own song " The Darkness ", during a couple of shows on his 2010 world tour, most notably at his State Kremlin Palace show on 7 October.

But before this he had already devoted to the Revelation another treatment, a rather arbitrary recasting of the commentary of Saint Victorinus, with whose chiliastic views he was not in accord, substituting for the chiliastic conclusion a spiritualizing exposition of his own, supplying an introduction, and making certain changes in the text.

According to his own introduction, he only had three days to review what Cassiodorus had written, meaning that he must also have relied on his own knowledge.

According to Annemarie Schimmel, the tendency among Shia authors to include leading mystical poets such as Rumi and Attar among their own ranks, became stronger after the introduction of Twelver Shia as the state religion in the Safavid Empire in 1501.

The cycle continued the trend towards reducing the role played by Arthur in his own legend, partly through the introduction of the character of Galahad and an expansion of the role of Merlin.

Since the introduction of the original Lomo LC-A, Lomography has produced and marketed an entire line of their own analog cameras.

Dunnes Stores responded with the introduction of their own ValueClub scheme in June 1997.

Each such symmetry is the basis of a gauge theory and requires the introduction of its own gauge bosons.

Darwin's attempts to find a translator in France fell through, and the translation by Clémence Royer published in 1862 added an introduction praising Darwin's ideas as an alternative to religious revelation and promoting ideas anticipating social Darwinism and eugenics, as well as numerous explanatory notes giving her own answers to doubts that Darwin expressed.

* The Ruby Programming Language-An introduction to the language by its own author

Another reason for dropping numbers are the introduction of non-native species, such as the " parasitic " cowbird, which steals the nests of other birds to use as its own.

With successive waves of reform, and the introduction of effective evidence-based treatments, modern psychiatric hospitals provide a primary emphasis on treatment, and attempt where possible to help patients control their own lives in the outside world, with the use of a combination of psychiatric drugs and psychotherapy.

Following this successful introduction, Jennings formed his own band.

In the introduction to her own translation, Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, writes that Burton " managed to get a rough approximation of the text published in English in 1883, nasty bits and all ".

Originally introduced as a seductive dance by the courtesans who operated from the site, the can-can dance revue evolved into a form of entertainment of its own and led to the introduction of cabarets across Europe.

He wrote introductions for a few books such as a new edition of George Borrow's Wild Wales ; he gave radio talks on the BBC Third Programme ; he even tried his hand at an extended consideration of Coleridge's poem for a reprinting of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner featuring his own introduction and illustrations with a series of copper engravings.

An arrangement's first chorus is sometimes preceded by an introduction, which may be as short as a few measures or may extend to chorus of its own.

In the introduction to the 1967 edition of the book, Elliot Schaffer notes that in his short lifetime James Hunt is said to have treated over 1, 700 cases of speech impediment, firstly in his father's practise and later at his own institute, Ore House near Hastings, which he set up with the aid a doctorate he had purchased in 1856 from the University of Giessen in Germany.

: An introduction to variation in American Sign Language.

Particularly important for establishing him in the field was his seminal book Language ( 1921 ), which was a layman's introduction to the discipline of linguistics as Sapir envisioned it.

Bloomfield made extensive use of Indo-European materials to explain historical and comparative principles in both of his textbooks, An introduction to language ( 1914 ), and his seminal Language ( 1933 ).

Adorno began writing an introduction to a collection of poetry by Rudolf Borchardt, which was connected with a talk entitled " Charmed Language ," delivered in Zurich, followed by a talk on aesthetics in Paris where he met Beckett again.

Humboldt died while preparing his greatest work, on the ancient Kawi language of Java, but its introduction was published in 1836 as The Heterogeneity of Language and its Influence on the Intellectual Development of Mankind.

* The Forgotten Language ; an introduction to the understanding of dreams, fairy tales, and myths ( 1951 ) ISBN 978-0-03-018436-9

* Language habits in human affairs ; an introduction to General Semantics by Irving J. Lee, Harper and Brothers, 1941.

* Royal Baarn: Information for tourists in English Language: introduction to the village Baarn

* Michael Devitt, Kim Sterelny ( 1999 ) Language and reality: an introduction to the philosophy of language

* Genetic Control of the Honey Bee ( apis mellifera ) Dance Language: Segregating Dance Forms in a Backcrossed Colony a very detailed introduction to the honey bee dance language.

Australian Sign Language ( Auslan ): An introduction to sign language linguistics.

With an introduction by J. P. Postgate, and supplementary essays by Bronisław Malinowski, ' The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages ', and F. G. Crookshank, ' The Importance of a Theory of Signs and a Critique of Language in the Study of Medicine '.

); " Origine, formazione, mecanismo ed armonia degl ' idiomi " ( Origin, formation, mechanics and harmony of Languages ) ( 1785 ); " Vocabolario, Poliglotto, con prolegomeni sopra più de CL lingue " ( Vocabulary, Multilingualism, with introduction to more than 150 languages ) ( 1787 ); " Saggio practicco delle Lingue con prolegomeni e una raccolta di orazioni dominicali in più di trecento lingue e dialetti " ( Wise Language practice with introduction and a collection of dominical prayers in more than three hundred languages and dialects ) ( 1787 ).

* The King's English ( Oxford Language Classics Series ) Henry Fowler, Frank Fowler, Matthew Parris ( introduction ) ( Oxford University Press, 2002 ) ISBN 0-19-860507-2

The university's Language Centre offers an introduction to Maastricht's PBL approach for international students.

*" Language in literature " A first introduction to some basics.

* Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology – Bernard Comrie ( 1981 ) – this is the authoritative introduction to word order and related subjects.

* M. D. Eddy, The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-6332-4 is discussed throughout the book, especially in the introduction and conclusion.

Language contact: An introduction.

A non-technical introduction to the NTL theory behind Embodied Construction Grammar as well as the theory itself and a variety of applications can be found in Jerome Feldman's From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Language.

The introduction of Assamese as the official language of Assam in 1960 led to the protest against the Official Language Act of 1961.

Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic, an introduction to Logical Positivism, and both the Richards – Ogden book and the Ayer book would, in turn, influence Alec King and Martin Ketley in the writing of their book The Control of Language, which appeared in 1939.