* Orwell's original preface to the book

The preface mentions that Ceolwulf received an earlier draft of the book ; presumably Ceolwulf knew enough Latin to understand it, and he may even have been able to read it.

In his preface to this book, Thompson set out his approach to writing history from below:

In the preface to the first edition of his book, Butler specified:

It was in the aftermath of 1968 that Guattari met Gilles Deleuze at the University of Vincennes and began to lay the ground-work for the soon to be infamous Anti-Oedipus ( 1972 ), which Michel Foucault described as " an introduction to the non-fascist life " in his preface to the book.

Gollancz feared the second half would offend readers and added a disculpatory preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain.

The first edition of the book was published, without Kant or Fichte's knowledge, without Fichte's name and signed preface ; it was thus mistakenly thought to be a new work by Kant himself.

Both prefaces were addressed to Theophilus, and the preface of Acts explicitly references " my former book " about the life of Jesus.

This would also explain the 22 years between the last event described in the last book ( Book 16 ) and the 1208 event described in the preface.

As Pólya notes in the preface, Professor Bowden carefully followed a tape recording of a course Pólya gave several times at Stanford in order to pull a book together.

The preface of the book begins with:

Pullman's preface to that book explains that the setting is " a universe like ours, but different in many ways ".

The book continues the history of the Nephites and the Lamanites " according to the records of Helaman, who was the son of Helaman, and also according to the records of his sons, even down to the coming of Christ " ( The Book of Helaman, preface ).

Kent Bromley, in his preface to Peter Kropotkin's book The Conquest of Bread, considered early French socialist Charles Fourier to be the founder of the libertarian branch of socialist thought, as opposed to the authoritarian socialist ideas of Babeuf and Buonarroti.

This claim was made by Jiao Yu in his Huolongjing Quanzhi ( Fire-drake Manual in One Complete Volume ), his preface written in 1412 AD ( although the book was originally published in the mid 14th century ), and that Zhuge had used not only " fire weapons " but land mines in the Battle of Hulugu Valley against the forces of Sima Yi and his son Sima Zhao of the Wei Kingdom.

It caused Escoffier to note when he was asked to write the preface that he could " see with my own eyes ," and " Montagné cannot hide from me the fact that he has used Le Guide as a basis for his new book, and certainly used numerous recipes.

In an interview, Smith stated that Kurnaz's family has contacted her and that she wrote a short preface for the book that he was writing.

" Furthermore, the preface indicates that the book was first printed in 1602.

Ockley maintained that a knowledge of Oriental literature was essential to the proper study of theology, and in the preface to his first book, the Introductio ad linguas orientates ( 1706 ), he urges the importance of the study.

With the modern foundations for a general theory of systems following the World Wars, Ervin Laszlo, in the preface for Bertalanffy's book Perspectives on General System Theory, maintains that the translation of " general system theory " from German into English has " wrought a certain amount of havoc ".

However, all people are influenced and act as influences, and ironically, the book itself may influence its reader, though the preface paradoxically states that no artist, in their work, " desires to prove anything " or has " ethical sympathies ".

As he states in the preface, he saw the book as a preamble to his other philosophical and theological books ; in fact, he suggests that Natural Theology should be read first, so as to build a systematic understanding of his arguments.

On 2 January 1897 Gladstone wrote to Francis Hirst on being unable to write a preface to a book on liberalism: " I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism ".

The preface of the book describes how Zhu travelled around China for 20 years as a teacher of mathematics.

* December 31 – Tycho writes his preface to the Emperor Rudolf II in his book, Mecanica.

Barbeyrac's preface appears in this fourth edition with the title: ' Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Science of Morality, and the Progress It has Made in the World, From the Earliest Times Down to the Publication of This Work '.

* Plain text: Cumorah Project: LDS and World Classics ( Includes translator's preface.

In the preface to Mind and World ( pp. ix-x ) McDowell states that " it will be obvious that Rorty's work is [...] central for the way I define my stance here ".

In the 1844 preface to his main work, World as Will and Representation, the philosopher Schopenhauer refers to Hegel as a " spiritual Caliban ".

* James Bryce, preface to Shall This Nation Die ?, by Joseph Naayem, New York: 1921, quoted in Native Christians Massacred, The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians during World War I, 1. 3 Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 326 ( 2006 )

Gobind Nankani, a former vice-president for Africa at the World Bank, wrote in the preface: " there is no unique universal set of rules .... e need to get away from formulae and the search for elusive ‘ best practices ’...." ( p. xiii ).

Lovecraft, in turn, ghostwrote for Long the preface to Mrs William B. Symmes ' Old World Footprints ( W. Paul Cook / The Recluse Press, 1928 ), a slim poetry collection by Long's aunt.

* Climate Change and World Affairs, with a preface by Solly Zuckerman ( 1977, second edition 1986, Harvard International Affairs Committee ).

In addition to being a “ special idea ” that would set Great Books of the Western World apart, the Syntopicon serves four other purposes, outlined in its preface.

In the preface, Shaw speaks of the pervasive discouragement and poverty in Europe after World War I, and relates these issues to inept government.

* An Idea Conquers the World, with a preface by Winston S. Churchill ( 1953 )

In a November 1985 preface to the book, Mascarenhas writes: " This is a true story ; in many ways a text book of Third World disenchantment.

" And did those feet in ancient time " is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books.

And since many of his results were not applicable to the science or engineering of his day, Apollonius further argued in the preface of the fifth book of Conics that the subject is one of those that "... seem worthy of study for their own sake.

And he is also the editor of the 1973 book Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain: The Essence of Tai Chi by Chungliang Al Huang, to which he and Barry Stevens wrote the preface.

The talkfields in many of the early publications were corrupted, up until the preface of the chapter containing " I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream " in the first edition of The Essential Ellison ( 1991 ) where Harlan states that in that particular edition ' For the first time anywhere, AM's " talkfields " appear correctly positioned, not garbled or inverted or mirror-imaged as in all other versions.

" And in the preface of one of his books, Geshe Kelsang states:

The preface to Milton includes the poem " And did those feet in ancient time ", which became the lyrics for the hymn " Jerusalem ".