In the early 20th century William McDougall defended a form of animism in his book Body and Mind: A History and Defence of Animism ( 1911 ).

The Greenwich Village of the 1950s and 1960s was at the center of Jane Jacobs's book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which defended it and similar communities, while critiquing common urban renewal policies of the time.

Wojtyła had earlier defended the church's position from a philosophical standpoint in his 1960 book Love and Responsibility.

Douglas Jardine always defended his tactics and in the book he wrote about the tour, In Quest of the Ashes, described allegations that the England bowlers directed their attack with the intention of causing physical harm as stupid and patently untruthful.

A variant of redundancy theory is the disquotational theory which uses a modified form of Tarski's schema: To say that '" P " is true ' is to say that P. A version of this theory was defended by C. J. F. Williams in his book What is Truth ?.

Kripke's position has, however recently been defended against these and other attacks by the Cambridge philosopher Martin Kusch ( 2006 ), and Wittgenstein scholar David G. Stern considers the book to be " the most influential and widely discussed " work on Wittgenstein since the 1980s.

More recently, the American journalist Patrick Buchanan in his 2008 book Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War defended Raeder, arguing that the real aggressor against Norway was Churchill, and Raeder should never been convicted at Nuremberg.

This resulted in negative reaction from video game enthusiasts, such as writer Clive Barker, who defended video games as an art form, stating that they have the power to move people, that the views of book or film critics are less important than those of the consumers experiencing them, and that Ebert's were prejudiced.

He defended the book The Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy and was an outspoken critic of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Some Constitutional originalists, notably Raoul Berger in his influential 1977 book " Government by Judiciary ," make the case that Brown cannot be defended by reference to the original understanding of the 14th Amendment.

In the summer of 1937, Wolfgang Willrich, a member of the SS, lampooned Benn in his book Säuberung des Kunsttempels ; Heinrich Himmler, however, stepped in to reprimand Willrich and defended Benn on the grounds of his good record since 1933 ( his earlier artistic output being irrelevant ).

Marshall Public Library Director Amy Crump defended the books as having been well-reviewed in " reputable, professional book review journals ," and characterized the removal attempt as a step towards " the slippery slope of censorship ".

* Location of the fictional " Elspeth Hatch " murder trial .. defended by " Clarence Darrow " set in 1897 the book titled " Angel of darkness " by author " Caleb Carr "

The friendship of Bossuet and protection of the Condés sufficiently defended the author, and he continued to insert fresh portraits of his contemporaries in each new edition of his book, especially in the 4th ( 1689 ).

Most importantly, in the third book, which discussed pure understanding, he defended a claim that the ideas through which we perceive objects exist in God.

( The book was defended by Jack Green in a series of broadsheets blasting the critics ; the series was collected later under the title Fire the Bastards!

Though he robustly defended the policy at the time, in his 2006 book Not Quite the Diplomat ( published in the United States as Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain and Europe in the New Century ) he claims to have thought it was a mistake on Margaret Thatcher's part.

" Still, he defended the " arrogant and rhapsodic book " for inspiring " fellow-rhapsodizers " and for luring them on to " new secret paths and dancing places.

Jesse B. Aikin was the first to produce a book with a seven-shape note system, and he vigorously defended his " invention " and his patent.

The film and book were widely defended holistically, in terms of how deeply moving the entire story was despite fictional content regarding aspects of Jacqueline's personality and how events actually transpired.

Knox used the intentionally " provocative " title " The Oldest Dead White European Males ", as the title of his lecture and his subsequent book of the same name, in both of which Knox defended the continuing relevance of classical Greek culture to modern society.

The fourth book, Quartus liber uniuersas machinas, quibus uel obpugnantur ciuitates uel defenduntur, enumerat ; naualis quoque belli praecepta subnectit, enumerates " all the machines with which cities are besieged or defended " ( chapters 1-30 ) and adds also the precepts of naval warfare ( chapters 31-46 ).

In particular, the British Roman Catholic historian Lord Acton defended Ranke's book as the most fair-minded, balanced and objective study ever written on the papacy of the 1500s.

The title was conferred in recognition of Henry's book Assertio Septem Sacramentorum ( Defence of the Seven Sacraments ), which defended the sacramental nature of marriage and the supremacy of the Pope.

In a 1997 letter to The Guardian, Tatchell defended an academic book about ' boy-love ', calling the work " courageous " before writing:

In the book, he proposed and explained in detail a new theory of humankind: mankind as a " time-binding " class of life ( humans perform time binding by the transmission of knowledge and abstractions through time which are accreted in cultures ).

The fourth book is devoted to the theory of movement.

A few years later, Ann Watts published a book in which she argued against the imperfect application of traditional, Homeric, oral-formulaic theory to Anglo-Saxon poetry.

According to the Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah theory, it contains material set aside from the rest of the book of Ezra, which was canonized first.

The traditional ascription of the whole book to the prophet Joel was challenged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by a theory of a three stage process of composition: 1: 1 – 2: 27 were from the hand of Joel, and dealt with a contemporary issue ; 2: 28 – 3: 21 were ascribed to a continuator with an apocalyptic outlook.

The use of Bayesian probabilities as the basis of Bayesian inference has been supported by several arguments, such as the Cox axioms, the Dutch book argument, arguments based on decision theory and de Finetti's theorem.

It can be done by systematically making explicit all the axioms, as in the case of the well-known book Naive Set Theory by Paul Halmos, which is actually a somewhat ( not all that ) informal presentation of the usual axiomatic Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory.

In the introduction to his 1947 " Kinetic theory of liquids " book, J Frenkel ( see Yakov Frenkel ) proposed that " The kinetic theory of liquids must accordingly be developed as a generalization and extension of the kinetic theory of solid bodies.

The purpose of the book seems to me to be fulfilled if it contributes somewhat to the diffusion of that ' Kopenhagener Geist der Quantentheorie ' Copenhagen spirit of quantum theory if I may so express myself, which has directed the entire development of modern atomic physics.

Another application of category theory, more specifically: topos theory, has been made in mathematical music theory, see for example the book The Topos of Music, Geometric Logic of Concepts, Theory, and Performance by Guerino Mazzola.

This book helped experimental chemists to understand the impact of quantum theory on chemistry.

Gauss also made important contributions to number theory with his 1801 book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae ( Latin, Arithmetical Investigations ), which, among things, introduced the symbol ≡ for congruence and used it in a clean presentation of modular arithmetic, contained the first two proofs of the law of quadratic reciprocity, developed the theories of binary and ternary quadratic forms, stated the class number problem for them, and showed that a regular heptadecagon ( 17-sided polygon ) can be constructed with straightedge and compass.

However it was only in 1927 that the shakta theory of seven main chakras, that has become most popular in the West, was introduced, largely through the translation of two Indian texts: the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book titled The Serpent Power.

Locke's famous attack on innate ideas in the first book of the Essay effectively destroyed that foundation and replaced it with a theory of knowledge based on experience.

The Danish historian Caspar Paludan-Müller in 1873 in his book " Sagnet om den himmelfaldne Danebrogsfane " put forth the theory that it is a banner sent by the Pope to the Danish King to use in his crusades in the Baltic countries.

A theory brought forth by the Danish historian Adolf Ditlev Jørgensen in 1875 in his book " Danebroges Oprindelse " is that the Danish flag is the banner of the Knights Hospitaller.

A much different theory is briefly discussed by Fabricius and elaborated more by Helga Bruhn in her book " Dannebrog " from 1949.

In 1827, the German scientist Georg Ohm expressed his law in this famous book " Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet " ( The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically ) in which he gave his complete theory of electricity.

Instead, a popular theory suggests linguistic updating, which is when " late forms may not in fact have been original to the book but may reflect the updating of vocabulary and grammar by later scribes so their contemporaries could understand the book better.

The book popularised the Hollow Earth theory and may have inspired Nazi mysticism.