Major themes of the play include existentialism, free will vs. determinism, the search for value, and the impossibility of certainty.

Major themes in research at the Experimental Forests and Ranges includes:

Major themes include: self-reference in memes, language, art and logic ; discussions of philosophical issues important in cognitive science / AI ; analogies and what makes something similar to something else ( specifically what makes, for example, an uppercase letter ' A ' recognisable as such ); and lengthy discussions of the work of Robert Axelrod on the prisoner's dilemma and the idea of superrationality.

Major themes in Natsume's works include ordinary people fighting against economic hardship, the conflict between duty and desire ( a traditional Japanese theme ; see giri ), loyalty and group mentality versus freedom and individuality, personal isolation and estrangement, the rapid industrialization of Japan and its social consequences, contempt of Japan's aping of Western culture, and a pessimistic view of human nature.

* Rahman, Fazlur ( 1980 ), Major themes of the Qur ' an, Bibliotheca Islamica, ISBN 0-88297-051-8

Major themes of Northup's campaign was that she was independent of the then-unpopular President Bush, and that she was uniquely able to secure federal funds for Louisville projects.

Major themes of this range of philosophies and teachings include a synthesis of science and religion, evolutionary spirituality, and holistic programs of development for the body, mind, soul, and spirit.

Major themes include the evolution of experimental design, from table-top experiments to today's large-scale collider projects ; accompanying changes in standards of evidence ; and discourse patterns across researchers whose expertise only partially overlaps.

Major themes throughout the work are power, hegemony, resistance and loyalty.

Major changes came in the themes, with the inclusion of folk epics, Sanskrit dramas and created ( imaginary ) stories forming the thematic base.

) Major themes in Out of Control are cybernetics, emergence, self-organization, complex systems and chaos theory and it can be seen as a work of Techno-utopianism.

Major themes in the Sister Fidelma series include:

Major themes of the work include: first love, child and adult sexuality, spirituality, sibling relationships, and coming of age.

Space exploration was intended to be one of the major themes early on during the development of the game, most of which was eclipsed in the final product, save for the prior mentioned Major Tom references and several lesser story elements.

Major themes in his poetry and writings include liberal humanism, human relations, romanticised rebellion of youth, the emergence of and consequent events in Bangladesh, and opposition to religious fundamentalism.

Major themes within non-representational theory include subjectification ; space as a verb ; technologies of being ; embodiment ; and play & excess.

Major themes of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close include trauma, mourning, family, and the struggle between self-destruction and self-preservation.

Major themes in his work include home and family, place, time, sexuality, isolation, and memory.

Major themes include the notion of the self in a totalitarian state, the meaning of life, and the power of love.

Major themes in the series deal with forbidden love, the concept of nature versus nurture, the reactions of different faiths meeting each other, and characters being a mix of good and bad.

Major themes include the development of Bartitsu as a confluence of Edwardian interests in Orientalism, physical culture and criminology ; the use of jujitsu by the Bodyguards of the radical Suffragette movement in London and subsequent spread of Japanese martial arts through Western popular culture ; personality profiles of Barton-Wright himself and the other principal figures of the original Bartitsu craze ; and the connection between Bartitsu and Sherlock Holmes ' baritsu.

Slate notes that Major League Baseball players " can pick several songs as personal themes for their plate appearances, sometimes a rotation of four different tracks a game.

Major recurring themes in the work include loneliness and the dreadful feeling of loss when someone dear dies.

Major recurring themes in the work include euthanasia, necrophilia, decay and loneliness.

The scoring and criteria for awarding a stolen base to a runner are covered by rule 10. 07 of the Major League Baseball rule book.

On 28 August 1924 Blyton married Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO ( 1888 – 1971 ), editor of the book department in the publishing firm of George Newnes, which published two of her books that year.

Major architects to promote the change in direction from baroque were Colen Campbell, author of the influential book Vitruvius Britannicus ; Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and his protégé William Kent ; Isaac Ware ; Henry Flitcroft and the Venetian Giacomo Leoni, who spent most of his career in England.

Major influences were Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler and, most importantly, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the British-born German writer who was one of the founders of " scientific " anti-Semitism, and whose book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century ( 1899 ) was one of the standard works of the extreme right in Germany.

The magazine also ran a series of cartoons called 101 Uses for a John Major ( based on a comic book of some ten years earlier, called 101 Uses for a Dead Cat ), in which Major was illustrated serving a number of bizarre purposes, such as a train-spotter's anorak.

Together they wrote an influential 1995 book The Major Transitions in Evolution, a seminal work which continues to contribute to ongoing issues in evolutionary biology.

While picking through the belongings that the Jicarilla had left in their camp, one of Major Grier's soldiers came across a book that the White family had carried with them from Missouri — the paperback novel starring Kit Carson.

The Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev ( also written Kondratieff ) was the first to bring these observations to international attention in his book The Major Economic Cycles ( 1925 ) alongside other works written in the same decade.

Because of Rey's book, many amateur astronomers have come to accept Rey's star chart interpretation of Ursa Major, dropping the idea of the Big Dipper's " handle " as being the hind end of the bear, with a non-natural " tail " extending rearwards.

Noting that the invaders have allowed the free practice of religion ( the better to pacify their slaves ), the Americans set up a church of their own and begin acting as " Priests of Mota " ( Mota is atom spelled backwards ) in order to build a resistance movement — which Major Ardmore, the protagonist of the book, refers to as the Sixth Column ( as opposed to a traitorous fifth column ).

* French — Boutet, Gérard: Pierrot and the Secret of the Fire Rocks ( 1999 ; children's book, illustrated by Jean-Claude Pertuzé ); Major, Henriette: The Vampire and the Pierrot ( 2000 ; children's book ); Tournier, Michel: " Pierrot, or The Secrets of the Night " ( 1978 ).

In fact, Major League Baseball had no official record book at the time, but the stigma remained with Maris for many years, and the concept of a real or figurative asterisk denoting less-than-official records has become widely used in sports and other competitive endeavors.

* The Major-Little to no biographical information is presented about the Major within the book, but due to Stebbins ' testimony, it is inferred that he is at the very least in his mid-to-late thirties and has been running the Long Walk for at least 13 years, but likely much longer.

This is the only time that anyone in the book overlooks the Major.

The book was originally called " The Great Cake ", but the title was changed to " Smith of Wootton Major " in an attempt to suggest an early work by P. G.

Major Buxton, his sympathetic commanding officer, lectures York about history from a U. S. history book.

This claim had originally been raised in the book Amelia Earhart Lives ( 1970 ) by author Joe Klaas, based on the research of Major Joseph Gervais.

John Major Jenkins, who first saw the symbol as used by Argüelles, subsequently came across Ryan's novel in a used book store.

The book brings pressure on Major League Baseball to recognize the African-American players from Negro league baseball by honoring its stars in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

On September 19, 2001, Sergeant Major of the Army Jack L. Tilley presented Mauldin with a personal letter from Army Chief of Staff General Eric K. Shinseki, a hardbound book with notes from other senior Army leaders and several celebrities to include Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw and Tom Hanks.

The plot of the movie is based on a section in the eponymous book by William Craig which fictionalizes an alleged duel between Zaitsev and a maybe fictional German sniper called Major König.

It enjoyed a revival in popularity in the early 1990s when the British prime minister, John Major, declared it as his favourite book.

A major prophet is a book in the Major Prophets section of the Christian Old Testament in the Bible.