The logical works of Aristotle were compiled into six books in about the early 1st century AD:

Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.

Among the sixty-nine items in these three books, twenty-four deal with physics, seventeen with psychology, eleven with logic and metaphysics, and six with questions of fate and providence.

Of the original thirteen books of which Arithmetica consisted only six have survived, though there are some who believe that four Arab books discovered in 1968 are also by Diophantus.

The remains of six books of Saturae show a considerable variety of metres.

Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels " ( 1946 ) Orwell wrote: " If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

He has published more than 250 articles and six books, including two on altruism, and one on scientific excellence, and co-authored an introductory psychology textbook.

The books and tracts of Wycliffe's last six years include continual attacks upon the papacy and the entire hierarchy of his times.

They were charged with five counts of theft and malicious damage, admitted damaging more than 70 books, and were jailed for six months ( released September 1962 ) and fined £ 262.

His work, in six books, makes use of earlier writings that are now lost.

He went on to write six books and has continued to write poetry all his life.

Fowler started working with software in the early 1980s and has written six books on the topic of software development ( see Publications ).

Rumi completed six books of mystical poetry and tales called Masnavi before he died on December 17, 1273.

* In March 2012, the United States Department of Justice announced that it would sue six major publishers for price fixing in the sale of electronic books.

The six stanza version quoted is the original, as written by Newton, but it has also appeared in longer forms where others have added verses or where verses from other hymns from the Olney books have been moved across.

This incomplete history in six books was written after 787 and at any rate no later than 795 / 96, maybe at Montecassino.

She did so, but complained that this Pagan writer said nothing about ecclesiastical affairs and stopped with the accession of the emperor Valens in 364 ; consequently Paul interwove extracts from the Scriptures, from the ecclesiastical historians and from other sources with Eutropius, and added six books, thus bringing the history down to 553.

However Peuerbach fell ill in 1461 and died only having completed the first six books of his abridgement of the Almagest.

Clark indicated that the books will cover events in the six years between " Terra Prime " and " These Are the Voyages ...".

After finishing school he was sent to stay for six months with his aunt Jenny in Kelso, attending the local grammar school where he met James and John Ballantyne who later became his business partners and printed his books.

The primary hadiths Al-Kutub Al-Sittah ( the six books ), in conjunction with the Quran, form the basis of all jurisprudence methodologies within Sunni Islam.

After the British burned the Library of Congress in 1814 Jefferson offered to sell his collection of more than six thousand books to Congress for about four dollars a book.

Tolkien regarded it as a single work and divided it into a prologue, six books, and five appendices.

It is still most commonly sold as three volumes, but has also been published in one-volume and seven-volume editions ( six books and the appendices ).

Such ranchers as Coble and Clay and the Bosler brothers carried him on their books as a cowhand even while he was receiving a much larger salary from parties unknown.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

I used to go with Watson to call on the eminent neurologist at his apartment, to sit among the doctor's excellent collection of statues, paintings, and books and drink Oriental coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become almost affable.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

Whereas a high percentage of the regular students can be expected to read other texts which more or less plow the same ground in a little different direction, the married students chose whole books on specific areas and went into much greater detail in their areas of interest.

Narrow four-story buildings ran the length of the block like books tightly packed on a shelf.

He told the committee the measure would merely provide means of enforcing the escheat law which has been on the books `` since Texas was a republic ''.

The opinion continues here that with a 162-game schedule, pitching spread thin through a 10-team league and a most inviting target in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field Jr., Mantle just might break the most glamorous record on the books, Babe Ruth's 60 homers of 1927.

In their suburban cottage the crown charges, the Krogers received secrets from the mystery man, usually on the first Saturday evening of each month, and spent much of the week-end getting the secrets off to Moscow, either on a powerful transmitter buried under the kitchen floor or as dots posted over period marks in used books.

Public libraries in Nassau County have been lending books to each other by mail for a quarter-century, but the system enables this process to operate on an organized and far more comprehensive basis.

Sample copies of new books are on display at headquarters, where librarians may evaluate them by themselves or in workshop groups.

but, as he had a special fondness for magic and divination, he ordered that books on these subjects should be spared.

As for The Book of the Dead, it along with his other books on religion had been incarcerated in a furnace in the basement of the building in which he had lived in New York.

He then decided to become a lawyer and began teaching himself law by reading Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and other law books.

Other influential writers in the 1970s include Pierre Clastres, who explains in his books on the Guayaki tribe in Paraguay that " primitive societies " actively oppose the institution of the state.

* Sir Patrick Moore, presenter of the BBC's long-running The Sky at Night and author of many books on astronomy.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Almost all of Agatha Christie's books are whodunits, focusing on the British middle and upper classes.

Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.