Prior to his break from the Society Mead had already begun emphasizing sources from the Western esoteric tradition in his writing.

Prior to working in the film industry, the Wachowskis wrote comic books for Marvel Comics ' Razorline imprint, namely Ectokid ( created by horror novelist Clive Barker ) in 1993 as well as writing for Epic Comics ' Clive Barker's Hellraiser and Clive Barker's Nightbreed comic series.

The oldest surviving writing to explicitly consider the rules by which reason operates are the works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle, especially Prior Analysis and Posterior Analysis.

He took a year to consider what action to take, before writing to the Prior of Bath in October 1500 to explain that a large amount of the priory income would be dedicated to rebuilding the cathedral.

Prior to World War I, Baedeker's guides were famous enough that baedekering became an English-language term for the process of travelling a country for the purpose of writing a travel guide or travelogue about it.

Prior to the 2004 election, Buchanan announced he once again identified himself as a Republican, declared that he had no interest in ever running for president again, and reluctantly endorsed Bush's 2004 re-election, writing:

Prior to writing this book, Bloom spent a decade studying the Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century.

Prior to the advent of Windows, DOS applications would either communicate directly with the various pieces of hardware ( responding to interrupts, reading and writing device memory etc.

Prior to writing The Body Shape Bible, Woodall and Constantine conducted a survey on women that helped them to identify the twelve most common body shapes, which they have featured in the book and given names such as ' apple '.

Prior to writing the book, Davey spent six years researching the case and conducting his own experiments as to how the fire really may have started.

Prior to this, Bailey and Currie ( who were now a couple ) had their first child together in 1988, and in the following years they spent a lot of time writing material for other artists including the hit single " I Want That Man " for Debbie Harry in 1989.

Prior to the onset of the Islamisation, when Hindu-Buddhist influences were still firmly established in the region, the Pallava script was primarily used in writing Malay language.

Prior to writing the script to Alien, O ' Bannon had been working in France for Chilean cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky's planned adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic science-fiction novel Dune.

Prior to this revamp, Claremont was writing both of the main X-Men titles ( Uncanny X-Men and X-Men, the latter of which became New X-Men, and then X-Men: Legacy ).

Maddy Prior, writing in the liner notes to the Steeleye Span retrospective Spanning the Years, drily characterizes the song's countercultural appeal, in describing one 1970s performance:

Prior to embarking on a full-time writing career, he served in the United States Air Force and worked for the US government and in private sector security.

Prior to the writing trip in Spain, he had decided that the new album would be more " acoustic-guitary " and also wanted to prove to himself that he could still write pop songs with choruses.

RUN reviewer Bob Sodaro noted the replay value of Mercenary, writing " Prior to marking up the maps with the game, you should make a number of photocopies so you'll have clean copies when playing subsequent adventures ".

Prior to writing full time about politics he worked as a technical writer, then moved into high-tech marketing.

Prior to the boom in historical writing in the High Middle Ages, the number and quality of works from England's earlier period is often lacking, with some notable and bright exceptions.

Prior to his writing the Confessions, the two great autobiographies were Augustine's own Confessions and Saint Teresa's Life of Herself.

Prior to writing the episode, Roberts had been an audio and visual editor on the show.

Prior to becoming a professor at Columbia University in 1946, Barnouw spent the mid-1930s writing, producing, and directing a number of radio shows for the CBS and NBC radio networks.

Prior to Dutch arrival the native inhabitants did not use writing, and the missionaries created a number of romanization schemes for the various Formosan languages.

Prior to his career in writing, he worked as a tree pruner, antiques restorer, hospital orderly, investigative reporter, photojournalist, recording musician, singer, and songwriter.

Prior to that his mother tutored him and he had learned, virtually by heart, a book called the Child's Guide to Knowledge, a popular book of the day — even as an adult he would quote from it.

Prior to the start of the book he had attempted to steal from some of his partners in crime.

The first known definition in the West is by Aristotle around 350 BC, in his book Prior Analytics, where he classified it as a material fallacy.

Prior to the release of Dr. No – and unconnected with the book itself – Bernard Bergonzi, in the March 1958 issue of Twentieth Century attacked Fleming's work, saying that it contained " a strongly marked streak of voyeurism and sado-masochism " and that the books showed " the total lack of any ethical frame of reference ".

Prior to the twentieth century, the Press at Oxford had occasionally printed a piece of music or a book relating to musicology.

Prior to this version, the book had inspired a number of now-less-well-known stage and screen adaptations, including a profitable Broadway musical and three silent films.

Prior to his association with Disney, Van Horn drew and wrote a black and white comic book called " Nervous Rex " for Blackthorne Publishing.

Prior to his death, he was also working on a book called The War Racket: The Lies, Myths, and Propaganda that Feed the American War Machine.

Prior publications introducing Western parents to this ancient practice include the booklet Conscious Toilet Training, by Laurie Boucke ( 1979 ), book Trickle Treat: Diaperless Infant Toilet Training Method, by Laurie Boucke ( 1991 ), a pamphlet entitled Elimination Timing, by Natec ( 1994 ), and the more extensive Infant Potty Training: A Gentle and Primeval Method Adapted to Modern Living, by Laurie Boucke ( 2000 ).

The war poet Siegfried Sassoon, who appears as a major character in the first book, Regeneration, is relegated to a minor role in this final volume, in which the main players are the fictional working-class officer, Billy Prior, and the real-life psychoanalyst, William Rivers.

Prior to the launch of the comics division, Disney management proclaimed their intention to quickly become a dominant presence in the comic book market, competing with industry leaders DC and Marvel.

Prior to 1854, he had been an enigma for historians and archeologists who knew nothing of Belshazzar outside the book of Daniel.

Prior to the 1882 book, little attention had been paid to the dialect of " the old Worcestershire folks ", despite it being " interesting and peculiar ".

Prior to the First World War, Lawrence had begun work on a scholarly book about seven great cities of the Middle East, to be titled Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

He was Prior General of the Augustinian order, and also authored two other important works, De Ecclesiastica Potestate, a major text of early 14th century papalism, and De Regimine Principum, a guide book for princes.

Prior to publication, the book was extensively rewritten by its editor, Wilhelm Roggersdorf ( a pen name of the German screenwriter Wilhelm " Utz " Utermann ).

Prior published his most mature work on the topic, the book Past, Present, and Future in 1967.

( See the book by Prior below for an excellent discussion of the problem ).

* Cicero Lucullus, also known as Academica Prior, book II

Prior to this is it is likely that the book was in the possession of Thomas Gale, the headmaster of St Paul's School, London.

Prior to the invention of the printing press, the only way to obtain a copy of a book was to copy it out by hand.

Prior to its even being published, an editor at EP Dutton said to Vidal, " You will never be forgiven for this book.