The first episode in that book deals with the story of Glaucus and Scylla, in which the enamoured sea-god seeks a love filtre to win Scylla's love, only to have the sorceress fall in love with him.

Instead of simply explaining the subject, the book seeks to show the development of the mathematics.

There is no doubt that Copernicus ' " De Revolutionibus " seeks to advance a sun-centered system, but in this book he had to resort to Ptolemaic devices ( viz., epicycles and eccentric circles ) in order to explain the change in planets ' orbital speed.

The Problem of Pain is a 1940 book by C. S. Lewis in which he seeks to provide an intellectual Christian response to questions about suffering.

In particular, Gilbert in his book De Magnete claims that electrical attraction is caused by the effluence of a humour, that the humid seeks the humid and this is the cause of the attraction.

Principally concerned with the production, circulation, and reception of texts and their material forms, book history seeks to connect forms of textuality with their material aspects.

Principally concerned with the production, circulation, and reception of texts and their material forms, book history seeks to connect forms of textuality with their material aspects.

More interactive and specific than a book or a lecture ; a tutorial seeks to teach by example and supply the information to complete a certain task.

William Arens seeks to discredit Staden's and other writers ' accounts of cannibalism in his book The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology & Anthropophagy, where he claims that when concerning the Tupinambá, “ rather than dealing with an instance of serial documentation of cannibalism, we are more likely confronting only one source of dubious testimony which has been incorporated almost verbatim into the written reports of others claiming to be eyewitnesses .”

In this book the spirit that was incarnated as Saul of Tarsus ( later, Paul ) seeks to dispel the dogma he created as Paul.

The children's book Scuffy the Tugboat, first published in 1946 as part of the Little Golden Books series, follows the adventures of a young toy tugboat who seeks a life beyond the confines of a tub inside his owner's toy store.

It was during this period that Sidney signed the visitor's book at the University of Copenhagen with: " PHILIPPUS SIDNEY MANUS HAEC INIMICA TYRANNIS EINSE PETIT PLACIDAM CUM LIBERTATE QUIETEM " (" This hand, enemy to tyrants, by the sword seeks peace with liberty ").

* A book in which the book itself seeks interaction with the reader ( e. g., Willie Masters ' Lonely Wife by William H. Gass, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, or Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Weston's book is an academic examination of the roots of the King Arthur legends and seeks to make connections between the early pagan elements and the later Christian influences.

The first book of the History, after a brief review of early Greek history and some programmatic historiographical commentary, seeks to explain why the Peloponnesian War broke out when it did and what its causes were.

In his book, Beyond Politics, George Walford seeks to analyse ideologies on the basis of its adherents ' surface behaviors, their underlying sentiments and assumptions (" ethos "), and underlying cognitions (" eidos ").

His book, The Blackcoated Worker, ( 1958 & 1989 ) seeks to analyse the changes in the stratification position of the clerical worker by using a framework based on Max Weber's distinction between market and work situations.

One of these is Basic Christianity ( ISBN 0-87784-690-1 ), a book which seeks to explain the message of Christianity, and convince its readers of its truth and importance.

The book seeks to clarify differences between Marx's and Hegel's dialectics, and to more thoroughly demarcate the " break " which Althusser saw between Marx's later writings ( Marxism proper ) and his early, Hegelian work.

The book is a journey through the history of pop ; it seeks to trace the connection between Alvin Lucier's experimental audio recording, " I am sitting in a room " and Kylie Minogue's " Can't Get You Out Of My Head ".

* In the TV series Castle, the main character, Richard Castle, is a bestselling mystery author who seeks inspiration from Kate Beckett in an attempt to cure his writer's block after killing off his most popular character in his last book.

Many stores are seen and Viktor seeks a job at the Brookstone, la Perla and Discovery Channel stores, eats at the Burger King, buys his New York City guide book at Borders and buys his suit at Hugo Boss.

Writer Greil Marcus, in his introduction to the Da Capo edition of Aesthetics, maintains that the book is " the best and most obsessive book about the Beatles ever written ," and that the work seeks to illuminate " the collapse of art into everyday life, and vice versa.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book's publication date.

If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.

This might be said to be an upper- or an upper-middle-class bias, but the Commission published as one of its staff studies a book by Byron S. Hollingshead entitled Who Should Go To College??

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

A careful and orderly man, who values precision and a kind of tough intellectual responsibility, might easily be put off by such a book.

The opening paragraph of the chapter titled The Theory Of Representative Perception, in the book Philosophies Of Science by Albert G. Ramsperger says, `` passed on to the brain, and there, by some unexplained process, it causes the mind to have a perception ''.

The following discussion of this subject has been adapted from the book Causes Of Catastrophe by L. Don Leet.

He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.

A `` book count '' was the sellin' of cattle by the books, commonly resorted to in the early days, sometimes much to the profit of the seller.

In this carefree sentence he summed up the essence of the prevailin' custom of buyin' by book count, and created a sayin' which has survived through the years.

Publisher Richardson has updated the Blue Book `` but it still remains the compact reference book used by so many for those ever-changing telephone numbers, addresses, other residences, club affiliations and marriages ''.

It is connected by teletype with the State Library in Albany, which will supply any book to a system that the system itself cannot provide.

To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.