Chapter 17 of William Bates ' 1920 book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, in which the author argues that observation of the sun is beneficial to those with poor vision, includes a figure of somebody " Focussing the Rays of the Sun Upon the Eye of a Patient by Means of a Burning Glass.

The selection process for the winner of the prize commences with the formation of an advisory committee which includes an author, two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian, and a chairperson appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation.

* Buddhist author Chogyam Trungpa includes the category " not knowing what you want.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

* a layer derived from earlier source materials, almost certainly transmitted to the vernacular author / translator in Latin ; and comprising, at the least, those extensive passages in the Gospel of Barnabas that closely parallel pericopes in the canonical gospels ; but whose underlying text appears markedly distinct from that of the late medieval Latin Vulgate ( as for instance in the alternative version of the Lord's Prayer in chapter 37, which includes a concluding doxology, contrary to the Vulgate text, but in accordance with the Diatessaron and many other early variant traditions );

Jewish law includes several considerations whose effects are similar to those of modern intellectual property laws, though the notion of intellectual creations as property does not seem to exist – notably the principle of Hasagat Ge ' vul ( unfair encroachment ) was used to justify limited-term publisher ( but not author ) copyright in the 16th century.

A 10th anniversary edition was published by Fourth Estate, ISBN 978-0-00-734077-4, that includes a new introduction by the author.

The critical reading carried out by these thinkers sought to find contradictions that an author includes, supposedly inevitably, in his work.

Information usually contained in a signature block includes the poster's name, phone number and email address, along with other contact details if required, such as URLs for sites owned or favoured by the author.

Vince Guaraldi at the Piano, by author and noted Guaraldi archivist Derrick Bang, chronicles Guaraldi's career and role in the Northern California jazz scene, and also includes a complete discography and filmography, as well as an appendix of quotations from Guaraldi's former sidemen.

Born in Edo ( now Tokyo ), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s.

Russian author Nikolai Gogol includes SHC in three works, including his novel Dead Souls.

His famous family includes his siblings, explorer Julius Beerbohm, author Constance Beerbohm and half-brother caricaturist Max Beerbohm.

The author notes that an editor warned him that for every equation in the book the readership would be halved, hence it includes only a single equation: E = mc < sup > 2 </ sup >.

As a result, Adams later stated that he was not entirely happy with the book, which includes several jarring authorial intrusions, which fellow author Neil Gaiman described as " patronising and unfair ".

Deming was the author of Out of the Crisis ( 1982 – 1986 ) and The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education ( 1993 ), which includes his System of Profound Knowledge and the 14 Points for Management ( described below ).

He is the author of one of the most important treatises on algebra written before modern times, the Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, which includes a geometric method for solving cubic equations by intersecting a hyperbola with a circle.

Sponsored by the Central City Business & Professional Women's Club, the Hall of Fame is located inside the Central City Public Library, 108 E. Broad Street and features a portrait and memorabilia gallery which includes former Governor Martha Layne Collins, Country & Western music giant Loretta Lynn, and local author, editorialist, historian, war correspondent for the Service Star and noted cultivator of roses Agnes S. Harralson.

The library staff includes one widely-published author, who works as the reference specialist.

The work was translated into Irish by Giolla Coemgin in c. 1071 and is the earliest example of the original Historia Britonum, but includes the author ’ s name, Nennius.

The work, titled " Alphabetical Collection of All Words " ( Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λεξέων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον ), includes approximately 2640 entries, a copious list of peculiar words, forms and phrases, with an explanation of their meaning, and often with a reference to the author who used them or to the district of Greece where they were current.

" The letter includes a detailed summary of the book's key themes and how the author intended each of the 12 chapters to work, and has been included as an introduction in some editions.

The walking tour includes a detour to a memorial to local author Jack Kerouac, who described the mid-20th century declined state of Lowell in several of his books.

* The American author Armistead Maupin includes a quote from Religio Medici in the preface to the third in his Tales of the City novels, Further Tales of the City, first published in 1982.

* Lawrence Durrell's novel-sequence The Avignon Quintet is arranged in the form of a quincunx, according to the author ; the final novel in the sequence is called Quinx, the plot of which includes the discovery of a quincunx of stones.

Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies ; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that " It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born ".

Stephanie Coontz, a professor of family history and the author of several books and essays about the history of marriage, says that this brief remark by Quayle about Murphy Brown " kicked off more than a decade of outcries against the ' collapse of the family.

Although the very subject matter caused it to be considered scandalous at the time, its brief revival three decades later, in the open and radicalized culture of the late 1960s, when the author was approaching his 70th birthday, found the once-ahead-of-its-time work judged as a tame and dated period piece below Achard's usual literary standard.

This senryū, which can also be translated " Catching him / you see the robber / is your son ," is not so much a personal experience of the author as an example of a type of situation ( provided by a short comment called a maeku or fore-verse, which usually prefaces a number of examples ) and / or a brief or witty rendition of an incident from history or the arts ( plays, songs, tales, poetry, etc .).

It is common practice for a signature block to consist of one or more lines containing some brief information on the author of the message.

As early as 1944 an author in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease remarked: " The history of prefrontal lobotomy has been brief and stormy.

On a recent visit to Dundee we had an interesting conversation with the author upon more advanced truths, and a brief inspection of his great and still incomplete work-a Dictionary of 53 Languages, upon which he has labored closely since 1828.

Justice Brennan, author of the majority opinion in Craig v. Boren, provided a brief but notable dissent based solely on Section 2.

Roch Carrier, OC ( born 13 May 1937 ) is a Canadian novelist and author of " contes " ( a very brief form of the short story ).

Under the heading " Adam " the author of the lexicon ( which a prefatory note states to be " by Suidas ") gives a brief chronology of the world, ending with the death of the emperor John I Tzimiskes ( 975 ), and under Constantinople his successors Basil II ( 976-1025 ) and Constantine VIII ( 1025 – 1028 ) are mentioned.

This was the only translation of a Brel song written by Alasdair Clayre, an Oxford-educated Englishman who had a brief career as a singer-songwriter before becoming an author, academic, and sometime producer of BBC documentaries.

There was also a Llano Times, where J. Marvin Hunter, author and historian of the American West, worked on the staff for a brief time early in the 20th century.

Fabulae consists of some three hundred very brief and plainly, even crudely told myths and celestial genealogies, made by an author who was characterized by his modern editor, H. J.

A grandson, Jeff Cooper, produced an admirable bibliography of his grandfather, with brief but important notes, while a great-grandson of the poet is the author Joe Abercrombie.

After a brief experience in a variety of trades, in his late teens George Banks became a contributor to various newspapers, and subsequently a playwright, being the author of plays, burlesques and lyrics.

Julian had a brief relationship with Patricia Neal's daughter Tessa Dahl ( Stanley Holloway had appeared with Neal in the 1965 film In Harm's Way ), which produced a daughter, the model and author Sophie Dahl.

It was also during his administration that he employed the noted American poet and author Carl Sandburg for a brief time.

* Helen Hunt Jackson, American author, was a brief resident.

He successfully saw the Elaine 12 case to the Supreme Court of the United States and is credited with having been the author of the brief used before the Court.

Only a very brief examination was required in order for me, as an author of DikuMud, to recognize my old code.

The character later returned for brief appearances in Dylan Horrocks ' Hunter: The Age of Magic and Si Spencer's Books of Magick: Life During Wartime, before author Mike Carey brought her back in the prestige format graphic novel God Save the Queen.

The last or only Fredegar was the author of the brief account of the Wends in which is found the best, and only contemporary, information on Samo.

The church was also presided over for a brief period by Thomas Scott, author of popular theological works and one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society.

Swiss modernist author Robert Walser ( 1878 – 1956 ) recounts the Battle of Sempach in brief but violent detail in his short story " The Battle of Sempach ".

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