* Wheeler, Sir Mortimer Still Digging ( Michael Joseph Ltd., 1955 ; re-published, slightly abridged by the author, by Pan Books Ltd., London, 1958, book number GP 94 )

He was the author of a collection of proverbs in three books, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to the Suda, from Didymus of Alexandria and " The Tarrhaean " ( Lucillus of Tarrha, a polis in Crete ).

There is also a surviving ( and possibly abridged ) biography of Epaminondas by the Roman author Cornelius Nepos from the first century BC, in the absence of Plutarch's, this becomes a major source for Epaminondas's life.

Earlier alumni include Henry Addington, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Elias Ashmole founder of the Ashmolean Museum, John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Clavell, highwayman and author, Colin Cowdrey, English Test batsman, William Webb Ellis, often credited with the invention of Rugby football, John Foxe author of Actes and Monuments popularly abridged as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, William Golding, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, and Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury.

He was the author of an alphabetical lexicon, chiefly of poetical words, abridged from the great lexicon () of Pamphilus of Alexandria ( AD 50 ) and other similar works.

# Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, abridged for the Use of Students, & c. By John Gifford, author of the Life of.

* Iron John-free abridged audio book read by the author

An abridged audiobook version read by the author was released at the same time as the print edition.

A few editions in Audiobook form are also available, including an abridged version read by the author, and at least three unabridged versions.

At the same time the author of this Historia used much older pseudo-Apostolic materials that he abridged or excerpted to suit his purpose, and often revised or expurgated to conform them to Catholic teaching, for not a few of the writings that he used were originally Gnostic compositions, and abounded in Gnostic speeches and prayers.

( author ) Un Centenaire de Rayonnement de la Culture Française ( the abridged version of the AF's history to include Une Célébration de l ' Alliance Française en Tasmanie ), 2004.

Ibn Al-Nadim says that he was the author of " Taabirul Ro ' oya " ( What Dreams Express ), which is different from or an abridged version of: Muntakhabul Kalam Fi Tafsir El Ahlam "( A Concise Guide for the Interpretation of Dreams ) first printed in Bulaq, Egypt, in 1284 H, in Lucknow in a. d. 1874 and in Bombay in 1296 H. It was subsequently reprinted numerous times in various parts of the Arab World under different titles.

*" five books by Jason of Cyrene " referenced by: the author of 2 Maccabees here tells us that the work is abridged from the history by Jason.

He was the author of a treatise on the figures of speech ( de Figuris sententiarum et elocutionis ), abridged from a similar work by the rhetorician Gorgias of Athens, not the well-known sophist of Leontini, the tutor of Cicero's son.

* ISBN 978-1-59887-052-7 ( audio cd, 2006, abridged / read by Kesey ; includes Fresh Air with Terry Gross interview with author )

Reissued as a mass market paperback, revised and abridged by the author, in 1967 by Dell, New York.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

Angilbert was the Homer of the emperor's literary circle, and was the probable author of an epic, of which the fragment which has been preserved describes the life at the palace and the meeting between Charlemagne and Leo III.

In the book of " Ainu life and legends " by author Kyōsuke Kindaichi ( published by the Japanese Tourist Board in 1942 ) contains the physical description of Ainu: Many have wavy hair, but some straight black hair.

* Blind author Tom Sullivan has written several inspirational books, including If You Could See What I Hear, about his life and accomplishments.

According to Jewish tradition the author of Kings was Jeremiah, whose life overlapped the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, author of many Scots poems.

In most of the world, the default length of copyright is the life of the author plus either 50 or 70 years.

According to medical intuitive and author, Caroline Myss, who described chakras in her work Anatomy of the Spirit ( 1996 ), " Every thought and experience you've ever had in your life gets filtered through these chakra databases.

For example, in one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, The Dream of the Red Chamber ( believed to be a semi-autobiographical account of author Cao Xueqin's own family life ), three generations of the Jia family are supported by one favorite concubine of the Emperor.

* 1994: Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz By Coyne Stephen Sanders and Tom Gilbert ( author ) ( Whole life, and focuses prominently on the Business affairs of Desilu Productions )( PNT )

As the historian Socrates Scholasticus said, at the opening of his history that was designed as a continuation of Eusebius, " Also in writing the life of Constantine, this same author has but slightly treated of matters regarding Arius, being more intent on the rhetorical finish of his composition and the praises of the emperor, than on an accurate statement of facts.

The author counsels ( 1 ) to steadfastness and perseverance under persecution ( 1 – 2: 10 ); ( 2 ) to the practical duties of a holy life ( 2: 11 – 3: 13 ); ( 3 ) he adduces the example of Christ and other motives to patience and holiness ( 3: 14 – 4: 19 ); and ( 4 ) concludes with counsels to pastors and people ( chap.

The author wrote the epistle so that the joy of his audience would " be full " ( 1. 4 ) and that they would " not practice sin " ( 2. 1 ) and that " you who believe in the name of the Son of God ... may know that you have eternal life " ( 5. 13 ).

The author describes various tests by which readers may ascertain whether or not their communion with God is genuine, and teaches that the proof of spiritual regeneration is a life of active righteousness.

Another artist who has run afoul of the technique is the artist JSG Boggs, whose life and work have been extensively explored by author and journalist Lawrence Weschler.

Best-selling Irish investigative author, Don Mullan, published a boyhood memoir in 2006 called GORDON BANKS: A Hero Who Could Fly in which he wrote about the influence of the England goalkeeper on his life.

But his ideal of a possible life as a free author was hard to keep up against the economic constraints he faced.

The problem comes from the fact that before the Copyright Act of 1976 the number of years a work was copyrighted in the U. S. was based on publication rather than life of the author plus a certain number of years and that it was good for only 28 years.

Fantasy author Philip Pullman echoes this idea in the fantasy series His Dark Materials, in which the characters finally come to the conclusion that people should make life better on Earth rather than wait for heaven ( this idea is known as the Republic of Heaven ).

The Malmad ha-Talmidim yields a great deal of information concerning the life and the time of its author.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (; commonly known in English as Jacques Cousteau ; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997 ) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.

Both the Epistles and the Apocalypse, however, presuppose that their author John belonged to the multitude of personal eyewitnesses of the life and work of Christ ( cf.

If one accepts that Luke was in fact the author of the Gospel bearing his name and also the Acts of the Apostles, certain details of his personal life can be reasonably assumed.

Situationist film maker Guy Debord, author of The Society of the Spectacle, began his film In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni around in the night we are consumed by fire with a radical critique of the spectator who goes to the cinema to forget about his dispossessed daily life.