It is more difficult with Faulkner than with most authors to say what is the extent and what is the source of his knowledge.

Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power Lincoln argued, " The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended ' to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity ', but they ' did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness '.

The authors of the Handbook of British Chronology Third Edition say he was named bishop of Hereford in 1056, holding the see until he resigned it in 1060, but other sources say that he merely administered the see while it was vacant, or that he was bishop of Hereford from 1055 to 1060.

For the obvious, anticipated query — what books does this customer want ?— it's enough to store the customer's wishlist in the table as, say, a homogeneous string of authors and titles.

For the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, who assert that their research ultimately reveals that Jesus may not have died on the cross, but lived to wed Mary Magdalene and father children whose Merovingian lineage continues today, the Grail is a mere sideshow: they say it is a reference to Mary Magdalene as the receptacle of Jesus ' bloodline.

Some authors say that philosophy is fundamentally about critical thinking, examining the beliefs we take for granted.

Some authors say that philosophical enquiry is second-order, having concepts, theories and presupposition as its subject matter.

Some authors claim ( or at least presuppose ) that taxa are real entities, that to say that an animal is included in Mammalia ( the scientific name for the mammal group ) is to say that it bears a certain relation to Mammalia, an abstract object.

" Arguing a year later that " with nuclear weapons more widely available, deterrence is decreasingly effective and increasingly hazardous ," the authors concluded that although " it is tempting and easy to say we can't get there from here,.

The five versions of Urban's speech reflect much more clearly what later authors thought Urban II should have said to launch the First Crusade than what Urban II himself actually did say.

When these daughters arrived at the age of maturity, they were stricken with madness, the cause of which is differently stated by different authors ; some say that it was a punishment inflicted upon them by Dionysus, because they had despised his worship, and according to others, by Hera, because they presumed to consider themselves more beautiful than the goddess, or because they had stolen some of the gold off her statue.

The authors say that the failure to attempt to rehabilitate patients may be partly responsible for the negative public image of ECT.

The editors say this is necessary because " collective voice and personality matter more than the identities of individual journalists " and reflects “ a collaborative effort .” In most articles authors refer to themselves as " your correspondent " or " this reviewer ".

Ancient authors also say that Solon regulated pederastic relationships in Athens ; this has been presented as an adaption of custom to the new structure of the polis.

The case also has attracted some criticism from more liberal authors, including some who say that Chief Justice Warren's reliance on psychological criteria to find a harm against segregated blacks was unnecessary.

A successful strategy for preventing vandalism, say the book's authors, is to fix the problems when they are small.

Some authors say that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years.

Some authors debate the conclusions we might deduce from Aua's words, because the angakkuq was under the influence of missionaries, and later he even converted to Christianity — converted people often see the ideas in polarisation and contrasts, the authors say.

Reviewing previous studies on the impact of milk on absorption of polyphenols, the authors say, " It is a matter of fact that the discrepancy of the results in humans is remarkable, with half the reports suggesting a lack of effect and the other half suggesting an inhibitory effect of milk.

Greek and Roman authors have much to say about Apis, the marks by which the black bull-calf was recognized, the manner of his conception by a ray from heaven, his house at Memphis with court for disporting himself, the mode of prognostication from his actions, the mourning at his death, his costly burial, and the rejoicings throughout the country when a new Apis was found.

Bruce Schneier, one of the authors of the losing Twofish algorithm, wrote after the competition was over that " I have nothing but good things to say about NIST and the AES process ".

The term refers to the canonicity of works of literature written in Latin in the late Roman republic and the early to middle Roman empire: " that is to say, that of belonging to an exclusive group of authors ( or works ) that were considered to be emblematic of a certain genre.

Thomas Carlyle translated Goethe ’ s novel into English, and after its publication in 1824, many British authors wrote novels inspired by it.

The fragment of a new novel she had been working on in her last years has been twice completed by recent authors, the more famous version being Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë by Clare Boylan in 2003.

The PI novel was a male-dominated field in which female authors seldom found publication until Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton were finally published in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The epistolary novel as a genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his immensely successful novels Pamela ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1749 ).

A prime example is Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ); based on a novel by Mickey Spillane, the best-selling of all the hardboiled authors, here the protagonist is a private eye, Mike Hammer.

Some authors believe that Bacon's vision for a Utopian New World in North America was laid out in his novel New Atlantis, which depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, located somewhere between Peru and Japan.

There have been six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks and Jeffery Deaver ; a new novel, written by William Boyd, is planned for release in 2013.

The authors use a journey to Mars as the frame for a utopian feminist novel.

Concern about the rapid pace of technological change crystallized around the concept of the technological singularity, popularized by Vernor Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime and then taken up by other authors.

Online shareware author communities, like the newsgroup alt. comp. shareware. authors, are often used by software seekers to post their novel software ideas for potential implementation.

Active membership is limited to professionally published authors in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, or horror ; the minimum qualification is the sale of one novel or dramatic script, or three short stories, to venues with certain minimum circulations or pay rates.

Sometimes, authors who do not have the time or money to write a novella or novel decide to write short stories instead and work out a deal with a popular website or magazine ; such as Playboy, to publish them for profit.

The mid 17th century in France saw the development of a refined short novel, the " nouvelle ", by such authors as Madame de Lafayette.

" Still, both authors used the form of the realist novel to probe the machinations of society and the myriad motives of human behavior.

More recent authors who have used damnatio memoriae as a plot device include Milan Kundera in his 1979 novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, R. A. Salvatore in the 1990 novel Homeland, Lois Lowry in her 1993 novel The Giver ( a version in which the damned name is never given to any new baby ever again ), and Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson in their 1999 Prelude to Dune trilogy.

Soon after the series hit its stride, many of the authors produced novels and stories outside the anthologies, beginning with Beyond Sanctuary by Janet Morris, the first " authorized " Thieves World novel, published in 1985.

It is even difficult for authors to write regional science textbooks, since what is elementary knowledge for one discipline might be entirely novel for another.

American copyright law before 1856 did not give novel authors any control over derivative stage adaptations, so Stowe neither approved the adaptations nor profited from them.

They are characterized by excessive complication and the use of novel ways of characterizing income, assets, or liabilities and the intent to influence readers towards the interpretations desired by the authors.

Richardson did not devote all of his time just to working on his new novel, but was busy printing various works for other authors that he knew.

Though the genre has evolved since its inception, the historical novel remains popular with authors and readers to this day ; bestsellers include Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey – Maturin series, Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

The genre of the historical novel has also permitted some authors, such as the Polish novelist Bolesław Prus in his sole historical novel, Pharaoh, to distance themselves from their own time and place to gain perspective on society and on the human condition, or to escape the depredations of the censor.