Thus, there is substantial debate regarding the identity of the book's author.

* Extreme values-Data used in the book, An Introduction to the Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values are provided on-line by Stuart Coles, the book's author.

Sue K. Hurwitz said in her review for the School Library Journal that it is " a catalog of Heinlein's sins as an author ; it is sophomoric, sexist, militantly right wing, and excessively verbose ", and comments that the book's ending was " a devastating parody of SF conventions — will have genre addicts rolling on the floor.

The book's cryptic acknowledgement credits friend and fellow science fiction author Ken MacLeod with the suggestion " to argue the old warrior out of retirement " ( to rewrite the old book ) and further credits him with suggesting " the fitness programme " ( the new structure ).

" However, the point upon which a number of critics fail to concur with Burrell's argument is its dismissal of the testimony of the book's author on the matter as " misleading ... publicity efforts ".

The book's introduction states that its author, John, was on Patmos when he was given ( and recorded ) a vision from Jesus.

The book's introduction states that its author, John, was on Patmos when he was given ( and recorded ) a vision from Jesus.

The book's author, Richard Russo, is a native of nearby Gloversville.

Pleasence was the author of the 1977 children's book Scouse the Mouse ( London: New English Library ), which was animated by Canadian animator / film director Gerald Potterton ( a friend of the actor, who directed him in the 1973 Canadian film The Rainbow Boys, retitled The Rainbow Gang for VHS release in the United States ) and also adapted into a children's recording ( Polydor Records, 1977 ) with Ringo Starr voicing the book's title character, Scouse the Mouse.

According to Fried and Schultis, criteria for a good self-help book include " claims made by the author as to the book's efficacy, the presentation of problem-solving strategies based on scientific evidence and professional experience, the author's credentials and professional experience, and the inclusion of a bibliography.

Book burning can be an act of contempt for the book's contents or author, and the act is intended to draw wider public attention to this opinion.

The latter role was loosely based on a Marine aviator, Colonel Donald Conroy, the father of the book's author Pat Conroy.

The book's author wanted his girlfriend, the actress Trude Hesterberg, to play the lead, but instead Marlene Dietrich was given her first sound role as the " actress " Lola Lola ( named Rosa Fröhlich in the novel ).

" 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.

Although author Lauren Weisberger worked as an assistant at Vogue magazine, she denies that the book's antagonist, Miranda Priestly, is modeled after the magazine's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

The tape-recorded diaries of William Weston were read by the book's author, Ernest Callenbach.

He claims that now that the reader understands the author's propositions and arguments, the reader has been elevated to the level of understanding of the book's author, and is now able ( and obligated ) to judge the book's merit and accuracy.

For example, the purported author of the Nancy Drew mystery series, " Carolyn Keene ", is actually a pseudonym for a series of ghostwriters who write books in the same style using a template of basic information about the book's characters and their fictional universe ( names, dates, speech patterns ), and about the tone and style that are expected in the book.

Although Rowling has never hidden the fact that she is the author of Fantastic Beasts, " Newt Scamander " can nevertheless be considered a pseudonym of hers, as he is technically the author listed on the book's cover.

" After they returned, Joliet used the name " Miskonsing " on a map that he drew in 1674, and when the news of their voyage was first published in 1681 the book's author, Melchisedec Thevenot, called it the " Mescousin " River.

The book's " authoritative " position is bolstered by the personal image of its author.

The book's author is unknown, but some suggest that it may have been a devout Jew from the Holy Land who may have taken part in the events described in the book.

Kovic was born on July 4, 1946, and his book's ironic title echoed a famous line from George M. Cohan's patriotic 1904 song, " The Yankee Doodle Boy " ( also known as " Yankee Doodle Dandy ").

The book's four main characters are ecologically-minded misfits — " Seldom Seen " Smith, a Jack Mormon river guide ; Doc Sarvis, an odd but wealthy and wise surgeon ; Bonnie Abbzug, his young sexualized female assistant ; and a rather eccentric Green Beret Vietnam veteran, George Hayduke.

During a 2004 interview on Coast to Coast AM radio with George Noory, she said she was disappointed following her first book's publication that she was not permitted to return to the Celestial realm, but that while she could not presently know the full scope of her earthly purpose, she understood a film based on Embraced would also follow.

* When they begin researching the book on which the planet's scene is based, Picard reads the book's opening sentence, " It was a dark and stormy night "— the famous opening of Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's novel Paul Clifford — and remarks, " Not a promising beginning.

* Columbia Pictures, having bought the book's pre-publication film rights, was not able to produce a script that was approved by the Army while producer David L. Wolper, who also tried to buy the same rights, could not obtain finance for filming. A screenplay was written by George Goodman who had served with the Special Forces in the 1950s as a military intelligence officer and had written a 1961 article about the Special Forces called The Unconventional Warriors in Esquire Magazine.

The book's collection of stately homes also includes George IV's Brighton town palace, the Royal Pavilion.

There is a 21th chapter on the " special case " of George W. Bush ( USA ), which is not mentioned on the book's US cover.

The book's heroes include the mountaineer George Mallory, and its influences include the writing of Simon Schama and Francis Spufford.

The book's final paragraph might serve as an epitaph for George V. Higgins:

Some fictional approaches definitively establish the independence of the parallel world, sometimes by having the world differ from the book's account ; other approaches have works of fiction create and affect the parallel world: L. Sprague de Camp's Solomon's Stone, taking place on an astral plane, is populated by the daydreams of mundane people, and in Rebecca Lickiss's Eccentric Circles, an elf is grateful to Tolkien for transforming elves from dainty little creatures.

* In L. Neil Smith's The Venus Belt ( 1980 ), part of an alternative history series, an unrestrained capitalist free enterprise culture makes a huge success of colonizing the asteroid belt and decides to blow up and smash to pieces the " utterly useless planet " Venus so as to create a new Asteroid Belt ( hence the book's name ).

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.

I mention these features of the book because they are inherent in the book's character and therefore must be mentioned.

Such mannerisms would be less worthy of remark, were it not that in Great Expectations, as in no other of Dickens' novels, hands serve as a leitmotif of plot and theme -- a kind of unifying symbol or natural metaphor for the book's complex of human interrelationships and the values and attitudes that motivate them.

Abdul is a common Arabic name component ( but never a name by itself ; additionally the ending-ul and the beginning Al-are redundant ), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a pun on the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or a reference to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name.

A passage in Voltaire's Candide has the book's eponymous main character meet the deposed Ahmed III while on a ship from Venice to Constantinople.

In Baxter's novel, Aurelianus is a minor character who interacts with the book's main Roman-era protagonist, Regina, founder of an ( literally ) underground matriarchal society.

Chaucer scholars have also identified this date ( in 1387 ) as the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

Though many evangelical commentators still defend the traditional sixth century date for the book's composition, the scholarly consensus is that it is a product of Maccabean times.

Scholars agree that the Deuteronomists ' hand can be seen in Judges through the book's cyclical nature: the Israelites fall into idolatry, God punishes them for their sins with oppression by foreign peoples, the Israelites cry out to God for help, and God sends a judge to deliver them from the foreign oppression.

The earlier date, first proposed in modern times by John Robinson in a closely argued chapter of " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ), relies on the book's internal evidence, given that no external testimony exists earlier than that of Irenaeus, noted above, and the earliest extant manuscript evidence of Revelation ( P98 ) is likewise dated no earlier than the late 2nd century.

The history of God's rule through the David line connects the book's theme in to the Bible's main theme of redemptive history.

The church's archivist, fired in anticipation of the book's publication, wrote to branch churches to inform them of the book's history.

The book's style was innovative, combining naturalism with gothic melodrama, and broke new ground in being written from an intensely first-person female perspective.

The story ends on a cliffhanger with several questions left unanswered regarding the merging of the Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit, the fates of those on the escaped no-ship ( including the role of Scytale, the development of Idaho and Teg, and the role of the Jews ), the identity of the god-like characters in the book's final chapter and the ultimate mystery of what chased the Honored Matres back into the Old Empire.

A book frontispiece ( decorative illustration facing a book's title page ) for Apicius, a collection of Roman cookery recipe s, circa the late 4th or early 5th century Common Era | CE.

Carmilla herself is mentioned several times as a former ( until her death at the hands of vampire hunters ) friend of the book's vampire heroine Geneviève.

The book's popularity had the effect of perpetuating many of these terms as part of the Standard English lexicon, even though they have long ceased to have any practical application.

The book's design juxtaposed each cartoon alongside a photograph of the cartoon's creator.

Most call numbers in the Expansive Classification follow conventions offering clues to the book's subject.

This book's method was adopted by the University of Oregon, as described in The Oregon Experiment ( 1975 ), and remains the official planning instrument.

The book's second part contained an extensive analysis on the modern state's institutionalized forms of " classroom learning " as the cultural – historical context that shapes much of modern learning and socialization.

Some of the book's " moments " ( as well as incidents loosely based upon Burroughs ' life ) are presented in this manner within the film.