Examples include the book's introduction ( which explains why the four men went on a canoe trip instead of playing golf ) and epilogue.

In the book's epilogue, it is implied that the replicator machines sent by humans to Mars have developed sentience and high technology, unknowingly advancing the late mankind's legacy in the Universe.

Pharaoh comprises a compact, substantial introduction ; sixty-seven chapters ; and an evocative epilogue ( the latter omitted at the book's original publication, and restored in the 1950s ).

In the book's epilogue, Sarah Vowell describes 826NYC's work.

The book's epilogue describes the pair splitting up ; Sy flops as a solo act while Max joins up with the Rebellion and uses his musical talents to entertain the troops.

The book ends with an epilogue which gives details of the later lives of the major characters, some of whom are purportedly still alive at the time of the book's appearance.

Examination of the book's central claims reveals they are uniformly without substance.

Called the " Watchman ", he only reveals himself to the book's protagonist, Harry Dresden, as a janitor named " Jake ".

The book's final twist reveals the old woman as a witch.

The book's afterword reveals Rice's extensive research, ranging from medical and anatomic information into castration to her immersion in the world of 18th century opera.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

However, unlike Johnson, Hodge confined the term to exclude those like Asa Gray who combined Christian faith with support for Darwin's natural selection theory, before answering the question posed in the book's title by concluding: " It is Atheism.

The issue of women's right to academic education is central to the book's plot.

The delay in publication is thought to be due to the time necessary to complete the book's many woodcuts.

Another Burton film, Exorcist II: The Heretic, is the book's first runner up in the Worst Film of All Time award based on reader response.

There is also an evident consensus among popular authors that he predicted whatever major event had just happened at the time of each book's publication, from the Apollo moon landings, through the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, to the events of 9 / 11: this ' movable feast ' aspect appears to be characteristic of the genre.

Critics have doubted that any of the annotations in the Bible can be reliably attributed to de Vere and not the book's other owners prior to its acquisition by the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1925, as well as challenging the strictness of Stritmatter's standards for a Biblical allusion in Shakespeare's works and arguing that there is no statistical significance to the overlap.

This example is typical of the book's style.

A nonfiction essay that is embedded in There Will Be Time and attributed to the book's fictional protagonist, but seems to reflect Anderson's own views, sharply criticizes the American Left of 1972 ( when it was written ) for two instances of a double standard: for neglecting to address human rights violations in the Soviet Union and for failing to notice Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

In the book's introduction, Schwartz states that the word " myth ", as used in the book, " is not offered to mean something that is not true, as in the current popular usage ".

The book's main idea is that high levels of fat intake are the cause of many health disorders common in the U. S., and thus that cutting fat consumption down to 10 % of the total calories consumed would be optimal for most people.

Charles Darwin talks about envisioning evolution as a " tangled bank " in On the Origin of Species ; however, the book's sole illustration is of a branched diagram that is very tree-like.

Jensen also criticized Gould for concentrating on long-disproven arguments ( noting that 71 % of the book's references preceded 1950 ), rather than addressing " anything currently regarded as important by scientists in the relevant fields ", suggesting that drawing conclusions from early human intelligence research is like condemning the contemporary automobile industry based upon the mechanical performance of the Ford Model T.

The book's subject is Amos's interest in mythology and religion, exploring her songwriting process, rise to fame, and her relationship with Atlantic Records.

Prominent among these is Conspiracy of Fools ( 2005 ) by Kurt Eichenwald which essentially features Fastow as the book's antagonist.

The unsentimental and frequently comic treatment of the banalities and intensities of the life of a British army officer in the First World War gave Graves fame, notoriety and financial security, but the book's subject is also his family history, childhood, schooling and, immediately following the war, early married life ; all phases bearing witness to the " particular mode of living and thinking " that constitute a poetic sensibility.

One of the book's claims is that plants may be sentient despite their lack of a nervous system and a brain.

Within the book publishing industry, the publisher of record for a book is the entity in whose name the book's ISBN is registered.

She commented in the book's introduction: " Mention the name ' Moonies ' to anyone in the West today, and the chances are that you will receive an immediate reaction which falls somewhere between a delicate shudder and an indignant outburst of fury.

Red Planet, for example, portrays some very subversive themes, including a revolution in which young students are involved ; his editor demanded substantial changes in this book's discussion of topics such as the use of weapons by children and the misidentified sex of the Martian character.

The book's title comes from the ballad " Mary Ambree ", which starts, " When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt ".

The book's main character, Judah Ben-Hur, accidentally causes injury to a high-ranking commander, for which he and his family suffer tribulations and calumny.

He also produced the second ( 1972 ) and third ( 1979 ) editions of The Elements of Style, by which time the book's length had extended to eighty-five pages.

At the book's end, I have a section pointing this out by telling what happened after the war, which was an attempt to pose the question, ' What was it all for?

In 2005 Craig Brown released 1966 and All That, which copied the book's style ( including elements like the end of chapter tests ), recounting the remainder of the twentieth century.

The first volume, Little Women, was an immediate commercial and critical success, prompting the composition of the book's second volume, entitled Good Wives, which was also successful.

" As a result of the book's revelations, people are starting to scrutinize possible cases of this " perfect crime ," which involves no physical evidence and no witnesses.

The book's title is in reference to the theory of everything, a physicists ' jargon term for a theory in physics which unifies the four fundamental forces of nature: gravity, the strong force, the weak force, and the electromagnetic force.

It parallels how humans search through a telephone book for a particular name, the key value by which the book's entries are ordered.

The opening line of the book is a sentence fragment which continues from the book's unfinished closing line, making the work a never-ending cycle.

The first signs of what would eventually become Finnegans Wake came in August 1923 when Joyce wrote the sketch " Here Comes Everybody ", which dealt for the first time with the book's protagonist HCE.

II. 1 opens with a pantomime programme, which outlines, in relatively clear language, the identities and attributes of the book's main characters.

Book IV consists of only one chapter, which, like the book's opening chapter, is mostly composed of a series of seemingly unrelated vignettes.

The challenge of compiling a definitive synopsis of Finnegans Wake lies not only in the opacity of the book's language, but also in the radical approach to plot which Joyce employed.

Fargnoli and Gillespie suggest that the book's opening chapter " introduces major themes and concerns of the book ", and enumerate these as " Finnegan's fall, the promise of his resurrection, the cyclical structure of time and history ( dissolution and renewal ), tragic love as embodied in the story of Tristan and Iseult, the motif of the warring brothers, the personification of the landscape and the question of Earwicker's crime in the park, the precise nature of which is left uncertain throughout the Wake.

" 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 ".

Vico's name appears a number of times throughout the Wake, indicating the work's debt to his theories, such as “ The Vico road goes round and round to meet where terms begin .” That a reference to Vico's cyclical theory of history is to be found in the opening sentence which is a continuation of the book's closing sentence – thus making the work cyclical in itself – creates the relevance of such an allusion.

He argues that the book's hallmarks are its restraint, brevity and readability, which downplays the extravagant and mythical aspects of the disaster and instead puts in the foreground the stories of the people on the ship.

During this period, Bakshi reread J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, which he had first read in high school, and saw parallels between his situation and that of the book's protagonist, Holden Caulfield.