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.

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 ".

King noted in the book's introduction that he does not use cell phones.

According to the first book's introduction Allen devised the New Laws in discussion with Asimov himself.

He furthermore noted that there was a " disconcerting randomness about the introduction of the supernatural " into the book's plot, with the supernatural elements simply appearing without having been worked into a wider world universe.

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.

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

As a result the book is perhaps not the best introduction to Gurdjieff's ideas since part of the book's intention is to frustrate and usurp the normal patterns of thought.

" 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.

Though Stevenson reassures an anxious Theodora that only he and his secretary know her identity, his wife Ethel ( Nana Bryant ) pressures him into an introduction, which the book's illustrator, Michael Grant ( Melvyn Douglas ), overhears.

Admitting that he was " immensely proud " of Divine and the cause which he " strived for ", Jay noted in the book's introduction that he wrote the work because he felt that Divine deserved a " memorial " that would act as a " record for posterity ".

Editor Richard Crossman said in the book's introduction: " The Kronstadt rebels called for Soviet power free from Bolshevik dominance " ( p. x ).

According to the book's own introduction, it was produced in emulation of an old Zen painting exercise called " one hundred demons.

Moore has said that the character of " the Glyph ", introduced in Book Two, clinched book's success ( according to his comments in the introduction to the collected edition ( Titan Books ) in 1986 ).

In the book's introduction, Lowell explained that his idiosyncratic translations should be thought of as " imitations " rather than strict translations since he took many liberties with the originals, trying to " do what authors might have done if they were writing their poems now and in America.

Goldhagen noted in an interview with The Atlantic, as well as in the book's introduction, that the title and the first page of the book reveal its purpose as a moral, rather than historical analysis, asserting that he has invited European Church representatives to present their own historical account in discussing morality and reparation.

The book's introduction was by Eugene McCarthy.

In the book's introduction, he mused: " Already engaged in other duties, it has been with some effort that I have found time to adjust my own mantle ; and I now willingly retire to more quiet labors, which, if less exciting, are more certain to be acknowledged as useful and received with gratitude ".

" He set to work writing his memoirs, The Story of an American Communist, tapping fellow ex-Communist pariah Earl Browder to write the book's introduction.

However, on the book's jacket and in a tongue-in-cheek introduction by the book's editor, it was alleged that this 1996 work was written by Bachman years earlier, but the manuscript had only recently been discovered by his widow in a trunk.

Although it is labeled " Unauthorized " for humor, the book is in fact official and considered a Beginning with a multi-layered introduction by Daniel Handler that encompasses twelve of the book's thirteen chapters.

However, Agatha Christie first described a village of that name prior to the introduction of Jane Marple, in the Hercule Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train, in which it was home to that book's protagonist Katherine Grey.

The change was spearheaded by Twain scholar Alan Gribben in the hope of " countering the ' pre-emptive censorship '" that results from the book's being removed from school curricula over language concerns.

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.

The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company of the book's title, whose dream is to have a son to continue his business.

The unbridgeable chasm of the book's title is between individual " autonomy "-which for Bookchin is a bourgeois illusion-and social " freedom ", which implies direct democracy, municipalism, and leftist concerns with social opportunities.

The book's central theme concerns a sickly child who dreams of finding the fabled plant and ends up on a journey of both personal and botanical discovery to the Indian Himalaya.

It is unclear how much of the book's success was due to its content and how much to publicity about its unusual origin.

The book's author goes on to speculate that the true origin of the name may be from Crybe's dwelling ( Crybe being a personal name ), or from crib – a manger or hovel.

The book's central thesis is that hero figures of mythology had their origin in ritual drama, not historical fact.

At the time of publication, there was considerable fan speculation as to the origin of the book's title.

" Dealing specifically with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Philip argued that the book's " lack of characterisation " is its " most serious flaw " but that it also suffers from " the triteness of its central premise ".

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.

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

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.