Newspaper stories frankly divulged that the book's content includes " sexual relations between Lesbian women ", and photographs of Hall often accompanied details about lesbians in most major print outlets within a span of six months.

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.

* Molly Lane-Molly has only a tenuous connection to the main SiP cast ( she dated Francine's brother Benjamin in high school ) but has nevertheless been the star of one of the book's major storylines.

A ( fictional ) encounter between Gersonides and Pope Clement VI at Avignon during the Black Death is a major element in the book's plot.

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 production was a major hit, attracting 28 million viewers, and greatly boosted the book's sales.

Described by the critic Dennis Altman as " part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s ," the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant sexual practices, as filtered through an aggressively camp sensibility.

The Eschaton's other major involvement is that at a particular point in the book's history, it scattered pieces of human civilization, against their will, throughout nearby ( within a few thousand light years ) space, but it did so using instantaneous travel, and in some cases actually moved them backwards in time.

Hollywood lost no time in cashing in on the book's success — a year after its publication, Peyton Place was a major box office hit.

The book's main subject was the racist-occult movement of Ariosophy, a major strand of nationalist Esotericism in Germany and Austria, during the 1800s and early 1900s.

The book's 40 chapters are divided into six major sections, with the following titles:

Critic Gary Giddins, who wrote the book's introduction, calls Raise Up Off Me " a major contribution to the literature of jazz.

The book's main points are that modern industrial societies are completely dependent on fossil fuels, they are vulnerable to reductions in energy availability, fossil fuel depletion is inevitable, peak oil is imminent, and that oil plays a major role in US foreign policy, terrorism, war and geopolitics.

The book's central importance lies in the fact that it is the first major štokavian vernacular text.

The book's central argument is that consumption of refined sugar is unnatural and damaging to human health, causing major differences in physical and mental well-being.

Several of this book's plotlines revolve around major characters seeking an unaltered copy of the Camaas Document, in an attempt to settle the issue.

This background provides the book's two major quests ; the player can choose to either help the heir to the throne and his band of partisans regain power, or assist the new leader General Grieve Marlock in crushing the last few pockets of resistance.

As a result, the book's quality was far less consistent than the other two major Spider-Man titles of the time, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Spectacular Spider-Man.

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.

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.

Lewis ' exploration of themes not usually present in children's literature, such as religion as well as the book's perceived treatment of issues including race and gender, has caused some controversy.

Among the book's themes is an allusion to the possibility of another cataclysmic world war brewing.

Lord Hailsham revisited themes of faith in his memoirs A Sparrow's Flight, and the book's title alluded to remarks about sparrows and faith recorded in Bede's Ecclesiastical History and the words of Christ in the Gospel of Matthew.

Given the book's fluid and changeable approach to plot and characters, a definitive, critically agreed-upon plot synopsis remains elusive ( see Critical response and themes: Difficulties of plot summary below ).

" The book's challenges have led some commentators into generalised statements about its content and themes, prompting critic Bernard Benstock to warn against the danger of " boiling down " Finnegans Wake into " insipid pap, and leaving the lazy reader with a predigested mess of generalizations and catchphrases.

" Such a view finds general critical consensus, viewing the vignettes as allegorical appropriations of the book's characters and themes ; for example, Schwartz argues that " The Willingdone Museyroom " episode represents the book's " archetypal family drama in military-historical terms.

" Riquelme finds that " passages near the book's beginning and its ending echo and complement one another ", and Fargnoli and Gillespie representatively argue that the book's cyclical structure echoes the themes inherent within, that " the typologies of human experience that Joyce identifies Finnegans Wake are essentially cyclical, that is, patterned and recurrent ; in particular, the experiences of birth, guilt, judgment, sexuality, family, social ritual and death recur throughout the Wake.

In any case, specific national identities are arguably irrelevant to the book's themes of dehumanization, the abstraction of nuclear warfare, and the danger that this leads to when combined with the destructive potential of the weapons involved.

" 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.

" Rand sent DeCasseres a letter thanking him for explaining the book's individualistic themes when many other reviewers did not.

Another parallel between the book's characters / themes and Hardy's actual life experience occurs when Sue becomes obsessed with religion after previously having been indifferent and even hostile towards it.

The book's themes deal with friendship, death, heroism, camaraderie and solidarity among colleagues, humanity and the search for meaning in life.

Although exploring the same themes as the book, the documentary also focuses on events which occurred subsequent to the book's publication, especially the controversy surrounding evangelical proselytizing at the U. S. Air Force Academy.

Creech drew on her own background for many of the book's themes and images, including Sal's love of nature, her relationship with her mother, and the road trip to Idaho that frames the narrative.

Paul Rigger is the book's main character. In this first novel, already, though embryonic, the various themes of the author.

* Jim Nolan – New member of the " Party ," whose political development is one of the book's central themes.

Starring Craig Horner as Richard and Bridget Regan as Kahlan, the series was produced by Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert, and expanded upon some of the themes of the book's storyline, but bore only a passing resemblance to the book on a grander scale.

Among the book's many tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, and the problem of perception.

He pursued that book's themes further in Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism, ( 1990 ) and co-edited an anthology on the same themes, with Franco Amatori and Takashi Hikino, Big Business and the Wealth of Nations ( 1997 ).

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

The book's content includes information about Canadian and American airline companies ; it does not include any information regarding Mexican or Central American based airlines.

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.

The book's main protagonist, Petru Anicet, is a composer who places value in experiments ; other characters include Dragu, who considers " a hooligan's experience " as " the only fertile debut into life ", and the totalitarian Alexandru Pleşa, who is on the search for " the heroic life " by enlisting youth in " perfect regiments, equally intoxicated by a collective myth.

The book's topics include:

Just prior to the book's first ( underground ) publication, Hardy was wracked with uncertainty as to whether it was ethical to include the episode: he was worried about the book's impact on the " living innocents ".

The book's large 5 by 8 inch format allowed Potter to include black and white line drawings and to lavish greater detail on the colour illustrations.

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