The LDS Church's 1981 edition also contains two " Official Declarations " at the book's conclusion, the first renouncing polygamy in 1890, and the second in 1978 announcing the opening of priesthood ordination to all worthy male members including previously restricted members of African descent.

The copyright could be gained through two stages ; first, the registration of the book's publication with the Company, to prevent unintentional infringement, and second, the deposit of copies of the book at the Stationers ' Company, the royal library and various universities.

# Deuteronomy: " second law ," refers to the fifth book's recapitulation of the commandments reviewed by Moses before his death.

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.

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.

Other than the new sub-title, all that is added is, a preface to the second edition and a 37-page afterword relating the book's content to the 2000 US presidential election.

The Republic of San Lorenzo is a fictional country where much of the book's second half takes place.

In March 1957, local Collector of Customs Chester MacPhee seized a shipment from England of the book's second printing on grounds of obscenity, but he was compelled to release the books when federal authorities refused to confirm his charge.

Spiegelman's own perceptions of the animal metaphor seem to have evolved over the book's making — in the original publication of the first volume, his self-portrait showed a mouse head on a human body, but by the time the second volume arrived in print, his self-portrait had become a man wearing a mouse mask.

In fact, central to the book's theme are the three questions the King asked Reg upon his appointment ; if one could travel through time, if there was a reason one thing happened after another, and if there was any way of stopping it ( The answers are, in order, yes, no and maybe, which leads to Dirk deducing the existence of the time machine as his associate, Richard, was only told about the second and third questions but given all three answers ), Reg apparently promptly realising the answer to the three questions and concluding that he could then take time off in reasonable comfort.

With the second year of the series, the series shifts towards a lengthy storyline for the remainder of the book's run, involving the election and the corrupt presidency of Gary Callahan, nicknamed " The Smiler " by Spider.

The book's thesis is that throughout recent history, specifically beginning with the failure of the second Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683, the Islamic world has failed to modernize or to keep pace with the Western world in a variety of respects, and that this failure has been seen by many within the Islamic world as having allowed Western powers to acquire a disastrous position of dominance over those regions.

Writer John Ostrander did not shy away from killing off some of the Squad's principal characters, most notably Rick Flag, Jr. -- who was eliminated at the end of the book's second year.

The second section of the book, " The Shattering ", is the book's longest section, expanding upon a number of events that Manchester regards as embodying the end of the Middle Ages as well as the early period of the Renaissance.

Likewise, the non-fiction pieces in the book's second half are not generally considered among Asimov's most significant output.

" After reading in the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh a thoroughly annotated copy previously owned by Erasmus Reinhold, a prominent sixteenth-century German astronomer who worked in Prussia shortly after Copernicus ' death there, Gingerich was inspired to check Koestler's claim and to research who had owned and studied the book's only editions prior to the mid-19th century, the original of 1543 in Nuremberg, and the second in 1566, Basel.

Those who dispute the claim of an affair maintain that the second book's description of the relationship was simply fabricated, presumably by the ghostwriter.

: If one measure of a book's greatness is its impact, a second is its longevity.

Larkin was disappointed by the book's critical reception, but by this time his second novel, A Girl in Winter, had been accepted by Faber and Faber, and was duly published in February 1947.

Chronologically the book falls just after certain events in the second volume, although it should be noted that few of the book's events follow the story elements already established in the series.

The book's sequel, second in the tales of Alvin's life, is Red Prophet.

For instance, the mysterious deaths of men in Mylex suits and the ashen, shaken survivors of a plane that went into free fall anticipate the catastrophe of the book's second part.

While the book's first half chronicles the main character's travels through Outback Australia and his various encounters, the second half is dedicated to his musings on the nature of man as nomad and city builder.

The book's second part gives an historical briefing on the history of religions, from tribal religion through Judaism and Christianity, to Satanism.

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.

In part due to the criticism of the first edition, Wilde subsequently attempted to moderate some of the more homoerotic references in the book, and to simplify the book's moral message.

The part most relevant to the McVeigh case is in an early chapter, when the book's main character is placed in charge of bombing the FBI headquarters.

In Anthony Horowitz's 1987 book Public Enemy Number Two, the book's main character Nick Diamond is framed for the theft of the Woburn Carbuncles as part of a plan by two Scotland Yard detectives to imprison him in order to find out the identity of a criminal mastermind known as The Fence — who ironically turns out to be the class teacher who was supervising Diamond and the other children on the school trip to Woburn Abbey.

* Chris Ryans book, Strike Back, centred the first part of the book's plot around an SAS raid on a site where Terry Waite was being held in an attempt to free him and the two other hostages.

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.

Emma was also very disapproving of Jude the Obscure, in part because of the book's criticisms of religion, but also because she worried that the reading public would believe that the relationship between Jude and Sue directly paralleled her strained relationship with Hardy ( which, in a figurative sense, it did ).

" At least part of the negative academic reception to Sexual Personae can be attributed to Paglia's ignoring such prominent structuralist / post-structuralist thinkers as Althusser, Derrida, Foucault and Lacan, knowledge of whom had become de rigueur in the academic humanities by the book's 1990 publication.

In the book's main part, each chapter used just a single vowel, producing sentences such as this: “ Enfettered, these sentences repress free speech .” Bök believes " his book proves that each vowel has its own personality, and demonstrates the flexibility of the English language.

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 first part ( about a fourth of the book's total length ) is strictly a history of the city of Branton Hills and John Gadsby's place in it.

Consequently, a large part of the book's text, once transcribed into a modern alphabet, is readable ( albeit with some difficulty ) by modern speakers of Slavic languages.

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.

At the book's end he returns to our world in time to cover Niels Bohr's escape to Sweden and prevent the Gestapo from capturing him-thus facilitating Bohr's part in the Manhattan Project and effectively fulfilling the prophecy that Ogier would return at the time of France and Denmark's grave need.

Lazarillo de Tormes was banned by the Spanish Crown and included in the Index of Forbidden Books of the Spanish Inquisition ; this was at least in part due to the book's anti-clerical flavour.

As part of his resignation announcement, Brash also announced he had cleared the way for the book's release by providing copies of his emails to Hager, and stated it had nothing to with his resignation.

The historian Joseph Needham points out that the written material and depicted illustration of this rocket come from the oldest stratum of the Huolongjing, which can be dated roughly 1300-1350 AD ( from the book's part 1, chapter 3, page 23 ).

The Canons of the Council of Carthage were later confirmed by the Quinisext Council, which makes the book a part of the Orthodox Bible ; while in the West, the book's canonicity was later ratified at the Council of Trent.

The series was originally part of the short-lived DC Comics imprint Helix, but upon the end of the book's first year the series was moved to the Vertigo imprint as DC Comics cancelled the Helix imprint.

A two part arc was set in place before the book's co-creator Brandon Choi returned, setting up the short lasting Savant Garde spin-off.

In Breakfast of Champions, Kilgore Trout has part of his right ring finger bitten off by the book's other main character, Dwayne Hoover, when Kilgore attends an arts festival in the Midwest.

The book's critical success was driven in part by the enthusiasm of reviewers.

After spending The Fires of Heaven on his honeymoon ( he was not present in that book's narrative at all, the first but not the last time a main character would disappear so ), he raised an army and led them to Cairhien to help Rand, taking part in the battle of Dumai's Wells.

This book's long and experimental first part is an application of Derridean " oto-biography " to postmodern life-writing.