The book's most memorable " slogan " was actually quipped by a student of Margulis ': " Gaia is just symbiosis as seen from space ".

Fox News sought damages from Franken, claiming in its lawsuit that the book's subtitle violated its trademark of the slogan " Fair and Balanced ".

The revised version claims Seirstad was not found guilty of defamation or of negligence, but rather of invasion of privacy, and was not ordered to pay any damages. In relation to the book's influence on Rais's family members, the Guardian goes on to state, " The article also said the book's revelations of personal details caused several members of the Afghan family to move to Pakistan and Canada.

Despite the book's one-sided and prejudiced statements about gay men, one middle-aged matron from a small town in Wisconsin was heard to say " Until I read this book, I never actually knew precisely what it was that homosexuals did ".

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 name might be inspired by the famous epitaph to King Leonidas and his men, erected at Thermopylae: Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by / That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

Despite great interest by the War Office in the book's assertion that ' security is possible ', Wintringham's call to train 100, 000 men immediately was not implemented.

" This claim was probably related to the book's provision for men and women to file into the quire on different sides in order to receive the sacrament, which seemed to remind the Devon men of country dancing.

Thomas Frank, author of What's The Matter With Kansas ?, ridiculed Sperling's view of American society: " One America, to judge from the book's illustrations, works with lovable robots and lives in ' vibrant ' cities with ballet troupes, super-creative Frank Gehry buildings and quiet, tasteful religious ritual ; the other relies on contemptible extraction industries ( oil, gas and coal ) and inhabits a world of white supremacy and monster truck shows and religious ceremonies in which beefy men in cheap clothes scream incomprehensibly at one another.

The book asserts that most of common relationship problems between men and women are a result of fundamental differences between the genders, which the author exemplifies by means of the book's eponymous metaphor: that men and women are from distinct planets – men from Mars and women from Venus – and that each gender is acclimated to its own planet's society and customs, but not those of the other.

One example from this paradigm is the book's assertion that men complain that if they try to offer solutions to problems that women want to talk about, women do not necessarily want to find solutions but only want to talk about these problems.

Destiny cast the book away, expecting these men to retrieve it and become the book's proper safe-keepers, but the book instead ends up on the planet Rann, being used in a plot by the Luck Lords, seeing as how it " tells " the future, to alter the proper timeline for their own ends.

The book was eventually recovered by Batman and Green Lantern with the help of the Challengers, who become the replacement holders of the book, being that, as it turns out, they were the four men who could not be tracked by the book's pages.

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.

Nine years later, these men have come back into their lives and Mo, Meggie, and Resa's aunt Ellinor need to return the villains back to the book's pages.

In the New York Review of Books, Charles Lane referred to The Bell Curve's " tainted sources ," noting that seventeen researchers cited in the book's bibliography had contributed articles to, and ten of these seventeen had also been editors of, Mankind Quarterly, " a notorious journal of ' racial history ' founded, and funded, by men who believe in the genetic superiority of the white race.

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 ".

Singer credited Ryder for having coined the term, and used it in the title of his book's fifth chapter: " Man's Dominion ... a short history of speciesism ," defining it as " a prejudice or attitude of bias in favour of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species ":

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

" 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.

In her 2010 Open Letters Monthly series, " A Year With Short Novels ," Ingrid Norton criticizes the tendency to make clear demarcations based purely on a book's length:

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 ensuing struggle between this doppelgänger-like stranger and " Roth ," played against the backdrop of the Demjanjuk trial and the First Intifada, constitutes the book's primary storyline.

The book's subtitle, " A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right ," is a parody of Fox News ' tagline " Fair and Balanced.

In the book's seventh chapter, " The Six Steps ," McCloud outlines a six-part process of artistic creation ( Idea / Purpose, Form, Idiom, Structure, Craft, Surface ).

The book's principal character Jake Grafton has the call sign " Cool Hand ," presumably derived from Cool Hand Luke due to his calm under fire.

The book's subtitle also describes itself as a " Romance of the far future ," not far removed from " Scientific Romance " works of H. G.

One response is from a Mr. " Carter ," a leading figure in a British intelligence agency, who provides the background to Jane Finn, all of which is earlier revealed to the reader in the book's prologue.

" Glass Bead Game " is a literal translation of the German title, but the book has also been published under the title Magister Ludi, Latin for " master of the game ," which is an honorific title awarded to the book's central character.

The shark-shaped submarine on the book's cover was the inspiration for " Troy ," the real-life shark-shaped submersible constructed by aquatic film-maker and oceanographic explorer Fabien Cousteau, the grandson of Jacques Cousteau.

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

The book's stated intention is to serve as the first ever " Shulchan Aruch for all the laws of the Children of Noah ," and is entitled Sefer Sheva Mitzvot Hashem.

Reviewing the book's legacy at the end the 20th century, Rajeev Bhargava claims that Popper " notoriously misreads Hegel and Marx ," arguing also that the formulation Popper deployed to defend liberal political values is " motivated by partisan ideological considerations grounded curiously in the most abstract metaphysical premises.

Biographer Geoffrey Wolff quotes a Saturday Review article by Yale University professor Henry Seidel Canby, entitled " Mr. O ' Hara and the Vulgar School ," who criticized the book's sensuality as " nothing but infantilism — the erotic visions of a hobbledehoy behind the barn.

She had always chafed, or felt, " anxiety of place ," at living in Butte, which was a mining town far from the centers of culture, and used the money from her first book's sales to travel to Chicago, then Massachusetts.

Booklist praised it as " an exciting evocation of events leading up to the formation of America ," and Publisher's Weekly appreciated the book's " passion and vigor.

Starting in the book's Part III, Section III, Bucke hypothesizes that the next stage of human mental development, which he named " Cosmic Consciousness ," is slowly beginning to appear but will eventually spread widely throughout all of humanity.

An updated trade paperback edition was published in 2006 as a " Teacher's Edition ," with updated coverage of the Supreme Court Justices ( including Samuel Alito and John Roberts, who were appointed after the 2004 book's publication ), and fact checking by Stanley K. Schultz, professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, with red marks and remarks appearing throughout, correcting the satirical " mistakes " ( and a few honest errors ) of the original edition.

Subtitled " Mighty Marvel's Most Massive Mistakes ," the book's cover was deliberately printed upside-down.

The book's epigraph reads " Sixty Million and more ," the number of Africans estimated to have died during the Atlantic slave trade.

" The fear of homosexuality is so great that it took courage to write Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing ," she wrote in Journal of a Solitude, " to write a novel about a woman homosexual who is not a sex maniac, a drunkard, a drug-taker, or in any way repulsive, to portray a homosexual who is neither pitiable nor disgusting, without sentimentality ..." After the book's release, many of Sarton's works began to be studied in university level Women's Studies classes, being embraced by feminists and lesbians alike.