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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.
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.
There are many possible translations of the book's title:
The book's title refers to the temperature that Bradbury understood to be the autoignition point of book paper.
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 ":
The book's title comes from the bell-shaped normal distribution of intelligence quotient ( IQ ) scores in a population.
* Similarly, the band Pearls Before Swine had a song by the same title of the book's " The Rocket Man ".
The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical story The Pilgrim's Progress, first published in 1678 and still widely read at the time of Thackeray's novel.
The book's title is a reference to the increasing coldness of Rand al ' Thor's personality and to the return of winter following the reversal in the previous book, The Path of Daggers, of the unnatural heat caused by the Dark One's manipulation of climate.
The book's title comes from the ballad " Mary Ambree ", which starts, " When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt ".
In the foreword to the book's 30th-anniversary edition, Dawkins said he " can readily see that book's title might give an inadequate impression of its contents " and in retrospect thinks he should have taken Tom Maschler's advice and called the book The Immortal Gene.
The book's title was borrowed from Rose Estes ' Greyhawk Adventures line of novels and used the same front-cover banner design.
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.
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.
This began with the debut of the book's opening chapter, under the title " Opening Pages of a Work in Progress ", in April 1927.
The " King Solomon " of the book's title is the Biblical king renowned both for his wisdom and for his wealth.
" He focuses especially upon the " openness " of relativism as leading paradoxically to the great " closing " referenced in the book's title.
The book's title was taken from an incident in the Aeneid, illustrated by the British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner: Aeneas and the Sibyl present the golden bough to the gatekeeper of Hades to gain admission.
This is where the " New " and " Science " parts of the book's title originate.
: The cartoon on the cover that provides the book's title would turn out to be one of his most famous and often-cited cartoons.
The book's title is a reference to the means by which farm-based societies conquered populations of other areas and maintained dominance, despite sometimes being vastly out-numbered – superior weapons provided immediate military superiority ( guns ); Eurasian diseases weakened and reduced local populations, who had no immunity, making it easier to maintain control over them ( germs ), and centralized government promoted nationalism and powerful military organizations ( steel ).
These economic and technological advantages eventually enabled Europeans to conquer the peoples of the other continents in recent centuries by using the " Guns " and " Steel " of the book's title.
The European diseases – the " Germs " of the book's title – decimated indigenous populations so that relatively small numbers of Europeans could maintain their dominance.
E. M. Forster borrowed the book's title from Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass.

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In 1996, Bachman's The Regulators came out, with the publishers claiming the book's manuscript was found among Bachman's leftover papers by his widow.
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.
In fact, the Libertarian regime seen in full bloom in that book's 2086 came into being in direct reaction to Scudder's attempt to impose Puritanical mores on the entire American society.
In fact, the new regime seen in full bloom in the book's 2086 came into being in direct reaction to Scudder's attempt to impose Puritanical mores on the entire American society — for example, the complete abolition of the nudity taboo, which is an important aspect of the book's plot.
Martel also stated that his inspiration for the book's premise came from reading a book review of Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar's 1981 novella Max and the Cats, about a Jewish-German refugee who crossed the Atlantic Ocean while sharing his boat with a jaguar.
The book's idea came after the authors realized the dearth of information available for parents of children hearing voices, and that if parents found information, it was almost always based on the assumption that voice hearing was a serious disease.
When the book finally came out, and as it was starting to be discussed and widely distributed, the Civil War started, and had a tremendous effect on the book's resonance with the public, how widely it was distributed, and who had time to read it — everyone was busy with the war effort.
Still, the height of the book's international fame came around the turn of the 20th century, coinciding with a growing public interest in one of Emerson's most famous readers: Friedrich Nietzsche.
Inspiration for the book's content came from numerous sources.
Their almost unimaginable courage first came to the public's attention in Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, with that book's riveting account of how a helicopter of PJs plunged into the Atlantic during a tragic rescue attempt.
In his 2009 review of Roman Catholic priest-scholar Kevin P. Spicer's Hitler's Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism, he praises the book's admirable qualities but criticizes the work for its failure to distinguish between the small minority of " brown priests ", those priests who unequivocally supported the Nazi regime, with those who whom he considers to be " fellow travellers ", i. e. accepting the benefits that came with the Reichskonkordat but who failed to condemn the Nazi regime at the same time.
The book came to be known as The Ship's Cat, and Vonnegut's publicist wrote an introduction on the book's Amazon. com page.

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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.
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.
Escoffier updated Le Guide Culinaire four times during his lifetime, noting in the foreword to the book's first edition that even with its 5, 000 recipes, the book should not be considered an " exhaustive " text, and that even if it were at the point when he wrote the book, " it would no longer be so tomorrow, because progress marches on each day.
The delay in publication is thought to be due to the time necessary to complete the book's many woodcuts.
Facts about my life and my origins, I felt, should not be used to test the book's authenticity, any more than they should be used to encourage readers to read The Painted Bird.
Next, a call number ( essentially a book's address ) based on the classification system in use at the particular library will be assigned to the work using the notation of the system.
Kahane claimed in the book's preface that one of his cellmates was a Bedouin from the Negev about to be released after serving an eighteen-year prison sentence for the rape and murder of a Jewish girl.
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.
Referring to the book's original 1987 publication in a Rolling Stone review pegged to the book's republication in 2002, the critic Jon Caramanica wrote, " It might well be the most comprehensive biography ever written about a pop act while it was still in its prime.
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.
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.
It provides interpretative strategies, so that UUs ( among others ) might be able to engage in public debate about what the Bible says from a liberal religious perspective, rather than relinquishing to religious conservatives, and other more literal interpretations, all control over the book's contents and significance in matters of public and civic import.
Thackeray meant the book to be not only entertaining but also instructive, an intention demonstrated through the book's narration and through Thackeray's private correspondence.
The book's < tt > info </ tt > element is that because it is a direct child of the book ; it does not need to be named specially for a human reader.
Many Nevada sports books will allow these bets to be used in parlays, just like team point spread bets, making it possible to bet, for instance, " the Packers and the over ", and be paid if both the Packers " cover " the point spread and the total score is higher than the book's prediction.
The book's protagonist is Friday Baldwin, an artificial person both mentally and physically superior in many ways to an ordinary human, but she faces great prejudice and will most likely be killed if her " non-human " status is discovered.
If he occupies himself with dthikr, He ( God ) will unveil to the secrets of the vegetable world, then the secrets of the animal world, then the infusion of the world of life-force into lives, then the " surface sign " ( the light of the Divine Names, according to Abdul-Karim al-Jeeli, the book's translator ), then the degrees of speculative sciences, then the world of formation and adornment and beauty, then the degrees of the qutb ( the soul or pivot of the universe-see # 16 ) ( 59 ) Then he will be given the divine wisdom and the power of symbols and authority over the veil and the unveiling.
The New Monthly Magazine, for example, thought the book's physical magnificence kept it from being available to the poor and recommended the tale be printed on cheap paper and priced accordingly.

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