According to the book " The Eight Immortals Achieving the Tao (《 八仙得道摶 》)," in his previous incarnation, Lü Dongbin was a Taoist master and the teacher of Zhongli Quan.

Achieving such development takes focus, practice and persistence more akin to learning a musical instrument than reading a book.

In McClelland's book The Achieving Society N-Pow helps explain an individual's imperative to be in charge.

Igor Aleksander, emeritus professor of Neural Systems Engineering at Imperial College, has extensively researched artificial neural networks and claims in his book Impossible Minds: My neurons, My Consciousness that the principles for creating a conscious machine already exist but that it would take forty years to train such a machine to understand language.

On December 1, 2009, he began hosting a 12-episode weekly TV series for the Science Channel at 10 pm, called Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible, based on his best-selling book.

The set has many " extras ", including a book on the film and Linklater's first feature film, It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books, on DVD for the first time.

In September 2007, Gerard Pélisson and Paul Dubrule published a book called Reaching for the Impossible, recounting the expansion of the Group across the world.

The term " death march " in this context was discussed at length in Edward Yourdon's book Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving ' Mission Impossible ' Projects ( ISBN 0130146595 ), which has a second edition simply titled Death March ( ISBN 013143635X ).

And Stephen Park Turner and Jonathan H. Turner showed how the discipline's search for a purpose, through dependence on external publics, has limited Sociology's potential in their book, The Impossible Science: An Institutional Analysis of American Sociology ( Sage, 1990 ).

It was referenced in the movie Swordfish, the Robot Chicken Episode Password: Swordfish, the Terry Pratchett novel Night Watch, The Mad Men episode " Six Month Leave ", the book The Sword of the Samurai Cat, the movie Meet the Applegates, the movie Arena, the computer games Discworld, Return to Zork and Quest for Glory, a Commodore 64 computer game Impossible Mission, and the online game Kingdom of Loathing as part of the quest for the Holy Macguffin.

She was the first person to take on this challenge and chronicled her journey in the now out of print book The Impossible Ride.

Greek atomism dates back to 440 BC, as what might be indicated by the book De Rerum Natura ( The Nature of Things ) written by the Roman Lucretius in 50 BC.

Soon he mastered the language and published his first book Ifintu Fyakwe Lesa ( The Things of God, a Primer of Scripture Knowledge ) in 1917.

He is the author of a best selling book on the problem of evil, When Bad Things Happen to Good People.

* On the Nature of Things ( a book of astronomy and natural history dedicated to the Visigothic king Sisebut )

Among his films is Kwaidan ( 1965 ), a collection of four ghost stories drawn from the book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn, each of which has a surprise ending.

( This inspired the title of the George Lakoff book Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things.

In his 1992 book The Way Things Ought to Be, Limbaugh credited his friend Tom Hazlett, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, with coining the term.

Michel Foucault's book The Order of Things examined the history of science to study how structures of epistemology, or episteme, shaped the way in which people imagined knowledge and knowing ( though Foucault would later explicitly deny affiliation with the structuralist movement ).

Wells ' The Shape of Things to Come ( 1933 ), written in the form of a history book published in the year 2106 and — in the manner of a real history book — containing numerous footnotes and references to the works of ( mostly fictitious ) prominent historians of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Hanks is producer of the Spike Jonze film Where The Wild Things Are, based on the children's book by Maurice Sendak.

The quotation first came from Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pennsylvania, according to his friend Joseph Bigler, as a submission for a book compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in 1980 titled Murphy's Law Book Two, More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong.

" The book was not as successful as The Order of Things.

His first book on the subject was The Sceptical Chymist, published in 1661, in which he criticised the " experiments whereby vulgar Spagyrists are wont to endeavour to evince their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury to be the true Principles of Things.

Although the subtitle states that the book comprises " 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates ", the book's preface mentions that originally four dates were planned, but last-minute research revealed that two of them were not memorable.

In the 1966 book Les Mots et Les Choses ( The Order of Things ), philosopher Michel Foucault devotes the opening chapter to a detailed analysis of Las Meninas.

Lafcadio Hearn related in his book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things " Mimi-nashi Hoichi " ( Hoichi the Earless ), a Japanese ghost story about a blind biwa hōshi who performs " The Tale of the Heike "

In the book Clam-I-Am, the Cat in the Hat takes a break, and Dick and Sally's beloved pet, Norval the Fish, ( the fish's name in the cartoon special was Karlos K. Krinklebein ) along with the Cat in the Hat and the Things, teaches the children about life at the beach.

Wells ' The Shape of Things to Come ( 1933 ), which was written in the form of a history book published in the year 2106 and-in the manner of a real history book-containing numerous footnotes and references to the works of ( mostly fictitious ) prominent historians of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Schiavelli succumbed to lung cancer on December 26, 2005, aged 57, at his home in Polizzi Generosa, the Sicilian town where his grandfather was born, and about which he wrote in his 2002 book Many Beautiful Things: Stories and Recipes from Polizzi Generosa ( ISBN 0-7432-1528-1 ).

He is the author of the book The Design of Everyday Things.

In his book The Design of Everyday Things, originally titled The Psychology of Everyday Things, Norman describes the psychology behind what he deems good and bad design, through case studies, and proposes design principles.

* In the 19th century book, A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, a proverb concerning magpies is recited: " A single magpie in spring, foul weather will bring ".

The 3rd century book " Strange Things of the South " ( 南州異物志 ) by Wan Chen ( 萬震 ) describes junks capable of carrying 700 people together with 260 tons of cargo (" more than 10, 000 " 斛 ").

He took out a small packet filled with bits of charcoal, a deep pot of thin metal, some sheets of newspaper, a book of matches and a wrinkled and many-times folded piece of tin foil with holes in it.

The book concerned with the Negro's role in an urban society is rare indeed ; ;

In the last pages of the book Sibylla comes to Rome to seek an audience with the great Pope and to give her confession.

Perhaps Mrs. Meynell would do me the undeserved kindness to keep my own copy of the first edition of my first book, with all its mementos of her and the dear ones.

I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

and has then gone on to argue, with unimpeachable consistency, that all the obviously non-propagandistic aspects of the book are simply inadvertent `` contradictions ''.

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

The other children in the class use this same coloring book and do a fairly good job with things their proper color.

Lucius Beebe's book, `` Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car '', fills us with nostalgia, recalling days when private cars and Pullmans were extra wonderful, with fine woodwork, craftsmanship in construction, deep carpets and durable upholstery.

Whether in his forthcoming book C. P. Snow commits the errors of judgment and of fact with which your heavily autobiographical critic charged him is important.

But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

It must have been with some pleasure and relief that on September 12, 1848, Joseph Brown made the momentous entry in his job book, in his characteristically cryptic style, `` Lucian Sharpe came to work for me this day as an apprentice ''.

Vernon kept an account book with a list of all the establishments that he thought worthy of patronage.

This brief resume hardly does the book justice, but I heartily recommend it to all those who are engages with the major problems of our time.

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

And the evidence that he does, indeed, stand there derives quite simply from the vigorous interest with which rather casual readers have responded to that book for the past century or so.

He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.

In some parts of the country, however, a co-operative movement has begun to grow, under the wing of state governments, whereby, with the financial help of the state, libraries share their book resources on a county-wide or regional basis.

It is connected by teletype with the State Library in Albany, which will supply any book to a system that the system itself cannot provide.