The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

* Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story, a 1990 book by Ellis Amburn

* My Sister's a Pop Star ( 2006 ), I'm SO Not a Pop Star ( 2008 ), and the third book in the series, My Life on TV ( 2010 ), by American author Kimberly Greene, use blog posts to move the plot along and introduce key changes in the protagonist's thinking.

For example, if I say “ Star Wars is a shitty movie ,” and my friend says, “ Star Wars is not a shitty movie !” We have no shared reality, for in our language, truth lies in only one of our statements and we can forever argue these truths until one of us writes a book and has more authority than the other.

* Each chapter in Frank Herbert's science fiction novels Whipping Star, The Dosadi Experiment, and Dune variously begin with an aphorism, an excerpt from an official report ( or even a manual ), a quotation from a book about the events of the novel, etc.

A new edition of Star HERO was released in 2011, and other planned releases include a second Advanced Player Guide, a steampunk sourcebook, and a Cthulu Mythos book.

* Giants ' Star ISBN 978-0-345-32720-8-July 1981 ( 3rd book in Giants series )

Many pagans in North America encounter the movement through their involvement in other hobbies ; particularly popular with U. S. Pagans are " golden age "- type pastimes such as the Society for Creative Anachronism ( SCA ), Star Trek fandom, Doctor Who fandom and comic book fandom.

He published his findings in a book titled De stella nova in pede Serpentarii ( On the New Star in Ophiuchus ' Foot ).

In Star Fox, his unfavorable depiction of a future peace group called " World Militants for Peace " indicates clearly where he stood with regard to the Vietnam War, raging when the book was published.

* Pantheon ( Lone Star Press ), a comic book series

Physicist Lawrence Krauss has written The Physics of Star Trek, a book which postulates what phenomena might make some Star Trek technology feasible, while detailing the blunders the show has made.

He followed this book with a sequel, Beyond Star Trek, which applies the same approach to Independence Day, The X-Files and others.

William Shatner, who portrayed James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek series, also cowrote a book " I'm Working on That " in which he investigated how Star Trek technology was becoming feasible.

The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine book Legends of the Ferengi says Starfleet security personnel " rarely survive beyond the second act break ".

This book also provides a lead-in to a series of books that will document the Earth-Romulan War that has been referenced in the other Star Trek materials, but was never developed during the television production of Enterprise.

In the official comic book prequel to the movie Star Trek, Worf is a General in the Klingon Empire who is dispatched to deal with Romulan Captain Nero and his significantly altered mining vessel, the Narada.

* Some of the worlds and aliens in the series were included in the 1989 book called Star Trek: The Worlds of the Federation.

In the updated October 1999 edition of their book: ' The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide to the Future ',

:' In a related vein, this work ( i. e. book ) adheres to Paramount studio policy that regards the animated Star Trek series as not being part of the " official " Star Trek universe, even though we count ourselves among that show's fans.

The Book of Exodus or, simply, Exodus ( from Greek ἔξοδος, Exodos, meaning " going out ";, Šemot, " Names "), is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, and of the five books of the Torah ( the Pentateuch ).

* " Water's water everywhere " by Jerry Fodor-a review of C. Hughes's book Kripke: Names, Necessity and Identity at the London Review of Books ( Fodor goes into several issues regarding the philosophical method of analysis ).

* In the Vertigo comic book series The Books of Magic, The Names of Magic and The Books of Faerie, Tamlin is the father of the protagonist Timothy Hunter, potentially the greatest sorcerer in the world.

This information comes from Virgil Vogel's book Indian Place Names in Illinois and most others concur.

According to the book " Michigan Place Names " by Walter Romig, the area that would become Charlotte was owned by the U. S. Government until 1832 when George Barnes purchased the land.

" The book titled, " Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities " by Walter Romig ( p457 ) claims the village was named for Edward Powers.

According to the book Indian Villages and Place Names in Pennsylvania by Dr. George P. Donehoo, the community's name likely means " Fine Stream " in a local Native American language.

George R. Stewart theorized, in his book Names on the Globe, that Hellespont originally meant something like " narrow Pontus " or " entrance to Pontus ," " Pontus " being an ancient name for the region around the Black Sea, and by extension, for the sea itself.

The book " California Geographic Names " lists Candlestick Point as being named for a pinnacle of rock first noted in 1781 by the De Anza Expedition.

The family was originally named Johansen, but in the 1950s, they changed their name to Jagland, a newly constructed surname that appeared in a book published by a bureaucrat ( 2000 nye slektsnavn New Family Names by Astrid Moss, 1947 ) which aimed at helping people find new surnames instead of patronyms, which had long been associated with the working class.

According to Anna Smith in her book " Johannesburg Street Names " ( Juta, 1971 ), Sturdee Avenue in Rosebank, Johannesburg ( South Africa ), is " believed that it commemorates Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee ( 1859 – 1925 ) of World Ward 1 fame.

This book was published under his birth name, Steven Michael Berzensky, as was a comprehensive collection of his poetry, " The Names Leave the Stones: Poems New and Selected " ( 2001 Canada, 2002 United States ).

However, when the 75th issue was reached, Gross decided to move away from the book, and instead DC announced that Dylan Horrocks would continue Tim's story in a five-issue mini-series called Names of Magic after a short break symbolizing Tim's readiness to face his destiny.

Mawer and Stenton, who published their book on the Place Names of Buckinghamshire in 1925, thought that belle could have meant a hill as well as a bell and suggested that the conspicuous hill at Kimble would have impressed itself on the minds of the first settlers and might have been called ' royal ' as the largest visible hill in the locality or that it earned the epithet by reason of some royal burial or other unknown event.

Ram Swarup's book The Word As Revelation: Names of Gods was published in 1980 by Sita Ram Goel.

* About the book The World As Revelation: Names of Gods

In Q magazine's 2005 book The Greatest Rock & Pop Miscellany Ever !, Anal Cunt was included in a list of " 25 Band Names That Should Have Stayed on the Drawing Board ".

They also put together their first book for publication ; the first volume in a projected project known as The Million and One Names of COUM appeared in 1972, containing 1001 slogans, such as " COUM are Fab and Kinky " and " A thousand and one ways to COUM.

:— Interview with Victor Navasky for the 1982 book Naming Names

Professor J E B Gover in his book Place Names of Middlesex, derives the word Bentley from Anglo-Saxon: the prefix Bent from ' beonet ', a kind of coarse grass or bent grass and the suffix ley from ' leah, a tract of cultivated or cultivable land, a piece of land cleared from forest for pasture, etc.

Authors Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz commented in their 2007 book The Baby Names Bible that the name sounds exotic and is a fashionable name for the daughters of members of high society in the United Kingdom.

The first index of the book ( following the royal dedications and author's preface ) is entitled " A collection of the Names and Titles given to Jesus Christ ", with 198 names listed, each accompanied by a biblical reference.

Also in Chemistry a book titled Al-Asma ' meaning " About the Names ", did not reach researchers but was used in " Dictionary of Ibn Bahlool " of the 10th century.

In his book " The Origins Of English Place Names " ( page 77 ) P. H.