In his book The Lost Ark of the Covenant ( 2008 ), Parfitt also suggests that the Ark was taken to Arabia following the events depicted in the Second Book of Maccabees, and cites Arabic sources which maintain it was brought in distant times to Yemen.

The book was not authored anonymously and cites Defoe as twice taking credit for being its author.

Ian Barbour in his book Issues in Science and Religion ( 1966 ), p. 133, cites Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World ( 1928 ) for a text that argues The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles provides a scientific basis for " the defense of the idea of human freedom " and his Science and the Unseen World ( 1929 ) for support of philosophical idealism " the thesis that reality is basically mental ".

Wittgenstein begins the book with a quotation from St. Augustine, whom he cites as a proponent of the generalized and limited conception that he then summarizes:

Pak Subuh's book " Susila Budhi Dharma " cites examples of situations in which testing may be useful, including self-training in terms of putting any benefits of the latihan into practice.

In later editions of the book, Darwin traced evolutionary ideas as far back as Aristotle ; the text he cites is a summary by Aristotle of the ideas of the earlier Greek philosopher Empedocles.

Chick Publications publishes such a tract called The Curse of Baphomet and Randy Noblitt's book on satanic ritual abuse, Cult and Ritual Abuse also cites the Taxil hoax.

# He cites an ancient manuscript that refers to a book Sod Gadol that seems to in fact be the Zohar.

Czech cultural historian and ethnographer Čeněk Zíbrt, who wrote in detail about the origin of the dance, in his book, Jak se kdy v Čechách tancovalo cites an opinion of František Doucha ( 1840, Květy, p. 400 ) that " polka " was supposed to mean " tanec na polo " ( n. b. the absence of diacritics ), i. e., " a dance in half ", both referring to the half-tempo 2 / 4 and the half-jump step of the dance.

The Qur ' an, the holy book of Islam, cites the story of the " people of Lot " ( also known as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah ), destroyed by the wrath of Allah because they engaged in lustful carnal acts between men.

A book released in 2012, Tourism and Archaeological Heritage Management at Petra: Driver to Development or Destruction ?, represents the first in a series of important books to address the very nature of these deteriorating buildings, cites, sites, and regions.

Gardner mentions, among other examples of conjecture, Chaos, Co-ordinated, a science fiction story by John MacDougal, and cites Norbert Wiener as saying in his book Cybernetics that the human brain, just like a computing machine, probably works on a variant of the famous principle expounded by Lewis Carroll.

He also regularly cites St. Paul in Britain, an 1860 book by R. W. Morgan, and advocates other tenets of British Israelism, in particular that the British are descended from the lost tribes of Israel.

Quoting classical Greek thinkers like Epicurus on the good of pursuing happiness, Hunter also cites ornithologist, naturalist, and philosopher Alexander Skutch in his book Moral Foundations:

In the book, Stowe discusses each of the major characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin and cites " real life equivalents " to them while also mounting a more " aggressive attack on slavery in the South than the novel itself had.

Based on testimonials of German civilians and military, as well as many interviews with British and American politicians and diplomats who participated at the Potsdam Conference, including Robert Murphy, the political adviser of General Eisenhower, Sir Geoffrey Harrison ( drafter of article XIII of the Potsdam Protocol concerning population transfers ), and Sir Denis Allen ( drafter of article IX on the provisional post-war borders ), the book also describes the crimes committed by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia, at the end of World War II, and cites the condemnation of the expulsions by Bertrand Russell, Victor Gollancz, Bishop Bell of Chichester and other contemporary intellectuals.

For example, several times Zampanò cites an actual Time-Life book, Planet Earth: Underground Worlds ( House of Leaves 125 ).

In his book A Piece of Blue Sky, Jon Atack cites an internal document dated August 1982 that, he alleges, re-introduced the disconnection policy.

In the book " Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares, Volume 1 ", author S. T. Joshi cites both Waluigi and Wario as examples of alter egos, also as evidence of how popular it is to feature such character archetypes.

In the book Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares, Volume 1, author S. T. Joshi cites both Waluigi and Wario as examples of alter egos, also as evidence of how popular it is to feature such character archetypes ..

Songwriter and founder of the band Neil Hannon has often claimed that both the film and book had a profound influence on much of his work and cites them as all-time favourites.

Frank, in his recent book Toscanini: The NBC Years, rejects this revisionism quite strongly, and cites the author Joseph Horowitz ( author of Understanding Toscanini ) as perhaps the most extreme of these critics.

He played in those three World Series, winning the first two, but was sometimes blamed for the loss of the 1931 World Series, when the St. Louis Cardinals, led by Pepper Martin, stole eight bases and the Series, although, in his book, The Life of a Baseball Hall of Fame Catcher, author Charlie Bevis cites the Philadelphia pitching staff's carelessness in holding runners as a contributing factor.

In a chapter of his book, Eccentric Lives & Peculiar Notions, John Michell cites Huges as pioneering the idea of trepanation in his 1962 monograph, Homo Sapiens Correctus, which is most often cited by advocates of self-trepanation.

The Pacific Crest Trail Association cites Ray Jardine ’ s book, Beyond Backpacking, as a great resource for hikers during the planning process.

At the end, it is revealed that the whole book actually takes place in a single moment, with a final twist that is an example of " cosmic irony ".

As a history of facts and theories, the book has many faults ; as an essay on the evolution of the religious idea, it is ( despite some passages of frivolity, irony, or incoherence ) of extraordinary importance ; as a reflection of the mind of Renan, it is the most lifelike of images.

The book is written in contemporary vernacular-with the use of foul satirical language and a witty irony.

The book is extremely well-written, with a sanity and sympathy that tempers its irony.

The book uses irony and sentimentality, which were to become a hallmark developed further in Vonnegut's later works.

* In his comedy book, Lolly Scramble, comedian Tony Martin makes reference to the irony of the opening narration " they never shot anyone!

David Lehman, in his book on the New York poets, wrote, " They favored wit, humor and the advanced irony of the blague ( that is, the insolent prank or jest ) in ways more suggestive of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg than of the New York School abstract expressionist painters after whom they were named.

Another book of note is 1974's The Rhetoric of Irony, in which Booth examines the long tradition of irony and its use in literature.

Rathje states the irony of this fact in his book.

Jensma concludes his article by saying " It is a perfect irony that a book written to unmask the Holy Bible as a book of human making was to become a bible itself.

He shows the irony of both sexual and cultural conquest, and sums it up in the opening paragraph of his book: " As Japan grows increasingly cosmopolitan, Japanese and foreigners are eagerly mingling with one another ; all sorts of new doctrines and philosophies are being introduced ; and both men and women are adopting up-to-date Western fashions ".

The book Road of the Patriarch mentions that Jarlaxle's birth was an irony and chaos that Jarlaxle himself would appreciate.

There is no small irony in the fact that this 19th-century scholar / bureaucrat would find himself at a crucial nexus of managing political change — moving arguably " by the book " through uncharted waters with well-settled theories as the only guide.

And let me add Murray's new book as another symptom of it, particularly so in view of the attention Time magazine gave it when it came out recently.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

In his book Civilization And Ethics Albert Schweitzer faces the moral problems which arise when moral law is recognized in business life, for example.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

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.

Investors breathed more freely when it was learned that this acrobatic dancer had turned magician and was only doing a best seller book to make some dough.

In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.

This reviewer read the book when it was first brought out in England with a sense of discovery and excitement.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

For me it ’ s the book that does everything right, the example of what science fiction does when it works.

In the comic book Asterix and Cleopatra, the author Goscinny inserted a pun about alexandrines: when the Druid Panoramix (" Getafix " in the English translation ) meets his Alexandrian ( Egyptian ) friend the latter exclaims Je suis, mon cher ami, || très heureux de te voir at which Panoramix observes C ' est un Alexandrin (" That's an alexandrine!

* In the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Abergavenny is mentioned by Stan Shunpike, the conductor of the Knight Bus when the bus takes a detour there to drop off a passenger.

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Goldstein's book comments: " We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born.

The author of the work identifies himself in the text as " John " and says that he was on Patmos, an island in the Aegean, when he " heard a great voice " instructing him to write the book.

The various dates given in the book suggest that Ezekiel was 25 when he went into exile, 30 when he received his prophetic " call ", and 52 at the time of the last vision c. 571.

Stephen Cook asserts that the prophetic efforts of this book can be summed up in this passage " I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt ; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior " () Hosea's job was to speak these words during a time when that had been essentially forgotten.

The latest material comes from the post-Exilic period after the Temple was rebuilt in 515 BC, so that the early 5th century BC seems to be the period when the book was completed.

The British Museum was run from its inception by a ' Principal Librarian ' ( when the book collections were still part of the Museum ), a role that was renamed ' Director and Principal Librarian ' in 1898, and ' Director ' in 1973 ( on the separation of the British Library ).

A Dutch book is made when a clever gambler places a set of bets that guarantee a profit, no matter what the outcome is of the bets.

These changes were incorporated into the 1764 book which was to be the liturgy of the Scottish Episcopal Church ( until 1911 when it was revised ) but it was to influence the liturgy of the Episcopal Church in the United States.