About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

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.

It was written as a commentary on the Book of Genesis and comprises uneven sections headed by verses from the first three chapters of that book.

It is compiled out of an Adversaria, or commonplace book, in which he had jotted down everything of unusual interest that he heard in conversation or read in books, and it comprises notes on grammar, geometry, philosophy, history and many other subjects.

The main section, which makes up the bulk of the book, comprises the first 500 pages.

Bucer's De Regno Christi comprises the last half of the book.

Noteworthy for its format, the book comprises a philosophical work of fiction whose style often lightheartedly imitates that of the New Testament and of the Platonic dialogues, at times resembling pre-Socratic works in tone and in its use of natural phenomena as rhetorical and explanatory devices.

The library comprises more than 100, 000 book titles, and more than 1, 000 printed academic journal titles covering areas of Economics, International and European Economic Studies, Business Administration, Management Science and Marketing, Informatics, Statistics, Accounting and Finance, and Management and Technology.

It comprises a main trilogy of novels as well as one crossover novel set after the original and a book of short stories.

The book comprises a prologue, Gurdjieff's description of five of his lectures ( delivered on five nights starting November 28 and ending December 19, 1930 ) and a final essay entitled " The Outer and Inner World of Man ".

The historical section, which comprises almost half the book, has already been described.

Witness Lee's major work, The Life-Study of The Bible, comprises over 24, 000 pages of commentary on every book of the Bible from the perspective of the believer's enjoyment and experience of God's divine life in Christ through the Holy Spirit.

In its current form the first half of the book comprises articles on each of the world ’ s countries or regions, while the latter half contains articles on international organisations, economics, the environment, science, law, religion, the arts and sport, together with obituaries, a chronicle of major events and selected documents.

From its opening ( once past the prolegomena, which comprises the first three sections ), the book alternates between Digression and Tale.

The book comprises approximately 120, 000 words, and is divided into 33 chapters and 497 sections.

The book comprises twenty-four essays split into four sections which each deals with a particular aspect of brain function such as deficits and excesses in the first two sections ( with particular emphasis on the right hemisphere of the brain ) while the third and fourth describe phenomenological manifestations with reference to spontaneous reminiscences, altered perceptions, and extraordinary qualities of mind found in retardates.

The book comprises two parts, the first being a modern history of Iraq, the second a condemnation of the 2003 invasion.

The book comprises 51 two-colour maps ( a general map of Middle-earth and 50 numbered maps ) at various scales, all based on the original The Lord of the Rings maps drawn by Christopher Tolkien from his father's sketches.

The book's central premise is that the world wide web has significantly altered humanity's understanding or perception of the concepts of space, matter, time, perfection, public, knowledge, and morality, each of which comprises the title of a chapter in the book.

The series comprises nine novels, as well as four graphic novels, three short stories and a supplementary book.

The book comprises a preface, 25 chapters, and an afterword, with a total of around 72, 000 words.

Rather, Strang's book comprises a rather elaborate constitution for a Mormon kingdom, in which the Prophet-leader of the Latter Day Saint church equally rules as king over God's kingdom on earth.

Lanark comprises four books, arranged in the order Three, One, Two, Four ( there is also a Prologue before Book One, and an Epilogue four chapters before the end of the book ).

The task of extinguishing this opposition within consciousness Hegel believed he had already accomplished in his book Phänomenologie des Geistes ( 1807 ) with the final attainment of Absolute Knowing: “ Absolute knowing is the truth of every mode of consciousness because ... it is only in absolute knowing that the separation of the object from the certainty of itself is completely eliminated: truth is now equated with certainty and certainty with truth .” Once thus liberated from duality, the science of thinking no longer requires an object or a matter outside of itself to act as a touchstone for its truth, but rather takes the form of its own self-mediated exposition and development which eventually comprises within itself every possible mode of rational thinking.

He opened the myth book again and there ( along the margin next to Robert Graves' imaginative interpretation of the creation of the Dactyls from Rhea's fingertips ) were the names of four Munich bars and Meredith Wilder's address.

The numeral system came to be known to both the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, whose book On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals written about 825 in Arabic, and the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi, who wrote four volumes, " On the Use of the Indian Numerals " ( Ketab fi Isti ' mal al -' Adad al-Hindi ) about 830.

This book is a bundle of four previous books ( Ensucklopedia, Huh Huh for Hollywood, The Butt-Files, and Chicken Soup for the Butt ) which are no longer in print separately.

Based on its contents, the book may be divided into four parts:

However, it is also possible to divide the book into three parts rather than four by combining the sections treating David and Solomon, since they both ruled over a combined Judah and Israel, unlike the last section that contains the chronicle of the Davidic kings who ruled the Kingdom of Judah alone.

The book is made up of six court tales and four apocalyptic visions set in the time of the Babylonian captivity.

The four scrolls that preserve the relevant sections ( 1QDan < sup > a </ sup >, 4QDan < sup > a </ sup >, 4QDan < sup > b </ sup >, and 4QDan < sup > d </ sup >) all follow the same bilingual nature of Daniel where the book opens in Hebrew, switches to Aramaic at 2: 4b, then reverts back to Hebrew at 8: 1.

It is a rather short book, in both Jewish and Christian scripture, consisting of only four chapters.

However, the strict acrostic style of four of the five poems is not found at all in the Book of Jeremiah itself and Jeremiah's name is not found anywhere in the book itself ( nor any other name, for that matter ), so authorship of Lamentations is disputed.

The book of Malachi is divided into three chapters in the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Septuagint and four chapters in the Latin Vulgate.

In 1900, Potter revised her tale about the four little rabbits, and fashioned a dummy book of it-it has been suggested, in imitation of Helen Bannerman's 1899 bestseller The Story of Little Black Sambo.

Clement begins the fourth book with a belated explanation of the disorganized nature of the work, and gives a brief description of his aims for the remaining three or four books.

First Comics published The Chronicles of Corum, a twelve issue limited series ( Jan. 1986-Dec. 1988 ) that adapted the " Swords Trilogy ", and was followed by the four issue limited series Corum: The Bull and the Spear ( Jan .-July ( bi-monthly ) 1989 ), which adapted the first book in the second trilogy.

Doom has appeared in several forms in addition to games, including a comic book, four novels by Dafydd Ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver ( loosely based on events and locations in the games ), a board game and even a live-action film starring Karl Urban and The Rock released in 2005.

Because this geometrical interpretation of multiplication was limited to three dimensions, there was no direct way of interpreting the product of four or more numbers, and Euclid avoided such products, although they are implied, e. g., in the proof of book IX, proposition 20.

During his four years in Berlin, Munch sketched out most of the ideas that would comprise his major work, The Frieze of Life, first designed for book illustration but later expressed in paintings.

In this book, Ezra has a seven part prophetic revelation, converses with an angel or God three times and has four visions.

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 game includes rules, three adventures and four adventure outlines, a wargame by Matthew Hartley, a long section on the ' science ' of Flatland which attempts to explain aspects of the world and its natives, and the original book.

The book emphasizes what importance Islam has given to manners and etiquette along with the worship of God, citing the traditions of the first four Imams of the Shi ' a Ismaili Fatimid school of thought.

The book details the four roots of law ( Qur ' an, Sunnah, ijma, and qiyas ) while specifying that the primary Islamic texts ( the Qur ' an and the hadith ) be understood according to objective rules of interpretation derived from scientific study of the Arabic language.

Bel Geddes expounds upon his design in his book Magic Motorways, stating, “ Futurama is a large-scale model representing almost every type of terrain in America and illustrating how a motorway system may be laid down over the entire country – across mountains, over rivers and lakes, through cities and past towns – never deviating from a direct course and always adhering to the four basic principles of highway design: safety, comfort, speed and economy .” He had acknowledged this in the belief that “ A free-flowing movement of people and goods across our nation is a requirement of modern living and prosperity .”

The Gospel According to Matthew (, to euangelion kata Matthaion ) ( Gospel of Matthew or simply Matthew ) is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testament.

* Edward Eager's book Knight's Castle ( 1956 ) magically transports four children into the story of Ivanhoe.