The book, published in 1927, has been selling steadily ever since.

Nineteenth-century virtues, however, seem somehow to have gone out of fashion and the Bright book has never been particularly popular.

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.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

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.

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.

we want to know why that book has kept on selling the way it has ; ;

In one now-historic first interview, for example, the transcript ( reproduced from the book, The First Five Minutes ) goes like this: The therapist's level tone is bland and neutral -- he has, for example, avoided stressing `` you '', which would imply disapproval ; ;

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

The following discussion of this subject has been adapted from the book Causes Of Catastrophe by L. Don Leet.

I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts, and I think Mr. Jameson Campaigne has done it well in his new book American Might And Soviet Myth.

In this carefree sentence he summed up the essence of the prevailin' custom of buyin' by book count, and created a sayin' which has survived through the years.

Publisher Richardson has updated the Blue Book `` but it still remains the compact reference book used by so many for those ever-changing telephone numbers, addresses, other residences, club affiliations and marriages ''.

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.

The outcome of such an experiment has been in due time the acceptance of the Bible as the Word of God inspired in a sense utterly different from any merely human book, and with it the acceptance of our Lord Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, Son of Man by the Virgin Mary, the Saviour of the world.

If the church has followed the plan of cultivation of prospects and carried through a program of membership preparation as outlined earlier in this book, the process of assimilation and growth will be well under way.

But the book is written around a somewhat dizzy cartoonist, and it has to be that way.

Of another colleague, George Santayana, he could write: `` The great event in my life recently has been the reading of Santayana's book.

This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.

This slim book, while giving the reader only a fleeting glimpse of the scientific mind confronting the universe, has the appeal that informed conversation always has.

One looked forward to Mr. Remarque's ninth book if only because not even a reasonably good novel has yet been written grounded on automobile racing, as dramatic a sport as mankind has devised.

It should also be noted that Amos preached about two years before a very large earthquake, and made reference to it twice in his book.

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

" Fenrir " appears twice in verse as a common noun for a " wolf " or " warg " in chapter 58 of Skáldskaparmál, and in chapter 56 of the book Háttatal.

The traditional viewpoint is that the Torah mentions homosexuality twice in the book of Leviticus ( JPS ):

The compound word " spread-sheet " came to mean the format used to present book-keeping ledgers — with columns for categories of expenditures across the top, invoices listed down the left margin, and the amount of each payment in the cell where its row and column intersect — which were, traditionally, a " spread " across facing pages of a bound ledger ( book for keeping accounting records ) or on oversized sheets of paper ruled into rows and columns in that format and approximately twice as wide as ordinary paper.

Near the end of the book, while Ralph is being hunted down, he strikes this twice in one moment of blind anger, causing it to crack and fall on the ground with a grin " now six feet across ".

The term " puppet masters " of the title only occurs twice in the book itself, including the very last statement where the narrator writes: " I feel exhilarated.

Marx also borrowed Engels characterisation of Hegel's notion of the World Spirit that history occurred twice, " once as a tragedy and secondly as a farce " in the first paragraph of his new book.

From Cronus, of the race of Titans, the Olympian gods have their birth, and Hera mentions twice in Iliad book XIV her intended journey " to the ends of the generous earth on a visit to Oceanus, whence the gods have risen, and Tethys our mother who brought me up kindly in their own house.

A revised and expanded edition of the original book, with about twice as many definitions, was published in 1990 as The Deeper Meaning of Liff ( UK Edition: ISBN 0-330-31606-0, US Edition: ISBN 0-517-58597-9 ), though the original remains in print.

The book was twice adapted into film, first in 1946 starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney, and Herbert Marshall as Maugham, and then a 1984 adaptation starring Bill Murray.

For this reason the expressions " speech of Þjazi, Gangr or Idi " and " Idi's shining talk " are kennings for gold, and twice in the same book a kenning is given for Þjazi as " lady wolf ", a reference to his abduction of Idunn.

The book has been adapted twice for the screen.

Following discussions that expanded the book twice more — finally closing on 33 topics and 427 quotations by Mao — the commission began publishing the definitive version in May 1965.

Three million books are held in the book depository in Santry, from which requests are retrieved twice daily.

When a standard-sized octavo book is produced by twice folding a large leaf, two leaves joined at the top will be contained in the resulting fold ( which ends up in the gulley between the pages ).

" in spite of uttering this phrase only twice in the entire book.

He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking, and he won the annual National Book Award for Poetry twice, in 1959 for Words for the Wind and posthumously in 1965 for The Far Field.

Beltram was referenced as a pioneer in the late 1990s house music scene by Daft Punk, in their song " Teachers " off their 1997 debut album, Homework and author, Simon Reynolds, credited Beltram with having " revolutionized techno twice before the age of 21 ," when describing both " Energy Flash " and " Mentasm " in his book Generation Ecstasy.

This inspiration finds its expression with Zarathustra's roundelay, featured twice in the book, once near the story's close:

Cain only makes an appearance twice during the series, once in the beginning when he's bound to a wall, then in a detailed flashback of his journey from killing his brother, becoming the king of Nod, to writing the book.

: One example of the text, not especially indicative of its broader contents, is Agrippa's analysis of herbal treatments for malaria in numeric terms: " Rabanus also, a famous Doctor, composed an excellent book of the vertues of numbers: But now how great vertues numbers have in nature, is manifest in the hearb which is called Cinquefoil, i. e. five leaved Grass ; for this resists poysons by vertue of the number of five ; also drives away divells, conduceth to expiation ; and one leafe of it taken twice in a day in wine, cures the Feaver of one day: three the tertian Feaver: foure the quartane.

Gowdy has been nominated, repeatedly, for every major Canadian book prize, including the Giller Prize ( twice short-listed, once long-listed ); the Governor General's Award ( three-times short-listed ); and the Rogers Writers ' Trust Fiction Prize ( twice-shorted listed ).

* Psalter ( Greek: Ψαλτήρ ( ιον ), Psalter ( ion ); Slavonic: Ѱалтырь or Ѱалтирь, Psaltyr ' ) A book containing the 150 Psalms divided into 20 sections called Kathismata together with the 9 Biblical canticles which are chanted at Matins ; although these canticles had been chanted in their entirety, having over time come to be supplemented by interspersed hymns ( analogously to stichera ) to form the Canon, the canticles themselves are now only regularly used in a few large monasteries The Psalter also contains the various " selected psalms ", each composed of verses from a variety of psalms, sung at matins on feast days, as well as tables for determining which Kathismata are to be read at each service ; in addition to the Psalms read at the daily offices, all the Psalms are read each week and, during Great Lent, twice a week.