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.

A statue of Alhazred makes a cameo appearance as the " Mad Scholar " in Graham McNeill's book ' A Thousand Sons.

Justin Martyr ( c. 100 – 165 AD ) who was acquainted with Polycarp, who had been mentored by John, makes a possible allusion to this book, and credits John as the source.

* Grist magazine article Rebuttals from scientists working in the various fields his book makes claims about.

For example, Phillip E. Johnson makes this accusation of atheism with reference to Charles Hodge's book What Is Darwinism ?.

A library assigns a DDC number that unambiguously locates a particular volume to within a short length of shelving which makes it easy to find any particular book and return it to its proper place on the library shelves.

Philosopher Max Stirner, in his book The Ego and Its Own, was the first philosopher to call himself an egoist, though his writing makes clear that he desired not a new idea of morality ( ethical egoism ), but rather a rejection of morality ( amoralism ), as a nonexistent and limiting “ spook ”; for this, Stirner has been described as the first individualist anarchist.

The book also makes other criticisms and it draws a likeness of XP's " collective ownership " model to socialism in a negative manner.

* The comic book limited series Watchmen makes extensive use of the technique, including one character's autobiography, magazine interviews with several characters, psychiatric reports and even a fictional comic book within the comic book.

For future editions of the book, in 1917 Conrad wrote an " Author's Note " where he discusses each of the three stories, and makes light commentary on the character Marlow-the narrator of the tales within the first two stories.

" Although throughout his book Camus is concerned to present " the rebel " as a preferred alternative to " the revolutionary " he nowhere acknowledges that this distinction is taken from the one that Stirner makes between " the revolutionary " and " the insurrectionist ".

On the first day of the tournament, a bout of individual jousting, a mysterious masked knight, identifying himself only as " Desdichado " ( which is described in the book as Spanish for the " Disinherited One ", though actually meaning " Unfortunate "), makes his appearance and manages to defeat some of the best Norman lances, including Bois-Guilbert, Maurice de Bracy, a leader of a group of " Free Companions " ( mercenary knights ), and the baron Reginald Front-de-Boeuf.

In a 1995 review of Rushton's Race, Evolution and Behavior, anthropologist and population geneticist Henry Harpending expressed doubt as to whether all of Rushton's data fit the r / K model he proposed, but nonetheless praised the book for its proposing of a theoretical model that makes testable predictions about differences between human groups.

Torvalds was named after Linus Pauling, the Nobel Prize-winning American chemist, although in the book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Torvalds is quoted as saying, " I think I was named equally for Linus the Peanuts cartoon character ", noting that this makes him half " Nobel-prize-winning chemist " and half " blanket-carrying cartoon character ".

In ancient China, the earliest literary reference to magnetism lies in a 4th century BC book named after its author, The Master of Demon Valley ( 鬼谷子 ): " The lodestone makes iron come or it attracts it.

The book focuses on branding, and often makes connections with the alter-globalization movement.

Singer's most recent book, The Life You Can Save, makes the argument that it is a clear-cut moral imperative for citizens of developed countries to give more to charitable causes that help the poor.

He at first attempts to retcon the events in that book, but his captor, Annie Wilkes, regards this as cheating and makes him create a sequel that doesn't actively deny what the reader already knows.

The enduring popularity of The Hobbit makes early printings of the book attractive collectors ' items.

Levon Helm later wrote about The Last Waltz in his autobiography This Wheel's on Fire ; in the book he makes the case that The Last Waltz was primarily Robbie Robertson's project, and that he had forced The Band's break-up onto the rest of the group.

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that " adding manpower to a late software project makes it later ".

* May 1 – Batman, created by Bob Kane ( and, unofficially, Bill Finger ) makes his first appearance in a comic book.

The decimal point makes its first appearance in Napier's book Descriptio.

The author opens with a prologue, usually taken to be addressed to an individual by the name of Theophilus ( though this name, which translates literally as " God-lover ", may be a nickname rather than a personal appellation ) and references " my earlier book "— almost certainly the Gospel of Luke.

In India some intellectual references of the movement can be found in the works of Vandana Shiva, an ecologist and feminist, who in her book Biopiracy documents the way that the natural capital of indigenous peoples and ecoregions is converted into forms of intellectual capital, which are then recognized as exclusive commercial property without sharing the private utility thus derived.

As there are no explicit references in the book to datable persons or events, scholars have assigned a wide range of dates to the book.

From such references, and from others of a like nature, Quesnel gathers that by the word Breviarium was at first designated a book furnishing the rubrics, a sort of Ordo.

* In 2004, Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle published the first comprehensive review of the field of self-replication, in their book Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, which includes 3000 + literature references.

Both prefaces were addressed to Theophilus, and the preface of Acts explicitly references " my former book " about the life of Jesus.

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

After Latham agreed to publish the book, Mitchell worked for another six months checking the historical references, and rewrote the opening chapter several times.

American historian and author Ruth Edna Kelley of Massachusetts wrote the first book length history of the holiday in the U. S ; The Book of Hallowe ' en ( 1919 ), and references souling in the chapter " Hallowe ' en in America ";

The book was written and published during a period of increasing struggle for emancipation of the Jews in England, and there are frequent references to injustice against them.

An exhaustive analysis of diaries, letters, and travelers ' journals from colonial times up to the Civil War, undertaken by Dena J. Epstein and detailed in her book Sinful Tunes and Spirituals, yielded a surprising number of references to slave music that was primarily percussive.

The book has been cited in over 100 legal textbooks and references ; as a consequence some sources cite Huber as the first to coin the phrase.

Quayle criticized Gore's book Earth in the Balance with specific page references, though his claims were subsequently criticized by the liberal group FAIR for inaccuracy.

In 1995 in the Journal of Black Studies, Zack Cernovsky wrote, " some of Rushton's references to scientific literature with respects to racial differences in sexual characteristics turned out to be references to a nonscientific semi-pornographic book and to an article in the Penthouse magazine's Forum.

One example is the book Talks With Great Composers, released in the 1950s by Arthur Abell, which contains an unconfirmed interview with Brahms and Joseph Joachim, replete with biblical references.

He was a participant in one of the all-time great literary hoaxes, I, Libertine ( Ballantine Books, 1956 ), along with Jean Shepherd, Ian Ballantine and Theodore Sturgeon, incorporating several hidden jokes and references into his cover painting for that book.

Note: The name of the book appears next to some author references.

* Lindisfarne is referred to as The Holy Isle in Nancy Farmer's book " The Sea of Trolls ," which also references the Norse invasion of Lindisfarne.

In Hinduism, the holy book Rigveda, the oldest extant Indo-Aryan text, numerous references are made to rebirths, although it portrays reincarnation as " redeaths " ( punarmrtyu ).

Salem's Lot opens with a quotation from Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and a character in Wolves of the Calla references the Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

The Second Epistle of Peter, often referred to as Second Peter and written 2 Peter or in Roman numerals II Peter ( especially in older references ), is a book of the New Testament of the Bible, ascribed by some scholars to Saint Peter, though currently, many NT scholars regard it as pseudepigraphical.

Although the book was published years before Patriot Games, there are repeated references to it, which strongly suggests that The Hunt for Red October was in fact written after the Patriot Games manuscript ( or at least the first draft of the novel ) was completed.

American historian and author Ruth Edna Kelley of Massachusetts wrote the first book length history of the holiday in the US ; The Book of Hallowe ' en ( 1919 ), and references souling in the chapter " Hallowe ' en in America ";