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.

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.

The book opens with the Israelites in the land which God has promised to them but worshiping " foreign gods " instead of Yahweh, the god of Israel, and with the Canaanites still present everywhere.

The book opens with a vision of Yahweh, God of Israel ; moves on to anticipate the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, explains this as Yahweh's punishment, and closes with the promise of a new beginning and a new Temple.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter opens with an account of the author himself finding the letter and records which tell the story of Hester Prynne, which is narrated in the rest of the book.

The book opens with a scene of Norman knights and prelates seeking the hospitality of Cedric.

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.

Simon throws the book onto the floor in contempt, but a portal opens above it.

The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May ( 4 May ), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards ; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on 4 November ( the day before Guy Fawkes Night ), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess.

In both the movie and the book the bar and restaurant called Choy's, where the fight scene takes place in the movie and where the novel opens is named Kemo ' o ( pronounced " kay-moe-o " in Hawaiian ) Farms Bar and Grill.

The book opens with a graphic description of the brutal public execution in 1757 of Robert-François Damiens, who attempted to kill Louis XV.

The first book, Tarnsman of Gor, opens with scenes reminiscent of scenes in the first book of the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs ; both feature the protagonist narrating his adventures after being transported to another world.

As the book opens, Horza is about to die an extremely unpleasant death after killing and impersonating a member of the gerontocracy on a world not yet part of the Culture.

The second book opens with the election of Otto the Great as German king, treats of the risings against his authority, again omitting events in Italy, and concludes with the death of his first wife Edith of England in 946.

Spider-Man ’ s hand opens a special Spidey Super Stories comic book in which the show ’ s logo is seen on the first open page.

The book opens with:

The book opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts.

He sits on a couch and opens a book titled " The Italian " by Thomas H. Ince and C. Gardner Sullivan.

The book opens shortly after the end of The Malloreon with Belgarion, with help from Durnik, pestering Belgarath to write an autobiographical account of the events prior to The Belgariad.

Patrick McCarthy describes HCE's wife ALP as " the river-woman whose presence is implied in the " riverrun " with which Finnegans Wake opens and whose monologue closes the book.

Author Naomi Klein wrote in her book The Shock Doctrine about a recurrent metaphor of shock, and claimed in an interview that the Bush administration has continued to exploit a " window of opportunity that opens up in a state of shock ", followed by a comforting rationale for the public, as a form of social control.

According to the publisher on Amazon. com in the book " Hal Moore opens his heart and soul about the role of faith through his many life experiences.

The book opens with scenes of astonishing opulence, beginning with Renée and Maxime lazing in a luxurious horse-drawn carriage, very slowly leaving a Parisian park ( the Bois de Boulogne ) in the 19th century-equivalent of a traffic jam.

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

In 1958, while still in Singapore, Parkinson published his most famous work Parkinson's Law, a book that expanded upon a humorous article that he had first published in the Economist magazine in November 1955, satirizing government bureaucracies.

Hubbard claimed, in an interview with the New York Times in November 1950, that " he had already submitted proof of claims made in the book to a number of scientists and associations.

On 1 November 2007, the Boynton book and CD titled Blue Moo was released and Jones is featured in both the book and CD, singing " Your Personal Penguin ".

Ron Shandler published his " Baseball SuperSTATS " book in November 1986.

In November 2009 Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett told viewers that a Sarah Palin book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout, showing footage of Palin with a large crowd.

Then later, in 1902, Heart of Darkness was included in the book " Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories " ( published November 13th 1902, by William Blackwood ).

In November 2009, Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school to drop excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, after Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel complained, asking how long Lebanon would " remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education "?

In November 2006, a Moroccan using the pseudonym Omar Nasiri, having infiltrated al-Qaeda in the 1990s, authored the book, Inside the Jihad: My Life with al Qaeda, a Spy's story.

Julian Jaynes ( February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997 ) was an American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind ( 1976 ), in which he argued that ancient peoples were not conscious.

In November 2006, Minsky published The Emotion Machine, a book that critiques many popular theories of how human minds work and suggests alternative theories, often replacing simple ideas with more complex ones.

Debuting in August 1952 ( cover date October – November ), Mad began as a comic book published by EC, then located in lower Manhattan at 225 Lafayette Street.

In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form ( November 1999, ISBN 0-380-81593-1 ).

A stage adaptation of the book, written by Edward Einhorn, ran from November to December 2010 at the 3LD theater in New York.

Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever, a follow-up to Fantastic Voyage, was released on April 28, 2009 and Kurzweil's latest book, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, is scheduled for release on November 13, 2012.

" The book was number 11 on The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction list for November 5, 2010.

The follow-up book, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics ( 1981 – 2011 ) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany was released on November 22, 2011.

" Steve " Ditko ( born November 2, 1927 ) is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the artist and co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.

In November 1844, the anonymously published popular science book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, written by Scottish journalist Robert Chambers, widened public interest in the concept of transmutation of species.

The book had been offered to booksellers at Murray's autumn sale on Tuesday 22 November, and all available copies had been taken up immediately.

Freak Show was also a stage performance by a theater company at the Archa Theater in Prague that premiered on November 1, 1995, and a comic book.

Simon Donald drawing Sid the Sexist in a copy of his book, Him off the Viz, November 2010

On 15 November 2007, at the launch of the book, Young Brave and Beautiful: The Missions of Special Operations Executive Agent Lieutenant Violette Szabo, at The Jersey War Tunnels, the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey said of her, " She's an inspiration to those young people today doing the same work with the risk of the same dangers ".