Almost all scholars agree that the book of Joshua holds little historical value for early Israel and most likely reflects a much later period.

Thus, while the book exhibits considerable unity and probably reflects much of the historic Ezekiel, it is the product of a long and complex history and does not necessarily preserve the very words of the prophet.

The book reflects the mindset at the time of writing, when the outbreak of the Second World War had not yet come to seem inevitable.

The book changes time narration as it reflects on events that were past but are now being unfolded.

In his book Women, Fire and Dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind, Lakoff reappraised the hypothesis of linguistic relativity and especially Whorf's views about how linguistic categorization reflects and / or influences mental categories.

As the book ages, the specific details of the various techniques and advice Hoffman gives have become largely obsolete for technological or regulatory reasons, but the book iconically reflects the yippie zeitgeist.

Fish's 2001 book, How Milton Works, reflects five decades ' worth of his scholarship on Milton.

The book also reflects a significant shift in Adams ' view of computers.

While the series ' first book consisted of a coming of age process through an arduous voyage which would ultimately lead to Ged confronting his own issues, The Tombs Of Atuan works in a much more restricted, confined space, which reflects itself in the narrative's style and progression, Tenar's tale being more intimate and less epically inclined than the previous novel.

Leslie Stephen, in a best-selling book first published in 1871, defined the Alps as “ the Playground of Europe .” The book highlights the incredible success of the mountains but it also reflects the tensions that emerged among their visitors.

The book reflects the rise of feminist theology in the 1970s to 1980s, along with authors such as Elizabeth Gould Davis, Riane Eisler and Marija Gimbutas.

The political satire in " Part III " of the book reflects the author's view of Great Britain's treatment of Ireland.

Dalton had never been to Japan and his book accurately reflects romanticized Victorian British notions of the exotic Asian.

The second book, which contains the review of Aristotle's dialectic or logic, throughout reflects Ramism in tone and method.

By the end of the first book, Sophia ( whose name reflects her sophistication, as opposed to the constant Constance ) has eloped with a travelling salesman.

The six professors outlined what they considered to be " the current limits of scientifically acceptable investigation of the nervous system " and after criticising the Emerys and their work concluded that the article about the Emerys ' book " reflects upon the standards of brain research done in this University by those who are in it for the sake of finding out how a nervous system really works rather than for the support or refutation of a particular social issue ".

Data recorded by Samuel Baker in his book Cyprus-How I saw it in 1879 reveal that in the late 19th century Cyprus had an annual production of about 300, 000 okes, equivalent to about 385, 000 litres ( data reflects only duty-paid production ).

The Gregorian telescope, described by James Gregory in his 1663 book Optica Promota, employs a concave secondary mirror that reflects the image back through a hole in the primary mirror.

The book reflects his pro-settler view, and is an important document of the events.

Established in 2005, the annual Hayek Prize " honors the book published within the past two years that best reflects Friedrich von Hayek's vision of economic and individual liberty ".

The doctrine expressed in the book reflects traditional Jewish teaching, without later doctrines found, for example, in 2 Maccabees.

This reflects a subtle change in theme: in the first book, Oz is the dangerous land through which Dorothy must win her way back to Kansas ; in the third, Oz is the end and aim of the book.

Demand was high enough that the book took the number one spot on Amazon's sales chart, taking the spot away from E. L James's 50 Shades of Grey trilogy.

The first edition of the book presented 80 pages of in-depth statistics compiled from James's study of box scores from the preceding season, and was offered for sale through a small advertisement in The Sporting News.

Although the book shows some signs of immaturity — this was James's first serious attempt at a full-length novel — it has attracted favourable comment due to the vivid realisation of the three major characters: Roderick Hudson, superbly gifted but unstable and unreliable ; Rowland Mallet, Roderick's limited but much more mature friend and patron ; and Christina Light, one of James's most enchanting and maddening femmes fatale.

The book attracted the attention of sympathetic critics in the St James's Gazette and other newspapers, and Coventry Patmore wrote a eulogistic notice in the Fortnightly Review of January 1894.

* The book extensively details James's relationship with Morris Levy.

James's début crime novel Cover Her Face in 1962, Christie became aware of the need to think up yet another title for her Miss Marple book ; she duly wrote to Edmund Cork on 17 July 1972 asking him to send her a copy of the unpublished Miss Marple manuscript and a copy of Max's deed of gift.

In his first year, 1898-1899, he published Henry James's In the Cage ; Leslie Stephen's English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century ; Jocelyn by John Sinjohn, a nom-de-plume of John Galsworthy ; a translation of August Strindberg's Der Vater ; and Mother Goose in Prose, the first children's book by L. Frank Baum and the first book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish ( Baum's most famous work The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in Chicago just a year later ).

During the first quarter of the 20th century, his Fourth Edition with Supplement was a strong competitor among the multiple contending revisions of B. F. White's original book, particularly in areas where James's Original Sacred Harp was also used.

In the book The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways, Awdry explained the difference in James's appearance from a Class 28.

Pär Nuder wrote in his book Stolt men inte nöjd (" proud but not satisfied "), released in 2008, that Persson had fallen while riding his bicycle because he was drunk after consuming large amounts of alcoholic beverages.

His house, which served as the namesake and office of his publishing company, burned down in late fall that year, with the fire consuming many copies of the book.

Some flies in the family Acroceridae which are endoparasites of mygalomorphs may remain dormant in the book lungs for as long as 20 years before beginning their development and consuming the spider.

In contrast to his previous book The 10 % Solution for a Healthy Life, in which he recommended a diet with 10 % of calories from fat, in this book, Kurzweil recommends consuming less than one third of calories from carbohydrates ( and less than one sixth of calories in his low-carbohydrate diet ) and consuming 25 % of calories from fat.

Although Peter Brown believed that Lennon's source for the lyric was the Tibetan Book of the Dead itself, which, he said, Lennon read whilst consuming LSD, George Harrison later stated that the idea for the lyrics came from Leary's, Alpert's and Metzner's book and Paul McCartney confirmed this, stating that he and Lennon had visited the newly opened Indica bookshop — Lennon was looking for a copy of The Portable Nietzsche — and Lennon had found a copy of The Psychedelic Experience that contained the lines: " When in doubt, relax, turn off your mind, float downstream ".

In the 2005 series, Russell T Davies, the lead writer, has stated that several episodes which were written to be budget light have resulted in consuming more money than intended (" The Long Game " and " Boom Town " are two examples cited in the 2005 book " Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts ").

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.

And the evidence that he does, indeed, stand there derives quite simply from the vigorous interest with which rather casual readers have responded to that book for the past century or so.

Tacitus, the most important Roman historian of this period, took a particular interest in Britain as Gnaeus Julius Agricola, his father-in-law and the subject of his first book, served there three times.

The publication of the book Crusade against the Grail by the young German Otto Rahn in the 1930s rekindled interest in the connection between the Cathars and the Holy Grail.

The interest in Etruscan antiquities and the mysterious Etruscan language found its modern origin in a book by a Dominican friar, Annio da Viterbo ( d. 1502 ), the cabalist and orientalist, now remembered mainly for literary forgeries.

Informal discussions with colleagues and friends stimulated a greater interest, which was reinforced by Friedrich Hayek's powerful book The Road to Serfdom, by my attendance at the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947, and by discussions with Hayek after he joined the university faculty in 1950.

Moreover, Friedrich Schlegel's book, Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier ( On the Speech and Wisdom of the Indians, Heidelberg, 1808 ), which had just begun to exert a powerful influence on the minds of German philosophers and historians, did not fail to stimulate Bopp's interest in the sacred language of the Hindus.

As for why the book was created, a theory which has gained considerable interest, although still controversial is " Persian imperial authorisation ".

In 1900, he moved to colonial Ceylon, and then in 1911 proceeded to Malaya, where he worked as a civil servant, independently developing an interest in the native peoples and writing papers and a book about their magical practices.

The Popish Plot of 1678 sparked renewed interest in the Gunpowder Plot, resulting in a book by Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, which refuted " a bold and groundless surmise that all this was a contrivance of Secretary Cecil ".

The book was a critical failure, arousing little interest, although Reynolds reviewed it favourably in The Champion.

Konrad Gessner wrote the first scientific description of a killer whale in his " Fish book " of 1558, based on examination of a dead stranded animal in the Bay of Greifswald that had attracted a great deal of local interest.

As the Louvre became a point of interest in the book The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film based on the book, the museum earned $ 2. 5 million by allowing filming in its galleries.

It has fallen to the lot of no other patron of literature to have his name associated with works of such lasting interest as the Georgics of Virgil, the first three books of Horace's Odes, and the first book of his Epistles.

Giorgio Vasari in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point.

Modern interest in the book has resulted in a number of dramatic adaptations and an abundance of novels and stories imitating Austen's memorable characters or themes.

As Massimo Introvigne of the Center for Studies on New Religion explains, Preacher was " among the popular comic book series which ... focused interest on the subject.

David Kaiser of MIT mentioned in his book, How the Hippies Saved Physics, that the possibilities of instantaneous long-range communication derived from Bell's theorem stirred interest among hippies, psychics, and even the CIA, with the counter-culture playing a critical role in its development toward practical use.

Disappointed with the lack of interest from government in Mars exploration and after the success of his book The Case for Mars as well as leadership experience at the National Space Society, Zubrin established the Mars Society in 1998.

As explained by Pocket Books editor Margaret Clark, it was decided to scale back the number of books published not due to low sales or lack of interest in the prequel series, but due to the fact that the televised series often conflicted with planned literary plotlines, or beat the book series to the punch entirely.

On his return to England, he noticed that boys showed considerable interest in the book, which was used by teachers and youth organizations.

: The publication of this book, which has often been reprinted, led to the revival in interest in Le Fanu, which has continued to this day.

The book was written for non-specialist readers and attracted widespread interest upon its publication.

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.