The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

To set up a co-operative library system, the law requires a central book collection of 100,000 nonfiction volumes as the nucleus, and the system is organized around it.

He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.

The first book assumes that gamemasters will set their campaigns after the Patternfall war ; that is, after the end of the fifth book in the series, The Courts of Chaos, but uses material from the following books to describe those parts of Zelazny's cosmology that were featured there in more detail.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

Much of the book is set at his court in Brittany or during the campaign to retake his throne from Vortigern.

A substantial piece of the last part of the book is set in the resulting riotous trial at the Bronx County Court House.

A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side.

* Software Tools, a book and set of tools for Ratfor, cocreated in part with P. J. Plauger

* Software Tools in Pascal, a book and set of tools for Pascal, with P. J. Plauger

According to the Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah theory, it contains material set aside from the rest of the book of Ezra, which was canonized first.

Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.

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

The book is set in the 5th century BC.

The book is a didactic poem set in a prose frame.

Scholars agree that the introductory and concluding sections of the book, the framing devices, were composed to set the central poem into a prose " folk-book ", as the compilers of the Jewish Encyclopedia expressed it.

The story of Jonah is set against the background of Ancient Israel in the 8th-7th centuries BC but deals with the religious and social issues of the late 6th-4th centuries BC, coinciding with the views of latter chapters of the book of Isaiah ( Third Isaiah ), where Israel is given a prominent place in the expansion of God's kingdom to the Gentiles.

A Dutch book is made when a clever gambler places a set of bets that guarantee a profit, no matter what the outcome is of the bets.

It can be done by systematically making explicit all the axioms, as in the case of the well-known book Naive Set Theory by Paul Halmos, which is actually a somewhat ( not all that ) informal presentation of the usual axiomatic Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory.

Further developed, and fully translated into English, this Communion service was included, one year later, in 1549, in a full prayer book, set out with daily offices, readings for Sundays and Holy Days, the Communion Service, Public Baptism, of Confirmation, of Matrimony, The Visitation of the Sick, At a Burial and the Ordinal ( added in 1550 ).

The 1549 book then dispensed with the Latin, and with all non-biblical readings ; and established a rigorously biblical cycle of readings for Morning and Evening Prayer ( set according to the calendar year, rather than the ecclesiastical year ) and a Psalter to be read consecutively throughout each month.

The 1604 book was finally outlawed by Parliament in 1645 to be replaced by the Directory of Public Worship, which was more a set of instructions than a prayer book.

In 1920, while mayor, he wrote his first book, The Social Worker, which set out many of the principles that informed his political philosophy and that were to underpin the actions of his government in later years.

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.

Boethius writes the book as a conversation between himself and Lady Philosophy.

Also, while in New Guinea, he visited the Lutheran missionaries Otto Thiele and Christian Keyser, in the Finschhafen district ; there, while in conversation with his hosts, he uncovered the discrepancies in Hermann Detzner's popular book, Four Years among the Cannibals in German Guinea from 1914 to the Truce, in which Detzner claimed to have seen the interior, discovered several species of flora and fauna, while remaining only steps ahead of the Australian patrols sent to capture him.

In a scene in which she is in conversation with the chess pieces White King and White Queen, Alice finds a book written in a seemingly unintelligible language.

* In the book The Ends of Power, Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman claimed that the term " Bay of Pigs ", mentioned by Nixon in a tape-recorded White House conversation as the reason the CIA should put a stop to the Watergate investigations, was used by Nixon as a coded reference to a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro during the John F. Kennedy administration.

The framing of the dialogue begins when Euclides tells his friend Terpsion that he had written a book many years ago based on what Socrates had told him of a conversation he'd had with Theaetetus when Theaetetus was quite a young man.

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.

However, I should add that except for this conversation, I would perhaps not have thought it worthwhile to write this book …" Maugham then initiates the reader to ' Advaita philosophy ' and reveals how, through deep meditation, Larry goes on to realize God and thus become a saint — in the process gaining liberation from the cycle of human suffering, birth and death that the rest of the earthly mortals are subject to.

section in his book Proper Flute Playing ( ISBN 0-7119-8465-4 p. 56 ), Trevor Wye records the following conversation: " What do you do, young man?

Cusack and the writers floated the idea that Rob could have a conversation with Bruce Springsteen in his head, inspired by a reference in Hornby's book where the narrator wishes he could handle his past girlfriends as well as Springsteen does in his song, " Bobby Jean " on Born in the U. S. A.

Daniel Quinn's book Ishmael presents a positive vision of tribalism and Great Ape personhood ( the book being structured as a conversation between man and ape ) is an influential work of this sort.

The man whom he said showed him these tunnels, Juan Moricz, told Der Spiegel that von Däniken's descriptions came from a long conversation and that the photos in the book had been " fiddled ".

A second edition is planned for publishing which includes Efrat's own notes she made during the conversation with her father, helping the reader determine the true essence of the book.

Lucian, writing in his book On Slips of the Tongue describes an occasion when Hephaestion's conversation one morning implied that he had been in Alexander's tent all night, and Plutarch describes the intimacy between them when he tells how Hephaestion was in the habit of reading Alexander's letters with him, and of a time when he showed that the contents of a letter were to be kept secret by touching his ring to Hephaestion's lips.

The book deals with conversation both for its own sake, and for political, sales, or religious ends.

In a business book by James C. Collins called Good to Great, Collins writes about a conversation he had with Stockdale regarding his coping strategy during his period in the Vietnamese POW camp.

" In response, Rice denied that she fabricated it, as her chief of staff Georgia Godfrey wrote, " Dr. Rice stands by her account of the conversation and what she wrote in her book.

His daughter, sympathising, hands him the Yellow Pages ; in the next scene he looks delighted as his end of a telephone conversation reveals that a shop has a copy of the book.

This book told a system of holy magic through a six-month purification, then after the conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, one would summon the four Great Kings of Hell ( Lucifer, Leviathan, Satan, Belial ), and make them sign an oath.

Lengthier analyses of Lent's work are found in Craig McLuckie's “ Improvisation of Self and Other in John Lent ’ s Developing Aesthetic ”, which offers coverage of the published work ( excluding songs ) up to Black Horses, Cobalt Suns, and the book length conversation on writing conducted with Robert Kroetsch, Abundance, which offers significant insight to Lent's creative praxis generally and to So It Won't Go Away specifically.

Kootenay writer Angie Abdou, reviewing the book, remarks " In Abundance, readers are immersed in an intimate conversation between two greats of Canadian literature — great teachers, great writers, great minds.

In his book HimEros written as a dialogue, Socrates ’ wife Xanthippe relates to the Helsinkian what happened to Socrates in Hades, how Socrates decided to escape from Hades and go to study philosophy at the University of Helsinki, and how he was arrested, sentenced to death and executed as a result of a three-day conversation with the philosophers of the University.

In a conversation recorded in the 2004 book From Amma's Heart, Amritanandamayi says: " As long as these hands can move a little bit and reach out to those who come to her, and as long as there is a little strength and energy to place her hands on a crying person ’ s shoulder and caress and wipe their tears, Amma will continue giving darshan.