He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

Lubell offers his book as an explanation of why there was no clue.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

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.

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 ; ;

However, Murray's work, on which Stone based her own book, has been roundly criticized by many historians who argue that Murray selectively cited data and deliberately distorted evidence.

Yet Barbauld's mother was proud of her accomplishments and in later years wrote of her daughter: " I once indeed knew a little girl who was as eager to learn as her instructors could be to teach her, and who at two years old could read sentences and little stories in her wise book, roundly, without spelling ; and in half a year more could read as well as most women ; but I never knew such another, and I believe never shall.

He said, `` Some have criticized your book as being neither literary criticism nor history.

He co-authored the 1991 book The Japan That Can Say No with politician Shintaro Ishihara, where they criticized American business practices and encouraged Japanese to take a more independent role in business and foreign affairs.

No Logo, the book by the Canadian journalist Naomi Klein who criticized the production practices of multinational corporations and the omnipresence of brand-driven marketing in popular culture, has become " manifesto " of the movement, presenting in a simple way themes more accurately developed in other works.

" Tal Cohen of Tal Cohen's Bookshelf called The Edge of Human " a good book ", praising Jeter's " further, and deeper, investigation of the questions Philip K. Dick originally asked ", but criticized the book for its " needless grandioseness " and for " rel on Blade Runner too heavily, the number of new characters introduced is extremely small ..."

This book has been heavily criticized on theoretical and methodological grounds, but some of its findings have been confirmed by further empirical research.

In 1997, Harper's Magazine published an essay, ostensibly a book review of the DSM-IV, that criticized the lack of hard science and the proliferation of disorders.

" In his book The God Delusion, the biologist Richard Dawkins sharply criticized Dyson for accepting the Templeton Prize in 2000.

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.

In the chapter on Vietnam in The Frightened Country, his 1979 book on Australian foreign policy, Renouf bluntly suggested that Holt was in effect " seduced " by Johnson, and notes that the Johnson administration criticized the Holt government for not doing enough and repeatedly pressured Australia to increase its troop commitment in Vietnam.

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.

The biological anthropologist C. Loring Brace criticized Rushton in his 1996 review of the book, Race, Evolution and Behavior ( 1996 ):

In her book The Shock Doctrine, author and social activist Naomi Klein criticized Friedman's ideology and the principles that guided the economic restructuring that followed the military coups in countries such as Chile and Indonesia, drawing analogies between the way that Friedman proposed using the social " shock " of the coups to create an economic " blank slate " with Ewen Cameron's controversial medical experiments that used electroshock therapy to create a mental " blank slate " in patients with mental disorders.

The original work by Sagan and others was criticized as a " myth " and " discredited theory " in the 1987 book Nuclear War Survival Skills, a civil defense manual by Cresson Kearny for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Hunter S. Thompson, in an article that can be found in his book Generation of Swine, criticized the magazine for turning against marijuana even though the magazine embraced it in the 60s and 70s when Thompson was a frequent contributor.

* Edwin Black was a rhetorical critic best known for his book Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method ( 1965 ) in which he criticized the dominant " neo-Aristotelian " tradition in American rhetorical criticism as having little in common with Aristotle " besides some recurrent topics of discussion and a vaguely derivative view of rhetorical discourse.

The book was the first of its kind to gain national media attention, although it was widely criticized and not accepted by most baseball organizations.

American journalist and social commentator Joel Garreau criticized the common use of the term solely to areas outside the political boundaries of major cities in his 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier when he discussed the phenomenon of edge cities in Atlanta ( emphasis added ):

In 1977 Schneider criticized a popular science book ( The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age ), which predicted an imminent Ice Age.

" Davis also criticized the popular-press and the literary-journal book reviews of The Mismeasure of Man as generally approbatory ; whereas, most scientific-journal book reviews were generally critical.

In his review of The Mismeasure of Man, Arthur Jensen, a University of California ( Berkeley ) educational psychologist whom Gould much criticized in the book, wrote that Gould used straw man arguments to advance his opinions, misrepresented other scientists, and propounded a political agenda.

Rushton further criticized the book for the absence of the results of five studies of twins reared corroborating the findings of Cyril Burt — the contemporary average was 0. 75 compared to the average of 0. 77 reported by Burt.

Roman Catholic priest and author Andrew Greeley also criticized liberation theology in his 2009 fictional book Irish Tweed.

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.

Te-cheng's sister, Kong Demao, lives in mainland China and has written a book about her experiences growing up at the family estate in Qufu.

The handheld pistol-and-trigger crossbow was invented in China in the 4th century BC ; it was written by the Song Dynasty scholars Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide in their book Wujing Zongyao ( 1044 AD ) that massed missile fire by crossbowmen was the most effective defense against enemy cavalry charges.

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

The book chronologically narrates the history of China from the Warring States period in 403 BCE to the beginning of the Song Dynasty in 959 CE.

After a ( similarly unsuccessful ) stint in Guangzhou, China, he eventually returned to Portugal and became the first European to publish a book on China in 1569 / 1570.

* The Route to the Orient is a book and CD collection, telling the story of Xavier ' missionary travels to China.

In 1983, British journalist Anthony Grey published a controversial book in which he claimed that Holt had been an agent for the People's Republic of China and that he had been picked up by a Chinese submarine off Portsea and taken to China.

Generally, a book publisher is not required to assign an ISBN, nor is it necessary for a book to display its number ( except in China ; see below ).

He studied the Chinese language, traveled extensively researching the history, traditions and customs of the Chinese, which he intended to use as material for a book about life in contemporary China, and regularly sent detailed reports to the General Staff and Foreign Ministry.

Marco Polo (; ; September 15, 1254 – January 9, 1324 ) was a Venetian merchant traveler whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China.

While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopsticks, and footbinding, making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.

* 868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it oldest known dated printed book.

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.

Adam Brand, a merchant from Lübeck, published in 1698 his account of a Russian ambassy to China and a translation of his book, published the same year, introduced the word to English speakers.

The book was once lost in China until Qing dynasty mathematician Luo Shilin bought a Korean printed edtion, and re published in Yangzhou, since then this book was reprinted several times.

The preface of the book describes how Zhu travelled around China for 20 years as a teacher of mathematics.