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books and cover
The surviving books of his history, the Res Gestae, cover the years 353 to 378.
The surviving eighteen books cover the period from 353 to 378.
Any given bookmaker will weight their odds so that no one customer can cover all outcomes at a profit against their books.
In this connection it may be pointed out that in this sense the word, as it is used nowadays, is illogical ; it should be named a Plenarium rather than a Breviarium, since, liturgically speaking, the word Plenarium exactly designates such books as contain several different compilations united under one cover.
Details from various of Morris's paintings can be seen on the cover art of early editions of Richard Dawkins's books The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker.
The company's second title, New Comics # 1 ( cover date December 1934 ), appeared in a size close to what would become comic books ' standard during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, with slightly larger dimensions than today's.
The Encyclopedia Brown books, in order of publication ( parentheses indicate numbers on original release cover art ):
They would also steal books from the local library and modify the cover art or the blurbs before returning them to the library.
Over the next five decades, he created covers for numerous books and magazines, notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog ; Mad magazine ( for whom he painted many early covers featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman ) from 1958 to 1962 ( he started at Mad in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine's new cover artist ; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 ); cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books ( which are now collectors ' items ), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone.
Milton Friedman's works include many monographs, books, scholarly articles, papers, magazine columns, television programs, videos, and lectures, and cover a broad range of topics of microeconomics, macroeconomics, economic history, and public policy issues.
The mother of the farmers burned one of the books and parts of a second ( including its cover ).
Thus twelve of these books ( one missing its cover ) and the loose pages survive.
Inspired by Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ) Mahfouz planned to cover the whole history of Egypt in a series of books.
Clark indicated that the books will cover events in the six years between " Terra Prime " and " These Are the Voyages ...".
This division includes the books which, as a whole, cover the chronological era from the entrance of the Israelites into the Land until the Babylonian captivity of Judah ( the " period of prophecy ").
* In the comic book Legion of Super-Heroes ( Number 6, July 2005, DC Comics ), Cosmic Boy avers that the Bar Code on the cover of comic books is " destined to become outlawed in the Design Aesthetic Wars of 2013.
Sales figures as high as 35 to 40 million have been cited in various reference books and by media, as have lower numbers in the 15 – 22 million range, whilst a " more than 30 million copies " figure was quoted by Star, as early as 1983, on back cover page of Swenson's book.
Many Nevada sports books will allow these bets to be used in parlays, just like team point spread bets, making it possible to bet, for instance, " the Packers and the over ", and be paid if both the Packers " cover " the point spread and the total score is higher than the book's prediction.
Chiago has exhibited at the Heard Museum and has contributed cover art to Arizona Highways magazine and University of Arizona Press books ; Chana illustrated books by Tucson writer Byrd Baylor and created murals for Tohono O ' odham Nation buildings.
Ron Ferdinand, Ketcham's Sunday page artist, drew several of the Dennis stories in the Marvel books, including the cover for issue # 11.
For books containing illustrations or images, design takes on a much larger role in laying out how the page looks, how chapters begin and end, colours, typography, cover design and ancillary materials such as posters, catalogue images and other sales materials.

books and Roman
Sometimes, Roman numerals are still used for enumeration of lists ( as an alternative to alphabetical enumeration ), for sequential volumes, to differentiate monarchs or family members with the same first names, and ( in lower case ) to number pages in prefatory material in books.
The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox receive several additional books in to their canons based upon their presence in manuscripts of the ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, the Septuagint ( although some of these books, such as Sirach and Tobit, are now known to be extant in Hebrew or Aramaic originals, being found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls ).
These preaching friars, with the authorization of Gregory IX, adopted ( with some modifications, e. g. the substitution of the " Gallican " for the " Roman " version of the Psalter ) the Breviary hitherto used exclusively by the Roman court, and with it gradually swept out of Europe all the earlier partial books ( Legendaries, Responsories ), & c., and to some extent the local Breviaries, like that of Sarum.
* Liturgical books of the Roman Rite
Some Christian denominations ( such as Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox ), include a number of books that are not in the Hebrew Bible ( the biblical apocrypha or deuterocanonical books or Anagignoskomena, see Development of the Old Testament canon ) in their biblical canon that are not in today's Jewish canon, although they were included in the Septuagint.
Outside of the Roman Catholic Church, the term deuterocanonical is sometimes used, by way of analogy, to describe books that Eastern Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy included in the Old Testament that are not part of the Jewish Tanakh, nor the Protestant Old Testament.
In other words, deutero ( second ) applies to authority or witnessing power, whereas in Roman Catholicism, deutero applies to chronology ( the fact that these books were confirmed later ), not to authority.
Like the Roman Catholic deuterocanonical books, these texts are integrated with the rest of the Old Testament, not printed in a separate section.
Readings from the deuterocanonical books are now included in most, if not all, of the modern lectionaries in the Anglican Communion, based on the Revised Common Lectionary ( in turn based on the post-conciliar Roman Catholic lectionary ).
The Annales was an epic poem in fifteen books, later expanded to eighteen, covering Roman history from the fall of Troy in 1184 BC down to the censorship of Cato the Elder in 184 BC.
During his campaigns, El Cid often ordered that books by classic Roman and Greek authors on military themes be read aloud to him and his troops, for both entertainment and inspiration before battle.
Notwithstanding the accounts of Biblical figures like Moses, Enoch and Solomon being associated with magical practices, when Christianity became the dominant faith of the Roman Empire, the early Church frowned upon the propagation of books on magic, connecting it with paganism and burned books of magic.
His books included Le Dernier Roman du Monde ( 1971 ), Portrait des 9 ( 1975 ), The Cosmographical Lobster ( 1976 ), Poésie Sonore Internationale ( 1979 ), Les Riches Heures de l ' Alphabet ( 1992 ) and Graphpoemesmachine ( 2006 ).
In 1948 the Roman Catholic Church placed Sartre's oeuvre on the Index of prohibited books.
In prose, Livy produced a history of the Roman people in 142 books.
Other ancient epic poetry includes the Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey, the Old Iranian books the Gathic Avesta and Yasna, the Roman national epic, Virgil's Aeneid, and the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata.
* Liturgical books of the Roman Rite
* An extensive collection of digital books and articles on Roman Law and History, in various languages.
The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches use most of the books of the Septuagint ; however, Protestant churches usually do not.
** The Roman Catholic Church bans the books of André Gide.
* 1822 – Galileo Galilei's Dialogue is taken off the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books.

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