Mrs. Child, who had once apologized for sending editor Palfrey a book on slavery, now confided that she had helped one of Henry Palfrey's slaves escape to Canada some years before, but asked him not to advertise the fact in Louisiana.

Olson later helped edit The Real Anita Hill, a book by David Brock that savaged Hill and portrayed the harassment claim as a political dirty trick ( Brock later recanted his claims and apologized to Hill ).

In 1962, marine biologist and ecologist Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring helped to mobilize the environmental movement by alerting the public to toxic pesticides, such as DDT, bioaccumulating in the environment.

While Coupland's book helped to popularize the phrase " Generation X ," in a 1989 magazine article he erroneously attributed the term to English musician Billy Idol.

Subsequent editions of the book remained popular with Protestants throughout the following centuries, and helped shape enduring perceptions of Mary as a bloodthirsty tyrant.

With increasingly bizarre action storylines coming into vogue Luke and Laura saved the world from being frozen, brought a mobster down by finding his black book in a Left-Handed Boy Statue, and helped a Princess find her Aztec Treasure in Mexico.

Sutch's album Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends was named in a 1998 BBC poll as the worst album of all time, a status it also held in Colin Larkin's book The Top 1000 Albums of All Time, despite the fact that Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Jeff Beck, Noel Redding and Nicky Hopkins performed on it and helped write it.

President Ronald Reagan helped to fuel the success of The Hunt for Red October when he announced that he enjoyed the book at a televised press conference, calling it " unputdown-able " and a " perfect yarn.

" The character of James Vane was also introduced, which helped to elaborate upon Sibyl Vane's character and background ; the addition of the character helped to emphasise and foreshadow Dorian's selfish ways, as James sees through Dorian's character, and guesses upon his future dishonourable actions ( the inclusion of James Vane's sub-plot also gives the novel a more typically Victorian tinge, part of Wilde's attempts to decrease the controversy surrounding the book ).

That book helped to popularize the notation that is widely used today in electrodynamics and fluid mechanics ( see del operator ).

Though the book and subsequent films helped popularize the diagnosis, later analysis of the case suggested different interpretations, ranging from Mason ’ s problems being iatrogenically induced through therapeutic methods used by her psychiatrist, Cornelia B. Wilbur or an inadvertent hoax due in part to the lucrative publishing rights, though this conclusion has itself been challenged.

One Bermudian salt raker, Mary Prince, however, was to leave a scathing record of Bermuda's activities there in The History of Mary Prince, a book which helped to propel the abolitionist cause to the 1834 emancipation of slaves throughout the Empire.

Disheartened by this failure, Fort burnt the manuscripts, but was soon renewed to begin work on the book that would change the course of his life, The Book of the Damned ( 1919 ) which Dreiser helped to get into print.

" Indeed, an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson helped to propel the success of the book, as well as Ehrlich's celebrity.

The book first publicized the acronym TANSTAAFL (" There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch "), and helped popularize the constructed language Loglan, which is used in the story for precise human-computer interaction.

The 1966 book The Galveston That Was helped encourage the preservation movement.

Also involved in the Nancy Drew writing process were Harriet Stratemeyer Adams's daughters, who gave input on the series and sometimes helped to choose book titles ; the Syndicate's secretary, Harriet Otis Smith, who invented the characters of Nancy's friends Bess and George ; and the editors at Grosset and Dunlap.

Events that spurred this development included the publication of Rachael Carson's landmark environmental book Silent Spring along with major environmental issues becoming very public, such as the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, and the Cuyahoga River of Cleveland, Ohio, " catching fire " ( also in 1969 ), and helped increase the visibility of environmental issues and create this new field of study.

Wellesz wrote the first book on Schoenberg, who was also the subject of several Festschriften put together by his friends and pupils ; Rufer and Spinner both wrote books on the technique of twelve-tone composition ; and Leibowitz's influential study of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, Schoenberg et son école, helped to establish the image of a school in the period immediately after World War II in France and abroad.

Suze Randall is married to writer Humphry Knipe, who helped write her biographical book Suze ( 1977 ), wrote and directed several of her films as Victor Nye, and still manages Suze Randall Productions websites.

About 250 years after the production of the book Aldred added an Old English translation between the lines of the Latin text, and in his colophon he recorded the names of the four men who helped contribute to the production of the Lindisfarne Gospels.

The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people.

Crisis also helped popularize the formula of the line-wide " crossover " comic book series, a concept deployed previously in Marvel's Contest of Champions ( 1983 ) and Secret Wars ( 1984 ).

Among Alexander's most notable built works are the Eishin Campus near Tokyo ( the building process of which is soon to be outlined in his forthcoming book Battle ); the West Dean Visitors Centre in West Sussex, England ; the Julian Street Inn ( a homeless shelter ) in San Jose, California ( both described in Nature of Order ); the Martinez House ( an experimental house in Martinez, California made of lightweight concrete ); the low-cost housing in Mexicali, Mexico ( described in The Production of Houses ); and several private houses ( described and illustrated in " The Nature of Order ").

A nice " text book " example of this is the evolution of specialised Nylon-eating bacteria, it's also been studied in experimental evolution.

The emergence of nanotechnology in the 1980s was caused by the convergence of experimental advances such as the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope in 1981 and the discovery of fullerenes in 1985, with the elucidation and popularization of a conceptual framework for the goals of nanotechnology beginning with the 1986 publication of the book Engines of Creation.

In the 1298 book Zao Huozi Yinshufa ( 造活字印书法 / 造活字印書法 ) of the Chinese official Wang Zhen, there is mention of tin movable type, but this was largely experimental.

Rivers published the results of his experimental treatment of patients at Craiglockhart in paper for The Lancet, " On the Repression of War Experience ", and began to record interesting cases in his book Conflict and Dream which was published a year after his death by his close friend Grafton Elliot Smith.

The book also contains a vast number of individual results — both experimental and analytic — about what a particular automaton computes, or what its characteristics are, using some methods of analysis.

The same book also features HMS Sword, a small Royal Navy experimental submarine which is sunk after a valiant but unequal struggle with the pirate submarine.

Avicenna ( Ibn Sina ) is considered the father of modern medicine, for his introduction of experimental medicine and clinical trials, the experimental use and testing of drugs, and a precise guide for practical experimentation in the process of discovering and proving the effectiveness of medical substances, in his medical encyclopedia, The Canon of Medicine ( 11th century ), which was the first book dealing with experimental medicine.

These included the London-Welsh poet and painter David Jones, whose first book, In Parenthesis, was one of the very few experimental poems to come out of World War I, the Scot Hugh MacDiarmid, Mina Loy and Basil Bunting.

* The title of the American experimental rock band Thrice's 2005 album Vheissu refers to the book.

As a teenager, he was the youngest composer included in Henry Cowell's landmark book American Composers on American Music, demonstrating an early identification with the American experimental musical tradition.

More about Dewdney's early film work can be found in Wheeler Winston Dixon's book " The Exploding Eye ", a history of experimental film in the 1960s.

Reviews of this experimental book range from the journalistic boorishness of John Moore to academic criticism.

The book is largely experimental.

David Tibet, the primary creative force behind the experimental music / neofolk music group Current 93, named the group's album Sleep Has His House after the Anna Kavan book of the same title.

In addition to her work and her interdisciplinary collaborations, she has written numerous experimental essays and writings about contemporary innovative women ’ s writing and experimental language-centered performance and co-edited a book devoted to the work of Kathy Acker.

After having appeared in the experimental Poet and Theater ( Поэт и Театр, February 1965 ) show, based on Andrey Voznesensky's work and then in Ten Days that Shook the World ( after John Reed's book, April 1965 ), Vysotsky was commissioned by Lyubimov to write songs exclusively for Taganka's new II World War play.

In his book " Russia at War 1941 to 1945 ", Alexander Werth reported that while visiting Gdańsk / Danzig in 1945 shortly after its liberation by the Red Army, he saw an experimental factory outside the city for making soap from human corpses.

The entomologist Michael Majerus discussed criticisms that had been made of Kettlewell's experimental methods in his 1998 book Melanism: Evolution in Action.

In his Vorlesungen über Hydrodynamische Fernkräfte nach C. A. Bjerknes Theorie ( 1900-1902 ) he gave the first complete mathematical and experimental exposition of the discoveries of his father, whose age and excessive self-criticism had prevented him from finishing his work himself ; and in a later book, Die Kraftfelder ( 1909 ), he stated the same theory in a very much generalized form according to methods of his own.

The best history of the early days of the college is a chapter in Gerald Grant and David Reisman's award winning book on experimental colleges in the U. S., The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College ( University of Chicago Press, 1979 ).