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While the book purports to describe a plague of locusts, some ancient Jewish opinion saw the locusts as allegorical interpretations of Israel's enemies.
Here alone is preserved a summary of the writings of the Phoenician priest Sanchuniathon of which the accuracy has been shown by the mythological accounts found on the Ugaritic tables, here alone is the account from Diodorus Siculus's sixth book of Euhemerus ' wondrous voyage to the island of Panchaea where Euhemerus purports to have found his true history of the gods, and here almost alone is preserved writings of the neo-Platonist philosopher Atticus along with so much else.
* The King in Yellow appearing in the book of the same name by Robert W. Chambers purports to be an actual play that is capable of driving the reader insane.
* Philip K. Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle features a ( banned ) fictional work called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, which purports to describe how things might have transpired after World War II if the Allied side had won ( in the reality of the book, the Axis powers triumphed ).
* The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova purports to be a book by the main character, and further contains a number of other letters, books, and maps relating to Dracula and the main character's friends and family.
* The first text a browsing reader is liable to see purports to be a salacious sample from the book, but the episode never happens in the main text, nor does anything else of that tone: the book has no explicit sexual content.
It is based on Lillian Hellman's book Pentimento, a chapter of which purports to tell the story of her relationship with an alleged lifelong friend, " Julia ," who fought against the Nazis in the years prior to World War II.
The book purports to be an anthology of courtly poets, gathered and edited by Gascoigne and two other editors known only by the initials " H. W.
It purports to be the Hogwarts library's copy of the non-fiction book of the same name mentioned in several novels of the Harry Potter series.
Clarke was also a novelist and writer of non-fiction, and was not above presenting his fictions as fact-notably the 1981 book Murder at Buckingham Palace, which purports to tell the story of a hushed-up murder in the Royal residence in 1935.
The book purports to be the " true " history of our planet.
Biohazard, subtitled The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World-Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It, is the title of a 1999 book by former Soviet biological warfare researcher Ken Alibek that purports to expose the former Soviet Union's extensive covert biological weapons program.
In his book The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden, written in 1949 but published posthumously in 1981, Quigley purports to trace the history of a secret society founded in 1891 by Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner.
He is best known for his methods-popularly called Ferberization-that purports to teach young infants to learn how to fall asleep on their own, which are described in his book Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems.
This book purports to be a complete listing ( over 380 ) of the linocuts done by seven of the artists of the Grosvenor School.
In rare cases " catalogue raisonné " is not even used to refer to art or an artist but is used to catalogue an institutional collection e. g. in what purports to be a definitive book on the Jewish Museum's Hanukkah Lamp collection see:
* By its nature a catalogue purports to be exhaustive so an author is reluctant to publish a book without being confident that all works have been found and all research has been done.
The Letter of Jeremiah, also known as the Epistle of Jeremy, is a deuterocanonical book of the Old Testament ; this letter purports to have been written by Jeremiah to the Jews who were about to be carried away as captives to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar.
The book purports to be based upon ancient Hermeticism, though many of its ideas are relatively modern concepts arising from the New Thought movement.
The book purports to be addressed to seven churches on the mainland ( now Turkey ) warning them against laxity and compromise with Roman authority, Greek and gnostic philosophy, and with Christian schismatics.
The author of the book of Hebrews clearly purports that Jesus was tempted in the same way as other men ( i. e., without supernatural powers ).
In addition the book purports to document " wannabes ": people lying about Vietnam experience, often when they had never been there.
* Described as the " conspiracy theorist to end all conspiracy theorists " for his book Codex Magica: Secret Signs, Mysterious Symbols, and Hidden Codes of the Illuminati, which purports to expose a secret conspiracy between politicians and other famous people through modern history.

book and examine
Its first academic use appeared in Erik Erikson's book Young Man Luther ( 1958 ), where the author called for a discipline of " psycho-history " to examine the impact of human character on history.
This book brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and economic conditions.
" Wells felt that technological advances such as microfilm could be used towards this end so that " any student, in any part of the world, will be able to sit with his projector in his own study at his or her convenience to examine any book, any document, in an exact replica.
Although the book was included in bibliographies of mathematics, nobody troubled to examine it, and it was totally overlooked for 250 years.
The third edition of the book is the first study to examine Stand Your Ground and Castle Doctrine laws.
Then she took the book to another librarian, a male this time, and he, also, took a long time to examine the unclothed ladies.
" He said he regarded the book necessary to examine our own abilities and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with.
Diane K. Stanley, a former U. S. diplomat and the daughter of a Welsh-born employee of the United Fruit Co. in Guatemala, argues in the book For the Record: The United Fruit Company's Sixty-six Years in Guatemala, published in 1994, that the negative perception of the company's influence in Guatemala is largely undeserved, and could be due in part to the unwillingness of left-wing journalists and writers to critically examine the legacy of the administrations of Presidents Arévalo and Arbenz.
The content consists of articles, columns and book reviews that critically examine a variety of topics, such as ESP, homeopathy, astrology, SETI, the creation-evolution controversy, global warming, AIDS Denialism, the historical basis of legendary persons such as King Arthur, and controversial medical diagnoses like Attention Deficit Disorder.
In 1908, he wrote the book Following the Color Line, becoming the first prominent journalist to examine America's racial divide.
( Readers who wish to see Tovey at his most densely technical may care to examine his book A Companion to Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas and its bar-to-bar analytic commentary ).
Columnist Bob Greene wrote, " The title of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel became part of the American vernacular — the book was a ground-breaking fictional look at conformity in the executive suite, and it was a piece of writing that helped the nation's business community start to examine the effects of its perceived stodginess and sameness.
As its title implies, MacIntyre's aim in this book is to examine three major rival traditions of moral inquiry on the intellectual scene today ( encyclopaedic, genealogical and traditional ) which each in turn was given defense from a canonical piece published in the late nineteenth century ( the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals and Pope Leo XIII's Aeterni Patris, respectively ).
The court held that " CompuServe has no more editorial control over such a publication Rumorville than does a public library, book store, or newsstand, and it would be no more feasible for CompuServe to examine every publication it carries for potentially defamatory statements than it would be for any other distributor to do so.
" Whole sections of the Jacksons ' book examine Doughty's linguistic care and thinking.
After having been ridiculed for years, he invites Malone on a trip to prove his story, along with Professor Summerlee, another scientist qualified to examine any evidence, and Lord John Roxton, an adventurer who knows the Amazon and several years prior to the events of the book helped end slavery by robber barons in South America.
Patenaude, reviewing Service's book alongside a rebuttal by the Trotskyist David North ( In Defence of Leon Trotsky ), charged Service with making dozens of factual errors, misrepresenting evidence, and " fail to examine in a serious way Trotsky's political ideas ".
Settle turns to examine the present state of " duncery ", and this section of the third book is the longest.
In 1990, The Economist advised its readers to examine Fischer s “ well documented ” book to examine why people in Eastern Europe feared the prospect of German unification.
Within the book, the authors examine briefly many different nations and regions, and their economic development since World War II ( in the case of industrialized countries, they often begin before the war ).
Her first book, Domestic Manners of the Americans ( 1832 ) has been the best known, but she also published strong social novels: an anti-slavery novel said to influence the work of the American Harriet Beecher Stowe, the first industrial novel, and two anti-Catholic novels that used a Protestant position to examine self-making.
Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty ; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England's leisured travelers to examine " the face of a country by the rules of picturesque beauty ".
Rather, the focus of the book is to examine whether evolutionary biologists have proven their case using evidence evaluated with an " open mind and impartially ," and whether there is convincing evidence that the variety of life on earth came about through the purely material processes of natural selection.

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