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Wells and book
In 2007, the Times printed another Editor ’ s Note after Hesser published a review of Vegetable Garden by Patricia Wells without disclosing that in 1999, Wells had contributed a jacket blurb for Hesser ’ s book The Cook and the Garden.
Gygax learned about H. G. Wells ' Little Wars book for play of military miniatures wargames and Fletcher Pratt's Naval Wargame book.
These picshuas have been the topic of study by Wells scholars for many years, and recently a book was published on the subject.
Wells wrote in his book God the Invisible King that his idea of God did not draw upon the traditional religions of the world: " This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer.
* " Mr H. G. Wells and the Giants ", by G. K. Chesterton, from his book Heretics ( 1908 ).
Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.
Wells writes a book denouncing the war and conquest of Mars as an act of unjustified aggression.
* The New World Order ( Wells ), a 1940 book by H. G. Wells promoting a post-WWII new world order uniting the world and bringing peace
In 1985, Singer wrote a book with the physician Deanne Wells arguing that surrogate motherhood should be allowed and regulated by the state by establishing non-profit ' State Surrogacy Boards ', which would ensure fairness between surrogate mothers and surrogacy-seeking parents.
In his book Icons of Evolution, Wells alleges that peppered moth studies, and in particular Kettlewell's experiments, were erroneous.
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and later adapted into two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations.
In that sketch he acknowledged that Patrick Matthew had, unknown to Wallace or himself, anticipated the concept of natural selection in an appendix to a book published in 1831 ; in the fourth edition he mentioned that William Charles Wells had done so as early as 1813.
H. G. Wells created modern science fiction with his book The War of the Worlds.
Wells ' The Shape of Things to Come ( 1933 ), written in the form of a history book published in the year 2106 andin the manner of a real history book — containing numerous footnotes and references to the works of ( mostly fictitious ) prominent historians of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Robert Caro argued in his 1989 book that Johnson had stolen the election in Jim Wells County and other counties in South Texas, as well as rigging 10, 000 ballots in Bexar County alone.
Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the world brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent " World Encyclopaedia " that could help world citizens make the best use of universal information resources and make the best contribution to world peace.
" 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.
In his 1962 book Profiles of the Future, Arthur C. Clarke predicted that the construction of what H. G. Wells called the World Brain would take place in two stages.
Elizabeth Goudge used Wells as a basis for the fictional cathedral city of Torminster, in her book City of Bells.
John Irving wrote of the book many times in his novel " The Cider House Rules " in which the main character, Homer Wells, reads " David Copperfield " to the other orphans every night before bed.

Wells and War
Other productions within Europe waited until the end of the Second World War, some notable ones being in January 1963 in London at Sadler's Wells Opera conducted by Colin Davis and in Berlin in September 1977 by the Komische Oper.
Statue of a The War of the Worlds Tripod ( The War of the Worlds ) | tripod, erected as a tribute to H. G. Wells in the centre of the town of Woking, England
In 1933 Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true just four months early, when the Second World War broke out in September 1939.
Near the end of the Second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of people slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion, and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of " The Black Book " as Rebecca West.
Little Wars is recognised today as the first recreational wargame and Wells is regarded by gamers and hobbyists as " the Father of Miniature War Gaming ".
Wells had given some moderate, unenthusiastic support for Territorialism before the First World War, but later became a bitter opponent of the Zionist movement in general.
On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by Orson Welles, who two years previously had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, on KTSA radio in San Antonio, Texas.
In his preface to the 1941 edition of The War in the Air, Wells had stated that his epitaph should be: " I told you so.
* " H. G. Wells warned us how it would feel to fight a War of the Worlds ", by Niall Ferguson, in The Telegraph, 24 Jun 2005.
* The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) by H. G. Wells.
Scarlet Traces is intended as a sequel to H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds and centres on a counter-invasion of Mars, beginning about 1908 and continuing over the next three decades.
Wells ' The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry.
The War of the Worlds is an 1898 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.
Wells ' The War of the Worlds ( 2005 film ), a film by Timothy Hines
* H. G. Wells ' War of the Worlds ( 2005 film ), a film by David Michael Latt
* H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds ( comics ), a 2006 graphic novel adaptation by Ian Edginton and D ' Israeli
* H. G. Wells published The Time Machine ( 1895 ), The Island of Doctor Moreau ( 1896 ), and The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ).
For example, in 1933 H. G. Wells postulated in The Shape of Things to Come a Second World War in which Nazi Germany and Poland are evenly matched militarily, fighting an indecisive war over ten years ; and Poul Anderson's early 1950s Psychotechnic League depicted a world undergoing a devastating nuclear war in 1958, yet by the early 21st century managing not only to rebuild the ruins on Earth but also engage in extensive space colonization of the Moon and several planets.
* The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) by H. G. Wells.
The Niagara Falls area features as the base camp for a German aerial invasion of the United States in the H. G. Wells novel The War in the Air.
Wells ' War of the Worlds, devised and produced by former David Essex producer Jeff Wayne.
Perhaps America's most famous radio drama broadcast is Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds, a 1938 version of the H. G. Wells novel, which convinced large numbers of listeners that an actual invasion from Mars was taking place.
Wells became a trading centre and involved in cloth making before its involvement in both the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion during the 17th century.

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