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* Lynn Sherr's 2001 book America the Beautiful discusses the origins of the song and the backgrounds of its authors in depth.
Adam Smith discusses the division of labour in the manufacture of pins at length in his book The Wealth of Nations ( published in 1776 ).
In addition to these geometrical constructions, Dürer discusses in this last book of Underweysung der Messung an assortment of mechanisms for drawing in perspective from models and provides woodcut illustrations of these methods that are often reproduced in discussions of perspective.
In this book Heschel discusses the nature of religious thought, how thought becomes faith, and how faith creates responses in the believer.
He discusses his work on the Olympic telecasts extensively in a book by Andrew Billings entitled Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television.
Unlike Blackstone and the Restatements, Holmes ' book only briefly discusses what the law is ; rather, Holmes describes the common law process.
George Every discusses the connection between the cosmic center and Golgotha in his book Christian Mythology, noting that the image of Adam's skull beneath the cross appears in many medieval representations of the crucifixion.
Consequently, in the last section of the book, Holzkamp discusses forms of " expansive learning " that seem to avoid the limitations of classroom learning, such as apprenticeship and learning in contexts other than classrooms.
For future editions of the book, in 1917 Conrad wrote an " Author's Note " where he discusses each of the three stories, and makes light commentary on the character Marlow-the narrator of the tales within the first two stories.
In one chapter of his book On the Wild Side ( 1992 ), Martin Gardner discusses the hollow Earth model articulated by Abdelkader.
This book chapter discusses the ancient sources which may have been used in the film and its critical take on theology.
This book discusses at length the censorship and controversy surrounding the film.
The 2nd-century Greek geographer Pausanias provides the greatest amount of information in the eighth book of his Description of Greece, where he discusses Lykaion ’ s mythological, historical, and physical characteristics in detail.
In his book Double Fold, Nicholson Baker discusses the failure of the NASA program at great length.
Taj Hashmi discusses misogyny in relation to Muslim culture, and Bangladesh specifically, in the book Popular Islam and Misogyny: A Case Study of Bangladesh.
Part One of the book discusses the need for an IAL, the disadvantages of ethnic languages for that purpose, and common objections to constructed IALs.
The book discusses how brand names such as Nike or Pepsi expanded beyond the mere products which bore their names, and how these names and logos began to appear everywhere.
The final section of the book discusses various movements that have sprung up during the 1990s.
In his book More on Oxymoron, the artist Patrick Hughes discusses and gives examples of visual oxymorons.
In the 1991 book Presumed Guilty: When Innocent People Are Wrongly Convicted, author Martin Yant discusses the use of coercion in plea bargaining.
* The Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges discusses The Rubaiyat and its history in an essay, " The Enigma of Edward FitzGerald " (" El Enigma de Edward FitzGerald ") in his book " Other Inquisitions " (" Otras Inquisiciones ", 1952 ).
In his book The Philosophy of Horror ( 1990 ), Noël Carroll discusses King's work as an exemplar of modern horror fiction.
The Third Culture is a 1995 book by John Brockman which discusses the work of several well-known scientists who are directly communicating their new, sometimes provocative, ideas to the general public.
* An interview with Judy Golding, the author's daughter, in which she discusses the inspiration for the book, and the reasons for its enduring legacy
Shen's book is also the first to describe the drydock in China, and discusses the advantages of the relatively recent invention of the canal pound lock over the old flash lock.

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There is very little information available regarding Iran's use of its 79 F-14A Tomcats ( delivered prior to 1979 ) in most western outlets ; the exception being a book released by Osprey Publishing titled " Iranian F-14 Tomcats in Combat " by Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop.
The most thorough account of the spiritual approach may be Ken Wilber's book The Spectrum of Consciousness, a comparison of western and eastern ways of thinking about the mind.
The book design of Aldus Manutius developed the book structure which would become the foundation of western publication design.
The Golden Dawn as system and book has been the most intensively used source for modern western occult and magical writing.
The UAP largely supported the western powers in their policy of appeasement, however veteran UAP minister Billy Hughes was an exception and he embarrassed the government with his 1935 book book Australia and the War Today which exposed a lack of preparation in Australia for what Hughes correctly supposed to be a coming war.
* The earliest extant books – a school textbook and an account book – with bound wooden leaves, are lost at the Dakhla Oasis in western Egypt.
By 1960 he began liquidating his general book business and in 1962 opened Fred A. Rosenstock Books on East Colfax Avenue in Denver specializing in western history.
In The Outlaw Gods, a novella from the The Mensch With No Name, second book in the Merkabah Rider weird western series, Shub-Niggurath dwells beneath the ruins of Red House a K ' n-yan citadel in the mountains of Arizona, surrounded by dark trees which tear apart trespassers.
The book suggests that the fictional site of Appleyard College, given its eastward view of Mount Macedon on the Bendigo-Melbourne Road, might have been on the western side of Calder Highway / Black Forest Drive ( C792 ), about 2 – 4 km south of Woodend.
In his book Cross the Border — Close the Gap ( 1972 ), he advocates a thorough re-assessment of science fiction, the western, pornographic literature and all the other subgenres that previously had not been considered as " high art ", and their inclusion in the literary canon:
( This book has an excellent description of a trip up the Orinoco as far as Ciudad Bolívar and a detailed description of the Venezuelan Pitch Lake situated on the western side of the Gulf of Paria opposite.
The book was a classic tale of adventure, where a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, was captured by a band of nomadic Arabs, and sold into slavery.
The interwar period saw the development of a new form of criticism towards Spiritism: René Guénon's influential book The Spiritist Fallacy, which criticized both the more general concepts of Spiritualism, which he considered to be a superficial mix of moralism and spiritual materialism, as well as Spiritism's specific contributions, such as its belief in what he saw as a post-Cartesian, modernist concept of reincarnation that is distinct from and opposed to its two western predecessors, metempsychosis and transmigration.
His book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind has become a classic in western Zen culture.
A young lieutenant, Pierre Beauregard, gave a text book speech that persuaded General Pierce to change his vote in favor of the western attack.
Within the detail of the book the column's vertical axis is numbered from 1 to 32 signifying the 32-paths of wisdom which occur in the western Qabalah, numbers 1-10 are the sephirah of the universe and numbers 11-32 the paths which join them.
In the book, " Contesting ' good ' governance " Eva Poluha and Mona Rosendahl contest standards that are common to western democracy as measures of " goodness " in government.
The term was coined by Charles Grandison Finney who in his 1876 book Autobiography of Charles G. Finney referred to a " burnt district " to denote an area in central and western New York State during the Second Great Awakening.
The 2010 book is geared towards both professionals and interested laypeople alike, cites more than 2000 references, and provides a comprehensive resource for the scientific foundation for the Paleolithic diet and the relationship between what humans eat and western diseases.
The book acknowledged that they were mutually unintelligible and that the term " dialect " was used in a different sense than the western term, in which a dialect was merely indicative of a small difference in pronunciation, while in China, the entire grammar and idiom were different ; the written language was what united the different Chinese dialects.
The acronym " BU " coupled with the outlined book on the logo resembles the Chinese characters of welcome and progress, conceptualizing the merging of eastern and western cultures.
The first edition of this book is one of the rarities of western Americana.

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