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book and chronicles
The account of Jeroboam's life, like that of all his successors, ends with the formula " And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel " (, ).
Kristiana Gregory's book The Great Railroad Race ( part of the " Dear America " series ) is written as a diary by Libby West, who chronicles the end of the building of the railroad and the excitement which engulfed the country at the time.
His latest book, The March of Patriots, chronicles the creation of a modern Australia during the 1991 – 2007 era of Prime Ministers, Paul Keating and John Howard.
In his book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier, Ishmael Beah chronicles his life during the conflict in Sierra Leone.
* The book, Outcry-Memoirs of Manny Steinberg, chronicles a young Jewish man's life and trials during the Nazi occupation of Radom and beyond.
He also has a special affection for the martyred maiden Saint Winifred who lies at the centre of the first book in the series, A Morbid Taste for Bones, ( though this was not originally the novel chosen to launch the chronicles ), in which Cadfael takes part in an expedition to Wales to excavate the saint's bones and bring them to the Abbey in England, establishing it as a pilgrimage site of healing relics.
He is also said to have compiled the Psalter of Tara, a book containing the chronicles of Irish history, the laws concerning the rents and dues kings were to receive from their subjects, and records of the boundaries of Ireland.
The book The Surgeon of Crowthorne ( published in America as The Professor and the Madman ) by Simon Winchester, was published in 1998 and chronicles both Minor's later life and his contributions to the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The book chronicles the investigative reporting of Woodward and Bernstein from Woodward's initial report on the Watergate break-in through the resignations of H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and the revelation of the Nixon tapes by Alexander Butterfield in 1973.
* " Murder in Coweta County " TV Movie ( 1983 ) Based on the same titled book by Margaret Anne Barnes that chronicles actual events around 1948.
Norman M. Coats of Kirkwood, MO ; a 1944 Borden High School Graduate, World War II Veteran, Businessman and Author ; wrote a compelling book called " Growing Up on Daisy Hill ", which chronicles his early years being born and raised in the nearby hills and hollows of Borden during The Great Depression.
Historian Martis D. Ramage, Jr .' s book, " Tupelo, Mississippi, Tornado of 1936 ," chronicles the devastation of the tornado, with many rare photographs, Another tornado struck in 2008, Rated an EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
The book chronicles how the village and its people adapted to these environmental changes, survived and prospered, while at the same time making significant contributions to American society beyond what would be expected from a small village.
A hardcover 268-page book with 170 photos and featuring 30 interviews with town elders, There's No Place Like Rome chronicles the history of Rome from its hardscrabble agricultural start to its transformation as a recreational Mecca.
The book chronicles Tera's path to porn stardom and the loneliness, love, and lust she experienced along the way.
to which is appended the book of the chronicles of the Elis ( 1904 )-co-author, with M ' Cready Sykes
Many historical illustrations left in Rashid al Din's " Compendium chronicles " book described falconry of the middle centuries with Mongol images.
His best-selling book, Man's Search for Meaning ( published under a different title in 1959: From Death-Camp to Existentialism, and originally published in 1946 as Trotzdem Ja Zum Leben Sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager ), chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate which led him to discover the importance of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to continue living.
The book chronicles the fictitious travels and pedagogy of Zarathustra.
It also features prominently in the book This Is a Soul, which chronicles the work of American physician Rick Hodes in Ethiopia.
* Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a 1970 book by Dee Brown, which chronicles events leading up to the Wounded Knee Massacre
The Sultan was making a collection of ancient chronicles of Persia and ordered Ferdowsi to complete the book.
A notable part of Paradise Lost is book IV where he chronicles Satan ’ s trespass into paradise.
A book entitled Echoes from Calvary: Meditations on Franz Joseph Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ ( Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 ) chronicles their long-time involvement with this Good Friday masterpiece and offers rare insight from many perspectives.

book and impact
This book helped experimental chemists to understand the impact of quantum theory on chemistry.
* Traces of Catastrophe book from Lunar and Planetary Institute-comprehensive reference on impact crater science
In the 1903 book titled The Art of Cross-Examination by Francis L. Wellmann much effort is devoted to highlighting components of cross-examination and the impact on trials of the past century.
The game's development and impact on popular culture is also the subject of the book Masters of Doom by David Kushner.
The authors of the 2010 book Merchants of Doubt accuse climate change " skeptics " of trying to sow seeds of doubt in public opinion in order to halt any meaningful social or political progress to reduce the impact of human carbon emissions.
" Jerry Falwell said about the first book in the series: " In terms of its impact on Christianity, it's probably greater than that of any other book in modern times, outside the Bible.
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.
The book served to demystify the subject, making it more accessible to less technical researchers and enthusiasts, with an impact similar to that which his book The Virtual Community had on virtual community research lines closely related to VR.
" For his part, mathematician Norbert Wiener cited Gibbs as a major influence on his conception of cybernetics and explained in his book The Human Use of Human Beings that it was " devoted to the impact of the Gibbsian point of view on modern life, both through the substantive changes it has made to working science, and through the changes it has made indirectly in our attitude to life in general.
The book also had a significant impact on German literature, culture and science.
The publication of the book Silent Spring ( 1962 ) by Rachel Carson drew attention to the impact of chemicals on the natural environment.
Among them were Paul R. Ehrlich, whose book The Population Bomb ( 1968 ) revived concerns about the impact of exponential population growth.
In this book Welsh explores the impact of pornography on the individuals involved in producing it, as well as society as a whole, and the impact of aging and maturity in individuals against their will.
Christopher Wise in his book Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East ( 2009 ) places Derrida's work in the historical context of his North African origins, an argument first briefly made by Robert J. C. Young in White Mythologies: Writing History and the West ( 1990 ) and extended in his Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction ( 2001 ) where Young surveys the writings of numerous theorists and situates the whole framework of Derrida's thinking in relation to the impact of growing up in the colonial conditions of French Algeria.
Shortly before its publication, an introduction, glossary and footnotes, written in the voice of an English narrator, were added to the original text to blunt the negative impact the Edgeworths feared the book might have on English enthusiasm for the Act of Union 1800.
This book has as its goal not only the elucidation of the social origins and function of religion, but also the social origins and impact of society on language and logical thought.
" The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, " So this is the little lady who started this great war.
In recent years, the negative associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a " vital antislavery tool.
In his book The sound bite society, Jeffrey Scheuer argues that the sound bite was the product of television's increased power over all forms of communication, and that the resulting trend toward short, catchy snippets of information had a significant negative impact on American political discourse.
Martin Meisel described the panorama perfectly in his book Realizations: “ In its impact, the Panorama was a comprehensive form, the representation not of the segment of a world, but of a world entire seen from a focal height .” Though the artists painstakingly documented every detail of a scene, by doing so they created a world complete in and of itself.
Because of the impact of this book, " Orwellian " is a common term used to describe mass surveillance technologies.
The Age of Spiritual Machines is a book by futurist Ray Kurzweil about the future course of humanity, particularly relating to the development of artificial intelligence and its impact on human consciousness.

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