Aeneid | ... th the romantic intrigues between Dido and Aeneas imagined by Virgil in the | |
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | ... as the inventor of the idea on the authority of Posidonius and Strabo. The | notes, "This theologically motivated view does not seem to claim much hist ... |
Red Book of Westmarch | ... odleian on behalf of Jesus College. Tolkien later created his own fictional | telling the story of The Lord of the Rings. Many of Tolkien's manuscripts ... |
The Outline of History | Wells also wrote nonfiction. His bestselling three-volume work, | (1920), began a new era of popularised world history. It received a mixed ... |
Luke | ... tates that John the Baptist baptised unto repentance in the Jordan (-; Mark | ;; John). This is recounted as having taken place at Bethabara |
Book of Commandments | ... r-day Saints (LDS ed.) and the Community of Christ (CofC ed.) with the 1833 | (BofC), the 1835 edition published in Kirtland, and the 1844 edition publi ... |
Asterix the Gaul | ... lects in Finland. Also, in Portugal, a special edition of the first volume, | , was translated into local language Mirandese. In Greece, a number of vol ... |
Ezekiel | ... able" (Leviticus 26:41, "their uncircumcised hearts"; compare Jeremiah 9:25 | ;44:7,9); it is also applied to the first three years' fruit of a tree, wh ... |
Aeneid | ... 1674, changed into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's | ) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification |
Mark | ... ment states that John the Baptist baptised unto repentance in the Jordan (- | ;; Luke ; John). This is recounted as having taken place at Bethabara |
Wonderful Life | ... products of evolution is the subject of a popular controversy. In his book | , Stephen Jay Gould argues that if the tape of life were re-wound and play ... |
Freedom at Midnight | ... he partition of the Punjab are luridly described in Collins' and LaPierre's | , as to which Mountbatten was the principal informant, and more latterly i ... |
Antiquities of the Jews | The next work by Josephus is his twenty-one volume | , completed during the last year of the reign of the Emperor Flavius Domit ... |
Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe | ... nt while he was hitchhiking around Europe as a young man with a copy of the | book, and while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck with a copy of the boo ... |
The Salmon of Doubt | ... e story also appears in some of the omnibus editions of the trilogy, and in | . There are two versions of this story, one of which is slightly more expl ... |
Systema Naturae | In his 18th century work | , Carl Linnaeus coined the specific name cucullatus, meaning hooded, but c ... |
Suda | ... ether in a single entry in both the 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia the | and by Zenobius |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | ... a Wonderful Life (1946) and Scrooge is likely an influence upon Dr. Seuss's | (1957) |
The Rush for Second Place | ... of the last words of a character similar but not identical to his creator. | , published at the same time, collected most of Gaddis's previously publis ... |
The Golden Bough | ... doo dolls are an example. This dichotomy was proposed by Sir James Frazer's | |
Allmusic | Steve Huey of | notes that The Shirelles defined "the so-called girl group sound with thei ... |
Historia Regum Britanniae | ... alory's Le Morte d'Arthur and other Arthurian tales (Geoffrey of Monmouth's | , the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.) |
Aeneid | ... ers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal. Virgil's opening line for the | is a classic example of Latin hexameter |
Book of Common Order | ... gh it does have a hymn book (the 4th edition was published in 2005) and its | contains recommendations for public worship which are usually followed fai ... |
The Histories | The oldest known mention of "Atlantic" is in | of Herodotus around 450 BC (Hdt. 1.202.4): Atlantis thalassa (Greek: Ἀτλαν ... |
Eminent Victorians | ... oomsberries'. His first great success, and his most famous achievement, was | (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. This w ... |
The Gay Science | ... lso contains the famous dictum "God is dead", which had appeared earlier in | . In his autobiographical work Ecce Homo, Nietzsche states that the book's ... |
The Failure of the New Economics | Austrian School economic commentator and journalist Henry Hazlitt's | is a paragraph-by-paragraph critique of The General Theory. In 1960 he pub ... |
How to Rap | ... . The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book | where it is separated into “content”, “flow” (rhythm and rhyme), and “deli ... |
Neil Gaiman | In the late 1990s, Avary was hired by Warner Bros studio to adapt | 's comic series The Sandman to the big screen. He frequently sparred with ... |
Gospel of Luke | According to the | , during the reign of king Herod, there was "a certain priest named Zachar ... |
Conan the Barbarian | ... Barry Smith for "The Shadow of the Vulture" and "The Song of Red Sonja" in | issues 23 and 24 (1973), she did not have as full a figure and dressed a l ... |
Conditions of Learning | ... ril 28, 2002) was an American educational psychologist best known for his " | ". Gagné pioneered the science of instruction during WWII when he worked w ... |
Allmusic | ... ex progressive edge and the album showcased a much tighter sound, prompting | to cite Rust in Peace as "Megadeth's strongest musical effort". The album ... |
The Prince | ... Machiavelli, whose ideas on how rulers should govern the land, detailed in | , spread across European courts and enjoyed enduring popularity for centur ... |
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology | ... bite. It was later reassigned to the now defunct class Trilobitoidea in the | . In 1971, Whittington did a thorough redescription of the animal and, on ... |
Att vara Per Gessle | ... f the same name was released; "En händig man". Later on October a book of " | " was released, telling some of the unknown facts about Gessle and his 30- ... |
The Ethics of Ambiguity | ... minist and existentialist ethics in her works, including The Second Sex and | . Although often overlooked due to her relationship with Sartre, de Beauvo ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | The | offers no etymology, but gives examples dating back to the 16th century. T ... |
Book of Genesis | ... atinoamérica", a reference to the murder of Abel by his brother Cain in the | |
Book of Exodus | ... . The title seems an allusion to the phrase in Exodus 2:22 (in the Biblical | ). Moses flees ancient Egypt, where he has lived all his life, and later m ... |
Systema Naturae | ... the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th century work | , under the name Falco leucocephalus |
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples | ... came a member of the editorial board of Sir Winston Churchill's four volume | |
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus | ... task of describing the kind of power an omnipotent being would have. In his | he stays generally within the realm of logical positivism, until claim 6.4 ... |
ICD-10 | ... not been formally defined through a diagnostic system such as the DSM-IV or | , and are nearly absent from current scientific literature regarding menta ... |
Aryabhatiya | ... and Dignāga during the 1st millennium CE. In Indian astronomy, Aryabhata's | (499 CE) proposed the Earth's rotation, while Nilakantha Somayaji (1444–15 ... |
Book of Optics | ... he use of a convex lens to form a magnified image is discussed in Alhazen's | (1021). Its translation into Latin from Arabic in the 12th century was ins ... |
Unfinished Tales | ... The meeting of Gandalf and Thorin is described in "The Quest of Erebor" in | |
Game of Shadows | ... e to successful obfuscation of continued use as documented in the 2006 book | |
second treatise on government | ... its form, in its phraseology, follows closely certain sentences in Locke's | ." The extent of Locke's influence on the American Revolution has been que ... |
The Second Sex | ... ner, wrote about feminist and existentialist ethics in her works, including | and The Ethics of Ambiguity. Although often overlooked due to her relation ... |
Bibliotheca Historica | ... Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the 1st century BCE in his | , also provides an account of the Greco-Persian wars, partially derived fr ... |
Institutes of the Christian Religion | John Calvin defined original sin in his | as follows |
Historia Regum Britanniae | ... Latin chalybs "steel"), the name of Arthur's sword in his 12th-century work | . Caliburnus or Caliburn became Excalibur, Escalibor, and other variations ... |
Why We Suck | ... 05; he is thus credited as "Dr. Denis Leary" on the cover of his 2009 book, | |
Kama Sutra | The Ancient Indian | , dating from the first century AD, describes oral sex, discussing fellati ... |
The Road to Serfdom | ... d that the Treatise no longer reflected his thinking. After reading Hayek's | , Keynes wrote to Hayek saying: "Morally and philosophically I find myself ... |
The Book of the Courtier | The ideal courtier—the chivalrous knight—of Baldassarre Castiglione's | became a model of the ideal virtues of nobility. Castiglione's tale took t ... |
The Science of Life | ... h shorter popular work, A Short History of the World, and two long efforts, | (1930) and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931). The "Outlines ... |
New Jedi Order | ... in the Expanded Universe, starring in the novel I, Jedi, as well as several | novels (in which he is a Jedi Knight, not a Rogue Squadron pilot). Horn ha ... |
Till Eulenspiegel | ... ccaccio and François Rabelais. Other examples of Renaissance satire include | , Reynard the Fox, Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff (1494), Erasmus' Moriae ... |
Guinness World Records | ... cy Park. The Zozobra that was burned on September 7, 2007, was certified by | as the largest marionette in the world, measuring 15.21 m (49.11 feet) in ... |
First Apology | The Dialogue is a later work than the | ; the date of composition of the latter, from the fact that it was address ... |
Philosophy of Freedom | ... for Steiner's later anthroposophical work is contained in the seminal work, | . In his early works, Steiner sought to overcome what he perceived as the ... |
Allmusic | ... isc set, which included a greatest hits audio CD and a DVD. Andy Kellman of | remarked "Ultimate Aaliyah adequately represents the shortened career of a ... |
1 Kings | ... oth and Zarthan, is the clay ground where Solomon had his brass-foundries ( | ) |
The Silmarillion | ... Unwin, asked Tolkien for a sequel. In response Tolkien provided drafts for | , but the editors rejected them, believing that the public wanted "more ab ... |
2 Thessalonians | ... tters, both in style and in content, and its authorship is also affirmed by | |
Historia Regum Britanniae | ... of Britain and Matter of France, the former based on Geoffrey of Monmouth's | ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written in the 1130s |
Douay-Rheims Bible | ... n the Bible, Zechariah (Ζαχαρίας in Greek, Zacharias in KJV, Zachary in the | ), is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron, a pro ... |
Oxford Dictionary of Saints | ... ession of St Peter himself that the mission continued. David Farmer, in the | , suggests that the whipping story may been a blending of the Quo Vadis st ... |
Mein Kampf | ... where he resumed working in the aircraft industry. Hitler, who had written | while in prison, had been released in December 1924. Carin Göring, ill wit ... |
Fountain | ... as art, not from the intrinsic qualities of the work itself. Thus, because | was exhibited, it was a sculpture |
Deities & Demigods | ... ced Dungeons & Dragons, included in one of that game's earlier supplements, | (originally published in 1980 and later renamed to "Legends & Lore"), a se ... |
Neil Gaiman | Avary and novelist | 's long gestating screenplay for Beowulf was finally produced by the pair ... |
Handbook of North American Indians | The | reports infanticide and cannibalism among the Dene Indians and those of th ... |
Summa contra Gentiles | ... th internal angles that did not add up to 180 degrees. As Aquinas put it in | |
Ante-Nicene Fathers | See also the | |
The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 | ... nqui description in 1837 of la révolution industrielle. Friedrich Engels in | spoke of "an industrial revolution, a revolution which at the same time ch ... |
Prose Edda | ... Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's | , the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology a ... |
Nicomachean Ethics | In the | , written in 350 BCE, Aristotle stated that happiness (also being well and ... |
The Sirius Mystery | ... efer to a third star accompanying Sirius A and B. Robert Temple's 1976 book | , credits them with knowledge of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter and th ... |
Gospel of Mark | ... eference to Peter in Dial. 106.3, followed by a quotation found only in the | (Mk 3:16–17). Therefore, according to Koester, it is likely that Justin ap ... |
Gospel of John | ... ionysus and Jesus Christ; Wick argues that the use of wine symbolism in the | , including the story of the Marriage at Cana at which Jesus turns water i ... |
A Theory of Justice | John Rawls gives a critique of utilitarianism in | that rejects the idea that the happiness of two distinct persons could be ... |
The Poverty of Historicism | In The Open Society and Its Enemies and | , Popper developed a critique of historicism and a defence of the 'Open So ... |
Prose Edda | ... e Icelandic medieval manuscript Codex Regius ("Royal Book"). Along with the | , the Poetic Edda is the most expansive source on Norse mythology. The fir ... |
Guinness World Records | ... um's history (including football), saw the homestanding Wolverines win 5–0. | , using a count of ticketed fans who actually entered the stadium instead ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | In the English language (according to the | ), Rom is a noun (with the plural Roma or Roms) and an adjective, while Ro ... |
Nordisk familjebok | In the | the island of Orust is mentioned as a Geatish territory. Ramshult (the mod ... |
The Book of the Courtier | ... lations from both Latin and Greek. In the early 16th century, Castiglione ( | ) laid out his vision of the ideal gentleman and lady, while Machiavelli c ... |
1 Corinthians | ... 5-528), and Methodius appeals to Justin in support of his interpretation of | 15:50 in a way which makes it natural to assume the existence of a treatis ... |
The Machinery of Freedom | ... unding father of the school, which is the subject of his most popular book, | (1969, revised 1989). He has authored many other books and articles, inclu ... |
Principia Ethica | ... he phrase was described by British philosopher G. E. Moore in his 1903 book | . Moore stated that a naturalistic fallacy is committed whenever a philoso ... |
The Picture of Dorian Gray | ... starting point for the two protagonists. While Salomé, An Ideal Husband and | had dwelt on more serious wrongdoing, vice in Earnest is represented by Al ... |
Book of Commandments | ... e thousands of changes made to the original revelations as published in the | (including the change of the church's name) are not doctrinal and result f ... |
Deuteronomy | # | , Dt —Devarim (דברים |
Notes of a Native Son | ... d its artistic value. The essay was collected with nine others in Baldwin's | (1955) |
1 Maccabees | ... rmy during the Maccabean Revolt. According to historical sources, including | and 2 Maccabees and the first book of The Wars of the Jews by Jewish histo ... |
The Blind Watchmaker | ... of similar placental and marsupial forms is described by Richard Dawkins in | as a case of convergent evolution, because mammals on each continent had a ... |
Colleges That Change Lives | Millsaps was one of 40 schools in Loren Pope's | |
A Modern Utopia | ... anise society, and wrote a number of Utopian novels. The first of these was | (1905), which shows a worldwide utopia with "no imports but meteorites, an ... |
Book of Wisdom | ... change his soul and false imaginations would not deceive his mind – as the | teaches about early death |
Pseudodoxia Epidemica | ... electricity", which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne's | of 1646 |
Encyclopédie Méthodique | ... vier recognized him as the author of certain articles on agriculture in the | and addressed him as M. Tessier. Tessier replied in dismay, "I am known, t ... |
Saducismus Triumphatus | ... rnatural activity by Joseph Glanvill in the West Country of England, in his | . The book's Latin title Saducismus Triumphatus means The Defeat of Sadduc ... |
A Theory of Justice | In 1971 John Rawls published | , noteworthy in its pursuit of moral arguments and eschewing of meta-ethic ... |
First Epistle of Peter | ... rom the Septuagint Psalm xxxvi. 27 (xxxvii in the Hebrew Bible) or from the | 3.11 . Origen's Commentary on Matthew book xi says "But many things might ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... written for the series include Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, | , Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently Peter Milligan |
Kojiki | The | and Ainu folklore also describes a flat earth cosmography where the earth ... |
Exodus | # | , Ex —Shemot (שמות |
The Theory of Political Coalitions | ... iversity in Appleton, Wisconsin (then Lawrence College), where he published | (1962). In 1962, he became the chair of the Political Science Department a ... |
Bellifortis | ... rpreted as "chastity belts" in the West is in Konrad Kyeser von Eichstätt's | (1405), which describes the military technology of the era. The book inclu ... |
A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy | ... her astonishment. She followed this, again at the publisher's request, with | (1922), which also had great success. She was, however, much more interest ... |
Octoechos | ... th special hymns to him which are found in the liturgical book known as the | . Soon after the transfer of Saint Nicholas' relics from Myra to Bari, a R ... |
Six Memos for the Next Millennium | ... ture notes were published posthumously in Italian in 1988 and in English as | in 1993 |
Aeneid | ... e a school text for Roman schoolchildren, eventually supplanted by Virgil's | . About 600 lines survive. A copy of the work is among the Latin rolls of ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | ... g tendency or state" and a "return to a previous condition of affairs." The | cites the first English-language usage in 1799 in a translation of Lazare ... |
The Missing Peace | ... in 2004 placed the blame for the failure of the summit on Arafat. They were | by longtime US Middle East envoy Dennis Ross and My Life by President Clin ... |
They Marched into Sunlight | ... he Frank Lloyd Wright designed Monona Terrace. David Maraniss wrote a book, | , which incorporated the 1967 Dow protests into a larger narrative |
First Apology | Justin Martyr, in his | (ca. 155) and Dialogue with Trypho (ca. 160), sometimes refers to written ... |
DSM-5 | ... honic tic, are present for more than a year. The fifth version of the DSM ( | ), due out in May 2013, is likely to reclassify Tourette's as a neurodevel ... |
Gospel of John | ... mposed by Justin or his school. However, his use, or even knowledge, of the | is uncertain. One possible reference to John is a saying that is quoted in ... |
Gospel of John | ... , in Middle Egypt, which date around the year AD 200, and a fragment of the | , written in Coptic, which was found in Upper Egypt and can be dated to th ... |
The Economic Consequences of the Peace | ... ted damaging effects of the treaty appeared in the highly influential book, | , published in 1919. This work has been described as Keynes's best book, w ... |
Eminent Victorians | ... e Mill House" at Tidmarsh, near Pangbourne, Berkshire. After the success of | , published on 9 May 1918, he needed no help from outside. He continued to ... |
The Secret Mulroney Tapes | ... for change undermined the objectives and spirit of the accord. According to | he was fired by Prime Minister Mulroney. Bouchard was joined by five of hi ... |
Book of Genesis | ... d "Father of the Hebrews". The story of Abraham and his sons is told in the | and the Qur'an but with certain differences |
Chronicle of the Kings of Alba | ... Constantine as "the Bald". He reigned for eighteen months according to the | |
Germania | In his book | , Tacitus wrote that the ancient Germanic tribes enforced a similar prohib ... |
The Tough Guide To Fantasyland | Jones' book on clichés in fantasy fiction, | (nonfiction), has a cult following among writers and critics, despite bein ... |
To Mock a Mockingbird | His book | (1985) is a recreational introduction to the subject of combinatory logic |
Ruhnama | ... was accused of developing a totalitarian cult of personality. His opus, the | , was made a mandatory reading in Turkmenistan's schools and months of the ... |
Prose Edda | Hermóðr appears distinctly in section 49 of the | book Gylfaginning. There, it is described that the gods were speechless an ... |
Treatise | ... d to (and even confused with) the is–ought problem, which comes from Hume's | |
Principia Ethica | Meta-ethics came to the fore with G.E. Moore's famous work | from 1903. In it he first wrote about what he called the naturalistic fall ... |
Prose Edda | ... iskviða she is the mother of Týr, the poem suggests by Hymir, but the later | states that Óðinn is his father |
Epistle to the Colossians | It does not appear that St. Paul had visited this city when he wrote his | (, ), since he tells Philemon of his hope to visit it upon being freed fro ... |
Farewell to Manzanar | ... his was even noticed by the children, as mentioned in the well-known memoir | |
Asterix in Corsica | ... ct. In former Yugoslavia, "Forum" publishing house translated Corsican in " | " into Montenegrin dialect of Serbo-Croatian (today called Montenegrin lan ... |
Medicine Under Canvas | ... pportunity to discuss the events. An account of one survivor is recorded in | , on page 141 of the second edition, which also offers details of 77th Eva ... |
Rainbow Books | ... act Disc Digital Audio system, CDDA or CD-DA). It is named after one of the | , a series of books (bound in different colors) that contain the technical ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | The | (2004) entry for "Oggy" states: "Oggy, noun. West Country regional (orig. ... |
The True Believer | Eric Hoffer in his book | argues that mass movements like communism, Fascism and Nazism had a common ... |
CIA World Factbook | From | |
Fontes Christiani | ... Ambrose's works have recently been published in the bilingual Latin-German | series (currently edited by Brepols) |
Suda | A goddess Macaria is named in the | . This Macaria is the daughter of Hades (no mother is mentioned). She seem ... |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... nd Max, the 2000-Year-Old Mouse, a series of educational shorts paid for by | . Bakshi was uninterested in the kind of animation the studio was turning ... |
Genesis | ... sians to worship fire. In many modern interpretations of the Hebrew text of | 10, it is Nimrod, the son of Cush, who founded Nineveh; other translations ... |
Lukan language | ... d that 1 Thes. 5:1-11 is a post-Pauline insertion that has many features of | and theology that serves as an apologetic correction to Paul's imminent ex ... |
Stowe Missal | ... ed as a saint, and was given the feast day of 3 February. The ninth century | commemorates his feast day, along with Mellitus and Justus. A Vita (or Lif ... |
ICD-10 | ... ational Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, | ; code F95.2 is for combined vocal and multiple motor tic disorder [de la ... |
Muqaddimah | ... peter) have traced back the concept even further to Ibn Khaldun, who in his | (1377), described labour as the source of value, necessary for all earning ... |
Sesame Street Unpaved | ... and chuckles, "Wow! These boring stories are really exciting!" In the book | , Frank Oz says, "I was never really happy with Bert's character until abo ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | Authorities disagree about the history of the letter's name. The | says the original name of the letter was ; this became in Vulgar Latin, pa ... |
Weird City | ... olster support of local independent businesses. According to the 2010 book, | , the phrase was begun by a local Austin Community College librarian, Red ... |
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day | ... r non-fiction works, which is still read to this day, is the self-help book | . His diaries have yet to be published in full, but extracts from them are ... |
Species Plantarum | ... napobrassica was first validly published by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work | as a variety of B. oleracea: B. oleracea var. napobrassica. It has since b ... |
Supernatural Horror in Literature | ... itive edition" of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness (also including " | ") |
As a Man Thinketh | ... ve since sold over 50 million copies. Earlier in 1902 James Allen published | , which proceeds from the conviction that "a man is literally what he thin ... |
Prose Edda | ... ngandr, who then either breaks loose or, as told in the Gylfaginning of the | , is cut loose by Hymir. The Prose Edda provides the additional detail tha ... |
Critique of Dialectical Reason | ... 1960s, Sartre attempted to reconcile existentialism and Marxism in his work | . A major theme throughout his writings was freedom and responsibility |
Neil Gaiman | ... #31 (Nov. 1989). A few months after this, the Spectre has a cameo in writer | 's The Books of Magic, a four-issue miniseries starring many DC occult cha ... |
Jiyun | Sima Guang was also a lexicographer (who perhaps edited the | ), and spent decades compiling his 1066 Leipian (類篇; "Classified Chapters" ... |
Contra Celsum | According to Origen's | , a sect called the Ophites posited the existence of seven archons, beginn ... |
Conan the Barbarian | ... nearly century-old house (now a museum) of Robert E. Howard, author of the | books |
Lancelot-Grail | ... de explicit in the later so-called Vulgate Merlin Continuation, part of the | cycle. However, in what is sometimes called the Post-Vulgate Merlin, Excal ... |
Gospel of John | ... and Jesus Christ; though, Wick argues that the use of wine symbolism in the | , including the story of the Marriage at Cana at which Jesus turns water i ... |
The Resurrection of Hungary | ... as founded were outlined in an article published in 1904 by Griffith called | , in which, noting how in 1867 Hungary went from being part of the Austria ... |
The Picture of Dorian Gray | ... wo men have lost their lives for nothing. (Compare with Oscar Wilde's novel | |
A New Era of Thought | ... act" was coined and first used in 1888 by Charles Howard Hinton in his book | , from the Greek ("four rays"), referring to the four lines from each vert ... |
Black Sun | In his book | , Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke claimed that the UDA had links with Neo-Nazi gr ... |
Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution | ... e Economic Problems of the Church (1955), Puritanism and Revolution (1958), | (1965 and revised in 1996), The Century of Revolution (1961), AntiChrist i ... |
Book of Shadows | The television fantasy series Charmed features a fictional | which contains spells and arcane law, and has a supernatural ability to de ... |
Acts of the Apostles | ... d them to the Council of Jerusalem, although his name occurs nowhere in the | |
The Gardeners Dictionary | ... nist elevated Linnaeus' variety to species rank as Brassica napobrassica in | , which is the currently accepted name |
The Concept of Anxiety | ... as first attributed to Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855). In | (also known as The Concept of Dread, depending on the translation), Kierke ... |
Of Plymouth Plantation | ... er, Winthrop's writings echoed those of other Puritans: "William Bradford's | (unpublished until 1856), Edward Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence of Si ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... lan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and | , have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences. Beyond direct a ... |
Guinness World Records | ... ion on their A Bigger Bang Tour, which got them into the current edition of | for the most lucrative music tour. Jagger has refused to say when the band ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... k, which includes several jarring authorial intrusions, which fellow author | described as "patronising and unfair" |
A Greek-English Lexicon | ... succeeding Greek lexicons (including, therefore, the contemporary standard | ). A special improvement was the introduction of words and expressions con ... |
Aeneid | ... The premier examples of its use are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil's | |
Zizhi Tongjian | ... ike Zheng Qiao (鄭樵) in writing Tongshi (通史) and Sima Guang (司馬光) in writing | (資治通鑑). The Chinese historical form of dynasty history, or Jizhuanti histo ... |
Allmusic | ... nted, delightfully eclectic album". William Cooper had a similar opinion in | : "Frida escapes the creative limitations of being a member of one of the ... |
TripAdvisor | In 2011, | listed Vieques among the Top 25 Beaches in the World, writing "If you pref ... |
Capital | ... ser and his students in an intensive philosophical rereading of Karl Marx's | . The book reflects on the philosophical status of Marxist theory as "crit ... |
Prose Edda | ... n the Church of Iceland's Bishop of Skálholt. At that time, versions of the | were well known in Iceland, but scholars speculated that there once was an ... |
On Ayn Rand | ... s and theorizes about their intellectual origins in (1995). Surveys such as | by Allan Gotthelf (1999), Ayn Rand by Tibor R. Machan (2000), and Objectiv ... |
Necronomicon | ... ed "Mad Arab" credited with authoring the imaginary book Kitab al-Azif (the | ), and as such an integral part of Cthulhu Mythos lore |
Gray's Anatomy | ... ms, such as the nervous or respiratory systems. The major anatomy textbook, | , has recently been reorganized from a systems format to a regional format ... |
Conan the Barbarian | ... magazine. Buscema drew her again in this costume in issues 43, 44 and 48 of | (1974) and Dick Giordano in the first issue of Marvel Feature (1975) befor ... |
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition | This article incorporates text from the | , a publication now in the public domain |
The Decameron | ... sed directly-to-DVD in North America on August 26, 2008. The film, based on | , is about a group of people who escape the Black Plague epidemic by hidin ... |
On the Origin of Species | In | (1859), Charles Darwin proposed evolution through natural selection, a the ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... el written in collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and | |
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | ... tion based on how much it contributes to the social harmony of a state. The | describes Mohist consequentialism, dating back to the 5th century BC, as " ... |
The Wind in the Willows | In 1908 Kenneth Grahame wrote | from his retired position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved to ... |
Gospel of Luke | In the Sermon on the Plain in the | , Jesus says |
Genesis | ... s likely to have been taken from Aser, or Asher, the eighth son of Jacob in | . Old Testament names were common in Wales at the time, but it has been su ... |
The Prince | ... undiced eye on "la verita effetuale delle cose"the actual truth of thingsin | , composed, humanist style, chiefly of parallel ancient and modern example ... |
The James Bond Dossier | ... spy, either under a pseudonym or uncredited. In 1965, he wrote the popular | under his own name. That same year, he wrote The Book of Bond, or, Every M ... |
The Road to the Temple | ... ictured) that was used by the Players for their theater. Glaspell writes in | , "So Gene took Bound East for Cardiff out of his trunk, and Freddie Burt ... |
Yupian | ... pent decades compiling his 1066 Leipian (類篇; "Classified Chapters", cf. the | ) dictionary. It was based on the Shuowen Jiezi, and included 31,319 Chine ... |
Epistle to the Romans | ... he early Church, he had not yet left Jerusalem at this time. St Paul in his | written after AD 44, expressed his intention to avoid "building on someone ... |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... Webster Dictionary both define rock and roll as synonymous with rock music. | , on the other hand, regards it as the music that originated in the mid-19 ... |
First Folio | ... he Fifth (in the First Quarto text) and The Life of Henry the Fifth (in the | text). It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events i ... |
Lexicon Technicum | ... re were publications describing technology. Encyclopaedias such as Harris's | (1704) and Abraham Rees's Cyclopaedia (1802–1819) contain much of value. C ... |
Conjuring | Randi is author of | (1992), a biographical history of noted magicians. The book is subtitled: ... |
prayer books | ... the principal service. The rites for the Eucharist are found in the various | of Anglican churches. Wine along with unleavened wafers or leavened bread ... |
Into Thin Air | ... was in one of the affected parties, and afterwards published the bestseller | , which related his experience. Anatoli Boukreev, a guide who felt impugne ... |
Unsafe at Any Speed | Ralph Nader's book, | , published in 1965, criticized a number of Detroit automobiles as poorly ... |
Freedomnomics | ... red five books, including More Guns, Less Crime, The Bias Against Guns, and | |
Allmusic | ... arted as "a Gang of Four and Scratch Acid ripoff". Andy Kellman, writing in | , has even argued that Gang of Four's "germs of influence" can be found in ... |
Roughing It | ... ony Express in action first hand, described the riders in his travel memoir | as: "... usually a little bit of a man". Though the riders were small, lig ... |
Book of Ezekiel | In the Old Testament, in the | , God's people are rebuked for suggesting that the children would die/suff ... |
Gospel of Matthew | In the Sermon on the Mount in the | , Jesus says |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... g. Æsir, Ærø) or brand names which make use of the ligature (e.g. Æon Flux, | ). In the United States, the problem of the ligature is sidestepped in man ... |
Le Morte d'Arthur | ... created the image of Camelot most familiar to English speakers today in his | , a work based mostly on the French romances. He firmly identifies Camelot ... |
The Terrorist Hunters | ... r intervals from 2005–2007, was highly critical of its workings in his book | |
Omphalos | The Omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book, | by Philip Henry Gosse, in which Gosse argued that in order for the world t ... |
Jefferson's Manual | ... f Representatives, the House operates under general parliamentary rules and | but these are not binding on the current House until they are approved by ... |
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | ... passed into English via Old French , and by Middle English was pronounced . | derives it from French hache from Latin haca or hic |
Almagest | ... n after, he wrote the Compendium of the Almagest, a commentary on Ptolemy's | . Avicenna concluded that Venus is closer to the Earth than the Sun. In 10 ... |
Black's Law Dictionary | The phrase does not come from association with | , which was first published in 1891. The phrase "black-letter law" was use ... |
Syntactic Structures | ... n ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 | as an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct (logical form) b ... |
A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy | In addition to her major project, Hyman extensively revised | in 1942 into a textbook as well as laboratory manual; she referred to it a ... |
Le Morte d'Arthur | Malory records both versions of the legend in his | , and confusingly calls both swords Excalibur |
Systema Naturae | ... riginal description can be found, in this case the 10th edition of the book | . (Botanists are not required to give the date) |
The Gay Science | ... fore Zarathustra, Nietzsche had mentioned the concept in the fourth book of | (e.g., sect. 341); this was the first public proclamation of the notion by ... |
The Golden Bough | ... mposer Stuart MacRae, The Assassin Tree, based on a Greek myth recounted in | . The opera premiered at the 2006 Edinburgh International Festival, Scotla ... |
Histories | ... y have been the name of the district where Sardis stood. Later, Herodotus ( | i. 7) adds that the "Meiones" were renamed Lydians after their king, Lydus ... |
Allmusic | ... Suddenly, Eric Burdon and Van Morrison weren't so weird — even Bob Dylan." | has described Jagger as "one of the most popular and influential frontmen ... |
The City of God | ... space for politics and political action. Works such as Augustine of Hippo's | synthesized current philosophies and political traditions with those of Ch ... |
Das Kapital | Karl Marx, in | , writes |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... ally loyal to a city or to a particular leader rather than to their nation. | identifies the movement's genesis with the late-18th century American Revo ... |
The United Methodist Hymnal | ... andard liturgies for the Eucharist (as well as other services) are found in | and The United Methodist Book of Worship. The standard Service of Word and ... |
Historia Regum Britanniae | ... "single most important source used by Geoffrey of Monmouth in creating his | ", and via the enormous popularity of that work, this brand of the earlier ... |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... ski's article, see Lorentz et al. 1952.) The 1926 thirteenth edition of the | included an article by Einstein titled "Space-Time" |
Conan the Barbarian | ... ents were Robert Bloch (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard ( | series) |
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae | ... mber theory was renewed when she read Carl Friedrich Gauss' monumental work | . After three years of working through the exercises and trying her own pr ... |
Zizhi Tongjian | ... changing the title from Tongzhi ("Comprehensive Records") to the honorific | ("Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government"). Scholars interpret this tit ... |
(The) Histories | ... r Persian overlordship). He wrote his 'Enquiries' (Greek—Historia; English— | ) around 440–430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars ... |
Descriptions des Arts et Métiers | ... ry well illustrated by fine engravings. Foreign printed sources such as the | and Diderot's Encyclopédie explained foreign methods with fine engraved pl ... |
Genesis | ... was viewed as bringing shame on the viewer, not the naked, as evidenced in | 9: 20-27 |
S/Z | ... en been less systematic (or, in some special cases such as Roland Barthes's | , they have been so specifically and exhaustively systematic as to render ... |
Robinson Risner | ... chutist Joseph Kittinger spent 11 months in prison there. Brigadier General | was the senior ranking POW, responsible for maintaining chain of command a ... |
The Future of Ideas | Lawrence Lessig, | , 2001, p. 187-190, freely available |
The King's English | ... to Guernsey in 1903 where he and his brother Francis George Fowler composed | and the Concise Oxford Dictionary, and much of Modern English Usage |
Jefferson's Manual | ... se of Representatives is governed by the Constitution, the House Rules, and | |
Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts | ... 18th-century England and America. The recipe for ice cream was published in | in London in 1718 |
Allmusic | ... the Roof, which featured jazz arrangements of eight songs from the musical. | awarded the album 4 stars and states "Cannonball plays near his peak; this ... |
The Spiral Dance | ... ith, the Newsweek/Washington Post online forum on religion. Starhawk's book | (1979) was one of the main inspirations behind the Neopagan movement. In 2 ... |
City of God | Augustine, in his | , argued, instead, that God could not do anything that would make God non- ... |
On the Origin of Species | ... parately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book | , but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memo ... |
The Book of Bond | ... popular The James Bond Dossier under his own name. That same year, he wrote | , or, Every Man His Own 007, a tongue-in-cheek how-to manual about being a ... |
Book of Genesis | ... by the three sons of Anak, descendants of the Nephilim (Joshua 10:5,6). The | mentions that it was formerly called Kirjath-arba, or "city of four", poss ... |
Handbook of Texas | ... n area and Harris County. The population was 29,685 at the 2000 census. The | describes Channelview as "an oil refinery suburb of metropolitan Houston. |
La Galatea | Some of his poems are found in | . He also wrote Dos Canciones à la Armada Invencible. His best work howeve ... |
Studies in Classic American Literature | ... al flames were Carl Van Doren's The American Novel (1921), D. H. Lawrence's | (1923), Carl Van Vechten's essay in The Double Dealer (1922), and Lewis Mu ... |
Eikonoklastes | ... a plea, while Parliament commissioned John Milton to write a rejoinder, the | ("The Iconoclast"), but the response made little headway against the patho ... |
AM 748 I 4to | ... also included in editions of the Poetic Edda. Important manuscripts include | , Hauksbók and Flateyjarbók. Many of the poems are quoted in Snorri's Edda ... |
Homage to Catalonia | ... of the Spanish Civil War which also takes this view is George Orwell's book | |
Freedom at Midnight | ... y his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's | (of which he was the main quoted source) — his record is seen as very mixe ... |
Dictionary of Welsh Biography | ... ld, he was knighted in 1934. Under his editorship, the first edition of the | was compiled, though not published until after his death (1950) |
Book of Baruch | The Septuagint version of Jeremiah also includes the | and the Epistle of Jeremiah. Jerome's says he excluded them: "And the Book ... |
The Tale of Peter Rabbit | In 1902 Beatrix Potter published | , that follows Peter Rabbit, a mischievous and disobedient young rabbit, a ... |
Encyclopédie | ... printed sources such as the Descriptions des Arts et Métiers and Diderot's | explained foreign methods with fine engraved plates |
Quenta Silmarillion | ... rd of the Rings and to cosmological developments from his still unpublished | as it stood at that time. These small edits included, for example, changin ... |
Book of Genesis | The Eden story, which takes up chapters 2 to 4 of the | , tells how the Abrahamic God creates the first man and puts him in a para ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | According to the | , the word "tesseract" was coined and first used in 1888 by Charles Howard ... |
2 Maccabees | ... he origin of the Hasmonean dynasty is recorded in the books 1 Maccabees and | , covering the period from 175 to 134 BCE during which time the Hasmonean ... |
Cheaper by the Dozen | ... way to toast three slices of bread on a one-side, two-slice grill. The book | introduced the emerging concepts to the context of family life |
Oxford English Dictionary | The earliest reference to ice cream given by the | is from 1744, reprinted in a magazine in 1877. 1744 in Pennsylvania Mag. H ... |
Anabasis | The Greek general Xenophon records in his | that the Armenians burned their crops and food supplies as they withdrew b ... |
First Epistle of John | ... le of John, the source of the Comma Johanneum, a brief interpolation in the | , known since the fourth century, appears to be the Latin Liber Apologetic ... |
Gospel of Luke | ... changed the name's spelling back to Emmaus, reflecting the spelling in the | in the English New Testament |
Allmusic | ... middle of the 1960s, when the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan began his career. | editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine attributes The Beatles' shift toward intros ... |
Dialogue with Trypho | Justin Martyr, in his First Apology (ca. 155) and | (ca. 160), sometimes refers to written sources consisting of narratives of ... |
The Politics | ... 22 BC). These authors, in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato, and | and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, analyzed political systems philosophi ... |
Magnalia Christi Americana | ... -Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England (1654), Cotton Mather's | (1702), and Winthrop's Journal were efforts both to discern the divine pat ... |
Jewish Encyclopedia | According to the | , "a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some ligh ... |
Quidditch Through the Ages | ... Beasts and Where to Find Them is a textbook used by the main character, and | is a book from the library at his school. The Tales of Beedle the Bard pro ... |
Neil Gaiman | Stardust (1998) is the first solo prose novel by | . It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. S ... |
Epistle to the Galatians | ... scholars see this as an indication that this letter was written before the | , where Paul formed and identified his positions on these matters |
America's National Game | ... Spalding combined these records with his own memories (and biases) to write | (published 1911) which, despite its flaws, was probably the first scholarl ... |
Deutsche Mythologie | ... has been connected to the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre by Jacob Grimm in his | |
A Devil's Chaplain | ... e books Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind (ISBN 0-631-19678-1) and | . In this article, Dawkins coined the term faith-sufferer |
The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks | The Old Fashioned is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's | |
The Two Babylons | ... formed a major part of Alexander Hislop's thesis in the 19th century tract | |
Aeneid | Another possible reference to Balazeros is found in the | . It was a common ancient practice of using the hypocoristicon or shortene ... |
Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde | ... he Dutch Wikipedia states, however, that Hugo Brandt Corstius, in his book, | , came up with the longest existing Dutch palindrome—potstalmelkkoortspils ... |
Pokémon Adventures | In the | manga, Green stole a Squirtle from Prof. Oak's Lab. This Squirtle ultimate ... |
The Tales of Beedle the Bard | ... r, and Quidditch Through the Ages is a book from the library at his school. | provides an additional layer of fiction, the 'tales' being instructional s ... |
De humani corporis fabrica | ... hysician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, | (On the Structure of the Human Body). Vesalius is often referred to as the ... |
Species Plantarum | ... naming species is credited to Linnaeus, effectively beginning with his work | in 1753 |
Genesis | ... plain ("Kikkar ha-Yarden"), and it is said to be like "the garden of God" ( | ). There is no regular description of the Jordan in the Bible; only scatte ... |
Antiquities of the Jews | His most important works were The Jewish War (c. 75) and | (c. 94). The Jewish War recounts the Jewish revolt against Roman occupatio ... |
The Doctrine of Chances | ... ns his solution to a similar problem, posed by Abraham de Moivre, author of | (1718) |
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy | ... Best Novel, and was short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. | classifies Anno Dracula as "recursive fantasy", and further describes the ... |
Sirach | The Old Testament Deuterocanonical books of Tobit and | , accepted as part of the Scriptural canon by Catholic Church, Eastern Ort ... |
Antonine Itinerary | The Channel Islands are mentioned in the | as following : Sarnia, Caesarea, Barsa, Silia and Andium, but Jersey canno ... |
Getica | ... y common among scholars today, is not universal. According to the Jordanes' | , around 400 the Ostrogoths were ruled by Ostrogotha and derived their nam ... |
John Constantine | ... Changing Man, Dream of the Endless, and Swamp Thing have made appearances. | , the main character of Hellblazer, is portrayed as a kind of confidence m ... |
Allmusic | Stephen Thomas Erlewine, senior editor for | , described specifically Culture Club as a new wave band and generically a ... |
Galatians | ... In Justin's works, distinct references are found to Romans, 1 Corinthians, | , Ephesians, Colossians, and 2 Thessalonians, and possible ones to Philipp ... |
Almagest | ... rved globe and developed the system of latitude, longitude, and climes. His | was written in Greek and only translated into Latin in the 11th century fr ... |
The Jewish War | His most important works were | (c. 75) and Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94). The Jewish War recounts the J ... |
The Children of Sanchez | In the unique experience in Hollywood, Zavattini written for the screen | (1978) based on Oscar Lewis’s book of the same title, a classic study of a ... |
Penguin Classics | ... hich has since published a considerable amount of other literature as well. | has at present issued three volumes of Lovecraft's works: The Call of Cthu ... |
Prose Edda | In chapter 31 of Gylfaginning in the | , written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Ullr is referred to as ... |
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy | ... ight romance terms steampunk's dense reworking of a 19th century London." ( | , pp. 803, 896) |
The Lays of Beleriand | ... ers in several of Tolkien's books and other works such as The Silmarillion, | , and most recently The Children of Húrin. Similar to the other great fore ... |
Historia Regum Britanniae | ... erleon in Wales; this was the king's primary base in Geoffrey of Monmouth's | and subsequent literature. Chrétien depicts Arthur, like a typical medieva ... |
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas Kuhn’s influential book | argued that scientists work in a series of paradigms, and that falsificati ... |
A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain | ... ge of Westhumble) described the swallow holes in the River Mole in his book | (first published in 1724) |
Oxford English Dictionary | ... glish "gamen", meaning "game" or "play". The earliest use documented by the | was in 1650 |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... two-volume work on phrenology (1838), and articles for several editions of | |
1 Maccabees | The origin of the Hasmonean dynasty is recorded in the books | and 2 Maccabees, covering the period from 175 to 134 BCE during which time ... |
1 Corinthians | ... e later Church. In Justin's works, distinct references are found to Romans, | , Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, and 2 Thessalonians, and possible ones ... |
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy | ... of motion and the law of gravitation, which he introduced in his 1687 work | . Using these principles, Newton removed the idea that objects followed pa ... |
Book of Genesis | The | refers to Casluhim as the origin of the Philistines. Biblical scholars reg ... |
Gödel, Escher, Bach | In Douglas Hofstadter's | , there is a narrative between Achilles and the Tortoise (characters borro ... |
Catholic Encyclopedia | ... his book on Priscillian; it is not the traditional Roman Catholic view. The | of 1908, however, states |
Lais of Marie de France | ... evidently proficient in Latin and English as well. She is the author of the | . She translated Aesop's Fables from Middle English into Anglo-Norman Fren ... |
Annals of the Four Masters | The | says that five roads to Tara, which had never been seen before, were disco ... |
Allmusic | ... wd, snatched up a fan, and bitten off his head." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of | commented that "their blend of industrial noise, grinding metal guitars, a ... |
Steal This Book | The Universal Life Church was referenced by Abbie Hoffman in his 1970 book | , which encouraged readers to request an ordination from the ULC, receive ... |
Luke | ... Synoptic Gospels, and that the two other synoptic evangelists, Matthew and | , used Mark's Gospel as one of their sources. The theory of Markan priorit ... |
El Castillo Interior | ... clude her autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus, and her seminal work, | (The Interior Castle), are an integral part of the Spanish Renaissance lit ... |
Fountain | ... ns between everyday objects and art, similarly to Duchamp in pieces such as | . Fluxus art was often presented in "events", which Fluxus member George B ... |
2 Maccabees | ... in common, but their cults are historically distinct. There is reference in | 12.26 and 1 Maccabees 5:43 to an Atargateion or Atergateion, a temple of A ... |
Books of Kings | ... Book of Jeremiah reports that a total of 4,600 were exiled to Babylon. The | suggest that it was ten thousand, and then eight thousand. Israel Finkelst ... |
Bibliotheca historica | ... the conflicts of 4th century is also described by Diodorus Siculus, in his | . Diodorus was writing in the 1st century BC, and is also very much a seco ... |
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences | ... lf from mathematical platonism, and gives his reaction to Eugene Wigner's " | " |
Kāśikāvṛttī | :See | for the medieval grammarians |
The Case for Israel | Alan Dershowitz wrote in his book | that unlike the Haganah, the policy of the Irgun had been to encourage the ... |
The Travels of Marco Polo | ... st Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China, and his tales, documented in | , opened Western eyes to some of the customs of the Far East. He was not t ... |
The Children of Húrin | ... er works such as The Silmarillion, The Lays of Beleriand, and most recently | . Similar to the other great forests of Tolkien's legendarium such as Mirk ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | ... he Real Academia Española, and the authoritative dictionaries (for example, | , Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Chambers Dictionary, Collins ... |
Critique of the Gotha Program | ... sses as "ascribing a supernatural creative power to labour", arguing in the | that |
SourceWatch | ... y Front Groups and Anti-Environmental Think Tanks." It has also started the | (formerly Disinfopedia) project, a specialized wiki encyclopedia about pro ... |
On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin's | was successful in convincing most biologists that evolution had occurred, ... |
Matthew | ... of the three Synoptic Gospels, and that the two other synoptic evangelists, | and Luke, used Mark's Gospel as one of their sources. The theory of Markan ... |
Chambers Dictionary | ... ple, Oxford English Dictionary, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, | , Collins Dictionary) record usage rather than prescribe it. In addition, ... |
Suda | ... ame word (ebxi~) expressed both. The characteristic mark of the vow, as the | and the Greek Church Fathers remark, was that it was a promise either of t ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | The | credits Robin Morgan with coining the term in her 1970 book, Sisterhood is ... |
Aeneid | ... ustus. Along with Maecenas, he stimulated patriotic poems, as Vergil's epic | and also historiographical works, like those of Livy. The works of this li ... |
Allmusic | ... y vocals rode calmly on R. Kelly's rough beats". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of | felt that the album had its "share of filler", but described the singles a ... |
Free Culture | ... rist of Tennessee was later elected to the leadership position. In the book | , Lawrence Lessig argues that Lott's resignation would not have occurred h ... |
A Modest Proposal | ... e of the first to practise modern journalistic satire. For instance, In his | Swift suggests that Irish peasants be encouraged to sell their own childre ... |
Esdras | ... aused certain books to fall into my hands. They are Chaldean books [...] of | , of Zoroaster and of Melchior, oracles of the magi, which contain a brief ... |
Neil Gaiman | In by | , the necropolis apprentice Petrefax tells a story that includes a storyte ... |
Book of Common Prayer | His translation of the Psalter is used in the Anglican | , and is the most familiar translation of the psalms for many Anglicans al ... |
The Atlas of Middle-earth | In | , predating the New Line films by over a decade, Karen Wynn Fonstad estima ... |
SEX | ... Also in 1992, Walken appeared in Madonna's controversial coffee table book, | , and he played Bobby, Cassandra's manager in Wayne's World 2 |
Douay-Rheims | Significant versions of the English Christian Bible include the | , the RSV, the KJV, the ESV, the NKJV, and the NIV. For a complete list, s ... |
Politics as a Vocation | In another major work, | , Weber defined the state as an entity which successfully claims a "monopo ... |
Aeneid | ... drink the waters of the Lethe in order to forget their earthly life. In the | , Virgil writes that it is only when the dead have had their memories eras ... |
Book of Esther | ... n Shavuot; Lamentations on the Ninth of Av; Ecclesiastes on Sukkot; and the | on Purim. Collectively, the Ketuvim contain lyrical poetry, philosophical ... |
The History of Medieval Business Organisations | ... s law doctorate in 1889 by writing a dissertation on legal history entitled | ; his advisor was Levin Goldschmidt, a respected authority in commercial l ... |
Acts | ... oned in Macedonia as a traveling companion of Paul, along with Aristarchus( | 19:29). One chapter later, a Gaius from Derbe, is again named as one of Pa ... |
The Book of Discipline | ... g and Response section, is prayed by an authorized minister as set forth in | . Generally speaking, the ministry of presiding at the Eucharist is given ... |
Majmal al-Tawarikh wa Al-Qasas | 2) The unknown writer of | (circa 1126) |
The Wealth of Nations | ... ent of the political and sociological analyses, culminating in Adam Smith's | . One of the main arguments for capitalism, presented for example in the b ... |
Getting Things Done | # The | system is a model of personal workflow management for information workers |
The Salmon of Doubt | ... eries. He was working on a third Dirk Gently novel under the working title, | , but felt that the book was not working and abandoned it. In an interview ... |
Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare | ... program for the contras, the CIA prepared and distributed a manual entitled | . This manual included instructions in the "use of implicit and explicit t ... |
Bibliotheca | The | seems to be following Pherecydes, who relates how the infant Dionysus, god ... |
Common Sense | ... the king was not inclined to act as a conciliator, Thomas Paine's pamphlet | was published. Paine, who had only recently arrived in the colonies from E ... |
The Bell Curve | ... tz has received $4 million from the Bradley Foundation, which also financed | (a controversial book on race and intelligence) |
Book of Genesis | The biblical account of the life of Jacob is found in the | , chapters 25-50 |
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason | Arthur Schopenhauer wrote in §18 of | (1813): "...the representation of coexistence is impossible in Time alone; ... |
Who's Who | ... ation, Fraser created a fictional entry for Flashman in the 1909 edition of | . The entry lists Flashman's laurels: VC, KCB, KCIE; Chevalier of the Légi ... |
Freakonomics | In the best-seller | , economist Steven D. Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner both confirm ... |
The Improving State of the World | ... One of the main arguments for capitalism, presented for example in the book | , is that industrialisation increases wealth for all, as evidenced by rais ... |
English Journey | In 1934 he published the travelogue | , which is an account of what he saw and heard while travelling through th ... |
Luke | According to the canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark and | ; Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the desert before the beginning of his pu ... |
The Cambridge History of Ancient China | ... eat to social stability. Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the | , writes that the moral goods of Mohism "are interrelated: more basic weal ... |
Catholic Encyclopedia | ... that anyone prior to the 16th century suggested this might be the case; the | concludes that there are no historical grounds for the supposition. Later ... |
Democracy in America | ... mass production: the homogeneous consumer base. De Tocqueville wrote in his | (1835) that "The absence in the United States of those vast accumulations ... |
Roman Martyrology | ... ated, is transferred to 26 April, under its right name, 'Saint Cletus'. The | mentions the Pope in question only under the name of "Cletus". The Annuari ... |
Opus Majus | Bacon's | contains treatments of mathematics and optics, alchemy, and the positions ... |
Mark | According to the canonical gospels of Matthew, | and Luke; Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the desert before the beginning o ... |
Acts of the Apostles | ... d Jewish colonies very early, and Christianity was also soon present there. | 16:14-15 mentions the baptism of a merchant woman called "Lydia" who came ... |
Euclid's Elements | ... r 2,500 years. Several notable literary works, including the Homeric epics, | and the New Testament, were originally written in Greek |
Book of Matches | Armitage's poetry collections include | (1993) and The Dead Sea Poems (1995). He has written two novels, Little Gr ... |
Matthew | According to the canonical gospels of | , Mark and Luke; Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the desert before the begi ... |
Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare | The CIA claimed that the purpose of the | manual was to "moderate" the existing Contra activities |
Treatise on Money | ... ionship between unemployment, money and prices back in the 1920s. The work, | , was published in 1930 in two volumes. A central idea of the work was tha ... |
Histories | ... ptian name was Neith; and they identified her with Athena. (Timaeus 21e), ( | 2:170–175) |
The Dinner Party | ... g over the past four decades". Judy Chicago, who with a team of 129 created | , said in 2009 to ARTnews, "There is still an institutional lag and an ins ... |
pair of kings | ... er hoping for a good poker hand. There was no direct payout mechanism, so a | might get the player a free beer, whereas a royal flush could pay out ciga ... |
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | ... raque. Although Gris regarded Picasso as a teacher, Gertrude Stein wrote in | that "Juan Gris was the only person whom Picasso wished away" |
The Rush for Second Place | A collection of his essays was published posthumously as | (2002) |
Gospel of John | ... al hint may have been taken from the account of the Pool of Bethesda in the | , in which Jesus heals a man at the pool in Jerusalem |
Lonely Planet | In 2010, | ranked Greece's northern and second-largest city of Thessaloniki as the wo ... |
A Brief History of Time | ... ry can be thought of as a model of reality. According to Stephen Hawking in | , "a theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: It must acc ... |
The Logic of Scientific Discovery | ... pper discussed this critique of naïve falsificationism in Chapters 3 & 4 of | . For Popper, theories are accepted or rejected via a sort of selection pr ... |
Le Morte d'Arthur | ... ublished as The Early Italian Poets in 1861). These and Sir Thomas Malory's | inspired his art of the 1850s. He created his own method of painting in wa ... |
1 Maccabees | ... ults are historically distinct. There is reference in 2 Maccabees 12.26 and | 5:43 to an Atargateion or Atergateion, a temple of Atargatis, at Carnion i ... |
Lancelot-Grail | ... tles. It is not until the 13th-century French prose romances, including the | and the Post-Vulgate Cycle, that Camelot began to supersede Caerleon, and ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... ader, but some find this "difficulty" rewarding. Wolfe said, in a letter to | : "My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educat ... |
Allmusic | Keith Johnson of | describes a "Modern Creative" genre, in which "musicians may incorporate f ... |
Prose Edda | In the | more detailed information is given about the location, including a detaile ... |
Dictionary of National Biography | ... He was a member of the London-based Political Economy Club and the British | says of him |
Gospel of Mark | Markan priority is the hypothesis that the | was the first written of the three Synoptic Gospels, and that the two othe ... |
The Wind in the Willows | ... nt things to enjoy in it, and places it alongside Flatland, Phantastes, and | . W. H. Auden, in his review of the sequel The Fellowship of the Ring call ... |
The Silmarillion | ... many major characters in several of Tolkien's books and other works such as | , The Lays of Beleriand, and most recently The Children of Húrin. Similar ... |
I, Jedi | ... the character Corran Horn, who later starred in his own first-person novel, | , also written by Stackpole. Horn later became a popular character in the ... |
The Analyst | ... s calculus ("fluxions") against the criticism of George Berkeley, author of | It is speculated that Bayes was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society i ... |
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die | ... Media's top 100 albums of the 1970s. The album is also included in the book | . In 2006, the album was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best al ... |
Book of Genesis | ... ocentrism base the belief on religious texts, such as the verse 1:26 in the | |
How to Rap | ... comes Big Daddy Kane — instead of going three words, he’s going multiple”. | explains that "rhyme is often thought to be the most important factor in r ... |
Tevye | ... Tevye the Milkman and Other Tales) by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on | , the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his family an ... |
Martyrology | ... the 8th century and is best known as the author of the Félire Óengusso "the | of Óengus" |
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity | In his earlier book | (2002), Smolin stated that loop quantum gravity and string theory were ess ... |
Book of Common Prayer | ... used to endorse completely all of the ritual directions and formulas of the | ; the imposition of its liturgical order by legal force and inspection sha ... |
Religio Medici | ... nymous Hermetical also occurs in the 17th century. Sir Thomas Browne in his | of 1643 wrote "Now besides these particular and divided Spirits, there may ... |
Prose Edda | ... ogy, Elli (Old Norse "old age") is a personification of old age who, in the | book Gylfaginning, defeats Thor in a wrestling match |
Aeneid | ... now have as a testimony to the right of Atreus." Virgil, in book IV of the | , references the House of Atreus and specifically Orestes in describing th ... |
De humani corporis fabrica | In 1543 | , the first book on human anatomy, was published and printed in Basel by A ... |
Augustan History | The | ("Tyrrani Triginta" 27, 30) claims that Zenobia queen of Palmyra in the la ... |
Arthashastra | ... poison and fire arrows, but advises poisoning food and water. Kautilya's " | ," a statecraft manual of the same era, contains hundreds of recipes for c ... |
On War | ... an theory of warfare, which he juxtaposes to the famous work by Clausewitz, | Clausewitz's trinitarian model of war (a term of van Creveld's) distinguis ... |
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology | ... The Objectivist, and The Ayn Rand Letter, and in non-fiction books such as | and The Virtue of Selfishness |
Epistle to the Romans | ... ns 1:14). Lastly, a Gaius is referred to in a final greeting portion of the | (Romans 16:23) as Paul's "host" and also host of the whole church, in what ... |
Chickenhawk | ... hor Robert Mason recounts his career as a UH-1 "Slick" pilot in his memoir, | |
The Silmarillion | ... been speaking poetically, but as Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age in | says, the city is referred to Minas Anor again after Sauron's overthrow |
Roman Martyrology | ... the day of his death is unknown, Saint Cletus continues to be listed in the | among the saints of 26 April |
Animal Liberation | In his 1990 edition of | , Peter Singer said that he no longer ate oysters and mussels, because alt ... |
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction | ... selling author, Wolfe is highly regarded by critics Such as John Clute; his | writes: “Though neither the most popular nor the most influential author i ... |
Fountain | ... he said it was a work of art. He referred to his work as "Readymades". The | , was a urinal signed with the pseudonym R. Mutt, that shocked the art wor ... |
Neil Gaiman | Destruction is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series The Sandman |
Allmusic | ... l plasticity which are now an integral part of contemporary youth culture". | has described Jagger as "one of the most popular and influential frontmen ... |
The World Factbook | ... population being deprived in at least three of the HDI's poverty measures. | reports a shortage of skilled labor, widespread unemployment and underempl ... |
Acts | ... being is the recipient of the promise and is not merely a witness. Thus in | 23:21, over forty men, enemies of Paul, bound themselves, under a curse, n ... |
Kama Sutra | ... es, according to one's nature or prakrti. These are also spelled out in the | (c. 4th century AD) and elsewhere as pums-prakrti (male-nature), stri-prak ... |
International Plant Names Index | ... s under the ICN the name is generally abbreviated and the date omitted. The | maintains an approved list of botanical author abbreviations. Historically ... |
Nicomachean Ethics | ... ssity for more than one piece of evidence goes back at least to Aristotle's | : "For as one swallow or one day does not make a spring, so one day or a s ... |
Book of Commandments | ... octrine and Covenants was first published in 1835 as a later version of the | , which had been partially printed in 1833. This earlier book contained 65 ... |
Eric Flint | Mannington is the model for the fictional town of Grantville in | 's best selling hit 1632 series of alternate history novels: 1632, 1633, R ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... was their own idea, not that of their publisher, to collaborate on a novel. | has said |
The Tales of Beedle the Bard | ... y Hallows and its film adaptation. The story was later included in the book | |
Prut(h)enic | ... common predecessor, Teutonic Prussia. The adjectival form of the name was " | " |
L'existentialisme est un humanisme | ... in a lecture to the Club Maintenant in Paris. The lecture was published as | (Existentialism is a Humanism), a short book which did much to popularize ... |
John | It is said in | 14:2-3 and also in the Al-Quran43:61 that Jesus will be sent again to eart ... |
Dream Days | ... apers in 1893, and, two years later, The Golden Age. These were followed by | in 1898, which contains The Reluctant Dragon |
Divine Office | In the Roman rite, the hymn is sung in the | on June 24, the Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist. The full hymn i ... |
Neil Gaiman | Among others, writers | and Patrick O'Leary have credited Wolfe for inspiration. O'Leary has said: ... |
Questions of Truth | ... f magnitude of being maximal for the production of black holes. In his book | , the particle physicist John Polkinghorne has another difficulty with Smo ... |
The House at Pooh Corner | Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by | in 1928. A second collection of nursery rhymes, Now We Are Six, was publis ... |
Encarta Dictionary | ... t, as far as is known, did not use the word. Nevertheless, according to the | and Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, "dodo" derives from Portuguese doudo ... |
Acta Lapponica | ... zed and became the standard terminology by the work of Johannes Schefferus, | (1673), but was also used earlier by Olaus Magnus in his Description of th ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... ten abbreviated "HHGTTG" (as used on fan websites) or "H2G2" (first used by | as a chapter title in and later by the online guide run by the BBC). The s ... |
Ball Four | ... een discussed in Sports Illustrated and in Jim Bouton's groundbreaking book | , but there was virtually no public backlash. Two decades later, however, ... |
Genesis | The Biblical Garden of Eden as depicted in | 2 (Authorized Version of 1611) |
The Sound Pattern of English | ... egmental phenomena that go beyond the linear model of phonology laid out in | . Due to this tone system a word in igbo pronounced with a slightly differ ... |
Cults in Our Midst | ... ashing of Korean prisoners of war, agreed with this conclusion: in her book | she describes six conditions which would create an atmosphere in which tho ... |
Augustan History | ... jan as his adoptive son and successor in the summer of 97. According to the | , it was the future Emperor Hadrian who brought word to Trajan of his adop ... |
Almagest | ... ancy, also known as Archimedes' Principle. The astronomer Ptolemy wrote the | , a comprehensive astronomical text that formed the basis of much later sc ... |
The Grantville Gazette | ... ling hit 1632 series of alternate history novels: 1632, 1633, Ring of Fire, | , and other book-length and shorter works. The 1632 series has evolved int ... |
Institutes of the Christian Religion | The first edition of Christianae religionis institutio ( | – John Calvin's great exposition of Calvinist doctrine) was published at B ... |
The Life of the Cosmos | In a critical review of | , the astrophysicist Joe Silk suggested that our universe falls short by a ... |
The City of God | This was essentially the position taken by Augustine of Hippo in his | |
Aeneid | ... losure. Here are three examples from Book IV of Dryden's translation of the | |
Mein Leben | Wagner claimed in his 1870 autobiography | that he had been inspired to write The Flying Dutchman following a stormy ... |
The True Law of Free Monarchies | ... a king can release his subjects from their allegiance." James's reading of | allowed that "...a good king will frame all his actions to be according to ... |
De Magnete | ... direction was deflected from magnetic north. This was described in 1600 in | but was not understood to be caused by space weather until the 19th centur ... |
Experience | ... third husband, Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock. Martin wrote the memoir | about the life, charm, and decline of his father |
Titan Books | ... man Web Site reported that Johnny Alucard is set to be published in 2012 by | , following new editions of the previous books in the series |
The Wind in the Willows | ... gap between Grahame's penultimate book and the publication of his triumph, | . During this decade Grahame became a father. The wayward headstrong natur ... |
Ten Days that Shook the World | ... st, best remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, | . He was married to writer and feminist Louise Bryant. Reed died in Russia ... |
Mein Kampf | ... tors before his release on 20 December 1924. While in jail, Hitler dictated | , which laid out his ideas and future policies. Hitler now decided to focu ... |
Politics as a Vocation | ... n political sociology, one of Weber's most significant contributions is his | essay. Therein, Weber unveils the definition of the state as that entity w ... |
Epistle of James | ... Apol. 16:5 shows a combination of sayings material found in Matthew and the | |
Roget's Thesaurus | ... known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases ( | ), a classified collection of related words |
Notes on Nursing | Nightingale wrote | , which was published in 1859, a slim 136-page book that served as the cor ... |
In Defense of Internment | ... lusions drawn by Lowman were defended by pundit Michelle Malkin in her book | ; The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror. M ... |
A Theory of Justice | ... eau, and John Locke. The original position figures prominently in his book, | . It has influenced a variety of thinkers from a broad spectrum of philoso ... |
Systema naturae | ... (glauca, fœtida, grisea, tripetala and acuminata). In the tenth edition of | (1759), he merged grisea with glauca, and raised the four remaining variet ... |
Annals of the Four Masters | ... is used of St. John the Apostle, of a missioner from abroad recorded in the | at the year 806, and of Óengus Céile Dé, the well-known monk and author of ... |
Eminent Victorians | ... . Here he established himself until 1916 and wrote the first three parts of | |
Agallamh na Seanórach | ... werewolves. They were eventually killed by Cas Corach. The story appears in | , which is part of the Fenian Cycle |
Catholic Encyclopedia | However, the | asserts, "justice requires notice of his strict sense of equity, his refor ... |
On War | ... ge, he studied military history and theory (including Carl von Clausewitz's | ), and later cited Conner's enormous influence on his military thinking, s ... |
Roman Missal | ... ly. Use of this 1960 calendar, which is included in the 1962 edition of the | , continues to be authorized under the conditions indicated in the motu pr ... |
The Age of Reason | ... o the imprisonment of Thomas Williams, the London printer of Thomas Paine's | . Wilberforce's attempts to legislate against adultery and Sunday newspape ... |
Temporary Autonomous Zone | In addition to his writings on anarchism and | s, Bey has written essays on such diverse topics as Tong traditions, the u ... |
Allmusic | Liana Jonas of | described Conspiracy of One as The Offspring's "most musically mature coll ... |
Luke | ... s found in the written record of the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and | , and possibly also an apocryphal gospel |
Species plantarum | When Linnaeus took up Magnolia in his | (1753), he created a genus of only one species: Magnolia virginiana. Under ... |
Gospel of Mark | ... st in the Olivet discourse, according to both the Gospel of Matthew and the | . In the Matthew account, Jesus is presented as quoting Daniel explicitly |
Gospel Book | ... g, Emperor Henry IV commissioned to the St. Emmeram's Abbey the creation of | s to the Polish court, now kept in the library of the chapter in the Krakó ... |
Gospel of Matthew | ... term is used by Jesus Christ in the Olivet discourse, according to both the | and the Gospel of Mark. In the Matthew account, Jesus is presented as quot ... |
Suda | In the | under the entry "Mithras", it states that "no one was permitted to be init ... |
Catholic Encyclopedia | ... 04, allegedly strangled in prison on the order of Sergius, a claim that the | called "extremely doubtful. |
The Chicago Manual of Style | ... d a form of clitic, and should not be confused with the interjection "Oh" ( | , 15th edition, section 5.197). However, as the Oxford English Dictionary ... |
Matthew | ... ions of the apostles found in the written record of the Synoptic Gospels of | , Mark, and Luke, and possibly also an apocryphal gospel |
The Picture of Dorian Gray | ... ncorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, | (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and comb ... |
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium | ... aus Copernicus's sole pupil. He facilitated the publication of his master's | (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) |
Book of Common Prayer | ... etter Lane. On 19 December of that year, his sermon against bishops and the | attracted hostile attention from apprentices, who smashed the premises's w ... |
1 Corinthians | ... Stephanas) who were baptised by Paul, who founded the Church in that city ( | 1:14). Lastly, a Gaius is referred to in a final greeting portion of the E ... |
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology | ... boration by Rand is the theory of concept-formation, which she presented in | . She argued that concepts are formed by a process of measurement omission ... |
Gospel of Luke | This verse in the Olivet Discourse also occurs in the | |
A Mathematical Theory of Communication | ... n 1928. Claude E. Shannon first used the word bit in his seminal 1948 paper | . He attributed its origin to John W. Tukey, who had written a Bell Labs m ... |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... interpretations of the significance of the Eucharist, but according to the | "there is more of a consensus among Christians about the meaning of the Eu ... |
William Robinson | ... ore they became hotels, include Gravetye Manor, the home of garden designer | , and Cliveden, designed by Charles Barry with a rose garden by Geoffrey J ... |
Opticks | ... ight into its constituent spectrum of colors, as published in his 1704 book | (which also advocated a particulate interpretation of light). Experiments ... |
Decameron | ... g has since become known as Petrarchism. Boccaccio was better known for his | , a slightly grim story of Florence during the 1350s bubonic plague, known ... |
Encyclopædia Britannica | The village of Vasiliko (described by the 1911 | as "insignificant") now occupies the site |
Now We Are Six | ... by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928. A second collection of nursery rhymes, | , was published in 1927. All three books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard ... |
Le Morte d'Arthur | Sir Thomas Malory's | ("The Death of Arthur"), written in 1485, was important in defining the id ... |
Encyclopedia Dramatica | ... example, a New York Times article discussed troll activity at 4chan and at | , which it described as "an online compendium of troll humor and troll lor ... |
The Devil's Dictionary | ... uman perception and reason. Bierce's most famous work of satire is probably | , in which the definitions mock cant, hypocrisy and received wisdom |
Fifty Classic Climbs of North America | ... ute would later be listed in Allen Steck and Steve Roper's influential book | . The easiest route on the face is the Casual Route (5.10a), first climbed ... |
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium | ... nary unpublished sketch called the Commentariolus. By the time he published | , he had added more circles. Counting the total number is difficult, but e ... |
Sibylline oracles | ... Byzantine encyclopedia, the Suda, credits the Hebrew Sibyl as author of the | |
Critique of Pure Reason | In his | , Kant proposed the following system |
De la pirotechnia | ... repeatedly until bonding occurred. In 1540, Vannoccio Biringuccio published | , which includes descriptions of the forging operation. Renaissance crafts ... |
Camino de Perfección | ... d Christian meditation practices as she entails in her other important work | (The Way of Perfection) |
Annals of the Four Masters | In the | , compiled in the 1630s, Magh nAla is misrepresented as Magh Eala, the Don ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | ... (The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, section 5.197). However, as the | points out, "O" and "Oh" were originally used interchangeably. With the ad ... |
Systema naturae | ... r's Genera, adopted the genus name Magnolia in 1735 in his first edition of | , without a description but with a reference to Plumier's work. In 1753, h ... |
Suda | The medieval Byzantine encyclopedia, the | , credits the Hebrew Sibyl as author of the Sibylline oracles |
Opus Majus | ... he place of philosophy within theology. As a result Bacon sent the Pope his | , which presented his views on how the philosophy of Aristotle and the new ... |
Enneads | ... rsilio Ficino, would proceed to translate into Latin all Plato's works, the | of Plotinus, and various other Neoplatonist works |
Fire the Bastards! | ... sheets blasting the critics; the series was collected later under the title | ) Shortly after the publication of The Recognitions, Gaddis married his fi ... |
The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book | A short story by Adams, "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe", first appeared in | , a special large-print compilation of different stories and pictures that ... |
Aeneid | The main ancient source for the story is the | of Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus. The event does not ... |
Biographia Literaria | ... r, were first published including "Kubla Khan". His literary autobiography, | , appeared in 1817. His home became a place of pilgrimage for figures such ... |
Goodbye to a River | In the 1980s, Texas Monthly Press published such books as | and Hank the Cowdog and authors such as Bud Shrake, Stephen Harrigan and G ... |
The Persistence of Vision | ... n biological science were revelatory in the 1970s when his story collection | was released. The title story won the Hugo and Nebula awards |
Gospel of John | ... buted to John the Evangelist, traditionally thought to be the author of the | and the other two epistles of John. This Epistle is the shortest book in t ... |
Bibliotheca | ... giving the god the epithet Lykaios and establishing games in his honor. The | , a Roman-era mythological compendium, adds the story that Lycaon attempte ... |
Allmusic | Described by | as the "father of country-rock", Gram Parsons' work in the early '70s was ... |
How to Rap | In the book | , Masta Ace explains how Rakim and Big Daddy Kane caused a shift in the wa ... |
Spycatcher | Peter Wright, in his book | , claimed that in 1967 Mountbatten attended a private meeting with press b ... |
Species plantarum | ... mier's work. In 1753, he took up Plumier's Magnolia in the first edition of | . Since Linnaeus never saw an herbarium specimen (if there ever was one) o ... |
The Virtue of Selfishness | ... d in non-fiction books such as Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology and | |
Libro de los juegos | ... had reached Iceland by the 13th century. In Spain, the Alfonso X manuscript | , completed in 1283, describes rules for a number of dice and table games ... |
A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain | Writer Daniel Defoe devotes a few pages to the town in | . Visiting in 1722, he noted its formidable fort and harbour "of a vast ex ... |
City of God | St Augustine in his | writes "God is called omnipotent on account of His doing what He wills" an ... |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... grasping it one-quarter of the distance from the lower end is suggested in | |
Guinness World Records | ... Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy X. The Dragon Quest series was recognized by | , with six world records in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition. Th ... |
The Te of Piglet | | was written by Benjamin Hoff following the publication of The Tao of Pooh. ... |
In the Night Kitchen | ... bakers preparing cakes for the morning in his award-winning children's book | (1970). This is treated as a clear example of "interpretative illustration ... |
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches | ... iente and included material from a variety of modern sources, (notably from | and the writings of Aleister Crowley) it also included sections written in ... |
Time Out | ... eet. The Crack is a monthly style and listings magazine similar to London's | . The adult comic Viz originated in Jesmond, and The Mag is a fanzine for ... |
Deutsches Wörterbuch | ... status of a remnant of pagan antiquity, scoffed at by Grimm's entry in his | . A particularly fanciful etymology, suggested by James Skene in 1824, der ... |
Eminent Victorians | ... and draws much characterisation from Lytton Strachey's biography of her in | . It was adapted as a film of the same name in 1951. Nightingale also appe ... |
Rough Guide | Newcastle was in the top ten of the country's top night spots, and The | to Britain placed Newcastle upon Tyne's nightlife as Great Britain's no. 1 ... |
Blueberry Girl | ... tour for The Graveyard Book. It was published in March 2009 with the title, | |
The New York Times Best Seller list | ... origin, as they explore their common heritage. It debuted at number one on | |
Lunar Park | ... n later years, Ellis' novels have become increasingly metafictional. 2005's | , a pseudo-memoir and ghost story, received positive reviews, and 2010's I ... |
Nordisk familjebok | ... l of Roman gold to Götaland, but also naturally depleted their numbers (see | ). The Hervarar saga is believed to contain such traditions handed down fr ... |
The Way | In 1939, Escrivá published | , a collection of 999 maxims concerning spirituality. In the 1940s, Opus D ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... in his opinion of himself, to Jurgen. Cabell was also a major influence on | , acknowledged as such in the rear of Gaiman's novels Stardust and America ... |
I Am a Strange Loop | ... m "strange loop", a concept he examines in more depth in his follow-up book | . To escape many of the logical contradictions brought about by these self ... |
Papyrus Anastasi I | The | (late 2nd millennium BC) contains a satirical letter which first praises t ... |
The Climb | ... Krakauer. Boukreev's supporters (who include G. Weston DeWalt, who co-wrote | ) state that using bottled oxygen gives a false sense of security. Krakaue ... |
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt | ... the left hand to swing free with the gait. Edmund Morris, in his biography | , describes a young Roosevelt, newly elected to the State Assembly, walkin ... |
Ante-Nicene Fathers | ... n writings into English. It was published between 1886 and 1900. Unlike the | which was produced by using earlier translations of the Ante-Nicene Christ ... |
Homage to Catalonia | ... M in Catalonia from December 1936 until June 1937. His memoir of that time, | , was first published in 1938 and foreshadowed the causes of Second World ... |
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction | ... thologized author alive) and much respected by critics. John Clute wrote in | : "His influence upon writers like Harlan Ellison and Samuel R. Delany was ... |
The Brass Check | ... the Philippines in 1898 was also criticized in Upton Sinclair's 1919 book, | : A Study of American Journalism. According to Sinclair, Hearst's newspape ... |
Allmusic | ... they perceived as the overproduced, uninspired popular music of the 1970s. | explained that New Wave's stylistic diversity occurred because New Wave "r ... |
The Destruction of Dresden | ... azi polemicists—most notably by the British writer David Irving in his book | —in an attempt to establish a moral equivalence between the death toll of ... |
Unfinished Tales | ... s have criticized some of these decisions. The Silmarillion was followed by | in 1980 and The History of Middle-earth in twelve volumes between 1983 and ... |
Guinness World Records | According to | , as of 1 March 2011, the world's hottest chili pepper is the Trinidad Sco ... |
OED | ... e that the term paganism was in use in English before the 17th century. The | instances Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776): "Th ... |
A Treatise of Human Nature | ... vid Hume, published in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's | , published anonymously in London in 1739–40. Hume was disappointed with t ... |
Meditations on First Philosophy | ... above logic. A view supported by René Descartes He issues this idea in his | |
The Antichrist | ... will to power concept in Nietzsche's later works The Twilight of the Idols, | and Ecce Homo |
The Analyst | ... el Rolle and Bishop Berkeley. Berkeley described infinitesimals in his book | in 1734 |
Philosophy of Freedom | ... rly work of the founder of anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner, culminated in his | (also translated as The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity and Intuitive Thi ... |
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | ... they come neighing, to a horse nation", taken almost verbatim from the book | , while "Spiritwalker" dealt with shamanism, and the record's title and ti ... |
Federal Standard 1037C | Source: from | |
The White Goddess | ... t the back of the poplar leaf was turned white by the sweat of Herakles. In | , he names the white poplar as one of the "three trees of resurrection," a ... |
Pale Blue Dot | In his book | , author Dr. Carl Sagan also reflects on what he perceives to be the conce ... |
Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition | ... ies was recognized by Guinness World Records, with six world records in the | . These records include "Best Selling Role Playing Game on the Super Famic ... |
The Tao of Pooh | The Te of Piglet was written by Benjamin Hoff following the publication of | . Both books feature the original drawing of E. H. Shepard. The Te of Pigl ... |
Tanglewood Tales | Her tale is also mentioned in Nathaniel Hawthorne's | . Though his story titled "Dragon's teeth" is largely about Cadmus, it beg ... |
Allmusic | ... assic and an anthem of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. According to | , James Brown was critical, through "the gospel-impassioned fury of his vo ... |
Fun Home | ... ed States. The population was 717 at the 2000 census. It is the setting for | , a 2006 graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, who grew up there. Brittani Kli ... |
Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture | ... tion. Its composition is usually dated to roughly between 1700–1100 BC. The | (s.v. Indo-Iranian languages, p. 306) gives 1500–1000 BC |
King Leopold's Ghost | In | (1998), Adam Hochschild argues that literary scholars have made too much o ... |
Tevye and his Daughters | Fiddler on the Roof was originally titled Tevye. It is based on | (or Tevye the Milkman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem that he wrote in ... |
IUPAC Blue Book | ... his definition, yet they were two key compounds in the vitalism debate. The | on organic nomenclature specifically mentions urea and oxalic acid. Other ... |
E-book | ... ept which defined the conceptual basics for laptop and tablet computers and | s, and is the architect of the modern overlapping windowing graphical user ... |
Mein Kampf | Hitler wrote in | that it was created as a universal language to unite the Jewish diaspora |
Der Judenstaat | ... igned to report on the trial and its aftermath. Soon afterward, Herzl wrote | (The Jewish State, 1896) and founded the World Zionist Organization, which ... |
Acts | ... motto, "God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth", is taken from | . One General Studies course is focused on Christian faith, as every stude ... |
A Monetary History of the United States | ... economics from the mid-1950s, and especially after his 1963 publication of | |
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol | ... -systems by extending or changing the provided CLOS functionality. The Book | describes the use and implementation of the CLOS MOP |
The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith described economic specialization in his classic work, | |
General Economic History | ... His lectures from that period were collected into major works, such as the | , Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation. In Munich, he headed t ... |
De Administrando Imperio | ... when Constantine VII recorded the Romance-language speakers in this area in | , saying that they called themselves Romans, but this could also refer to ... |
De humani corporis fabrica | ... that year Vesalius asked Johannes Oporinus to help publish the seven-volume | (On the fabric of the human body), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy ... |
Whitaker's Almanac of London | ... ac has made for itself a secure position, second only to the forty-year-old | , with which alone it can be compared. |
The Silmarillion | Valaquenta (Quenya for "Tale of the Valar") is the second section of | , a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and publishe ... |
Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare | ... S. encouraged human rights violations by the Contras by the manual entitled | . However, this did not make such acts attributable to the U.S |
The Poverty of Historicism | Karl Popper, in The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) and | (1961), articulated an influential critique of totalitarianism: in both wo ... |
The Father Christmas Letters | ... his second wife, Baillie Tolkien (née Klass), who edited J. R. R. Tolkien's | for posthumous publication. They have two children, Adam Reuel Tolkien and ... |
A Modest Proposal | ... or in Book III of Gulliver's Travels) or immorality (such as the speaker of | , who offers an entirely logical and wholly immoral proposal for cannibali ... |
Narratio Prima | ... dańsk) to visit the mayor, who gave him financial assistance to publish his | (First Report) of Copernicus' forthcoming treatise. Rhode in Danzig publis ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... s story. During this run on the title, Grant Morrison (issues #25 & 26) and | (issue #27) both filled in during a three-month break, Grant Morrison's st ... |
The Peoples of Middle-earth | In | , Christopher Tolkien gives the translation: "Uglúk to the cesspool, sha! ... |
The Wind in the Willows | He also adapted Kenneth Grahame's novel | for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall. The title was an implicit admission th ... |
Chronicle of Fredegar | | mentions Carantania as Sclauvinia, Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) mentions Ca ... |
The Silmarillion | ... t published in his lifetime. Although he had originally intended to publish | along with The Lord of the Rings, and parts of it were in a finished state ... |
The Picture of Dorian Gray | ... in action or violence, Earnest lacks the self-conscious decadence found in | and Salome |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... as being approximately . Specific area figures range from according to the | , according to the UN Demographic Yearbook, to according to the CIA World ... |
CIA World Factbook | According to | the numbers are : Roman Catholic 83%–88%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim ... |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... pute the verdict of James D. Forbes, an editor of the eighth edition of the | : "His scientific glory is different in kind from that of Young and Fresne ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... re's Swamp Thing, The Floronic Man is detained there, and in The Sandman by | , Doctor Destiny escapes the asylum to wreak havoc on both the real and dr ... |
Titan Books | ... mmidge and illustrated by John McLusky. Goldfinger was reprinted in 2005 by | as part of the Dr. No anthology, which in addition to Dr. No, also include ... |
On the Heavens | ... ng Avicenna eighteen questions, ten of which were criticisms of Aristotle's | |
Samguk Yusa | ... nium BC) of the Gojoseon kingdom according to Korean history books, notably | . Many South Korean historians deny this claim, because other Korean histo ... |
The Atlas of Middle-earth | ... do is a plan of Minas Tirith. Pages 138&139 in Karen Wynn Fonstad's revised | show a different plan of Minas Tirith. They are at variance with each othe ... |
Catholic Encyclopedia | The | elaborates on the historical timeline problem |
A Mathematical Theory of Communication | ... on. For patent reasons, the result was not published until 1950. In 1948, " | ", one of the founding works in information theory, was published by Claud ... |
Euclid's Elements | ... ecords of the explicit study of prime numbers come from the Ancient Greeks. | (circa 300 BC) contain important theorems about primes, including the infi ... |
The Origins of Totalitarianism | In | , Hannah Arendt argued that Nazi and State communist regimes were new form ... |
Suda | ... Niccolò Alamanni in 1623 at Lyons. Its existence was already known from the | , Latin Anecdota, "unpublished writings"). The Secret History covers rough ... |
hymn book | ... he Church of Scotland has no compulsory prayer book although it does have a | (the 4th edition was published in 2005) and its Book of Common Order conta ... |
Guinness World Records | In 2006, | listed the First World Hotel in Genting Highlands, Malaysia as the world's ... |
The Servile State | ... among Chesterton's and Belloc's other works regarding distributism include | , and Outline of Sanity |
Commentariolus | ... s with Copernicus. It is unknown whether he had prior access to Copernicus' | , an unsigned, unpublished outline of Copernicus' revolutionary heliocentr ... |
Personality Plus | ... dire but accurate predictions of a coming global financial crisis, in 2006. | opines that pessimistic temperaments (e.g. melancholy and phlegmatic) can ... |
Systema Naturae | ... the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th century work, | , under the name of Motacilla rubecula. Its specific epithet rubecula is a ... |
Acts of the Apostles | ... anted to call down fire on a Samaritan town, but were rebuked by Jesus. The | 12:1 records that Herod had James executed by sword. He is the only apostl ... |
Federal Standard 1037C | Source: from | and fro |
Bibliotheca | ... on as one of the suitors; he is also included on the list of suitors in the | |
Almagest | ... cosmology from Constantinople, including Aristotle's De caelo and Ptolemy's | were translated into Arabic in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad |
Into That Silent Sea | ... d then again in greater detail of her life and spaceflight in the 2007 book | by Colin Burgess and Francis French, including interviews with Tereshkova ... |
Prose Edda | ... dda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material; in the | and Heimskringla, both written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; in ... |
Aeneid | ... ated that the Etruscans came from Lydia, repeated in Virgil's epic poem the | , and Etruscan-like language was found on the Lemnos stele. However, recen ... |
Der Judenstaat | ... acted to Herzl's Jewish nationalism, nor did the publication review Herzl's | . Zweig himself called Herzl's book an "obtuse text, [a] piece of nonsense ... |
Faith of My Fathers | ... d. These matter-of-fact details are revealed in famous accounts by McCain ( | ), Denton, Alvarez, Day, Risner, Stockdale and dozens of others. In additi ... |
The Life of the Cosmos | ... scales. Smolin summarized the idea in a book aimed at a lay audience called | |
Matthew | ... s alluded to, though not directly quoted, in the New Testament (Hebrews 5:4 | ;12:42; 23:35; Luke 1:5; 11:31, 51) |
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia | ... he options in the Grolier Online reference service, which also includes the | , intended for middle and high school students, and The New Book of Knowle ... |
Historiae Animalium | ... after entering the gymnasium, at age 10, he encountered a copy of Gesner's | , the work that first sparked his interest in natural history. He then beg ... |
DisneyWar | According to the book | , Disney's David Vogel read Shyamalan's speculative script and instantly l ... |
The City of God | ... of the city than that of the Christian God, inspiring St Augustine to write | , alternative title "De Civitate Dei contra Paganos: The City of God again ... |
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Ballantine Adult Fantasy series | From 1969 through 1972, the | returned six of Cabell's novels to print, and elevated his profile in the ... |
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection | ... te genetic loci. In this and subsequent papers culminating in his 1930 book | , Fisher was able to show how Mendelian genetics was, contrary to the thin ... |
On the Origin of Species | ... m his famous 1858 paper to the Linnean Society (which led Darwin to publish | ) Alfred Russel Wallace says of the evolutionary principle |
Hanyu Da Zidian | ... stimates of the total number of Chinese words and phrases vary greatly. The | , a compendium of Chinese characters, includes 54,678 head entries for cha ... |
Arthashastra | ... (c. 350–275 BC) was a political thinker in Takshashila. Chanakya wrote the | , a treatise on political thought, economics and social order. It discusse ... |
Faith of My Fathers | In August 1999, McCain's memoir | , co-authored with Mark Salter, was published; a reviewer observed that it ... |
Systema Naturae | ... the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th century work, | . The genus name Gavia comes from the Latin for "sea mew", as used by anci ... |
Aryabhatiya | ... motion of the planets. The final two parts of his Sanskrit magnum opus the | , which were named the Kalakriya ("reckoning of time") and the Gola ("sphe ... |
The Children of Húrin | ... tmaster and maker of devices. He appeared in person in The Silmarillion and | . It is said that he is only less evil than Morgoth because for a long tim ... |
Kojiki | ... ns of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the | |
Servile State | ... the basis that it further alienates man by making him more dependent on the | . Distributists such as Dorothy Day did not favor social security when it ... |
Hanyu Da Cidian | ... t comprehensive pure linguistic Chinese-language dictionary, the 12-volumed | , records more than 23,000 head Chinese characters and gives over 370,000 ... |
The Canon of Medicine | ... orical novel The Walking Drum, Kerbouchard studies and discusses Avicenna's | |
Getting to YES | ... (PON), in their series of books on Principled negotiation that started with | , unwittingly duplicating a game theoretic concept pioneered by Nobel Laur ... |
Nihon Shoki | ... d study. Significant differences exist in the records of the Kojiki and the | |
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior | ... thropocentrism has been posited by some environmentalists, in such books as | by Dave Foreman and Green Rage by Christopher Manes, as the underlying (if ... |
Kojiki | ... verification and study. Significant differences exist in the records of the | and the Nihon Shoki |
Allmusic | According to Bill Dahl at | |
Book of Common Prayer | The | (1662) of the Church of England refers to the clergy as "bishops and curat ... |
Amateur Telescope Making | ... ns The Amateur Scientist column) and later compiled into three books titled | Vol. 1-3. These had a large readership of enthusiast (sometimes called "te ... |
American Heritage | ... ly acceptable and shitted is uncommon and missing from the Random House and | dictionaries including Shorgan which means to shit your organs |
The Hot Zone | ... fictional works and a non-fiction work authored by Richard Preston known as | |
Tough Guide to Fantasyland | ... ion, to witty parody of literary forms. Foremost amongst the latter are her | , and its fictional companion-pieces Dark Lord of Derkholm (1998) and Year ... |
TripAdvisor | ... and foreign tourists. Baguio is the lone Philippine destination in the 2011 | Traveler's Choice Destinations Awards, Asia category, with the city being ... |
The War in Eastern Europe | ... hopes of seeing action at Gallipoli. These experiences led to Reed's book, | , published in April 1916 |
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches | ... containing sections adopted from various sources, such as Aleister Crowley, | , and even Rudyard Kipling, went on to become the traditional text for Gar ... |
Suda | ... lourished about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The | says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt ... |
De Veritate | ... 3–1648) is generally considered the "father of English Deism," and his book | (1624) the first major statement of deism. Deism flourished in England bet ... |
The True Believer | ... awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, | , published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critica ... |
The New York Times Best Seller list | ... inancial problems, Asprin stopped writing in the 1990s. He had two books on | which piqued the interest of fans and the IRS. Unfortunately this came rig ... |
Titan Books | ... ows. The Macnee novels, deadline and dead duck, were reprinted in the UK by | in standard paperback in 1994 and in France by Huitieme Art (1995 & 1996). ... |
Ghost Wars | ... are told in many sources, notably Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile, and | by Steve Coll |
Ezekiel | ... Bible. E. W. Bullinger interpreted the creatures appearing in the books of | and Revelation as the middle signs of the four quarters of the Zodiac, wit ... |
Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy | ... peras. Along with other contemporary works, such as Giovanni Paolo Marana's | and Montesquieu's Persian Letters, the opera was inspired by a contemporar ... |
I, Jedi | ... ly became a major character in the Expanded Universe, starring in the novel | , as well as several New Jedi Order novels (in which he is a Jedi Knight, ... |
Roman Missal | ... ul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the | . It is frequently, but not necessarily, celebrated in the context of a fu ... |
Gospel of John | ... e been tutored by John the Apostle. (John had used Logos terminology in the | and the letter of 1 John). Irenaeus prefers to speak of the Son and the Sp ... |
Sunday Times Rich List | ... of €109 million (i.e., £75 million or US$165 million), and number 95 in the | 2006 of the 250 Wealthiest Irish People |
The Land of Little Rain | The home of author Mary Austin, the author of " | ", is preserved as a museum located at 235 Market Street in Independence |
Genesis | The use of the word "dominion" in the | is controversial. Many Biblical scholars, especially Roman Catholic and ot ... |
The Chicago Manual of Style | ... part of The Oxford Manual of Style. Comparable in authority and stature to | for published American English, the Oxford Manual is a fairly exhaustive s ... |
Almagest | Ptolemy of Alexandria mapped the stars in Books VII and VIII of his | , in which he used Sirius as the location for the globe's central meridian ... |
The Wealth of Nations | ... e influential than the magna opera of other famous economists, like Smith's | |
Twilight of the Idols | Nietzsche credits Sallust in | for his epigrammatic style: "My sense of style, for the epigram as a style ... |
20th Century Ghosts | Best New Horror, a short story from the book | , has the main character reading a horror tale called Button Boy |
The Road to Serfdom | ... the idea of totalitarianism in his classic defense of economic competition | (1944). In his Introduction, Hayek contrasts Western Anglo values with Naz ... |
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary | The North American National Scrabble Association publishes the | (OSPD), which is also suitable for Boggle. This dictionary includes all va ... |
Now or Never | ... Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet | , using it as an acronym ("thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKS ... |
De re metallica | ... is wife also published their English translation of the 1556 mining classic | in 1912. This translation from the Latin of Renaissance author Georgius Ag ... |
Exodus | ... ranslations of the Bible, including the King James Version mention topaz in | 28:17 in reference to a stone in the Hoshen: "And thou shalt set in it set ... |
Mein Kampf | ... nny to the now-principal Dr. Sweeney on account of Danny's history paper on | . Dr. Sweeney convinces Murray to give him another chance. Dr. Sweeney tel ... |
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Charlie Wilson's War | The story of Stingers in Afghanistan are told in many sources, notably | by George Crile, and Ghost Wars by Steve Coll |
Glimpses of World History | ... ror Wilhelm II praising Attila the Hun's military prowess, according to the | by Jawaharlal Nehru |
Tobit | The Old Testament Deuterocanonical books of | and Sirach, accepted as part of the Scriptural canon by Catholic Church, E ... |
Please Save My Earth | ... way for Tokyo. It is used in anime and manga such as Magic Knight Rayearth, | , Cardcaptor Sakura, Digimon and Sailor Moon. The tower is also frequently ... |
Hart's Rules | ... in English; they were gradually expanded and eventually published, first as | and, most recently (in 2002), as part of The Oxford Manual of Style. Compa ... |
Prose Edda | ... while alive, also visits Hel upon his horse Sleipnir. In Snorri Sturluson's | , Baldr goes to Hel upon death and subsequently Hermóðr uses Sleipnir to a ... |
Allmusic | ... ally certified platinum in the US, it was initially panned by critics, with | complaining that the album "lacked conceptual unity and musical bite" and ... |
The Second Sex | ... any of the questions of feminism with the publication of Le Deuxième Sexe ( | ) in 1949. The book expressed feminists' sense of injustice. Second-wave f ... |
Al-Shifa' | ... paedic treatises, dealing with philosophy, are often mentioned. The larger, | (Sanatio), exists nearly complete in manuscript in the Bodleian Library an ... |
First Epistle to the Corinthians | In his | (c 54-55), Paul the Apostle gives the earliest recorded description of Jes ... |
I, Jedi | ... e. He later trained to become a Jedi Knight after his wife was kidnapped in | . During the events of the Yuuzhan Vong War, Horn was promoted to Jedi Mas ... |
Book of Martyrs | ... hrist" was instrumental in publicising accusations of torture in his famous | , claiming that More had often personally used violence or torture while i ... |
The God Delusion | ... controversial book by one of Sheldrake's critics Richard Dawkins, who wrote | . [In an interview with Fortean Times, Sheldrake denied that Dawkins' book ... |
First Epistle to the Corinthians | ... appears in all three Synoptic Gospels: Matthew, Mark, and Luke; and in the | , while the last-named of these also indicates something of how early Chri ... |
Historia Regum Britanniae | ... ester. Geoffrey of Monmouth expanded this story in his highly fictionalized | , and account of the supposed Kings of Britain from their Trojan origins t ... |
On the Sphere of the World | ... advanced evidence in favor of the idea that the Earth was a sphere. Also, " | ", the most influential astronomy textbook of the 13th century and require ... |
Allmusic | ... gle moment when the style was born. As an uncredited critic has written for | , "being freed of all rules, free improvisation cannot be traced back to a ... |
Des Imagistes | ... f Aldington and H.D., Pound decided to publish an anthology under the title | . It was first published in Alfred Kreymborg's little magazine The Glebe a ... |
Catholic Encyclopedia | ... ntury until 1972, and was thus used at the Council of Trent and in the 1913 | . (died 1160) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did n ... |
The Boys of Summer | ... ). His final film project was an adaptation of Roger Kahn's classic book, " | ." To Ring's great regret, funding did not materialize |
A System of Logic | ... eloped and promoted by English philosopher John Stuart Mill. His 1843 book, | , was an effort to shed further light on issues of causation. In this work ... |
Allmusic | ... 79–1984) was "easily identified by its relatively simple raps" according to | , "the emphasis was not on lyrical technique, but simply on good times", o ... |
A People's History of the United States | Damon narrated the audiobook version of historian Howard Zinn's | , published in 2003. Zinn had been his next-door neighbor growing up in Ca ... |
Quenta Silmarillion | ... ed descriptions eventually became Chapter 1 (entitled Of the Valar) for the | (or "The Silmarillion proper".) In revisions to the Quenta Silmarillion do ... |
Neil Gaiman | Black Orchid, written by | and illustrated by Dave McKean, also featured Arkham Asylum. The award-win ... |
Arthashastra | ... 350–283 BC) wrote about assassinations in detail in his political treatise | . His student Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Maurya Empire, later ... |
Deipnosophistae | The | , which mean "dinner-table philosophers" or perhaps "authorities on banque ... |
Sexual Politics | With the anthology Sisterhood is Powerful and other works, such as | , being published at the start of the decade, feminism started to reach a ... |
Into Thin Air | ... termath of the 1996 disaster further intensified the debate. Jon Krakauer's | (1997) expressed the author's personal criticisms of the use of bottled ox ... |
Neil Gaiman | The Corinthian is a fictional character in | 's comic book series The Sandman. He can first be seen in The Sandman #10 ... |
Aeneid | In Virgil's | , Deiphobus appears in the Underworld to Aeneas. He tells Aeneas the story ... |
Unua Libro | ... enforced delay led to continued improvement. In July 1887 he published his | (First Book), a basic introduction to the language. This was essentially t ... |
Politics as a Vocation | ... ajor works, such as the General Economic History, Science as a Vocation and | . In Munich, he headed the first German university institute of sociology, ... |
The Canon of Medicine | ... The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and | , which was a standard medical text at many medieval universities. The Can ... |
Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum | ... n monks: Helmold in the manuscript Chronicon Slavorum and Adam of Bremen in | . The Polabian language survived until the beginning of the 19th century i ... |
A Pattern Language | ... and strategies for design. The architect Christopher Alexander, in his book | formalized a lot of spatial relationships into a grammar for design. I'd r ... |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... the editor. At a later period he was one of the leading contributors to the | (seventh and eighth editions) writing, among others, the articles on elect ... |
Reading Capital | Althusser's earlier works include the influential volume | , which collects the work of Althusser and his students in an intensive ph ... |
The Shaping of Middle-earth | ... oldorinwa (probably written in 1930, but first published in 1986 as part of | , volume 4 of The History of Middle-earth) |
Dobson's Encyclopædia | ... rman Conversations-Lexicon was founded by German-born Francis Lieber. After | (1789–1798), it was the first significant American encyclopedia |
Dictionary of National Biography | ... , actor and author, "Sir" John Hill, credited with 76 separate works in the | , the most valuable of which dealing with botany, is also said to have bee ... |
Almagest | ... d by Ptolemy of the Thebaid in his 2nd-century AD astronomical treatise the | . In particular it explained the retrograde motion of the five planets kno ... |
The Climb | ... de who felt impugned by Krakauer's book, co-authored a rebuttal book called | . The dispute sparked a debate within the climbing community. In May 2004, ... |
Compact Oxford English Dictionary | ... l fact, in the absence of much relevant context. The word is defined by the | as "an item of unreliable information that is repeated so often that it be ... |
Philosophical Investigations | In the introduction to | , Wittgenstein mentions discussions with Sraffa over many years and says: ... |
Science as a Vocation | ... riod were collected into major works, such as the General Economic History, | and Politics as a Vocation. In Munich, he headed the first German universi ... |
Witchcraft Today | ... f the last Witchcraft Act in 1951. In 1954 Gerald Gardner published a book, | , in which he claimed to reveal the existence of a witch-cult that dated b ... |
Book of Genesis | ... to place, for ship caulking, and for waterproofing. In some versions of the | in the Bible, the name of the substance used to bind the bricks of the Tow ... |
Steal This Book | The album title is a reference to Abbie Hoffman's book | , which is regarded as a classic example of counterculture literature. A s ... |
Jewish Encyclopedia | The | article on states |
Le Ton beau de Marot | ... material regarding this interplay is to be found in Hofstadter's later book | , which is mainly about translation |
Book of Common Prayer | In the process of revising the | in various parts of the Anglican Communion the specification of abstinence ... |
The Silmarillion | ... thus is a great Craftmaster and maker of devices. He appeared in person in | and The Children of Húrin. It is said that he is only less evil than Morgo ... |
The Wealth of Nations | ... aking world its ideas were criticized by Adam Smith with the publication of | in 1776 and later David Ricardo with his explanation of comparative advant ... |
Ancient Judaism | ... Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and continued with the analysis of , and | . His work on other religions was interrupted by his sudden death in 1920, ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | ... s of Sir Thomas Browne are the source of many neologisms as recorded by the | |
Book of Esther | ... ndia, Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean. There are accounts in the biblical | of dispatches being sent from Susa to provinces as far out as India and th ... |
Fiore dei Liberi | Unarmed dagger defenses identical to those found in the manual of | and the Codex Wallerstein were integrated into the U.S. Army's training ma ... |
Oxford Latin Dictionary | ... ngue gauloise (Éditions Errance, 2003), p. 96. The entry on cabullus in the | (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982, 1985 reprinting), p. 246, does not give a ... |
Book of Common Prayer | The | prescribes certain days as days for fasting and abstinence, but since the ... |
Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart | ... but not, for example, in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians or | |
Philosophical Investigations | ... th providing Ludwig Wittgenstein with the conceptual break that founded the | , by means of a rude gesture on Sraffa's part |
Walden | ... f American anarchist and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. In his book | he advocates simple living and self-sufficiency among natural surroundings ... |
Ashmole Bestiary | ... stiary is related to other bestiaries of the Middle Ages and especially the | . Some argue that the Aberdeen Bestiary might be the older of the two |
1 Kings | ... prematurely in consequence of his father's undertaking to rebuild Jericho ( | 16:34), according to Joshua (6:26) |
Allmusic | ... were literally creating themselves and their art form at the same time" and | writes, "rhymers like PE's Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, and Rakim bas ... |
The Book of Healing | His most famous works are | , a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medi ... |
First Folio | One year later, the play was included among the plays in the | of Shakespeare's collected plays. However, the version in the Folio is rat ... |
The Truth About Uri Geller | ... ish his allegedly paranormal feats, and he supported his claims in the book | . Geller sued Randi for $15 million in 1991 and lost. Geller's suit agains ... |
Kojiki | According to the | Ankan was the elder son of Emperor Keitai, who is considered to have ruled ... |
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium | ... for a few astrological almanacs written for the university. But Copernicus' | (published in 1543, long after Novara's death) records that on 9 March 149 ... |
The New Book of Knowledge | ... Multimedia Encyclopedia, intended for middle and high school students, and | , an encyclopedia for elementary and middle school students. Grolier Onlin ... |
Guinness Book of World Records | ... rd magazine named her the "Female Entertainer of the Century." In 1993, the | declared Diana Ross the most successful female music artist in history due ... |
Allmusic | ... on was extremely positive; Pitchfork awarded the album a 9.7 out of 10, and | reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that it was "arguably Yo La Tengo's ... |
Macquarie Dictionary | Macquarie University's linguistics department developed the | , the copyright on which it still owns |
The Last Dangerous Visions | ... ildfinder," was bought by Harlan Ellison for the never-published collection | . (Like other stories purchased for that volume, it has yet to appear anyw ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | The | records its earliest known English-language usage of brainwashing in an ar ... |
The Spiral Dance | She decided to try her hand at nonfiction, and wrote a book, | , on Goddess religion, which she finished in 1977 but was unable to publis ... |
Temporary Autonomous Zone | ... al writer, essayist, and poet, known for first proposing the concept of the | (TAZ), based, in part, on a historical review of pirate utopias. He is an ... |
Gospel Book | ... lms of both hands, and the back of the hands. After the last anointing, the | is opened and placed with the writing down upon the head of the one who wa ... |
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | ... of Wisconsin Press, 1984, p. 441). Several respected sources, including the | and the Political Graveyard, instead show this individual to be James Arms ... |
Murder in Coweta County | ... white sharecropper Wilson Turner. These events were portrayed in the novel | . The film version starred Johnny Cash, Andy Griffith, and June Carter |
Book of Ether | ... are mentioned only once in the Book of Mormon. The reference occurs in the | , which is ostensibly a history of a nation of early Americans called the ... |
Mommie Dearest | ... d the two and, after Crawford's death, Christina wrote a "tell-all" memoir, | , in which she alleged a lifelong pattern of physical and emotional abuse ... |
Kill Your Boyfriend | ... ionysus provides the inspiration for his violent and explicit graphic novel | , whilst Campbell used the character in his Deadface series to explore bot ... |
Walden | ... was the thought of the American anarchist Henry David Thoreau and his book | . In the late 19th century there emerged anarcho-naturism as the fusion of ... |
The Oxford Companion to Music | ... it is referred to as such in some of the standard music references such as | but not, for example, in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians o ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... l style was inspired by the Wold Newton Universe of Philip José Farmer, and | helped develop the series (and was originally going to be its co-author). ... |
Library of the Fathers | ... translated into English by John Keble and published in 1872 as part of the | series |
Merriam-Webster | ... tionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary (sense 2b of pepper) and | . The word pepper is commonly used in the botanical and culinary fields in ... |
First Epistle to the Corinthians | ... is the name used in the early 50s of the first century as witnessed by the | : When you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper you eat, for as you ... |
Prose Edda | Hel is referenced in the | , written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, various times. In chapt ... |
Encyclopédie | ... e French government threatened to stop the publication of the famous French | on account of its irreligious spirit, Catherine proposed to Diderot that h ... |
Aeneid | ... ples, whom Virgil's Aeneas consults before his descent to the lower world ( | book VI: 10). Burkert notes (1985, p 117) that the conquest of Cumae by th ... |
Vertebrate Palaeontology | The following schema is from the third edition of | . The invertebrate chordate classes are from |
Neil Gaiman | Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series, The Sandman |
Suda | ... ertius Diogenes," and this form of the name is repeated by Sopater, and the | . The modern form "Diogenes Laertius" is much rarer, and occurs in Stephan ... |
The Silmarillion | ... ries wherein major events of Middle-earth find their first elaboration (see | ) |
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | ... ilosophy and history at Harvard University at around the time Thomas Kuhn's | (1962) was published, which he writes informed his view on the extent to w ... |
Seduction of the Innocent | ... 0s, in the wake of the crackdown on comics which followed Fredric Wertham's | and the United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings ... |
Book of Common Prayer | ... er Book to be used within Scotland that was almost identical to the English | , without consultation with either the Scottish Parliament or Kirk. Althou ... |
The Faith Healers | In the book | , Randi explains his anger and relentlessness as arising out of compassion ... |
The Complete Plain Words | ... ades. These include, most notably of all, Fowler's Modern English Usage and | by Sir Ernest Gowers. Detailed guidance on many aspects of writing British ... |
Royal Frankish Annals | ... es, qui trans Garonnam et circa Pirineum montem habitant", as stated in the | , for one) |
The American Pageant | ... epeated in some widely read textbooks. Previous editions of Thomas Bailey's | stated that "The superstitious sailors [of Columbus' crew] ... grew incre ... |
The Hero with a Thousand Faces | ... y seen as exemplifying the monomyth structure laid out in Joseph Campbell's | , Gaiman says that he started reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces but r ... |
Quenta Silmarillion | ... nulindalë, which stands as Middle-earth's cosmogony or 'creation myth', and | , a collection of mythical histories wherein major events of Middle-earth ... |
Sibylline Books | ... r 312, the sixth anniversary of his reign, he approached the keepers of the | for guidance. The keepers prophesied that, on that very day, "the enemy of ... |
Bibliotheca universalis | ... him. In 1555 he published a new edition of Conrad Gessner's Epitome of his | (a list of all authors who had written in Greek, Latin or Hebrew), a new e ... |
Exodus | ... also called the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy) are enumerated in the Torah ( | 34:6–7). Some modern Christian churches also use 13 attributes of God in s ... |
Kojiki | ... d. The earliest Japanese textual reference to the soybean is in the classic | (Records of Ancient Matters), which was completed in 712 BC |
De humani corporis fabrica | In 1543, Vesalius asked Johannes Oporinus to help publish the seven-volume | (On the fabric of the human body), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy ... |
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible | ... eople in Egypt serving them for meat, drink and physic.” George E. Post, in | , states, “It is longer and more slender than the common cucumber, being o ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | According to the | , the definition of the word privy in Privy Council is an obsolete one mea ... |
Denham Tracts | ... spirits, explicitly in the term "hobby lanterns" found in the 19th century | |
The Te of Piglet | ... The Tao of Pooh. Both books feature the original drawing of E. H. Shepard. | details Piglet's exemplification of the Taoist concept of "virtue of the s ... |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh | Other systems of romanization for Chinese include | , the French EFEO, the Yale (invented during WWII for U.S. troops), as wel ... |
The Book of Lost Tales | Although sequential descriptions of the Valar can be found in | (first begun as far back as 1916-7, but published in 1983 as volume 1 of T ... |
A Dictionary of the English Language | ... tain. Largely, modern British spelling was standardised in Samuel Johnson's | (1755), although previous writers had also played a significant role in th ... |
Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas Novus | From the 1630s, the Blaeu family issued their work under a similar title, | |
Des Knaben Wunderhorn | ... tano and von Arnim were significant literary figures who together published | ("The Boy's Magic Horn" or cornucopia), a collection of versified folk tal ... |
The Silmarillion | ... haracter from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, who is primarily discussed in | , but appears also in Tolkien's other works. In Tolkien's pantheon of Midd ... |
The Alternate Asimovs | ... was later published in its original form along with other draft stories in | in 1986 |
The Histories | ... Europe and the Middle East. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus states in | of the 5th century BC that Glaucus of Chios "was the man who single-handed ... |
Aeneid | ... nicle. It is also clear from the text that Asser was familiar with Virgil's | , Caelius Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, Aldhelm's De Virginitate, and Einhar ... |
Antiquities of the Jews | In the | , Josephus refers to Seth as virtuous and of excellent character, and repo ... |
Matthew | ... re found in several other books of the Bible including, Numbers , , Jonah , | , and Luke , and Hebrews . Ezekiel 9 also speaks of a linen-clad messenger ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... protagonist of DC Comics' Vertigo comic book series The Sandman, written by | . One of the seven Endless, inconceivably powerful beings older and greate ... |
A People's History of the United States | ... ographical film You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train and audio version of | Damon later narrated |
Dying Earth | ... k of the New Sun. Set in a bleak, distant future influenced by Jack Vance's | series, the story details the life of Severian, a journeyman torturer, exi ... |
Theologico-Political Treatise | ... orks of biblical criticism, such as Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and Spinoza's | , as well as works by lesser-known authors such as Richard Simon and Isaac ... |
Exodus | ... this laconic style: "Is it because there are no graves in Cæsarea (compare | 14:11) that I have sent thee off to Tiberias? Study must precede practice" ... |
gospel | ... whom Saint Luke the Evangelist addresses in the introductory chapter of his | . When the church was founded by Saint Mark during the reign of the Roman ... |
Lohengrin | In his earlier operas (up to and including | ) Wagner's style had been based, rather than on the Italian style of opera ... |
Luke | ... veral other books of the Bible including, Numbers , , Jonah , Matthew , and | , and Hebrews . Ezekiel 9 also speaks of a linen-clad messenger marking th ... |
Satyarth Prakash | ... India and the world. The resulting manuscript was published under the title | or The Light of Meaning of Truth in 1875 at Varanasi. This voluminous work ... |
MLA style | ... nt notes"; it gives information about in-text citation by page number (like | ) or by year of publication (like APA style); it even provides for variati ... |
Making Globalization Work | ... seph Stiglitz, The Roaring Nineties, Globalization and Its Discontents, and | . World Bank loan agreements can also force procurements of goods and serv ... |
The God Delusion | ... particular the development of theory of mind abilities. Richard Dawkins in | suggested that our morality is a result of our biological evolutionary his ... |
Brahmo Dharma | ... masses through education). Debendranath Tagore had written a book entitled | , which serves as a manual of religion and ethics to the members of that s ... |
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man | ... states, notably the United States, are said to be involved, as described in | by John Perkins |
Oxford English Dictionary | ... English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere. The | applies the term to English "as spoken or written in the British Isles; es ... |
How to Rap | ... central to rap's flow – many MCs note the importance of staying on-beat in | including Sean Price, Mighty Casey, Zion I, Vinnie Paz, Fredro Starr, Del ... |
Two Treatises of Government | ... ed in the divine right of kings. John Locke, on the other hand, who gave us | and who did not believe in the divine right of kings either, sided with Aq ... |
Unfinished Tales | ... in the wreckage of the Dark Tower, or (as Christopher Tolkien speculates in | ), destroyed by the eruption of Orodruin |
Object to Be Destroyed | ... . Works from this period include a metronome with an eye, originally titled | . Another important work from this part of Man Ray's life is the Violon d' ... |
Prose Edda | ... al") is a goddess associated with defensive refusal. Syn is attested in the | , written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and in kennings employe ... |
Génie du christianisme | Chateaubriand wrote in his 1802 book, | (Part I Book IV Chapter V): "God might have created, and doubtless did cre ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | ... ence fiction fans, hippies, and computer hackers, and has since entered the | among others |
De Re Militari | ... s come from the late Roman period: Taktike Theoria by Aelianus Tacticus and | ("On military matters") by Vegetius. Taktike Theoria examined Greek milita ... |
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences | In the | , have the keyword "mult" |
Defence of the Seven Sacraments | ... he early years of the Protestant Reformation, particularly for his book the | . After Henry broke from the Roman Church, Pope Paul III revoked the grant ... |
The House at Pooh Corner | ... as well as being one of the few characters to appear in all ten chapters of | |
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), on Which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities | ... later regarded it as a flawed exposition of his logical system, and wanted | to be seen as the mature statement of his views. Boole's initial involveme ... |
illuminator | Scaliger's father, Benedetto Bordone, was a miniaturist and | . Scaliger himself was known in his youth by the family name Bordone, but ... |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... the Italian Renaissance (or the "Florentine Renaissance"). According to the | , it was politically, economically, and culturally one of the most importa ... |
Notes on the State of Virginia | ... ded there because it is the northernmost ice-free reach of the Ohio. In his | published in 1781–82, Thomas Jefferson stated: "The Ohio is the most beaut ... |
Thus Spoke Zarathustra | As the drama of | progresses, the turn to metaphysics in philosophy and Platonism in general ... |
Roman Missal | ... cited as having seen a vision of the infant Jesus. In some editions of the | the Saint Alexander commemorated on 3 May is identified with Pope Alexande ... |
The Rebel | ... heir falling-out, and wrote several works with existential themes including | , The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Summer in Algiers. Camus, like m ... |
Allmusic | ... described So Red the Rose as "the most pretentious album ever made," while | called it "the best album Duran Duran never made". Musicians who contribut ... |
The Selfish Gene | In | , author Richard Dawkins asserts the gene is the only true unit of selecti ... |
The Antichrist | ... proposed "Transvaluation of All Values". This incomplete project began with | |
Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs | ... elf was largely inspired by the "Tiny Pascal" compiler in Niklaus Wirth's " | ", one of the most influential computer science books of the time. Anders ... |
Encyclopædia Britannica | Rey is also the author of the current article on philosophy of mind at | |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... e mixture. These were published, among other places, in the 1911 edition of | . An early critic of this claim was Lynn Thorndike, starting with a letter ... |
How Children Fail | In 1964, John Caldwell Holt published a book entitled | which criticized traditional schools of the time. The book was based on a ... |
Le Morte d'Arthur | ... rtier, and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's | and other Arthurian tales (Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannia ... |
Acts of the Apostles | ... canonical. The New Testament is composed of the Gospels ("good news"), the | , the Epistles (letters), and the Book of Revelation |
Book of Common Prayer | ... Church of England's liturgy be celebrated using the form prescribed in the | , and that the internal architecture of English churches be reorganised so ... |
Imperial Bedrooms | ... his usual style, Ellis mixes absurd comedy with a bleak and violent vision. | (2010) follows the characters of Less Than Zero 25 years later; it combine ... |
The Anatomy of Melancholy | The most extended treatment of melancholia comes from Robert Burton, whose | (1621) treats the subject from both a literary and a medical perspective. ... |
St Augustine Gospels | ... it has been positively dated to 6th century Italy and this bound book, the | , is still used during the swearing-in ceremony of new archbishops of Cant ... |
The German Ideology | ... y the categories of German philosophy and classical political economy, with | (written in 1845) there is a sudden and unprecedented departure. This "bre ... |
The Assayer | ... tradition, and received a large audience for his own publications, such as | and Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences ... |
Acts of the Apostles | ... Utopia on monastic communalism, based upon the biblical communalism in the | |
A Mathematical Theory of Communication | ... f communication, can be traced back to Claude Shannon's seminal 1948 paper: | |
Antonine Itinerary | A Roman road recorded in the | as "Iter III" linked London and Dover. The last section of the long Iter I ... |
Ancient Judaism | ... g the paths of the earlier Chinese and Indian civilizations. His next work, | was an attempt to prove this theory |
The Civil War in France | Karl Marx, in his important pamphlet | (1871), written during the Commune, praised the Commune's achievements, an ... |
Foxe's Book of Martyrs | ... in the opposite direction, was the boyhood home of John Foxe, the author of | |
The Almanac of American Politics | ... ikely to be the 8th-to-15th-most liberal Senator during the 108th Congress. | rates congressional votes as liberal or conservative on the political spec ... |
The Second Sex | ... ds women is evident in his books; Simone de Beauvoir spoke highly of him in | . He seems to have preferred desire to consummation. One of his early work ... |
The Kingdom of God Is Within You | ... ing the notable Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, author of the nonfiction book | |
Jane's Fighting Ships | The 2007 edition of | states that the Navy is organised into four commands, based at Matadi, nea ... |
Gospel of John | ... Christians, the pool has additional significance as it is mentioned in the | , as the location to which Jesus sent a man who had been blind from birth, ... |
The Wind in the Willows | ... one image that is strikingly similar to one of Rackham's illustrations for | . On the other hand, she sees also in Stardust clear references and struct ... |
Black's Law Dictionary | ... ter a jurisdiction's prisons and parole system" in Bryan A. Garner, editor, | , 9th ed., West Group, 2009, ISBN 0-314-19949-7, p. 396, which does not de ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | ... the archaic variant fleur-de-luce (see Latin lux, luc- = "light"), but the | suggests this arose from the spelling, not from the etymology |
Sidereus Nuncius | ... his 1609 telescopic discovery of the moons of Jupiter, as published in his | in 1610, to procure a position in the Medici court with the dual title of ... |
Allmusic | Violent Femmes has received mostly positive reviews. The | review by Steve Huey awards the album 5 stars and states: "One of the most ... |
Global Competitiveness Index | ... lgaria, ranking 80th in the world, and lowest Index of Economic Freedom and | , ranking 119th and 90th respectively. Corruption, together with the assoc ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... of sub-stories in the Season 17 episode "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story". | 's influential graphic novel series The Sandman includes several examples ... |
The Fan Man | ... f Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, William Kotzwinkle's | , Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's , Mickey Spill ... |
Prose Edda | The Old Norse Múspell appears in the 13th-century | , where it is of uncertain meaning. Muspelheim (Múspellsheimr, literally " ... |
Ancient Judaism | In | , his fourth major work on the sociology of religion, Weber attempted to e ... |
Encyclopædia Britannica | The | says this about the legend |
De re metallica | A 16th century book by Georg Agricola called | describes the highly developed and complex processes of mining metal ores, ... |
Cosmographiae Introductio | ... show the Americas as a land mass separate from Asia. An accompanying book, | , anonymous but apparently written by Waldseemüller's collaborator Matthia ... |
Astérix et ses Amis | In 2007, Les Editions Albert René released a tribute volume titled | , a 60 pages comic book made up of various short stories (from one to four ... |
Seduction of the Innocent | ... , a rationale which Frederic Wertham railed against even more vehemently in | , for promoting an eventual puerile identification with the comic-book cha ... |
The Art of Computer Programming | Cocktail sort is also briefly discussed in the book | , along with similar refinements of bubble sort. In conclusion, Knuth stat ... |
Orbis Pictus | In 1658 Jan Ámos Komenský published the illustrated informational book | in Bohemia. It is considered to be the first picture book published specif ... |
Leviathan | Early works of biblical criticism, such as Thomas Hobbes's | and Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise, as well as works by lesser-kn ... |
The Book of the Courtier | ... hood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's | , and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le ... |
Jewish Encyclopedia | The | (1906) contains an article "Gnosticism" by Joseph Jacobs and Ludwig Blau w ... |
Book of Common Prayer | The 1552 and later editions of the | omitted the form of anointing given in the original (1549) version in its ... |
Napoléon le Petit | ... exile, Hugo published his famous political pamphlets against Napoleon III, | and Histoire d'un crime. The pamphlets were banned in France, but nonethel ... |
Novum Organum | ... of natural philosophy is approached "by gradual degrees," as stated in his | |
Oxford English Dictionary | According to the | , leat is cognate with let in the sense of "allow to pass through". Other ... |
Jargon File | ... -bit word, and endianness is then the same as byte order. For hardware, the | also reports the less common expression byte sex . It is unclear whether t ... |
De Rebus Bellicis | ... anonymous author of the possibly contemporary treatise on military affairs | held that, as a consequence of this monetary policy, the rift between clas ... |
Muyejebo | ... and the Malla Purana, and Korean martial arts with Joseon era texts such as | (1598). "Historical martial arts" in both Asia and Europe are mostly based ... |
Dialogue with Trypho | In the | , after an introductory section, Justin undertakes to show that Christiani ... |
Red Book of Westmarch | ... ernally, as in The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, which depicts the | (a story-internal version of the book itself) as a history compiled by sev ... |
Ecce Homo | ... within "the penultimate section of the fourth book" of 'The Gay Science' ( | , Kaufmann). It is the eternal recurrence of the same events |
Servitude et grandeur militaires | ... y social order, must remain somewhat aloof and apart from the social order. | (1835) was a similar tripartite meditation on the condition of the soldier |
Lunar Park | ... cho it uses surrealism to convey a sense of postmodern dread. Ellis's novel | (2005), uses the form of a celebrity memoir to tell a ghost story about th ... |
Allmusic | Mike DeGagne of | praised the album, saying that the songs on the album "rekindle some of St ... |
The German Ideology | ... and broke with the Young Hegelians, attacking their views in works such as | . Marx concluded that religion is not the basis of the establishment's pow ... |
Pastoral epistles | Pauline Epistles | General epistles, also called Catholic epistle |
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book | In 1744 John Newbery published | in England. He sold it with a ball for boys or a pincushion for girls. It ... |
Book of Kings | ... ioned in several books of the Bible (see Hebrew Bible / Old Testament). The | states that Necho met King Josiah of the Kingdom of Judah at Megiddo and k ... |
Chronicle of the Kings of Alba | The | says that Máel Coluim took an army into Moray "and slew Cellach". Cellach ... |
On the Origin of Species | ... e gradual transmutation of species, right up until Charles Darwin published | more than two decades after Cuvier's death |
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book | ... in England since Tudor Times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in | where it was called "base-ball" |
Opus Majus | ... are sometimes compared to a similar list in the first part of Roger Bacon's | which, although it was much older, had not been printed in Bacon's time |
Aeneid | Servius in his commentary on Virgil's | gives Sicharbas as the name of Elissa's husband in early tradition |
Herla | ... e leader of la Mesnée d'Hellequin, thought to be related to the Old English | , a character often identified with Woden |
Aeneid | ... Rome when he and his followers stopped at Buthrotum, detailed by Virgil in | Book III |
Asterix Conquers Rome | ... are solely the work of Uderzo. Years stated are for their initial release. | is a comic book adaptation of the animated film The Twelve Tasks of Asteri ... |
ICD-10 | ... sonal difficulty. It is described as a disorder of sexual preference in the | . The diagnosis would not be given to people who experience typical sexual ... |
Titan Books | ... with Kevin John (another son of Little Willie John) was released in 2011 by | |
Kangxi Dictionary | ... would be only functional literacy. A large unabridged dictionary, like the | , contains over 40,000 characters, including obscure, variant, rare, and a ... |
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy | ... omprehensive academic reference texts The Oxford Companion to Philosophy or | , but is the subject of entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ... |
Pseudodoxia Epidemica | ... here to the scientific empiricism of the Baconian method. His encyclopaedia | (1646–76) includes numerous examples of Baconian investigative methodology ... |
Jewish Encyclopedia | According to the | article on , Rabbi Jacob Emden (1697–1776) claimed |
Foxe's Book of Martyrs | ... nd included in many editions of Chaucer and mentioned as a familiar text in | . Such associations gave it far more exposure—and positive exposure—than P ... |
Germania | ... from names recorded in the 1st century by Tacitus (especially from his work | ), but the earliest Germanic writing occurs in a single instance in the 2n ... |
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy | ... philosophy. Rand is not found in the comprehensive academic reference texts | or The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, but is the subject of entries i ... |
Allmusic | ... riest, and overall thrashiest album they've ever released." Steve Huey from | said that the album is "raw as Megadeth gets, and that can be both good an ... |
Yellow Book (CD standard) | Due to additional sector level addressing added in the | , CD-ROM data discs are not subject to seek jitter |
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls | ... lso writes a blog for the site. In 2003 he appeared in the BBC documentary, | and in 2006 he appeared in the documentary Wanderlust |
The Laws of Thought | ... al equations and algebraic logic, and he is now best known as the author of | . As the inventor of the prototype of what is now called Boolean logic, wh ... |
King Leopold's Ghost | ... nd, including possible models for Kurtz, are recounted in Adam Hochschild's | |
Ecce Homo | Nietzsche commented in | that for the completion of each part: "Ten days sufficed; in no case, neit ... |
The Sex Lives of Cannibals | ... autobiographical experiences on the Tarawa Atoll are documented in his book | (2004) |
The Outsider | Colin Wilson, an English writer, published his study | in 1956, initially to critical acclaim. In this book and others (e.g. Intr ... |
Lonely Planet | ... ominated "the world's most beautiful island" by Tony Wheeler the founder of | travel guide |
The Communist Manifesto | ... ocial being precedes social consciousness. Together with Marx, Engels wrote | |
Deutsche Mythologie | ... h later rewriting some parts. One of the brothers, Jacob, published in 1835 | , a long academic work on Germanic mythology |
De sphaera mundi | ... he was fascinated by the thirteenth century work of Johannes de Sacrobosco, | , and on 12 September 1662 observed his first partial solar eclipse. Early ... |
Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook | ... ance of vapor-compression refrigeration systems is available in the classic | |
The Advancement of Learning | ... eface even paraphrases lines from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work | . Isaac Newton was a noted Baconian—his famous quote hypotheses non fingo ... |
OED | ... are rendered as gēata (genitive) and twice as gēatum (dative) (see e.g. the | which identifies the Geats through Eotas, Iótas, Iútan and Geátas). Fahlbe ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | ... te spelling of cedilla is cerilla. The earliest use in English cited by the | is a 1599 Spanish-English dictionary and grammar. Chambers' Cyclopædia is ... |
How to Rap | ... hms and rhymes" of a hip-hop song's lyrics and how they interact – the book | breaks flow down into rhyme, rhyme schemes, and rhythm (also known as cade ... |
Antonine Itinerary | ... lbans. The Romans later paved the route, part of which is identified on the | as Iter III: "Item a Londinio ad portum Dubris" - from London to the port ... |
letters from Father Christmas | ... rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle. His creative endeavours at this time also included | to his children—illustrated manuscripts that featured warring gnomes and g ... |
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | ... he Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, but is the subject of entries in the | , The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, the Internet Encyclopedi ... |
The Wind in the Willows | ... th series. He also recorded the theme song to Cosgrove Hall's adaptation of | with Keith Hopwood, and this was released as a single in 1984 after the se ... |
La Galatea | In 1585, Cervantes published a pastoral novel named | . Because of financial problems, Cervantes worked as a purveyor for the Sp ... |
Thus Spoke Zarathustra | ... ed the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself in his 1883 book | |
Allmusic | Writing for | , John Dougan described the genre's origins |
Book of Ezekiel | ... le of 1535 speaks of "All whirry men, and all maryners vpo the see…" in the | |
Prose Edda | ... dda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the | , written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. Scholarly theories have ... |
First Folio | ... of William Jaggard's False Folio. The superior text first saw print in the | in 1623 |
Triodion | ... nce of receiving Unction on Holy Wednesday is shored up by the hymns in the | for that day, which speak of the sinful woman who anointed the feet of Chr ... |
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | ... clopedia of Philosophy, The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, the | , and The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers. A ... |
Acts of the Apostles | ... of 4 different genres of Christian literature (Gospels, one account of the | , Epistles and an Apocalypse). Jesus is its central figure. The New Testam ... |
A History of Western Philosophy | ... ("They say Plato learned all things Pythagorean"). Bertrand Russell, in his | , contended that the influence of Pythagoras on Plato and others was so gr ... |
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum | ... ublished in several versions of Abraham Ortelius's pioneering world atlas " | " |
Gospel of John | ... Martha calls him the Messiah and the Son of God. In several passages in the | assertions of Jesus being the Son of God are usually also assertions of hi ... |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... ity of scaling down letters small enough so as to be able to fit the entire | on the head of a pin, by writing the information from a book page on a sur ... |
The Dilbert Principle | ... m the point of view of his unscrupulous alter-ego, Dogbert, it complemented | by analyzing the stupidities and inadequacies of 1990s management from a m ... |
New Jedi Order | ... popular character in the Expanded Universe, playing a major part in several | novels. By the time of the events of The New Jedi Order, Horn was a Jedi K ... |
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems | ... lished abroad after he was placed under house arrest for his publication of | in 1632 |
Course of Theoretical Physics | ... ting point: indeed (as is exposed, for example, in the second volume of the | by Landau and Lifshitz), what is really at stake is the locality of intera ... |
Book of Fixed Stars | ... ronomer, `Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (later known in Europe as "Azophi"), in his | around 964 AD |
Asterix the Gaul | ... lished on 29 October 1959. In 1961 the first book was put together entitled | . From then on, books were released generally on a yearly basis |
Historia Augusta | ... of Mithras, although both works are now lost. According to the 4th century | , the emperor Commodus participated in its mysteries but it never became o ... |
Reduced to Ashes | ... icers had been convicted by December 2002. Ram Narayan Kumar, the author of | , claims that the issue of was used by the State to divert attention from ... |
Historia Regum Britanniae | ... ear in the titles of the 9th-century Historia Britonum and the 12th century | which became tremendously popular during the High Middle Ages. At this tim ... |
The Sleepwalkers | ... r locality in physical theories was already noted by Newton (see Koestler's | ), who considered the notion of an action at a distance "philosophically a ... |
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial | ... jor melancholic authors include Sir Thomas Browne, and Jeremy Taylor, whose | and Holy Living and Holy Dying, respectively, contain extensive meditation ... |
General Instruction of the Roman Missal | ... n of Saint Stephen I from the General Roman Calendar, but, according to the | , the 2 August Mass may now everywhere be that of Saint Stephen I, unless ... |
The Problem of Pain | ... es, C. S. Lewis has adopted a scholastic position in the course of his work | . Lewis follows Aquinas' view on contradiction |
Thus Spoke Zarathustra | The first translation of | into English was by Alexander Tille published in 1896. Tille translated Üb ... |
The Sexual Life of Savages | ... 20th century anthropological works, such as Malinowski's Melanesian study, | (1929), and Gladwin and Sarason's "Truk: Man in Paradise" (1956). Malinows ... |
The Cyberiad | Stanisław Lem's Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius from | has several levels of storytelling. Interestingly, all levels tell stories ... |
The Cook's Decameron | Mrs Waters' | suggests the following recipe: the sauce is made by placing three-quarters ... |
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches | ... egative reputation she feared), though retaining parts that originated with | , which she felt was genuine witchcraft practice. Valiente dramatically re ... |
The Autumn People | ... Feldstein for EC Comics, and 16 of these were collected in the paperbacks, | (1965) and Tomorrow Midnight (1966), both published by Ballantine Books wi ... |
Allmusic | ... Moon in 1978, rock arguably lost its single greatest drummer." According to | , "Moon, with his manic, lunatic side, and his life of excessive drinking, ... |
De architectura | ... Pythagoreans held, by mathematical ratio, but by the ear. Vitruvius in his | paraphrases the writings of Aristoxenus on music. His ideas were responded ... |
Sushruta Samhita | ... in Hinduism since Vedic times. Several Hindu texts, such as Manu Smriti and | , assert that some people are born with either mixed male and female natur ... |
Catholic Encyclopedia | According to the 1913 | : "While Thrasamund (496–523), owing to his religious fanaticism, was host ... |
Handbook of Texas | As stated in the | |
Second Treatise on Government | ... ten in 1662 by Sir William Petty and to John Locke's notion, set out in the | (1689), that property derives from labour through the act of "mixing" one' ... |
The Best of Science Fiction | ... ding Science Fiction in March 1945. It was anthologised by Groff Conklin in | , the first of Asimov's stories to have been reprinted, and was later incl ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | ... and, which contains an early mention of Robin Hood; it is also cited by the | as the earliest work in English to use the word "Catholic": [spelling mode ... |
The Cat in the Hat | ... pen name Dr. Seuss, wrote the first and best known of his Dr. Seuss books: | . Several sequels followed. Also in 1957, the next best known Dr. Seuss bo ... |
Ezekiel | ... er Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the book of Isaiah and preceding | and the Book of the Twelve. (The order is somewhat different in the Christ ... |
Suda | ... n three books, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to the | , from Didymus of Alexandria and "The Tarrhaean" (Lucillus of Tarrha, a po ... |
Génie du christianisme | ... and politics, his travels, a defence of religion and the medieval spirit ( | 1802), and finally in the 1830s and 1840s his enormous autobiography Mémoi ... |
General Economic History | ... lism in the history of capitalism in his Economy and Society (1922) and his | (1923), a notable example of the kind of empirical work associated with th ... |
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | ... Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers. A listing of Rand also appears in the | , featuring the assessment "The influence of Rand's ideas was strongest am ... |
Modern English Usage | ... w editions after some decades. These include, most notably of all, Fowler's | and The Complete Plain Words by Sir Ernest Gowers. Detailed guidance on ma ... |
Book of Genesis | ... l humanity are described as being created during the six days of creation ( | ). When each person is born, a preexisting soul is placed within the body. ... |
Philosophy of Freedom | ... collaborated in a complete edition of Arthur Schopenhauer's work, wrote The | , which focuses on the problem of free will. Steiner (1861–1925) initially ... |
Principia Ethica | ... was described and named by British philosopher G. E. Moore in his 1903 book | . Moore stated that a naturalistic fallacy is committed whenever a philoso ... |
Liber Abaci | ... arithmetic, Hindu-Arabic numerals, and the rules of algebra together in his | in 1202 that Hindu-Arabic numerals became widely used in Italy |
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars | ... e published a substantial historical novel, Cinq-Mars, based on the life of | ; with the success of these two volumes, Vigny seemed to be the rising sta ... |
Claude Gueux | ... later writers such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. | , a documentary short story about a real-life murderer who had been execut ... |
Freakonomics | ... defamation against Steven Levitt and HarperCollins Publishers over the book | and against Levitt over a series of emails to John McCall. In the book Fre ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | ... ri Legrand. The name means, according to Duchartre, "unlucky." However, the | mentions an etymology relating to a cult that modelled themselves on the C ... |
Horae Apocalypticae | AD 70. Edward Bishop Elliott, in the | (1862), argues that John wrote the book in exile on Patmos "at the close o ... |
Nemesis at Potsdam | ... nd 1980s a Harvard-trained lawyer and historian, Alfred de Zayas, published | and A Terrible Revenge, both of which became bestsellers in Germany. De Za ... |
Floor Games | Seeking a more structured way to play war games, Wells also wrote | (1911) followed by Little Wars (1913). Little Wars is recognised today as ... |
The Skeptic's Dictionary | ... ed by the occult ideas of Madame Blavatsky. Robert Todd Carroll in his book | wrote that "Cayce is one of the main people responsible for some of the si ... |
Summa Theologiae | ... rl Marx) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. In his | , he expresses that "... value can, does and should be increase in relatio ... |
Prose Edda | ... ic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the | , written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla, also writ ... |
1 Maccabees | ... and his brother Jonathan Maccabaeus during their war with the Nabataeans ( | ). A little later the Jordan was the scene of the battle between Jonathan ... |
Larousse Gastronomique | ... îche, and then strained through a fine sieve. This is the recipe as used in | , a seminal work of French haute cuisine, first published in 1938 |
Encyclopædia Britannica | ... Paganism is a smaller and more marginal numerical phenomenon. According to | estimates (as of 2005), adherents of Chinese folk religion account for som ... |
Neil Gaiman | Jones' works are also compared to those of Robin McKinley and | . She was friends with both McKinley and Gaiman, and Jones and Gaiman are ... |
Book of Discipline of the Methodist Church | ... nded by John Wesley, upholds Article VII in the Articles of Religion in the | |
Book of Common Prayer | ... ble legality until the 1820s, as they were not explicitly sanctioned by the | . As a consequence, many church leaders reserved hymn-singing to meetings ... |
The Servile State | ... s to the growth of capitalism. (This point is also made in Hilaire Belloc's | . |
History of the Kings of Britain | Geoffrey of Monmouth's legendary | makes Caracalla a king of Britain, referring to him by his actual name "Ba ... |
The Gay Science | Thus Spoke Zarathustra was conceived while Nietzsche was writing | ; he made a small note, reading "6,000 feet beyond man and time," as evide ... |
2 Kings | ... dvance at Megiddo, where a fierce battle was fought and Josiah was killed ( | 23:29, 2 Chronicles 35:20-24) |
Nordisk familjebok | ... on of the two nations took a long time, however. In the early 20th century, | noted that svensk had almost replaced svear as a name for the Swedish peop ... |
Kama Sutra | The Indian | , written in the 4th century AD, contains passages describing eunuchs or " ... |
The Gay Science | ... God", and the "prophecy" of the Übermensch, which were first introduced in | |
Systema Naturae | The Barn Swallow was described by Linnaeus in his | in 1758 as Hirundo rustica, characterised as H. rectricibus, exceptis duab ... |
Cadillac Desert | ... users than actually flows through the Colorado. As Marc Reisner, author of | puts it, "[the Colorado is] a 'deficit' river, as if the river were someho ... |
Key of Solomon | ... ltist Aleister Crowley, from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, from the | and also from the rituals of Freemasonry. She confronted Gardner with this ... |
The Book of est | ... t he is entirely comfortable writing somewhat more traditional fiction, and | shows that he is capable of writing wholly factual accounts too. In all hi ... |
travelogues | ... just over $10,000 for his writing during his lifetime. After the success of | based on voyages to the South Seas and stories based on misadventures in t ... |
Historia Augusta | ... rsonal fashion, which spread to his army and his court. Cassius Dio and the | agree that his nickname was derived from his cloak, but do not mention its ... |
The Seven Storey Mountain | ... as scores of essays and reviews, including his best-selling autobiography, | (1948), which sent scores of disillusioned World War II veterans, students ... |
Catholic Encyclopedia | According to the | , the name "Veronica" comes from the Latin vera, meaning "true" or "Truthf ... |
On the Freedom of the Will | In his | , Schopenhauer stated, "You can do what you will, but in any given moment ... |
Rich List | According to The Sunday Times | he is worth £85 million |
Allmusic | ... and number 184, "Please Please Me". According to Stephen Thomas Erlewine of | , "Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh", the covers ar ... |
Peter Principle | The Dilbert principle is comparable to the | . As opposed to the Dilbert principle, the Peter principle assumes that pe ... |
Luke | ... ot directly quoted, in the New Testament (Hebrews 5:4; Matthew 12:42; 23:35 | ;1:5; 11:31, 51) |
Genesis | ... ot a Ger Toshav. The rainbow, referring to the Noachide or First Covenant ( | 9), is the symbol of many organized Noahide groups, following . A non-Jew ... |
The Prince | ... which have survived and are published in Machiavelli's Collected Works. In | , Machiavelli uses Borgia as an example to elucidate the dangers of acquir ... |
Book of Genesis | ... ld not be adequately covered and limited the story to the first half of the | . Huston enjoyed directing the film, as it gave him a chance to indulge hi ... |
A Terrible Revenge | ... ned lawyer and historian, Alfred de Zayas, published Nemesis at Potsdam and | , both of which became bestsellers in Germany. De Zayas argues that the ex ... |
Suda | ... he appears to have rivaled in the variety of his studies. According to the | , he heaped insults on Aristotle after his death, because Aristotle had de ... |
Germania | ... the area they invaded as Boihaemum, the earliest mention being in Tacitus' | 28 (written at the end of the 1st century AD). The name appears to include ... |
The History of the Standard Oil Company | ... ure's magazine from November 1902 to October 1904, then in 1904 as the book | |
Gospel of Mark | The | begins by calling Jesus the Son of God and reaffirms the title twice when ... |
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches | ... itially claimed, but from the works of the occultist Aleister Crowley, from | , from the Key of Solomon and also from the rituals of Freemasonry. She co ... |
Guinness World Records | ... of merely a playable electronic representation of something else." In 2008, | listed it as the top-rated arcade game in technical, creative, and cultura ... |
Principles of Philosophy | In | , Descartes tried refuting the existence of atoms with a variation of this ... |
Book of Genesis | ... s and during the seven year famine discussed in the Joseph narrative of the | . The city gained recognition as place of bread |
The Romantic Manifesto | Ayn Rand singled out Brown for high praise in her book | . The famous pulp writer Mickey Spillane called Brown "my favorite writer ... |
Politics | Early insights in the labour theory of value appear in Aristotle´s | . He developed a "theory of the value of labour", holding that the value o ... |
Catholic Encyclopedia | According to the 1913 | : "Genseric, one of the most powerful personalities of the "era of the Mig ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | The | dates the English common name "barn swallow" to 1851, though an earlier in ... |
Aeneid | ... especially abundant in Latin poetry, as for instance in Virgil’s epic, the | : “Lupercal / Parrhasio dictum Panos de more Lycaei,” “…the Lupercal, name ... |
Southern Harmony | ... ly at Benton on the fourth Sunday in May to sing from a tunebook called The | . This event, organized in 1884 and called The Big Singing or Big Singing ... |
Book of Common Prayer | ... t, and repentance—a day of contemplating one's transgressions. The Anglican | also designates Ash Wednesday as a day of fasting. In the medieval period, ... |
The Prince | ... er of capitalism and of the nation-state. Drawing on Niccolò Machiavelli in | , and trying to understand why there had been no Communist revolution in W ... |
Guǎngyùn | ... me book (601 CE), and a late period in the 10th century, reflected by the " | " rime book. Linguists are more confident of having reconstructed how Midd ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | According to the | the etymology is "uncertain and disputed": "The word is perhaps related to ... |
Novum Organum | Francis Bacon, especially in his | , argued for a new experimental based approach to science, which sought no ... |
Genera Plantarum | ... e was originally introduced by Carl Linnaeus (1737) in his first edition of | . The word glycine is derived from the Greek - glykys (sweet) and likely r ... |
Prose Edda | ... dda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the | , written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In addition, she is men ... |
Gospel Book | ... He is depicted as an Orthodox bishop, wearing the omophorion and holding a | . Sometimes he is depicted wearing the Eastern Orthodox mitre, sometimes h ... |
Bibliotheca | ... r 49 sisters did. (See the myth at the entry for Danaus.) The author of the | , in his list of names for the Danaids, does mention both Hypermnestra and ... |
Journeys of Frodo | Map #40 in Barbara Strachey's | is a plan of Minas Tirith. Pages 138&139 in Karen Wynn Fonstad's revised T ... |
Mommie Dearest | ... ovember 1978, a year and a half after Crawford's death, Christina published | , which contained allegations that Crawford was emotionally and physically ... |
2 Kings | ... Egyptian territory from the Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt (Jeremiah 46:2 | ;23:29) down to Judea. Although Nebuchadrezzar spent many years in his new ... |
On War | ... er the influence of the Industrial Revolution thinking. In his seminal book | the Prussian Major-General and leading expert on modern military strategy ... |
Aeneid | ... ). She is best known from the account given by the Roman poet Virgil in his | . In some sources she is also known as Elissa |
What Is the Third Estate? | ... h century France, the latter especially via Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès pamphlet | |
Confessio Fraternitatis | ... Rosicrucians to the 17th century are three German pamphlets: the Fama, the | , and Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz |
Arnie the Doughnut | ... he focal point of more than a few episodes. There is also a children's book | and music albums The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse and Desert Doughnuts |
Kangxi Dictionary | ... indicates the pronunciation. There are about 214 radicals recognized in the | |
Handbook of Texas | According to the | |
Gospel of John | ... ing Zakir Naik and Ahmad Deedat argue that the Paraclete referred to in the | (apparently written near the end of the 1st century AD) is a prophecy of t ... |
World Brain | ... collection of essays on the future organisation of knowledge and education, | , including the essay, "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia" |
Lonely Planet | ... nizations have placed Greek destinations in the top of their lists. In 2009 | ranked Thessaloniki, the country's second-largest city, the world's fifth ... |
The Elements of Style | In 1945 E. B. White (co-author of Strunk and White's | ), wrote Stuart Little, the story of an intelligent, semi-anthropomorphic ... |
The Birth of Tragedy | ... an inspiration to artists, philosophers and writers into the modern era. In | (1872), the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche contrasted Dionysus wit ... |
100 Greatest African Americans | In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed King on his list of | |
The Prince | ... ich the Romagna was pacified, which Machiavelli describes in chapter VII of | , and the assassination of his captains on New Year's Eve of 1503 in Senig ... |
Grumbles from the Grave | ... letter to Zell appears as a letter to "a Fan" toward the end of the book in | ) and a paid subscription to the Church's Green Egg magazine during the 19 ... |
A Thousand Plateaus | ... ilosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari made reference to Lovecraft in | and called the short story "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" one of hi ... |
2 Maccabees | ... accabean Revolt. According to historical sources, including 1 Maccabees and | and the first book of The Wars of the Jews by Jewish historian Josephus (3 ... |
Oxford English Dictionary | In December 2003, the | Online added draft entries for "grep" as both a noun and a verb |
Book of Common Prayer | The Anglican | contains no Requiem Mass, but instead a service named "The Order for the B ... |
Lyrical Ballads | ... owed later by the isolated figure of John Clare. The publication in 1798 of | , with many of the finest poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge, is often held ... |
Freedom Evolves | ... compatibilist theory of free will, which he further elaborated in the book | . The basic reasoning is that, if one excludes God, an infinitely powerful ... |
Graduate Texts in Mathematics | # (Volume 5 in the series | |
Species Plantarum | ... ios, now known as Apios americana. The cultivated soybean first appeared in | , by Linnaeus, under the name Phaseolus max L. The combination Glycine max ... |
The White Goddess | ... a crucial role in the development of Graves' thoughts when writing his book | , despite the fact the two were estranged at that point. However, on revie ... |
Principia | ... non fingo (I don't frame hypotheses) was featured in later editions of the | , demonstrating his preference for rules that could be demonstrated by for ... |
Historia Regum Britanniae | The tower story is repeated and embellished by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his | , though he attributes it to Merlin, saying "Ambrosius" is the sage's alte ... |
Elliott Smith | On October 25, 2007, a book titled | was released by Autumn de Wilde, which consists of photographs, handwritte ... |
Matthew | ... he King James Version of the Bible: for example, "O ye of little faith" (in | 8:26). Another well-known example is the recurrent use of the vocative phr ... |
Lost in the Cosmos | ... p world has become the target of parodies. Walker Percy's odd genre-busting | has been described as "a parody of self-help books, a philosophy textbook, ... |
Suda | ... om his own writings, the main source for Procopius' life is an entry in the | , a 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia that tells nothing about his early ... |
Encyclopédie Méthodique | ... en wet. Samuel Fox invented the steel-ribbed umbrella in 1852; however, the | mentions metal ribs at the end of the eighteenth century, and they were al ... |
Books of Kings | ... les largely parallels the Davidic narratives in the Books of Samuel and the | . In the Roman Catholic and Protestant canson, it is divided into two part ... |
A Modest Proposal | ... t the time of its publication, many people misunderstood Swift’s purpose in | , assuming it to be a serious recommendation of economically motivated can ... |
The Prince | ... ars later Machiavelli also argued assassination could be useful in his book | . In medieval times, an army and even a nation might be based upon and aro ... |
How to Rap | The same technique is also noted in the book | , where diagrams are used to show how the lyrics line up with the beat – " ... |
The Evolution of Cooperation | ... has been noted in studies by Robert Axelrod that are summarized in his book | (1984). The second reason is that such groups may be formed as a means of ... |
Almagest | ... ly recognized constellation, catalogued along with many others in Ptolemy's | , but not historically referred to as a zodiac constellation |
Textus Receptus | ... n 5:7) known primarily from the King James Version and some versions of the | but not included in modern critical texts.. It is also suspected that Matt ... |
Allmusic | Steve Huey from | said "R is mellower, trippier, and more arranged than its predecessor, mak ... |
The Ants | ... e been based around them or books that describe them (SimAnt: E.O. Wilson’s | , SimEarth: James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory, SimCity: Jay Forrester’s Urban D ... |
Allmusic | ... Dury, Nick Lowe, Eddie and the Hot Rods and Dr. Feelgood; and according to | "angry, intelligent" singer-songwriters who "approached pop music with the ... |
The Logic of Scientific Discovery | ... ht secondary school. Popper published his first book, Logik der Forschung ( | ), in 1934. Here, he criticised psychologism, naturalism, inductionism, an ... |
Book of Kings | ... hinking a child of seven – the age of Joas (Jehoash of Judah) in the Second | – too young to have the part given him in Athalie, Racine makes him into a ... |
Novum Organum | ... developed by Sir Francis Bacon. The method was put forward in Bacon's book | (1620), or 'New Method', and was supposed to replace the methods put forwa ... |
Klētorologion | ... dence, coming before even the anthypatoi. According to the late 9th-century | , the insignia of the dignity were ivory inscribed tablets. During the 11t ... |
The Wealth of Nations | ... and the replacement of mercantilism did not come until Adam Smith published | in 1776. This book outlines the basics of what is today known as classical ... |
Imperial Bedrooms | ... ark, a pseudo-memoir and ghost story, received positive reviews, and 2010's | , marketed as a sequel to Less Than Zero, continues in this vein |
Mein Kampf | ... nifred sent him food parcels and stationery on which Hitler's autobiography | may have been written. In the late 1930s, she served as Hitler's personal ... |
Book of Exodus | In the | Israel as a people is called "God's son", using the singular form. Both th ... |
Female Chauvinist Pigs | ... ample. Ariel Levy used the term in similar, but opposite sense in her book, | , in which she argues that many young women in the United States and beyon ... |
Apicius | ... ine with pennyroyal. A large number of the recipes in the Roman cookbook of | call for the use of pennyroyal, often along with such herbs as lovage, ore ... |
Histories | ... he destruction of Jerusalem by Titus on the account given by Tacitus in his | , a portion of which has been lost. We are enabled thus to contrast Tacitu ... |
World Factbook | According to the CIA | , Library of Congress, Oxford University, over 97% of the population of Pa ... |