A book is a collection of leaves of paper, parchment or other material, bound together along one edge within covers. A book is also a literary work or a main division of such a work. A book produced in electronic format is known as an e-book. In library and information science, a book is called a monograph to distinguish it from serial publications such as magazines, journals or newspapers. Publishers may ...

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Maintaining a library used to be the privilege of princes, the wealthy, monasteries and other religious institutions, and universities. The growth of a public library system in the United States started in the late 19th century and was much helped by donations from Andrew Carnegie. This reflected classes in a society: The poor or the middle class had to share most books through a public library or by other means while the rich could afford to h ...

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The oral account (word of mouth, tradition, hearsay) is the oldest carrier of messages and stories. When writing systems were invented in ancient civilizations, clay tablets or parchment scrolls were used as, for example, in the library of Alexandria. Scrolls were later phased out in favor of the codex, a bound book with pages and a spine, the form of most books today. The codex was invented in the first few centuries A.D. or earlier. Some have said that Julius Caesar invented the first codex during the Gallic Wars. He would issue scrolls folded up accordion style and use ...

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The Book of Helaman is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon. The book continues the history of the Nephites and the Lamanites "according to the records of Helaman, who was the son of Helaman, and also according to the records of his sons, even down to the coming of Christ" (The Book of Helaman, preface). According to footnotes, the book covers the time period between ca 52 BC and 1 BC. Other related archivesBook of Alma, Book of Enos, Boo

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The book review (or book report) is a form of literary criticism carried out in periodicals, as school work, and now online. It may be in length from a single paragraph, up to a substantial essay. Book reviews are generally supposed to be evaluations of the book, if only on the basis of personal taste. Reviewers, in literary periodicals, often use the occasion of a book review for a display of learning or to promulgate

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The Book of Ether is one of books that make up the Book of Mormon. The Book of Ether tells of an ancient people (The Jaredites) who were led by God to the Americas shortly after the destruction of the Tower of Babel. The title refers to Ether, a Jaredite prophet. This book was translated and abridged by Moroni and included in the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated. This book is from an earlier set of twenty-four plates discovered by the people of Limhi during the time of King ...

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The Book of Kings refers to: The Biblical Books of Kings The Shahnama The Morgan Bible An old native chronicle listing events on Java in Indonesia Other related archivesBiblical, Books of Kings, Indonesia, Java, Morgan Bible, Shahnama, chronicle

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The Sibylline Books or Sibyllae were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameters, purchased from a sibyl by the semi-legendary last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, and consulted at momentous crises through the history of the Republic and the Empire. The Sibylline Books should not be confused with the so-called Sibylline Oracles, twelve books of pretended prophesies, written after the fact, or Vaticinia ex eventu (compare additions to the Book of Daniel); t ...

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The Book of Enos is the fourth book of the Book of Mormon. According to the text it was written by Enos, a Nephite prophet. The book consists of a single chapter and discusses Enos's conversion after praying all day and all night, and his subsequent dialog with the Lord. It also discusses the redemption of the Nephites and their enemies, the Lamanites. ...

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Choose and Book (a.k.a. CaB), is the name of a software application which is being introduced to the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is designed to enable patients to choose which hospital they are referred to by their general practitioner, and to book a convenient date and time for their appointment. Originally designed simply as an electronic booking system, Choose and Book was developed to enable patient choice. This ...

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The Book of Chronicles is a book in the Hebrew Bible (also see Old Testament). It was originally written as one book, but in the Septuagint (LXX), the book appears in two parts, and in the fifteenth century, it began appearing in two parts in Hebrew Bibles. This division into two parts may be in accordance with more manageable scroll sizes, and thus in Christian bibles it is usually published in two parts, I Chronicles and II Chronicles. In Hebrew the title of this book is Divre Hayyamim, i.e. ...

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The Book of Jacob is the third book of the Book of Mormon. Its full title is The Book of Jacob: The Brother of Nephi. According to the text, it was written by the ancient prophet Jacob, brother of the prophet Nephi, believed to have lived around 600 BC. While this book contains some history of the Nephites, including the death of Nephi, it is mainly a record of Jacob's preachings to his people. It contains a lengthy allegory (Jacob 5) regarding the scattering and gathering of Israel, comparing ...

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The Book of Jarom is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon. According to the text it was written by Jarom, a descendant of the prophet Nephi. The book consists of a single chapter. According to the chapter heading, the book covers the time period between ca 420 BC and 361 BC and describes the efforts of the Nephite prophets to "keep them [the Nephites] in the way of truth". It also records conflict with the Lamanites: "wars, and contentions, and dissensions, for the space of much of the ti ...

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The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible, known to Jews as the Tanakh and to Christians as the Old Testament. It is historically regarded as a continuation of the Book of Ezra. Traditionally, the author of this book is believed to be Nehemiah himself; many modern scholars dispute this. There are portions of the book written in the first person (ch. 1-7; 12:27-47, and 13). But there are also portions of it in which Nehemiah is spoken of in the third person (ch. 8; 9; 10). Some, following the traditional attribution to ...

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The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded by Jews and Protestants. The book's numerous historical anachronisms mean that few accept it now as reliable history — it has been considered a parable, or perhaps the first historical novel. The name Judith is Hebrew (יְהוּדִית "Praised" or "Jewess", Standard Hebrew Yəhudit, Tiberian Hebre ...

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A book lung is a rudimentary type of lung found in arachnids, such as scorpions and spiders, and in horseshoe crabs. They are not evolutionarily related to mammalian lungs. Their name describes their structure, as they are "folded" like a book. The unfolded "pages" (plates) of the book lung are filled with hemolymph (the arthropod blood). The unfolding maximizes the surface exposed to air, and thereby the chances of gas exchange with the environment. In most species, no motion of the plates is ...

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Book Sense is a marketing program of the American Booksellers Association, in which many independently-owned (non-chain) bookstores across North America participate, in order to better compete with the large book chains. The booksense.com Web site, which can be accessed via Wikipedia's ISBN lookup, has a large database of books (over 2 million titles). Shoppers are directed to the Web site of the nearest partici ...

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The Book of Ezra is a book of the Bible in the Old Testament and Hebrew Tanakh. This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian captivity. At one time, it included the book of Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in the Vulgate version as I and II Esdras. It consists of two principal divisions: The history of the first return of exiles, in the first year of Cyrus the Great (536 BC), till the completion and dedication of the new temple, in the sixth yea ...

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The Book of Omni is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon. The book contains only one chapter although it covers more than two centuries of Nephite history (from ca 323 BC to 130 BC, according to footnotes). The initial author was Omni, but several others were charged with keeping the record as time passed, though few made significant contributions. The final author, Amaleki, describes the departure of the Nephites from the land of Nephi and their discovery of the Mulekite people in the la ...

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