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This determines the way the book is cited in library catalogs and academic references. The title page often shows the title of the work, the person or body responsible for its intellectual content, and the imprint, which contains the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication. [2]
A book cipher is a cipher in which each word or letter in the plaintext of a message is replaced by some code that locates it in another text, the key. A simple version of such a cipher would use a specific book as the key, and would replace each word of the plaintext by a number that gives the position where that word occurs in that book.
A KWIC index is a special case of a permuted index. [4] This term refers to the fact that it indexes all cyclic permutations of the headings. Books composed of many short sections with their own descriptive headings, most notably collections of manual pages, often ended with a permuted index section, allowing the reader to easily find a section by any word from its heading.
Author and podcast host Becca Freeman and book influencer Michelle Lecumberry recommend some of their favorites. Romance, fantasy, dark academia and "Sad Girl" literature are all perfect for fall ...
Umma – "One of the brotherhood of prophets; a term of scorn in the Imperium, meaning any 'wild' person given to fanatical prediction." [4] Usul – Fremen word, meaning "The strength at the base of the pillar." [4] This is the secret "sietch name" (known only to his tribe) given to Paul Atreides upon his joining the Fremen.
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
The Book Nook Reading Valet is the perfect all-in-one storage spot for book lovers. Crafted from acacia wood, the tray has a triangular ledge where they can rest their book—without losing their ...
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources.