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	Penguin Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Penguin's victory in the case heralded the end to the censorship of books in Britain, although censorship of the written word was only finally defeated after the Inside Linda Lovelace trial of 1978.
		Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane.
		Penguin is the lead publisher for the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penguin_Books (806 words)

	Ladybird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ladybirds are small insects, ranging from 1 mm to 10 mm (0.04 to 0.4 inches), and are usually yellow, orange, or red with small black spots on their carapace, and black legs, head and feelers.
		Ladybirds (Commonwealth English), also known as ladybugs (American English, Canadian English) or lady beetles (some scientists favor this) are a family, Coccinellidae ("little sphere"), of beetles; the name is thought to allude to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Catholic faith.
		Ladybirds are beneficial to organic gardeners because most species are insectivores, consuming aphids, fruit flies, thrips, and other tiny plant-sucking insects that damage crops.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ladybird (702 words)

	Black Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Black Books is a British sitcom, broadcast on Channel 4 and written by Dylan Moran, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley.
		Black Books is considered by the makers to be a sister-show of fellow Channel 4 sitcom Spaced, as numerous comic actors have appeared on both shows — guest stars from Spaced have included Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jessica Stevenson and Peter Serafinowicz, while Bill Bailey had a recurring part in Spaced.
		Cooking the Books - After his accountant flees the police, Bernard is faced with the daunting prospect of doing his own taxes, and resorts to pairing his socks, getting drunk with Jehovah's Witnesses and trying to seriously injure himself to avoid them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Books (2558 words)

	Baen Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baen Books is an American publishing company established in 1983 by SF publishing industry long-timer Jim Baen.
		Baen Books also hosts a large online community in which the publisher, authors, and many readers take part via Baen's Bar, an internet forum with personal forums for the publisher and each author.
		2, 50/54), Baen Books was the ninth most active publisher in terms of most books published in the genres indicated, and the fifth most active publisher of the dedicated SF imprints, publishing a total of 67 titles (of which 40 were original titles).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baen (462 words)

	Xenos Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Xenos Books is a publishing company in Grand Terrace, California that was founded in 1985 by Karl Kvitko and Verona Weiss.
		Named with the Greek word meaning both "stranger" and "guest," the company publishes works that examine both the strange and the familiar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xenos_Books (405 words)

	Sibylline Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sibylline Books were entrusted to the care of two patricians; after 367 BC ten custodians were appointed, five patricians and five plebeians; subsequently (probably in the time of Sulla) their number was increased to fifteen.
		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.
		As the Sibylline Books had been collected in Anatolia, in the neighborhood of Troy, they recognized the goddesses and gods and the rites observed there and helped introduce them into Roman State worship, a syncretic amalgamation of national deities with the corresponding deities of Greece, and a general modification of the Roman religion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sibylline_Books (894 words)

	Pantheon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pantheon (gods), a word describing the set of all the gods of a particular religion or mythology.
		Pantheon, Rome, a temple built in 27 BC to all Roman gods, now a Christian church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pantheon (117 words)

	Ladybird Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ladybird Books is a London-based publishing company that produces children's books.
		Ladybird became part of Penguin Books in 1999, and the Loughborough factory closed.
		In the 1960s, Ladybird produced the Learnabout series of factual books, some of which were used by adults as well as children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ladybird_Books (193 words)

	IDG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		IDG Books, which was a public company spun off from the privately-held IDG, published the popular self help "...For Dummies " books.
		The series is now published by John Wiley and Sons and IDG Books/Hungry Minds (as IDG Books was briefly renamed before being sold to Wiley in 2001) no longer exists as a separate company.
		McGovern has made millions of dollars from the growth of IDG, which has remained a private company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IDG (193 words)

	Great Books of the Western World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Books of the Western World (ISBN 0852295316) is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes.
		In 1990 a second edition of the Great Books of the Western World was published, this time with updated translations and six more volumes of material covering the 20th century, an era of which the first edition was nearly devoid.
		The Book-of-the-Millennium Club, a New Yorker article from 1952 critical of the Great Books
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World (1397 words)

	Great Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Great Books refers to a curriculum and a book list that came about as the result of a discussion among American academics and educators, starting in the 1920s and 1930s and begun by Prof.
		The books are licensed by Mortimer Adler and others through the Great Books Foundation, and many of the books in this collection were translated into English for the first time.
		The Great Books of the Western World is a hardcover encyclopedia-style collection of the books on the Great Books list.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Books (608 words)

	Forbidden books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Books have been outlawed and burned many times in history when they are considered to contain forbidden knowledge.
		During the military dictatorship in Brazil books were not forbidden, but many people were known to have disappeared because they were caught with books related to Communism.
		During the Chinese cultural revolution many books were forbidden and readers were killed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forbidden_books (608 words)

	Deuterocanonical books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The deuterocanonical books are the books that Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Ethiopian Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy include in the Old Testament that were not part of the Jewish Tanakh.
		In Catholicism, deuterocanonical means that the canonicity of the books was definitively settled at a later date than the rest of the canon.
		In the Catholic Church, the following books are considered deuterocanonical: Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), and Baruch; as well as some additions to Esther and Daniel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deuterocanonical_books (587 words)

	Target Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Target Books was a British publishing imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company.
		The imprint was established as a children's imprint to complement the adult Tandem imprint, and became well known for their highly successful range of novelisations and other assorted books based on the popular science-fiction television series Doctor Who.
		On Target - fansite, mainly covering the company's Doctor Who books.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Target_Books (304 words)

	Sibylline oracles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Books I and II are regarded as a Christian revision of a Jewish original.
		The surviving Sibylline Oracles are not the famous Sibylline Books of Roman history, which were lost not once, but twice, and thus there is very little knowledge of the actual contents.
		The order in which the books are enumerated does not represent their relative antiquity, nor has the most searching criticism been able accurately to determine how much is Christian and how much Jewish."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sibylline_oracles (976 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pantheon Books
		Pantheon Books was an American publishing company that was acquired by Random House in 1961.
		Works continue to be published under the Pantheon Books imprint with editorial independence.
		The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pantheon-Books (189 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Censorship of Books
		From the previously mentioned arrangement of all forbidden books in three groups it clearly follows that the Church not only keeps within the limits of her right, but also forbids only as much as she is bound to forbid by reason of her office as teacher and guide of all the faithful.
		Regarding them paragraph 11 says: All books are forbidden that insult God or the Blessed Virgin Mary or the saints or the Catholic Church and her rites, the sacraments or the Apostolic See.
		Under the same penalty, and in like manner, books individually condemned by letters Apostolic are indicted by paragraph 47, in case the letters referred to are still in full force, and punish the reading of the condemned book with excommunication reserved to the pope.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03519d.htm (189 words)

	Dutch book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Other forms of Dutch books can exist when incoherent odds are offered on exotic bets such as forecasting the order in which horses will finish.
		In gambling a Dutch book or lock is a set of odds and bets which guarantees a profit, no matter what the outcome of the gamble.
		In economics a Dutch book usually refers to a sequence of trades that would leave one party strictly worse off and another strictly better off.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dutch_Books (529 words)

	DAW Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Until the mid-1980s all DAW books were characterized by yellow spines and a prominent yellow cover box containing the company's logo as well as a chronological publication number.
		DAW Books is a New York-based science fiction and fantasy publisher, founded in 1971 by Donald A. Wollheim and named after his initials, following his departure from Ace Books.
		The first DAW Book was Spell of the Witch World by Andre Norton which appeared the following year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DAW_Books (140 words)

	Creation Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Creation Books launched an erotic imprint Velvet, which included works by de Sade and dominatrix author Terrence Sellers, as well as two volumes edited by David Wood, co-founder of the Torture Garden fetish club.
		Simon Whitechapel, Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition (Creation Books, 2003).
		Creation also expanded into photography books and published works by Romain Slocombe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Creation_Books (384 words)

	Ace Books
		Ace books was started by AA Wyn in collaboration with Donald A Wolheim in 1952.
		Thus the Ace Double was born where each book was to include one reprint and one Paperback Original (PBO).
		The most famous Ace Double is Junkie by William Burroughs written under the pseudonym "William Lee", the 'confessions of an unredeemed drug addict'.
	www.goodgirlart.com /ace.html (384 words)

	Titan (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Titan Books is a UK publisher of graphic novels.
		Titan is the first book in the Gaea Trilogy, written by SF author John Varley.
		Titan is the name of a German company which produced heavy duty tractors based on standard tractors by MAN and Mercedes-Benz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Titan (655 words)

	Virgin Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The book publishing arm was established in the late 1970s; in the latter part of the 1980s Virgin purchased several existing companies, including WH Allen, well-known among Doctor Who fans for their Target Books imprint; Virgin Books was incorporated into WH Allen in 1989, but in 1991 WH Allen was renamed Virgin Publishing Ltd.
		Virgin Books is the book publishing arm of Virgin Enterprises, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company.
		Among Virgin Publishing's best-known books are the Doctor Who New Adventures novels, officially-licensed full-length novels carrying on the story of the popular science-fiction television series following its cancellation in 1989.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virgin_Publishing (235 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - SIBYL:
		The majority of the quotations from the Sibylline Books found in patristic literature are taken from the third book.
		Although the Church Fathers do not quote these books, this does not imply that they were composed at a late date; they remain uncited because the religious thought they express is unimportant, and their Messianic-apocalyptic elements are entirely conventional.
		differs from the preceding books in that the allusions to the emperors are too obscure to admit of identification, while alleged historical events do not correspond with the authenticated data.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=680&letter=S (3727 words)

	Penguin UK
		Penguin Ireland, a new publishing venture for Penguin Books created in autumn 2002, are to launch a list of fiction and non-fiction titles ready for publication in the autumn of 2003.
		Pelican was introduced to cover serious contemporary issues and represented the first new and original books to be published by Penguin; all titles so far had been paperbacks of books previously published by other companies.
		Hutchinsons are now bringing out a very similar edition, though only of their own books, and if other publishers follow suit, the result may be a flood of cheap reprints which will cripple the lending libraries and check the output of new novels.
	www.penguin.co.uk /static/packages/uk/aboutus/history.html (1979 words)

	Great Books Movement
		Great books discussion groups for adults continue in many cities, and Nina Houghton at the Aspen Institute puts on "Adler Reunion seminars" every year, assisted by Charlene Costello, while Max Weismann at the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas conducts on-line discussion groups on the Great Ideas.
		Through their books, the thought of the authors of the classics continually influences the living, in each generation right up to our day, to the extent they are read and discussed.
		A great books program for adults and the Great Books Foundation were begun in Chicago, both still actively promoting the great books approach to education.
	www.angelicum.net /html/great_books_movement.html (3053 words)

	The Foxfire Book Series
		This is our book catalog page for The Foxfire Books series.
		Our customer service staff has selected the Foxfire Book series because these books are an important recorded chronicle of useful country living information and are of historical value.
		This book presents the mountain religious traditions and heritage, covers ministers, revivals, baptisms, gospel singing, faith healing, snake handling, and more.
	www.sedelmeier.com /foxfire.htm (3053 words)

	Foxfire Books - Foxfire Book Series by Eliot Wigginton
		The Foxfire Books series is an attempt to get down on paper the wisdom and ways of the Mountain People in rural America.
		If you are after plain speaking, how-to information then these books are ideal; if you want to know how your great grandparents tamed the wilderness it's all in here.
		So the Foxfire Series is an effort to record this information before it is gone forever - it tells us about barn raisings, quilting, making your own furniture, home remedies, soap making, when and where to sow your crops, ghost stories and much, much more besides.
	www.survivalistbooks.com /foxfire.htm (3053 words)

	Four Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Four Books of Confucianism (not to be confused with the Four Classics of Chinese literature) are Chinese classic texts that Zhu Xi selected, in the Song dynasty, as an introduction to Confucianism: the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Analects of Confucius, and the Mencius.
		The imperial examination, started in the Jin Dynasty and eventually abolished with the founding of the Republic of China, emphasized Confucian studies and expected candidates to quote and apply the words of Confucius in their essays.
		The purpose of this small, 23-chapter book is to demonstrate the usefulness of a golden way to gain perfect virtue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Four_Books (672 words)

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