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	Curiosities of Literature: Prefaces
		A good preface is as essential to put the reader into good humour, as a good prologue is to a play, or a fine symphony to an opera, containing something analogous to the work itself; so that we may feel its want as a desire not elsewhere to be gratified.
		These armed prefaces were formerly very common in the age of literary controversy; for half the business of an author consisted then, either in replying, or anticipating a reply, to the attacks of his opponent.
		Prefaces ought to be dated, as these become, after a series of editions, leading and useful circumstances in literary history.
	www.spamula.net /col/archives/2005/01/prefaces.html (723 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Book of Prefaces: Books: Alasdair Gray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It's great to have all these wonderful prefaces in one handy volume, but Gray, who supplies an introduction and many of the glosses, writes in a kind of shorthand, staccato style that is unpleasant, and he has weak control of comma usage.
		Among prefaces to novels and poems (from the well known, such as Mary Shelley's genesis of Frankenstein to the less well known such as Trahern's poetry) there are prefaces (and prologues) to works of philosophy (e.g.
		This book will be an invaluable companion through life, and careful reading will have the desired effect of making an individual appear better read and more erudite than they really are.
	www.amazon.ca /Book-Prefaces-Alasdair-Gray/dp/0747559120 (1154 words)

	Cleveland: Prefaces
		Some tools in the book are new and some are old, but all have a proven record of success in the analysis of common types of statistical data that arise in science and technology.
		The book Visualizing Data is a companion volume It focuses on graphical methods, the topic of Chapter 3 of this book; it presents far more methods than covered here and is more advanced, requiring a greater knowledge of statistics.
		Winding its way through the book is a summary of the material: the figures and their legends.
	cm.bell-labs.com /cm/ms/departments/sia/wsc/prefaces.html (1056 words)

	Review: The Book of Prefaces edited by Alasdair Gray \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		As the preface's chief purpose - when it is not bombast or score-settling - is clarification, and therefore a drive towards understanding and knowledge, no one should have any quibble with that.
		King Alfred's preface to Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care, a gentle and enthusiastic plea for vernacular learning, is an early example of how moving this kind of thing can be.
		This is a book which assumes a curious and intelligent reader, not one who already knows this stuff.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,835728,00.html (622 words)

	American Chemical Society: ACS Books Guidelines for Writing Prefaces and Introductory Overview Chapters
		In the preface, the editor speaks directly (but briefly) to the readers, describing his or her intent in organizing the symposium and editing the volume.
		The overview chapter is primarily an overview of the topic, not of the book.
		An important segment of the market for your book includes people who are not directly involved in the field but who are interested in and are looking for books to prepare them for the primary literature.
	pubs.acs.org /books/writing.shtml (307 words)

	Edinburgh Book Festival 2000
		Her latest book, Scapegoat: Jews, Israel and Women's Liberation, includes, amongst many other issues, a profound critique of pornography and prostitution, and a no-holds-barred chapter on the treatment of Jewish women in the death camps as objects for rape.
		His ‘Book of Prefaces’ may be idiosyncratic, but it will also happen to be one of the great and most memorable reference books of our time.
		The importance of this book of short stories-that happens to be by Scottish writers, two of whom Chris Dolan and Gordon Legge have not written for "young adults", was not obviated by a small audience.
	www.edinburghguide.com /festival/book/report.shtml (4672 words)

	Undiscovered Scotland: Bookshop: Alasdair Gray
		Magnificent in its reach and unequalled in the adulation of its critical response, Lanark is a massive book.
		From "Lanark" to "The Book of Prefaces", Alasdair Gray, more than any other writer still working, can be claimed as the modern successor to William Blake.
		As well as being award-winning tales, his books are also works of art, from the embossed boards to his own illustrations: books, not texts.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usbookshop/usbs-alasdairgray.html (648 words)

	Librarian's Lobby June 2003, by Daniel D. Stuhlman -- Book prefaces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This book is being printed on heavy non-acid paper so that it will be as durable as the original hardcover editions.
		This book is an expansion of the chapters in the first edition of American Libraries dealing with the religion based collections.
		This book is dedicated to our son, a future scholar, who held his first book at four weeks and taught himself to read before he was 25 months old and to our 1 month old daughter.
	home.earthlink.net /~ddstuhlman/crc61.htm (1890 words)

	Adabus Salat
		Three years before the writing of this work, the Imam (S) [salamullahi 'alayh = may Allah's peace be upon him] had written a book under the title: The Secret of the Salat, which contained the same concepts, but it was concise and in the terms of the elect gnostics [1].
		The book includes two prefaces, which the Imam wrote in 1363 S.H., dedicating this work to his respected son, Hujjatul Islam wal Muslimin, Haj Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini, and to Mrs.
		A thousand copies of the first edition of the book (in Persian) are accompanied with the photostatic copy of the complete MS (manuscript) to be sent to the libraries and those interested in keeping specimens of the Imam's handwritten works.
	www.al-islam.org /adab/1.htm (633 words)

	The Book of Prefaces -- Lanark 1982: an unofficial Alasdair Gray website
		Gray's ambitious Anthology of Prefaces finally came into the world in the year 2000, after 16 years and a change of title.
		The dust jacket consists of thirty-two ink portraits of writers whose prefaces are featured in the book.
		Inside, the book is heavily illustrated, including 43 ink portraits of some of the key contributors to the book.
	www.lanark1982.co.uk /prefaces.html (542 words)

	Inside the Box // Alasdair Gray Bibliography
		McCandless' tale features the extraordinary story of the woman who was to become his wife, and of the 'Frankenstein' surgeon who saved her life.
		Sixteen poems written while Gray was working on the massive Book of Prefaces, and which reflect some of the themes which occur in the larger work: self-government, love, God, legends, language, and some national states.
		With a gestation period of sixteen years, when The Book of Prefaces finally appeared it more than lived up to expectations.
	web.mac.com /iandphillip/gray/biblio.html (682 words)

	The Book of Prefaces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article is not about A Book of Prefaces by H.
		The Book of Prefaces, "Edited and Glossed" by the Scottish artist and novelist Alasdair Gray, provides a history of how literature spread and developed through the nations of England, Ireland, Scotland, and the United States.
		The body of the book provides the prefaces, prologues, introductions or forewords chronologically, each headed with its title, and the year in very large numerals, with commentary by Gray and other writers in small red italic text in a column to the outer side of the leaf as needed to discuss the document.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Book_of_Prefaces (279 words)

	Nightswimming: Book Review - God's Debris
		Adams also prefaces the book with a disclaimer that he doesn't beleive everything presented in the novel.
		I read the book in less than two hours and I tend to be a slow reader.
		Some of Adam's ideas in the book also seemed somewhat Tao-esqe, so the Tao Te Ching would also be another good reccomended reading.
	www.nightswimming.com /archive/000057.html (365 words)

	Tips for starting a book club? \| Ask MetaFilter
		My book group is definitely more like a social club than a book group, although it's the idea of reading and discussing the book that brings us together.
		I stopped attending the only book club I ever joined because one member was really really into it, to the point of dominating the discussion and intimidating other members.
		What this means is that I choose the books (in advance for the year, more on that later) and I tend to do some extra reading in biography, criticism, other works by the author in question (but then I'm a bit of a geek), and then I lead the discussion.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/38460 (2144 words)

	Aladair Gray
		A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, Alasdair Gray's books are beautifully illustrated; on the cover of The Book of Prefaces he has drawn the portraits of authors included in the book.
		When his long awaited 'Book of Prefaces' was launched at John Smith's University Bookshop it was standing room only.
		I admitted to him that I had only read one of his books 'Poor Things' but that I was amazed by the characters in it and could not imagine how he had dreamt them up.
	www.glasgowwestend.co.uk /people/alasdairgray.php (1375 words)

	SparkNotes: The Light in the Forest: Context
		The sources Richter used to research his book include John Hechewelder's Indian Nations, David Zeisberger's History of North American Indians, and "Narrative of John Brickell's Captivity Among the Delawares," which was an article that ran in the American Pioneer in 1842.
		The story of The Light in the Forest is based on an actual event that occurred in the fall of 1764, during the treacherous white westerly expansion into the Indian territory of Ohio.
		Colonel Bouquet, who is an historic figure in addition to being a character in the book, marched into Ohio with 1,500 soldiers and ordered that the Indians return the white prisoners they had captured.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/lightforest/context.html (502 words)

	C:\380web\Prefaces.html
		The earliest systematic interpretations of the odes in the Book of Poetry date from the end of the Classical period.
		The Prefaces are said to have been composed by Zi-xia, a disciple of Confucius, but probably date from the fourth or third century B.C. They appear, however, to preserve much older readings of the poems, readings that contributed essentially to their cultural preservation as a sacred canon of ancient understanding.
		The Preface ends as follows.] When the entire section of the Lesser Court Odes had been discarded, the four barbarian groups invaded China from all directions and China grew weak.
	www.indiana.edu /~g380/Prefaces.html (760 words)

	In These Times 25/10 -- The History of Beginnings
		A bestseller in Scotland when published last summer, The Book of Prefaces is literally an anthology of prefaces, introductions, prologues and forwards to famous works of "literate thought" in the English language, beginning in the seventh century and ending, due to copyright costs, at the beginning of the 20th.
		This is probably more a symptom of the book's Eurocentric framework rather than any narrow kind of Scottish nationalism, which, despite its politically shifty past, now rails against racism and xenophobia in the name of democratic socialism.
		Despite these limitations, The Book of Prefaces is an indisputably important work, a major addition to intellectual history and literary criticism that should be both welcomed and well-thumbed.
	www.inthesetimes.com /issue/25/10/haacke2510.html (1405 words)

	Invisible Forms - Kevin Jackson
		Every bit of a book has its own complicated meanings and pleasures and, as Jackson repeatedly shows, in literature the scenery has a way of coming to the centre of the stage.
		Throughout the book there are such sorts of games, depending on the subject matter.
		The book is terribly erudite -- or rather: wonderfully erudite, with Jackson not demanding too much from his readers, while still citing an almost overwhelming (and almost invariably entertaining) range of examples.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/publish/jacksonk.htm (942 words)

	Holy Communion - book contents
		Third Exhortation from The Book of Common Prayer 245
		Proper Prefaces from The Book of Common Prayer 246
		Prefaces for the Sundays before Lent and after Trinity 294
	justus.anglican.org /~ss/commonworship/books/mv/hcmvcontents.html (57 words)

	Glasgow: Pat's Guide to the West End: Alasdair Gray, Writer and Artist
		He spoke about his desire to become a writer from an early age, and how impressed he was, when as a wee boy, he met the Aunt of a childhood friend who was a writer: "She had written a book and that was what I wanted to do".
		This book perfectly explains my feelings about the city and, at another level, about the world by that time.
		Alistair's books are impossible to put down and I only wish that the literati in the US would make him known to the public here.
	www.glasgowwestend.co.uk /people/alasdair.html (1654 words)

	Postapologetic - The Phoenix
		This is the sort of book that eschews any particular methodology in favor of throwing itself headlong into an experimental engagement with a vast, difficult, and continually changing historical and aesthetic terrain.
		In endeavoring to do so Monroe produces an exhilarating and properly punitive study, one that occasionally loses its own thread through the complexity it relishes, but that nevertheless does some serious and deserved violence to the clinical complacency of the art history industry and its well-oiled recuperations of any and all avant-garde activity.
		So apart from Interrogation Machine’s importance as a source that traces the genealogy of NSK and Laibach and their historical and cultural contexts, the book also demonstrates the fertile dialogue, largely unmined, between them and the Western European and American post-war avant-gardes.
	www.thephoenix.com /PrinterFriendly.aspx?id=13128 (367 words)

	Books and Writing - 21/7/2002: The Eccentric Genius of Scottish Letters
		Novelist, artist, playwright, activist and scholar Alasdair Gray is considered the founding father of Scottish literary renaissance.
		In this program, he describes his sixteen-year work on the mammoth Book of Prefaces and reflects on his favourite novel 1982 Janine.
		Since his first epic novel Lanark, he has written seven novels, winning the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1992 for Poor Things, four collections of short stories, several plays and other works of non-fiction.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/bwriting/stories/s604994.htm (105 words)

	dik-dik
		In the epistolary dialogue with Lyn Hejinian that prefaces the book, Tardos explains her approach as being one of uncertainty: "Maybe it's a question of creating a condition of not knowing what one is about to do.
		Fans of Tardos' previous books, including the terrific based Uxudo, will discover a versifying wordsmith they hadn't anticipated, one with notes of formal grace and a sense of cross-media camaraderie that expands bandwidths all around.
		It is a book that teaches the reader to understand the pleasure of the text.
	home.pipeline.com /~tarmac/books/dik-dik_.html (256 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Don Quixote at Eighty
		You may recall that in the last mound of Mailer, The Time of Our Time (1998), 1,300 pages of recycled snippets from five decades of fiction and journalism paraded by, not in the order in which they'd been written, but in the order of the years they described.
		Still the book feels like one of those late-night cable commercials for Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits, or Conway Twitty's: act now, call this toll-free number, and we will also send you, at no extra charge, a cool tool to sharpen your knives, whiten your teeth, and screw your neighbors.
		Odd now to think that he was still to publish books on graffiti, boxing, and Henry Miller before winding up his last good decade with The Executioner's Song (1979), which won all the important prizes, and then finally finishing Ancient Evenings (1983) to yawns or disdain.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/16115 (2242 words)

	Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop -
		Knez is a great short story writer and this little book (64 pages) showcases her gross-genre style, range of writing and subject and deftness of touch.
		At $49.95 (less 20%, like all new books!) it is not cheap, but as the dustjacket pictures should illustrate, this is not a cheaply made book.
		Others, book lovers but more career minded, have gone on to work at other book places, stores, publishers, magazines, even to starting their own stores.
	www.avenuevictorhugobooks.com /newsletter/newsletter_00001_9.php3 (1398 words)

	Table of Contents, "Smoke, Flame, and Ashes"
		Indeed, the book ranks as one of the biggest bestsellers of the nineteenth century, causing one critic to compare it to Uncle Tom's Cabin in its popularity and cultural significance.
		Mitchell was actively involved in deciding how various editions of the book would appear as physical objects, since he and his publisher Charles Scribner exchanged many letters about paper size, illustrations, and bindings.
		Unless the book is a first edition (published by Baker and Scribner in 1850) or belonged to someone prominent, it is unlikely to be worth more than $15.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /users/spiro/Contents2.html (1202 words)

	Nikos Klitsikas - Pages of Life
		PRESENTATION Of the BOOK "Pages of Life - Fights for the Liberta' and the Democracy" to Kavala...
		Presentation of the book "Pages of Life - Fights for the Liberta' and the Democracy" to Atene...
		This low book on the testimony of Kostas Tsimas, former europarlamentare themselves, undersecretary of the ministry of Publico Order, former head of the Intelligence agencies (EYP), deputy of Kavala, in the search of the historian Nikos Klitsikas.
	www.nikosklitsikas.gr /selidesz_en.html (213 words)

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