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The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling was the most challenged work from 2000 to 2009. Its topics relating to things such as witchcraft have generated controversy. The second oldest works featured on the list were written by Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) is often challenged for its language and discussion of racism.
Not on the Index were Aristophanes, Juvenal, John Cleland, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. According to Wallace et al., this was because the primary criterion for banning the work was anticlericalism, blasphemy and heresy . Some authors whose views are generally unacceptable to the Church (e.g. Karl Marx) were never put on the Index; nor was ...
List of used book conditions. The set of terms below were proposed in 1949 by AB Bookman's Weekly. They were adopted by the bookselling community and are still in use today. [1] [2] [3] As new means that the book is in the state that it should have been in when it left the publisher. This is the equivalent of mint condition in numismatics.
Factfile books. The Complete Book of Fairies; My Big Book of Fairies; My A to Z of Fairies; My Basis of Fairies; Additionally, annuals were released yearly, but they were discontinued in 2016. Magic Animal Friends. Magic Animal Friends is another book series written under the Daisy Meadows pen name. Its first series was released on 3 July 2014 ...
The eye of God within a triangle, representing the Holy Trinity, and surrounded by holy light, representing His omniscience. Heptagram. Judaism, Islam, Thelema, Paganism, Alchemy. Represents the seven days of creation. In Islam, it represents the first seven verses of the Quran. It is the symbol of Babalon in Thelema.
The non-canonical books referenced in the Bible includes non-Biblical cultures and lost works of known or unknown status. By the "Bible" is meant those books recognized by Christians and Jews as being part of Old Testament (or Tanakh) as well as those recognized by most Christians as being part of the Biblical apocrypha or of the Deuterocanon .
The Los Angeles Times called the book "an indictment of the legal system from law school to the jury’s verdict." [2] Entertainment Weekly wrote that "if The Rainmaker ’s outcome is a bit predictable, Grisham’s vivid minor characters and near-Dickensian zeal for mocking pomposity and privilege are apt to endear him to his many readers all ...
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter is a non-fiction book written by Steven Johnson.Published in 2005, it details Johnson's theory that popular culture – in particular television programs and video games – has grown more complex and demanding over time and is making society as a whole more intelligent, contrary to the perception that ...