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The deuterocanonical books, [a] meaning 'of, pertaining to, or constituting a second canon', [1] collectively known as the Deuterocanon (DC), [2] are certain books and passages considered to be canonical books of the Old Testament by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Church, and the Church of the East.
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics is a 2011 non-fiction book by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith, published by the company PublicAffairs. It discusses how politicians gain and retain political power. Bueno de Mesquita is a fellow at the Hoover Institution. [1]
Book of Tobit (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Deuterocanonical books" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Headpiece to the Book of Baruch by Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1816, depicting holy vessels and musical instruments (Baruch 1:8–9). The Book of Baruch is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible, used in many Christian traditions, such as Catholic and Orthodox churches.
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America is a three-volume work by John Adams, written between 1787 and 1788.The text was Adams’ response to criticisms of the proposed American government, particularly those made by French economist and political theorist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, who had argued against bicameralism and separation of powers.
The thesis there is so blatant that the notice in The New York Times opens with the opinion that it "really requires the services of a social historian rather than a book reviewer". [3] One of its targets is the economic inequality resulting from what the book describes as the "savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and ...
[1] A book review may be a primary source, an opinion piece, a summary review, or a scholarly view. [2] Books can be reviewed for printed periodicals, magazines, and newspapers, as school work, or for book websites on the Internet. A book review's length may vary from a single paragraph to a substantial essay.
They may be divided into three groups. In the first group were those books or parts of a book translated from the Greek Septuagint and commonly found in the Latin Bibles: Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus (Ben Sirach), Tobit and Judith, 1–2 Maccabees, Baruch (1–5) and the Letter of Jeremiah (Baruch 6), and supplements to Daniel and to Esther.