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For example, original versions of the BSD license controversially required credit to be provided in the advertisement for software that used licensed code, but only if features or use of the licensed software was mentioned in the advertisement. Software documentation is sometimes licensed under similar terms.
In a review of the book Human Expeditions: Inspired by Bruce Trigger, Marxist archeologist Randall H. McGuire (at Binghamton University) observed in 2014 that "the festschrift [book] and the memorial volume are dying enterprises", and suggested that creating festschrift websites instead, because many observers think that the festschrift volumes ...
An unusual example is The Stand wherein he uses lyrics from certain songs to express the metaphor used in a particular part. Epigraph, consisting of an excerpt from the book itself, William Morris's The House of the Wolfings. Jack London uses the first stanza of John Myers O'Hara's poem "Atavism" as the epigraph to The Call of the Wild.
The book sold out within 24 hours of going on sale at retailers such as Amazon, Target, and Barnes & Noble. [12] That same month it became a number one New York Times Best Seller for non-fiction in both hardcover and E-book , [ 13 ] selling over 200,000 copies across all formats in its first week of release. [ 14 ]
Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences), a statement of gratitude for assistance in producing a work Acknowledgment index, a method for indexing and analyzing acknowledgments in the scientific literature "Acknowledgement" (song), a 1965 song from John Coltrane's album A Love Supreme
The foreword to Men I Have Painted, by John McLure Hamilton; 1921 Foreword, to a 1900 book in German. A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing, sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature. Typically written by someone other than the primary author of the work, it often tells of some interaction between the ...
It can occupy one or multiple lines depending on its importance. It can also be "in a longer version as a dedication letter or dedication preface at the book's beginning". [6] Today, book dedications tend to be short, often thanking partners, family, friends or muses, in the form of a personal note. [7] They are basically a means to express ...
The book is divided into 7 chapters along with acknowledgements, introduction to the paperback edition, introduction, afterword, and notes. Each chapter builds on the next chapter. It is written from the author’s point of view and her experiences during matriculating Harvard University.