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  • In book publishing, a commissioning editor is essentially a buyer. It is the job of the commissioning editor to advise the publishing house on which books...
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    The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written...
    189 KB (20,617 words) - 06:15, 31 May 2024
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    The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually...
    54 KB (4,683 words) - 12:55, 1 June 2024
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    the fifth book of the Torah (in Judaism), where it is called Devarim (Biblical Hebrew: דְּבָרִים‎, romanized: Dəḇārīm, lit. '[the] words [of Moses]') and...
    32 KB (3,737 words) - 20:14, 27 May 2024
  • Lord Macaulay. After that, three more commissions were established in British India. The first Law Commission of independent India was established in 1955...
    60 KB (3,856 words) - 17:08, 15 December 2023
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    Domesday Book (/ˈduːmzdeɪ/ DOOMZ-day; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and...
    46 KB (5,453 words) - 03:46, 1 June 2024
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    The Book of the Dead (Ancient Egyptian: 𓂋𓏤𓈒𓈒𓈒𓏌𓏤𓉐𓂋𓏏𓂻𓅓𓉔𓂋𓅱𓇳𓏤, r(ꜣ)w n(y)w prt m hrw(w)) is an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written...
    42 KB (5,795 words) - 17:17, 14 May 2024
  • village." The book was commissioned as a 2023 CBBC television adaptation, with McNicoll acting as head writer for the series A Kind of Spark was generally...
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    Book of Joshua (Hebrew: סֵפֶר יְהוֹשֻׁעַ‎ Sefer Yəhōšūaʿ, Tiberian: Sēp̄er Yŏhōšūaʿ‍; Greek: Ιησούς του Ναυή; Latin: Liber Iosue) is the sixth book in...
    58 KB (6,813 words) - 02:32, 27 May 2024
  • The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible which formerly included the Book of Nehemiah in a single book, commonly distinguished in scholarship as...
    23 KB (2,548 words) - 15:03, 23 May 2024
  • The Book of Ezekiel is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and one of the major prophetic books in the Christian Bible, where...
    29 KB (3,007 words) - 02:38, 25 May 2024
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    writers in French and English, and effectively any book incompatible with Nazi ideology. In a campaign of cultural genocide, books were also burned en masse...
    33 KB (3,803 words) - 21:44, 10 May 2024
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    The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically...
    118 KB (15,448 words) - 14:06, 1 June 2024
  • body, supervising the activities of the nineteen specialized International Commissions and the four Affiliated Commissions – it typically meets once or twice...
    31 KB (2,614 words) - 02:33, 18 April 2024
  • believes that if the Book of the Dead brought Imhotep back to life, the Book of Amun-Ra can kill him again and deduces the book's whereabouts in Hamunaptra...
    65 KB (6,763 words) - 00:19, 31 May 2024
  • Computer World 2, taken from the same album. An accompanying book, The Computer Book, was commissioned by the BBC to tie in with the series, giving an introduction...
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    The Urantia Book (sometimes called The Urantia Papers or The Fifth Epochal Revelation) is a spiritual, philosophical, and religious book that originated...
    64 KB (8,809 words) - 03:29, 13 May 2024
  • by Freda Warrington. The book was commissioned by Penguin Books as a sequel to Stoker's original novel for the centenary of the latter's first publication...
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  • National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a 2007 American action-adventure film directed by Jon Turteltaub and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It is a sequel...
    33 KB (3,600 words) - 05:41, 3 May 2024
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    Abbasid Caliphate. The book described about one hundred devices and how to use them. The book was commissioned by the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad, Al-Ma'mun...
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