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Book of Song
The Book of Song (宋书) is the official history of China's Liu Song dynasty (420 to 479), compiled by Shen Yue in 100 juan and especially valued for its treatises.
Book of Southern Qi
The Book of Southern Qi (南齐书) is the only surviving dynastic history of the Southern Qi, written by Xiao Zixian, a member of the dynasty's ruling house.
Book of Sui
The Book of Sui (隋书) is the official Tang history of the Sui dynasty, completed in 656, whose bibliography treatise fixed the four-part classification of Chinese books.
Book of the Dead
Book of the Dead (Egyptian: Going Forth by Day, prt m hrw): corpus of about 200 ancient Egyptian funerary spells on papyri, shrouds, and coffins, New Kingdom to Ptolemaic; numbered 1–165 by Lepsius in 1842; includes Spell 125 judgment.
Book of the Dead of Qenna
The Book of the Dead of Qenna is a New Kingdom funerary papyrus of a Theban merchant named Qenna, the longest manuscript in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden.
Book of the Earth
The Book of the Earth is an ancient Egyptian royal funerary composition of Dynasties 19–20, decorating royal sarcophagus chambers with scenes of the sun god's voyage through the underworld.
Book of the Faiyum
The Book of the Faiyum is an ancient Egyptian text presenting the Faiyum oasis as a mythical center of prosperity, centered on the crocodile god Sobek.
Book of the Great Map (Bolshoy Chertezh)
The Book of the Great Map (Книга Большому чертежу) is a 1627 geographic description of Muscovy, compiled in the Razryadny Prikaz by order of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich.
Book of the Heavenly Cow
The Book of the Heavenly Cow is an ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom, first attested in Tutankhamun's tomb, recounting humanity's rebellion against the sun god.
Book of the Himyarites
The Book of the Himyarites is a fragmentary Syriac narrative about the persecution of the Christians of Najran around 523 CE and the Aksumite campaign that followed, published by Axel Moberg in 1924.
Book of the Mysteries of Heaven and Earth
The Book of the Mysteries of Heaven and Earth (Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ መስተራር ሰማይና ምድር) is an Ethiopic cosmological and apocalyptic work revealed to the monk Bakhayla Mika'el by the Archangel Gabriel.
Book of the Stranger
Book of the Stranger is the fourth episode of Game of Thrones season 6, aired May 15, 2016, and was written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.
Book of Tobit
The Book of Tobit, or Book of Tobias, is a Jewish deuterocanonical book telling how Tobit's son Tobias, guided by the angel Raphael, marries Sarah.
Book of Wei
The Book of Wei (魏书) is the dynastic history of Northern Wei, compiled by Wei Shou under Northern Qi and denounced on publication as the "filthy history."
Book of Wisdom
The Book of Wisdom, also called the Wisdom of Solomon, is a Jewish book written in Greek around the turn of the first century, speaking in Solomon's voice.
Book of Zechariah (זְכַרְיָה)
The Book of Zechariah (זְכַרְיָה), also called the Book of Zacharias, is a Hebrew prophetic text of fourteen chapters, the eleventh of the twelve Minor Prophets.
Book of Zhou
The Book of Zhou (周书) is a Chinese standard history covering the Western Wei and Northern Zhou dynasties, long criticized as unreliable but defended by later scholars.
Book on Numbers and Computation
The Book on Numbers and Computation (算数书, Suan Shu Shu) is a Han dynasty mathematical text on bamboo slips, buried no later than 186 BC.
Book review
Book review: a critical evaluation of a book published shortly after publication, also called a review essay or scholarly book review. Distinguished by venue (trade, newspaper, academic journal), 250–500 word scholarly norms, anonymity history, and measurable reviewer bias.
Book series
Book series: related books sharing characters, settings, or storylines, descended from 19th-century serialized fiction such as Dickens's Pickwick Papers. Covers reading-order levels, reader-development research, and modern serialized platforms like Royal Road.
Book size
Book size: bibliographic format (folio 2°, quarto 4°, octavo 8°, named by sheet folds) versus modern trim sizes such as the US 6 x 9 inch standard and UK B-format paperbacks.
Böök syndrome
Böök syndrome (PHC syndrome, Book syndrome) is an ultra-rare autosomal dominant ectodermal dysplasia with premolar aplasia, hyperhidrosis, and premature hair graying, first described by J.A. Böök in 1950; OMIM 112300, cause unknown.
Book value
Book value, also called carrying value or net book value, is the net amount at which an asset or a company's equity is recognized on its balance sheet.
Bookbinding
Bookbinding is the craft and industrial process of joining pages into a codex with a protective cover, developing from Coptic binding into factory methods by the 1830s.
Bookends (album)
Bookends is Simon & Garfunkel's fourth studio album, released by Columbia on April 3, 1968. A concept album tracing life from youth to old age, it topped US and UK charts and won "Mrs. Robinson" the Record of the Year Grammy.
Booker Ervin
Booker Ervin (Booker Telleferro Ervin II, 1930–1970) was a Texas-born tenor saxophonist of the Mingus Jazz Workshop, famed for the hard-toned Prestige Book series and Blue Note albums.
Booker Prize
The Booker Prize, founded in the UK in 1969 and also known as the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is awarded annually by the Booker Prize Foundation for the best English-language novel published in the UK or Ireland; winner receives £50,000.
Booker T (wrestler)
Booker T is the ring name of Robert Booker Tio Huffman, an American wrestler who won 21 titles in WCW and is a six-time world champion.
Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Booker T. & the M.G.'s, also called Booker T and the MGs, were the interracial Stax Records house band formed in Memphis in 1962, known for "Green Onions" (R&B No. 1), backing Otis Redding and Sam & Dave, and 1992 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.
Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones, born Booker Taliaferro Jones Jr. in 1944, is an American musician best known as organist and leader of Booker T. & the MG's.