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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 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 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.
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), American educator and Tuskegee Institute founder- president 1881-1915; born enslaved in Virginia, author of Up From Slavery, deliverer of the 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech, adviser to presidents Roosevelt and Taft.
Booking.com
Booking.com is an Amsterdam-based online travel agency owned by Booking Holdings, connecting travelers with roughly 4.4 million accommodation properties in more than 220 countries and territories.
Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping is the recording of a business's monetary transactions, the administrative part of accounting. Its double-entry method, with debits equal to credits, was first printed by Luca Pacioli in 1494.
Bookmaker
Bookmaker: a person or firm setting odds and taking fixed-odds bets on sports and other contests, also called a bookie. Earns via the overround/vig; distinct from betting exchanges and pari-mutuel pools; regulated nationally, with sharp books like Pinnacle and soft retail books.
BookMyShow
BookMyShow is an Indian online entertainment ticketing platform launched in 2007 by Bigtree Entertainment, selling movie, event, and sports tickets across India and five international markets.
Books of Breathing
The Books of Breathing are Egyptian funerary texts of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, descended from the Book of the Dead and meant to reanimate the dead.
Books of Chilam Balam
The Books of Chilam Balam (libros de Chilam Balam) are colonial Yucatec Maya manuscripts, written in Maya with Latin characters in the 17th and 18th centuries, preserving myth, prophecy, and history.
Books of Chronicles
The Books of Chronicles, Hebrew Divrei HaYamim, are one Hebrew Bible work retelling Israel's history from Adam to the exile's return, focused on David, Solomon, and Judah.
Books of Kings
The Books of Kings, originally one Hebrew work called Melakhim, are two biblical books narrating Israelite history from David's last days to Jehoiachin's release in Babylon.
Books of Remembrance (Canada)
Books of Remembrance (Canada): eight memorial volumes on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, recording over 120,000 Canadians who died in military service, from the First World War Book (dedicated 1942) to the War of 1812 Book (2019).
Books of Samuel
The Books of Samuel are two biblical books narrating Samuel, Saul, and David, one book in the Hebrew canon and a test case for literal Bible translation.
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, or Diagram Prize: humorous annual British literary award since 1978 by The Bookseller for the oddest non-fiction book title, decided by public vote, with no author prize.
Booksellers' trade associations
Booksellers' trade associations are organizations representing bookshops through advocacy, education, and services, including the American Booksellers Association, the UK Booksellers Association, and Germany's Börsenverein, which unites the whole German trade.