Before selecting any book, you should have to follow a procedure which may be different for different people. In my case, I just follow these 3 steps.Note names of book and author.Find Ratings and Reviews.Check prices from various sites.Why note down names is important? Everyone has to know that a human’s mind like choices and if you have 2 or 3 books to choose from, you are lucky.There are a lot of books which may have a similar title. So, it is important to write down Names related to Book, Authors and Publishing house to find it easily on the internet. In some case, I note down the ISBN number of the book.Reviews are most crucial part of book selection. Why? because no one wants to waste their days on a book which didn’t add any value to his/her life. I do this on Goodreads, because it has an active community. Here is my Goodreads profile, If you want to follow me, KumarGaurav SinghBuying a book is a very easy task these days. Few clicks and books are already added to your reading list. Some popular websites for ebooks areAmazon’s Kindle (India)FeedbooksEbooks dot com (outside India)I recommend you to buy from Amazon because it has a huge collection of titles.(Note: Don’t forget to comment on your favourite books)
How do you find the year a book was published?
No. The copyright date is the year the book was copyrighted, but it could have a dozen publication dates - first edition, second edition and so on. The copyright date remains the same. The publication date should be in the front matter - the first page, that lists the ISBN number, the publisher's name and address, etc.etc. look in the small print. Actually, I just typed in into google and it was published in 1947. You should be able to confirm that by looking through the front matter.
There are actually five Books of Maccabees. You can find them in English translation here: The five books of Maccabees in English : Cotton, Henry, 1789-1879, [from old catalog] ed. and tr : Free Download & Streaming : Internet ArchiveI MaccabeesThis covers the entire Hasmonean Revolt, which lasted from 175 to 134 BCE. This covers the Maccabees from Mattathias to John Hyrcanus. The story of Hannukah, not including the bit about the oil lasting eight days. Written in Hebrew originally, only the Greek survives to this day.II MaccabeesThis covers events from 180 BCE to 161 BCE. This gives some history before the Revolt, ending with the Jews victorious at the Battle of Adasa. Originally written in Greek.III MaccabeesThis actually has nothing to do with the Hasmoneans, and is set decades before the revolt. There are some parallels between the events in III Maccabees and II Maccabees, which appears to be how a book on the Ptolmaic persecution of Jews came to have a name having everything to do with the Seleucid persecution of Jews. Originally written in Greek.IV MaccabeesMostly a rehash of material covered in I and II, albeit with different theological conclusions drawn. Originally written in Greek.V MaccabeesThis text chronicles the time from 186 BCE to 6 BCE, cribbing liberally from I and II Maccabees, along with the works of Flavius Josephus. Probably originally composed in Hebrew, it now only exists in Arabic
How do you find a book by plot and charaters?
This is a science fiction book. The main character is called Iso Box acquires and delivers products from the black market. He has been asked to acquires and deliver some data storage gel for a group of japanese monks. The monks ware a patch on their robes of a little white mouse. The mouse represents the remains of a scientist who created a device that can transfer the consciousness of people in to animals or other peoples bodies. The storage gel may be called gestation gel or something like it. Iso Box meets a man named Jesus Don Orange or his name is Jesus Von Orange. People in this time can get jobs as the brain of an airplane, car, house, and other mechanical devices and sell the physical body to a person who is old or disabled and have their consciousness transferred into the other persons body. Criminals are transferred into lawnmowers and other menial objects. Once a person is transferred into a machine for to long a time they can never be transferred into a human body again. Everyone in this society has a personal data code number that will allow any persons consciousness to be transferred. Iso and Jesus steal some gestation gel and try to deliver it to the monks. Iso is seriously injured and is going to die. He is rescued from a japanese warlord and learns that his data code is the same as the Emperors. The Emperor was injured and is basically brain dead. Iso's consciousness is transferred into the Emperor and the two men are fused into one with Iso in control. During the battle to rescue Iso, Jesus dies and to honor his friend, Iso has a patch put on all the military with a Japanese orange surrounded by a crown of thorns.
Can you help me find the book I'm talking about?
I remember seeing this book one day and I can't remember the title. It was one of those books you write in, I call them activity books. It had things vs. other things and you had to write why you thought one was better than the other. I'm pretty sure the cover was yellow. Please help me find this book. Thanks.
Can you help me find a book that will make me cry?
and I mean cry in the "oh my god I love life and all the beauty of the world" way. Not the "Jack-from-Titanic-just-died" way, or "I hate the world and my life is darkness" kinda way. If that's vague: I'm looking for something like an adventure story. Those are the ones that do it for me. There have been two great stories that i've experienced in my life that I have been so emotionally involved in to the point of emo tears. They are The Lord of the Rings and the Final Fantasy series. I've cried in other stories, but not like these. These are the ones that brought my imagination to a new world--an escape. And the reason they got to me because they had enormous depth. They had characteristics like these: -Epic stories -Adventurous plots -New worlds, strange lands, full spectrum of colors -Incredibly imaginative, enormous depth -Elements of good and evil -Hero/heroes I do NOT want an allegorical book! (i.e. the author is trying to convince me of a political belief, a social theme, or anything) I prefer Tolkien's idea of "applicability" over allegory, that is: giving the freedom of interpretation to the reader (applicability) rather than the author (allegory). So icksnay on the Golden Compass. If it goes outside these categories a little bit, it's okay cause I have wiggle room, but I'm looking for something with an overall DEPTH and MAGNITUDE, with characters you can RELATE to, even if you don't know why. Other stories similar to the ones above: Metal Gear Solid series, Lost... can't think of too many really. Suggested readings? (Note that the above stories weren't all books, but I prefer literature)