The Book
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The Book can refer to:
As referred to in works of fiction, The Book may be
- The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, a 1966 book by Alan WattsAlan WattsAlan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York...
- "The Book" (short story)The Book (short story)"The Book" is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death....
, an unfinished, fragmentary short story by H. P. Lovecraft - The BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
, especially a Tyndale House edition of the New Living Translation published as "The Book" - The Qur’ān (Arabic: القرآن al-qur'ān, literally "the recitation")
- Indian mystic Meher Baba's missing bookMeher Baba's missing bookMeher Baba's missing book is a book that Meher Baba wrote by hand between 1925 and 1926 in Meherabad, India which went missing in 1958.In October 1925 Baba ordered the building of a large table, four feet wide and seven feet in length, which became known as the table-cabin. Baba would spend...
- The telephone book
- Paul Erdős' concept of "The Book" in which God maintains the most elegant proofs from THE BOOKProofs from THE BOOKProofs from THE BOOK is a book of mathematical proofs by Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler. The book is dedicated to the mathematician Paul Erdős, who often referred to "The Book" in which God keeps the most elegant proof of each mathematical theorem...
of mathematical theorems - The second part of The Revelation of Arès, a publication of a 20th century religious movement founded by Michel Potay
As referred to in works of fiction, The Book may be
- Goldstein's bookGoldstein's bookThe Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, by Emmanuel Goldstein, is the fictional book that is a thematic and plot element integral to the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four , by George Orwell...
, from George Orwell's novel 1984 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional)
- The Book (Time Warp Trio)The Book (Time Warp Trio)The Book is a fictional item that the Time Warp Trio book and television series revolve around. Depending on what Joe, Fred, and Sam say or do at the time, The Book disperses green mist to carry the three anywhere in time and space...often leading to trouble.-The Books Powers:The Book could very...
, a fictional item from the book and television series