The book ascribes malfeasance to both sides, saying that "the Police Service has for many years used criminals as covert human intelligence sources," that the police conceal and deny this process, and that prison authorities quietly condone it.
And if a writer can somehow cause the reader to concede that a book is taking place in a period of time that really exists and that maybe has some of the emotional properties the book ascribes to it, then one requirement of getting the book under way has been achieved.
They were not widely studied until the 1960s; numismatic writer Tom DeLorey, in his introduction to Snow's book, ascribes this to prejudice among numismatists who grew up with the Indian Head cent as a common circulation piece.
The summary paragraphs concluding many chapters of his book ascribe the woes and upheavals they cover to the results of "the climatic chaos of the mid-sixth century," and readers may see this constantly repeated assertion more as a ritual credo than a proven conclusion.
Heraclides Lembus in the second century BCE gives a list of six books ascribed to Pythagoras (Diogenes Laertius, VIII. 7; Thesleff 1965, 155 186 provides a complete collection of the spurious writings assigned to Pythagoras).
Baehrens 1925: 75), where he argues that each of the three books ascribed to Solomon in the Hebrew canon corresponds to a branch of Greek philosophy, and also to one stage in the believer's progress from the foothills to the summit of understanding.
The texts she adds to the Passion according to John come from the other book of the Bible ascribed to him, Revelation, and here Ms. Gubaidulina provides images of terror for the vision of seven angels pouring out bowls of divine wrath onto earth and sun.
In Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature (2007), biographer Linda Lear describes Timmy Tiptoes as "the least satisfactory" of Potter's books, and ascribes its literary and artistic shortcomings to the author's desire to satisfy her publisher's demand for yet another book, to court her American fans with a tale about North American animals, and to make quick money in the American market.
These are the books traditionally ascribed to Moses, the recipient of the original revelation from God on Mount Sinai.
Some scholars, on the other hand, doubt that Luke is in fact the author of the two New Testament books traditionally ascribed to him and argue for a date later in the 1st century ad.
There will be many women (and men) whom this strikes at a less than revelatory level, not because it is common knowledge, but because it seems that every other week these days a book comes out ascribing various human states and behaviours – love/happiness/anger/addiction – to brain chemistry or neural wiring, accompanied by data from a scanner and a set of demoralised lab rats.
