The stories distributed in these books and magazines, such as Luis Senarens's Frank Reade, Jr., and His Steam Wonder (1884), often boasted SF elements that appealed to the young reader's sense of wonder and adventure.
Even so, most Khmer are familiar with the stories of such traditional epic figures as Neang Kakey and Dum Deav as well as the Jataka tales relating episodes in the life of the Buddha, all of which are widely broadcast on radio and distributed in comic-book form.
Mei Fong, author of One Child: The Story Of China's Most Radical Experiment, a book about the one-child policy and its consequences published in English this year, tried unsuccessfully to have her book distributed in Chinese.
Out of various types of guides, design guidelines are collections of advice for user-interface designers and are publicly distributed in the form of books and reports.
Taken from The Things That Nobody Knows: 501 Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything ($14.95, Atlantic Books, distributed in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square Publishing).
Ms. Nomani also drew widespread attention to extremist sermons and Saudi-financed pamphlets distributed in some of what the book says are 1,300 mosques in the United States.
The book was distributed in its millions under the Nazi regime, but there is little evidence that it worked as effective propaganda.
"New York Is" began as an ad campaign, and the book was distributed in 1959, showcasing two dozen of Mr. Frank's pictures alongside snappy, boosterish captions.
The bulk of "Too Good to Be True" (released by Amazon Publishing as an e-book and distributed in print by a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is smart and honest and searching, however.
Their more serious work, though, was the creation of alternative culture – a space where open political debate could take place, where important books were distributed in lovingly typed samizdat editions.
