But it stood for me as the actual first-hand document of one of the ultimate moments in the history of humankind when the rule of law had taken the necessary first steps to restoring civilization after the world had gone mad at the hands of the barbarians.
Ms. Zhou's book, which presents readers with over 100 first-hand documents, tells a very different story.
Many of these individuals provided him with first-hand documents.
In search of reliable accounts from anthropologists who had witnessed the practice of cultural cannibalism first-hand, he placed an advertisement in the newsletter of the American Anthropological Association, but again failed to come up with any first-hand documented cases.
In 1970, she completed her doctoral dissertation on the struggle between Gnostic and orthodox Christianity, and in 1975 she went to Cairo to study the documents at first hand.
Not that stories of social riot were news to Wilson (he had, after all, seen the Fitzgeralds and other twenty-four-hour party people at play throughout the Roaring Twenties), nor were displays of Hollywood vulgarity, which he documents at first hand and in friends' anecdotes throughout the book.
"The jacket allows the wearer to experience a moment first-hand and document it at the same time, thereby enhancing your technical ability as a being".
Of particular significance is a growing body of bloggers, writers, poets and scribblers who are documenting the region first hand.
His devotion to books is well documented, but to hear them first hand is as edifying as it is electrifying.
I witnessed it first hand.
