Histories of cartography often start in AD150 when Claudius Ptolemy, the first "geographer" to use the term, wrote a book about the skill of map-making.
It's just a trendy marketing term for a book which has always existed and adults have always read, which is the coming-of-age novel," says Laura Powell, YA author of Burn Mark and Goddess.
When you search for a term on a book, you can now see an image from the part of the page on which it appears.
2. Ramped up in-book search: For public domain and partner books, Google has made the ability to search for a term within a book a little bit more user friendly.
In 1797, Theodor Georg August Roose used the term in a book, Grundzüge der Lehre van der Lebenskraft, in the preface.
A few years ago, a group of Swiss scientists published a white paper — or, to use the Swiss term, a "white book" — on the feasibility of a 2,000-Watt 2,000-Watt
In a way, the experience is a bit like coming to new terms with a book you once loved.
He was hesitant even to bring it up now because, he said, "It's unseemly to describe a national disaster in terms of a book".
What that means, in more nuts-and-bolts terms, is a book that is interspersed with clearly fictitious, largely awkward monologues (ascribed to Bob Dole, Al Gore, Monica Lewinsky, etc).
Creating a false idea of ripping the page out of the back of the book that doesn't exist, and using that to explain the publication decisions that were involved in my assembling of the show, was part of my thinking of the exhibition in terms of a book and my work.
