FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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Making History Birthing Books from Conception to
Reception
publish To present for circulation to bring
out book book and beech are branches of the
same tree. The Germanic root of both words is
bok- from an Indo-European root meaning beech
tree because the early Germanic peoples used
strips of beech wood to write on. A similar
semantic development occurred in Latin. The Latin
word for book is liber, whence library. Liber
meant barkthat is, the smooth inner bark of a
tree, which the early Romans likewise used to
write on. thus book publishing presenting for
circulation on bark from conception That which
exists in the mind as the product of careful
mental activity to reception The manner in
which something is greeted