The book summarizes questionaires in the mail sent by the author asking for 10 dates which the respondent thought signified their being "penetrated by our culture." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book is punctured in its center with a hole to simulate that is a round circle that toward the end of the book becomes raged as a simulation of a bullet hole. Each page contains an identical landscape with the bullet hole placed above the horizon. At the bottom of each page are the different coordinates, e.g. 51o 21'N x 12o 25'E, that symbolize the location where violence took place. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book consists of indications of battles and wars from the year 1 to 1999. The battles are printed in micrographic text vertically, with the yearly dates placed vertically in the center of the pages. Miranda Maher designates on the cover that "Years with No Acts of 'OPEN AND DECLARED ARMED HOSTILE CONFLICT' are Indicated with a Perpendicular LIne. Perhaps They Were Periods of Peace." Actually there is only one red, vertical line in the year 329, indicating no battles. The book is printed on light weight, beige paper with repeating, gilded Fleurs de Lis, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.