6. a small strip of coloured cloth signifying membership of an order or award of military decoration, prize, or other distinction. 7. a small, usually looped, strip of coloured cloth worn to signify support for a charity or cause: a red AIDS ribbon.
The books burned were Jewish, Marxist, Bolshevik, or other disreputable or non-German books. These included the works of Heinrich Heine, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Albert Einstein, Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Jack London and Margaret Sanger.
Book - Types. 1  A common separation by content are fiction and non-fiction books. 2  Many of the books published today are fiction, meaning that they are in-part or completely untrue. 3  The novel is the most common form of fiction book. 4  Comic books or graphic novels are books in which the story is illustrated.