You can use a SQL-derived table in a subquery from clause. For example, this query finds the names of the publishers who have published business books:
select pub_name from publishers where "business" in (select type from (select type from titles, publishers where titles.pub_id = publishers.pub_id) dt_titles)
dt_titles is the SQL-derived table defined by the innermost select statement.
SQL-derived tables can be used in the from clause of subqueries anywhere subqueries are legal. See Chapter 5, “Subqueries: Using Queries Within Other Queries.”