Sentences with phrase «core of the book»

He's jettisoned a lot of Pynchon's enjoyably plush padding (a Vegas side trip and surf music wanderings), focusing on the emotional core of the book — to the point of making it into one very tricky sort of romance instead of a flat - out fatalistic noir.

But the real core of the book is its sensuality, the unexpected tastes and sights and sounds that it evokes, like the surprising taste of marzipan in the seeds of a Boskoop apple.

«The pulsebeat is the core of the book's vitality, and it's also your key to retaining more,» claims Page19.

Nine case studies from North Carolina and southern California form the core of the book.

«This conversation about lightness and darkness, about the best in us and the worst of us, and how to reconcile those in each other and in ourselves, is at the core of the book,» she says.

In a chapter that forms the core of the book, she examines the ideas and legacies of Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Rabindranath Tagore, founding fathers of India's democracy.

The core of the book is a rereading of the stories of sibling rivalry in Genesis, with Ishmael and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, Leah and Rachel — stories in which the younger keeps supplanting the elder.

At the core of his book is the thesis, not new to some, that insurgency can not be countered by military means alone.

The core of the book examines the food policies of the major combatant nations, and there is strong condemnation of Nazi Germany's deliberate starvation of targeted groups, particularly in Poland and the Soviet Union.

It is this human element that is at the core of his book.

At the core of the book is the death of the commanding officer, Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, but it isn't just a regimental history, and Harnden puts into perspective the tactical and operational decisions, and how the military effort frequently was disconnected from the wider political context.

But at the core of the book is a series of major government failures which damaged the reputation of ministers and civil servants and wasted billions of pounds, and King and Crewe analyse each failure — what was the thinking behind the Child Support Agency or the Millennium Dome?

At the core of this book is the story of a relationship scientist Hope Jahrenforged with a brilliant, man named Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend.

But few have noted that the idea at the core of the book, M - theory, is the subject of an ongoing scientific debate — specifically over the very aspect of the theory that might scrap the need for a divine creator.

The eight collectors that form the core of this book all had a scientific bent, from Hawkins the palaeontologist proud of the weight of his specimens, to Willem Cornelius van Heurn, a taxidermist with a mission to seek out and preserve the variations between individuals of a single species.

The film isn't devout in its fidelity but it manages to cut right to the core of the book.

Also, elevator pitches focus on the core of your book - the one element that your book could not be without - and that will be the biggest piece that matters to your reader.

It's wonderful to partner with your book publicist, and to trust your book publicist to have creative ideas that can form the core of your book publicity campaign.

The core of the book is learning about the situation and options that the people had at that time and place.

This is a great way to present the core of your book uniquely and a key opportunity for SEO and organic exposure.

At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims.

There are tiny parts of the story in the novel, and characters have shifted around, but the core of the book is similar to the short story.

But, if the print media was at the core of your book promotion campaign plan, this would be a good time to re-think your approach to book promotion.

Communicating clearly and comfortably with words forms the core of book production.

Although the article grants that no one knows for sure whether a Web site enhances book sales, it postulates that a Web site is as important part of a book promotion campaign as anything else and has, in fact, replaced the book tour has the core of a book promotion campaign.

A rare few even begin to subscribe to strange beliefs — that a device meant for reading should be optimized for reading, that the words make up the core of the book and not the cover and ink and binding.

In any case, book publicists, and authors and publishers who conduct book publicity campaigns, shouldn't count on newspaper exposure as the core of their book promotion campaigns.

However, the core of the book is a wonderful glimpse into the laboratory and the dedicated researchers who make medical progress possible.

The core of the book is a set of chapters that delve into the actual craft of writing game music in a way that few, if any, other books have ever done... tremendously valuable to composers.

Nochlin caught them in their early stages, with a pioneering 1971 article, later the core of a book, Why Are There No Great Women Artists?

The core of her book focuses on families working in the sand with small miniatures and then the communications that result from their creations.