Sentences with phrase «highly readable book»

The Perfect House: A Journey With Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio Written by respected architecture critic Witold Rybczynski, this highly readable book describes Palladio's villas and explains why they have inspired architects for centuries.

In her introduction and first chapter of this highly readable book, Neumann, a mediator and founder of Divorce Mediation Training Associates, briefly describes the benefits of mediation, and the process, step by step, of a typical mediation.

Reference is made to Mitch Kowalski's «highly readable book» Avoiding Extinction: Reimagining Legal Services for the 21st Century «for a detailed fictitious version of a remade BigLaw firm».

I'll just put in a pitch for the highly readable book, The Control of Nature, by John McPhee (and one of the references in the above article).

«In this wide - ranging and highly readable book Bill Calvin, one of the foremost interpreters of the mysteries posed by our remarkable human consciousness, builds a dramatic yet thoughtful and very personal account of human evolution around the theme of climatic change in our emergence.

A sober look at an oft - sensationalized period of American history, this thoroughly researched, highly readable book traces the roots of the Eighteenth Amendment, «the most radical and ambitious social experiment ever tried.»

In this highly readable book, Katie Novak lays out UDL principles and practices in a plainspoken and useful way, showing how inclusive education really works in the classroom and at home.»

This is an enjoyable and highly readable book; as well as being originally conceived and thought - provoking, it is not the usual technical, instructive or educational bodywork title filled with anatomically - labelled diagrams.

In his highly readable book, aimed at lay readers who know little about the history of astronomy, Repcheck draws a portrait of an unusual star of the scientific revolution.

Crash Bang Wallop (Sceptre) combines history, analysis and anecdote to make this a highly readable book.

She shares these answers in this excellent, highly readable book.

However, as this fascinating, educational and highly readable book indicates, atheism is an ideology past its sell - by date.

He lists twenty - five, each receiving a chapter in this highly readable book.

Two recent examples of highly readable books on battering men and battering relationships, authored by respected researchers in the field, are Donald G. Dutton, THE BATTERER (Basic Books, New York 1995), and Neil S. Jacobson and John M. Gottman, WHEN MEN BATTER WOMEN: NEW INSIGHTS INTO ENDING ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS (Simon & Schuster, New York 1998).

Not exact matches

A highly readable romp through true - life cons with a little bit of psychology thrown in, the book won't just entertain you but might also you help dodge a few scams yourself.

While the book has no shortage of references to the parade of government programs aimed at stopping the crisis — TARP, HARP, HAMP, Quantitative Easings, Operation Twist, among them — the memoir is also a highly readable account that adds a sorely missed perspective to the growing pile of post-crisis postmortems.

Since so much of the book depends upon conjecture, it remains doubtful that Wilson has truly found the man behind the art, but he nevertheless presents an informative and highly readable account of both Holbein and the early sixteenth century.

The book is also highly readable — clear, articulate, and practical.

Now, if you read that one book — which is really sort of like taking the Bible and making it more understandable and readable - and the life of Christ moves you to come closer, then I highly recommend your next stop be biographies of the saints.

N. T. Wright may be one of the world's leading New Testament scholars, but this book is highly readable.

His historical vantage point yielded fruitful insights into contemporary American life, which he presented in a highly readable series of books, articles, and review essays for the New York Review of Bbooks, articles, and review essays for the New York Review of BooksBooks.

«Colin Campbell's The China Study is an important book, and a highly readable one.

This book is highly readable yet full of good quality content.

So, surprising as it may seem, this book is always highly readable, interlacing Asimov's personal life with his writing — particularly in nonfiction.

He also wrote successful — and highly readable — popular books about science.

«Colin Campbell's The China Study is an important book, and a highly readable one.

Nevertheless, the book provides a highly readable and interesting narrative of many exciting problems related to the development of simple and complex life.

The book is written in a highly readable style.

Well - written and highly readable, this book is essential for early childhood practitioners — both women and men — at all levels and within all types of services, and will appeal to researchers and parents, as well.

Engrossing, highly readable, and as funny as it is tragic, her book assesses how Belgium's King Leopold, the CIA, and the World Bank all helped to bring about the disaster that is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A haunting, highly readable novel of extremes, The Ballroom explores love and loss; progress and terror; and nature versus the institution, all of which will appeal to those who enjoy books with a slow tension - fueled build - up and an emotionally satisfying ending.

Anderson has created a complex yet highly readable narrative, a beautifully written book with wonderfully inventive plot twists that will appeal to adult readers as well as inquisitive teenagers.

This book was imminently readable and I highly recommend it for old movie fans.

The excerpt that you can read at BookBrowse doesn't do this exceptionally readable, highly memorable book justice.

It is an odd book but highly readable.

It's a concise, highly - readable, and practical book from authors with a proven track - record of business success.

And compared to Al Brooks» price action series, this price action trading book is highly readable.

The book is highly readable and both I and my wife read the book in less than hour each.

«Mario Migliorini has succeeded in raising his subject beyond the level of a techniques and methods manual and instead has produced a highly entertaining and readable book.

In addition to a highly readable blog, The Night Tour's bug - loving duo has recently released a full - color book full of original photographs of all sorts of nocturnal animals of Drake Bay.

A highly recommended book «Crabgrass Frontier» by Kenneth Jackson is a very readable history of suburbia.

His experiences and insights into the jumps China has made and is making economically and environmentally — the good and the devastating — underpin the information in this highly readable and eye - opening book.

The book is at once a highly - readable (watch for her Hunger Games reference) analysis and debunking of past stress research, a presentation of her new theory for stress backed by research, stories about how people have applied this research in their own lives, and a self - coaching framework to follow so that you can begin to experience the positive benefits of stress in your day - to day life.

Highly readable, practical and profound, this book invites you to sit down with the finest minds in couples therapy.

This book is highly readable, compassionate, and deeply moving and beautifully illustrates the strengths - based approach and resilience mind - set in work with these intriguing individuals.

'... a highly readable and erudite account of autobiographical memory... A rich book for holiday reading.»

«This book is highly readable and makes the complexity of autism highly accessible to parents, who have an urgent need to know how to help their child.

The supporting neurobiology is confined to numerous footnotes which keep the book highly readable.

This up - to - date, highly readable, theory - based, and application - oriented book fills a crucial void in literature on couple therapy.