Sentences with phrase «larger argument of the book»

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Right before the First World War, another Harvard chemist, Lawrence Henderson, reworked large parts of Cooke's argument (without crediting him for it) in a more secular form, in another book with an illustrative title, The Fitness of the Environment: An Inquiry Into the Biological Significance of the Properties of Matter.

But non-academics need not worry, because I plan on following it quickly with a much shorter work that will capture the gist of my argument, but without all the scholarly material that's packed into the larger academic book.

Nicco's book is a series of predictions and musings more than a single argument, since he starts with the idea that digital tools tend, over time, to shift power away from large institutions and toward small groups and individual actors and goes on to think about how it will affect institutions across the board.

In his new book Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion (Basic Books, New York; May 2008), Kauffman develops a larger argument: Understanding what's happening in complex systems could help modern science break free of what some consider its too - reductionistic underpinnings.

It's pretty much all there, the trappings of a moral panic argument: emphasis on the vulnerable among us (whether young or ignorant or simply «innocent»), the allegation of insidious corruption working in ways that are out of the sight of the ordinary person, the confident assertions of the experts, the reification of the danger in print («I hold in my hand a book...», «I have here in my hand a list of 205 — a list of names... «-RRB- and the use of very large (and rising) numbers that need only be tangentially related to the actual scourge...