Sentences with phrase «readable prose»

David Post wrote a lovely book this year, In Search of Jefferson's Moose, which explains, in readable prose, one version of how it came to be.

The report sets out in 12 volumes of lavishly referenced and unemotional but highly readable prose the long tale of woe that was Britain's intervention in Iraq.

Most lawyers have enough ability to write readable prose, but their style choices doom them to failure.

Steve, you have an uncanny ability to set the record straight with readable prose for non-specialists.

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In eminently readable prose, Lewis profiles Eisenhower the man, the key events during his terms in office and the general cultural landscape, which encompassed a nation transitioning from an era of white male dominance to a more pluralistic society.

Not a doctor himself, Ananthaswamy is nevertheless an award - winning science journalist who's at home in the world of medical jargon, and who (mostly) translates the complex lingua franca of neurology into readable prose.

He explores arcane knowledge from the works of Darwin to James Joyce and David Attenborough to Sherlock Holmes, in addition to telling his own wild, don't - try - this - at - home adventures in humorous and compulsively readable prose.

«No Money in the Bank» does more than layout the many dimensions of the public sector pension crisis in crisp, highly readable prose, though it does that very well indeed.

Absolutely, says Tough, and he provides the convincing research and results that bear him out in rich and readable prose.

Education Matters presents their key results in lively, readable prose; Education Next Unabridged Articles offers supporting documentation.

Absolutely, says Tough, and he provides the convincing research and results that bear him out in rich and readable prose.

The book is chock full of numbers and statistics, but he has woven them into very readable prose.

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Once you get the transcript of your audio recording from the transcription service, you will start the process of turning that audio transcript into readable book prose.

The book's most irritating flaw is the author's relentlessly polite Episcopalian - scholarly prose: readable and informative, but not the penetrating or polemical critical analysis for which this topic calls.

In clear, idiomatic prose, deployed for both scholars and lay readers in fourteen dense but short and readable chapters, Jaki uses Aristotle's fundamental doctrine of noncontradiction to give a classic but also contemporary defense of the inescapably metaphysical character of will, mind, cognition, reason, and especially of language itself.

So it is perhaps a very Franciscan thing to offer a fresh and rather humble approach: a cheerful paperback, readable by anyone and everyone, written in simple direct prose.

Sandlin's prose is as well crafted as it is readable, and there's something about The Do - Right that feels like a classic mystery that has been brilliantly contemporized.

The prose is simple but elegant, the book very readable, I found it so much so that I actually checked out one of her previous books when I was half finished with this one.

- Anne - Marie Slaughter, author of Why Women Still Can't Have It All, is the Bert G. Kerstetter»66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the former Director of Policy Planning, United States Department of State «With assured prose, a compulsively readable plot, and insider savvy, Buying In offers a front - row seat to the downfall of Wall Street, with a terrific young heroine who outmans the men without sacrificing her soul.»

A piercing feminist howl written in trenchant prose, How to Be Safe is a compulsively readable, darkly funny exposé of the hypocrisy that ensues when illusions of peace are shattered.

So far, though, I feel comfortable saying that this is one of the most eye - opening and awe - inspiring works of history I've ever read, one of the few that really impresses me with the sheer size of the past, while maintaining readable and pleasant prose throughout.