Sentences with phrase «slim volume called»

Among the crumbling leather - bound remains of someone's literary estate, piled high on one of the wooden carts, I found a slim volume called «The Physical Geography of the Sea,» by Matthew Fontaine Maury.

Drawing on earlier criticism of the organization society and its alienating effects, social critic Paul Goodman, already famous for his subversive Growing Up Absurd (1960), condemned the school system in toto with a slim volume called Compulsory Mis - education and the Community of Scholars (1962).

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I went to my rickety Ikea bookshelf, swaying with the weight of books, and pulled out the slim volume of poems for the Incarnation called «Accompanied by Angels.»

«Over the years,» David Mamet writes in his slim volume On Directing Film, «I have observed that there are two subdivisions of the thespian's art: one is called Acting, and the other is called Great Acting.»

Internet protocol co-inventor Bob Kahn gets a kick out of wielding a slim volume that once held the name of everyone connected to what was then called ARPAnet.

It's slim, it's light, and it's handy — and the 4G version can even double as a gigantic phone, as long as you don't mind all your calls coming out at speakerphone volume.

-- a slim volume possibly out of print, called The Max Strategy — How a businessman got stuck at an airport and learned to make his career take off by Dale Dauten.