Part Farmer's Almanac, part Guinness Book of World Records, Extreme Weather is a cornucopia of statistical charts, maps, photographs and infographics, all strung together with snappy, lucid text.
The scrupulous detail of Metcalf's lucid text is mirrored by the excellent reproduction of colour figures, a crisply printed format, and a binding that enables the book to lie flat when opened.
It is one of the most unsparingly lucid texts about urban existence ever written.
Richard Barnett's superbly erudite and lucid accompanying text would really suffice in itself as an introduction to the history of western medical science.
He defined them, Ms. Fletcher notes in her lucid catalog text, as "sculptures of imaginary domains that had 'more to do with interstellar space than with lamps".' Shown here in a special room, the lamps have a fine, goofy sci-fi quality that must have seemed off the wall in 1943, when no gallery would exhibit them.
In its close-up details of costume, its black and white images of ballet and its lucid and intelligent texts, the book covers subjects that are not discussed in the museum show.
The text is lucid and readable and, though the predominantly Anglocentric bias may grate occasionally, this is a book no school library should be without.
The text is lucid and readable and is obviously based on extensive research in primary sources, all of which are faithfully recorded in the excellent footnotes (a rarity in Nelson biographies).
At the centre of it, too, is Bostridge's impeccably coloured performance, his articulation of every morsel of the text utterly lucid, even when, in Zender's version, it has to be spoken or delivered as Sprechgesang.
The new book, "Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts," is lucid and accessible, though only the name of one of its authors makes it of interest to the general reader.
Beevor, whose book "Stalingrad" is the definitive account of the fighting in that city and relies heavily for color on Grossman's reportage, is very fond of Grossman, and this collection weaves together his texts alongside lucid historical commentary to tell the story of the war through Grossman's eyes.
