The phrase "actions a book" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It appears to be a fragment and lacks clarity or context to convey a complete thought.
Example: "The actions a book can inspire in its readers are profound."
Alternatives: "the impact of a book" or "the influence of a book".
But let me recommend it anyway.The book arrives hard on the heels of "More Than Good Intentions", by Dean Karlan of Yale and Jacob Appel of Innovations for Poverty Action (a book I haven't yet seen).
In 1948, Beveridge published Voluntary Action, a book which was a very different kind of manifesto from his report six years earlier, a passionate defence of voluntary provision of social welfare, and quite obviously a palinode: Beveridge was recanting his own role in the creation of a vast centralised bureaucracy.
Author of Action: A Book About Sex (Grand Central, 2016) and the forthcoming book No One Does It Like You (Workman, 2019).
He threatened legal action over a book which claimed he was nicknamed "Scruffy" by his police protection officers.
"Plans and the Structure of Behavior" (1960), written with Eugene Galanter and Karl H. Pribram, was an effort to synthesize artificial-intelligence research with psychological research on how humans initiate action — basically, a book about how to build a better robot.
Inspired to action by a book called The Global Brain Awakens by English physicist Peter Russell, Reid and Kennedy say they purchased dozens of copies from a secondhand shop and gave them away to friends.
By coincidence, just as I read A. O. Scott's article in Saturday's Times about the harbingers of change in Iran long offered by its movies (in particular those of Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf), I got hold of an advance copy of "Action!," a new book of interviews with movie directors edited by Gary Morris, of Bright Lights Film Journal.
Authentic Patriotism: Restoring America's Founding Ideals Through Selfless Action, a new book by Polk Award winning journalist and author Stephen P. Kiernan, explores this every day kind of patriotism and finds that it really is all around us. "When you're solving real problems in the country, partisan politics matter less," says Kiernan.
Stanton packs a huge amount of research into a thrilling action ride of a book.
The MP took the action after seeing a book about gay parents, Jenny Lives With Eric and Martin, at a teaching centre.
