But books also change people by making them do nothing at all - merely by informing our sense of the world and subtly altering relations with it.
What the Kremlin does next in Central Asia has the potential to alter relations with Europe and the United States, for better or worse, for years to come.
And he monitored emerging technologies that could impact foreign policy or alter relations between nations so that the U.S. government could know what is coming down the pike.
Experimental evidence for the way in which large herbivores can alter relations among arthropod species is scarce.
"Absolutely, it has altered human relations," Mr. Greene surmised.
At the same time, these changes have been met with resistance on the part of some refugees with a nomadic background who challenge changes that have occurred such as the commodification of camel milk, which has fundamentally altered social relations and challenged traditional values and beliefs.
Thus, he prevented the implementation of a Reconstruction that might have altered race relations and protected black liberty and the safety and lives of southern unionists.
Prohibition was tied both to the introduction of the income tax and universal suffrage, and radically altered the relation of citizen and government.
The change in shape of the chest to emphasize breadth rather than depth altered the relation of muscles in the shoulder region, with an increase in size of the latissimus dorsi muscle and the pectoralis major muscle.
The initial moisture conditions also altered the relation between the subsurface discharge and pressure head.
