In With Roberts to Pretoria, Cecil Rhodes appraises the hero, a young man called Locke.
He appraises the rapid growth of China, now the world's largest automobile market.
Ms. Mifflin appraises the work of famous female tattoists; she argues that the world needs tattoo critics.
In Germany, for instance, a "liquidity consortium", not the Bundesbank, appraises the solvency of stricken banks and lends them funds if they look salvageable.
Tombs appraises the transformation of public structures and priorities, as well as of personal ambitions and conduct, under the Thatcherite and New Labour governments.
"I understood, without anyone exactly saying so, that they all slept with him," Evie, the novel's narrator, thinks the first time she appraises the scene.
Relying on reports from the pianist Julius Epstein (an old school chum from Vienna), the soprano Milka Ternina and other well-placed sources, Higginson appraises the field.
In THE IRAQ WAR (Vintage, $14), the military historian John Keegan appraises the initial campaign in Iraq and retraces the steps that led to war.
Surveillance is a word that resonates when it comes to appraising the art of the extraordinarily long-lived and ceaselessly productive Louise Bourgeois, who died this week, aged 98. Usually it is the onlooker who appraises the work of art.
The array of putative corruptions and ironies that fills Jill Lepore's retrospective on defense spending betrays the long distance from which her article appraises the problem ("The Force," January 28th).
"People will be happier 20 years from now having held TIPS rather than regular Treasury bonds," said Chip Plumb of Evanston, Ill., a consultant who appraises the value of businesses.
