We're doing this as a way to understand it.
Drama stems from the human need to tell stories as a way to understand ourselves.
Garfield sees the history of cartography as a way to understand political influence too.
Rather, he used the past as a way to understand the present".
Blew has used her life wonderfully as grist for fiction and as a way to understand her family's history.
"They do see the Foundling Museum as a way to understand themselves; it gives them a narrative.
"I've gotten more into that as a way to understand who I am as a golfer and how to maximize my God-given ability," said Snedeker, 32.
Fathali M Moghaddam, a professor of psychology at Georgetown University, describes a "staircase to terrorism," as a way to understand the process of radicalization.
Iceland's beguiling, extreme landscape is presented as a way to understand, or even feel, the cognitive blizzard of mental illness in "I Send You This Place".
Their societies are so complex that some scientists have studied ants as a way to understand the factors behind our own evolution into a social species.
Jamison's book is a real contribution to the literary history of New England, whose damaged sages Lowell read as a way to understand his own peril.
