Consider first of all the central problem that the book identifies: the idea that the public sector takes most of the risks in the modern innovation process, but gets little of the reward.
Rather than transliterating birdsong into syllables of pseudo-English, as field guides usually do — "Weeta-wee-tee-o," says the hooded warbler — the book identifies the signature structural characteristics of each species' repertoire.
In ways that suggest Mr. Keltner must be a highly amusing teacher (and a generous one, since he so freely credits students and colleagues who played roles in laboratory experiments), this book identifies the adaptive benefits of each emotion, thumbs its nose at the hardhearted (Ayn Rand, Machiavelli) and makes its case for the biological functions served by physical expressiveness.
Macdonald's review of the book identifies this failing: "The 'little people' of Hiroshima whose sufferings Hersey records in antiseptic New Yorker prose might just as well be white mice, for all the pity, horror or indignation the reader -- or at least this reader -- is made to feel for them".
This last is a 13th-century book identified as "the unquestioned urtext of the cricket community".
The premise of Ira Levin's 1970s bestseller was far-fetched, but the book identified so shrewdly the male backlash against feminism that it bequeathed a phrase that has remained in the language ever since: the Stepford Wives.
The book identifies these drivers as population growth, shifts in technology and rising demand for human food and animal feed.
An instant classic, the book identified a burgeoning anger over the assumption that white women were meant to be suburban housewives with children and a breadwinner husband.
Scott Brown and Venturi's book identified Las Vegas as the city of postmodernism.
The interviewer reads the questions from the questionnaire pasted on the inside of the front and back covers and writes the answers on the corresponding line of a page of the book identified for each household, one household per page.
