To guess the cover of James Hilton's "Good-bye, Mr. Chips" from a minuscule speck of brown requires some serious book (cover) learnin'.
Often provocative ("Specialists give bad advice, American parking is socialist"), the book is delightfully acronym- and jargon-free, and most of Speck's suggestions are revolutionary in their simplicity (i.e., "plant trees" and "welcome bikes").
"Moby-Dick," one of Hohn's favorite books, guides his quest — though he's searching for a speck of yellow, not a white whale, the journey he makes is no less incredible, turning, as he writes, "a map into a world".
No idea what Speck is "hinting" at, but, as I write in my book, The Shape of Green, beauty--sensory appeal, delight--is essential.
In his new book, "Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time," Speck highlights 10 steps for cultivating urban walkability.
Lee fumed but did not dare refuse, and a theme throughout the book is his efforts to assert Singapore's identity as a mostly Chinese speck in a sea of Malaysians and Indonesians.
They had an impressive collection of books and DVDs, sure, but their utter inability to fabricate any miniscule speck of convincing enough bullshit completely turned me off.
At 7 p.m., the next landmark, the Cabo Vilan lighthouse, was but a speck in the distance, and I was three hard miles, by the book's route, away from my goal, the village of Camarinas.
This otherwise sly and quick-witted book (when the psychoanalyst is troubled by thoughts of Billy Green, his wife notices a green speck on his teeth) is hence diminished by overblown, repetitive and not especially forceful storytelling.
A speck of nanocubes, he calculates, could hold the information in all the books in the world.
