Sentence examples for book summarize from inspiring English sources

For a nonfiction book, summarize the author's main idea or purpose for writing the book.

The book summarizes our emotions after those imperial towers fell.

As the book summarizes his reasoning: "Hence, empire".

Mr. Newman of Operation Rescue appeared before the second grand jury armed with a thick briefing book summarizing his group's investigation into Dr. Tiller.

The book summarizes nearly three decades of research under Hetherington's direction, beginning in 1973 with 144 couples (including a comparison group of intact families) who agreed to participate in a longitudinal study of divorce at the University of Virginia.

The Times piece about the new interest in the book summarized its argument like so: "In universities, cultural and identity politics replaced the politics of change and economic justice".

In the same century, a book summarizing available knowledge of antimony and its compounds was purportedly written by a Basil Valentine, allegedly a Benedictine monk of the 15th century, whose name appears on chemical writings over a span of two centuries.

In 1822 he and William Phillips produced their classic Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822), in which fossils were used to date sedimentary formations; the book summarized geologic layers of Great Britain to the Carboniferous.

Carrier replied with a letter of 2,000 words that moves from solicitousness ("I am writing this time to convey the concern of myself and numerous colleagues") to brute candor ("There is absolutely no scientific basis for your position") to self-regard ("I have also enclosed an excerpt from my forthcoming book summarizing the current science on this subject").

At the same time, this 229-page book summarizes the life and times of a composer whose body of work has been overshadowed by a handful of immensely popular pieces, notably "Bolero," but also the ballet "Daphnis et Chlo," the orchestral works "Rhapsodie Espagnole" and "Pavane Pour une Infante Defunte," the chamber piece "Tzigane" and the "Sheherazade" songs.

This book summarizes the latest progress in ecological modeling and in the application of ecological engineering to lakes and wetlands.