Slowly, carefully, Mr. Woodruff builds a case for Odysseus.
Mr. Hanson, a biologist of boundless curiosity, builds a case for feathers as extraordinary evolutionary artifacts, structural marvels and powerfully attractive adornments — and not just for birds.
As Bonds builds a case for being the best player ever, he also makes a run at being the most controversial and most unaccepted.
"It builds a case for the notion that auto-immune disease really starts long before the clinical symptoms arise," said Dr. J. Donald Capra, president of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
On this pragmatic basis, Schell builds a case for civil noncoöperation, which he argues has long played a crucial role in deciding otherwise bloody conflicts (among them the American, French, and Russian Revolutions).
His new book builds a case for the the limits of self-knowledge, and argues that as adults we face a choice between being understood, as we hoped to be as children, and fully exploring other aspects of ourselves, including our sexuality.
