Nevertheless, in terms of mass-produced, portable art that allows for some degree of creative freedom, book design is where it's at.
With what degree of care are books and records maintained?
Re "From Hitler to Mother Teresa: 6 Degrees of Empathy" (Books on Science, June 14): "Empathy" means the ability to understand and imagine the feelings of others.
A veritable art history degree's worth of books digitized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum are now available for free.
The switch from first to second person indicates the degree of alienation infusing this book.
Nobody goes into fractional ownership with the same degree of naivete that they book a charter flight".
Every scene advances the action: there is little room for reflection: one wonders about the degree of "tightening up" the book underwent during the editorial process and how it might have read had it been allowed to breathe a little more.
Based on Islamic court documents of fifteenth-century Granada documents that show a high degree of women's involvement the book examines women's legal entitlements to acquire property as well as the social and economic significance of these rights to Granada's female population and, by extension, to women in other Islamic societies.
The notion of "intrinsic duality" in Crime and Punishment has been commented upon, with the suggestion that there is a degree of symmetry to the book.
However, the contemporary ideas on many key topics, including mechanisms of genomic instability and telomere rescue, apoptosis avoidance, cell cycle regulation in cancer, and malignant spread, are not covered in any degree of depth in this book; indeed, most are hardly mentioned.
