The phrase "devoted a book" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly as it lacks a preposition or context to clarify the relationship between "devoted" and "a book."
Example: "She devoted a book to her late grandmother."
Alternatives: "dedicated a book" or "committed a book."
For the first time she enjoyed independence, a cherished state to which she devoted a book, "One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone" (1992).
He has devoted a book to "eating and the perfecting of our nature," and has contributed to books with titles like "The Neoconservative Imagination".
He has now devoted a book to a society -- our own -- that he believes is lacking in both humanity and consciousness.
It's curious that Ferguson considers the people and places and movements to whom he's devoted a book essentially unimportant — "just nuance".
Geoffrey Green, who devoted a book to Auerbach and Spitzer, concluded that Auerbach saw his work "as a fortress — an arsenal — from which he could wage a passionate and vehement war against the possible flow of history in his time".
Another speaker will be the American software designer John Maeda, who devoted a book to defining "The Laws of Simplicity" in which he identified "thoughtful reduction" as the key objective of responsible design.
Ibn 'Arabî devoted a book-length chapter of the Openings specifically to them, and he composed an independent treatise summarizing their role in human becoming (Ibn 'Arabî, Kitâb kashf al-ma'nâ).
Oliver Sacks, the neurologist author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, here devotes a book to the cognitive miracles of music.
Lucretius devotes a book to the pointlessness of fearing death and the afterlife, and the main balm for our hurt minds is the explanation of the soul as an atomic and mortal compound.
In 1983 Leo Steinberg devoted a whole book to the subject, The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion.
Michael Eisner, a former boss of Disney, devoted a recent book to it, "Working Together: Why Great Partnerships Succeed".In this section Asset-light or asset-right?
