In fact she has devoted her book in large part to dissuading Muslims from seeing the world as one in which a clash of civilizations is necessary or inevitable.
Pam Belluck, a reporter for The New York Times, has devoted her first book, "Island Practice," to a study of Lepore and his anachronistic approach to medicine.
Trieste had been misunderstood and unfairly neglected by guidebooks (perhaps inevitably, with the distraction of glittering Venice just 70 miles down the coast), but it has nevertheless found a cult following; among its notable enthusiasts is the travel writer Jan Morris, who decided to devote her final book to a meditation on this "enclave sui generis".
Ms. Brown said yesterday in an interview that she had instigated the cancellation on Thursday by telling her employers that she needed to devote her time to a book about Diana, Princess of Wales, to be published by Doubleday in 2007.
Speaking publicly of their relationship for the first time since her arrest, he begged the authorities to let her go and described her as "an Iranian", a woman who had devoted her time to researching a book in praise of Iran, a woman "too pure" to be used for political purposes.
Ms. Tracy devotes much of her book to detective work.
Yellin devotes much of her book to recounting Jacobs's years of freedom.
Greene devotes most of her book to those who were trapped underground, who for a week or more endured extremely difficult conditions.
Sheila Hale's "Titian" takes on the heroic task of reconstructing this largely undocumented life, but she devotes much of her book to other matters, especially Venice's growing commercial empire.
Thompson devotes the second half of her book to the efforts of the surviving inmates — and, indeed, some of the surviving hostages — to use the courts to get some recompense for what had been allowed to happen.
