"The Tipping Point," by Malcolm Gladwell, is a lively, timely and engaging study of fads.
Protruding melodramatically, it adds little to an otherwise briskly engaging study, leaving the jury hung on Courted.
"Close encounters with coyotes have now become the country's most common large-wildlife experience," Flores writes in this engaging study.
This month William Morrow is publishing Gomes's "The Good Book," an engaging study of the purported Biblical roots of homophobia, sexism, anti-Semitism, racism, and other prejudices.
This is an engaging study of the celebrated 19th-century psychics from Hydesville, N.Y., whose theatrical séances comforted grieving mourners and inspired a movement.
An engaging study, by a professor of music and intrepid researcher, of the remarkable collaboration between two émigrés from Russia who revived and re-created, again and again, classical ballet in the 20th century.
It is refreshing, then, to turn to Born Digital, a serious and engaging study of how "digital natives" (people who grew up with the internet) actually behave online, which aims to address the "culture of fear around the online environment".
This engaging study follows six American Olympians and investigates the nature of child genius, the role of gender differences in spatial perception, and Einstein's claim that he thought wordlessly.
The contrast gives the book an interesting jolt, and one of the pieces, "Lily", contains an engaging study of a certain type of well-meaning but helplessly sybaritic personality.
Whether or not you agree that there is no such thing as absolute morality "out there", or that all meanings change over time and are therefore subjective, this book throws a good deal of (secondhand) research at its staunchly anti-conservative central argument and makes for an engaging study of the weirdness of human sexuality.
Last year Mr. Wondrich published "Imbibe!" — an engaging study of the 19th-century barman Jerry Thomas, in which punch plays no small part — just around the time a bartender he knows, Philip Ward, added bowls of classic punch to the menu at Death & Co. in the East Village.
