But the book's importance consists not only in such vivid and specific retellings but in how it explains the mentality of the masters alongside the predicament of the slaves.
Vigroux and Foucan refuse - on the grounds of basic safety - to teach the principles of roof-leaping straight off, preferring instead to try to explain the mentality of a free-runner.
In his book "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal," Eric Schlosser explains the mentality behind fast food establishments' aggressive marketing towards children.
2011), Harvard business strategists Michael Porter and Mark Kramer coin "shared value" and explain that the mentality of lower benefits, outsourcing and generally, viewing employees as a line item creates a psychology where employees are in a zero-sum game, one with a winner and a loser.
If you are not from here it's hard to explain that mentality, the mentality of "it's OK to be late, or "it's OK to leave some wiggle room and maybe not show up at all".
If you are not from here it's hard to explain that mentality, the mentality of "it's OK to be late, or "it's OK to leave some wiggle room and maybe not show up at all". I understand it instinctively.
Perhaps the mentality of competitiveness explains the Cubs' turnaround, or maybe it is talent maturing -- suddenly, for example, Kyle Farnsworth, a reliever who could not find the plate last season, is throwing 98-mile-an-hour strikes.
But I haven't been brought up with the mentality of an heiress," she explains.
"The mentality of the Midwest is, green is garnish," explained Heidi Van Pelt-Belle, who runs Füd, a vegetarian restaurant in Kansas City.
