It's a serious, straightforward show, which adds much new detail and a phone-book-thick catalog to an important and familiar chapter of history without exactly breaking ground.
The Sciences does not deviate too far from a classic textbook format, and so it contains the familiar Chapter Summaries, Review Questions (newly updated), and Problem Sets.
In this latest version of the oft-repeated tale of heartache, there was a loss of control in the final ten minutes, a familiar closing chapter.
More likely, it was because she was familiar with Chapter 19 of the Qur'an.
This season is bounteous with familiar characters from other chapters of dramatic literature, who were last seen in the vicinity only a decade or so ago and are now being given fresh life by new (though preferably familiar-in-their-own-right) interpreters.
Any culinary historian familiar with the meat chapters of cookbooks from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century will wince on reading that throughout the period "inexpensive cuts of beef," which Mr. Glassner takes to mean hamburger makings, "had a bad reputation".
Along the way, there are chapters on familiar themes, such as the advent and end of the Atlantic slave trade, but refocusing on heroic figures such as the abolitionists Granville Sharp and Olaudah Equiano; and poignant reflections on the Commonwealth troops who fought in the two world wars.
But as he had done previously in his tumultuous riding career, Antley followed this storybook moment with a blank chapter, a familiar one in which talent gave way to torment.
If you are in PR then you may be familiar with the local chapter of PRSA and the 3 to 1 ratio which has been an evaluative standard for decades.
Once you've become familiar with what the chapter is going to cover, it is time to start reading.
