Sentence examples for functional books from inspiring English sources

They are full of big, beautiful, functional books.

Several are images of different kinds of extremely functional books -- a log, a manual, an atlas -- rendered with a distinctly northern Renaissance exactitude.

Studying these spaces, one can't help noticing that the décor seems to bear little relationship to the way people actually live: deer antlers adorn the walls of people who almost certainly don't hunt; vintage typewriters sit on school desks too small to be functional; books have been arranged on shelves by color to reflect some perceived notion of good design.

You want a cookbook that you keep in the kitchen and go, 'Artichokes – what do I do with those?' That's a functional book.

The time has long passed since I was forced to learn Euclidean geometry, but I believe this masterpiece of beautifully functional book design is so effective it could even help recalcitrant students today — perhaps as an iPhone app.

In a realm where style was often functional, nonfiction books were – are – praised for being "well written", as though that were an inessential extra, like some optional finish on a reliable car.

Below Lemma 1.9 can be found in any standard functional analysis book.

Timberland 's sales took off in urban areas not because the shoe company marketed them to a specific demographic (in fact, the company was surprised that its functional work book was picked up by a consumer group it hadn't envisioned), but because hip-hop fans embraced it to the point that a pair of the shoes were included in a museum exhibit entitled "Black Fashion Now".

Given the absolute uselessness of Google Contacts, it's even a semi-functional address book, too.

His books Functional Design in Fishes (1967), Bones: The Unity of Form and Function (1994) and Principles of Animal Locomotion (2003) became classics, but it was his work on dinosaurs that caught the imagination and made him famous, with the landmark 1976 Nature paper, Estimates of Speeds of Dinosaurs.

For three years, since we'd moved, I'd meant to reorganize that space into something functional, but one book led to another, one assignment to another, and I'd told myself that I didn't have the time, money, or energy to make it happen.