Thackara's deeply informed book presents a breathtaking new map of the design landscape.
"This is a wide-ranging and dazzlingly informed book about the science of interactions," said Bryson of Critical Mass.
Just as puzzling is the conspicuous lack of a properly informed book about language – either our own or language in general.
In this deeply informed book, Robert Calderisi unravels the paradoxes of the Catholic Church's role in the developing world over the past 60 years.
His final plea imagines "an active music-making people" involved in the classical music of their time, so that "its formal and human qualities can shine forth .It is a remarkable vision, which, like much of this ardently informed book, leaves the reader wishing Mr Hewett had spent more time defining and clarifying his terms.
I hadn't lost touch with skateboarding either – after starting my doctoral studies in Los Angeles (drawn, more than I should admit, by its sunshine and skateboard history), I later wrote a rather theoretically informed book on skateboarding (Skateboarding, Space and the City, 2001), and have developed a career as an academic historian from this basis.
"Stephen A. Mitchell has written a well informed and informative book on an interesting subject.
I think we should start off by discussing the ways in which your own stories of immigration informed your books.
As I have written about before in regard to the Wildlings in Game of Thrones, premodern history has clearly informed the books and the TV version of George R.R. Martin's epic series.
Much of the ideas and aesthetic of the film are informed by books and art Knight discovered through his parents.
