Sentence examples for instructive book from inspiring English sources

IN "Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management" (Simon & Schuster, 2000), John O. Whitney and Tina Packer honor their subject with a pleasurable and instructive book.

The time and energy spent on crosswords, the Times explains, would be more profitable "devoted to reading an instructive book, or intellectual conversation" - or, again, working.

It's almost twice as thick as my well-worn old copy -- and that was a very useful and instructive book that relocated with me to several countries.

This kind of nonsense seriously under­mines an otherwise worthwhile and instructive book and, by implication, excuses many troublesome abuses in the current administration.

If "Habibi" had been content to mine this narrow but rich vein of adolescent angst it might have been a comic's comic, or at least an instructive book for young adults.

His conclusion that "pro-life pragmatism and pro-choice conservatism" have become "indistinguishable" is greatly exaggerated, but Mr. Saletan's political purism does not prevent "Bearing Right" from being a richly instructive book.

Then there was italic, developing from the faux antiquity of William Morris and hardening into the instructive books of Monica Bridges.

Toward the end of her life, she turned to writing instructive books for children, the best being Conversations Introducing Poetry for the Use of Children (1804).

Probably that's why he's alive, and why we can read this funny, instructive, nourishing book.

"Although we live in a society that has become psychologically saturated, psychotherapy still seems to have a somewhat clouded image," writes Willard Gaylin at the opening of his expert and instructive new book, "Talk Is Not Enough: How Psychotherapy Really Works".

Hence, Shapin, despite his professional reservations, could still write an instructive, synthetic book about the Scientific Revolution.