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.
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.
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.
In their entertaining and instructive book The Blunders of Our Governments, Anthony King and Ivor Crewe argue that our elected leaders "screw up more often than most people seem to realise".
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.
She toyed with writing an instructive book about grammar for children, but, instead of attempting to redress the educational lapses inflicted upon today's kids, she decided to rectify a significant omission in her own education: she would learn Latin.
The opening to this instructive book captures the slowly progressive affliction of Parkinson's disease, which has been called "a disease of moving" and which also affects emotions, thinking and communicating.
