He is a little disingenuous about having lacked a subject until now, because the point is that it really doesn't matter what the subject of such a book is.
Cohen writes that he had always hoped to "write a book about nothing that was also a book about everything", but had lacked a subject until attention caught his attention.
Astrobiology, a term coined for the study of all life anywhere in the universe (including Earth), has replaced exobiology, the study of extraterrestrial life exclusively and therefore criticizable as "a science that lacks a subject matter".
But with the demise of apartheid, Gordimer once more showed her strength, challenging the supposed anxiety for writers in her country that they now lacked a subject, with The House Gun (1997) and her award-winning 2001 novel The Pickup, which exposed the new issues of migration, corruption, and continuing alienation.
Understood as an ontological enquiry or as the study of pure being, metaphysics is not a possible science because it lacks a subject matter of its own.
Moreover, latency lacks a subject-specific baseline because we do not have a baseline event from which to measure it, so we can only calculate a condition-specific baseline.
It's worth taking a glance at historical context of overall depilatory fashion (or the lack thereof)—a subject I brought up last year in relation to the furry and fabulous "Fantastic Mr. Fox".
Further, one boy was excluded because of lacking a valid case control subject.
The slave's status as orphaned a status imposed by violent separation enabled the exploitation of her as a subject lacking a life and family of her own, and therefore under the patronage of her master.
Concerning interaction effects within the same levels, we found evidence for interest being a moderator for the relation between time-to-reflect and boredom on the level of lessons: Students who are lacking a stable interest in subject matter tend to be bored when instructional pace is low over several lessons.
