This is not a measured book, but a great one.
A more measured book might have been more persuasive; it is, after all, undeniable that more boys suffer from autism-spectrum disorders and girls tend to exhibit verbal fluency at an earlier age.
Nor could a dispassionate reader of Mr Morris's measured book agree with Mr Karsh that its author was determined to portray the Zionist movement as colonial and aggressive.
It's a brave and measured book about being in the power of something utterly unmeasured, the terrible threat of losing one's reputation; and it's also, not incidentally, a book about the enduring power a work of literature can have in one's life.
Lydia Otero, a university professor born in Tucson, wrote "La Calle," a remarkably measured book about how her world was razed around her. "Now they are trying to go back and create what the city fathers tore down," she told a local reporter.
Jim McLaughlin measures books in tons, not pages.
BookScan used bar codes to measure book sales, doing some work that sales managers used to do.
In its first week on sale, Ms. Quinn's 240-page memoir, "With Patience and Fortitude," sold about 100 print copies, according to Nielsen BookScan, which measures book sales.
The magazine described what it said was an effort "to inflate and breach the integrity" of The Times's system for measuring book sales by placing bulk orders and systematic small orders with book sellers whose sales results might be tallied by the paper.
I've always known libraries are vital, but now I understand that their worth cannot be measured in books alone.
