Sentence examples for persuasive book from inspiring English sources

That can make for an unwieldy and less persuasive book.

Piketty has written a marvellous, persuasive book that breaks with modern economics' love affair with mathematics.

The resulting volume is his most powerful and persuasive book in years.

The result is a remarkably absorbing if not wholly persuasive book.

His careful and persuasive book is an extensive updating of an essay published in French in 2011.

In this gripping, original, selectively valuable and patchily persuasive book he has at least made a start.

Yes, your views might be changed later in life by powerful experiences or persuasive books.

He rejects "the slavery simile," and tends to dismiss two of the most persuasive books about the negative aspects of sports on black progress: "$40 Million Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete" (2006), by William C. Rhoden of The New York Times, and "Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race" (1997), by John Hoberman.

"Home" encapsulates all the themes that have fueled her fiction, from the early novels "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye," through her dazzling masterwork, "Beloved," and more recent, less persuasive books like "Love" and "Paradise": the hold that time past exerts over time present, the hazards of love (and its link to leaving and loss), the possibility of redemption and transcendence.

In a clear and persuasive new book, "About Abortion" (Harvard), Carol Sanger, a professor of law at Columbia, explores the roots and the ramifications of this chastening regime.

That is, at least, the thesis of Daniel J. Levitin's lively, ambitious and occasionally even persuasive new book, "The World in Six Songs".