Universal keeps a type of research library stocked with pertinent books for inspiration ("A Pictorial History of the American Carnival," "The Pop-Up Book of Phobias") and urges its creative personnel to roam Florida in search of ideas.
This chapter provides about 20 pages of up-to-date websites, addresses, pertinent books, booklets, technical articles, methods to contact organizations, and other resources that are essential to consider when developing or improving a chemical process safety program.
Natural is the pertinent word.
There, in half a sentence, you have the delight of this book: pertinent anecdote, relaxed wit and an uneasy sense that the author is always one jump ahead.
"Nothing was pertinent for the book so I thought: 'Well, this sucks, but we can probably sell them on eBay or whatever.'" It was only when the book was finished a few months later that he looked at the negatives again and slowly realised he was in possession of something unimaginably precious.
I can see that as pertinent information if the book were an ethnographic work on rape culture.
A six-person team constructed Captiv, a recommendation engine that mines personal tweets and world events for keywords, and drops off a pertinent quotation from a book on your screen.
Of course, if there is one organisation you can count on to suck the joy out of the simple pleasure of ripping open a foil packet, excitedly surveying the contents and then carefully inserting them in the pertinent spaces of a book (making sure not to leave an air bubble or you'll have to bin the whole jamboree and start again from scratch), it is Fifa.
The book provides pertinent information on travelers' medical kits, water disinfection, and noninfectious health risks such as high altitude, arctic travel, diving, jet lag, and ultraviolet radiation.
