Sentence examples for startling book from inspiring English sources

This is an impassioned, fascinating and in many ways startling book.

Teju Cole: The most startling book I read this year was Sonali Deraniyagala's "Wave," a personal account of the 2004 tsunami and its aftermath.

If there's a single fact that illustrates the way social class works in Britain today, it's in the opening pages of this startling book.

The latter is in many ways Cricthon's most startling book and, since its a memoir, holds the greatest clues to the kind of man that he is.

His bracing, even startling, book, "Jihad and Jew-Hatred" (translated by Colin Meade), reminds us that it is perilous to ignore idiotic ideas if these idiotic ideas are broadly, and fervently, believed.

"Lost New York," a startling book by Nathan Silver that came out in 1967, had a haunting, grainy, early photograph of St. John's and its trees, gaunt in the wintertime.

Africa and African-America are also the subjects of two other notably absorbing and startling books, both catalogs for exhibitions now on view.

Talk story about Dr. Marshall McLuhan, a professor of English at St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto, author of three startling books, the most recent "understanding Media".

The New Yorker, May 15 , 1965P. 43 Talk story about Dr. Marshall McLuhan, a professor of English at St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto, author of three startling books, the most recent "understanding Media".

By Lillian Ross The New Yorker, May 15 , 1965P. 43 Talk story about Dr. Marshall McLuhan, a professor of English at St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto, author of three startling books, the most recent "understanding Media".

Dr. Bartlett's "Infants and Children," has survived many fashions and outlasting many more startling books on the same subject, since it was published in 1932 it has steadily led the field, being regarded as a classic of thorough and precise explanation.