With a three-volume study of the Cultural Revolution and lively lectures at Harvard, he influenced how people around the world understood China.
Annoyingly for those of us who do this for a living, Lethem proves himself an uncommonly passionate and persuasive music critic in his lively study of the album Talking Heads – Fear of Music (Continuum).
Nimbly translated, this lively study of the reformist Russian czar (1818-81) who freed 23 million serfs includes all the spectacle and shifting alliances that once dominated the court of St . Petersburg
The first, "Loops and Squiggles," is a mechanistic study of lively, slightly squeaky sounds; the second, "Dear John," is slow and richly harmonized, with hints of Vaughan Williams's lushness, though with a mildly acerbic, modernist twist.
The study of the thermodynamics of computation is a lively field with many implications in the foundations of physics (Leff and Rex 2003).
Thomas Penn's Winter King is a lively and alarming study of the strange and ferocious Henry VII, the first Tudor king.
In his lively and absorbing study of the Putin years Angus Roxburgh talks to many of the protagonists who have had to deal with the chippy former KGB spy.
Over time, Kurtz got even more psyched about The Case for Marriage, calling it "a model of calm and cogent argumentation, backed up by carefully sifted facts" in the National Review in February of 2001, then "a lively, rigorous, path-breaking study of the advantages of marriage" on the same pages in November of 2001.
In lively, forceful, and at times witty language, Michael Lieb has written an illuminating study of the figure of God as a literary character in the writings of John Milton.
But live art has a way of playing tricks, and Friday's came during "In the Night," Robbins's 1970 study of three couples, when the lively audience dissolved into giggles, drastically changing the work's tenor.
