I pulled out my old H. W. Janson survey book.
The past year, especially, has been a boom time for the genre, with a Museum of London exhibition and a major survey book, Street Photography Now, on the subject.
Arsenault flipped to a few pages in Granville's first town survey book to convey the difficulty involved in interpreting these old coördinates.
When I studied United States history in high school, there were two assigned texts: a survey book and J. Edgar Hoover's "Masters of Deceit".
For those seeking such guidance, one of the more useful sites is www.zagat.com, the online arm of the popular survey book series.
He brings new life to some old and sometimes forgotten thinkers, giving us a philosophical survey book that's as useful as Bertrand Russell's comprehensive History of Western Philosophy and as delightful as The McSweeney's Joke Book Of Book Jokes.
The respondents (teachers of primary schools) express their opinions in the survey towards books (reading books, spelling books and writing books) according to their own selection criteria.
He surveyed books about Jews tracking down Nazis, and Israelis hunting the terrorists who attacked the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Abdul al-Obaidi, the mayor of Qabak, called the attack on the school "a crime against humanity" as he surveyed books splattered with blood amid the devastation on the playground.
