For all its intricate architecture of statistics (with scores of tables both in the text and as appendices), the book amounts to a charge-sheet.
The bulk of the book amounts to a flashback to Wells's earlier life, returning to his last months in the final section.
With all the imaginative hairdos, brightly patterned trousers, vests, florid eyeglass frames, skirts, and the amusing sound bites that Larocca has recorded, the book amounts to a collective portrait of some New Yorkers' vivid relationship to the idea of individuality.
In the end, the book amounts to a series of simple but effective chord changes on the theme of kindness, on what it means to be "steady, quiet, calm, reliable, loyal, thoughtful, gentle".
BusinessWeek wrote that the book amounted to "a call for revolution on the Street".
Last year, the Houston Press reported that the book amounted to plagiarized Tori Amos lyrics, with some Britney Spears and Mariah Carey thrown in.
His book amounts to a plea for the Pentagon to ponder such matters.
Andrew M. Cuomo's first book amounts to a radical manifesto, one that would revolutionize New York State government.
His book amounts to an exceptionally vivid and searching account of what it is to be a fan.
Each book amounts to an average of two or three days in the studio, but can be more, for the person voicing the book.
