In ways that suggest Mr. Keltner must be a highly amusing teacher (and a generous one, since he so freely credits students and colleagues who played roles in laboratory experiments), this book identifies the adaptive benefits of each emotion, thumbs its nose at the hardhearted (Ayn Rand, Machiavelli) and makes its case for the biological functions served by physical expressiveness.
This book identifies opportunities and challenges for the mobilisation of sustainable forest biomass from supply chains operating in the boreal and temperate biomes.
Macdonald's review of the book identifies this failing: "The 'little people' of Hiroshima whose sufferings Hersey records in antiseptic New Yorker prose might just as well be white mice, for all the pity, horror or indignation the reader -- or at least this reader -- is made to feel for them".
Like many influential works, the book identified trends that had been apparent for some time.
As the book identifies, there are many questions to ask and answer about the apparent blurring of the sectors.
Hermione Lee, using information supplied in the book, identifies Margaret Morris, the "advocate of expressive open-air dance" and one of Lucia Joyce's mentors, as "William Morris's granddaughter".
An instant classic, the book identified a burgeoning anger over the assumption that white women were meant to be suburban housewives with children and a breadwinner husband.
Consider first of all the central problem that the book identifies: the idea that the public sector takes most of the risks in the modern innovation process, but gets little of the reward.
Rather than transliterating birdsong into syllables of pseudo-English, as field guides usually do — "Weeta-wee-tee-o," says the hooded warbler — the book identifies the signature structural characteristics of each species' repertoire.
The premise of Ira Levin's 1970s bestseller was far-fetched, but the book identified so shrewdly the male backlash against feminism that it bequeathed a phrase that has remained in the language ever since: the Stepford Wives.
