Though it focuses largely on America's coastal waters, its 250 recommendations include proposals for cleaning up the Great Lakes, and a fervent appeal to the Senate to drop its ridiculous opposition to the Law of the Sea, an international treaty governing ocean use that the United States has refused to ratify for 22 years.
Though it focuses on superstition and healing, there are some quirky, and very amusing, piskie and fairy scenes.
If you want to eat Greek in Midtown, you're certainly better off at Estiatorio Milos, though it focuses more specifically on seafood and costs more.
"I told him his Spanish was pretty good," Mr. Ferrer said, adding that he enjoyed the homily even though it focused more on Rome than on the Bronx.
Pornography, though it focused on 7/7, glanced only sidelong at the event itself, lingering instead on the lifestories of people whose lives had been changed.
Though it focuses on the catastrophic fires of 1910 in the American West, this unusual book is mainly a history of forest-fire fighting.
A remarkable book by Truman Bewley, titled "Why Wages Don't Fall During a Recession" (Harvard, 1999), provides insights into the current situation, even though it focuses on the recession of 1990-91 and the long "jobless recovery" that followed it.
Mr. Stancik's 51-page report maintained that Ms. Lazar began inflating attendance and enrollment figures soon after she arrived at the school, though it focused mostly on the spring of 1997.
"Do Not Sell at Any Price" is the best book about record collecting because, even though it focuses on collectors of 78s and fans of older music, it captures the yearning that deep collectors of any genre have.
Though it focuses primarily on what happened when Victorians became obsessed with breedings dogs for looks rather than function (spoiler: bad diseases), Hekman also hinted at the relationship between genetics and personality, writing that she "can own a series of golden retrievers and predict with fair accuracy how each of them will look and act".
