Word: tomes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their subject and could also produce graceful prose. NEIL POSTMAN for example, who wrote on TV pioneer Philo Farnsworth, is the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, an acclaimed study of the impact of television on society. RICHARD RHODES, who profiled nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, wrote a Pulitzer-prizewinning tome on the making of the atom bomb. Paleoanthropologist DONALD JOHANSON, who discovered the fossil called Lucy, had a long and bumpy relationship with the Leakey family and used this occasion to break a silence with Richard Leakey that lasted nearly two decades...
...Keynes' largest influence came from a convoluted, badly organized and in places nearly incomprehensible tome published in 1936, during the depths of the Great Depression. It was called The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money...
Freedom Song is neither about liberty nor a melodic tune. Rather it is an immense, three-novel-in-one, 433 page tome stuffed with picaresque glimpses of life in modern India and Oxford...
That won't be the couple's first brush with fame. Earlier this month West was on Oprah. That appearance sent West's awkwardly written tome into the Top 10 on Amazon.com's best-seller list. For those who doubt his story, West says, "I understand why people would be skeptical. I think it's because everyone knows you can't have more than one person living in a body." Well, exactly...
...Imagine a book that's as tall as a munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz" and twice as wide. A book so heavy that it takes two librarians to move it. Just such a tome rests quietly in the bottom of Houghton Library, a warehouse for unusual and delicate writings that hides many a freakish volume behind its upright exterior. This ruskie book puts "War and Peace" to shame...