Mr Hastings's achievement in organising this unwieldy mass of material into a narrative that sweeps confidently over every contested corner of the globe is impressive.
Mr Watson has focused on a mass of material removed from Sotheby's by James Hodges, a disgruntled former administrator of its antiquities department in London who was later convicted for theft.
Similarly, his foray into geopolitics--he thinks Krakatoa contributed to the rise of modern Muslim extremism--suffers from the book's lack of endnotes, and from Winchester's occasional overconfidence in his command of this great mass of material.
Feith: They were too, but, I mean, I don't know why it should surprise anybody that any given group of people looking at a mass of material might come up with a few interesting insights that other people didn't come up with.
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In the event, for all the nastiness, buck-passing and back-biting this mass of material exposes, it only reinforces Mr Pollard's conclusions: that the BBC's lines of accountability were deeply flawed and that members of its lavishly paid and top-heavy management saw it as their priority, in a crisis, to flunk responsibility rather than take it.
Now, such teams are also called out for hazardous material accidents, weapons of mass destruction and wide-area searches.
The raw material, in the matching process, is a mass of stated preference: your desire or intolerance for certain traits and characteristics.
Rather than filing mass lawsuits against individuals who upload pirated material, the review suggests, European regulators bring down the most flagrant violators among distributors.
When this sort of star implodes, to create a black hole, it generates jets of material that punch their way out of the collapsing mass at near light-speed, to produce extremely high-energy emissions of light.
Those white dwarf stars that find themselves near a "companion" star can draw material from their neighbour, building up to a critical mass and eventually sparking nuclear fusion again in a nova.
Another theory suggests that material surrounding a young star can undergo gravitational collapse under its own mass.
According to Malveaux, African Americans spend for the same reasons other Americans do, buying into mass media and our cultural images that associate status and satisfaction with material wealth.
The third mistake was that, because the workers were allowed to bypass the time-consuming mixing process in the tower, with its automatic controls for preventing such things happening, they were free to dump their material into a vessel that was not designed to prevent the accumulation of a critical mass sufficient to support a chain reaction.
He studies the material properties of tissue and organs from animals and cadavers to assign shape, size, density, mass and ten or more coefficients that describe how each cube of virtual flesh will deform when confronted with a given force from a given direction.
The previous book examined the history of the postwar period, examining how mass affluence transformed American culture, making people more introspective and more focused on the achievement of non-material goals.
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