I'd recommend Welcome to the Desert of the Real, his lucid essay on 9/11.

(The great breakthrough, as he explains in a lucid essay, lay in cracking the code for measuring defense, something that had long proved inadequately quantifiable.)

But this lucid, nontechnical essay on risk regulation will intrigue pragmatists in search of a bigger bang for a regulator's buck.

His lucid essays reveal a concrete hope that psychoanalytic insight might reduce human anguish.

It is a collection of lucid, elegant essays that survey the intellectual terrain.

He aimed rather at reducing sculpture's materiality until the work became "a spiritual essence bounded by a physical foil or shell," Ms. Rowell wrote in her lucid essay for the catalog.

I shall mention only the lucid and witty essay of A.M. Turing, 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence',Mind, 59 (1950), 433-460.

Schoenberg's quest for a new musical grammar culminated in his formulation of 12-tone theory, and Mr. Shawn traces that quest through brilliant and lucid essays on the major works.

Many of the works may be daunting to general readers, but the author provides a helpful road map with her lucid explanatory essays and annotation.

The decision can be read as a lucid essay on the meaning of the word "competition," using one sport as an example.