Mainly, since perceptive accounts of family plight are nowadays as plentiful and exciting as white bread, "Beloved Stranger" is buoyed by something rarer.

A timely, perceptive and entertaining account by a journalist of the overwhelming changes that have come to Soviet art and artists since 1985.

There was also what looked like a very perceptive account of how I decide, when I get up in the morning, whether to wear my new shoes or my old ones.

The result is "24/7" (the title refers to Vegas's hours of business) - a good-hearted, perceptive and funny account of a month spent risking the nest egg.

His autobiographical book Night Falls on Ardnamurchan weaves his own humorous and perceptive account of the crofting life, with extracts from his father's journal.

By focusing on the intertwined lives and the contrasting personalities of these two formidable women, "Elizabeth and Mary" presents a perceptive, suspenseful account of complex English history.

May I add a postscript to the perceptive account of the shadow cast on New Jersey at midcentury by McCarthyism.

To this day, Bodmer's work remains one of the most perceptive and compelling visual accounts of the American interior.

This is a highly perceptive account of what it is like to do business with the Japanese.

In his classic work, 'The Human Side of Enterprise'(1960), Douglas McGregor provided a perceptive account of the differences between effective and ineffective groups.