A common escape route is to use superb illustrations to disguise brief but turgid text, thereby creating the 'coffee table' genre frequently (and usually rightly) despised by proper scientists.

Blair Drawson's superb illustration, with the tiny cave man leading an enormous bull by a slender rope, displays this bargain with great art.

The book uses a very simple language and a collection of superb illustrations.

To Barbara Field for her superb illustrations, and for her willingness to learn the insides of a nuclear submarine to make them.

To him it has been given to provide a superb illustration of the success with which the mind of man can penetrate the deep things of Nature.

However one chooses to evaluate Fludd's intellectual achievement, the superb and daedally complex illustrations in his books, masterpieces of the engraver's art, are a cultural enrichment.

Although it's a dark and mournful book (it's been shortlisted for Children's Book Of The Year by both Red House and Galaxy) it's also resplendent, not least for the superb illustrations by Jim Kay.

When President Clinton describes someone as dumb as a post or Senators talk about each other as show horses or workhorses, they're giving merely routine examples of Washington political vernacular - but superb illustrations of how a living language changes and churns.

Mr. Hirsch's book is lean reading; it's filled with superb illustrations and useful tidbits of information.

Among the items here are some superb illustrations for the "Ramayana," in which the divine hero, Rama, an incarnation of the god Vishnu, fights to save his wife, Sita, from the clutches of the 10-headed demon-king.