Most publications on the topic put forward an idealised model brief, or offer a 'cookbook' of tips, rarely acknowledging the fundamental problems.
Like most cookbooks, it is best sampled selectively.
I agree, for much 'geochemistry' is of the empirical and cookbook varieties.
Of course, standards of care are not cookbooks to be applied by the numbers.
Compilers of cookbooks will go to great lengths - some might say absurd lengths to be seen as not endorsing a particular product.
All in all, it is both a useful textbook and a quick reference book that offers stimulating ideas beyond a 'cookbook' approach.
This is a good cookbook for modern building.
Focusing on cookbooks and soap operas, the next two essays also address female stereotypes.
