Books

What are books? What am I going to find in a book?

Books are the result of in-depth studies of a particular topic. They usually constitute definitive works on a topic and are intended to be comprehensive. Publishing a monograph, or a book by one author, is a long and challenging process, and usually books are published months or years after the initial research was done. As such, even a new book can go out of date quickly in “volatile” subject areas where research changes directions very quickly. Usually in those subject areas authors will wait until the research dies down before publishing a book, choosing instead to publish shorter articles related to particular research topics.

Books are either the result of one person’s lengthy research process, or a combination of research by several people or by an organization. Books that are made up of chapters written by different people are called symposiums.

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