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When Licklider arrived, his agency specialized in the sort of esoteric Department of Defense research that could only be called "asinine" (his word, in fact).
Thirty years later Kukai, the revered founder of esoteric Shingon Buddhism, was appointed head abbot.
This doesn't mean the Chronicle list doesn't contain traditional, mainstream commercial titles--it does--but it includes books too esoteric for the chains and books that people are willing to pay full price for.
In targeting esoteric words used by lawyers in place of ordinary ones under the pretense of precision, it seems to me that the author is wasting ammunition on words like reasonable, substantial , and satisfactory . They are words of ordinary speech, with which juries are quite comfortable, and lawyers are as aware as everybody else that they are imprecise.
The selection of 1200 entries for inclusion seems a bit esoteric, but the general structure of the work--entry word, part of speech, definition, citation(s), and, in many cases, an explanatory comment on the origin of the term, its etymology, and other information--is straightforward.