First and foremost, it is essential to explain the topic of the book and demonstrate why it’s relevant and important. This can be substantiated via different means – quantitatively, it’s possible to illustrate the importance of a scholarly topic by looking at measures like citations, course/module numbers, and numbers of related publications. In many cases, it will also be useful to examine how the topic intersects with different disciplines and assess the extent to which there are different schools of thought at play.