Sentence examples for a compact History of from inspiring English sources

(It is also, of course, a compact history of the twentieth century).

In 2003 he published a book called Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity.

David Foster Wallace's most recent books are "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity" and "Oblivion: Stories".

In essence, the 21-page document is a compact history of the early stages of the 1991-1995 war that tore up Yugoslavia.

But as a whole, the diverse entries resemble a compact history of the moving image, from kinetoscope peep shows and grainy newsreel footage to quirky video art and glossy television commercials.

In 2007 he sank himself into the subject, reading a stack of books (like David Foster Wallace's "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity") and attending academic lectures where he could barely decipher a word.

ROBERT BRUEGMANN Chicago, Nov. 28, 2011 The writer is professor emeritus of art history, architecture and urban planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of "Sprawl: A Compact History".

Robert Bruegmann is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author most recently of Sprawl: A Compact History, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2005.

At The Hoover Digest, Harvey Mansfield provides a lucid and compact history of political philosophy by way of explaining why we vote.

His compact history of how the modern university developed, however, does much more: It offers a fresh perspective on familiar arguments and dogmas, including the century-old belief that a liberal arts education should be separate and distinct from baldly utilitarian concerns.

So Mr. Cook's "Brief History of the Human Race," a smart, literate survey of human life from Paleolithic times until 9/11, is joining an honorable recent tradition, which came into its own with Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" and is continuously expanding with new compact histories of peoples, religions and cultures.