Extracted from An Atlas of Countries that Don't Exist: a Compendium of Fifty Unrecognised and Largely Unnoticed States by Nick Middleton (Macmillan; £20).
One-third of the formula that will eventually determine the matchup for college football's national championship game comes from a compendium of six computerized ranking systems that deal in mathematical minutiae.
(Laura Kern) 'TOKYO!' (No rating, 1 52, in Japanese) A cramped metropolis of xenophobes and eccentrics living in a futuristic present: that is the image of the Japanese capital city evoked in "Tokyo!," a compendium of three surreal shorts whose relationship with one another might best be defined by the exclamation point in the title.
Enter, hélas, " 'L'Origine de la Tendresse' and Other Tales," a compendium of six short films by French filmmakers, any one of which might prove diverting in the right place at the right time but all of which, cumulatively, don't much make for a knockout night at the cinema.
A cramped metropolis of xenophobes and eccentrics living in a futuristic present: that is the image evoked in "Tokyo!," a compendium of three surreal shorts whose relationship with one another might best be defined by the exclamation point in the title.
In 1997, while vigorously defending counter-factualism's intellectual possibilities, Niall Ferguson had to spend much of his long introduction to "Virtual History" — a compendium of what-if scenarios by well-credentialled professors — addressing the scorn that has been heaped upon the approach.
Steven Bowman's The Holocaust in Salonika, Eyewitness Accounts is a compendium of three personal accounts: those of Yomtov Yacoel, Dr. Isaac Aaron Matarasso, and Salomon Meir Uziel.
I recently read Tren Griffin's book, A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs, a compendium of twelve pieces of advice Griffin collected from various conversations with entrepreneurs and VCs, the likes of Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman, Vinod Khosla, and Mary Meeker.
In Empire in Africa Angolaandnd its Neighbors, David Birmingham offers a compendium of eleven chapters (versions of seven have been previously published) arranged chronologically and from the late nineteenth century to 2003.
In contrast to simply analysing an individual experiment, it is statistically important to compile a compendium of six nucleosome positioning datasets based on an ensemble average.
