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The book was first published conventionally in December 1897, containing an English dictionary, a medical dictionary, a gazetteer and atlas, desk information and a compendium of general knowledge.
A Strange Business (Atlantic), James Hamilton's book on the 18th- and 19th-century art world, is both a beautifully written cultural history and a compendium of scurrilously funny stories.
The final sections of Mr. French's biography grow a bit deflated and sad; the book becomes a list of awards and obligations, and a compendium of Mr. Naipaul's boorish behavior.
Or the festering stews of Ankh-Morpork, capital of the empire and a compendium of all that was hideous about city life before we discovered hygiene and street lighting?
The society had a Web site, but it shut down around a year ago; now, it's been reincarnated as Atlas Obscura, a travel site of obscure places and a "compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica".
At once a photo essay and a compendium of life stories, Portraits of Resilience brings us face to face with twenty-two extraordindividualsiduals, celebrating the wisdom they have gained on the frontline of a contemporary battle.
In one mechanism, this bile acid targets - regardless of the number of available calories - housekeeping longevity assurance pathways that do not overlap with the adaptable TOR and cAMP/PKA pathways and modulate a compendium of pro- and anti-aging processes.
For Mr. Sendak the book "Brundibar" may be, he said, his magnum opus, honoring an act of great moral courage and also a compendium of symbols and sensibilities that have defined the artist's life and work.
It was put up on the so-called Via Traiana, taking Trajan's name, a road that was built from Rome to Benevento, and was opened during Trajan's reign, and again, a compendium of all his accomplishments.
"Painting Below Zero" might easily have been, in other words, the kind of memoir that spills over with acid-sketched action and incident, a compendium of art-world gossip around the 1960s, '70s and '80s.
The larger of the paintings, "Diver," is very large and holds a compendium of motifs from earlier work: stenciled words, turbulent brushwork and a rainbow-colored target.
