The phrase "compact book" is correct and usable in written English
It is usually used to describe a small or condensed book that is easy to carry around. Example: "I always carry a compact book in my bag so I can read it on my commute to work."
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Damrosch offers perhaps a slightly sweeter, more progressive, less religious subject, though, in fairness, the fluidity and ambivalence of Tocqueville's thought are very hard to contain within the form of what is an elegantly compact book.
If Obama has not already read this great, compact book he might find renewed inspiration in Williams's large vision and detailed perception of the United States and its past.
Still, you can breeze through this compact book and come away with an entertaining shot of history beyond the obvious fact lousy husbands can make great presidents and vice versa.
Now 58, he may be ideally positioned for the subject matter, just close enough to be agitated by its looming personal relevance and still far enough away for it to require the imaginative feats he performs in this compact book.
Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson (2016): "Stark in its design, this compact book features photographs of the poems Dickinson hand-wrote on the fronts, backs, and insides of envelopes.
"There are hundreds of possible books that can be made about Detroit," Mr. Moore, youthful looking at 54, said in an interview in his compact, book-lined Chelsea studio.
It could not have been easy to assemble so much information from so many far-flung sources, involving also sedulous opera and operatic-movie frequentation, and get it all into two such compact books.
On the back of this compact little book (the ones labelled "uncorrected proof copy" and sent to newspapers) is the spiel that sells Orbach's professional status.
This compact, absorbing book deals first and foremost with the invention of the lightning rod, but it also does justice to Franklin's curiosity about smallpox, botany, wood-burning stoves, musical glass disks, mesmerism, fossils and ballooning.
But Mr. Berman's most important argument -- and one that helps make this compact, focused book one of the most challenging accounts of the post-9/11 world -- is that the war on terror doesn't just resemble the war on totalitarianism, it is literally a continuation of it.
