Sentence examples for compendium books from inspiring English sources

To enlighten me, along came a collection of progressive, no-holds-barred sex-education books from Compendium Books, Camden, in north london.

The topics range from such disparate subjects as culture, superstitions, natural history, physiology, and psychology so that reviewers variously called the book "a compendium", "a browser's book" and full of "encyclopedic mini-essays".

A compendium of strange books should have been written a long time ago.

His principal work, the Hypotypōseis (Greek: "Outlines"), is a doctrinal compendium in seven books intended for use at the school.

It is a compendium, in three books, of geometric rules and formulas that Heron gathered from a variety of sources, some of them going back to ancient Babylon, on areas and volumes of plane and solid figures.

As one of Bach's great late compendiums, ranking alongside the B minor Mass, "The Art of Fugue" and "A Musical Offering" (and part of a larger compendium, the other books of the "Clavierübung" encompassing the six keyboard partitas, the "Italian Concerto" and "French Overture," and the "Goldberg Variationss), the work merits broader exposure.

In what amounts to a diligent compendium of other books and articles, along with a couple of desultory interviews with the principals (conducted decades ago in the case of Mantle, who died in 1995), Barra works hard to construct a cohesive narrative about these two extraordinary players.

It was conceived as an introductory compendium in four books (three of which survive) to the topics and terminology of Aristotle's Physics.

Instead, Judt posted a thirty-one-page bibliography, a rich but basically useless compendium to a book of more than eight hundred indebted, and presumably densely sourced, pages.

Last year, Valve managed to raise a prize pool of $10m for its Dota 2 championship by charging players $10 for the game's Compendium virtual sticker book.

Although Ptolemy wrote works on mathematics, geography, and optics, he is chiefly known for the Almagest, a 13-book compendium on astronomy that became the basis for mankind's world picture until the heliocentric system of Nicolaus Copernicus began to supplant Ptolemy's geocentric system in the mid-16th century.