Sentence examples for compendium in the from inspiring English sources

It's a compendium, in the mould of earlier works like Fox and James's The Complete Chess Addict or Hooper and Whyld's Oxford Companion to Chess; it's the sixth and last nomination for our book of the year award.

Among the treasures: a 12th-century liturgical compendium in which the scribe has transformed thread-fine lines of Hebrew text into human and animal forms; a 17th-century Italian marriage contract with a heraldic dove drawn with words from the Song of Songs; and a portrait of the political Zionist Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), cofposed of lines from his books (Cotter).

The first was a revival of the Hellenistic predilection for large-scale compendiums in which the history of the Jews was "integrated," in legendary fashion, with that of the world in general and especially with Classical traditions.

Author of a bestselling compendium in Italian of the geography and manners and customs of Africa, La Descrittione dell' Africa, which was printed in Venice in 1550, Leo appears to have moved without difficulty between the pitched camps of Islam and Christendom before vanishing without trace.

Rowling published the "magizoology" compendium in 2001 to raise money for the charity Comic Relief; the films will feature the book's ostensible author, the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.

One promising avenue to be explored is the use of the compendium in deriving transcriptional regulation networks.

More vast and more lurid than his previous novels that have been translated into English, "2666" is not Roberto Bolaño's masterpiece but almost a compendium, in individual scenes, of the qualities that made him a great writer.

A show catalog, published by Princeton University Press, is the first compendium in English of research on Old Europe discoveries.

Rowling published the Fantastic Beasts "magizoology" compendium in 2001 in aid of Comic Relief.

Rowling published the Fantastic Beasts magizoology compendium in 2001 to raise money for Comic Relief.

Judt neatly sums up all the joys in store for us in this compendium: "The essays in this book were written over a span of 12 years, between 1994 and 2006.