A compendium of strange books should have been written a long time ago.
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 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.
Pick up a copy of "Sexually I'm More of a Switzerland," a compendium of the London Review of Books' more memorable personal ads, for your funny Valentine.
I serve as editor of two important books, Compendium of Tomato Diseases and Compendium of Cucurbit Diseases that are wide used by crop specialists.
The Complete Nose To Tail, a compendium of his first two books, is published by Bloomsbury at £30.
It is a unique compendium of bibliographic references for books, journals, and exsiccatae, dependent primarily on the standard print sources for botanical literature.
It was conceived as an introductory compendium in four books (three of which survive) to the topics and terminology of Aristotle's Physics.
And on Saturday the guitarist James Moore plays John Zorn's compendium of fractious virtuosity, "The Book of Heads".
The IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, the "Gold Book", defines "chemical substance" as "Matter of constant composition best characterized by the entities (molecules, formula units, atoms) it is composed of.
His publications include Author of the Maggot Debridement Therapy Book, Compendium of Wound Care dressings and Modalities, Pressure Injury Prevention Care Bundle, Diabetic Foot Asian Perspective Chapters in the 7th Practical Diabetes India, Diabetic Foot NUH Singapore, Ostomy, Wound Book USA.
