Laura Hillenbrand's "Seabiscuit" is still galloping off the shelves and Tom Brokaw has succeeded again with his third compilation about Americans in the second world war.German readers, too, are intrigued by the past.
Women in Clothes, a stunning compilation about the complex relationship between women and what they wear, shows that what can appear to the outside as superficial can be deeply significant, profound and transformative.
What do Frank's compilations illustrate about her as a writer?
The Armstrong Deccas have not fared as well as their forebears, having been knocked about on compilations of dubious legality and dogged by various aspersions mainly, that Armstrong had become a puppet for his manager Joe Glaser, who had turned Armstrong into a happy-go-lucky song-and-dance man ready to ham it up on cue.
"It's a compilation of about 40 songs," Mr. Newman said.
Mr. Flaum wrote and directed one of the first compilation films about the movie industry, "Hollywood: The Great Stars," which was produced by Jack Haley Jr.
Officials said that the report was a compilation of about 400 pages of data, and that it contained almost no analysis.
In the process, he creates an alluring compilation documentary about the city's architectural and urbanistic fascinations, past and present — including incidentally preserved views of buildings and even whole neighborhoods that no longer exist.
Ms. Kaul was executive chef of Daily Soup from 1996 to 2003, and, with four of her colleagues, she wrote "The Daily Soup Cookbook" (Hyperion, 1999), a compilation of about 200 recipes that brought soups both plain and fancy into the kitchens of ordinary cooks.
