The Mummy, Dracula and the Wolf Man -- the gang's all here in HOLLYWOOD HORROR: From Gothic to Cosmic (Abrams, $45), Mark A. Vieira's delectably gruesome, if arbitrarily organized, compendium of fright flicks from classic Lon Chaney silents to drive-in fodder like the remarkably unscary Roger Corman cheapie "The Terror," starring a wooden young Jack Nicholson.
The aim of this brief analysis of one small passage is to convey a taste of the methodological depth and complexity of this great scientific treatise, so often misunderstood as a poorly organized compendium of nature lore.
A compendium of carcinogenesis bioassay results organized by target organ is presented for 533 chemicals that are carcinogenic in at least one species.
"Same, Different, Equal" is a carefully organized, often lively yet sometimes dense compendium of everything that matters in the debate: how boys and girls do in classes and on tests, their differing learning styles and the legal tussles.
This sage compendium for contemporary mapmakers distills the essence of cartography into useful topics, organized for convenience in finding the specific idea or method you need.
Her new book, The Best of Dear Coquette: Shady Advice from a Raging Bitch Who Has No Business Answering Any of These Questions, is a 350-page compendium of her sagest wisdom, picked from thousands and thousands of entries and organized into sections by topic (relationships, sex, drugs, the universe) so that readers can quickly find what they seek in their time of need.
Instead of devising an organized primer on issues pertaining to health care in America, Ms. Smith has created a loosely framed but vivid compendium of life experienced at its extremes, drawn about equally from the suffering and the ministering sides of the story.
Yaoling Niu of the University of Durham, Eng., organized an issue of the Chinese Science Bulletin that featured the "Great Plume Debate," and the Geological Society of America published Plates, Plumes, and Paradigms, a compendium that included several articles by one of the most influential skeptics of mantle plumes, Don L. Anderson of the California Institute of Technology.
"Instead of devising an organized primer on issues pertaining to health care in America," Charles Isherwood wrote in The New York Times when he reviewed this one-woman show in October 2009, "Ms. Smith has created a loosely framed but vivid compendium of life experienced at its extremes, drawn about equally from the suffering and the ministering sides of the story".
