compendious

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In this compendious book Newkirk, the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and Stone, an author and co-author of numerous titles, have separate but closely related agendas.

From New York Times

Michael Kinch’s The End of the Beginning gives an account both personal and compendious.

From Nature

Joyce was well aware of his compendious cast of mind and proud to find it manifest among his children.

From New York Times

Nonetheless, astronomers and astrophysicists came together to write a single compendious paper about the event.

From Science Magazine

His frantic energy persists, but it is turned to the single-minded pursuit of new, ever weirder sounds to use in his music, sampled from his compendious collection of records.

From Economist