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HarperCollins Publishers Making Books: A guide to creating hand-crafted
Book SynopsisThis is a modern, stylish and practical guide to the traditional craft of bookbinding, written by the founders of the London Centre for Book Arts, a destination workshop space that attracts visitors from all over the world. Accessible enough for complete beginners, while full of inspiration for those with more experience, this is the ultimate guide to making beautiful books by hand. Starting with an introduction to the bindery and a useful inventory of necessary tools and equipment, you’ll also learn about different paper types, and special finishes such as cloth coverings, headbands and ribbon markers. You’ll then find clear step-by-step instructions for six different hand-made book types, from simple pamphlets and concertinas to more elaborate multi-section bindings. Each project includes ideas for variations, resulting in over 20 different possible outcomes. There are also details about more advanced techniques and specialist bindings, as well as handy layout and design advice. A combination of practical and inspirational photography will guide readers clearly through each stage of the process, while showcasing the unique results that can be achieved and offering an exclusive peek into the workings of the authors’ studio.
£17.00
Prestel Bookstores: A Celebration of Independent
Book SynopsisBookstores are treasure troves of knowledge and ideas, invaluable for the imagination, and often reflect their owners’ personalities in ways internet behemoths could never recreate. In this book, photographer Horst A. Friedrichs opens the door to the world of bricks-and-mortar bookstores, showcasing their variety, quirkiness, and vitality with lavish photography. It celebrates the passion and commitment of the owners with interviews and anecdotes. Explore William Stout Books, a specialty store for architecture and art books in San Francisco, and Baldwin’s Book Barn in Pennsylvania, a 5-story bookstore housed in a dairy barn open since the mid-1940s. Discover Gay’s the Word, the UK’s first and only dedicated LGBTQI bookshop and Livraria Lello, whose art deco interior is a temple to reading in the middle of Porto, Portugal. Some of the featured bookstores specialize in a certain genre, some are massive with vaulted ceilings, some are tiny and filled to the brim with books, some are in historic buildings that evoke a different time and place, and some are brand new, high- tech, architect-designed spaces. What all the bookstores have in common is that they are all dedicated to spreading the written word to their communities. This is an ideal book for anyone who loves to read, browse, or simply linger in the analog world of books and bookstores.
£28.00
HarperCollins Publishers No Logo Naomi Klein Collins Modern Classics
Book SynopsisIntroducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience classics which will endure for generations to come.When No Logo was first published, it became an instant bestseller and international phenomenon. Its riveting exposé of the branded and corporate world in which we live became a rallying cry for rebellion and self-determination.Engaging, humanising and inspiring, No Logo is a book that defined both a generation and its language of protest. Its analysis is as timely and powerful as ever.Trade Review‘The Das Kapital of the growing anti-corporate movement’ Guardian ‘Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful fighters already out there. No Logo is an invigorating call to arms for everybody who wants to save money, justice, or the universe’ Gloria Steinem ‘What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands’ Billy Bragg
£10.44
The University of Chicago Press Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks
Book SynopsisTrade Review"I know of no other handbook that focuses on this particular genre of academic writing in such a thorough and, therefore, useful manner. I am confident that anybody who actively works through this book--it is, indeed, a workbook--will eventually taste the academic publishing success in the book's subtitle."--Praise for the previous edition "Steven E. Gump, Journal of Scholarly Publishing " "Even seasoned academic writers can find something useful in Belcher's book. . . . Offers sound advice, encouragement, and confidence-building strategies that help novice writers create/recreate a written text that could be publishable."--Praise for the previous edition "Chronicle of Higher Education "
£49.40
Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Modern Classics Book
Book SynopsisThe essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers.This reader''s companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig.It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book.Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.Trade ReviewA heavyweight - but never burdensome - history of the publishing house... A must for quiz-hounds -- Alex Diggins * Telegraph *As close to pornography as you can get as a bibliophile. From one angle it is a testament to book design over nigh on a century. On another, it is a work of publishing history -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *
£27.00
Lannoo Publishers 150 Bookstores You Need to Visit Before you Die
Book SynopsisFor the enthusiastic reader and book lover, browsing through a bookshop is an irreplaceable experience. American author Elizabeth Stamp selected the 150 most unique bookstores in the world that are worth making a detour to visit. From Australia to France, and Japan to the United States, the bookstores here range from establishments that have been around for decades, to newly opened shops. Each shop has been selected for an outstanding feature, either an interesting backstory, a unique collection, or a fabulous setting. This handsomely bound book, the latest in the 150 series, has inspiring photographs and a wealth of information on each location.Trade Review"Here's hoping for time to visit them all!" - Good Housekeeping UK
£24.00
Profile Books Ltd The Diary of a Bookseller
Book SynopsisLove, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there 'The Diary Of A Bookseller is warm (unlike Bythell's freezing-cold shop) and funny, and deserves to become one of those bestsellers that irritate him so much.' (Mail on Sunday) 'Utterly compelling and Bythell has a Bennett-like eye for the amusing eccentricities of ordinary people ... I urge you to buy this book and please, even at the risk of being insulted or moaned at, buy it from a real live bookseller.' (Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express) Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eye.Trade ReviewWarm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny, this gently meandering tale of British eccentricity will stay long in the memory. * Daily Mail *Funny and fascinating in equal measure - a must for all those of us who haunt the sepulchres where old books are laid to rest. * Anthony McGowan *The Diary Of A Bookseller is warm (unlike Bythell's freezing-cold shop) and funny, and deserves to become one of those bestsellers that irritate him so much. -- Jon Dennis * Mail on Sunday *Peopled with fascinating characters ... a sarcastic reminder of the struggles of small business ownership, the importance of community and the frustration of dealing with customers ... occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. * Herald *Wonderfully entertaining. * Observer *Tempted to follow your dream and open a second-hand bookshop? Don't do anything before you read Shaun Bythell ... second-hand bookshops are alive because of people like him. * The National *Utterly compelling and Bythell has a Bennett-like eye for the amusing eccentricities of ordinary people ... I urge you to buy this book and please, even at the risk of being insulted or moaned at, buy it from a real live bookseller. -- Charlotte Heathcote * Sunday Express *I tore through the pages, but I was also rather sad when it finished - I could have read much, much more. Any bibliophiles should race to get a copy. * Shiny New Books *A book and bookshop lover's delight. * Red magazine *Laconic, droll, opinionated and unconvincingly misanthropic ... Wigtown's Pepys. -- Alan Taylor * Times Literary Supplement *
£10.44
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Creating an Undergraduate Literary Journal
Book SynopsisUniversity literary journals allow students to create their own venue for learning, have a hands-on part of their development in real-world skills, and strive towards professional achievement. But producing an undergraduate literary magazine requires commitment, funding, and knowledge of the industry. This practical guide assists students and faculty in choosing a workable structure for setting up, and then successfully running, their own literary publication. Whether the journal is print or online, in-house or international, Creating an Undergraduate Literary Journal is a step-by-step handbook, walking the reader through the process of literary journal production. Chapters focus on: defining the journal; the financial logistics; editing the journal; distribution; and what could come next for a student writer-editor after graduation. The first book of its kind to offer instruction directly to those running university-based literary magazines, this book includes insights from forTrade ReviewAudrey Colombe’s Creating An Undergraduate Literary Journal provides a wealth of information for faculty advisors, student and faculty editors, and undergraduates and graduate students alike on the business of literary publishing and tips for building, developing, expanding, and marketing a successful literary magazine. * Keya Mitra, Pacific University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Running a Literary Journal The sorrows, the joys What to expect from this book 1.Defining Your Journal Start Out by Looking Around: What Defines Your School and Your Project? Are you working on an existing journal, or starting from scratch? Considering the Possibilities: In house National/International Online In print 2. Financial and In-kind Support The Budget University: Student Fees, Department, College, Provost Advisory Board Fundraising 101 Faculty Advisor/Graduate Advisor Partner Journals Advertising 3. Editing the Journal Editing tasks: creating a handbook and editorial practices Diversity – Staff and Selections Establishing an Annual Schedule Communication Between yourselves With your writers Production and Design Awards – Or Not 4. Writer-Editor Citizen Reading Series and Other Literary Events Creating Writing Opportunities for Everyone Collaborative Work with Other Student Artists Community Outreach: Getting Writers from the Community Involved University engagement (with Admissions, Alumni Relations, Development) 5. Networking and Professionalization State and Local Writing Groups AWP & FUSE National and International Writing Conferences Internships Graduate School Index Appendix A: List of undergraduate literary magazines, print and online Appendix B: List of helpful literary organizations
£20.89
Atlantic Books The Face Pressed Against a Window: A Memoir
Book SynopsisChosen as one of the Daily Mail's Memoirs of the YearTim Waterstone is one of Britain's most successful businessmen, having built the Waterstone's empire that started with one small bookshop in 1982. In this charming and evocative memoir, he recalls the childhood experiences that led him to become an entrepreneur and outlines the business philosophy that allowed Waterstone's to dominate the bookselling business throughout the country.Tim explores his formative years in a small town in rural England at the end of the Second World War, and the troubled relationship he had with his father, before moving on to the epiphany he had while studying at Cambridge, which set him on the road to Waterstone's and gave birth to the creative strategy that made him a high street name.Trade Review[A] moving, funny take on business, family and mortality -- Jim Armitage * Evening Standard *The rollicking, page-turning memoir of Britain's biggest book tycoon * Daily Mail *[Waterstone] writes movingly... Small, poignant images stand out... From such raw clay are great entrepreneurs moulded * The Tablet *The Face Pressed Against a Window confirms one's sense that this extraordinarily energetic and well-meaning man has been, and still is, a force for good. * Literary Review *Table of Contents1: Prologue 1: Part One 2: Where the Children of My Childhood Played 2: Part Two 3: I do, ladies. I do. I 'ave a go. 3: Epilogue 4: Miranda Beeching 5: The Carriage Clock
£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers The Sun TwoSpeed Crossword Book 7 80 twoinone cryptic and coffee time crosswords The Sun Puzzle Books
Book SynopsisQuiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games. Test your general knowledge with 80 two-in-one cryptic and coffee time crosswords from Britain’s bestselling newspaper, The Sun.
£7.99
Penguin Books Ltd Portable Magic
Book Synopsis''A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn''t encountered before'' Val McDermid, The TimesMost of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines, loosen their leaves and write in their margins, so they disrupt and disorder us in turn. All books are, as Stephen King put it, ''a uniquely portable magic''. Here, Emma Smith shows us why.Portable Magic unfurls an exciting and iconoclastic new story of the book in human hands, exploring when, why and how it acquired its particular hold over us. Gathering together a millennium''s worth of pivotal encounters with volumes big and small, Smith reveals Trade ReviewIf you love books, you'll love Portable Magic -- Val McDermidFor many of us, books are the life we chose without thinking about it too much. Emma Smith's terrifically knowledgeable and thoughtful Portable Magic helps us understand every aspect of what our beloved books stand for. I for one am very grateful. What a delight this book is. -- Lynne TrussIrresistibly fascinating -- John CareyBrilliant... amusing, darkly sobering, and consistently fascinating ... a combination of deep scholarship and down-to-earth wit * Telegraph *Fun, playful, learned and accessible... Smith is herself a magical writer * BBC History Magazine *Smith's genius is to question as well as to value and register every contradiction - to make you, the reader, think without even suspecting that you are ... for communicating complex material in conversational, occasionally irreverent, prose -- Lucasta Miller * The Critic *Joyous ... thrilling ... A brilliantly written account of the book-as-material-object, and the slightly seedy pleasures of "bookhood" -- Kathryn Hughes * Guardian (Book of the Week) *Wildly entertaining ... This fascinating, slyly amusing book carries an undertow of personal affection for the curious, rectangular, multileaved objects with which we're so familiar * Sunday Times *Smith's enchanting book sparkles with gems of trivia that often conceal deeper truths about the evolution of reading and publishing. Fascinating, enlightening, funny and touching, this is indeed portable magic * Sydney Morning Herald *Emma Smith's history of the physical book is a thing to cherish ... witty and ingenious ... Smith reads with all her senses alert ... A wise, funny, endearingly personal book -- Peter Conrad * Observer *Anyone who's ever enjoyed the feel or indeed smell of a book should read Emma Smith's delightful and informative Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers -- Lucasta Miller * Spectator Books of the Year *From bullet-stopping Bibles to tomes bound in human skin, Smith's history of books revels in their magic and malignity. It skewers our faith in the written word yet repays it handsomely * Telegraph *
£10.44
Oxford University Press Inc Paper Trails The US Post and the Making of the
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West.There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald''s restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most expansive national postal system in the world. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era''s defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power. Between the 1860s and the early 1900s, the western United States underwent a truly dramatic reorganization of people, land, capital, and resources. It had taken Anglo-Americans the better part of two hundred years to occupy the eastern half of the continent, yet they occupied the West within a single generation. As millions of settlers moved into the region, they relied on letters and newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, petitions and money orders to stay connected to the wider world. Paper Trails maps the spread of the US Post using a dataset of more than 100,000 post offices, revealing a new picture of the federal government in the West. The western postal network bore little resemblance to the civil service bureaucracies typically associated with government institutions. Instead, the US Post grafted public mail service onto private businesses, contracting with stagecoach companies to carry the mail and paying local merchants to distribute letters from their stores. These arrangements allowed the US Post to rapidly spin out a vast and ephemeral web of postal infrastructure to thousands of distant places.The postal network''s sprawling geography and localized operations forces a reconsideration of the American state, its history, and the ways in which it exercised power.Trade ReviewPaper Trails brings impressive depth and richness to historians long-standing interest in how federal power shaped the North American West....Blevinss study calls attention to infrastructures role in defining territory and supporting white settlement. Paper Trails will be of particular interest to historians of the nineteenth-century United States and the North American West, spatial historians and digital practitioners, and scholars of settler colonialism and state power....Paper Trails represents the leading edge of digital history. By combining large-scale data analysis with archival research and close reading, Blevins delivers unexpected insights into the postal system, the people who used it, and the American West they made. * Sean Fraga, American Historical Review *A stunning work of scholarship. * Joseph M. Adelman, New England Quarterly *A stunning work of scholarship....A model of digital history methods and historical writing...Paper Trails delivers a fascinating view into how the post office integrated the West into the United States....The result of Blevins's meticulous work is a significant contribution to debates about the formation of an American state in the nineteenth century, the nature of federal power in the West, and the role of digital history as a research method. * Joseph M. Adelman, New England Quarterly *Cameron Blevins's Paper Trails is a creative, sophisticated history of the U.S. Post in the late nineteenth-century West. Weaving together social and spatial history, the book offers two complementary interventions. One is methodological, challenging critics who maintain that digital methods merely dress up history we already knew. The other addresses debates about the U.S. state, moving beyond the categories of 'strong' versus 'weak' to offer fresh insight on state power in the nineteenth century.... Paper Trails reads mostly as narrative history, but Blevins pauses strategically to explain his theory of power and why it matters. He does this effortlessly, which is a testament to the book's prose and its considered conceptualization. The book will be of great interest to scholars of western history, digital humanities, and political economy. * Emma Teitelman, Western History Quarterly *Paper Trails elegantly employs digital history tools and spatial analysis methods to explain how the United States extended federal authority over the American West.... Blevins pays careful attention to the physicality of postal spaces too, from customer windows and post office boxes to stamps, money orders, mail sacks, and satchels. He documents the cartographic work of the U.S. Post's Topographer's Office in Washington, D.C., and embeds postal offices in an ever-shifting web of transactions, correspondence, and interpersonal connections that constituted the most spatially dense federal presence beyond the Mississippi River.... It is one thing to imagine this in the abstract and quite another to see such patterns emerge in map after map and through the compelling stories recounted throughout the narrative. * Tona Hangen, Journal of American History *See[s] the American West in new terms....Apart from the foundational role that the postal network played in western settlement, Blevins also asks us to consider how American life both then and now is quietly but directly shaped by these 'large-scale structures, systems, and networks.' Such an observation can prompt rich discussions about both seen and unseen forces of history....Readers will be...intrigued by the extensive companion website to the book (www. gossamernetwork.com). In a site that is intuitive and thoughtful, Blevins and his colleagues show in real time how the postal network followed— and sometimes anticipated—the rapid dispossession of Native lands in the West. By aggregating and analyzing the location of postal networks, Blevins shows what would otherwise be invisible to historians of the West, answering critics of digital history as confirming what we already know. * Susan Schulten, Journal of the Civil War Era *Perhaps not since Miracle on 34th Street extolled the United States Postal Service for exonerating Santa Claus has an in-depth examination of post office history been so interesting as Cameron Blevinss Paper Trails.... In many waysPaper Trailsdoes for post offices what William CrononsNatures Metropolisdid for grain elevators. He slices them open and turns them inside out, explaining both their inner workings and significance in understanding the big picture. Scholars interested in postal history, digital history, western expansion, state power, and the analysis of large-scale structures and systems should read this book. They will find that they will never look at their local post office—or perhaps even their Facebook page—the same way again.. * Michael A. Amundson, Environmental History *This work traces the meteoric rise of the US postal system in its quest to connect far-flung reaches of the remote American West in the late 19th century. Blevins argues that similar to current enmeshed corporations like Google or Amazon, the postal system structurally transformed American history. He further contends that 'the US post was the underlying spatial circuitry of western expansion' and enabled the ensuing—and tragic—human conquest and full-scale resource exploitation that rapidly followed. Yet, local post offices also served as community hubs, knitting together remote rural communities. A product of the relatively new subfield of digital history, this study also draws on extensive data sets, maps, and scores of archival records to create a remarkable textual and visual record based on spatial analysis of an immense and sprawling federal apparatus. * Choice *Paper Trails is recommended for those open to a closer inspection of western development, of which the U.S. Post is no doubt an integral layer. Among the familiar, readers will be challenged to consider new perspectives in new ways, and in the process they will be introduced to a host of interesting characters and characteristics. * Dan K. Utley, Southwestern Historical Quarterly *In this impressive and innovative work, Cameron Blevins uses digital history methods to carefully document how the US Postal Service facilitated American settlement in the far West during the late nineteenth century ... it is at once social history, political history, business history, and policy history presented in clear, lively prose that makes for fascinating reading. * John Majewski, Missouri Historical Review *A shining masterpiece of interdisciplinary scholarship....Blevins's brilliance lies in his expert balance of broad, sweeping analysis and detailed social history. Paper Trails is not just a story about data and state functions but also a chronicle about ordinary people whose lives were impacted by accessibility to the largest-scale postal service in the world....Blevins argues that postal centralization, characterized by an agency model of public-private partnerships, local agents, and contractors, enabled the rapid development of postal services essential to the nation's periphery through outsourced employees, transportation, and postal facilities....Maps, charts, and captivatingly written narratives...illustrate his data, examine broad historical questions, and reinforce his central arguments. * Robert O'Dell III, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era *Cameron Blevins's Paper Trails: The U.S. Post and the Making of the American West is a wonderful example of digital history built on information technology and archival research. * Marc Levinson, Wall Street Journal *Paper Trails offers a timely reminder that the post has always been political. [...] One of the most striking aspects of Paper Trails isn't in the book. Mr Blevins is a digital historian, meaning he uses data science to analyse historical trends. He built an accompanying website replete with interactive maps to show readers how, within a generation, the postal service helped colonise a continent. These online dispatches beautifully illustrate the formative power of snail mail. * The Economist *Paper Trails is the kind of book that will, I believe, spark greater interest in less familiar aspects of the American story, and for that, Mr. Blevins deserves thanks. * Mark A. Kellner, Washington Times *Paper Trails has a great deal to interest and provoke thought in readers of all stripes, philatelists included. * Susanna Mills, American Philatelist *A thoughtful consideration of an overlooked but clearly central aspect of westward expansion. * Kirkus *In the hands of Cameron Blevins, isolated post offices become windows into life in the American West. With great skill, Blevins portrays the expansive growth of the American state in an original, surprising, and persuasive way. * Edward L. Ayers, winner of the Bancroft Prize *With the publication of Paper Trails, Cameron Blevins emerges as a leader in a critically important but under-recognized genre: books in which authors make fully persuasive cases for the great importance of historical subjects that their predecessors barely noticed. With the intensity and range of Blevins's research, the clarity and vigor of his writing style, and, most of all, his distinctive perspective on the relationship between the history of the American West and the history of the federal government, this book gains the status of a fresh appraisal of the arrangements of power and population in the West and in the nation as a whole. * Patricia Nelson Limerick, author of Legacy of Conquest *In this engaging and beautifully written book, Cameron Blevins combines rich archival detail and the insights of spatial analysis to provide a nuanced account of how the federal government shaped the settlement of the US West. Paper Trails will make you see state power in entirely new ways. * Rachel St. John, University of California, Davis *As the human presence of the American state, the postal system diffused office and service across a continental landscape. In teaching this lesson and others, Cameron Blevins has produced a study so methodologically and empirically rich that it sets a model for disciplines beyond history. * Daniel Carpenter, author of Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870 *Paper Trails is a sweeping overview of a major US government agency in the nineteenth-century trans-Mississippi West. By combining modern digital mapping techniques with traditional archival research, Blevins shows how postal policy can help us better understand the rise of the modern American state. * Richard R. John, author of Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Methods Introduction: The Gossamer Network 1. Geography and State Power 2. Stories and Structures 3. Postal Maps, 1860- 83 4. Mail Routes and the Costs of Expansion, 1866- 83 5. The Post Office Window, 1880- 92 6. Money Orders and National Integration, 1864- 95 7. Rural Free Delivery, 1896- 1913 Conclusion: The Modern American State Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Savvy Academic
Book SynopsisThis approachable guide meets health and social sciences scholars at their level--either as a reference text or as an enchanting but practical read--and walks them through each stage of their academic publishing journey. Drawing on a wealth of examples from his own experience mentoring others and publishing 300+ articles, Dr. Schwartz engages early, mid-, and senior-level professionals as well as graduate students and postdoctoral fellows alike, to demystify each stage of the writing and publishing process. Employing a reader-friendly, accessible voice, Dr. Schwartz''s style captivates readers across disciplines, with a refreshing, can-do perspective. Before diving in, the author relates his own personal story in scholarly publishing, inviting all academics to unlock the high-impact writer within. The next set of chapters tackle the nuts and bolts of the academic publishing process, with basics such as topic selection, data analysis for publication, writing preparation, drafting and eTrade ReviewIn stolid, workmanlike prose, Schwartz... thus delivers an exhaustive primer on how to produce publishable research in his and allied fields: fields where much of the writing, like it or not, is 'mechanical and formulaic'(149). * Steven E. Gump, Princeton University, Journal of Scholarly Publishing *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Getting Started and Selecting a Topic Chapter 2: Designing a Publishable Study Chapter 3: Key Principles in Ethical Data Analysis and Handling Conflicts of Interest Chapter 4: Developing an Outline Chapter 5: Getting Ready to Write Chapter 6: Principles of Good Writing Chapter 7: Plagiarism, Citations, and Paraphrasing Chapter 8: Writing a First Draft Chapter 9: Editing, Filling in Gaps, and Cutting Chapter 10: Selecting a Target Journal Chapter 11: Thinking Like a Reviewer Chapter 12: The Journal Review Process: Decision Letters, Reviewer Comments, and Author Responses Chapter 13: What to Do with Rejected Manuscripts Chapter 14: Working with Coauthors Chapter 15: Working with Public-Use and Proprietary Datasets Chapter 16: Publishing Non-Empirical Papers Chapter 17: Open Access and Pay-to-Publish Journals Chapter 18: Books and Book Chapters Chapter 19: Conclusion
£58.42
Oxford University Press The Oxford History of the Book
Book SynopsisHistories you can trust.In 14 original essays, The Oxford History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative that is global in scope.The history of the book is the history of millions of written, printed, and illustrated texts, their manufacture, distribution, and reception. Here are different types of production, from clay tablets to scrolls, from inscribed codices to printed books, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers, from written parchment to digital texts. The history of the book is a history of different methods of circulation and dissemination, all dependent on innovations in transport, from coastal and transoceanic shipping to roads, trains, planes and the internet. It is a history of different modes of reading and reception, from learned debate and individual study to public instruction and entertainment. It is a history of manufacture, craftsmanship, dissemination, reading and debate.Yet the history of books is not simply a question of material form, nor indeed of the history of reading and reception. The larger question is of the effect of textual production, distribution and reception - of how books themselves made history. To this end, each chapter of this volume, succinctly bounded by period and geography, offers incisive and stimulating insights into the relationship between books and the story of their times.Trade ReviewThis book will become an invaluable point of departure for students new to the field, for scholars who need to venture outside their normal chronological and geographical comfort zones, and - as it should be - to that elusive general reader. * John Feather, Library & Information History *Raven... has drawn together scholarly essays offering a sweeping, erudite, and thoroughly engaging narrative... A handsomely produced intellectual history. * Kirkus, Starred Review *Together, these fourteen essays form a thorough picture of how and why books progressed along the lines that they did. In an age when books are once again experiencing momentous changes, this well-researched reminder of their durability and timelessness is very welcome. * Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews *This volume is a cultural biography of the book, taking a global view of its underlying function as a portable, durable conveyor of reproducible information... Other works trace the history of the book, but Oxford's treatment is a deeper, more multicultural, and more visually appealing approach. * Lesley Farmer, Booklist *Beautifully comprehensively history of the book... the essays are stimulating and thought provoking. This is a scholarly work but it's also a coffee table book intended to be widely read and accessible. This is a very well curated collection... Fascinating and beautiful. * Paul Burke, NB Magazine *This is an excellent compilation on the world-wide history of the book... Put it on your Christmas present list. * Prof. T.D. Wilson, Information Research *The Oxford History of the Book is a seminal and original work of meticulous scholarship * Midwest Book Review *A sumptuous production. * Liz Dexter, Shiny New Books *Table of Contents1: James Raven: Introduction 2: Eleanor Robson: The Ancient World 3: Barbara Crostini: Byzantium 4: Cynthia Brokaw: Medieval and Early Modern East Asia 5: David Rundle: Medieval Western Europe 6: James Raven and Joran Proot: Renaissance and Reformation 7: Ann Blair: Managing Information 8: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom: The Islamic World 9: Jeffrey Freedman: Enlightenment and Revolution 10: Graham Shaw: South Asia 11: Jeffrey Freedman: Industrialization 12: Christopher A. Reed and M. William Steele: Modern China, Japan, and Korea 13: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén: Globalization 14: Jeffrey T. Schnapp: Books Transformed Abbreviations and Glossary Further Reading Index
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Oxford University Press A Bite of the Apple
Book SynopsisIn this insightful memoir Lennie Goodings takes the reader behind the scenes at Virago, the feminist press that she has led for twenty years. Moving from Virago's early days of independence, through its various commercial incarnations, the author reflects on idealistic publishing and how it feels to be a beacon for change.Trade ReviewAn immersive, lovingly written memoir, whose story resonates beyond publishing. * Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Sunday Times *An inspiring book. * Sarah Baxter, The Sunday Times *Pensive and surprisingly poignant...this book glows with the gratitude of doing [the work of an editor], and in doing so, finding oneself occupying a front seat to feminist history...It's a memoir that doesn't merely look backward, but in its form, in all its limitations, gestures at the work to be done. It's a memoir of a Virago reader. * Parul Sehgal, New York Times *Moving and hugely inspiring ... As a cultural history, A Bite of the Apple is clear. As a reminder of female artists' ongoing fight for space and respect, it's necessary. As a riff on writers and writing, it's essential. * Bidisha, The Observer *What Goodings is so good at drawing out are the interrelations between various social and political movements and their correlatives in publishing and literature. Not only does she recover Virago's story, but she loops in the narratives of various authors and movements, building up a rich and textured historical fabric ... An inspiring, entertaining and insightful read, full of the energy and fervour of hard-won wisdom. * Seán Hewitt, The Irish Times *This history has it all: boardroom wrangles, bestsellers, legendary authors ... fascinating stuff on the complex alchemy of talent, political fashion and marketability that propels certain authors forward at certain times, and the loving effort and attention involved in editing a manuscript. * Melissa Benn, New Statesman *What runs through A Bite of the Apple, unifying it and contributing to its charm, is the passion for books you'd expect, but also an impressive idealism about the ways in which the published word can change society and help readers to become the people they want to be. * Mark Bostridge, The Spectator *This little book is as candid and charming as its cover ... One of the most interesting chapters relates to the craft closest to editor Goodings' heart, the craft of editing and the complex relationship between editor and author. * Jane Hailé, New York Journal of Books *[Goodings'] thoughts on the great industry issues of the day are well worth reading. * DJ Taylor, Literary Review *A Bite of the Apple feels effortless, and so alive to the conversations about women's rights today ... [Goodings'] voice is engaging and full of warmth. * Julie Vuong, BookBrunch *Goodings' account of her life at the inkface vividly, and with immediacy, transports us from those poky London rooms where the mouse that roared was born, into the realpolitik of international publishing. * The Sydney Morning Herald *Consistently fascinating ... a book that shows how Virago transformed the world. * Colin Oehring, The Saturday Paper *Fascinating and beautifully written. * Dan Carrier, Camden New Journal *Informative, lively, reflective, and somehow a poignant mix of honest, generous, and forgiving. * Simon, Shiny New Books *All an apple should be: crisp, tart but sweet, steeped in mysterious history and tangled symbolism, and not a bad missile when it comes to alleyway combat. Oh, and delicious! * Margaret Atwood, on Twitter *There is so very much to enjoy -and learn about- in this engaging book. We meet a young Lennie from Canada, in love with books, who lands a job at Virago and over the years survives and steers many of its changes to ensure its safety and vibrancy. Along the way, we track the changes in the publishing industry, feminist practice, and encounter the magnificence of Virago authors. A wonderful memoir and such a great read. * Susie Orbach *An indispensable piece of feminist history; nothing less than the exciting story of how women found their voice and made society listen. I enjoyed it hugely. * Caroline Criado Perez *Lively, frank, fascinating and above all, inspiring. A celebration of boldness: of wanting something better and making change happen. * Sarah Waters *Behind every great book there is a great editor. And behind every feminist press, a remarkable set of women. Lennie Goodings is one of both. * Sarah Dunant *A fascinating, charming and sometimes fierce, but always beguiling memoir... A celebration of the power of women supporting women. * Kate Mosse *Enthralling ...the best book I've read on publishing since Diana Athill's Stet. * Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller *Table of ContentsPreface Part One: A New Kind of Being 1: First Bites: The early years 2: Setting the world on fire 3: The acceptable face of feminism? Why not! Part Two: The Books 4: The Virago Modern Classics 5: Fuck the Patriarchy!: Nonfiction 6: What Stories Can Do: Fiction Part Three: The Politics: office and otherwise 7: The Dramas 8: Disrupting the old stories 9: Beyond Borders 10: Up, Down and Up Again Part Four: The Power to Publish is a Wonderful Thing 11: The Intimacy of Editing 12: Does any other successful publisher get asked constantly if they are still necessary? 13: Why can't a man read like a woman? 14: Giving and taking courage
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Oxford University Press Inc Copyright What Everyone Needs to Know
Book SynopsisCopyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and media companies. This is no longer the case. In the age of social media and cloud storage, we have become a copying and sharing culture. Much of our everyday communication, work, and entertainment now directly involves copyright law. Copyright law and policy are ferociously contested. Record labels, movie studios, book publishers, newspapers, and many authors rage that those who share music, video, text, and images over the Internet are âstealingâ their property. By contrast, copyright industry critics celebrate digital technologyâs potential to make the universe of movies, music, books, and art accessible anytime and anywhere â and to empower individuals the world over to express themselves by sharing and remixing those works. These critics argue that excessive copyright enforcement threatens that promise and stifles creativity.In Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know, Neil Weinstock Netanel explains the concepts needed to understand the heated debates about copyright law and policy. He identifies the combatants, unpacks their arguments, and illuminates what is at stake in the debates over copyrightâs present and future.Table of ContentsIntroductionI. The Battles over Copyright: OverviewII. Copyright - What It Is and What It Is NotIII. Why Have Copyright Law?IV. Fair UseV. Current ControversiesVI. Copyright in the International ArenaVII. "The Next Great Copyright Act": How Might Copyright Be Reformed?AcknowledgementsNotesFurther ReadingIndex
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The University of Chicago Press Pulp Empire
Book SynopsisUncovers the gripping untold story of how the US government used comic books as propaganda tools to help wage World War II and the Cold War.Trade Review"I'll be frank: I love this book. Hirsch's writing is crisp and exciting and it's a joy to see the history of comic books and the Cold War United States told from such a fresh angle. This fun, sharp book is one I'll be thinking about for a while."-- "Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making an American Monster 1 This Is Our Enemy 2 The Wild Spree of the Laughing Sadist 3 Donald Duck’s Atom Bomb 4 The Devil’s Ally 5 American Civilization Means Airstrips and Comic Strips 6 The Free World Speaks 7 Thor Battles the Vietcong Conclusion: The Ghosts among Us Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Science Periodicals in NineteenthCentury Britain
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This innovative, insightful, and valuable collection advances the historical and critical understanding of scientific periodical publication and readership in nineteenth-century Britain in important ways. Much of the existing literature on the topic has focused on general-interest periodicals; this volume offers, for the first time, an extremely well-researched, substantial comparative study of specialist scientific periodicals throughout the period. It's an impressive and polished collection of scholarship."--Robin Vandome, University of Nottingham
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Columbia University Press The Power of Print in Modern China
Book SynopsisRobert Culp explores the world of commercial publishing to offer a new perspective on modern China’s cultural transformations. Culp examines China’s largest and most influential publishing companies during the late Qing and Republican periods and into the early years of the People’s Republic.Trade ReviewRich, meticulous, and sparkling with insight, this work further cements Culp's position as perhaps the foremost scholar of modern Chinese print culture, knowledge formation, and intellectual history working today. -- Thomas S. Mullaney, author of The Chinese Typewriter: A HistoryThe Power of Print in Modern China is unprecedented in its richly researched account of the three publishing powerhouses that helped establish the terms of modern Chinese discourse from the early twentieth century through the 1960s. In tracking multiple dimensions of this tumultuous trajectory, Culp is attentive to the complex ways both vestiges of late imperial culture and the economic imperatives of industrial capitalism shaped Chinese publishing and reshaped understandings of intellectual labor. -- Joan Judge, author of Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical PressComprehensive, well organized, and theoretically informed, The Power of Print in Modern China looks at the Chinese publishing industry, through its three major houses, from the inside out. The book highlights the surprising continuities found in the publishing industry from the late Qing into the early communist era until it was, in effect, destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. This is an important contribution to the social, cultural, and business history of modern China. -- Peter Zarrow, author of Educating China: Knowledge, Society and Textbooks in a Modernizing World, 1902-1937This groundbreaking work on the industrialization of book publishing in China’s twentieth century resets the agenda of modern Chinese intellectual history. It offers a multifaceted interpretation about knowledge as work in the making of a pedagogical state under socialism. This is a must read for all concerned with issues about the state, knowledge professionals, and the structural transformation of the public sphere. -- Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, BerkeleyIn his new book The Power of Print in Modern China, with the usual adagio of words, Robert Culp unfolds to us the radical changes in the Chinese knowledge system through commercial publishing from the early twentieth century to the 1960s. -- Lara Yuyu Yang * The PRC History Review *A must-read for anyone interested in print, power, modernity, or their interplay in China, and for anyone who might want to stroll through twentieth-century Chinese intellectual history with a new set of companions and not the usual suspects. * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *[A] lively account. * Times Literary Supplement *It is fascinating to read about how ideas and hard work by enthusiastic and skillful people with physical tools created by mankind, as indicated by the cover of this book, are able to form a driving social force that moves the civilization forward. * Publishing Research Quarterly *A great contribution, not only to the field of Chinese studies but also to media studies. * MEDIENwissenschaft *Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Recruiting Talent, Mobilizing Labor1. Becoming Editors: Late Qing Literati’s Scholarly Lives and Cultural Production2. Universities or Factories? Academics, Petty Intellectuals, and the Industrialization of Mental LaborPart I Epilogue: War, Revolution, HiatusPart II. Creating Culture3. Transforming Word and Concept Through Textbooks and Dictionaries4. Repackaging the Past: Reproducing Classics Through Industrial Publishing5. Introducing New Worlds of Knowledge: Series Publications and the Transformation of China’s Knowledge CulturePart III. Legacies of Industrialized Cultural Production6. Print Industrialism and State Socialism: Public-Private Joint Management and Divisions of Labor in the Early PRC Publishing Industry7. Negotiated Cultural Production in the Pedagogical StateConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Jacques Schiffrin
Book SynopsisIn this first biography of Jacques Schiffrin, the founder of Pléiade Editions in Paris and cofounder of Pantheon Books in New York, Amos Reichman tells the story of a great publisher and his travails across two continents.Trade ReviewA fitting tribute to a man who did so much for literature—and who could have done even more, had he been allowed. * Foreword Reviews *In Jacques Schiffrin: A Publisher in Exile, from Pléiade to Pantheon, Amos Reichman provides a fine account of the events in the turbulent life of a gifted man who sought only to practice his trade in peace and tranquility -- William Cloonan, Florida State University * H-France Review *Despite fleeing first Tsarist Russia and then Nazi-occupied France, Jacques Schiffrin succeeded in being a major literary influence on two continents, establishing first the best edition of French classics and then a key publishing house in New York which would flourish still more under his son. It is splendid that we now at last have a lively and informative biography of this remarkable man. -- Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial AfricaJacques Schiffrin, exiled from his native Russia after the Revolution, created a great career as an innovative publisher in Paris but had to start all over again as a refugee in New York in the 1940s, aged almost 50. Bravo to Amos Reichman for writing the first biography of this attractive yet tragic figure, whose life embodies the shocks and displacements caused by the catastrophic history of the twentieth century. -- Susan Rubin Suleiman, author of The Némirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century FranceExile is often a state of alienation. Sometimes it can be an adventure, a successful negotiation between old and new worlds. Amos Reichman skillfully recounts one such miracle, providing—through the melancholic, inspired figure of Jacques Schiffrin—a transatlantic microhistory of publishing and literary production from the 1930s through the 1950s that is precise and informed, rich and, at times, funny. -- Emmanuelle Loyer, Sciences-Po ParisAmos Reichman’s Jacques Schiffrin is a sensitively written and deeply researched version of an important story. Reichman’s account beautifully captures the pathos of exile. -- Evan Brier, University of Minnesota DuluthReichman's archival work brings a fresh perspective on a major yet little-known publisher and offers a sophisticated overview of the literary and cultural landscape in France before and during the Second World War. -- Lise Jaillant, Loughborough UniversityBeautiful book written with love and dedication, pretty warm, for everyone. Highly recommended. * Al Femminile Blog *Reichman provides a fine account of the events in the turbulent life of a gifted man. * H-France Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword, by Robert O. PaxtonIntroduction1. From War to Exile2. A Publisher in New York3. The Impossible ReturnEpilogueNotesArchives ConsultedIndex
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MIT Press Publishing Manifestos
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University of Wisconsin Press Against a Sharp White Background Infrastructures
Book SynopsisCovers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable from the study of texts and their technologies.Trade ReviewOffering wide-ranging subjects and approaches, these essays usefully extend conversations in print culture studies that have grown even more intense and even more important over the last decade. This is a powerful collection."" - Eric Gardner, author of Black Print Unbound: The ""Christian Recorder,"" African American Literature, and Periodical Culture""This is an important field, and the work collected here is exciting in its range and diversity of voices, methods, and insights."" - Stephanie Browner, The New School
£60.00
The University of Michigan Press Getting Published in Academic Journals
Book SynopsisThe aim of this guide is to clarify the process and offer advice. Getting Published in Academic Journals is written for graduate students and newly graduated PhDs who want to publish their research in peer-reviewed academic journals.
£23.53
Not Stated Writers Market 100th Edition
Book SynopsisThe most trusted guide to getting published, fully revised and updatedWant to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer''s Market, 100th edition guide you through the process. It''s the ultimate reference with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, and literary agents—as well as new playwriting and screenwriting sections, along with contact and submission information. Beyond the listings, you''ll find articles devoted to the business and promotion of writing. Discover 20 literary agents actively seeking writers and their writing, how to develop an author brand, and overlooked funds for writers. This 100th edition also includes the ever-popular pay-rate chart and book publisher subject index.You''ll gain access to: Thousands of updated listings for book publishers, magazines, contests, and literary agents<
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Random House USA Inc Childrens Writers Illustrators Market 33rd
Book SynopsisThe Most Trusted Guide to the World of Children''s Publishing, fully revised and updatedThe 33rd edition of Children''s Writer''s and Illustrator''s Market is the definitive and trusted guide for anyone who seeks to write or illustrate for kids and young adults. If you''re a writer or an illustrator for young readers and your goal is to get published, CWIM is the resource you need. In this book, you''ll find more than 500 listings for children''s book markets, including publishers, literary agents, magazines, contests, and more. These listings include a point of contact, how to properly submit your work, and what categories each market accepts. This edition also features:500+ listings for children''s markets, including book publishers, literary agents, magazines, contests, and moreInterviews with bestselling authors, including Cassandra Clare, N.K. Jemisin, Jacqueline Woodson, Leigh Bardugo, and more
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Penguin Young Readers Novel Short Story Writers Market 40th Edition
Book SynopsisThe best resource for getting your fiction published, fully revised and updatedNovel & Short Story Writer''s Market is the go-to resource you need to get your short stories, novellas, and novels published. The 40th edition of NSSWM features hundreds of updated listings for book publishers, literary agents, fiction publications, contests, and more. Each listing includes contact information, submission guidelines, and other essential tips.This edition of Novel & Short Story Writer''s Market also offers Hundreds of updated listings for fiction-related book publishers, magazines, contests, literary agents, and moreInterviews with bestselling authors Celeste Ng, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Beverly Jenkins, and Chris BohjalianA detailed look at how to choose the best title for your fiction writingArticles on tips for manuscript revision, using out-of-character behavior to add laye
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Penguin Young Readers Guide to Literary Agents 30th Edition
Book SynopsisThe Best Resource Available for Finding a Literary Agent, fully revised and updatedNo matter what you''re writing--fiction or nonfiction, books for adults or children--you need a literary agent to get the best book deal possible from a traditional publisher. Guide to Literary Agents 30th edition is your go-to resource for finding that literary agent and earning a contract from a reputable publisher. Along with listing information for more than 1,000 agents who represent writers and their books, the 30th edition of GLA includes:Hundreds of updated listings for literary agents and writing conferencesInformative articles on crafting effective queries, synopses, and book proposals (and the agent query tracker)Plus, a 30-Day Platform Challenge to help writers build their writing platformsIncludes 20 literary agents actively seeking writers and their writing
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Penguin Young Readers Poets Market 34th Edition
Book SynopsisThe Most Trusted Guide to Publishing Poetry, fully revised and updatedWant to get your poetry published? There''s no better tool for making it happen than Poet''s Market, which includes hundreds of publishing opportunities specifically for poets, including listings for book and chapbook publishers, print and online poetry publications, contests, and more. These listings include contact information, submission preferences, insider tips on what specific editors want, and--when offered--payment information. In addition to the completely updated listings, the 34th edition of Poet''s Market offers:Hundreds of updated listings for poetry-related book publishers, publications, contests, and moreInsider tips on what specific editors want and how to submit poetryArticles devoted to the craft and business of poetry, including how to track poetry submissions, perform poetry, and find more readers77 p
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Harvard University Press True Story
Book SynopsisFocusing on Bernarr Macfadden, a bodybuilder turned publishing mogul, Shanon Fitzpatrick charts the rise and export of US mass media and consumer culture. Macfadden’s magazines—featuring fitness tips, celebrity gossip, and sensational “true” stories—created an enduring editorial template and powered worldwide demand for interactive American media.Trade ReviewRichly detailed and well-argued…Fitzpatrick has mined a fresh seam in the quarry of American periodical history, and by setting it in a new, global, context, she reveals a moment in the formation of a global media culture. -- Amy Aronson * American Journalism *A stimulating rewriting of the history of Macfadden’s media pulp empire…Makes a compelling argument about what factors shaped the interactive, confessional, and dynamic culture that makes up the U.S. mass media landscape we live in at present. -- Hana Vega * International Journal of Communication *Fitzpatrick’s book at once recuperates the forgotten origins of physical culture and contextualizes it within the media culture that it traveled, adding crucial texture to our understanding of media that explicitly tailored itself to nonelite readerships. -- Donal Harris * American Literary History *A lively, engrossing, and often funny history of Bernarr Macfadden and the publishing empire he built. Fitzpatrick tells the story of his journey from hungry orphan weakling to famous bodybuilder, patriarch, promoter of ‘physical culture,’ and publishing magnate. Though long overlooked as a purveyor of low-class, ephemeral pulp, Macfadden achieved unsurpassed newsstand sales, connected with leaders such as FDR, Mussolini, and the Pope, and represented American culture to millions of readers around the world. Fitzpatrick’s work provides insights into strongmen—understood both literally and figuratively—and their popular appeal, and readers today will see the unmistakable legacy of his media in the Trump era and beyond. -- Kristin L. Hoganson, author of The Heartland: An American HistoryAbsolutely original. Fitzpatrick deftly travels from the Victorian world of the mid-nineteenth century to the doorstep of our time to tell Macfadden’s story. Her book brims with insights into the changing, everyday understandings of bodies, sex, material status, and the individual’s place in a social world people found too vast to perceive and difficult to comprehend. Fitzpatrick shows how Macfadden’s work, from celebrating celebrity bodies to enlisting readers to create the content to be sold back to them, laid the foundations for today’s media world. -- Charles F. McGovern, author of Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890–1945
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Harvard University Press Evangelicals Incorporated
Book SynopsisAmerican evangelicalism is big business. It is not, Daniel Vaca argues, just a type of conservative Protestantism that market forces have commodified. Rather evangelicalism is an expressly commercial practice, in which the faithful participate, learn, and develop religious identities by engaging corporations and commercial products.Trade ReviewWith expert strokes, [Vaca] traces the history of the marriage of missionary zeal and financial reward that drove the evangelical publishing megabusiness…A brilliant achievement. -- Grant Wacker * Christian Century *Impressive detail…Vaca shows how religious publishing, bookstores, and revival movements evolved into an integrated industry. -- Anne Nelson * Times Literary Supplement *This is the book I’ve been waiting for. Vaca has penned a must-read account of how evangelicals built and sanctified their commercial world and, in doing so, made the modern religious marketplace. This book demands that we reckon with an American God worshipped in word and deed, and dollars and cents. -- Kate Bowler, author of The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women CelebritiesMakes a sophisticated case that book publishers, in particular, created the commercial infrastructure that made the modern religious movement possible…A well-crafted, thoroughly researched, and compelling account of a dynamic that every observer of American evangelicalism will recognize. -- Daniel Silliman * Christianity Today *For too long American evangelicalism has been regarded as a subculture defined principally by common beliefs. Evangelicals Incorporated challenges that view, demonstrating the central role that Christian publishing houses have played for more than a century in creating an evangelical niche market. The stories behind the scenes that Daniel Vaca has uncovered are absolutely fascinating. -- Robert Wuthnow, author of The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural AmericaDeftly combining historical depth and sweep with theoretical sophistication, and rooted in extensive archival work—including archives that have never before, to my knowledge, been mined for work in US religious history—Evangelicals Incorporated advances our historical understanding of a critical arena of American religious life, the evangelical book business in the age of mass culture, with greater depth and scope than any other work. -- Matthew Hedstrom, author of The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth CenturyWith Evangelicals Incorporated, Vaca has written the book that should make students of American economy finally account for the evangelical strategies that define commercial success. It will define the study of evangelicalism for the next generation of scholars. This is history as critique, and we need it now. -- Kathryn Lofton, author of Consuming ReligionProvides essential background on the history of American evangelicalism…Defining evangelicalism as a commercial religion, Vaca offers a fascinating history of evangelical publishing from the 19th century to the present…A great read that helps make sense of much of the last century of American evangelicalism. -- Kristin Du Mez * Anxious Bench *Shows how some evangelical publishers that lived by bestsellers died by bestsellers. -- Marvin Olasky * World Magazine *Brilliant…A provocative and compelling reinterpretation of evangelicalism in the modern United States with which scholars and general readers alike will be wrestling for a long time to come. -- Heath W. Carter * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *An insightful dive into what were arguably the big three evangelical publishers of the twentieth century…Driven by impressive archival research, Vaca makes his upshot seem downright self-evidentiary: Evangelicalism is a marketing strategy. -- Steven P. Miller * Journal of Church and State *
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Harvard University, Asia Center Writing for Print
Book SynopsisSuyoung Son examines the widespread practice of self-publishing by writers in late imperial China, focusing on the relationships between manuscript tradition and print convention, peer patronage and popular fame, and gift exchange and commercial transactions in textual production and circulation.
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Princeton University Press Under the Cover The Creation Production and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the 2018 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association""Under the Cover is well-plotted, making use of the kind of narrative device--a three-act structure, revealing details, even cliff-hangers--one might find in an actual novel, all of which is underpinned by insightful observations of the many writers, agents, editors, publishers, booksellers, readers and others Childress studies. . . . An engaging story about the interface of the word and the world."---Megan Marz, Times Literary Supplement"Written with great love, accuracy, attention for every little detail, it is extremely clear in the exposition of the various steps of the creation of a book it's a great reading, captivating and interesting! Intriguing from the beginning to the end, this book can't be put down for a second."---Anna Maria Polidori, Alfemminile"In this excellent contribution to the study of literature and of the sociology of culture, Childress situates a specific cultural object--Cornelia Nixon's novel Jarrettsville (2009)--within the many contexts responsible for its birth and integration into the social fabric. In so doing, he reasserts the social nature of cultural products, a claim at the cornerstone of sociology as a discipline. . . . This work is interesting as a study of the evolving role of literature in modern life, and sociologists will learn from its unique approach to analyzing cultural products." * Choice *"Even someone who is part of the publishing system as an author is unaware of how the soup is made, and there can be no more fascinating, enjoyable, insightful, and well-written a guide to what goes on in the publishing kitchen than Clayton Childress’ wonderful Under the Cover."---Mitchell Abidor, Jewish Currents"Under the Cover is a significant contribution to work on cultural objects. Readers, prepared to be bowled over by the wealth of data Childress collected and the depth of his analyses. I certainly was. If you know you’ve read a good book when you’re jealous that you didn’t write it yourself, then color me green. To sum up, permit me to poach the words of Ayelet Waldman: 'This is a fucking AWESOME book.'"---Terence E. McDonnell, Social Forces"It is to Childress’s credit that Under the Cover does not announce itself as a program for the study of culture; such claims are more persuasive as demonstrations rather than pronouncements. Those who are open to the demonstration will note that in the guise of a lucid, lively study of a single novel, Under the Cover points the way to an arduous but richly rewarding approach to studying cultural life in general."---Ben Merriman, American Journal of Sociology"This beautifully written and deeply insightful book does just what its title indicates: it gets ‘under the cover’of a historical literary novel and follows it through its full life cycle, from inception to birth and beyond."---Heather Haveman, Administrative Science Quarterly
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McFarland & Company The Literature of Postcommunist Slovenia Slovakia
Book SynopsisBased on interviews with authors, editors, and publishers in four countries, this book examines the economic, social, and literary effect of the end of communist domination and accompanying cultural subsidies in Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. It shows that the end of the communist regime has made the position of writer less lucrative.
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University of Arizona Press Angela Hutchinson Hammer
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Illustrated Slave Empathy Graphic Narrative
Book SynopsisAnalyses some of the more innovative works in the archive of antislavery illustrated books published from 1800 to 1852 alongside other visual materials that depict enslavement. Martha Cutter argues that some illustrated narratives attempt to shift a viewing reader away from pity and spectatorship into a mode of empathy and interrelationship.
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University of Missouri Press Banned in Kansas
Book SynopsisIn 1915, Kansas became one of only a handful of US states to establish its own film censorship board. The Kansas board controlled screen content in the state for more than fifty years, yet little is known about its activities. This first book-length study of state film censorship examines the unique political, social, and economic factors that led to its implementation in Kansas.Trade Review“I believe that Banned in Kansas will (and should) become a classic in the field of the social history of the motion picture in America. This book makes a very significant contribution and fills a very large void in our understanding of the forces behind the issue of social control of this important medium in the twentieth century.”—Garth Jowett, author of Film: The Democratic Art
£24.71
Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd The Golden Chain Fifty Years of the Jewish
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Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd The Golden Chain Fifty Years of Modern Jewish
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Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd Franks Way Frank Cass and Fifty Years of
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MP-OSU Oregon State Universi Grit and Ink An Oregon Familys Adventures in
Book SynopsisBeneath the 24/7 national news cycle and argument over “fake news”, there is a layer of journalism that communities absolutely depend upon. Grit and Ink offers a rare look inside the financial struggles and family dynamic that has kept a Pacific Northwest publishing group alive for more than a century.
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Black Heron Press Publishing Lives
Book SynopsisPresents the publishers as the spiritual heirs of the nineteenth-century founders of the great New York houses. This book brings together publishers from 31 independent presses who talk about how they came to publishing and why they stayed (or didn't), the mistakes they made, their relationships with authors, and the problems of growth.
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University of London Press The Concept of the Book The Production
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Cambridge University Press Readers in a Revolution
Book SynopsisThe mid-nineteenth century brought a revolution in popular and scholarly understandings of old and second-hand books. Manuals introduced new ideas and practices to increasing numbers of collectors, exhibitions offered opportunities previously unheard of, and scholars worked together to transform how the history of printing was understood. These dramatic changes would have profound consequences for bibliographical study and collecting, accompanied as they were by a proliferation in means of access. Many ideas arising during this time would even continue to exert their influence in the digitised arena of today. This book traces this revolution to its roots in commercial and personal ties between key players in England, France and beyond, illuminating how exhibitions, libraries, booksellers, scholars and popular writers all contributed to the modern world of book studies. For students and researchers, it offers an invaluable means of orientation in a field now once again undergoing deep aTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Re-shaping the world; 3. Books in abundance; 4. Celebrating print: Libraries; 5. Access: National Collections; 6. The British Museum Commission, 1847-50; 7. Libraries in confusion; 8. Collaboration: Trading and Collecting; 9. The trade in second-hand books; 10. Private collectors and the public: Books in Detail; 11. Writing in books; 12. Bookbinding: Books on Show; 13. Reproduction; 14. Exhibitions: Another Generation; 15. Changes in direction; 16. Advice and guidance; 17. Standing back; 18. The next generation; Conclusion; 19. Then and now.
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Cambridge University Press Women and Letterpress Printing 19202020
Book SynopsisThis Element analyses the relationship between gender and literary letterpress printing from the early 20th century to the beginning of the 21st. Drawing on examples from modernist writer/printers of the 1920s to literary book artists of the early 21st, it offers a way of thinking about the feminist historiography of printing as we confront the presence and particular character of letterpress in a digital age. This Element is divided into four sections: the first, ''Historicizing'' traces the critical histories of women and print through to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The second section, ''Learning,'' offers an analysis of some of the modes of discourse and training through which women and gender minorities have learned the craft of printing. The third section, ''Individualizing'' offers brief biographical vignettes. The fourth section, ''Writing,'' focuses on printers'' own written reflections about letterpress. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge CoTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Historicizing; 2. Learning; 3. Individualizing; 4. Writing; Coda: Letterpress at a Distance; Glossary.
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Cambridge University Press Facsimiles and the History of Shakespeare Editing
Book SynopsisIs a facsimile an edition? In answering this question in relation to Shakespeare, and to early modern writing in general, the author explores the interrelationship between the beginning of the conventional process of collecting and editing Shakespeare's plays and the increasing sophistication of facsimiles.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is a Facsimile and Why Does It Matter?; 1. The Pre-History of Facsimiles: Eighteenth-Century Editing; 2. Searching for Reproduction: Traced and Type-Facsimiles; 3. The Photographic Era; 4. New Bibliography, New Facsimiles; 5. The Hinman Folio Facsimile and Reproduction as a Manipulated Ideal Text; 6. The Microfilm Revolution; 7. The Resilience of Books and the Resurrection of Old Editions; 8. Screen and Page: Digital Facsimiles; 9. New Textualism and the Exploded Original; 10. Endless Facsimiles and the Shakespeare Original(s); Coda; Glossary.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How to Get Published and Win Research Funding
Book SynopsisMost journal articles and research proposals are rejected. That represents a waste of everyone's time, energy, and spirit, especially now when, more than ever, academic careers are precarious. In this practical book, Professor Abby Day addresses these two inter-related and most challenging areas for academics and researchers in their professional careers: how to secure research funding and how to get research published.Reviewers, unpaid and often unappreciated, are over-stretched with their regular academic jobs, and increasingly reluctant to spend time reading poorly constructed papers or proposals. As fewer reviewers are available, the waiting time for a decision increases. Everyone loses. It doesn't have to be like that. Professor Day's ground-breaking strategy covers both publishing and funding challenges in similar, yet distinct ways. Lack of time? Conflicting priorities? No idea where to start or what matters most? This book explains how to overcome these and othTable of ContentsPart I: Setting a strategy 1. Introduction: a circle of success 2. Why publish (or not)? 3. Why look for research funding? 4. What is good research? 5. Diversity and inclusion in research 6. A sense of purpose 7. So what? Implications Part II: Knowing Yyur audience 8. Choosing the right publisher or funder 9. Understanding editors, reviewers, readers 10. Criteria for success Part III: Papers, proposals, and beyond 11. Writing better, writing faster 12. Managing relationships and academic careers
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Publish or Perish
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAcclaim for first edition:‘I know of no other work on the subject that collates and curates such a vast armamentarium of depressing, condemning data. Yes, to read this book is to be presented with example after astonishing example of situations that make the reader question, ultimately, how knowledge – which is, after all, what is at stake – manages to advance in the current academic environment.’ -- Steven E. Gump, Princeton University, US‘I found Moosa’s work to be commendable. This work is an interesting evaluation of modern academia and the problems within the system. I therefore recommend it to all academics.’ -- Marita Carnelley, North-West University, South Africa‘Publish or Perish is not a cheerful book, but it is one that all academics should read and consider.’ -- James Hartley, University of Keele, UK‘Professor Moosa describes in vivid terms the practical immediate effects and longer-term underlying faults of this [POP] system.’ -- Hugh David, R+D Hastings, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the second edition 1 Publish or perish: origin, evolution and conceptual issues 2 Publish or perish: ideological foundations and perceived benefits 3 Consequences of POP: research quality and dissemination of knowledge 4 Consequences of POP: biases and emotional damage 5 Consequences of POP: the journal industry and authorship pattern 6 Consequences of POP: research misconduct (part 1) 7 Consequences of POP: research misconduct (part 2) 8 The peer review process 9 The ranking craze: journals 10 The ranking craze: universities 11 The way forward References
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and reading in Britain. This seventh and final volume surveys the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a range of perspectives in order to create a comprehensive guide, from growing professionalisation at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the impact of digital technologies at the end. Its multi-authored focus on the material book and its manufacture broadens to a study of the book''s authorship and readership, and its production and dissemination via publishing and bookselling. It examines in detail key market sectors over the course of the period, and concludes with a series of essays concentrating on aspects of book history: the book in wartime; class, democracy and value; books and other media; intellectual property and copyright; and imperialism and post-imperialism.Trade Review'Inevitably in a volume of this kind there are elements, aspects and topics one would have liked to have seen covered, but that are not. Equally, topics are covered that one did not expect, or even know about. Regardless, the volume is a treasure trove of information. Like all previous volumes in the series, Volume Seven is extremely rich, detailed, carefully edited, and authoritative.' Wim Van Mierlo, Library and Information History'A fitting conclusion to a splendid seven-volume series (the first volumes appeared in 2008), this wonderfully useful and engaging collection presents 31 essays on topics including print materials and technology, book formats, and the digital book; authorship, publishing, distribution, and ownership; particular publishing niches from government publications, university presses, journals, magazines … This rich volume and indeed the whole series are essential for all who are interested in the history of the book.' D. L. Patey, Choice'The volume not only serves as an important point of reference for those working in book, publishing, or indeed library, history at the moment but will also serve as the foundation for scholars in the future to pursue their own investigations. This volume makes a very significant contribution and it is one which will stand the test of time.' Peter Reid, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society'What has been done in this volume is immensely valuable. It is a time capsule of a national book history and book history more generally. It belongs - with no excuses - in any library pretending to house the essentials of cultural research.' Robert L. Patten, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of AmericaTable of ContentsPart I: 1. Materials, technologies and the printing industry Sarah Bromage and Helen Williams; 2. Format and design Sebastian Carter; 3. The digital book Padmini Ray Murray; Part II: 4. Authorship Andrew Nash and Claire Squires; 5. Publishing David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery; 6. Distribution and bookselling Iain Stevenson; 7. Reading and ownership Andrew Nash, Claire Squires and Shafquat Towheed; Part III: 8. Literature Andrew Nash and Jane Potter; 9. Children's books Peter Hunt and Lucy Pearson; 10. Schoolbooks and textbook publishing Sarah Pedersen; 11. Popular science Peter J. Bowler; 12. Popular history Helen Williams; 13. Religion Michael Ledger-Lomas; 14. Publishing for leisure Susan Pickford; 15. Museum and art book publishing Sarah Anne Hughes; 16. Music John Wagstaff; 17. University presses and academic publishing Samatha J. Rayner; 18. Journals (STM and humanities) Michael Mabe and Anthony Watkinson; 19. Information, reference, and government publishing Susan Pickford; 20. Maps, cartography and geographical publishing Iain Stevenson; 21. Magazines and periodicals Anthony Quinn; 22. Comics and graphic novels Mark Nixon; Part IV: 23. The book in Wartime Jane Potter; 24. Books, intellectual property and copyright Catherine Seville; 25. Books and the mass market: class, democracy and value Rónán McDonald; 26. The book and civil society Kate Longworth; 27. Sex, race and class: the radical, alternative and minority booktrade in Britain Gail Chester; 28. Counter-culture and underground Chris Atton; 29. Books and other media Alexis Weedon; 30. Book events, book environments David Finkelstein and Claire Squires; 31. The book, British imperialism and post-imperialism Caroline Davis.
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