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Yellow Pear Press Winning the Room with the Winning Pitch:
Book SynopsisStoryteller Tactics for Speeches, Pitch Meetings, and Everyday Life “Jonathan's unique approach is highly insightful, original and practical, delivered in a way that is instantly applicable”—Guy Fowler, Chairman, UBS AustraliaFor entrepreneurs, creatives, business people, or anyone looking to create authentic connective moments, Winning the Room with the Winning Pitch is the public speaking book for you! Expand from a scared fumbling mess to a powerful public speaker that audiences love! Talk to win in every room. How many minutes can you hold a person’s attention? Do you find yourself rambling and losing your point? Do you get nervous before a presentation? Winning the Room with the Winning Pitch teaches public speaking skills applicable to everybody in any situation. Conquer your public speaking fears, learn how to be likable, how to present for work, how to give interesting pitch meetings, and how to—at the end of the day—be a person who wins. Become someone people trust. Give speeches, presentations, and pitch meetings like a true expert. Author Jonathan Pease (JP) is a highly respected creative director and communications expert with over 25 years in the marketing industry. In Winning the Room with the Winning Pitch, he uses his expertise to take you on a fun, fascinating, and practical tour as you become a fearless storyteller people will buy from, both emotionally and financially.Inside Winning the Room with the Winning Pitch, find: How to turn nervous energy into passion and charisma that people engage with A tight, actionable, and memorable system for how to be great at different types of speeches How to apply these skills to various settings like speeches, pitch meetings, presentations, and everyday conversations with friends and dates If you liked Cues, Everyday Business Storytelling, or Your Story Well Told, you’ll love Winning the Room with the Winning Pitch.Trade Review“Pitching is a core part of what we do at UBS and we’re always looking for new ways to increase our edge over the competition. Jonathan's unique approach is highly insightful, original and practical, delivered in a way that is instantly applicable. His take on storytelling continues to shape how we pitch on a daily basis. We’ve done lots of training courses over the years but JP and Winning The Room remain a real stand out.” —Guy Fowler, Chairman, UBS AustraliaTable of ContentsContents Foreword Chapter 1 – Introduction Part One: Fundamentals – Defining and Refining Your Winning Style Chapter 2 – Taking Control Early Chapter 3 – Putting Your Audience on Notice Chapter 4 – A Fresh Look at Eye Contact Chapter 5 – Reading the Room Chapter 6 – Pacing, Pausing and Timing Chapter 7 – Body Language and Movement Chapter 8 – Getting Them Talking Chapter 9 – Voice Modulation Chapter 10 – Gear Changing Chapter 11 – Throwing High Balls Part Two: Techniques – Helping You Win More Often Chapter 12 – Creating Chemistry Chapter 13 – Setting the Moral Chapter 14 – Eradicating Small Talk Chapter 15 – Gotta Get Physical Chapter 16 – Tight Loose Chapter 17 – PERP Chapter 18 – Sign posting Chapter 19 – Build Back Chapter 20 – Drumroll Chapter 21 – Windy Road Part Three: Practical Application – Workbook Section Chapter 21 – People Are Pattern Makers Chapter 22 – Move the tone of the room Chapter 23 – Say More with Less Chapter 24 – Overselling (How to Stop Being Needy) Chapter 25 – Generosity Matters Chapter 26 – Rehearsing Chapter 27 – Conclusion Appendix 1: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Appendix 2: Further Reading and Resources
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Yale University Press The Book in the Renaissance
Book SynopsisThe dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. This book reconstructs the first 150 years of the world of print, exploring the complex web of religious, economic and cultural concerns surrounding the printed word.Trade Review"'It is more fun than a book on bibliography has any right to be: as well as emphasising what a cut-throat, pragmatic and disreputable business the early modern book trade was, it's a salient reminder of how little we really know about the subject.' (Alec Ryie, Times Higher Education Supplement) 'This is a book of remarkable scholarship, rich in detailed evidence... It is a book worth reading right through and then keeping for reference.' (Revd Dr Raymond Chapman, Church Times) 'The great joy of The Book in the Renaissance is that it paints a vivid, often surprising portrait of the West's first ventures into the publishing industry... Pettegree writes with wit and fluency and he combines a broad, continent-girdling perspective with more focused analyses: a section on the role of print in the development of Lutheranism, for instance, is masterly. This book will make specialists prick up their ears but it also has huge appeal for the general reader.' (Jonathon Wright, Catholic Herald)"
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Thames & Hudson Ltd The Story of The Face
Book SynopsisA landmark publication offering a definitive overview of the rise and fall of the era-defining magazine.Trade Review'This huge, rich book is a celebration not only of the style bible but of British pop culture in the late 20th century' - Guardian'A total treat' - Sunday Times'A definitive, 352-page, “finally someone’s done it”, blockbuster book charting the rise and fall of “the magazine that changed culture”' - Creative Review'A meticulous examination of The Face and its significance, from content and design to its wider influence' - Civilian'A long-overdue record of the iconic publication' - Wylde'A lighting bolt of nostalgia' - Financial Times'[A] much-anticipated history' - Mr Porter'Loud, vibrant and evocative' - It's Nice That'Compendious and meticulously researched' - Observer'Anyone interested in knowing the path along which British urban youth moved music, fashion, politics, the media and social issues to centre stage will find it here' - The Business of Fashion'Lavish' - BBC Culture'A mighty tome' - Electronic Sound'Packed with stunning imagery and fascinating insights' - Creative Bloq'An exhaustive and exacting account of how The Face split pop culture open at its seams with stories and visuals that are still imitated today' - Interview Magazine'This coffee-table book, with its hundreds of lavishly reproduced covers and innovative page layouts, does full justice to the “world’s best-dressed magazine”' - The Times Literary Supplement'Paul Gorman’s weighty tome … reproduces the revolutionary graphics and images of his subject. This is accompanied by an exhaustive year-on-year account of the magazine’s development and production' - New Humanist
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Orion Publishing Co The Vanity Fair Diaries 19831992
Book SynopsisThe irreverent diaries of Tina Brown's eight spectacular years as editor in chief of Vanity Fair. From the author of the bestselling THE PALACE PAPERSTrade ReviewA mile-a-minute memoir I read like a parrot with my nails embedded in Pirate Tina's shoulder, yelling 'What??!!' 'What!?!!' 'WOWZA!' as she swashbuckles through the eighties, her sword slicing up the staid shibboleths of New York. I remembered why I was afraid of her in those days. And why that energy and imagination, turned to making the world better, has galvanized so many of us now. A cultural catalyst, she makes things happen. Thank god she wrote it all down. Hang on - it's a wild ride -- Meryl StreepIt's brilliant, concretely realised social history as much as a fabulous odyssey, and I read it in a mad frenzy -- Stephen FryFull of creative glee, passion and wild-ride excitement, The Vanity Fair Diaries features a cast of characters like Mad Men (and women) on speed; an epic of a legendary magazine's dazzling re-creation; moments of laugh-out-loud comic asides, juicy gossip and sketches of Austen-like sharpness, all put together by an editor of high-octane genius who pauses only to reflect that however good she might be, it's never quite good enough. Oh yes it is. Read the diaries and feel better about everything. The word lives! -- Simon SchamaThere has been fevered speculation about Tina Brown's diaries for decades ... Well, here they finally are - and I read them in one six-hour sprint of pure pleasure and joy. These are the most compelling media diaries since Piers Morgan's The Insider but with a tonier cast of characters, indiscreet, brilliantly observed, frequently hilarious ... Her turnaround of the relaunched Vanity Fair in the mid-Eighties is the stuff of journalistic legend - an electrifying, glitzy, gritty triumph - and these are the years covered by these diaries. And it's all here: the Demi Moore naked and pregnant front cover, Claus von Bulow photographed in black leather, Donald and Ivana Trump, the whole sweep of Eighties Manhattan reported at first hand in Tina's fresh, beady, borderline-paranoid style ... As a primer for how to edit a hot magazine, there is much to learn here ... Tina encounters it all, and deals with it -- Nicholas Coleridge * EVENING STANDARD *Who could resist Tina Brown, that then 30-year-old blonde Brit who stormed New York in the Eighties, reading her memoir of how she did it? Not me ... Her voice is taut, her eye is everywhere. She doesn't bring us into her circle but tells us, firmly, proudly, sometimes wickedly, what it was like ... Listening to her is as delightful as eating a whole box of chocolates, without a trace of weight gain ... She's irresistible -- Gillian Reynolds * DAILY TELEGRAPH *High, low, smart, sexy, Tina Brown's The Vanity Fair Diaries is like the magazine she reinvented, a must-read for anyone interested in Hollywood, high society, and the movers and shakers of pop culture -- Anderson CooperThe party-by-party, cover-by-cover story of how a Brit conquered New York publishing. As a novice editor, I can tell you it is packed with priceless advice from one of the greatest of them all -- George Osborne * NEW STATESMAN Books of the Year *Right there. That's what makes Brown such a fabulous diarist. It's not just that she's a wonderful writer (although she is: fluent, funny, fierce). It's more that, even after taking her seat at America's top table, she never stops noticing. Amid the narcotic stupefaction of great wealth, Brown is invariably alert and on the money -- Allison Pearson * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *Because you can never have too many books - and this one will be the juiciest of the year * COSMOPOLITAN *[A] terrifying, breakneck, hothouse, backstage tour of how magazines, news and views, and reputations are made and destroyed. [It] made me crave an anti-anxiety pill! In [my] next life I will definitely be a snail -- @MargaretAtwood (Twitter)Brown is brilliant at these gleeful little character descriptions ... She has the knack of making people instantly interesting ... [The Vanity Fair Diaries] make for a fast-paced and head-spinningly hectic read -- Eithne Farry * SUNDAY EXPRESS *Within a couple of years she had turned it into the house magazine of a resurgent celebrity beau monde and gained an untouchable star quality of her own. Her diaries recount this will to power with caustic drollery and dash -- Anthony Quinn * FINANCIAL TIMES *One of Brown's most appealing qualities is her frankness. She speaks as openly about big issues as she has expected the celebrities who've appeared in her magazines to do. And it's why her book is such a juicy read. She's honest about every interaction, no matter how big the star: every success and every mistake -- Natasha Perlman * GRAZIA *These diaries are a great deal of fun ... Ultimately, though, this is a perfect primer to the gaudy excesses of 1980s culture. "This is what I appreciate most about the city at night, the life force of New York aspiration, wanting, wanting to be seen," Brown writes in September 1985. The same could be said about the author: it is her joy in her job, her delight at being ringside in this moment, and, most of all, her sheet chutzpah, which keeps you turning the pages -- Sarah Hughes * i NEWSPAPER *Tina Brown's account of her years as editor of Vanity Fair is enthralling - and terrifying -- Peter Conrad * OBSERVER *Heaven -- India Knight * SUNDAY TIMES *Her addictive account features encounters with every influential name under the sun (political, literary and Hollywood stars) as well as an insight into Brown's publishing power, which changed magazine journalism for ever * i NEWSPAPER *A great portrait of the greed, the glitter, the fatal superficiality of that decade ... her witty skewerings are first-class -- Roger Lewis * THE TIMES *A brilliant portrait of New York in an age of shoulder-padded excess by a British editor who can pass as American, but never lost her merciless gift for a great story -- Allison Pearson * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *In this fascinating memoir from a publishing legend, Tina Brown offers insights into the life of a glossy magazine editor * HELLO! *Gripping, funny ... Her enthusiasm for New York, and magazines, is infectious. "There's no fun in the world greater than the frenzy of closing a magazine on deadline," she says in her introduction. And you believe her when she squeals on 10 January 1984, "I have loved my first week!" -- Markie Robson-Scott * THE ARTS DESK *No matter how much you might hate yourself for wanting to read the British journalist's account of her wonder years at the helm of the US's pre-eminent glossy, the troubling fact is that it is addictive -- Kathryn Hughes * GUARDIAN *The Vanity Fair Diaries has a Gone with the Wind-like feel: it's a chronicle of a lost age, before the internet, when 'to be the editor of Time or Newsweek was to be a demigod'. Yeah, and to be Tina Brown was very heaven -- Cosmo Landesman * LITERARY REVIEW *A journalism masterclass -- Janice Turner * NEW STATESMAN *One is left with huge admiration for Brown's wit, talent and determination -- Lynn Barber * SUNDAY TIMES *Fun and often funny -- Hadley Freeman * GUARDIAN *Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair during the 1980s, covers her time in Manhattan with wit and wisdom, as she unwraps the stories behind the famous covers and tells of how she fought her corner, raised a family and strove to make the magazine a success -- Kerry Fowler * SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE *The perfect stocking filler for any social x-ray who yearns to wallow in nostalgia. But even students of our own time with find the prescience of Brown's observations a source of amusement. The decade's greatest symbol, she observes, turned out not to be a person but a building: Trump Tower, "the very definition of ersatz with its fool's gold facade, its flashy internal waterfall, its dodgy financing". Lucky she was there because you couldn't make it up -- Fiametta Rocco * 1843 ECONOMIST *That's what makes Tina Brown such a fabulous diarist. It's not just that she's a wonderful writer (although she is fluent, funny, fierce). It's more that, even after taking her seat at America's top table, she never stops noticing. Amid the narcotic stupefaction of great wealth, Brown is invariably alert and on the money * IRISH INDEPENDENT *She makes you glad that someone was taking notes -- Jamie Fisher * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Anyone who was anyone in Eighties New York can be found in Brown's polished account of her time editing US magazine Vanity Fair. The result is a page-turning hymn to a vanished media age * i *Her pen portraits of the denizens of the Manhattan zoo are invariably sharp, and sometimes caustic - yet Brown is at home in this world, and in love with it, and the relish with which she records it makes for compulsive reading * DAILY MAIL *
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Microcosm Publishing Make A Zine!: Start Your Own Underground
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe The McGrawHill Desk Reference for Editors Writers
Book SynopsisPacked with customizable editing tools--this practical, up-to-date reference includes the latest on writing and editing onlineThe McGraw-Hill Desk Reference for Editors, Writers, and Proofreaders is an indispensable resource for writers, editors, proofreaders, and virtually everyone responsible for crafting clear, polished writing. Ideal for professionals and novices alike, it guides you through the entire proofreading and editing process and features a CD-ROM with more than 25 interactive tools and checklists.This all-in-one package offers style sheet templates, a list of editorâs symbols, comprehensive editing and proofreading checklists, and guides to commonly misspelled and confused words. It also presents advice on electronically editing and proofreading for the Web.
£15.65
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Writers Artists Yearbook 2026
Book SynopsisThe 119th edition of the indispensable, bestselling guide to everything you need to know about publishing. A vital resource for all writers looking to get published, including authors, poets and screenwriters.
£25.50
Sourcebooks Writing Great Books for Young Adults
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Penguin Books Ltd All Points North
Book Synopsis''A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory'' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times_____________________________________All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer''s formative years - from tax problems to probation to American tours, football to family to running away to Iceland - Simon Armitage explores growing up and being Northern. It''s about humour, language, writing, film, houses, homes, time wasters, one loose tyre, you, me and all points in-between._____________________________________''Laugh-out-loud funny'' Independent''A delight'' Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement ''A perfect holiday dipper'' Scotsman''An Alan Bennett-style diary'' Daily Telegraph Trade ReviewA joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory -- Sue Townsend * Sunday Times *I was irresistibly reminded of Alan Bennett - there is the same wry humour, wonderfully telling selection of detail or remark . . . a fine balance of humour and poignancy * The Times *The salty prose of an original poetic voice -- Melvyn Bragg * Observer *A thoughtful, witty combination of travel writing, autobiography and Alan Bennett-style diary -- John-Paul Flintoff * Daily Telegraph *Laugh-out-loud funny . . . has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye * Independent *An original and talented writer . . . highly entertaining and there are flashes of wit and moments of tenderness and brilliantly accurate observation -- Vernon Scannell * Sunday Telegraph *The best book I have read in a long time on what he insists is the true North of England -- Geoffrey Moorhouse * Daily Telegraph *I was irresistibly reminded of Alan Bennett - there is the same wry humour, wonderfully telling selection of detail or remark... a fine balance of humour and poignancy * The Times *The salty prose of an original poetic voice -- Melvyn Bragg * Observer *Laugh-out-loud funny... has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye * Independent *A delight - high-spirited, light-footed, very funny and wickedly observamt -- Jonathan Raban * The Times Literary Supplement *A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory -- Sue Townsend * Sunday Times *
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Anthem Press The Content Machine
Book Synopsis‘The Content Machine’ outlines a theory of publishing that allows publishers to focus on their core competencies in times of crisis. This ground-breaking study, the first of its kind, fuses history, media theory and business experience in a defiant answer to those who contend that publishing has no future in the digital age.Trade Review‘[A] sophisticated approach to what most interested readers would agree is an exceptionally daunting task. The book is detail-rich but capacious in its selection of examples and its synthesis of what the author argues are the essential elements tying together publishing circumstances that many might consider discrete or incompatible. […] Bhaskar’s treatment of familiar problematics [is] refreshingly well-reasoned and well-argued.’ —Aaron McCollough, ‘Journal of Electronic Publishing’Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Useful Middlemen; Chapter 1: The Problem of Publishing; Chapter 2: The Digital Context and Challenge; Chapter 3: How Content Works; Chapter 4: The System of Publishing; Chapter 5: Models; Chapter 6: Addressing Problems, Meeting Challenges; Conclusion: Inside the Content Machine; Bibliography; Index
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University of Alberta Press A Bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press
Book SynopsisPrinted inventory of the Black Sparrow Press archives from 1966 to 1970âover 1000 items.
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Harriman House Publishing Eyewitness
Book SynopsisBy the close of the last millennium Dorling Kindersley had become one of the most recognisable brands in publishing. Across the range of illustrated household reference titles, from children's books to travel guides, its distinctive look of colourful images cut out against a white background could be seen on bookshelves throughout the country - and indeed the publishing world. Apart from three minor acquisitions, DK had grown organically over 25 years to be a publicly listed company with a turnover of GBP200 million, some 1500 employees, publishing arms across the English language markets, a 50-strong international sales force that dealt with more than 400 publishers, a direct selling business with 30,000 independent distributors, and had expanded its skills for delivering handsomely designed reference books into the new media of videos, CD-ROMs and online educational content. Then a series of catastrophic printing decisions brought the company to its knees, and ultimately into the arms of Pearson. Christopher Davis is uniquely positioned to tell the story of DK's rise and fall. He joined the company at its foundation and in due course became Group Publisher.The narrative he provides is a dual one, encompassing the visionary genius of Peter Kindersley and the publishing revolution he fomented, and charting the remarkable, sometimes precarious, frequently hilarious, roller-coaster ride as the company grew from a handful of people in a studio in South London to a substantial global business. In the rapidly changing publishing climate of today, this book is also a nostalgic reminder of a time when creativity could flourish unburdened by the shackles of corporate bureaucracy.Table of ContentsAbout the author Author's note 1. Bad Night At The Union Hotel 2. Spreads On The Bed 3. Mistress of Wine 4. Ashes and Diamonds 5. The Godfathers of East 50th Street 6. Management By Hand Grenade 7. 9 Henrietta Street 8. Sex In The Connaught 9. Never Negotiate With A Husky 10. Name On The Spine 11. Hughes The Money 12. Revolution On The Page 13. Impressionists in the Men's Room 14. Mammoth Sales 15. If You Build It, They Will Come 16. Over and Out 17. Thanks, Bill 18. Home Deliveries 19. This Dog's A Runner 20. Showing What Others Only Tell 21. Publishing Fundamentals 22. Click and Point 23. The Nun's Tale 24. Gandhi in Las Vegas 25. 95 Madison Avenue 26. Complexity and Commitment 27. A Lifetime of Learning 28. Enter The Marketing Man 29. Bring On The Men In White Coats Epilogue Acknowledgments
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Octopus Publishing Group How to Publish Your Own Book
Book SynopsisWhen you've written a book you want to see it in print. You want people to read and enjoy it. The only thing standing in your way is the publishing industry which rejects 98 per cent of the manuscripts submitted to it. Why not skip months of collecting rejection slips and simply join them at their own game? Anyone can publish their own book, and the cost can be as little as zero. In this easy-to-use guide, Stewart Ferris explains everything you need to know to be able to convert your manuscript into a printed book and to get that book selling in the shops, or to sell it online as an eBook. Stewart created the UK's first self-publishing agency in 1993 with his business partner Alastair Williams, offering authors all the services and advice they needed to publish and sell their own books.
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Quercus Publishing Fashion Writing: Journalism and Content Creation
Book SynopsisFashion writing now enjoys its highest-ever profile as the digital world has multiplied the number of platforms on which it is available. No longer confined to restrictive print schedules or occasional broadcast slots, fashion has become an ever-present content driver. With retailers, brands and designers all in on the act, plus citizen fashion coverage from the social media community, the volume of fashion content has risen beyond any predictions.While influencers monetise their musings - indeed, create successful and influential fashion media and fashion product businesses - traditional magazines and newspapers have expanded their multi-channel fashion content in order to secure more touch points with consumers.Aimed at students on journalism, content creation, media and publishing courses this guide will also appeal to untrained writers who want to develop a more professional approach to their fashion writing.Trade ReviewAnchored by the kind of clearly defined writing guidelines you would expect from two highly regarded former fashion editors, 'Fashion Writing' delivers so much more than a straightforward guide to penning tightly wrought, well researched prose. Packed with contemporary cultural signposts, a bird's eye view on the global fashion landscape and reems of insider intel from the world's finest writers and content creators, 'Fashion Writing' is an encyclopaedic and indispensable manual for the next gen of aspiring trend sleuths and fashion commentators. -- Khabi Mirza * Fabric PR *Fashion Writing is clearly written in an elevated but approachable tone ... Fashion Writing has several advantages over the text I have been using. The first is photos. My prior text has no photos or graphics of any kind, and it is short on mechanics and writing examples. Photos are essential in fashion, and the selections made in Fashion Writing are beautifully reproduced, timely, and diverse. I also appreciate the step-by-step walk-throughs of how to structure news and especially features. I also see examples of how to write headlines and pay-off lines, etc. -- Sarah Portway * The State University of New York at Oneata *
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Ludion Books: Art, Craft & Community
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HarperCollins House of Harper
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Diana Vreeland
Book SynopsisDiana Vreeland has been called the fashion editor of the twentieth century. An epic self-mythologizer, she had an incredible aura of glamour, a great eye, and a genius for life. This title includes more than 300 illustrations, photographs, and drawings, many by the fashion photographers of her time such as Louise Dahl Wolfe, Irving Penn, and more.Trade Review"Diana Vreeland was the beacon of fashion for the twentieth century. She spotted, attracted, and showcased the most talented designers, photographers, illustrators, models, and fashion icons and gave their genius a glamorous theater. This book is a beautiful tribute to her." -- Diane Von Furstenberg "D.V. dazzled and dazed you, laughed, sang, and prophesized in a single sentence. She was a self-made triumph of spirit, distilling all the world's glories... In this wonderful book, you get to sit at her knee and see how she made herself-this quintessential all-tribe American." -- Lauren Hutton "Dwight gives new richness and poignancy to a personality appreciated primarily for her epigrammatic wit, dramatic flair, and compelling style... a nuanced portrait of a twentieth-century woman, socially liberated and intellectually unfettered, a modern careerist who never shed her Edwardian proprieties, a woman in full." -- Harold Koda, Director, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Eve of a Hundred Midnights The StarCrossed Love
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An affectionate look at the adventures of a World War II correspondent. ... [A] vivid portrait." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "[An] engaging debut. ... Lascher succeeds in highlighting Jacoby's brief yet important life." -- Library Journal "A gripping... narrative of daring and dedication." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Propulsive. ... [A] remarkable book, which is part history, part a celebration of war correspondence, but, mostly, a love story. ... Lascher conveys the privation, danger, and romance of this time in an utterly detailed and beguiling way." -- Booklist (starred review) "A gripping, well told, and accurate reconstruction of a very dramatic and romantic time in the life stories of two young journalists caught in the upheavals of World War II Asia. A story of high adventure." -- Stephen R. MacKinnon, author of China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s "I am deeply moved by the story of Mel and Annalee Jacoby. Bill Lascher provides a rich account of life in Chungking, where young Jacoby cut his teeth as a Time correspondent, before taking us into the whirlwind of MacArthur's retreat to Corregidor. It's a breathtaking story all the way." -- Peter Rand, author of China Hands "The unforgettable story of Bill Lascher's cousin, a man he meets through his own reporting to uncover a piece of family history that also belongs in the archives of America's great war correspondents. This is every bit a book about what drives reporters to the frontlines." -- Jackie Spinner, author of Tell Them I Didn't Cry "Bill Lascher charts the career of Melville Jacoby, his equally erudite wife Annalee, and their circle of committed, talented reporter-friends whose combined journalism evokes an era." -- Paul French, New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc God the Bestseller
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Cokie A Life Well Lived
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary life and legacy of legendary journalist Cokie Roberts—a trailblazer for women—remembered by her friends and family.Through her visibility and celebrity, Cokie Roberts was an inspiration and a role model for innumerable women and girls.Trade Review“Encouraging and enlightening…. A celebration of women helping women.” — Washington Post “A beautiful book.” — Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC “A moving tribute.” — Christian Science Monitor "A moving testimony of the remarkable life and legacy of his wife, trailblazing journalist Cokie (1943–2019). Through depictions of her faith, family, work, writing, and friendships, Roberts shares engrossing anecdotes about his partner from their over 50 years together. . . . This loving tribute is likely to gain the celebrated journalist a whole new crop of fans." — Publishers Weekly, starred review "Inspiring." — New York Daily News "Demonstrates . . . both the painful loss and the rich and enduring legacy of this pioneering journalist and compassionate human being." — Booklist "An upbeat portrait of a productive life that was so important to journalists and women everywhere." — Kirkus “A highly readable and immensely heartwarming biography.” — Library Journal
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Cokie
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary life and legacy of legendary journalist Cokie Roberts—a trailblazer for women—remembered by her friends and family.Through her visibility and celebrity, Cokie Roberts was an inspiration and a role model for innumerable women and girls.Trade Review“Encouraging and enlightening…. A celebration of women helping women.” — Washington Post “A beautiful book.” — Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC “A moving tribute.” — Christian Science Monitor "A moving testimony of the remarkable life and legacy of his wife, trailblazing journalist Cokie (1943–2019). Through depictions of her faith, family, work, writing, and friendships, Roberts shares engrossing anecdotes about his partner from their over 50 years together. . . . This loving tribute is likely to gain the celebrated journalist a whole new crop of fans." — Publishers Weekly, starred review "Inspiring." — New York Daily News "Demonstrates . . . both the painful loss and the rich and enduring legacy of this pioneering journalist and compassionate human being." — Booklist "An upbeat portrait of a productive life that was so important to journalists and women everywhere." — Kirkus “A highly readable and immensely heartwarming biography.” — Library Journal
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Naked Dont Fear the Water
Book SynopsisA NYTBR Editor’s Choice “This is a book of radical empathy, crossing many borders - not just borders that separate nations, but also borders of form, borders of meaning, and borders of possibility. It is powerful and humane and deserves to find a wide, wandering readership.” — Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestIn this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler’s road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future.In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who leave their homes that year.Matthieu Aikins, a journalist living in Kabul, decides t
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc All the Knowledge in the World
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc All the Knowledge in the World
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Pearson Education (US) LaTeX Companion The
Book SynopsisFrank Mittelbach is the lead author of The LaTeX Companion, Third Edition, and is series editor of Addison-Wesley's Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting series. He is also technical lead of the LaTeX Project and, along with overseeing the original major release of LaTeX2_e in 1994, he has overseen the 36 subsequent releases of this software. Frank is author or coauthor of several books and of many and varied LaTeX extension packages, such as AMS-LaTeX, doc, multicol, and NFSS: the New Font Selection Scheme. He is on the board of the International Gutenberg Society, an international association for the study of the history and development of printing technology and font-oriented media, where he focuses on the more recent period. He is currently leading a multi-year project for automatically producing tagged and accessible PDF output from LaTeX. Ulrike Fischer lives with her husband in Bonn, Germany. After studying mathematicsTable of ContentsList of Figures xviiiList of Tables xixForeword xxiPreface xxiii Chapter 1: Introduction 11.1 A brief history (of nearly half a century) 11.2 Today's systems 81.3 Working with this book 13 Chapter 2: The Structure of a LaTeX Document 212.1 The overall structure of a source file 222.2 Sectioning commands 322.3 Table of contents structures 542.4 Managing references 752.5 Document source management108 Chapter 3: Basic Formatting Tools -- Paragraph Level 1193.1 Shaping your paragraphs 1203.2 Dealing with special characters 1473.3 Generated or specially formatted text 1543.4 Various ways of highlighting and quoting text 1773.5 Footnotes, endnotes, and marginals 2043.6 Support for document development 237 Chapter 4: Basic Formatting Tools -- Larger Structures 2534.1 Lists 2544.2 Simulating typed text 2964.3 Lines and columns 3334.4 Generating sample texts 361 Chapter 5: The Layout of the Page 3655.1 Geometrical dimensions of the layout 3665.2 Changing the layout 3685.3 Dynamic page data: page numbers and marks 3855.4 Page styles 3955.5 Page decorations and watermarks 4095.6 Visual formatting 4145.7 Doing layout with class 429 Chapter 6: Tabular Material 4316.1 Standard LaTeX environments 4326.2 array -- Extending the tabular environments 4376.3 Calculating column widths 4466.4 Multipage tabular material 4566.5 Color in tables 4666.6 Customizing table rules and spacing 4676.7 Other extensions 4766.8 Footnotes in tabular material 4916.9 keyvaltable -- Separating table data and formatting 4946.10 tabularray -- Late breaking news 504 Chapter 7: Mastering Floats 5057.1 An overview of LaTeX's float concepts 5067.2 Float placement control 5197.3 Extensions to LaTeX's float concept 5287.4 Controlling the float caption 5387.5 Key/value approaches for floats and subfloats 560 Chapter 8: Graphics Generation and Manipulation 5758.1 LaTeX's image loading support 5768.2 Manipulating graphical objects in LaTeX 5878.3 Producing (fairly) portable line graphics 6028.4 Flexible boxes for multiple purposes 6148.5 tikz -- A general-purpose graphics system 631 Chapter 9: Font Selection and Encodings 6479.1 Introduction 6489.2 Understanding font characteristics 6529.3 Using fonts in text 6589.4 Using fonts in math 6769.5 Standard LaTeX font support 6839.6 fontspec -- Font selection for Unicode engines 7059.7 The low-level NFSS interface 7309.8 Setting up new fonts for NFSS 7409.9 LaTeX's encoding models 754 Bibliography 777Index of Commands and Concepts 793People 943
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Pearson Education (US) Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book 2021 release
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsGetting Started 1 Getting Acquainted 2 Creating Graphics and Text 3 Animating Symbols 4 Advanced Motion Tweening 5 Character Animation with Tweens 6 Character Animation with Bones 7 Animating the Camera 8 Animating Shapes and Using Masks 9 Creating Interactive Navigation 10 Working with Sound and Video 11 Publishing Index
£33.74
Pearson Education (US) Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book 2022 release
Book SynopsisKelly Kordes Anton has written and edited dozens of books and training resources on publishing technologies and InDesign, including nine previous editions of Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book. She is a freelance writer based in Littleton, Colorado, and she also writes about ergonomics and lean manufacturing. Tina DeJarld has worked on the front lines of taking designs from the computer screen to real-world production since before InDesign 1.0. She is highly accomplished in both prepress and graphic design production and passionate about building files that will work correctly. Tina has handled thousands of large and complex projects, becoming an expert on InDesign best practices and techniques. Tina is currently a senior production artist at thePub, a production studio in Chicago.Table of ContentsGetting Started 1 Introducing the Workspace 2 Getting to Know InDesign 3 Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages 4 Working with Objects 5 Working with Color 6 Flowing Text 7 Editing Text 8 Working with Typography 9 Working with Styles 10 Creating Tables 11 Importing and Modifying Graphics 12 Working with Transparency 13 Printing and Exporting 14 Creating Adobe PDF Files with Form Fields 15 Creating a Fixed-Layout ePub and Publishing Online
£41.64
Pearson Education (US) Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book 2023 release
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsGetting Started 1 Introducing the Workspace 2 Getting to Know InDesign 3 Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages 4 Working with Objects 5 Working with Color 6 Flowing Text 7 Editing Text 8 Working with Typography 9 Working with Styles 10 Creating Tables 11 Importing and Modifying Graphics 12 Working with Transparency 13 Printing and Exporting 14 Creating Adobe PDF Files with Form Fields 15 Creating a Fixed-Layout Epub
£46.54
Pearson Education (US) Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book 2024 Release
Book SynopsisKelly Kordes Anton has written and edited dozens of books and training resources on publishing technologies and InDesign, including nine previous editions of Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book. She is a freelance writer based in Littleton, Colorado, and she also writes about ergonomics and lean manufacturing. Tina DeJarld has worked on the front lines of taking designs from the computer screen to real-world production since before InDesign 1.0. She is highly accomplished in both prepress and graphic design production and passionate about building files that will work correctly. Tina has handled thousands of large and complex projects, becoming an expert on InDesign best practices and techniques. Tina is currently a senior production artist at thePub, a production studio in Chicago.Table of ContentsLesson 1 Introducing the Workspace Lesson 2 Getting to Know InDesign Lesson 3 Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages Lesson 4 Working with Objects Lesson 5 Working with Color Lesson 6 Flowing Text Lesson 7 Editing Text Lesson 8 Working with Typography Lesson 9 Working with Styles Lesson 10 Creating Tables Lesson 11 Importing and Modifying Graphics Lesson 12 Working with Transparency Lesson 13 Printing and Exporting Lesson 14 Creating Adobe Pdf Files with Form Fields Lesson 15 Creating A Fixed-Layout Epub and Publishing Online
£49.39
Penguin Books Canada Ltd The Guy on the Left
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£13.60
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
£10.99
Addison-Wesley Professional Computers Typesetting Volume B
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£46.54
Pearson Education Computers Typesetting Volume C
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£42.27
The University of Chicago Press Kurt Wolff
Book SynopsisKurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. This title deals with his works.Trade Review"Pure oxygen and nutrition for exhausted and demoralized editors and publishers. One of the prophetic publishers of the century---Kurt Wolff instances in these modest reminiscences and correspondence with authors (Kafka, Werfel, Kraus, Rilke, Mann, Pasternak, Grass, et al.) the vision and devotion that bound them to him and that made him-the secret of his calling-'synonymous with his work.'" (Nation) "The invaluable correspondence, intoxicating recollections, and, best of all, engaging voice of perhaps this century's most discriminating publisher." (New York Times Book Review)"
£17.00
University of Chicago Press SteamPowered Knowledge
Book SynopsisExplores the activities of William Chambers and the W & R Chambers publishing firm during its formative years, documenting for the first time how new technologies - not just in communication, but also in transportation - were integrated into existing business systems.Trade Review"Steam-Powered Knowledge provides an excellent account of the publishing activities of William and Robert Chambers of Edinburgh, drawing extensively on that firm's surviving business archives and publications. Writing in a clear and lively manner, Aileen Fyfe makes a strong case for the importance of the firm as a pioneer in the use of industrial methods of book production and as a crusader for the use of print for the instruction of the working classes." (Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin)"
£55.00
The University of Chicago Press Reclaiming Fair Use
Book SynopsisBeginning with a survey of the contemporary landscape of copyright law, Aufderheide and Jaszi drew on their years of experience advising documentary filmmakers, English teachers, performing arts scholars, and other creative professionals to lay out in detail how the principles of fair use can be employed to avoid copyright violation.
£20.00
The University of Chicago Press The Business of Being a Writer
Book SynopsisBusiness of Being a Writer offers the business education writers need but so rarely receive. It is meant for early career writers looking to develop a realistic set of expectations about making money from their work or for working writers who want a better understanding of the industry.
£22.80
University of Chicago Press Behind the Book Eleven Authors on Their Path to
Book SynopsisBehind the Book explores how eleven contemporary first-time authors, in genres ranging from post-apocalyptic fiction to young adult fantasy to travel memoir, navigated these pathways with their debut works.Trade Review"What a book-lover's fantasy! To see behind the making and launching of eleven diverse books, to hear stories of first and last drafts, of book tours and artist residencies, of publicity letdowns and bolts out of the blue--in short, tales of struggle, success, hard work, and luck, all told with Jones's keen eye toward craft--what a generous gift to the aspiring writer! The joy of this book is not to push a single path to publication, but to celebrate the endless variety such paths might take. Showing how we get our stories, real or imagined, into the world is this book's unique gift--and that's a proposition that feels particularly urgent in these tumultuous times."--Edward McPherson, author of The History of the Future: American Essays "An indispensable tool for writers eager to peek behind the curtain and learn about the realities of writing and publishing. Myths and mysteries about being an 'author' abound, and this book shines a bright light on it all. Full of valuable nuggets, Behind the Book draws on real-life stories as well as the wisdom of the very best writing guides to reveal an empowering truth: There's no one path to publishing success."--Katrin Schumann, cofounder of GrubStreet's Launch Lab and author of The Secret Power of Middle Children
£56.00
The University of Chicago Press Behind the Book
Book SynopsisBehind the Book explores how eleven contemporary first-time authors, in genres ranging from post-apocalyptic fiction to young adult fantasy to travel memoir, navigated these pathways with their debut works.Trade Review"What a book-lover's fantasy! To see behind the making and launching of eleven diverse books, to hear stories of first and last drafts, of book tours and artist residencies, of publicity letdowns and bolts out of the blue--in short, tales of struggle, success, hard work, and luck, all told with Jones's keen eye toward craft--what a generous gift to the aspiring writer! The joy of this book is not to push a single path to publication, but to celebrate the endless variety such paths might take. Showing how we get our stories, real or imagined, into the world is this book's unique gift--and that's a proposition that feels particularly urgent in these tumultuous times."--Edward McPherson, author of The History of the Future: American Essays "An indispensable tool for writers eager to peek behind the curtain and learn about the realities of writing and publishing. Myths and mysteries about being an 'author' abound, and this book shines a bright light on it all. Full of valuable nuggets, Behind the Book draws on real-life stories as well as the wisdom of the very best writing guides to reveal an empowering truth: There's no one path to publishing success."--Katrin Schumann, cofounder of GrubStreet's Launch Lab and author of The Secret Power of Middle Children
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press The Invention of the Oral
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£39.00
The University of Chicago Press Orphan Trains The Story of Charles Loring Brace
Book SynopsisBookselling has evolved from an arena dominated by independent bookstores to one in which chain stores have significant market share. Yet unlike other retail industries, bookselling should be "above" questions of profit. This work investigates what drives this belief and how it is affected by the changing retail environment.Trade Review"Chain superstores, notes Laura J. Miller's fascinating new study, are the latest manifestation of a centuries-old struggle between bookselling Davids and Goliaths - a battle over where Americans actually shop versus stores with, Miller tartly notes, 'a style of retailing that Americans at least profess to miss.' " - Voice Literary Supplement"
£24.70
The University of Chicago Press The Scientific Journal
Book SynopsisA history of the rise of the scientific journal in nineteenth-century France and England.
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press The Scientific Journal
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Amid fresh convulsions in scholarly publishing, much here resonates — not least, how commercial interests have shaped science communication almost from the start.” * Nature *"[F]ascinating and carefully researched . . . . This timely book challenges our notion of the traditional scientific journal by showing that it was the result of a long and complex historical process and much controversy." * Times Higher Education *"A timely reminder that the literary marketplace and political ideologies, together with science practitioners' own interests, shape the vehicles and multiple roles of science communication. . . . It is indispensable for graduates in the history of science and, especially, in library and information science. . . . Essential." * CHOICE *"This book is really the first one that focuses on the development and emergence of the scholarly journal as we know it today. . . . The author’s interpretations of the past in the introduction and conclusion are keen and help the reader better understand the twenty-first-century status quo of scholarly publishing. . . . In addition to those studying the history of science, this book will be of interest to scholars of library and information science, epistemology, the history of bibliography, and the history of the UK and France." * Metascience *"The book is full of detailed sketches of the fascinating personalities involved in the development of an institution -- journal publishing -- that we often think of as having always existed. Csiszar gives a compelling account of how the publication of scientific results in the fragmented form of journal articles won out as a format over comprehensive books. . . . This book will be a very welcome resource for students of the history of academic publishing, as well as anyone with an interest in the history of science as it tracks with the origins of the institution of the scientific journal." * Publishing Research Quarterly *"Through a rigorous examination of the role of scientific institutions in framing knowledge, Csiszar has provided a compelling account of why the scientific journal took the shape that it did. His book is ambitious, in command of its material, and full of detail. More importantly, by showing how science came to be entangled with a particular medium of communication, it constitutes a timely reminder that the history of ideas cannot be separated from the forms in which those ideas were embodied." * Victorian Studies *"Alex Csiszar’s brilliant new book on the scientific journal is a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarship on science and nineteenth-century print culture. It deserves to be placed alongside the other important monographs appearing in the last two decades that examine the intersection of the history of publishing with the history of science. . . . An immensely satisfying read. . . . By concentrating on how the elite scientific societies responded to the proliferation of commercial science journals [Csiszar] is able to provide a new big picture upon which historians of science can build effectively in the future." * Journal of Modern History *“A scientific journal can make for dry reading; The Scientific Journal, on the other hand, does not. Csiszar provides a fascinating account about how this particular genre came to have its current form and, most importantly, its overwhelming status. There are thought-provoking challenges to our assumptions about scientific communication on just about every page.” -- Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University"This clever and absorbing history charts the coming into being and imminent passing away of one of the most important forms of scientific activity - journal publication. Stocked with fascinating tales of scientific authors' deeds and sufferings, and of publishers' market savvy and ingenious trickery, Csiszar shows that the allegedly novel and dramatic alliance between scientific writing and commercial interest is nothing new, and in fact dominated the original developments of scientific literature and its vagaries in earlier centuries. The book explains how the notion of a quick and cheap technological fix for any apparent trouble of public knowledge first gained ground and why its mythology so evidently survives. The book will be indispensable for anyone interested in the roots of trust in scientific facts and their authors, and the central role played by print media in the crisis of intellectual authority." -- Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge"Certain books are as valuable for what they reveal about our professional inheritance as for what they tell us about the history of science. This is one of those books. It is impossible to read The Scientific Journal without reflecting upon the mechanisms of academic publishing today." * The British Journal for the History of Science *"With this work, undoubtedly destined to become a standard reference, Alex Csiszar marks an important milestone in a debate that will go on." * Revue d’histoire des sciences (Translated from French) *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: “Broken Pieces of Fact” 1 The Press and Academic Judgment 2 Meeting in Public 3 The Author and the Referee 4 Discovery, Publication, and Property 5 What Is a Scientific Paper? 6 Access Fantasies at the Fin de Siècle Conclusion: Impact Stories Acknowledgments Archives and Abbreviations Notes Index
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press The Enlightenment and the Book Scottish Authors
Book SynopsisOffers an understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. This title seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were made by their authors alone.Trade Review"A major achievement." - Times Literary Supplement "This is an exceptional piece of work. It is both an astonishing accumulation of informative detail and a multiplicity of lively interconnected narratives of authors, books, booksellers, printers and other subjects. It is a very useful reference book, with its nearly 150 pages of tables and bibliographies; it is also an engaging and stimulating read." - Antonia Forster, Review of English Studies "Discerningly illustrated, at once scholarly and accessible, this is an essential addition not only to eighteenth-century studies but also to the history of the book." - Atlantic"
£36.10
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Print Cultures A Reader in Theory and Practice
Book SynopsisCaroline Davis is senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, in the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, where she teaches print culture, book history and publishing studies. She is the author of Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers and British Publishers (Palgrave, 2013) and the co-editor of The Book in Africa: Critical Debates (Palgrave, 2015). Her recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Southern African Studies, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Book History. She previously worked at Oxford University Press and Oxford University Centre for Humanities Computing.Trade ReviewThis reader is the definitive introduction to the growing field of Publishing. Students new to the field or searching for a context for their own research will find everything they need here. * Helen Marshall, Anglia Ruskin University, UK *Print Cultures is a bold and generous gift to the field. Readers will find seminal essays juxtaposed with surprises in each of the nine carefully curated sections, making it ideal for the classroom. I look forward to discussing this magnificent compilation with our graduate students for years to come, and the future of the book is brighter because of it. * Kyle Schlesinger, University of Houston-Victoria, USA *Table of ContentsPART ONE: Publishing Theory and Practice Introduction Stanley Unwin, The Truth About a Publisher Pierre Bourdieu, The Market of Symbolic Goods Gérard Genette, Introduction to Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation Lynne Spender, Intruders on the Rights of Men: Women's Unpublished Heritage John Thompson, Introduction to Merchants of Culture Michael Bhaskar, The Digital Context and Challenge PART TWO: Authorship Introduction Mary Ann Gillies, Agents and the Field of Print Culture Joe Moran, Disembodied Images: Authors, Authorship and Celebrity Juliet Gardiner, 'What is an Author': Contemporary Publishing Discourse and the Author Figure Laura Dietz, Who Are You Calling an Author? Changing Definitions of Career Legitimacy for Novelists in the Digital Era George Landow, Reconfiguring the Author PART THREE: Readers and the Literary Marketplace Introduction Q. D. Leavis, The Book Market Geoffrey Faber, A Publisher Looks at Booksellers Janice Radway, The Scandal of the Middlebrow Clive Bloom, How the British Read PART FOUR: Censorship and Print Culture Introduction Sue Curry Jansen, The Censor's New Clothes Lewis A. Coser, Publishers as Gatekeepers of Ideas Alistair McCleery The Trials and Travels of Lady Chatterley's Lover Archie L. Dick, Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books PART FIVE: Books, Propaganda and War Introduction Peter Buitenhuis, Setting up the Propaganda Machine Jane Potter, For Country, Conscience and Commerce Valerie Holman, Publishing and the State Joe Pearson, Books for the Forces John B. Hench, The American Publisher's Series Goes to War, 1942-1946 PART SIX: Colonial and Postcolonial Print Culture Introduction Pascale Casanova, World Literary Space Robert Fraser, School Readers in the Empire and the Creation of Postcolonial Taste Henry Chakaya, Kenyan Publishing: Independence and Dependence Graham Huggan, African Literature/Postcolonial Exotic James Currey, Africa Writes Back PART SEVEN: Women and Print Culture Introduction Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon, Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South Simone Murray, Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Rumsha Shahzad, She Needs a Website of Her Own: The 'Indie' Woman Writer and Contemporary Publishing PART EIGHT: Literary Prize Culture Introduction Richard Todd, Literary Prizes and the Media Tom Maschler, How It All Began: The Man Booker Prize Claire Squires, Genre in the Marketplace James English, Scandalous Currency PART NINE: Globalisation and the Book Introduction André Schiffrin, The Future of Publishing Walter Bgoya, The Effects of Globalisation in Africa Angus Phillips, The Global Book Suman Gupta, Globalisation and Literature Sarah Brouillette The Global Literary Field and Market Postcolonialism.
£95.00
Palgrave MacMillan UK The Culture of the Publishers Series Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries.Trade Review'An invaluable and engrossing re-evaluation of the Publishers Series, providing stimulating international comparisons and a lasting and important contribution to modern social and cultural history' - James Raven, Professor in Modern History, University of Essex, UK 'The phenomenon of the publisher's series - so central to 18th and 19th-century publishing and reading practices - has never before been considered so fully. In the sheer breadth of the new material they encompass, enabling comparisons across time and space, these volumes will prove invaluable to students and scholars alike.' - Mary Hammond, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction. Wondering about 'the Causes of Causes'. The Publisher's Series, its Cultural Work and Meanings PART II: The Series, the Academy, and the World; J.Spiers The American Publisher's Series Goes to War, 1942-1946, J.B.Hench The Spanish Collections of Herder Verlag: International Catholic Literature; A.C.Viro Adamantios Korais' The Greek Library (1805-1827): An Ingenious Publisher and The Making of a Nation; N.Yakovaki Fabricating a National Canon: The Role of Richard Bentley and George Robertson in Developing and Marketing the Australian Library; A.Rukavina Series for Women in 19th Century Netherlandsl; L.Kuitert Leonard Bast's Library: Aspiration, Emulation and the Imperial National Tradition; R.Fraser Negotiating the List: Launching Macmillan's Colonial Library and Author Contracts; S.Towheed Household Words: An Account of the 'Bengal Family Library'; A.Gupta Great Books by the Millions: J. M. Dent's 'Everyman Library'; T.I.Seymour 'The Green and the Gold': Publisher's Series in 19th-century Ireland; E.Tilley One Series After Another: The Macmillan Company of Canada; R.Panofsky Index
£42.74
Columbia University Press Left Politics and the Literary Profession Social
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsWhy theory?, by Gerald Graff The function of English at the present time, by Richard Ohmann What am I doing when I do women's studies in 1990?, by Catharine R. Stimpson Literature and politics: black feminist scholars reshaping literary education in the white university, 1970-1986, by Nellie Y. McKay What is the matter with Mary Jane? Feminist criticism in a time of diminished expectations, by Kate Ellis Canon theory and emergent practice, by Paul Lauter Canon fathers and myth universe, by Lillian S. Robinson Literature of resistance: the intersection of feminism and the communist left in Meridel Le Sueur and Tillie Olsen, by Constance Coiner Memory and historical record: the literature and literary criticism of Beirut, 1982, by Barbara Harlow. At the crossroads of history, on the borders of change: Chicano literary studies past, present, and future, by Hector Calderon Third plane at the change of the century: the shape of African-American literature to come, by Pancho Savery History as explanation: writing about lesbian writing, or "Are girls necessary?", by Julie Abraham Politics and literature: then and now, by Robert C. Rosen Somewhere off the coast of academia, by Robert Rich Some historical refractions, by Lillian S. Robinson What has happened to the seeds of the flower children?, by Susan Gushee O'Malley Annals of academic life: an exemplary tale, by Louis Kampf
£87.20
Columbia University Press The Letters of Sylvia Beach
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe patron saint of independent booksellers everywhere and the spunky proprietress of Shakespeare and Company, the famed Left Bank bookshop, Beach was a one-woman clearinghouse for literary modernism, 'a culture hero of the avant-garde,' as Keri Walsh writes in her fine introduction to this collection... Beach was an animated correspondent. -- Matthew Price Bookforum Reveal[s] the difficulties faced head on by this patron saint of independent booksellers who altered the course of expression in print. Publishers Weekly Academics and students interested in literary culture, especially of writers of the Lost Generation, will find this book valuable. Library Journal This lovely book, scholarly and well annotated, is a pleasure to hold. It documents what Beach once called 'my missionary endeavor' and also what she called, correctly, her 'interesting life.' -- Dwight Garner New York Times The consummate portrait of an incredible woman. -- Robert J. Wiersema The Vancouver Sun Keri Walsh has produced a commendable work. -- Diane Leach Pop Matters With The Letters of Sylvia Beach... we now have an unvarnished view of life from the bookshop floor. -- John Palattella The Nation Keri Walsh's compact and revealing volume introduces Beach as a character's character New Criterion Beach's letters are crisp, detailed, patient, and articulate. Editor Walsh's meticulously orchestrated scholarly apparatus--footnotes, appendices, glossary, and index--all work well to enhance the material. -- David Emblidge Publishing Research Quarterly Beach is an entertaining companion, a wonderful person to spend time with... readers...will be quick to celebrate this editorial achievement. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of CanadaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface by Noel Riley Fitch Acknowledgments Introduction References Chronology THE LETTERS OF SYLVIA BEACH I. Friendship and Travel II. World War I III. Shakespeare and Company: Expatriates IV. Shakespeare and Company: 1930s V. Postwar VI. Old Friends and True VII. Legacies Appendix 1. Morrill Cody's Article on Shakespeare and Company for Publishers Weekly (April 12, 1924) Appendix 2. Beach's Letter of Protest against the Pirating of Ulysses (February 2, 1927) Appendix 3. Beach's Unsent Letter to James Joyce (April 12, 1927) Appendix 4. Beach's Speech for the Institut Radiophonique d'Extension Universitaire (May 24, 1927) Glossary of Correspondents Index
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