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Book SynopsisHunter S. Thompson is best remembered today as a caricature: drug-addled, sharp-witted, and passionate; played with bowlegged aplomb by Johnny Depp; memorialized as a Doonesbury character. In all this entertainment, the true figure of Thompson has unfortunately been forgotten.In this perceptive, dramatic book, Tim Denevi recounts the moment when Thompson found his calling. As the Kennedy assassination and the turmoil of the 60s paved the way for Richard Nixon, Thompson greeted him with two very powerful emotions: fear and loathing. In his fevered effort to take down what he saw as a rising dictator, Thompson made a kind of Faustian bargain, taking the drugs he needed to meet newspaper deadlines and pushing himself beyond his natural limits. For ten years, he cast aside his old ambitions, troubled his family, and likely hastened his own decline, along the way producing some of the best political writing in our history.This remarkable biography reclaims Hunter Thompson for the enigmatic true believer he was: not a punchline or a cartoon character, but a fierce, colorful opponent of fascism in a country that suddenly seemed all too willing to accept it.

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Book SynopsisThis exhibition catalogue features over 100 highlights of a large and extraordinary collection of Canadian little magazines and Canadian small press and micro-press imprints assembled by David McKnight. As a determined collector/librarian imbued with remarkable passion and resolve, McKnight invested 30 years developing a private collection that has considerable potential for literary research in the areas of Canadian Modernist poetry, avant-garde literature, and the production of small magazines in Canada. McKnight generously donated the collection to the University of Alberta Libraries in 2012, and this publication unveils the collection publicly for the first time.

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Book SynopsisNow a Netflix original film starring Will Forte, Domhnall Gleeson, and Emmy Rossum. Comic genius Doug Kenney cofounded National Lampoon, cowrote Animal House and Caddyshack, and changed the face of American comedy before mysteriously falling to his death at the age of 33. This is the first-ever biography of Kenney--the heart and soul of National Lampoon—reconstructing the history of that magazine as it redefined American humor, complete with all its brilliant and eccentric characters. Filled with vivid stories from New York, Harvard Yard, Hollywood, and Middle America, this chronicle shares how the magazine spawned a comedy revolution with the radio shows, stage productions, and film projects that launched the careers of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Gilda Radner, while inspiring Saturday Night Live and everything else funny that’s happened since 1970. Based on more than 130 interviews conducted with key players including Chevy Chase, Harold Ramis, P. J. O’Rourke, John Landis, and others and boasting behind-the-scenes stories of how Animal House and Caddyshack were made, this book helps capture the nostalgia, humor, and enduring legacy that Doug Kenney instilled in National Lampoon--America’s greatest humor magazine.Trade Review"Jammed with personalities and capsule histories." -- The New York Times""Fun, fast, and furious." --Library Journal"Josh Karp has informed us well about one of the funniest and innovative humorists of the last century. Doug Kenny was a great friend of mine and it is a good read." -- Chevy Chase, actor, Caddyshack"Josh Karp achieves the unthinkable--he's written an essential American excavation of comedy that is, of itself, very, very, very, very, very, very funny. Doug Kenney would be extremely proud and humbled, if he weren't dead." -- Bill Zehme, author, Lost in the Funhouse: The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman"The definitive profile of Kenney's brilliant comic mind and his too-short life." --Richard Roeper, film critic, Chicago Sun-Times"The sharpest analysis yet of how success, self-doubt and drugs led one of his generation's wittiest minds down a blind path." -- Philadelphia Citypaper"A must-read for the curious, comedy aficionados, and subversively shy teenagers everywhere." --Mark McKinney, actor, Kids in the Hall"[This] is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of the man and publication that all but defined the comedy zeitgeist of the last 35 years." --Rob Siegel, former editor, The OnionTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Midas at the Marmont1 Hayley Mills in Pleasantville2 The Most Perfect WASP3 Here Is New York4 You’ve Got a Weird Mind. You’ll Fit in Well Here5 What Do Women Eat?6 Hitler Being Difficult7 Show Biz and Dead Dogs8 Guns and Sandwiches9 The Pirates10 The Cultural Revolution11 Fuck the Proposal12 Round Up the Usual Jews13 Pheasant Shake for Mr. Kenney14 A Year with No Spring EpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisNever Stop is the wrenching memoir of Simba Sana, the co-founder and CEO of Karibu Books, a major indie bookselling phenomenon and perhaps the most successful black-owned book-industry business ever. Sana, the son of a poor, mentally ill single mother, built Karibu into a nationally celebrated mini-chain based in his native city of Washington, D.C.--and then experienced its collapse and failure while also going through a personal bottoming out. Sana shows how his experience with Karibu jump-started his lifelong journey to better understand himself, human nature, faith, and American culture--which ultimately helped him develop the powerful personal philosophy that drives his life today. Born Bernard Sutton in Washington, D.C., in the aftermath of the city's riots over Martin Luther King's assassination, Sana grew up in the cycle of poverty and violence that dominated inner-city life in the 70s and 80s. Although Sana's drive and intelligence helped set him apart in the classroom, he still spent plenty of time on D.C.'s tough streets. As a result of being bullied and from a desire to gain respect, he became involved with boxing, first as a fighter and later as a manager. Sana's academic success got him into college, where he began to evolve into a man whose life embodied contradictions: committed to self-improvement and self-discipline but irrevocably marked by the chaos of his upbringing; an emerging businessman who's also an impassioned Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist; living the corporate life at Ernst and Young by day while leading radical consciousness-raising groups at night. Building Karibu became Sana's opportunity to bind the disparate elements in his life together. He was able to capitalize on his business acumen while also cultivating his racial and cultural consciousness. Ultimately, though, the divisions in his identity and his accumulated emotional wounds confounded his effort to overcome his business reversals, and everything Sana built--marriage, family, and business--was lost in an incredibly brief time. Sana had to rebuild his life, and his identity, and set out to do so in a way that focused principally on the meaning and importance of love. In this memoir, Sana details his search for love and truth with startling and profoundly moving intimacy. Never Stop is a personal story of immense power and insight that will appeal to anyone seeking to live a more fulfilling life, no matter where they're from or what path they've taken thus far. Throughout, Sana is guided by Einstein's dictum: "The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."Trade ReviewPraise for Simba Sana’s Never Stop:“A debut memoir that traces an unlikely trajectory from isolation and poverty to financial success and hard-won self-knowledge. . . A candid testimony of struggle and achievement.” —Kirkus Reviews“Sana’s compelling journey from life as a struggling, hungry black boy to resounding success is one that every reader can celebrate.” —Booklist“Hands down one of the best explorations into the Black male psyche I’ve ever read.” —Essence“An amazing story of overcoming challenges and turning setbacks into incredible comebacks. Captivating and compelling.” —Dr. Willie Jolley, bestselling author of A Setback Is a Setup for a Comeback“Never Stop reminds us with bold honesty that sometimes we have to lose everything to gain the unimaginable something greater.” —Patrice Gaines, author of Laughing in the Dark“A brutally honest and powerful memoir written with an open heart. Ultimately a story of triumph, love, and success, Never Stop is also a story of the struggles that often accompany our search for personal peace. This is a book that gives you the courage to examine your own life and the permission to change it.” —Bruce Babashan, USA boxing coachTable of ContentsChapter 1: Foundation Chapter 2: Streets Chapter 3: Education Chapter 4: Movement Chapter 5: Love Chapter 6: Wisdom

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Book SynopsisPublish Your Book: Proven Strategies and Resources for the Enterprising Author is a professional guide to publishing success for the new and struggling author. With insider tips, up-to-date marketing strategies, timelines, and other resources, this book offers a comprehensive tour of the world of book publishing to help authors successfully navigate the industry.Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, this book will help you write your book for a target audience, build promotion into your book, write a successful query letter and book proposal, choose the right publishing option for your book, establish or strengthen your platform, get your book into bookstores, and successfully promote and sell your book. Authors and publishers in any genre and at any stage of the publishing process will benefit from this comprehensive resource, which is an exceptional companion to Promote Your Book (Allworth Press, 2011).

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Book SynopsisThe most powerful tool in your book promotion toolkit is your personality. The fact is that personality sells books. Readers want a relationship with authors of the books they read. If you aren’t a celebrity or a world-known author, it is up to you to create that relationship. Finally, here’s a book that tells you how to develop a greater rapport with your readers, and thus SELL MORE BOOKS through more effective live presentations, well-attended book signings, successful book festival experiences, and more personalized social media techniques. Learn how to get speaking gigs at conferences and how to land and more expertly handle radio, TV, and Internet interviews. This book will teach you how to: · Find and create speaking opportunities at appropriate venues · Handle yourself skillfully in front of an audience · Eliminate your noodle knees · Improve your speaking skills · Improve and protect your speaking voice · Come up with speech topics for fiction and nonfiction books · Organize workshops and present them on your own · Get publicity for your presentations · Land speaking gigs at conferences · Form a bond with audience members · Write a pitch letter and press release · Create better handouts and use them more effectively · Develop better communication skills · Attract more people to your book signings · Sell more books at book festivals If you’re ready to take your book promotion to the next level, this thorough guide is for you!

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Book SynopsisTheodore Low De Vinne (1828–1914) was the leading commercial printer of his day and is one of the most important figures in the book world of the nineteenth-century United States. Illustrating De Vinne's life and accomplishments, and published to coincide with the centenary of his death, this catalogue accompanied a Grolier Club exhibition. It contains books, manuscripts, letters, photographs, and other objects, many drawn from the Club's own collections. A detailed checklist and a foreword by the award-winning type designer Matthew Carter enhance the volume’s usefulness for anyone interested in the history of the book.

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Book SynopsisModern Western calligraphy has seldom been recognized as an art form. Correcting this oversight, Jerry Kelly presents major examples of calligraphic art by over 80 artists spanning the years 1906–2016. He demonstrates that in the computer age, the art of beautiful writing not only lives but thrives. The catalogue accompanied the eponymous Grolier Club. With a preface by Jerry Kelly and an introduction by Christopher Calderhead.

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Book SynopsisA. J. A. Symons was, as Simon C. W. Hewett puts it, “a bibliophile, bibliographer, bookdealer, calligrapher, serial club founder, gourmet, author, biographer, and expert on Baron Corvo, Oscar Wilde, and Victorian musical boxes.” He is perhaps best remembered as the author of The Quest for Corvo. Simon Hewett draws on his own collection, highlighted in a 2018 exhibition at the Grolier Club, representing Symons interests through manuscripts, books, letters, membership lists, photos, catalogues, rule books, and ephemera.

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Book SynopsisA gorgeously illustrated tour of several centuries of American magazine history. The history of the American magazine is intricately entwined with the history of the nation itself. In the colonial eighteenth century, magazines were crucial outlets for revolutionary thought, with the first statement of American independence appearing in Thomas Paine’s Pennsylvania Magazine in June 1776. In the eighteenth century, magazines were some of the first staging grounds for still-contentious debates on Federalism and states’ rights. In the years that followed, the landscape of publications spread in every direction to explore aspects of American life from sports to politics, religion to entertainment, and beyond.Magazines and the American Experience is an expansive and chronological tour of the American magazine from 1733 to the present. Illustrated with more than four hundred color images, the book examines an enormous selection of specialty magazines devoted to a range of interests running from labor to leisure to literature. The contributors—Leonard Banco and Suze Bienaimee, both experts in the field of periodical history—devote particular focus to magazines written for and by Black Americans throughout US history, including David Ruggles’s Mirror of History (1838), [Frederick] Douglass’ Monthly (1859), the combative Messenger (1917), the Negro Digest (1942), and Essence (1970). With its mix of detailed descriptions, historical context, and lush illustrations, this handsome guide to American magazines should entice casual readers and serious collectors alike. Trade Review"A delightful combination of historical commentary and beautiful photos. . . The author covers a dizzying swath of territory with remarkable concision, including magazines devoted to literary pursuits, trade, social activism, business, and fashion. . . . Lomazow’s expertise on the subject is inarguably magisterial. . .The book is adorned with dozens of stunning photographs, some immediately recognizable as iconic and others tantalizingly esoteric and rare. This is a remarkable history—thoughtful, granularly meticulous, and comprehensive—as well as a visually spectacular showpiece. One needn’t be a magazine collector to thoroughly enjoy this refreshingly original overview of American history." * Kirkus Reviews *“The print-besotted can console themselves with a Platonic vision of the Great American Newsstand as it never was, at least not all at the same time. . . . Cumulatively, the titles on display give a window into broad themes of American history, including the emergence of political parties (which, back in the early 19th century, had their own magazines), the coming of the Civil War, the evolution of the Black freedom movement and the rise of new technologies like television and computers.” -- Jennifer Schuessler * The New York Times *“What made magazines appealing in 1720 is the same thing that made them appealing in 1920 and in 2020: a blend of iconoclasm and authority, novelty and continuity, marketability and creativity, social engagement and personal voice. … The American experiment is a print experiment at heart, and, for Lomazow, acquisition has meant watching history fall into place.” —Nathan Heller, The New Yorker -- Nathan Heller * The New Yorker *“It intersperses a history with surveys of baseball, African-American culture, artists as illustrators, science, pulp fiction and humor.” -- Edward Rothstein * The Wall Street Journal *“That these magazines were all collected by one person makes [it] all the more remarkable. Included. . .are the first issues of. . . Time and Life and Playboy and Rolling Stone and Ms. The collection is equally committed to lesser-known domains, including the so-called little magazines that published the literary avant-garde in the early twentieth century, and periodicals dedicated to abolition, prohibition, and other political causes.” -- Jonathan Keats * Forbes *“As is pointed out in the excellent catalogue, magazines built American communities, and fashioned their mores and prejudices.” -- Todd McEwan * Apollo *"Magazines and the American Experience: Highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazow is a much-needed resource and offers a convincing argument for a greater appreciation of the medium." * Bibliographical Society of America *Table of ContentsPreface: magazines!“Magazine Magic”Introduction: The Early History of the Magazine IndustryI. A Chronology of American Magazines1. Building a Nation: 1733–922. A House Divided: 1793–18503. The Industrial Age: 1851–924. America and the World: 1893–19455. The Information Age: 1946–PresentII. Specialty Magazines6. The Urge to Reform: Radical Magazines 7. A Nation of Readers: Literary Magazines8. American Avant-Gardism: Little Magazines9. Literature for the People: Pulp Magazines10. “What fools these mortals be!”: Humor Magazine11. Great American Pastimes: Sports Magazines12. Separate and Unequal: African American Magazines13. The Show Must Go On: Theater, Movie, Radio, and Television Magazines14. On the Move: Transportation Magazines15. Images of a Nation: Art and MagazinesAcknowledgmentsAdditional MagazinesNotesBibliographyContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe story of a foundational aspect of publishing, from Gutenberg’s press to today’s digital type. It’s common knowledge that the name Gutenberg and the words “moveable type” go together. What’s far less known is that Garamond, Baskerville, and Bodoni aren’t just font options in a word processing dropdown menu, but the names of some of the real punchcutters and type designers who raised the essential work of typography to the level of art. ​One Hundred Books Famous in Typography, the latest entry in the Grolier Club’s prestigious Grolier Hundred series, is the story of art and technology working in harmony with each other, all the way from Johannes Gutenberg’s ingenious development of a system for reproducing texts through the introduction of newer technologies like hot-metal line casting, phototype, and digital type. Featuring scholarly yet accessible context for the works discussed and their typographical significance, and illustrated with more than two hundred images, Jerry Kelly’s book is the most comprehensive exploration yet of this essential facet of bookmaking and publishing.Trade Review“From the paper and handsome binding to the printing of the illustrations, every aspect of One Hundred Books Famous in Typography has been carefully considered. This is not just a book about letters, but a book about the evolution of the printed word.” * Times Literary Supplement *“Comprehensive. A major achievement” * Sebastian Carter, author of Twentieth Century Type Designers *“I am so impressed by the depth of research, elegance of [the] text, and the scope of theme. Bravo.” * Steven Heller, School of Visual Arts *Table of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionOne Hundred Books Famous in TypographyFifty Typefaces Famous in TypographyFurther ReadingSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis“Bob Brown’s book is well named. It is, on one hand, a concise chronological history of a unique American publishing venture, and on the other, an autobiography of a maverick soldier and his bizarre assortment of cronies. Above all, it is a great read.”—American Rifleman"I Am Solider of Fortune" is a half-century of history told from ground level. The higher value, though, may be in the perspective it offers on the warrior culture. From the outside, it is easy to believe every soldier of fortune, every ‘private security contractor,’ is a Rambo-style wild man, pumped on testosterone. Some of the characters passing through Mr. Brown's book are that. Others are darkly sinister. Most are measured, disciplined professionals who understand both risk and principle.… At 80, Robert K. Brown stands as a central figure in a shadow world of secrecy and myth. His book opens that world to readers on the outside. There are many who don't like Soldier of Fortune magazine and the culture of rogue warrior exploits it represents. Bob Brown doesn't care.”—The Washington Times

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Book SynopsisThe international battle against Internet pirates has been heating up. Increasingly law enforcement is paying attention to book piracy as ebook publishing gains an ever-larger market share. With this threat to their health and even survival, publishers and authors must act much like the music, film, and software giants that have waged war against pirates for the past two decades. Now, The Battle against Internet Piracy opens a discussion on what happens to the victims of piracy. Drawing from a large number of interviews—from writers, self-publishers, mainstream publishers, researchers, students, admitted pirates, free speech advocates, attorneys, and local and international law enforcement officials—the text speaks to such issues as:•Why pirates have acted and how they feel about it•The conflict over constitutional rights and piracy•The current laws surrounding Internet piracy•Examples of cases taken against some pirates•Alternatives to piracy•Personal experiences of being ripped off•The ways piracy affects different industries and how they’ve respondedAuthor Gini Graham Scott prepares readers to arm themselves against these modern perils by learning about copyright, infringement, and how to prevent, combat, and end book piracy.Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

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Book SynopsisWorks of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation. This original book takes readers inside popular genres of fiction, including crime, fantasy, and romance, to reveal how personal tastes, social connections, and industry knowledge shape genre worlds. Attuned to both the pleasure and the profession of producing genre fiction, the authors investigate contemporary developments in the field—the rise of Amazon, self-publishing platforms, transmedia storytelling, and growing global publishing conglomerates—and show how these interact with older practices, from fan conventions to writers' groups.Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies, fan studies, and studies of the book and publishing cultures, Genre Worlds considers how contemporary genre fiction is produced and circulated on a global scale. Its authors propose an innovative theoretical framework that unfolds genre fiction's most compelling characteristics: its connected social, industrial, and textual practices. As they demonstrate, genre fiction books are not merely texts; they are also nodes of social and industrial activity involving the production, dissemination, and reception of the texts.

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Book SynopsisWorks of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation. This original book takes readers inside popular genres of fiction, including crime, fantasy, and romance, to reveal how personal tastes, social connections, and industry knowledge shape genre worlds. Attuned to both the pleasure and the profession of producing genre fiction, the authors investigate contemporary developments in the field—the rise of Amazon, self-publishing platforms, transmedia storytelling, and growing global publishing conglomerates—and show how these interact with older practices, from fan conventions to writers' groups.Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies, fan studies, and studies of the book and publishing cultures, Genre Worlds considers how contemporary genre fiction is produced and circulated on a global scale. Its authors propose an innovative theoretical framework that unfolds genre fiction's most compelling characteristics: its connected social, industrial, and textual practices. As they demonstrate, genre fiction books are not merely texts; they are also nodes of social and industrial activity involving the production, dissemination, and reception of the texts.

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Book SynopsisIn the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than ever before with opportunities to participate in public life. While most organizations at the time were run by and for white men, women—both Black and white—were able to reshape their lives and their social worlds through their participation in these institutions.Organizing Women traces the histories of middle-class women—rural and urban, white and Black, married and unmarried—who used public and private institutions of print to tell their stories, expand their horizons, and further their ambitions. Drawing from a diverse range of examples, Christine Pawley introduces readers to women who ran branch libraries and library schools in Chicago and Madison, built radio empires from their midwestern farms, formed reading clubs, and published newsletters. In the process, we learn about the organizations themselves, from libraries and universities to the USDA extension service and the YWCA, and the ways in which women confronted gender discrimination and racial segregation in the course of their work.

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Book SynopsisIn the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than ever before with opportunities to participate in public life. While most organizations at the time were run by and for white men, women—both Black and white—were able to reshape their lives and their social worlds through their participation in these institutions.Organizing Women traces the histories of middle-class women—rural and urban, white and Black, married and unmarried—who used public and private institutions of print to tell their stories, expand their horizons, and further their ambitions. Drawing from a diverse range of examples, Christine Pawley introduces readers to women who ran branch libraries and library schools in Chicago and Madison, built radio empires from their midwestern farms, formed reading clubs, and published newsletters. In the process, we learn about the organizations themselves, from libraries and universities to the USDA extension service and the YWCA, and the ways in which women confronted gender discrimination and racial segregation in the course of their work.

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Book SynopsisWhen Willard M. Kiplinger launched the groundbreaking The Kiplinger Washington Letter in 1923, he left the sidelines of traditional journalism to strike out on his own. With a specialized knowledge of finance and close connections to top Washington officials, Kiplinger was uniquely positioned to tell deeper truths about the intersections between government and business. With careful reporting and insider access, he delivered perceptive analysis and forecasts of business, economic, and politics news to busy business executives, and the newsletter's readership grew exponentially over the coming decades.More than just a pioneering business journalist, Kiplinger emerged as a quiet but powerful link between the worlds of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt, and used his Letter to play a little-known but influential role in the New Deal. Part journalism history, part biography, and part democratic chronicle, The Insider offers a well-written and deeply researched portrayal of how Kiplinger not only developed a widely read newsletter that launched a business publishing empire but also how he forged a new role for the journalist as political actor.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 “Pound My Beat and My Typewriter” Chapter 2 A Bridge between Wall Street and Washington Chapter 3 A Two-Way Street Chapter 4 Fetching Information and Guidance Chapter 5 A Battle with “Economic Royalists” Chapter 6 “They Seem Reasonable” Chapter 7 The Promise of Independent Journalism Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWhen Willard M. Kiplinger launched the groundbreaking The Kiplinger Washington Letter in 1923, he left the sidelines of traditional journalism to strike out on his own. With a specialized knowledge of finance and close connections to top Washington officials, Kiplinger was uniquely positioned to tell deeper truths about the intersections between government and business. With careful reporting and insider access, he delivered perceptive analysis and forecasts of business, economic, and politics news to busy business executives, and the newsletter's readership grew exponentially over the coming decades.More than just a pioneering business journalist, Kiplinger emerged as a quiet but powerful link between the worlds of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt, and used his Letter to play a little-known but influential role in the New Deal. Part journalism history, part biography, and part democratic chronicle, The Insider offers a well-written and deeply researched portrayal of how Kiplinger not only developed a widely read newsletter that launched a business publishing empire but also how he forged a new role for the journalist as political actor.

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Book SynopsisThis monograph covers what a copyright is, what can be copyrighted, ownership of copyright, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, duration of a copyright, statutory formalities of copyright, infringement, fair use, remedies, and criminal offenses.

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Book SynopsisAn Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No Other“...illuminates his life and works in ways not seen before.” —Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner and author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through#1 New Release in Historical Latin America BiographiesDiscover Hemingway’s biography through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist. New York Times bestselling author of Salt, Mark Kurlansky turns his historical eye to the life of Ernest Hemingway. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, The Importance of Not Being Ernest shows the huge shadow Hemingway casts. The perfect gift for writers. By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky’s life has always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingway's legend, starting with being in Idaho the day of Hemingway’s death. The Importance of Not Being Ernest explores the intersections between Hemingway’s and Kurlansky’s lives, resulting in creative accounts of two inspiring writing careers. Travel the world with Mark Kurlansky and Ernest Hemingway in this personal memoir, where Kurlansky details his ten years in Paris and his time as a journalist in Spain—both cities important to Hemingway’s adventurous life and prolific writing. Paris, Basque Country, Havana and Idaho. Get to know the extraordinary people he met there—those who had also fallen under the Hemingway spell, including a Vietnam veteran suffering from the same syndrome the author did, two winners of the Key West Hemingway look-alike contest, and the man in Idaho who took Hemingway hunting and fishing.In this unique gift for writers, find: A memoir full of entertaining and illuminative stories Little-known historical facts about Hemingway’s life Anecdotes about those who suffer from what the Kurlansky calls “hemitis” Readers of Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley in Search of America, or The Boys will love The Importance of Not Being Ernest.Trade Review“Kurlansky (Salt: A World History) focuses on all of the coincidental intersections between his life and Ernest Hemingway’s in this multi-genre work. Part travel memoir, part history, it trapeses through France, Spain, Cuba, Idaho, and finally New York, connecting literary and moments and personal experiences in Kurlansky’s and Hemingway’s lives. Reports from Kurlansky’s and Hemingway’s careers as foreign correspondents, then expats, in Spain and Paris blend seamlessly with Kurlansky’s descriptions of regional conflicts and cultures, and each chapter is connected by watercolor stills from Kurlansky’s travel diaries, which add an authentic touch to the storytelling. Beyond his astute humor, Kurlansky handles the contradictions between ‘Hemingway, the man’ and ‘Hemingway, the myth’ with genuine reverence and a critical eye. He gives us another lens through which to view Hemingway’s work: geography; he argues that Hemingway himself impacted the places he traveled as much as did his writing. VERDICT: An absolute delight! Full of personality, Kurlansky’s book will enchant history, literature, and Hemingway fans alike."—Library Journal, Starred Review“The ghost of Hemingway has haunted and inspired at least three generations of American writers. Mark Kurlansky is no exception, and his detailed, self-deprecating account of the presence of that ghost is as brilliantly revealing of Hemingway as it is of Kurlansky himself. He knows his Hemingway, the life and the works, and he knows his Kurlansky, and he’s bitingly honest about both writers. Kurlansky, however, comes off as a hell of a lot more likable.”—Russell Banks, author of Continental Drift, Cloudsplitter, and Lost Memory of Skin“For all that’s already been written about Hemingway,The Importance of Not Being Ernest illuminates his life and works in ways not seen before. Our Not-Ernest is a superbly knowledgeable and entertaining guide, and the book artfully braids the Hemingway narrative with Kurlansky’s own rich experiences as a world-traveling journalist and bestselling author. Kurlansky’s idea for a memoir was inspired; the result is a brilliant and original achievement, a feast for readers, whether fans of Papa or not.”—Sigrid Nunez, author of the National Book Award-winning novel, The Friend, and What Are You Going ThroughTable of ContentsPROLOGUE: A Dream Intrudes CHAPTER ONE: Entrances and Exits CHAPTER TWO: A Writer Must Escape CHAPTER THREE: The Grass in Paris CHAPTER FOUR: The Patent-leather Soul of Spain CHAPTER FIVE: Cuba and the Unspeakable Feast CHAPTER SIX: Idaho and the Last Escape EPILOGUE: Unnatural New York BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisThis invaluable fiction writer’s guide is the resource you need to start - and, more importantly, finish - that novel that you’ve been itching to write! Using her tried-and-true methods, writing coach Char arms you with all the knowledge you need to jump feet first into putting your story to paper. Through her engaging instruction, you’ll learn how to craft interesting, complex characters that your readers will root for (or against!), avoid plot holes, pacing issues and other common pitfalls that can trip up new writers, write effective dialogue and so much more! Whether you’re writing a contemporary thriller, a historical romance or anything in-between, Char’s instruction and hands-on exercises will jumpstart your creative juices and help you fight through writer’s block, nail your character’s voice and write effective dialogue and finally finish the novel you’ve been dreaming of.

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Book Synopsis"A witty, toothy, family saga, unashamedly intellectual . . . that, like youth, seems to have it all—energy, aspiration, and self-delusion." —Catherine Taylor, Financial Times"MEET SWEDEN'S SALLY ROONEY" —The Times of London"A wry bestseller that reads like the effortlessly chic European cousin of Fleishman is in Trouble." —The Telegraph of London"Poised at the intersection of life and art, reality and imagination, [Collected Works] blends the thrill of mystery with the curiosity and depth of philosophical inquiry." —The New Yorker"Collected Works . . . is as insatiable in its read as it is insightful to modern challenges of family, memory, and finding purpose." —Matthew Bedard, Flaunt"[A] sweeping and complex drama of family, art, and sacrifice . . . Readers will be captivated." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"A richly evocative work from a major new talent." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review A compelling mystery and poignant bildungsroman for readers of Karl Ove Knausgård, Collected Works is a novel about love, power, and art—and what leads us to make the pivotal decisions that change the course of our lives.Martin Berg’s wife, Cecilia, disappeared years ago. His memories of their carefree college days seem ever out of reach, and the intellectual curiosities that once made him the object of her desire have given way to midlife uncertainty. The methodical and quiet life he’s made for himself and his adult children couldn’t be further from the one he dreamed of in his youth, when the manuscripts lying around his apartment were flush with promise and his ailing publishing house was still new.Perhaps nothing reminds Martin of these failures more than his friend Gustav Becker, a wildly successful painter who’s returned to Gothenburg on the eve of his career-defining retrospective. Gustav, meanwhile, is hurting too. His obsession with Cecilia’s inexplicable disappearance had made his art hagiographic, fixated on her image. When posters for Gustav’s retrospective plaster Cecilia’s face on major billboards across the city, Martin’s daughter Rakel learns a haunting fact that points toward her mother’s whereabouts. She and her brother chase this clue across time, memory, and Europe to discover why Cecilia abandoned her family, with the imagined hope that the question of what makes a person leave can ever be answered.Collected Works, a major hit in Sweden, sold over 100,000 copies in its first year in print, instantly making Lydia Sandgren a literary sensation. Winner of the 2020 August Prize for Fiction, the novel is set to publish in 17 territories.Trade Review"[Collected Works] has flavours of the realism of her countryman, Karl Ove Knausgard, more than a hint of emotional American big hitters like Jeffrey Eugenides or Jonathan Franzen, and something of the twists and turns of a chronicle like War and Peace."—India Lewis, The Arts Desk (UK)"Collected Works has been put together with the care of a medieval scribe and the patient skill of a master carver. It is without doubt one of the most meticulously built works of fiction I’ve read in a long time." —Charlie Connelly, The New European (UK)"This is the 600-page Swedish debut novel I will be pressing into everyone’s hands this spring. Don’t be alarmed! The pages frankly fly by—in fact, I wish there were more" —LitHub"The mystery at the heart of the story adds urgency to this warm, engaging, and funny novel about the inebriation of youth and the sobriety of middle age; about lives shaped by art and ideas; about our human flaws and joys. Collected Works is a thoroughly enjoyable book."—Aysegül Savas, author of Walking on the Ceiling"Sandgren hooks the reader with an absorbing, multilayered plot that shifts between past and present, building slowly towards the emotional and narrative mystery at its heart." —Anne Foley, Booklist"[An] absorbing story . . . [Collected Works] is a witty, toothy, family saga, unashamedly intellectual but rarely bogged down by the weight of its theories . . . It's refreshing to read such a confidently ambitious work that holds art, literature, and philosophy close to its heart . . . Collected Works is an assured, bittersweet novel that, like youth, seems to have it all—energy, aspiration, and self-delusion."—Catherine Taylor, Financial Times"Lydia Sandgren's Collected Works is the most convincing work of literary fiction I've read in years: one part family saga, one part buddy comedy, one part mystery, one part bildungsroman, and one part philosophical inquiry into the nature of art, the whole filled with unforgettable characters, wry humor, and knock-down gorgeous sentences, positively vibrating with intelligence and style. People often write, with varying degrees of accuracy, that new books feel destined to become classics, but Collected Works feels like it already is one—and you, lucky reader, have stumbled upon it."—Emily Temple, author of The Lightness

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Book SynopsisONE OF LIT HUB''S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 • ESQUIRE''s August 2023 Book Club Pick"If books are important to you because you''re a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to you as well. If it matters to you that your vegetables are organic, your clothes made without child labor, your beer brewed without a culture of misogyny, then it should matter how books are made and sold to you."With Amazon’s growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader’s hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face. From the relationship between bookselling and white supremacy, to censorship and the spread of misinformation, to the consolidation o

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Book SynopsisGhostwriters, for so long the publishing industry's best kept secret, are finally stepping out from the shadows.The Complete Guide To Ghostwriting is a comprehensive overview of this secretive profession, which has seen a rapid increase in demand in every genre of book. Teena Lyons has enlisted the help of more than thirty of the UK's best-known ghostwriters, publishers and agents who share stories about their collaborations and valuable tips for success.Read this book to understand: Why people use ghostwriters and who might need one from ordinary people to celebrities What to expect when working with a ghostwriter, from beginning to end How to get the best out of a publishing collaboration What to do if the process doesn't go to plan The skills and knowledge you need to succeed as a ghostwriter

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Book SynopsisDespite her family's ailing finances, Diana Athill's childhood - spent in a lovely house in Norfolk - was blissful. In 1932, she fell in love with Paul: an undergraduate who tutored her younger brother. Within several years, she had moved to Oxford to study and they were engaged to be married. Then everything fell apart in the cruellest possible way. Athill's debut is also her most personal: a dissection of personal tragedy and the struggle to rebuild her life amid severe disappointment and loneliness. Unfolding throughout the Second World War, Instead of a Letter is an inspiring story of love and loss, heartbreak and hope, and a testament to her strength of character - her vivacity, honesty and perspicacity.Trade ReviewHer first and still most perfect perfect book -- Carole Angier * Literary Review *The reader sees the transformation of the battered soul into a buoyant woman, open-minded and open-hearted -- Hilary Mantel * Spectator *This classic memoir ... well deserves another airing * Daily Mail *I first came across Diana Athill when I was 17. I picked up her memoir, Instead of a Letter, attracted to its title. I was driven on by avid inexperience, sure that I could find out from Athill what life itself was not yet ready to tell me about love, sex and - most impressively - heartbreak. I admired her elegant vigour and control of words in contrast to the freedom with which she wrote about herself. She became, in my reading life, a friend -- Kate Kellaway * Observer *One certainly admires both her and this truly excellent book, which is a masterpiece of confessional literature * Tablet *The documentary of one woman's ordinary and yet, in her telling, wholly extraordinary life -- Erica Wagner * The Times *A model mix of clear-eyed analysis and deep, unashamed feeling * Sunday Times *

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Book SynopsisThe gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and reshaped our world.The last decade has seen the News industry face unprecedented change. The sometimes-century old institutions which were once the bastions of truth have had their dominance eroded by vast innovations in viral technology and, as millennial appetites force the industry to choose between principles of objectivity and impartiality, the survivors must confront the horrifying cost of their success: sexual scandal, fake news, the election of President Trump and the shaking of democracy.Taking us behind the scenes at four media titans - BuzzFeed, VICE, The New York Times and The Washington Post - Abramson reveals the human drama behind this shift: one involving deal-making tycoons, thrusting reporters, hard-bitten editors, egomaniacs, bullshitters, provocateurs and bullies, with some surfing and others drowning in the breaking wave of change. 'A cracking, essential read… Abramson knows where most of the bodies are buried and is prepared to draw the reader a detailed map' GuardianTrade ReviewA cracking, essential read … [Abramson] knows where most of the bodies are buried and is prepared to draw the reader a detailed map * Guardian *A masterwork … a vastly useful immersion in the ways of contemporary journalism * Financial Times *Chock-full of arresting titbits … describes the perfect storm that has engulfed newspapers over the past dozen years * Telegraph *Amazing. Filled with colourful inside stories, this book is essential for anyone who wants to understand today’s media and how it is affecting our society -- WALTER ISAACSONDeeply researched, wonderfully written and filled with fascinating portraits. Jill Abramson tells the truth about the news business as only she can tell it. An important book at a crucial time -- GAY TALESEA fascinating read -- Liz Thomson * The Arts Desk *

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Book SynopsisThe gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friendsSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. She reported from the most dangerous places in the world and her anecdotes about encounters with figures like Colonel Gaddafi and Yasser Arafat were incomparable. She was much admired, and as famous for her wild parties as for the extraordinary lengths to which she went to tell the story. Fellow foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum draws on unpublished diaries and interviews with friends, family and colleagues to produce a story of one of the most daring and inspirational women of our times. A Sunday Times Book of the Year'A stunningly good biography' WILLIAM BOYDTrade ReviewAn extraordinary account of one reporter's fearless and ultimately fatal dedication... Hilsum draws an empathetic portrait of a woman whose courage often crossed into recklessness, both in combat zones and outside them... Now, thanks to Hilsum's deeply reported and passionately written book, Colvin has the full accounting that she deserves -- Joshua Hammer * New York Times *A wonderful book – a fitting tribute, certainly, but also a well-told tale of a remarkable life -- Jane Bonham Carter * Sunday Times *A stunningly good biography – compelling, revelatory and very moving. Lindsey Hilsum is the perfect writer to tell the story of Marie Colvin's rackety, brave and charismatic life -- William BoydWriting a biography of Marie Colvin is like capturing lightning in a bottle, but Lindsey Hilsum has the knowledge and personal experience to help us understand what drew Colvin to rush towards the eye of the storm at such great risk. It is a superbly fitting tribute -- Annie LennoxRarely has a friend and colleague written such a brave and uncompromising testament to such a rare, brave and uncompromising woman. Would that a few more of us should be so blessed in our courage and our friends -- Shami ChakrabartiHilsum marshals not just empathy for her subject, who was also a friend, but investigative and critical skills and damn fine storytelling... Hilsum's understanding of the background to each conflict, and the reality of life as a correspondent in the field, is one of the great strengths of the book... In Extremis rescues Marie Colvin from the rubble of Baba Amr, and brings her tragically, and tenderly, to life * Irish Times *Superb. A fitting account of the life of one of the finest war correspondents of our time, written by another. I admired Marie greatly, and In Extremis showed me I was right to do so -- John SimpsonThe clearest and most rounded picture...emerges from Hilsum's book. Colvin herself, courageous and often tortured, rises again from its pages -- Emma Graham-Harrison * Observer *One of the modern world’s most experienced and admired foreign correspondents, Lindsey Hilsum, has now written a riveting, intimate and deeply moving account of the epic life of her late friend and colleague, Marie Colvin, who will be long remembered – not least because of Hilsum’s fine work in this book – as amongst the great war reporters of her generation -- Jon Lee AndersonAn inspiring and intimate biography of one of the bravest journalists of our time by one of her finest colleagues. Lindsey Hilsum takes us inside the world of a woman who changed the world around her -- Lyse Doucet

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Book SynopsisWhat social change has been achieved over the past 30 years?What have been the main barriers to progress?What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today?Marking Jessica Kingsley Publishers' 30th year of publishing books on social and behavioural issues, this book gathers together over 30 leading thinkers from diverse disciplines - from autism specialists and social workers through to trans rights activists and complementary therapists.Contributors provide a thoughtful account of how their field of expertise has changed over the past 30 years, and how they see it evolving in the future.Offering a unique insight into many professions, 30 Years of Social Change highlights much of the positive social change achieved in the past 30 years across these fields and the challenges we face in the future.Table of Contents1. How our understanding of and approach to autism has developed over 30 years. Tony Attwood. 2. The Stigma of Autism. Dr Luke Beardon. 3. What I have learnt over three decades as a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Nisha Dogra. 4. Therapeutic Communities: adapt or die!. Rex Haigh and Jan Lees. 5. Mental Health Stigma: Talking and Taboo. Sarah Carr. 6. Developments in Art Therapy over the Last 30 Years. Marian Liebmann. 7. Music Therapy. Grace Watts 8. What seest thou else? The past and future of forensic psychotherapy. Gwen Adshead. 9. Fake-News, Post Truth and the Glimmer of Hope: Some Changes in the Educational Landscape, 1987-2017. Paul Cooper. 10. A brief story of counselling in schools since 1987. Nick Luxmoore. 11. Children's rights and power. Priscilla Alderson. 12. Educational Psychology: The Last Thirty Years. Barbara Kelly. 13. Reflections on the past 30 years of restorative practice in the UK. Belinda Hopkins. 14. Social Work. Joyce Lishman. 15. Adult safeguarding. Michael Mandelstam. 16. 30 years of Service User Involvement and Advocacy. Peter Beresford. 17. Dementia: Reflections. Dawn Brooker. 18. Changing views of safeguarding children since 1987. Harriet Ward. 19. 30 Years of Social Work and the Media. Martin Barrow. 20. Breaking the Silence and Secrecy of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Christiane Sanderson. 21. 30 Years in the field of adoption and foster care. Kim Golding. 22. Other People's Children: Adoption. Sally Donovan. 23. Youth Work: Personal, Social and Political Education. Vanessa Rogers. 24. Occupational therapy. Winnie Dunn. 25. Using a 'Functional Nutrition' Approach. Lorraine Nicolle. 26. Chinese Medicine in the West. Nigel Ching. 27. Yoga Therapy: A Pleasant Surprise. Matthew Taylor. 28. Chinese medicine - journey from the fringes. 29. Aromatherapy Literature 2987-2017. Jennifer Peace Rhind. 30. Developments in Shiatsu over the last 30 years. Carola Beresford-Cooke. 31. Gender Diversity. CJ Atkinson.

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Book SynopsisIn 1984, additive manufacturing represented a new methodology for manipulating matter, consisting of harnessing materials and/or energy to create three-dimensional physical objects. Today, additive manufacturing technologies represent a market of around 5 billion euros per year, with an annual growth between 20 and 30%. Different processes, materials and dimensions (from nanometer to decameter) within additive manufacturing techniques have led to 70,000 publications on this topic and to several thousand patents with applications as wide-ranging as domestic uses. Volume 1 of this series of books presents these different technologies with illustrative industrial examples. In addition to the strengths of 3D methods, this book also covers their weaknesses and the developments envisaged in terms of incremental innovations to overcome them.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Foreword xi Preface xv Introduction xxix Part 1 From Spectacular Applications to the Economic Market of Additive Manufacturing 1 Introduction to Part 1 3 Chapter 1 Some Significant Examples 7 1.1 Introduction 8 1.2 Maritime, military, aerial and spatial applications 11 1.3 Conception: art and new domestic applicative niches 14 1.3.1 Art and additive manufacturing 17 1.3.2 Archaeology, museum restoration, reproduction 19 1.3.3 Construction sector 21 1.4 Mechanical parts 23 1.5 Land transport 28 1.6 The question of spare parts 32 1.7 Toys for the young and the “not-so-young” 33 1.8 “Traditional” medical applications 34 1.9 Animation 39 1.10 Scientific applications 40 1.10.1 Optics 40 1.10.2 Chemical and process engineering 41 1.10.3 Complex structures 42 1.10.4 Toward the infinitely small 43 1.11 Nanometric origami 45 1.12 Conclusion 47 1.13 Bibliography 49 Chapter 2 Integration of Additive Manufacturing Technologies into Society 69 2.1 Introduction 70 2.2 Markets and application domains of 3D printing 72 2.2.1 Markets 72 2.2.2 Principal application niches 76 2.3 Growth dynamics 80 2.4 Studies on the dynamic of growth 84 2.4.1 Convergence 84 2.4.2 “Attractiveness” of additive manufacturing technologies 87 2.4.3 Possible positioning of the industry 132 2.5 Toward a certain stabilization: The dynamics of innovation 140 2.6 Conclusion 146 2.7 Bibliography 152 Part 2 3D Processes 175 Introduction to Part 2 177 Chapter 3 Processes, Machines and Materials 181 3.1 Introduction 183 3.2 Stereolithography 188 3.2.1 History of 2D1/2 processes 188 3.2.2 Other techniques developed since 1984 191 3.2.3 Light–matter interaction and space-resolved polymerization 193 3.2.4 Consequences 197 3.2.5 Families of materials used 201 3.2.6 Layer implementation 207 3.2.7 Coupling of polymerized surface generation and volumetric reduction 207 3.3 Process of wire fusion 207 3.3.1 FDM or FFF materials 211 3.3.2 Adhesion 212 3.3.3 Synthesis 214 3.4 Sheet or powder gluing process 215 3.4.1 Bi-material process (SDL) 215 3.4.2 Variant using powders: 3DP Process 217 3.4.3 Process using a cross-linkable polymer (SIR, for “Soluble/Insoluble Reaction”) 218 3.4.4 Synthesis 223 3.5 Powder fusion/sintering 225 3.5.1 Materials 227 3.5.2 Energy sources 228 3.5.3 Physicochemical aspects and constraints linked to the process 228 3.5.4 Simultaneous contribution of matter and energy 233 3.5.5 MPA process 235 3.5.6 Synthesis 236 3.6 Conclusion 238 3.7 Bibliography 245 Conclusion 265 Index 275

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.In this original study, Siobhán McIlvanney examines the beginnings of the women’s press in France. Figurations of the Feminine is the first work in English to assess the most significant publications which make up this diverse, yet critically neglected, medium. It traces the evolving representations of womanhood that appear over the first ninety years of women’s journals in France. McIlvanney’s insightful readings demonstrate that these journals are often characterised by a remarkable degree of ‘feminist’ content. This refutes the general conception of the women’s press as an idealised, hyper-feminised space inhabited by the intellectually idle – whether in the form of readers or writers – disseminating and legitimating a limited range of patriarchal stereotypes and idées reçues. Through textual analyses of different ‘generic’ subsections, whether the literary journal, the fashion magazine, the domestic press or more explicitly politicised outputs, Figurations of the Feminine challenges the critical commonplaces which have been applied to the women’s press since its genesis, both in France and elsewhere. It demonstrates the political richness of this medium and the privileged perspectives it gives us on female self-expression and on the everyday lives of French women from across the class spectrum during this key historical period.Trade Review‘A theoretically sophisticated history of the early female press in France, Figurations of the Feminine fills an important gap in French literary studies and gender history. This book offers the first comprehensive history of the women’s press in France in the politically turbulent years from 1758 to 1848. Siobhán McIlvanney’s deeply researched study will engage scholars across a range of fields and will inspire them to think in fresh ways about the complexity of gender construction in the popular press, and the potential for women’s agency and consciousness through the liberating act of reading.’ Jennifer M. Jones, Department of History, Rutgers University‘Early French women’s journals were about so much more than fashion. Not only do they provide today’s reader with valuable insights into the cultural backgrounds of their writers and readers, but they were also a key means of promoting women’s emancipation at the time. And this is what Siobhán McIlvanney’s excellent book is all about.’ Dr Annemarie Kleinert, Author of Le Journal des dames et des modes ou la conquête de l’Europe féminine (1797-1839)'An engaging and valuable contribution to the field of early French women’s history.' Professor Joyce Dixon-Fyle, DePauw University‘The book splendidly debunks assumptions about early women’s press…For anyone interested in media, communication, representation politics, and feminism, this constitutes a captivating account of an overlooked literary genre, also providing a model for studies in other places or times.’Hélène B. Ducros, Europe Now'This thoroughly researched monograph, deeply grounded in historical documentation, sheds light on a little-studied literary genre that could be considered ‘as more pivotal to the proliferation of Enlightenment ideas…than more “heavyweight” literary and philosophical texts’. It will appeal to scholars and students of French history, French education, early modern women and gender studies.' Anne R. Larsen, French History‘[McIlvanney] bridges a significant gap in scholarship by synthesizing a rich array of previous work on specific authors, periodicals, and historical contexts in a finely crafted comparative study subtended by strong theoretical readings of the ways in which the women’s press, consisting for the most part of women journalists, gave voice to the concerns of their gender.’Mary Rice-DeFosse, Modern Language Review'A rich contribution to the history of French women and their press, this book will undoubtedly generate dialogue among scholars interested in the history and role of women in French print culture.' Cheryl Morgan, French Studies‘Figurations of the Feminine is a detailed, solidly useful contribution to women’s history as well as cultural studies, spanning the end of the Ancien Regime through the rise of the Second Republic. Highly recommended.’ Kate M. Bonin, French Review 'Figurations of the Feminine is a beautifully written, rigorously researched study, an absolute must-read for anyone interested in the history of journalism, feminism, and women's writing in general.'Hope Christiansen, Dalhousie French Studies‘McIlvanney’s primary research, mostly conducted in the archives at the Bibliothèque Nationale and Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal in Paris, demonstrates thorough and meticulous attention to the details of the journals both as material objects and as written and illustrated texts in society… the book is a tremendous resource for scholars of French periodicals or women’s journalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.’ Tonya J. Moutrey, *ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 *Table of ContentsIntroductionGeneral TrendsChapter 1. Women’s Roles, Rights and Representations in France, 1758-1848Chapter 2. Women Writers and Readers: The Beginnings of French Women’s Journals and Le Journal des dames (1759-1778)Chapter 3. Educating the Female Consumer: Early Fashion JournalsChapter 4. A Woman’s Place: Marriage and Homemaking in the Early Domestic PressChapter 5. Reforming the Feminine: Early Feminist JournalsConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisWrite a self-help book that makes a differenceIf you’re a coach, therapist, or trainer wanting to write a book that transforms your readers’ lives, you may feel unsure about what’s involved. How do you translate the words that come so effortlessly when you’re with a client into inspirational and convincing advice on the page? What’s the secret?This is the book that guides you on your journey to becoming a successful self-help author. It gives you everything you need to write, publish, and promote a book that does justice to your ideas and expertise.DEFINE YOUR BOOKUnderstand what you want to achieve with your book, the exact topic to write about, who your readers are, and what kind of self-help guide it will be. So many authors miss this vital step.OUTLINE YOUR BOOKDiscover easy and effective ways of structuring your content so that it effortlessly takes your readers from problem to solution.WRITE YOUR BOOKLearn how to win over your readers’ hearts and minds by writing clearly, persuasively, and authentically.PUT YOUR BOOK OUT THEREUncover the mysteries of editing, publishing, and marketing your book so that it reaches a ready-made audience of willing readers.GINNY CARTER is a bestselling ghostwriter of over 25 books, a book coach, and an award-winning author in her own right. Specialising in self-help guides, business books, and memoirs, she’s ghosted books on a wide variety of topics. Ginny is also the author of the award-winning Your Business, Your Book, which takes you through the key steps for planning, writing, and promoting a business book.Learn more at www.marketingtwentyone.co.ukTrade Review...easy to follow and full of insightful yet practical information that I found very interesting and helpful. I've come out of reading this with a better understanding of what's involved in writing a self help book and how to go about planning and writing it. - NetGalley * Netgalley *I learned a lot from How to Write a Self-Help Book by Ginny Carter...It covers the book writing process right from planning the structure of your book before you even put pen to paper, all the way to publishing and marketing. It was a treat that the author gave examples of books to demonstrate each format. This is a very specific book designed for a fledgling self-help author, and if that’s you (like me) you'll find it invaluable. - NetGalley * Netgalley *This is a short book but it really packs in a lot of useful information about writing a self help book. I’ve read a lot of books on writing nonfiction but I was very impressed with how much I learned from this one - everything is presented clearly and succinctly and is full of useful tips and guidance. We learn about planning and outlining the book, choosing a topic, considering the intended reader, writing persuasively, finding your voice, as well as editing and publishing. It is very well-written and not at all dry, and was a very enjoyable read. I highly recommended this book to anyone who wants to write nonfiction, not just self-help. - NetGalleyThis book is a shining exemplar of a great self-help book - incredibly readable, tightly structured and incisive, and wearing its knowledge with an enjoyably light touch. ...This book is bound to become a classic in its field! - AmazonTable of ContentsWhat You'll Get Out of This Book Part One: Define Your Book - Select Your Journey 1. Your Aim 2. Your Topic 3. Your Readers 4. Your Readers' Journey Part Two: Outline Your Book - Plan Your Journey 5. Your Road Map 6. Your Detailed Itinerary Part Three: Write Your Book - Embark on Your Journey 7. Be Clear 8. Be Persuasive 9. Be You Part Four: Put Your Book Out There - Arrive at Your Destination 10. Edit Your Book 11. Publish Your Book 12. Make Your Book Pay The End or The Beginning? The Author Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThe path to success as an academic economist is littered with obstacles. Even with excellent research material, one faces issues of running the seminar and conference gauntlet, tempestuous relationships with co-authors, the selection of an appropriate journal outlet, a detailed peer review process and, with it, the ever-present spectre of rejection.This collection tackles the issues confronting the up-and-coming economist. The authors include some of the subject's finest luminaries who offer friendly and invaluable advice as well as providing a more light-hearted look at the publication process. Some articles have become classics in their own right. They vary from an examination of seminal (and originally rejected) articles by leading economists to an analysis of why referees are not adequately paid. The tools of both economic theory and econometrics are applied to uncover some home truths and, as a result, these papers provide new insights into the nature of economic discourse.Trade Review'We have all had rejections that infuriated us because the reviewers always seem not to have read our work with the care and understanding that it merits.' -- William J. Baumol, New York University and Princeton University, US'I somehow rub referees up the wrong way, maybe by claiming more originality than I really have. Whatever the cause, I still open return letters from journals with fear and trembling, and more often than not get bad news. I am having a terrible time with my current work on economic geography. Referees tell me that it is obvious, it's wrong and anyway they said it years ago.' -- Paul Krugman, MIT, US'Everyone has a "good" paper rejected at one time because of a vicious unfair stupid referee and everyone has a "bad" paper rejected at one time because it deserves to be buried. Neither are quite as devastating as a teenager being rejected in some passionate one-sided romance, but you still can't forget them.' -- Richard Freeman, NBER, US'Economists are peculiar social scientists not least because they attach enormous value to the publication of articles in the refereed journals and virtually no value to the publication of books. It is difficult for economists to have a coffee break without a conversation which quickly turns to questions like: "Why was my article refereed by so-and-so journal? Why did the anonymous referees say what they did? Where shall I send my next paper?" In short, the publication process merits a hideous fascination if only because it governs the pecuniary and non-pecuniary rewards of the economics profession. Here are 15 classic articles on that topic gathered together by an editor who has long studied the practices of economics journals. Although economists do not read books, this is one book they will want to read - and with profit too.' -- The late Mark Blaug, formerly of the University of London and University of Buckingham, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Success and Rejection in Economics 1. Life Among the Econ 2. The Young Economist’s Guide to Professional Etiquette 3. How are the Might Fallen 4. Aging and Productivity Among Economists Part II: Referees and Editors 5. Facts and Myths About Refereeing 6. Is There Value Added from the Review Process in Economics? 7. The Effects of Double-Blind versus Single-Blind Reviewing 8. Favoritism versus Search for Good Papers 9. Why Referees are not Paid (Enough) Part III: To Co-Author or Not to Co-Author 10. Estimates of the Returns to Quality and Co-authorship in Economic Academia 11. Trends in Multi-Authored Papers in Economics 12. First Author Conditions Part IV: The Influence of Economics Journals 13. The Journals of Economics 14. The Scholarly Journal Literature of Economics 15. The Relative Impacts of Economics Journals Index

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Book SynopsisThe path to success as an academic economist is littered with obstacles. Even with excellent research material, one faces issues of running the seminar and conference gauntlet, tempestuous relationships with co-authors, the selection of an appropriate journal outlet, a detailed peer review process and, with it, the ever-present spectre of rejection.This collection tackles the issues confronting the up-and-coming economist. The authors include some of the subject's finest luminaries who offer friendly and invaluable advice as well as providing a more light-hearted look at the publication process. Some articles have become classics in their own right. They vary from an examination of seminal (and originally rejected) articles by leading economists to an analysis of why referees are not adequately paid. The tools of both economic theory and econometrics are applied to uncover some home truths and, as a result, these papers provide new insights into the nature of economic discourse.Trade Review'We have all had rejections that infuriated us because the reviewers always seem not to have read our work with the care and understanding that it merits.' -- William J. Baumol, New York University and Princeton University, US'I somehow rub referees up the wrong way, maybe by claiming more originality than I really have. Whatever the cause, I still open return letters from journals with fear and trembling, and more often than not get bad news. I am having a terrible time with my current work on economic geography. Referees tell me that it is obvious, it's wrong and anyway they said it years ago.' -- Paul Krugman, MIT, US'Everyone has a "good" paper rejected at one time because of a vicious unfair stupid referee and everyone has a "bad" paper rejected at one time because it deserves to be buried. Neither are quite as devastating as a teenager being rejected in some passionate one-sided romance, but you still can't forget them.' -- Richard Freeman, NBER, US'Economists are peculiar social scientists not least because they attach enormous value to the publication of articles in the refereed journals and virtually no value to the publication of books. It is difficult for economists to have a coffee break without a conversation which quickly turns to questions like: "Why was my article refereed by so-and-so journal? Why did the anonymous referees say what they did? Where shall I send my next paper?" In short, the publication process merits a hideous fascination if only because it governs the pecuniary and non-pecuniary rewards of the economics profession. Here are 15 classic articles on that topic gathered together by an editor who has long studied the practices of economics journals. Although economists do not read books, this is one book they will want to read - and with profit too.' -- The late Mark Blaug, formerly of the University of London and University of Buckingham, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Success and Rejection in Economics 1. Life Among the Econ 2. The Young Economist’s Guide to Professional Etiquette 3. How are the Might Fallen 4. Aging and Productivity Among Economists Part II: Referees and Editors 5. Facts and Myths About Refereeing 6. Is There Value Added from the Review Process in Economics? 7. The Effects of Double-Blind versus Single-Blind Reviewing 8. Favoritism versus Search for Good Papers 9. Why Referees are not Paid (Enough) Part III: To Co-Author or Not to Co-Author 10. Estimates of the Returns to Quality and Co-authorship in Economic Academia 11. Trends in Multi-Authored Papers in Economics 12. First Author Conditions Part IV: The Influence of Economics Journals 13. The Journals of Economics 14. The Scholarly Journal Literature of Economics 15. The Relative Impacts of Economics Journals Index

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Book SynopsisIn the summer of 2000 a young Irish journalist returned from New York to launch a magazine about life in boomtown Dublin. The Dubliner was an instant failure, and within a few months it was close to bankruptcy. For the next seven years Trevor White struggled to keep the magazine afloat. Along the way he managed to alienate nearly everyone in Ireland. The Dubliner Diaries is an awkward history of the Celtic Tiger by a man who tried to capture it, and ended up being mauled.Trade Review[The Dubliner Diaries is] a smart and engaging read’. – Frank Coughlan, The Irish Independent. ‘Thoughtful, often hilarious and endearingly self-deprecating. Trevor White might well be the pompous so-and-so he admits to being. But he’s also the most likeable pompous so- and-so in Ireland today … One of the funniest and most astute pieces of writing yet on the national midlife crisis we briefly called the Celtic Tiger.’ – Paul Howard, aka Ross O’Carroll-Kelly

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Book SynopsisThe early "publishing industry" examined through the prism of the Grail legend. The Grail is one of the most enduring literary motifs in publishing history. In spite of an ever-changing world, the reading public has maintained a fascination for this enigmatic object, as well as the various adventures and characters associated with it. But the nature and reception of the Grail have not remained static. Thanks to the fact that the first known author of a Grail story, Chrétien de Troyes, died c.1180-90 before completing his tale and revealing the meaning of the Grail, authors and publishers across history have reimagined, reinterpreted and re-packaged Grail literature so as to appeal to the developing tastes and interests of their target audiences. This bookanalyses the developing publication practices associated with French Grail literature in medieval and Renaissance France. Arguing for pre-print book production as constituting an early incarnation of a publishing trade, it discusses such matters as the disclosure of authorship and patronage, and the writing and formatting of blurbs, as well as tactics of compilation and production techniques that bear evidence of common commercial motivations between pre-and post-print publication. The distinctive investigation of manuscript and early-print evidence brings medieval and early-modern publishers and their concepts of both product and market into focus. Leah Tether is Reader in Medieval Literature and Digital Cultures, and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol. She is the author of The Continuations of Chrétien's Perceval: Content and Construction, Extensionand Ending (D.S. Brewer, 2012).Trade ReviewAdds a new dimension to existing codicological and literary analyses of the Grail corpus, shining a light on how commercial and marketing concerns underscored the production of medieval literature, as well as highlighting the usually invisible work of the publisher(s). * MEDIUM AEVUM *Writing in a lively and engaging style, Leah Tether masterfully draws together recent scholarship on script to print.A useful synthesis which invites further study. * THE LIBRARY *Tether argues energetically that taking a publishing-studies approach offers added insight as we re-evaluate medieval and early modern book culture * FRENCH STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Grail Literature in France c. 1180-1530 Publishing in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Blurbing the Grail Disclosing the Author Re-packaging the Grail All PR is Good PR: Patron Relations Conclusion

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Book Synopsis'It's always been difficult to get published. But up till the last couple of decades, if you managed to get published, you were sure of some sales, or at least that your publisher would work hard to get them with a reasonable prospect of results. It's a different world now. With electronic point of sale, print on demand, internet bookselling, new delivery formats like e-readers, several hundred thousand new titles in English coming out every year, a lot of what was said 6 years ago or even 6 months ago is now out of date. A few years ago when we started O Books I began writing down notes for new authors, based on questions they kept asking. It soon turned into a 100 page document. One of the authors it was a particular joy to work with was Tim Ward. We thought it would be helpful for others to share our thoughts, coming as they do from both sides of the fence'.'But there are titles around on every conceivable aspect of publishing and marketing books, from how to improve your style to increasing your sales through Amazon, finding the motivation to keep going or appearing on "Oprah". Why did we think another book would be helpful? Most focus either from the self-publishing end, from the viewpoint of an author who doesn't have a publisher, or from the perspective of mainstream publishers/publicists used to dealing with $50,000-plus publicity budgets. In our business we deal with the middle ground, where most real-life authors are and most potential ones hope to be'.'A company recently tracked the sales of 1.2 million books in the US, and the results were: 950,000 of these sold fewer than 100 copies; another 200,000 sold fewer than 1,000 copies; 25,000 sold more than 5,000 copies; less than 500 sold more than 100,000 copies; and, 10 titles sold more than 1,000,000 copies. The average sale was 500 copies. If your aim is to get above the average, or to reach it (because that includes J K Rowling etc.), to the level of 1000, on to 10,000 and up to 100,000 copies, this is the book for you. If you've already sold that many, you don't need this'.

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Book SynopsisFrom the Really, Really series comes a handbook for absolute beginners who want to master the complete process of producing professional-looking newsletters. It covers everything from writing and designing to picking the best publishing options-whether print or new media. There's also invaluable advice on software, time-saving layout options, and planning a production schedule.

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Book SynopsisProviding both personal and professional revelations about the mid- to late-20th century book trade in England, this is the autobiography of Christopher Hurst, director of C.Hurst & Co. Publishers.

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Book SynopsisThree lectures, initially presented before the University of Cambridge and now collected here, examine Matthew Parker as a noted collector of books, an avid annotator, and a keen student of Old English. In these lectures Dr. Page assesses the evidence for Parker's use of his manuscripts and printed books by drawing upon varied sources, including Parker's very numerous annotations upon their pages, and surveys the archbishop's role in the early-modern rediscovery and recovery of Old English and other medieval sources. Plates accompany the text to illustrate many characteristic aspects of Parker's interventions in his books.Table of ContentsIllustrations Foreword Acknowledgement A Mighty Collector of Books The Conservation of Ancient Records and Monuments The Chief Retriever of Our Ancient Native Language Appendix: Matthew Parker's Hand Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book, which is a mixture of fact, anecdote and quotation, describes the author's meandering exploration of some of the best of England's provincial second-hand bookshops, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the Isles of Scilly. Judged by the contents of the author's bookshelves, he has a strong but highly selective interest in sport, with rugby union, cricket and bowls foremost, and the odd place allowed to football and golf. There are biographies and autobiographies from Bernard Shaw to Alan Ross; a dozen volumes by W. H. Hudson, greatest of naturalists; travels with Henry James and Paul Theroux and Edwin Muir; books on cinema Westerns; essays by Ford Madox Ford and Edward Thomas; a novel or two; and a little poetry. The bulk of these books are dependent, to a greater or lesser extent, on fact, suggesting, correctly, that their owner is a journalist.Trade Review"A mixture of fact, anecdote and quotation, this book describes the author's exploration of the best of England's provincial second-hand bookshops - a splendid personal view of hours spent closeted among shelves filled with every book imaginable." -- The Oldie."I would say that bookselling is the most humane, sociable, ill-organised, yet absorbing form of commerce to be found anywhere." -- Eric Moore, Hitchin bookseller."Five million books are published in the world every year. Only one per cent of them are any good, and settle, and they end up in second-hand shops." -- Victor Suchar, Camden Books, Bath.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Traylen's; Stone Trough, York; Kim's, Worthing; Hall's, Tunbridge Wells; Arundel; Staffs, Lichfield; Baggins, Rochester; Camden, Bath; Petersfield; Howes, Hastings; Steedman, Newcastle; Tombland, Norwich; Gibb's, Manchester; Fifteenth Century, Lewes; Chapel Books, Westleton; Albion, Broadstairs; Halewood & Sons, Preston; Camilla's, Eastbourne; Brookes, Brighton; Sanctuary, Lyme Regis; Broadhurst, Southport; Castle, Colchester; Thornton's, Oxford; The Bookshop, Cambridge; Barely Read Books, Westerham; H. M. Gilbert & Son, Southampton; Academy, Southsea; Readers Rest, Lincoln; Portland, Leamington Spa; Sterling, Weston-super-Mare; Two islands; Murray & Kennett, Horsham; Treasure Trove, Leicester; Scarthin, Cromford; Rye Old Books; D'Arcy Books, Devizes; Eric T. Moore, Hitchin; Barter Books, Alnwick; Farewell to True Bookshops by John F. X. Harriott; Index.

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Book SynopsisBook Lovers' London is an established guide to all things literary in London with reviews of all the bookshops selling new books as well as second-hand and antiquarian bookshops, book dealers, libraries, book fairs, auctions, markets and much more.

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Book SynopsisAnne Scott has never housed her books in order of theme or author yet she knows where each of them is and the kind of life it has led. Some have been gifts but most have been chosen in bookshops unique in their style and possibilities. They have been observers of discovery, decisions, and marvels with her, following the line of her time and place. Some are everyday shops with a shelf of books in a corner, some are beginning again after long lives as churches, printing presses, medieval houses, a petrol-station. There are a few the author is too late to see: early print-houses and booksellers here too in this book, searched for and described, side by side with all the bookshops open now and busy with readers. Not one is like another. In one way, the book is a sequence about writing. But first it is a map of books and a life.Table of ContentsFIRST ... 1. COMPENDIUM BOOKSHOP, CAMDEN: The Spread Sail 2. CHEPMAN AND MYLLAR, EDINBURGH 1507-1510: Three Years' Light: 3. THE PARROT, ST PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, LONDON 1609: These to be Solde by Wm Aspley at His Shop 4. THE OLD PRINTING PRESS BOOKSHOP, IONA: Reckoning 5. LEAKEY'S BOOKSHOP, INVERNESS: Little Gidding 6. WILLIAM TEMPLETON'S BOOKSHOP, IRVINE 1782: The Crossing Place 7. SMITH'S, 1 ANTIGUA STREET, EDINBURGH: The Lighted Stage 8. ATHOLL BROWSE BOOKSHOP, BLAIR ATHOLL: Stopping Place 9. THE GRAIL BOOKSHOP, EDINBURGH: No wealth but Life 10. BOOKS OF WONDER, NEW YORK CITY: The Colour of Hudson Street 11. THE TURL BOOKSHOP, OXFORD: If it were lost, then how? 12. THOMAS DAVIES'S BOOKSHOP, 8 RUSSELL STREET, COVENT GARDEN 1763: The Actor, his Bookshop, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell 13. WATKINS BOOKSHOP, CECIL COURT, LONDON: Through 14. KING'S BOOKSHOP, CALLANDER: The Reading Garden 15. BAUERMEISTER'S BOOKSHOP, EDINBURGH: Leaving 16. CARRAROE, CONNEMARA: Henry James at Home 17. KENNY'S BOOKSHOP, GALWAY: How to be in Ireland 18. ATLANTIS BOOKSHOP, LONDON: A Light to Shine Before

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Book SynopsisAn invaluable, modern guide to great copywriting, Copy. Righter. shows you how to write in a way that is brand-literate, media-savvy, utterly engaging...and irresistibly persuasive. It will show you how to write great copy in every print and digital medium. How to use substance, style and structure. How to win hearts and minds. How to develop brilliant concepts and the psychology of persuasion. Written by Ian Atkinson - multi award-winning copywriter and creative director - it's packed with fascinating examples and compelling content you won't find in any other copywriting book. In fact, whether you're junior or senior, enthusiastic amateur or seasoned pro, it may be the only book on copywriting you'll ever need. And with great copywriting in great demand, there's never been a better time to discover how to influence people using nothing more than the words on a page or screen. Copy. Righter. will show you how.Table of ContentsContents 1.The Fantastic Four: How to write good copy 1.1 How to write purposefully Specific objective, universal objective, clarity & focus 1.2 How to write practically Punctuation, grammar, typography & layout 1.3 How to write pleasingly Aristotle, audience, tone & interest 1.4 How to write persuasively WIIFM, Maslow, motivation & emotional vs rational 2. The Famous Five: How to write great copy 2.1 Content Proposition, interrogation & insight 2.2 Context Brand, audience & medium 2.3 Create Concept, style & structure 2.4 Compel Potent psychological triggers 2.5 Craft Review, edit & polish 3.Quick Wins: 25 tips and techniques 3.1 Start with a short one 3.2 Features tell, benefits sell 3.3 Avoid cliches 3.4 Be unusual 3.5 Metaphors, similes and analogies 3.6 Hardwired words 3.7 Wax lyrical 3.8 Solutions not problems 3.9 Nouns beat adjectives 3.10 Avoid talking about cost 3.11 Quantify 3.12 Be active not passive 3.13 Keep it short (or long) 3.14 Avoid a woolly ramble 3.15 Don't get them disagreeing 3.16 Don't know it, feel it 3.17 Show not tell 3.18 Three's the magic number 3.19 Tell them what you want 3.20 Urgency 3.21 The tease 3.22 Make it flow 3.23 Paint a picture 3.24 Reframe it 3.25 Back to the start 4.The Magnificent Seven: Copy examples, from brief to execution 4.1 Press ad 4.2 Dimensional mailing 4.3 Poster 4.4 Email 4.5 TV 4.6 Mail pack 4.7 Blog 5. Appendices 5.1 How to brief 5.2 How to give feedback 5.3 How to deal with amends 5.4 How to get better

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