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Watson-Guptill Publications Complete Guide to SelfPublishing Comics The
Book SynopsisThe Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics is the first book of its kind to help readers make sense of it all and take control of their comics-making destinies. It provides would-be creators with a definitive guide to the tools needed for breaking into modern comics via self-publishing.Trade Review“Comfort and Adam have created a step-by-step guide filled with pro-level suggestions and helpful hints. If you are cooking up a self-published comic, you found the right recipe book. Bon appétit!” -—Jeff Smith, cartoonist of the self-published comics Bone, RASL, and Tuki Save the HumansTable of Contents1. Concept 5 What Are You Making and Why? 6 Research 10 Designing Characters 13 Designing Your Setting 21 2. Writing 27 Anatomy of a Comics Script 28 The Writing Process 31 The Writer’s Trinity: Plot, Story, and Character 36 How to Write Dialogue 46 Life as a Writer 49 3. Drawing 57 Anatomy of a Comics Page 58 The Drawing Process 62 Creating Interesting Pages 66 Bringing Characters to Life 76 Life as an Artist 82 4. Coloring 89 Introduction to Color Theory 90 Getting Comfortable with Photoshop 95 Coloring the Page 101 Special Effects 113 Life as a Colorist 125 5. Lettering 131 Understanding Lettering 132 Getting Comfortable with Illustrator 136 How to Letter a Page 141 Sound Effects 155 Life as a Letterer 167 6. Publishing 171 The Modern World of Publishing 172 Print Publishing 178 Digital Publishing 188 Distribution 194 7. Marketing 199 You Are Your Product 200 Targeting Your Audience 203 Mastering Your Web Presence 207 Conventioneering 214 Afterword 225 Thanks and Gratitude 227 The Adventure Continues Online 229 Index 230
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Stanford University Press The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the
Book SynopsisDrawing on data sets and applying the theoretical tools of both sociology and economics, this book examines the substantive issues, challenges, and problems confronting the diverse and in many ways fragile book publishing industry in the United States, and presents the social and economic analysis of its state and future trends.Trade Review"Publishing has always played a substantive role in the dissemination of information. Thanks to The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century, we finally have a valuable introduction to the U.S. book publishing industry in our contemporary times. Greco has a reputation for raising tough questions and then carefully analyzing an enormous amount of data to clearly answer those questions. This book will not disappoint; it's an impressive achievement, and even with my 30 years in the industry, I learned a great deal."—Tom Radko, Editor, Journal of Scholarly Publishing"This book is a great resource for anyone trying to understand how the book industry works."—Jim Milliot, Director of Business and News, Publishers Weekly"This thorough and engrossing book explains everything about the book business in a way that will satisfy "insiders" and "civilians" alike. Greco, Rodríguez, and Wharton explain how corporate takeovers, changing habits, and a "bottom-line" mentality have influenced the way we make books—and buy them. Comprehensive and full of facts, The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century examines the power of publishing, and does its math. Anybody who has ever bought a book should now buy this one."—Sara Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsTHE CULTURE AND COMMERCE OF PUBLISHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY TABLE OF CONTENTS ALBERT N. GRECO PROFESSOR OF MARKETING FORDHAM UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CLARA E. RODRIGUEZ PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY FORDHAM UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ROBERT M. WHARTON PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FORDHAM UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Please contact: Albert N. Greco 183 South Queen Street Bergenfield, New Jersey 07621-2636 201-439-1839 angreco@aol.com FAX 201-384-7585 JANUARY 3, 2006 The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century TABLE OF CONTENTS TOC [2 typed page] INTRODUCTION [4 typed pages] PART I: GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE U.S. BOOK PUBLISHING INDUSTRY IN THE 21ST CENTURY Chapter 1: Changes in the Book Publishing Industry 1945-2005 [77 pages] Chapter 2: Commercial and Scholarly Book Publishing [99 typed pages] Chapter 3: Organizational Choice in the U.S. Book Publishing Industry: Strategies for Domestic and Global Competitiveness [61 typed pages] Chapter 4: The Economics of Publishing and the Impact of Technology on Book Publishing [91 typed pages] Part II: PEOPLE IN BOOK PUBLISHING Chapter 5: Changing Demographics, producers, and Consumers in Book Publishing [32 typed pages] Chapter 6: People in Book Publishing: "I'm Glad I'm Not An Author" [42 pages] Part III: CHALLENGES CONFRONTING THE BOOK PUBLISHING IN THE 21st CENTURY Chapter 7: The Major Challenges Confronting Book Publishers and Authors [34 typed pages] BIBLIOGRAPHY [66 typed pages] INDEX [TBA typed pages]
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Pilgrim and the Bee
Book Synopsis"The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading."-David D. Hall, Harvard UniversityTrade Review"The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading." * David D. Hall, Harvard University *"As befits a book about books as objects, The Pilgrim and the Bee adds aesthetic satisfactions to its intellectual pleasures. I suspect that many readers will relate to this beautifully illustrated book as puritan readers related to the devotional steady sellers, marking up Brown's rich array of examples and his provocative readings, and returning to them for further contemplation like the bee of Brown's apt title." * Journal of American History *"Brown's work genuinely advances the terms of scholarly debate by combining methodological innovation with a metacritical rigor that is as nuanced as it is compelling." * American Literature *"In this book Brown offers sustained, nuanced readings of devotional texts usually relegated to the role of context and provides fresh perspective on more frequently examined genres like jeremiads and elegies. . . . More than simply expanding the early American literary canon with the addition of a few steady sellers, Brown calls attention to the contingencies of the surviving archive and the politics of the canon that emerged from it." * Early American Literature *"The Pilgrim and the Bee is an absorbing work and a real contribution to the study of the material culture of the Puritans and how the religious practices of the community deeply informed their reading." * Rocky Mountain Review *""If you have even a passing interest in seeing what the history of the book looks like when it achieves intellectual maturity, then The Pilgrim and the Bee is certainly worth your time. . . . This important study has implications for a wide range of readers." * Common-place *Table of ContentsPreface: A Phenomenology of the Book Introduction: Toward a Reader-Based Literary History Chapter 1. The Presence of the Text Chapter 2. Devotional Steady Sellers and the Conduct of Reading Chapter 3. Ritual Fasting Chapter 4. Ritual Mourning Chapter 5. Race, Literacy, and the Eliot Mission Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£52.70
University of Pennsylvania Press Books Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe
Book SynopsisThough the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study them—least of all in the age of Enlightenment when French books reached readers throughout Europe. In this erudite and engagingly written study, Jeffrey Freedman examines one of the most important axes of the transnational book trade in Enlightenment Europe: the circulation of French books between France and the German-speaking lands. Focusing on the critical role of book dealers as cultural intermediaries, he follows French books through each stage of their journey—from the French-language printing shops where they were produced, to the wholesale book fairs in Leipzig, to retail book shops at locations scattered widely throughout Germany. At some of those locations, authorities reacted with alarm to the spread of French books, burning works of the radical French Enlightenment and punishing the booksTrade Review"Carefully reasoned and deeply researched . . . a welcome addition to the study of the myriad ways in which ideas have been carried in print across political, linguistic, and other barriers" * TLS *"An outstanding, vivid, fine-grained, minutely researched, and highly readable study that makes an indispensable contribution to our knowledge of the diffusion of the Enlightenment." * French Studies *"Anyone with any knowledge about eighteenth-century literary and cultural history will recognize the importance of this book. A study of this sort has long been needed not simply to extend our understanding of the French book in Germany but also to counterbalance and revise various national 'history of the book' series which focus on the national unit and precisely miss the importance of books as livres sans frontières." * James Raven, University of Essex *Table of ContentsNote on Terminology and Sources Introduction Chapter 1. Rite of Spring: The Leipzig Easter Fair and the Literary Marketplace Chapter 2. Whom to Trust? Insolvent Booksellers and the Problem of Credit Chapter 3. French Booksellers in the Reich Chapter 4. Demand Chapter 5. The Word of God in the Age of the Encyclopédie Chapter 6. Against the Current: Translating the Aufklärung Chapter 7. From Europe Française to Europe Révolutionnaire: The Career of Jean-Guillaume Virchaux Conclusion. What Were French Books Good For? Appendix A. STN Trade with Booksellers in Germany, 1770- Appendix B. The Folio Bible of 1773: Diffusion Appendix C. The Folio Bible of 1779: Prepublication Subscriptions Appendix D. The Bible in Germany: The Neuchâtel Folio of 1779 and the Bienne Octavo Appendix E. Diffusion of Sebaldus Nothanker in French Translation Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Writing and Producing Television News
Book SynopsisThe single universal bit of advice that working journalists give students is learn to write well. Solid writing is the key to any successful and solid broadcast news operation. In Writing and Producing Television News, Second Edition author Eric Gormly uses contemporary news events as an engaging backdrop to teach students the fundamentals of writing news for television and cable. Author Gormly draws on his extensive background as a television journalist to explain how real newsrooms work. The text reviews basic grammar, introduces students to industry-specific terminology and the particular rules for TV newswriting, appraises the basics of a television news story, and reveals how television writing differs from writing for other media. The core of the book develops various story formats, and gives step-by-step instruction on how to transform basic information into properly scripted, solid stories. Included in this edition are the latest in script formattTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgements xiii 1 Television News: An Introduction 3 2 Television Newswriting: A Different Style 11 3 A Brief Review of Grammar 17 4 Some General Rules for Television Newswriting 35 5 Usage 53 6 Approaching the Television News Story 69 7 Story Formats: Some Basics 101 8 The Voice Over: VO 137 9 Sound on Tape: SOT 165 10 The Voice Over/Sound Bite: VO/SOT 187 11 Putting the Formats Together 211 12 Interviewing: Conversation with a Goal 223 13 The Package 235 14 An Interview with Deborah Potter 271 15 The Live Shot 275 16 An Interview with Beverly White 285 17 Producing the Newscast 295 18 The Station and the Newsroom 321 19 A look Inside: WFAA-TV, Dallas 331 20 Finding a Job 365 Index 387
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Pulitzer Prize Feature Stories
Book SynopsisAs Garlock relates in the preface, "The quality of the research, reporting and writing of these unique features is stunning. No two are written exactly the same way. But they all hold to one constant: strong emotions and content-powerful, touching, frightening, harrowing journalism.Table of ContentsPreface. 1979 Mrs. Kelly's Monster (Jon Franklin, The Baltimore Evening Sun). 1980 Zepp's Last Stand (Madeline Blais, The Miami Herald). 1981 Death of a Playmate (Teresa Carpenter, The Village Voice). 1982 The Federal Beauracracy (Saul Pett, Associated Press). 1983 Toxic Shock (Nan Robertson, The New York Times). 1984 Making It Fly (Peter Rinearson, The Seattle Times). 1985 A Boy of Unusual Vision (Alice Steinbach, The Baltimore Sun). 1986 Life on the Land: An American Farm Family (John Camp, St. Paul Pioneer Press). 1987 How Super Are Our Supercarriers (Steve Twomey, The Philadelphia Inquirer). 1988. AIDS in the Heartland (Jacqui Banaszynski, St. Paul Pioneer Press). 1989 Being Black in South America (David Zucchino, The Philadelphia Inquirer). 1990 Adam & Megan (Dave Curtin, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph). 1991 A Gift Abandoned (Sheryl James, The St. Petersburg Times). 1992 Grady's Gift (Howell Raines, The New York times Magazine). 1993 The Stalking of Kristin (George Lardner Jr., The Washington Post). 1994 First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, The Mississippi Reclaims Its True Domain Cruel Flood: It Tore at Graves, and at Hearts (Isabel Wilkerson, The New York Times). 1995 Against All Odds. Class Struggle (Ron Suskind, The Wall Street Journal). 1996 All She Has, $150,000, Is Going to a University. Terror in Oklahoma City at Ground Zero. Where Alabama Inmates Fade into Old Age. A Killer's Only Confidant: The Man Who Caught Susan Smith. Another Battle of New Orleans: Mardi Gras (Rick Bragg, The New York Times). 1997 The Umpire's Sons (Lisa Pollak, The Baltimore Sun). 1998 Angels & Demons (Thomas French, St. Petersburg Times). 1999 Crime Scene: Beyond the Statistics, A Druggist Confronts the Reality of Robbery (Angelo B. Henderson, Wall Street Journal). 2000 Crossing Over (J. R. Moehringer, Los Angeles Times). 2001 The Boy Behind The Mask (Tom Hallman, Jr., The Oregonian). 2002 A Father's Pain, a Judge's Duty, and a Justice Beyond Their Reach (Barry Siegel, Los Angeles Times). 2003 Enrique's Journey (Sonia Nazario, Los Angeles Times). Acknowledgments.
£65.50
Fordham University Press Around the Book
Book SynopsisOffers a status report and theoretically nuanced update on the traditions and medium of the book. This study highlights some of the most radical experiments in the book's history as trials in what the author terms the 'Prevailing Operating System' at play within the fields of knowledge, art, critique, and science.Trade ReviewA splendid addition to the now long list of Professor Sussman’s admirable books.---—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, IrvineHenry Sussman is an incisive, original, and thought-provoking scholar. As Around the Book: Kafka, Benjamin, Derrida eloquently demonstrates, he apprehends sensitively the extent to which Kafka, Benjamin and Derrida are exemplary readers of the detail and all its uncanny contiguities and pulses, and engages in taking his reader on a detailed tour of various texts pertaining to the identity of the book, and what it means to think about books, to reflect on their ontological status, and to get up close and personal with textual materiality. Sussman's book about books is not only refreshing, rigorous, marvellously original, it is also quite undeniably necessary.---—Julian Wolfreys, Loughborough UniversityEven the capacious orbit of the title Around the Book does spare justice to the wild epicycles by which the author’s reflections rim the limits of critical writing and the book form, from deconstruction to Chinese medicine, surrealism to systems theory, Kafka to the graphic novel. If Benjamin’s Arcades Project is a “vast print-medium website,” then Sussman’s own heady scroll through contemporary cultural registers plunges him with vertiginous learning from one cognitive “platform” and “standard operating system” to another--all in a rapt defense, in this his tenth venturesome book, of analytic “noise” in the theory systems of our new millennium.---—Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa
£85.50
Fordham University Press Around the Book
Book SynopsisOffers a status report and theoretically nuanced update on the traditions and medium of the book. This study highlights some of the most radical experiments in the book's history as trials in what the author terms the 'Prevailing Operating System' at play within the fields of knowledge, art, critique, and science.Trade ReviewA splendid addition to the now long list of Professor Sussman’s admirable books.---—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, IrvineHenry Sussman is an incisive, original, and thought-provoking scholar. As Around the Book: Kafka, Benjamin, Derrida eloquently demonstrates, he apprehends sensitively the extent to which Kafka, Benjamin and Derrida are exemplary readers of the detail and all its uncanny contiguities and pulses, and engages in taking his reader on a detailed tour of various texts pertaining to the identity of the book, and what it means to think about books, to reflect on their ontological status, and to get up close and personal with textual materiality. Sussman's book about books is not only refreshing, rigorous, marvellously original, it is also quite undeniably necessary.---—Julian Wolfreys, Loughborough UniversityEven the capacious orbit of the title Around the Book does spare justice to the wild epicycles by which the author’s reflections rim the limits of critical writing and the book form, from deconstruction to Chinese medicine, surrealism to systems theory, Kafka to the graphic novel. If Benjamin’s Arcades Project is a “vast print-medium website,” then Sussman’s own heady scroll through contemporary cultural registers plunges him with vertiginous learning from one cognitive “platform” and “standard operating system” to another--all in a rapt defense, in this his tenth venturesome book, of analytic “noise” in the theory systems of our new millennium.---—Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa
£28.80
Houghton Library,U.S. The Merrymount Press
Book Synopsis
£26.96
Maryland Historical Society Combat Correspondents The Baltimore Sun in World
Book SynopsisTheir dispatches, which reported the war with the immediacy of real time, make up the core of this book.Trade ReviewSterne celebrates them, but without nostalgia... The correspondents' total iimmersion in their world imbues their reports with emotional dimensions. -- Michae Sragow Baltimore Sun 2009 More than the quality of the reporting itself, the reader will be struck by the changes in technology-driven communication over the span of nearly 70 years. -- Steve Goddard History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive 2009 The quality of the narratives included here, and Sterne's historical comments on them, will cause readers to wonder why no other historian has taken up the subject in the last sixty-five years. -- Stacy Spaulding Jhistory, H-Net Reviews 2010
£27.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Cold War Correspondents
Book SynopsisForeign correspondents played a crucial role in promoting the ideas and values of the Cold War. As they brought the foreign world to their Soviet and American readers, these journalists projected their own ideologies onto their reporting. In an age of mutual acrimony and closed borders, journalists were among the few individuals who crossed the Iron Curtain. Their reporting strongly influenced the ways that policy makers, pundits, and ordinary people came to understand the American or the Soviet other. In Cold War Correspondents, Dina Fainberg examines how Soviet and American journalists covered the rival superpower and how two distinctive sets of truth systems, professional practices, and political cultures shaped international reporting. Fainberg explores private and public interactions among multiple groups that shaped coverage of the Cold War adversary, including journalists and their sources, editors, news media executives, government officials, diplomats, American pundits, SoTrade ReviewIn this extraordinarily thorough and insightful study, Fainberg identifies the similar approaches and practices used by Soviet and U.S. foreign correspondents reporting from each other's countries during the Cold War.—Foreign AffairsThe research for this book is impressive.—Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction. A Battle of Words Part One. Spiers versus Liars, 1945-1953Chapter 1. Making "Soviet Restons"Chapter 2. The Heralds of TruthPart Two. Pens instead of Projectiles, 1953-1965Chapter 3. Overtake AmericaChapter 4. In Sputnik's ShadowPart Three. Your Fight Is Our Fight, 1965-1985Chapter 5. Notes from the Rotten WestChapter 6. Reports from the Backward East Part Four. A Moment of Truth? 1985-1991Chapter 7. Cold War Correspondents Confront Old and New Thinking 00 Conclusion. Us and ThemAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and ArchivesNotesBibliography Index
£47.18
The University of North Carolina Press A History of the Book in America Volume 5
Book SynopsisThe fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present. During this period factors such as the expansion of government, the growth of higher education, the climate of the Cold War, globalization, and the development of multimedia and digital technologies influenced the patterns of consolidation and diversification established earlier. The thirty-three contributors to the volume explore the evolution of the publishing industry and the business of bookselling. The histories of government publishing, law and policy, the periodical press, literary criticism, and reading--in settings such as schools, libraries, book clubs, self-help programs, and collectors' societies--receive imaginative scrutiny as well. The Enduring Book demonstrates that the corporate consolidations of the last half-century have left space for the independent publisher, that multiplicity continues to define Amer
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University of Texas Press They Came to Toil
Book SynopsisRecounting a forgotten episode in the Long Civil Rights Movement, this book analyzes how news reporting of forced deportations of Mexicans in the 1930s created representations of Mexican Americans that endure today.Trade ReviewTimely...the culmination of years of research on representations of Latino Americans in Texas. * American Journalism *[A] captivating study…They Came to Toil painstakingly demonstrates the role of the press in creating depictions of communities and thus shaping public memory. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *[Garza's] book is accessible, devoid of jargon, expertly organized, and amply sourced. The photographs are a powerful visual representation of repatriation. * Journal of American History *A well-researched microstudy that has as much to offer to students of history as it does to students of linguistics and journalism. * Journal of Arizona History *Garza unpacks the particularities of news framings, successfully connecting historical events with contemporary borderlands politics. * Western Historical Quarterly *An illuminating study of how media shapes American identity. * Pacific Historical Review *Garza's insightful and detailed analysis deconstructs and reveals several important angles of newspaper media representations of people of color and marginalized communities…They Came to Toil is an important contribution to Mexican-American Studies, Latin American Studies, and Media and Journalism Studies disciplines. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *A timely study...They Came to Toil is an impressive piece of scholarship that will benefit both historians and media scholars...Through her study, Garza reveals parallels between the Depression era and the past ten years of recordbreaking deportation numbers and increasingly visible nativism and white supremacy. While the book went to press only months after the election of Donald Trump, readers will now be better equipped to consider how media representations of border crossings, asylum seekers, and federal policy shape public discourse around people of Latinx descent and US policy. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *[They Came to Toil's] detailed news coverage from different points of view, gives a clear picture of attitudes toward immigrants in the midst of an economic collapse, a picture that is repeated to some degree during every U.S. economic recession...The detail of this book is certainly of value for anyone studying the Great Depression, whether from historical, economic, sociological or political viewpoint. * Journal of Borderlands Studies *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. The Crisis: They Came to Toil . . . but They Could Not Stay 1. 1929: To Pave a Way through Hostile and Barren Lands 2. 1930: A Thousand Times Better Off with Mexican Labor 3. 1931: The Tragedy of the Repatriated 4. 1932–1933: A New Deal for American Pioneers 5. Conclusion and Epilogue Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Surviving Mexico
Book SynopsisA rigorously researched study shows how Mexican organized crime enjoys the protection of government officials, and some media companies, while individual journalists and their allies try to safeguard themselves and those willing to expose corruption and cTrade ReviewA book filled with stories of horror—and of hope. * Texas Observer *A meticulously researched study…[Surviving Mexico] is made lively and moving by the many interviews with Mexican journalists and media owners who themselves tell the stories of the dangers and at times, the horrors, that working reporters routinely face in many parts of Mexico. * ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America *Urgently indispensable...Based on more than 160 interviews with journalists, activists, and academics across several regions of the country, González de Bustamante and Relly present a highly readable account of the myriad dangers faced by journalists in Mexico, the impact of trauma and violence on their lives, and how individuals and collectives have organized to meet the challenges of working in such a dangerous place. * Nieman Lab *Surviving Mexico is a much-needed book that offers a wide scope for understanding the endemic violence against Mexican journalists. It will be useful for scholars and journalists interested in understanding the harsh conditions that news workers have to constantly face when doing their jobs. The book’s central arguments and discussions are consistent with broader debates on media in the Global South, where emergent democracies struggle with post-authoritarianisms and populisms. * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Mexico’s Peripheries as a Case Study for Violence against Journalists around the World Part I. The Past, Place, and Politics of Violence against Journalists 1. How Journalists Became Their Own Activists: A Historical Perspective 2. Place Matters: The Promise and Limits of the Periphery 3. Moving Targets and Perpetrators: Mercurial Violence, Ownership, and Changing Journalism Practices Part II. Murdering the Messengers and Controlling the Message 4. Red Light, Green Light: Strategies of Resistance among Journalists in the Peripheries 5. The Personal and Familial Toll: Violence, Trauma, and Resilience 6. Social Media, Digital Insecurity, and Journalists’ Safety Part III. Structured and Unstructured Attempts to Save Journalism and Journalists 7. Attempts to Intervene 8. State Actors, Violence, and Resilience among Organized Crime Groups 9. Women on the Frontline: Resistance and Resilience in Ciudad Juárez Conclusion: Toward a More Secure Journalism Future Appendix: Journalists Killed in Mexico 2000–2020, by Presidential Administration Notes References Index
£73.95
University of Texas Press Surviving Mexico
Book SynopsisA rigorously researched study shows how Mexican organized crime enjoys the protection of government officials, and some media companies, while individual journalists and their allies try to safeguard themselves and those willing to expose corruption and cTrade ReviewA book filled with stories of horror—and of hope. * Texas Observer *A meticulously researched study…[Surviving Mexico] is made lively and moving by the many interviews with Mexican journalists and media owners who themselves tell the stories of the dangers and at times, the horrors, that working reporters routinely face in many parts of Mexico. * ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America *Urgently indispensable...Based on more than 160 interviews with journalists, activists, and academics across several regions of the country, González de Bustamante and Relly present a highly readable account of the myriad dangers faced by journalists in Mexico, the impact of trauma and violence on their lives, and how individuals and collectives have organized to meet the challenges of working in such a dangerous place. * Nieman Lab *Surviving Mexico is a much-needed book that offers a wide scope for understanding the endemic violence against Mexican journalists. It will be useful for scholars and journalists interested in understanding the harsh conditions that news workers have to constantly face when doing their jobs. The book’s central arguments and discussions are consistent with broader debates on media in the Global South, where emergent democracies struggle with post-authoritarianisms and populisms. * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Mexico’s Peripheries as a Case Study for Violence against Journalists around the World Part I. The Past, Place, and Politics of Violence against Journalists 1. How Journalists Became Their Own Activists: A Historical Perspective 2. Place Matters: The Promise and Limits of the Periphery 3. Moving Targets and Perpetrators: Mercurial Violence, Ownership, and Changing Journalism Practices Part II. Murdering the Messengers and Controlling the Message 4. Red Light, Green Light: Strategies of Resistance among Journalists in the Peripheries 5. The Personal and Familial Toll: Violence, Trauma, and Resilience 6. Social Media, Digital Insecurity, and Journalists’ Safety Part III. Structured and Unstructured Attempts to Save Journalism and Journalists 7. Attempts to Intervene 8. State Actors, Violence, and Resilience among Organized Crime Groups 9. Women on the Frontline: Resistance and Resilience in Ciudad Juárez Conclusion: Toward a More Secure Journalism Future Appendix: Journalists Killed in Mexico 2000–2020, by Presidential Administration Notes References Index
£25.19
Cornell University Press Tamizdat
Book SynopsisTamizdat offers a new perspective on the history of the Cold War by exploring the story of the contraband manuscripts sent from the USSR to the West. A word that means publishing over there, tamizdat manuscripts were rejected, censored, or never submitted for publication in the Soviet Union and were smuggled through various channels and printed outside the country, with or without their authors' knowledge. Yasha Klots demonstrates how tamizdat contributed to the formation of the twentieth-century Russian literary canon: the majority of contemporary Russian classics first appeared abroad long before they saw publication in Russia. Examining narratives of Stalinism and the Gulag, Klots focuses on contraband manuscripts in the 1960s and 70s, from Khrushchev's Thaw to Stagnation under Brezhnev. Klots revisits the traditional notion of late Soviet culture as a binary opposition between the underground and official state publishing. He shows that even as tamizdat represented an alternative
£88.33
University of Pennsylvania Press An American Bookshelf, 1775
Book SynopsisAmerican books in print during this significant period, with appendices giving full publication details of ten of the most important volumes in the group.
£68.00
University of Minnesota Press The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in
Book SynopsisOffering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history Michel Foucault famously theorized “the author function” in his 1969 essay “What Is an Author?” proposing that the existence of the author limits textual meaning. Abram Foley shows a similar critique at work in the labor of several postwar editors who sought to question and undo the corporate “editorial/industrial complex.” Marking an end to the powerful trope of the editor as gatekeeper, The Editor Function demonstrates how practices of editing and publishing constitute their own kinds of thought, calling on us to rethink what we read and how.The Editor Function follows avant-garde American literary editors and the publishing practices they developed to compete against the postwar corporate consolidation of the publishing industry. Foley studies editing and publishing through archival readings and small press and literary journal publishing lists as unique sites for literary inquiry. Pairing histories and analyses of well- and lesser-known figures and publishing formations, from Cid Corman’s Origin and Nathaniel Mackey’s Hambone to Dalkey Archive Press and Semiotext(e), Foley offers the first in-depth engagement with major publishing initiatives in the postwar United States.The Editor Function proposes that from the seemingly mundane tasks of these editors—routine editorial correspondence, line editing, list formation—emerge visions of new, better worlds and new textual and conceptual spaces for collective action.Trade Review"The Editor Function fills an enormous void in the literary history of the postwar era. Abram Foley’s meticulous archival scholarship reveals the centrality—and the elusiveness—of editors and their practices. This is a must-read book for scholars of contemporary U.S. fiction and poetry, as well as for those interested in small-press publishing and avant-garde communities."—Paul Stephens, author of absence of clutter: minimal writing as art and literature"If early modern Europe saw the ‘author function’ assume some of the social and legal roles traditionally played by publishers, Abram Foley shows us a more recent assumption of literary and artistic roles by editors. In the process, The Editor Function boldly extends the scope of literary history to the dynamic practices of publishing itself."—Craig Dworkin, author of Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography "Foley excels in weaving a complicated web of editors, authors, and publishing houses, each with their own agenda in creating postwar American literary culture... [The Editor Function] fills an obvious gap in literature about literary publishing following World War II into the present."—College & Research LibrariesTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Editor Function1. Editing and the Open Field: Charles Olson’s Letters to Editors2. Editing and the Institution: John O’Brien and Dalkey Archive Press3. Editing and the Ensemble: Nathaniel Mackey's Hambone4. Editing and Eros: Chris Kraus, Semiotext(e), and I Love DickCoda: Editing and EntropyAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in
Book SynopsisOffering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history Michel Foucault famously theorized “the author function” in his 1969 essay “What Is an Author?” proposing that the existence of the author limits textual meaning. Abram Foley shows a similar critique at work in the labor of several postwar editors who sought to question and undo the corporate “editorial/industrial complex.” Marking an end to the powerful trope of the editor as gatekeeper, The Editor Function demonstrates how practices of editing and publishing constitute their own kinds of thought, calling on us to rethink what we read and how.The Editor Function follows avant-garde American literary editors and the publishing practices they developed to compete against the postwar corporate consolidation of the publishing industry. Foley studies editing and publishing through archival readings and small press and literary journal publishing lists as unique sites for literary inquiry. Pairing histories and analyses of well- and lesser-known figures and publishing formations, from Cid Corman’s Origin and Nathaniel Mackey’s Hambone to Dalkey Archive Press and Semiotext(e), Foley offers the first in-depth engagement with major publishing initiatives in the postwar United States.The Editor Function proposes that from the seemingly mundane tasks of these editors—routine editorial correspondence, line editing, list formation—emerge visions of new, better worlds and new textual and conceptual spaces for collective action.Trade Review"The Editor Function fills an enormous void in the literary history of the postwar era. Abram Foley’s meticulous archival scholarship reveals the centrality—and the elusiveness—of editors and their practices. This is a must-read book for scholars of contemporary U.S. fiction and poetry, as well as for those interested in small-press publishing and avant-garde communities."—Paul Stephens, author of absence of clutter: minimal writing as art and literature"If early modern Europe saw the ‘author function’ assume some of the social and legal roles traditionally played by publishers, Abram Foley shows us a more recent assumption of literary and artistic roles by editors. In the process, The Editor Function boldly extends the scope of literary history to the dynamic practices of publishing itself."—Craig Dworkin, author of Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography "Foley excels in weaving a complicated web of editors, authors, and publishing houses, each with their own agenda in creating postwar American literary culture... [The Editor Function] fills an obvious gap in literature about literary publishing following World War II into the present."—College & Research LibrariesTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Editor Function1. Editing and the Open Field: Charles Olson’s Letters to Editors2. Editing and the Institution: John O’Brien and Dalkey Archive Press3. Editing and the Ensemble: Nathaniel Mackey's Hambone4. Editing and Eros: Chris Kraus, Semiotext(e), and I Love DickCoda: Editing and EntropyAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£19.79
Grolier Club of New York The Dean of American Printers – Theodore Low de
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.
£28.00
Grolier Club of New York Magazines and the American Experience –
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
£57.00
University of Massachusetts Press Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and
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.
£23.70
University of Massachusetts Press Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and
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.
£65.45
University of Massachusetts Press Organizing Women: Home, Work, and the
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.
£65.45
University of Massachusetts Press The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged
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.
£65.45
Liverpool University Press Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French
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
£109.50
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Publishing Economics: Analyses of the Academic
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
£116.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Publishing Economics: Analyses of the Academic
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
£37.95
Liverpool University Press First and Last Editions: England's Second-Hand
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.
£52.25
Springer International Publishing AG Virginia Woolf, Literary Materiality, and
Book SynopsisThis book interrogates the relationship between the material conditions of Woolf's writing practices and her work as a printer and publisher at the Hogarth Press. In bringing to light her embodied literary processes, from drafting and composition to hand-printing and binding, this study foregrounds the interactions between Woolf's modernist experimentation and the visual and material aspects of her printed works. By drawing on the field of print culture, as well as the materialist turn in Woolf scholarship, it explores how her experience in print, book-design and publishing underlines her experimental writing, and how her literary texts are conditioned by the context of their production. This book, therefore, provides new ways of reading Woolf's modernism in the context of twentieth-century print, material, and visual cultures. By suggesting that Woolf's work at the Hogarth Press sensitized her to the significant role the visual aspects of a text play in its system of representation, it also considers the extent to which materiality informs both her work, as well as her engagement with Bloomsbury formalist aesthetics, which often exaggerate the distinction between visual and verbal modes of expression.Table of ContentsPart I: Materiality.1. Introduction: Writing, Materiality, and Aesthetics.2. Conversations in Colour and Ink: Feminist Aesthetics in ‘The Mark on the Wall’ and Kew Gardens.3. ‘Fill in the sketch as you like’: Developing the Fragmentary Form of Jacob’s Room.4. ‘The cold raw edge of one’s relinquished pages’: Reading Mrs Dalloway as a Palimpsest.Part II. Aesthetics.5. Drafting Mrs Ramsay and Lily Briscoe: Feminist Aesthetics in the Manuscript of To the Lighthouse.6. ‘A succession of semblances’: Form and Feminism in The Waves.7. ‘Getting the past to shadow this broken surface’: Time, Materiality, and Aesthetics.
£94.99
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Special Interest: Ressortjournalismus - Konzepte,
Book SynopsisOb Sport-, Medizin-, Technik- oder Kulturjournalismus: Thematisch spezialisierter Journalismus nimmt zu – in allen Medien, ob Internet, Radio, Fernsehen oder Presse. Auf spezielle Zielgruppen zugeschnitten sind häufig auch redaktionelle Publikationen in der Unternehmenskommunikation wie Kundenzeitschriften, Fachportale online oder Podcasts. Welche Anforderungen stellt das spezielle Thema?Wie spricht man die jeweilige Zielgruppe an?Wie kommt man in den Politikjournalismus, Modejournalismus oder die anderen Ressorts? Das Buch stellt die Besonderheiten der einzelnen Themen und Zielgruppen vor und beschreibt die Wege zum jeweiligen Ressort. Experten geben Antworten und TippsTable of Contents Vorwort.- Sportjournalismus.- Modejournalismus.- Wirtschafts-, Finanz- und Verbraucherjournalismus.- Auslandsberichterstattung.- Politikjournalismus.- Religionsjournalismus.- Kulturjournalismus.- Wissenschaftsjournalismus.- Technikjournalismus.- Medienjournalismus.
£36.09
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Pressearbeit praktisch: Ein Handbuch für
Book SynopsisDschungelcamps und Big-Brother-Container sind nicht der einzige Weg, in die Medien zu kommen. Seriöser und nachhaltiger ist die Pressearbeit. Wie die in der Praxis aussieht, zeigen Gabriele Hooffacker und Peter Lokk in Pressearbeit praktisch. Dieser Ratgeber für Profis und Laien bezieht vom ersten bis zum letzten Kapitel Social Media, Online-PR und Web 2.0 mit ein.Table of ContentsEinleitung: Worum es geht.- Anlässe: Der Nachrichtenwert.- Pressemitteilung: Die Basis.- Presseverteiler: Die Medien.- Pressegespräch, Pressekonferenz, Hintergrundgespräch: Die Kontakte.- Konzept und Jahresplanung: Die Strategie Clipping, Controlling, Resonanzanalyse: Der Erfolg.- Krisen-PR: Der Tag X.- Corporate Publishing: Die eigenen Medien.- Aus- und Weiterbildung: Die Wege.- Anhang.
£26.59
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Visuelle Kommunikation: Wahrnehmung - Perspektive
Book SynopsisDieser Band der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ behandelt die Anwendung der Kommunikationsmodelle und Gesetzmäßigkeiten der visuellen Wahrnehmung auf die zwei- und dreidimensionale perspektivische Flächengestaltung sowie auf die Farbgestaltung. Für diese Bibliothek wurden die Themen des Kompendiums der Mediengestaltung neu strukturiert, vollständig überarbeitet und in ein handliches Format gebracht. Leitlinien waren hierbei die Anpassung an die Entwicklungen in der Werbe- und Medienbranche sowie die Berücksichtigung der aktuellen Rahmenpläne und Studienordnungen sowie Prüfungsanforderungen der Ausbildungs- und Studiengänge. Die Bände der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ enthalten zahlreiche praxisorientierte Aufgaben mit Musterlösungen und eignen sich als Lehr- und Arbeitsbücher an Schulen sowie Hochschulen und zum Selbststudium.Table of ContentsVorwort.- Einleitung.- Wahrnehmung.- Perspektive.- Gestaltung.- Index.
£11.77
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Digitale Fotografie: Fotografische Gestaltung -
Book SynopsisDieser Band der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ behandelt die fotografische Gestaltung, die fotografische Optik und Aufnahmetechnik sowie die Bildoptimierung für die Ausgabe in Digital- und Printmedien. Für diese Bibliothek wurden die Themen des Kompendiums der Mediengestaltung neu strukturiert, vollständig überarbeitet und in ein handliches Format gebracht. Leitlinien waren hierbei die Anpassung an die Entwicklungen in der Werbe- und Medienbranche sowie die Berücksichtigung der aktuellen Rahmenpläne und Studienordnungen sowie Prüfungsanforderungen der Ausbildungs- und Studiengänge.Die Bände der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ enthalten zahlreiche praxisorientierte Aufgaben mit Musterlösungen und eignen sich als Lehr- und Arbeitsbücher an Schulen und Hochschulen sowie zum Selbststudium.Table of ContentsVorwort.- Einleitung.- Fotografische Gestaltung.- Optik.- Kameratechnik.- Index.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Typografie: Schrifttechnologie - Typografische
Book SynopsisDieser Band der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ behandelt die Schrifterkennung und Schriftklassifikation, die Lesbarkeit von Schrift und den gestalterischen und technischen Einsatz von Schriften. Außerdem werden die Schrifttechnologie und die Verwaltung von Schriften thematisiert. Für diese Bibliothek wurden die Themen des Kompendiums der Mediengestaltung neu strukturiert, vollständig überarbeitet und in ein handliches Format gebracht. Leitlinien waren hierbei die Anpassung an die Entwicklungen in der Werbe- und Medienbranche sowie die Berücksichtigung der aktuellen Rahmenpläne und Studienordnungen sowie Prüfungsanforderungen der Ausbildungs- und Studiengänge.Die Bände der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ enthalten zahlreiche praxisorientierte Aufgaben mit Musterlösungen und eignen sich als Lehr- und Arbeitsbücher an Schulen sowie Hochschulen und zum Selbststudium.Table of ContentsVorwort.- Einleitung.- Schrifttechnologie.- Typografische Gestaltung.- Lesbarkeit.- Index.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Animation: Grundlagen - 2D-Animation -
Book SynopsisDieser Band der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ behandelt die Prinzipien der Animation und führt in die grundlegenden Techniken zur Erstellung von 2D- und 3D-Animationen ein. Für diese Bibliothek wurden die Themen des Kompendiums der Mediengestaltung neu strukturiert, vollständig überarbeitet und in ein handliches Format gebracht. Leitlinien waren hierbei die Anpassung an die Entwicklungen in der Werbe- und Medienbranche sowie die Berücksichtigung der aktuellen Rahmenpläne und Studienordnungen sowie Prüfungsanforderungen der Ausbildungs- und Studiengänge.Die Bände der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ enthalten zahlreiche praxisorientierte Aufgaben mit Musterlösungen und eignen sich als Lehr- und Arbeitsbücher an Schulen und Hochschulen sowie zum Selbststudium.Table of ContentsVorwort.- Einleitung.- Grundlagen.- 2D-Animation.- 3D-Animation.- Index.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Medienworkflow: Kalkulation – Projektmanagement –
Book SynopsisDieser Band der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ behandelt die wichtigsten Inhalte zum Medienworkflow sowie zur Kalkulation und zum Projektmanagement.Für diese Bibliothek wurden die Themen des Kompendiums der Mediengestaltung neu strukturiert, vollständig überarbeitet und in ein handliches Format gebracht. Leitlinien waren hierbei die Anpassung an die Entwicklungen in der Werbe- und Medienbranche sowie die Berücksichtigung der aktuellen Rahmenpläne und Studienordnungen sowie Prüfungsanforderungen der Ausbildungs- und Studiengänge.Die Bände der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ enthalten zahlreiche praxisorientierte Aufgaben mit Musterlösungen und eignen sich als Lehr- und Arbeitsbücher an Schulen und Hochschulen sowie zum Selbststudium.Table of ContentsVorwort.- Einleitung.- Kalkulation.- Projektmanagement.- Workflow.- Index.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Crossmedia Publishing: Single Source – XML –
Book SynopsisZunächst gehen die Autoren dieses Crossmedia Publishing Buchs auf die zunehmende Bedeutung von Redaktionssystemen – speziell Content Management Systeme (kurz: CMS) – und deren Vorteile für den Publikationsprozess ein. Im weiteren Verlauf dieses Werks stehen folgende Aspekte im Fokus:XML: Grundlagen und DateibearbeitungWeb-to-Print-AnwendungenWichtige DruckdatenRich-Media-InhalteKonvertierung von PDF in HTML5So vermittelt Ihnen das Buch „Crossmedia Publishing“ nicht nur theoretische Grundlagen, sondern stellt gleichzeitig Praxisbezüge her. Verständliche Anleitungen inklusive Screenshots unterstützen Sie bei der Arbeit mit verschiedenen Tools.Table of ContentsSingle Source - XML - Web-to-Print - PDF-to-Web
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Webdesign: Interfacedesign - Screendesign -
Book SynopsisDieser Band der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ behandelt die Konzeption und Gestaltung von Webanwendungen mit Fokus auf Screen- und Interfacedesign für mobile Endgeräte. Für diese Bibliothek wurden die Themen des Kompendiums der Mediengestaltung neu strukturiert, vollständig überarbeitet und in ein handliches Format gebracht. Leitlinien waren hierbei die Anpassung an die Entwicklungen in der Werbe- und Medienbranche sowie die Berücksichtigung der aktuellen Rahmenpläne und Studienordnungen sowie Prüfungsanforderungen der Ausbildungs- und Studiengänge.Die Bände der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ enthalten zahlreiche praxisorientierte Aufgaben mit Musterlösungen und eignen sich als Lehr- und Arbeitsbücher an Schulen und Hochschulen sowie zum Selbststudium.Table of ContentsVorwort.- Einleitung.- Schrifttechnologie.- Interfacedesign.- Screendesign.- Mobiles Webdesign.- Index.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Medienrecht: Urheberrecht - Markenrecht -
Book SynopsisDieser Band der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ präsentiert in kompakter Form die wichtigsten Aspekte des Medienrechts, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Urheberrechts. Für diese Bibliothek wurden die Themen des Kompendiums der Mediengestaltung neu strukturiert, vollständig überarbeitet und in ein handliches Format gebracht. Leitlinien waren hierbei die Anpassung an die Entwicklungen in der Werbe- und Medienbranche sowie die Berücksichtigung der aktuellen Rahmenpläne und Studienordnungen sowie Prüfungsanforderungen der Ausbildungs- und Studiengänge.Die Bände der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ enthalten zahlreiche praxisorientierte Aufgaben mit Musterlösungen und eignen sich als Lehr- und Arbeitsbücher an Schulen sowie Hochschulen und zum Selbststudium.Table of ContentsVorwort.- Einleitung.- Urheberrecht.- Nutzungsrecht.- Datenschutz.- Index.
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The Chinese University Press Books in Numbers
Book SynopsisThis collection of papers is a result of an academic conference entitled ""Books in Numbers"" held in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Library. The aim of this conference was to celebrate the book culture of East Asia by comparing and contrasting the development of manuscript and print culture in each of the separate cultural areas of the region: China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Central Asia.The papers in this volume do not in any way attempt to offer a ""complete"" picture of the history of writing and the book in East Asia, but rather they hope to make a modest contribution by highlighting the differential developments in each of the cultural regions, as they were influenced by political, economic, social, and cultural factors.
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Anagrama Muertos Y El Periodista Los
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Arco Libros - La Muralla, S.L. Diccionario de impresores espaoles Siglos XVXVII
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Taylor & Francis Interactions between Orality and Writing in Early Modern Italian Culture
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