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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.
£24.26
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.
£69.30
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.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
£28.95
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
Morgan James Publishing llc Book Proposals That $ell: 21 Secrets to Speed
Book SynopsisDiscover the Secrets to Getting Published. Writing a book? In the beginning stages of writing a book, most people start with a blank page and write their entire manuscript. According to author and acquisitions editor W. Terry Whalin, this approach is backwards. About 80% to 90% of nonfiction books are sold from a book proposal. This mysterious document called a proposal contains many elements that will never appear in a manuscript—yet these details are critical to publishing executives who make the decision about publishing or rejecting an author’s project. In Book Proposals That Sell, Terry reveals 21 secrets to creating a book proposal that every author needs in order to create one that sells.
£11.35
American Bar Association What is a Copyright, Fourth Edition
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.
£14.99
Mango Media The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with
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
£17.09
Page Street Publishing Co. Finish Your First Novel: A No-Bull Guide to
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.
£14.39
University Press of Colorado Behind the Curtain of Scholarly Publishing:
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£23.74
Astra Publishing House Collected Works
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
£24.00
G&D Media Speed Write Your First Book: From Blank Spaces to
Book SynopsisWRITE YOUR FIRST BOOK IN JUST 90 DAYS!Admit it. You want to write a book. Maybe this is a new idea that just occurred to you, or perhaps it's something you've thought about for some time. Either way, once you begin the process, you will love it! You might even become obsessed with writing.And no, it most likely won't be a 300-page New York Times bestseller that you'll create in only 90 days, but you will be able to write an actual 50 to 100-page book, working only 7 minutes per day. Perhaps you'll want to write for a bit longer at each session. It's totally up to youyour decision, your desire, your dedication and your determination to write, write and write some more.Do you want to tell your life story? What a perfect gift to your children or grandchildren! Maybe you want to share what you've learned about life and convey your vision and your values. Perhaps you want to design your own characters and create a story to place them in. Either way, when you've finished your book, you'll be so proud of what you've accomplished. You can inspire your readers towards a higher purpose, heal the pain they are experiencing through a story of triumph over adversity, or make them forget their own problems as you take them on a magical journey you've created in your mind.So grab your pencil and get ready to fill in the blanks to create a writing plan for your story that you can soon share with the world!
£7.59
ECW Press,Canada Stories about Storytellers
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£15.19
Biblioasis The Art of Libromancy
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
£13.99
Rethink Press The Complete Guide to Ghostwriting
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
£16.19
Channel View Publications Ltd Global Academic Publishing: Policies,
Book SynopsisThis book reports on the state of academic journal publishing in a range of geolinguistic contexts, including locations where pressures to publish in English have developed more recently than in other parts of the world (e.g. Kazakhstan, Colombia), in addition to contexts that have not been previously explored or well-documented. The three sections push the boundaries of existing research on global publishing, which has mainly focused on how scholars respond to pressures to publish in English, by highlighting research on evaluation policies, journals’ responses in non-Anglophone contexts to pressures for English-medium publishing, and pedagogies for supporting scholars in their publishing efforts.Trade ReviewThis timely collection sheds light on how publishing policies and practices are shaping global academic knowledge-making. Its impressive geolinguistic reach, with attention to a wide range of contexts and many contributions from beyond the Anglophone centre, brings a richness and nuance that make it a powerful inaugural text for the new Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation series. * Lucia Thesen, University of Cape Town, South Africa *This book consistently provides new and valuable insights into the various causes and consequences of the growing dominance of English in research publishing. To the best of my knowledge there are no other publications currently available that do as much or do it as well. * Sally Burgess, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain *I recommend this book for anyone who is interested in understanding the contemporary world of academic publishing, whether as a writer who is seeking to disseminate knowledge, or as a research educator supporting novice scholars as they navigate the complexities of publication. The pressure to publish high-level research in English is not likely to disappear soon, but it is books like this that push us to recognise the power relations at play in global knowledge production. There is much to look forward to in this new series. -- Cally Guerin, University of Adelaide, Australia * Doctoral Writing SIG, May 2018 *The co-editors have done an excellent job of editing, organizing, and arranging the four parts [of the book] into logical and cohesive subdivisions. The issues related to the dominance of English as the language of knowledge production is dealt with directly...Curry and Lillis make it clear that there is a conspiracy of factors that have led to this situation and they point how it is being addressed in positive ways. This book should be recommended reading for professors who teach in a graduate program and for their students. -- Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville, USA * Language Problems and Language Planning 42:2 *Table of ContentsMary Jane Curry and Theresa Lillis: Problematising English as the Privileged Language of Global Academic Publishing Section 1: Evaluation Practices Shaping Academic Publishing Lynn Nygaard and Rocco Bellanova: Lost in Quantification: Scholars and the Politics of Bibliometrics Robin Nagano and Edit Spiczéné: Phd Publication Requirements and Practices: A Multidisciplinary Case Study from a Hungarian University Yongyan Li and Rui Yang: Chinese Business Schools Pursuing Growth through International Publication: Evidence from Institutional Genres Section 2: Scholars’ Practices and Perspectives Birna Arnbjornsdottir and Hafdis Ingvarsdottir: Issues of Identity and Voice: Writing English for Research Purposes in the Semi Periphery John Harbord: Language Policy and the Disengagement of the International Academic Elite Laurie Anderson: Publishing in Pursuit of an Academic Career: The Role of Embedded and Encultured Knowledge in National Job-market Entry Strategies of Elite Early Career European Scholars Section 3: Academic Journal Policies and Practices Aliya Kuzhabekova: The Reaction of Scholarly Journals to Impact-Factor Publishing Requirements in Kazakhstan Cheryl Sheridan: Blind Peer Review at an English Language Teaching Journal in Taiwan: Glocalized Practices within Globalization of Higher Education Melba Cardenas and Isobel Rainey: Publishing from the ELT Periphery: The Profile Journal Experience in Colombia Cheryl Ball, Andrew Morrison and Douglas Eyman: The Rise of Multimodality in Academic Publishing Francoise Salager-Meyer: Open Access: The Next Model for Research Dissemination? Ismaeil Fazel and Joel Heng Hartse: Reconsidering “Predatory” Open Access Journals in an Age of Globalized English-Language Academic Publishing Section 4: Pedagogies for Global Academic Publishing Ju Chuan Huang: Teaching Writing for Publication in English to Engineering Students: Implications from a Collaborative Course in Taiwan James Corcoran: The Potential and Limitations of an English for Research Publication Purposes Course for Mexican Scholars Soraya Abdulatief and Xolisa Guzula: Emerging Academics: Using Whatsapp to Share Novice and Expert Resources in a Postgraduate Writing Group Index
£31.46
Channel View Publications Ltd Global Academic Publishing: Policies,
Book SynopsisThis book reports on the state of academic journal publishing in a range of geolinguistic contexts, including locations where pressures to publish in English have developed more recently than in other parts of the world (e.g. Kazakhstan, Colombia), in addition to contexts that have not been previously explored or well-documented. The three sections push the boundaries of existing research on global publishing, which has mainly focused on how scholars respond to pressures to publish in English, by highlighting research on evaluation policies, journals’ responses in non-Anglophone contexts to pressures for English-medium publishing, and pedagogies for supporting scholars in their publishing efforts.Trade ReviewThis timely collection sheds light on how publishing policies and practices are shaping global academic knowledge-making. Its impressive geolinguistic reach, with attention to a wide range of contexts and many contributions from beyond the Anglophone centre, brings a richness and nuance that make it a powerful inaugural text for the new Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation series. * Lucia Thesen, University of Cape Town, South Africa *This book consistently provides new and valuable insights into the various causes and consequences of the growing dominance of English in research publishing. To the best of my knowledge there are no other publications currently available that do as much or do it as well. * Sally Burgess, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain *I recommend this book for anyone who is interested in understanding the contemporary world of academic publishing, whether as a writer who is seeking to disseminate knowledge, or as a research educator supporting novice scholars as they navigate the complexities of publication. The pressure to publish high-level research in English is not likely to disappear soon, but it is books like this that push us to recognise the power relations at play in global knowledge production. There is much to look forward to in this new series. -- Cally Guerin, University of Adelaide, Australia * Doctoral Writing SIG, May 2018 *The co-editors have done an excellent job of editing, organizing, and arranging the four parts [of the book] into logical and cohesive subdivisions. The issues related to the dominance of English as the language of knowledge production is dealt with directly...Curry and Lillis make it clear that there is a conspiracy of factors that have led to this situation and they point how it is being addressed in positive ways. This book should be recommended reading for professors who teach in a graduate program and for their students. -- Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville, USA * Language Problems and Language Planning 42:2 *Table of ContentsMary Jane Curry and Theresa Lillis: Problematising English as the Privileged Language of Global Academic Publishing Section 1: Evaluation Practices Shaping Academic Publishing Lynn Nygaard and Rocco Bellanova: Lost in Quantification: Scholars and the Politics of Bibliometrics Robin Nagano and Edit Spiczéné: Phd Publication Requirements and Practices: A Multidisciplinary Case Study from a Hungarian University Yongyan Li and Rui Yang: Chinese Business Schools Pursuing Growth through International Publication: Evidence from Institutional Genres Section 2: Scholars’ Practices and Perspectives Birna Arnbjornsdottir and Hafdis Ingvarsdottir: Issues of Identity and Voice: Writing English for Research Purposes in the Semi Periphery John Harbord: Language Policy and the Disengagement of the International Academic Elite Laurie Anderson: Publishing in Pursuit of an Academic Career: The Role of Embedded and Encultured Knowledge in National Job-market Entry Strategies of Elite Early Career European Scholars Section 3: Academic Journal Policies and Practices Aliya Kuzhabekova: The Reaction of Scholarly Journals to Impact-Factor Publishing Requirements in Kazakhstan Cheryl Sheridan: Blind Peer Review at an English Language Teaching Journal in Taiwan: Glocalized Practices within Globalization of Higher Education Melba Cardenas and Isobel Rainey: Publishing from the ELT Periphery: The Profile Journal Experience in Colombia Cheryl Ball, Andrew Morrison and Douglas Eyman: The Rise of Multimodality in Academic Publishing Francoise Salager-Meyer: Open Access: The Next Model for Research Dissemination? Ismaeil Fazel and Joel Heng Hartse: Reconsidering “Predatory” Open Access Journals in an Age of Globalized English-Language Academic Publishing Section 4: Pedagogies for Global Academic Publishing Ju Chuan Huang: Teaching Writing for Publication in English to Engineering Students: Implications from a Collaborative Course in Taiwan James Corcoran: The Potential and Limitations of an English for Research Publication Purposes Course for Mexican Scholars Soraya Abdulatief and Xolisa Guzula: Emerging Academics: Using Whatsapp to Share Novice and Expert Resources in a Postgraduate Writing Group Index
£98.96
Imperial College Press Publishing And The Advancement Of Science: From
Book SynopsisPopular science books, selling in their thousands — even millions — help us appreciate breakthroughs in understanding the natural world, while highlighting the cultural importance of scientific knowledge. Textbooks bring these same advances to students; the scientists of tomorrow. But how do these books come about? And why are some of them so spectacularly successful?This is the first ever insider's account of science publishing, written by an editor intimately involved in the publication of some of the most famous bestsellers in the field. Michael Rodgers reveals the stories behind these extraordinary books, providing a behind-the-scenes view of the world of books, authors and ideas. These vivid and engaging narratives illuminate not only the challenges of writing about science, but also how publishing itself works and the creative collaboration between authors and editors that lies at its heart.The book (like many of those it describes) is intended for a wide readership. It will interest people in publishing, past and present, and also academics and students on publishing courses. Scientists exploring territories outside their own speciality will enjoy it, while there is invaluable advice for those planning their first popular book or textbook. It will also appeal to readers with a humanities background who, finding the concepts of science intriguing, want to know more about how they are developed and communicated.Table of ContentsForeword (Richard Dawkins); Prologue; Hawking, Einstein, and Popular Science; Discovering the World of Science and Scientists; Falling Under the Spell of the Selfish Gene; The Origins and Evolution of the College Science Textbook, and the Birth of A Superstar; Companion to the Mind, and Science in the Vegetable Garden; R- and K-Selection, and the Extended Phenotype; The Blind Watchmaker, and the Universe in 20 Objects; Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith: Working with Two Giants of Evolutionary Biology; The Best Textbook of Organic Chemistry I'll Ever Hold in My Hands; Scientific Anecdotes, the Ten Great Ideas of Science, 'Science Writing at Its Best'; Epilogue; Notes and References; Index.
£46.55
Imperial College Press Publishing And The Advancement Of Science: From
Book SynopsisPopular science books, selling in their thousands — even millions — help us appreciate breakthroughs in understanding the natural world, while highlighting the cultural importance of scientific knowledge. Textbooks bring these same advances to students; the scientists of tomorrow. But how do these books come about? And why are some of them so spectacularly successful?This is the first ever insider's account of science publishing, written by an editor intimately involved in the publication of some of the most famous bestsellers in the field. Michael Rodgers reveals the stories behind these extraordinary books, providing a behind-the-scenes view of the world of books, authors and ideas. These vivid and engaging narratives illuminate not only the challenges of writing about science, but also how publishing itself works and the creative collaboration between authors and editors that lies at its heart.The book (like many of those it describes) is intended for a wide readership. It will interest people in publishing, past and present, and also academics and students on publishing courses. Scientists exploring territories outside their own speciality will enjoy it, while there is invaluable advice for those planning their first popular book or textbook. It will also appeal to readers with a humanities background who, finding the concepts of science intriguing, want to know more about how they are developed and communicated.Table of ContentsForeword (Richard Dawkins); Prologue; Hawking, Einstein, and Popular Science; Discovering the World of Science and Scientists; Falling Under the Spell of the Selfish Gene; The Origins and Evolution of the College Science Textbook, and the Birth of A Superstar; Companion to the Mind, and Science in the Vegetable Garden; R- and K-Selection, and the Extended Phenotype; The Blind Watchmaker, and the Universe in 20 Objects; Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith: Working with Two Giants of Evolutionary Biology; The Best Textbook of Organic Chemistry I'll Ever Hold in My Hands; Scientific Anecdotes, the Ten Great Ideas of Science, 'Science Writing at Its Best'; Epilogue; Notes and References; Index.
£22.80
Open Book Publishers Whose Book is it Anyway?: A View From Elsewhere
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£25.95
Granta Books Instead of a Letter
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 *
£9.49
Vintage Publishing Merchants of Truth: Inside the News Revolution
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 *
£10.44
Vintage Publishing In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie
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
£11.88
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 30 Years of Social Change
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.
£14.96
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc From Additive Manufacturing to 3D/4D Printing 1:
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
£132.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd How to Get Published in the Best Management
Book SynopsisAn increasing number of universities around the globe are rewarding faculty who place their work in top management journals. Drawing on the insights from top journal editors and leading scholars in the field, this book is a treasure trove of tips for publishing in the best management journals. The topics covered include the mysteries of the review process, getting your methodology right, publishing across disciplinary boundaries, the rise of open access journals, publishing ethics, making use of peer review, targeting special issues, sustaining a publications career, and making sense of journal rankings. Drawing on the considerable experience of its authors, and offering candid insights that are often held as secrets among senior faculty, this book takes the reader behind the scenes of the journal review process, making it a must-read for those seeking to advance their career.Contributors: P. Andries, Y. Baruch, D.D. Bergh, S.K. Bhaumik, B.K. Boyd, M.R. Buckley, P. Budhwar, T. Clark, J.G. Combs, D. Cumming, S. Estrin, G.R. Ferris, D. Gioia, B. Harley, M.A. Hitt, G.P. Hodgkinson, R.D. Ireland, F.W. Kellermanns. D.J. Ketchen Jr., B.T. Lamont, A. Leiponen, B.R. Martin, W. Mitchell, T. Pederson, P.L. Perrewé, A.L. Ranft, P.L. Roth, A.D. Smith, C.C. Snow, W.H. Starbuck, W.H. Stewart Jr., S. Tallman, S. Toms, R. Van Dick, G. Wood, M. Wright, D.W. YiuTrade Review'Scholars seek to have their work published in the top journals, both because these elite outlets provide the most visible platforms for research products and because they confer stature on the authors and their institutions. Of course, getting published in the top journals is known to be devilishly difficult. This book, How to Get Published in the Best Management Journals, consisting of chapters written by premier, highly accomplished scholars from around the world, provides invaluable insights - ranging from the philosophical and motivational to the tactical and nitty-gritty. I wish this book had existed when I was starting out, and I will be encouraging my students and colleagues to dig into it.' --Donald C. Hambrick, Pennsylvania State University, US'For many, the process of publishing in the best management journals is an enigma wrapped in a mystery. Even when they are successful, they are never sure why. And too often rejections hurt, but don't provide insight about how to increase the likelihood of success. This book begins to unwrap this enigma by describing the process and providing practical guidance that scholars at all levels can use to navigate this intellectual minefield. I wish I had this book earlier in my career.' --Jay B. Barney, University of UtahTable of ContentsContents: 1 Publishing in management – exhilaration, bafflement and frustration 1 Timothy Clark, Mike Wright and David J. Ketchen, Jr. PART I THE PUBLISHING PROCESS 2 The publishing process: a case study 11 Petra Andries and Mike Wright 3 Getting published: an editorial and journal ranker’s perspective 23 Geoffrey Wood and Pawan Budhwar 4 Ethics and integrity in publishing 29 Ben R. Martin 5 Sustaining a publications career 49 Mike Wright 6 Why publish in Asia management journals? 74 Daphne W.Yiu 7 Squeezing lemons to make fresh lemonade: how to extract useful value from peer reviews 85 William H. Starbuck PART II RESOLVING PRACTICAL KEY ISSUES Section II.I Becoming a Scholar 8 Rules of the game 109 Denny Gioia 9 Learning by walking through the snow 113 R. Duane Ireland 10 Suggestions for strengthening the discussion section and increasing your odds of publication success 116 Donald D. Bergh 11 You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take 121 Annette L. Ranft and Anne D. Smith 12 Why I don’t want to co-author with you and what you can do about it 125 David J. Ketchen, Jr. Section II.II Getting Your Methods Right 13 Are your results really robust? 131 Bruce T. Lamont 14 The reviewers don’t like my sample! What can I do? 135 Brian K. Boyd 15 When being normal is not enough: a few thoughts about data, analyses, and (the storm of) re-analyses 143 Philip L. Roth and Wayne H. Stewart, Jr. Section II.III Navigating the Review Process 16 Selling your soul to the devil? Mistakes authors make when responding to reviewers 149 Pamela L. Perrewé 17 Respond to me – please! 153 James G. Combs 18 Challenging the gods: circumstances justifying the protest of a journal rejection decision 157 Gerald R. Ferris Section II.IV Understanding the Journals 19 Publishing in the top journals: the secrets for success 163 Michael A. Hitt 20 Hitting your preferred target: positioning papers for different types of journals 168 Yehuda Baruch 21 Targeting journals: a personal journey 180 Franz W. Kellermanns 22 Read the damn article: the appropriate place of journal lists in organizational science scholarship 188 M. Ronald Buckley 23 Publishing in special issues 193 Timothy Clark 24 Using new media to promote and extend published work 199 Aija Leiponen and Will Mitchell 25 Should you publish in an open access journal? 203 Charles C. Snow PART III PUBLISHINGACROSS DISCIPLINARYBOUNDARIES 26 Publishing in finance versus entrepreneurship/management journals 211 Douglas Cumming 27 Publishing in management journals: how is it different from economics journals? 223 Saul Estrin and Sumon Kumar Bhaumik 28 Publishing in management journals as a social psychologist 237 Rolf van Dick 29 Publishing historical papers in management journals and in business history journals 245 Steven Toms 30 Publishing human resource management research in different kinds of journals 253 Bill Harley 31 Publishing in top international business and management journals 262 Stephen Tallman and Torben Pedersen 32 Publishing at the interfaces of psychology and strategic management 275 Gerard P. Hodgkinson Index 287
£29.40
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
£104.02
Practical Inspiration Publishing How to Write a Self-Help Book: Successful
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
£14.24
Practical Inspiration Publishing How to Write a Self-Help Book: Successful
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
£21.24
Waterside Productions, Inc. Power of Publishing: Let Your Dream Take Flight
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£24.71
Unbound The Pyjama Myth: The Freelance Writer's Survival
Book Synopsis‘A career-changing book, packed with real, lived-in wisdom and advice not just about working but really living as a self-employed person. If you’re thinking about going freelance, read this first’ Oliver Franklin-Wallis‘Invaluable … A wonderful, warts and all book written in a friendly, approachable manner. I wish I’d had a book like this years ago’ Simon BrewSelf-employment has never been a more popular career path, and for thousands of writers, freelancing is becoming an appealing – and sometimes necessary – option. But alongside the benefits of a freelance career come very real obstacles that are daunting for anyone going it alone. We all need some guidance. Sian Meades-Williams – freelance writer, editor and founder of the Freelance Writing Jobs newsletter – knows all too well that while freelancing doesn’t come with hard and fast rules, sometimes there is a wrong way to go about things. Drawing on her extensive experience and dozens of industry interviews, she pulls back the curtain with tips on how to get out of your pyjamas and pitch effectively, find new ideas and hone your voice, build a network of contacts, deal with edits and editors, cope with rejection, know your worth and get more money for your work, manage your finances, deal with late payments and file your taxes, care for your physical and mental health and ultimately find a path to success that makes you happy.Inspiring, optimistic and – above all – real, The Pyjama Myth is an essential, practical survival guide for anyone embarking on their career, established freelance writers and everyone in between.
£12.99
Troubador Publishing The Magazine Girls 1960s - 1980s
Book SynopsisThe Magazine Girls captures a flash-bulb moment in counter-culture in a time of raw excitement, great creativity, opportunity and sheer magical zeitgeist. This unique multi-narrative memoir presents a rare perspective on publishing just as the media youth market was set to boom. Through seven personal stories, it charts, from the 1960s and into the 1990s, the lives and times of young women who, as teenage school leavers, found themselves working on the top teen magazines of the day: Rave, Mirabelle, Valentine, Loving, Petticoat, and 19. Opportunities abounded in the 1960s and the girls were soon writing about and mixing with a new kind of aristocracy - the bands, the fashion designers, photographers, make-up artists and models. Famous names they interviewed included David Bowie, David Cassidy, Marc Bolan, Elton John, the Who and Bob Marley, amongst others. They were to mature into high-profile fashion and beauty editors, PRs, stylists, features and showbusiness writers, working on best-selling women’s magazines such as Woman’s Own, Woman, and Good Housekeeping, Hello! and national newspapers. The Magazine Girls strikes a chord, not only with those who lived through those extraordinary decades but also with younger generations of today who wish they’d been there.
£10.99
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
£36.05
The Lilliput Press Ltd The Dubliner Diaries
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
£7.99
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Publishing the Grail in Medieval and Renaissance
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
£66.50
The History Press Ltd The History of Irish Book Publishing
Book SynopsisIn this seminal work, publisher and author Tony Farmar places the development of Irish publishing in its social and economic context, exploring how the mechanics of the industry, alongside the changing structure of Irish bookselling, have underpinned developments in the trade.
£21.25
Collective Ink Author`s Guide to Publishing and Marketing, The
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'.
£9.99
Fox Chapel Publishing The Really Really Really Easy Stepbystep Guide to
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.
£9.45
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd View from King Street: An Essay in Autobiography
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.
£22.50
ACC Art Books Harold Curwen and Oliver Simon Curwen Press:
Book SynopsisThe finest books produced during the quarter century prior to the outbreak of the Great War were almost invariably printed by the private presses, but post-war, with the development of new technology, the accolade of excellence passed into the hands of a small number of commercial firms, with the Curwen Press very much to the fore. Like those earlier printers, Harold Curwen was inspired by the Morrisian ideal, but he did not adhere to the tenet that 'hand made' was necessarily better than 'machine made', which led him to become one of the pioneering figures in the technical revolution that transformed the printing industry. Harold Curwen joined the family firm in 1908 and by 1916 had instigated a general replanning of the works and, aided by the wartime staff shortage, felt able to push ahead with the installation of modern machinery. He was in the forefront of the development of offset lithography, which ensured that the Curwen Press would be in the vanguard of fine colour printing throughout the next decade. Harold also pioneered, as far as England was concerned, the pochoir technique of hand-stencilling. 1922 was the beginning of the Curwen Press's golden decade, during which it produced The Woodcutter's Dog, the English language edition of Julius Meier-Graefe's two volume biography of Van Gogh for the Medici Society, the exhibition catalogue of books and manuscripts for The First Edition Club, Goldoni's Four Comedies and the delightful little pocket engagement book, The Four Seasons, illustrated by Albert Rutherston. Rutherston was later to illustrate Thomas Hardy's Yuletide in a Younger World, the first of the Ariel Poems for Faber & Gwyer which were to become a feature of the collaboration between the two firms. In addition there was the 'Safety First' Calendar, adorned with Lovat Fraser's cautionary illustrations. Following restructuring in 1933 the Curwen Press had a further forty years of distinguished work ahead both in the printing of books, particularly those illustrated by Barnett Freedman, as well as jobbing work, including some of the finest posters for the London Underground by Bawden, Wadsworth, John Banting, Betty Swanwick, Barnett Freedman and others. The Design series is the winner of the Brand/Series Identity Category at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2009, judges said: "A series of books about design, they had to be good and these are. The branding is consistent, there is a good use of typography and the covers are superb." Also available: Claud Lovat Fraser ISBN: 9781851496631 GPO ISBN: 9781851495962 Peter Blake ISBN: 9781851496181 FHK Henrion ISBN: 9781851496327 David Gentleman ISBN: 9781851495955 David Mellor ISBN: 9781851496037 E.McKnight Kauffer ISBN: 9781851495207 Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious ISBN: 9781851495009 El Lissitzky ISBN: 9781851496198 Festival of Britain 1951 ISBN: 9781851495337 Jan Le Witt and George Him ISBN: 9781851495665 Paul Nash and John Nash ISBN: 9781851495191 Rodchenko ISBN: 9781851495917 Abram Games ISBN: 9781851496778
£11.25
Channel View Publications Ltd Literacy, Language and Community Publishing:
Book SynopsisThis book brings together theoretical and practical debates from adult literacy and language education with those of creative writing and community publishing work. Illustrated by accounts of first-hand experience, each chapter focuses on the practical business of achieving good learning and development opportunities for women and men of all ages. Whether working with refugees seeking confidence in spoken English, elderly people reflecting on life experience, or basic education students wishing to 'improve' their literacy, the principle with which the writers are engaged is that of democracy — a process which has lessons both uncomfortable and exciting for educators, as well as for learners. In direct opposition to current imperatives to standardisation and 'standards', the writers in this book argue for the effectiveness of deeper and more generous approaches to literacy and language: approaches which are at the heart of the community publishing movement in the UK. As Judy Wallis puts it: I am not arguing that the teaching of formal skills should be abandoned. Adult Basic Education students know better than anyone that it is important to spell correctly and to write in Standard English because people will discriminate against those who can't... The issue is not whether students need to acquire formal writing skills, but how they can acquire them most successfully.Table of ContentsNotes on the Authors Jane Mace: Introduction SECTION I: WRITERS, PUBLISHING AND LEARNING 1. Stella Fitzpatrick: Sailing out from Safe Harbours: Writing for Publishing in Adult Basic Education 2. Rebecca O'Rourke: Can't, Won't or Don't: Readers and Writers in Adult Education 3. Michael Hayer and Alistair Thomson: Working with Words: Active Learning in a Community Writing and Publishing Group SECTION II: FUNCTION AND CREATION 4. Judy Wallis: 'You Can't Write Until You Can Spell': Attitudes to Writing amongst Adult Basic Education Students 5. Helen Sunderland: Working on Writing with Refugees 6. Patricia Duffin: Writers in Search of an Audience: Taking Writing from Personal to Public 7. Jane Mace: Reminiscence as Literacy: Intersections and Creative Moments SECTION III: LANGUAGE CHOICES AND INTENTIONS 8. Roxy Harris: Disappearing Language: Fragments and Fractures Between Speech and Writing 9. Wendy Moss: Controlling or Empowering? Writing Through a Scribe in Adult Basic Education 10. Sav Kyriacou: Oral History and Bilingual Publishing 11. Sean Taylor: Improving on the Blank Page
£23.70
Medieval Institute Publications Matthew Parker and His Books: Sandars Lectures in
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
£22.67
Cruzian Mystic Books Self-Publish Your Own Book: a Path of Spiritual Fulfilment
£8.50
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
University College Dublin Press From Author to Audience: John Capgrave and
Book SynopsisThe author explores what is known about the medieval publishing process by close study of the work of John Capgrave (1393-1464), a prolific author and one of the most learned Englishmen of his day. In the Middle Ages, before the age of printing, the author was often his own scribe and almost invariably his own editor and publisher. Lucas shows how works newly composed by an author were prepared. Capgrave's linguistic and scribal usages are set in the socio-historical context of the 15th century.Trade Review"This is a valuable book which reproduces pieces which are not all easily available in their original form. The volume is to be welcomed because it brings into greater focus an author who has much to tell us about medieval writing and publication. It should help to make the significance of Capgrave more widely appreciated and understood. It will also help to show how detailed study of the work of an individual author can help change our assumptions about medieval authorship and thus to put the work of more popular writers like Chaucer in a wider framework" N. F. Blake, Sheffield, English Studies 79 (6) 1998 "This book brings together twelve papers by Peter Lucas on the fifteenth-century English theologian, scholar and writer, John Capgrave (1393-1464). They reflect over 25 years of unflawed interest both in the works of this Augustinian friar and in the palaeographical and philological aspects of the surviving mms of his writings." E. Kooper, Bulletin Codicologique 1, 1998 "Lucas has produced a very accessible if highly specialised book on the fifteenth-century John Capgrave 'an author in search of his public'." Books Ireland, Sept 1998 "Although the essays are very detailed, they are always clearly structured, with carefully-signalled conclusions, and as such they are models of exposition and analysis. The volume is packed with information and full of references to other scholarship." Oliver Pickering, University of Leeds, Journal of the Early Book Society, 1999 "Lucas displays a detailed knowledge of his author's working habits and an intellectual sensitivity to his literary and scholarly priorities." Review of English Studies Vol 50 No 198 1999Table of ContentsCapgrave's life and works; Capgrave as scribe; Capgrave as "publisher"; Capgrave as copyist of his own work; a copyist at work; William Gybbe of Wisbech, scribe and copyist of Capgrave; readability of the text; the author's writing habits and methods; continuity and change in Capgrave's orthographic usage; growth and development of English literary patronage in the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
£45.00
Metro Publications Ltd Book Lovers' London
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.
£11.69
African Books Collective African Scholarly Publishing: Essays
£57.57
