The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN :
A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology
Author : Richard Pearce-Moses
Publisher : Society of American Archivists (SAA)
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
Intended to provide the basic foundation for modern archival practice and theory.
The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870
Author : William Charvat
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231070775
Book Description
This study focuses on the complex relations between author, publisher and contemporary reading public in 19th-century America; in particular, the emergence of Irving and Cooper as America's first successful literary entrepreneurs, how Poe's and Melville's successes and failures affected their writing, the popularization of poetry in the 1830s and 1840s, the role of the literary magazine in the 1840s and 1850s, and the beginnings of book promotion. It pays particular attention to the way social and economic forces helped to shape literary works.
Blown to Bits
Author : Harold Abelson
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0137135599
Book Description
'Blown to Bits' is about how the digital explosion is changing everything. The text explains the technology, why it creates so many surprises and why things often don't work the way we expect them to. It is also about things the information explosion is destroying: old assumptions about who is really in control of our lives.
The Old Printer and the Modern Press
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : London : J. Murray
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Book industries and trade Great Britain History
ISBN :
Book Description
Part I, "The old printer", is a revised edition of the author's "William Caxton", 1844; pt. II. "The modern press" is "a view of the progress of the press to our own day, especially in relation to ... cheap popular literature".
Curiosities of Literature
Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 1823
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Book Description
English Book Collectors
Author : William Younger Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Book collectors
ISBN :
Book Description
Limits and Renewals
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2009-01-02
Category :
ISBN : 075511728X
Book Description
Limits and Renewals, Kipling's last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Dark and penetrating in tone, these are brilliant portraits of a soul in torment with some welcome relief coming in the tales of 'Aunt Ellen' and 'The Miracle of Saint Jubanus'.
Years of adventure, 1874-1920
Author : Herbert Hoover
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Presidents
ISBN :
Book Description
Tactical Biopolitics
Author : Beatriz Da Costa
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0262514915
Book Description
Scientists, scholars, and artists consider the political significance of recent advances in the biological sciences. Popular culture in this “biological century” seems to feed on proliferating fears, anxieties, and hopes around the life sciences at a time when such basic concepts as scientific truth, race and gender identity, and the human itself are destabilized in the public eye. Tactical Biopolitics suggests that the political challenges at the intersection of life, science, and art are best addressed through a combination of artistic intervention, critical theorizing, and reflective practices. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, contributions to this volume focus on the political significance of recent advances in the biological sciences and explore the possibility of public participation in scientific discourse, drawing on research and practice in art, biology, critical theory, anthropology, and cultural studies. After framing the subject in terms of both biology and art, Tactical Biopolitics discusses such topics as race and genetics (with contributions from leading biologists Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins); feminist bioscience; the politics of scientific expertise; bioart and the public sphere (with an essay by artist Claire Pentecost); activism and public health (with an essay by Treatment Action Group co-founder Mark Harrington); biosecurity after 9/11 (with essays by artists' collective Critical Art Ensemble and anthropologist Paul Rabinow); and human-animal interaction (with a framing essay by cultural theorist Donna Haraway). Contributors Gaymon Bennett, Larry Carbone, Karen Cardozo, Gary Cass, Beatriz da Costa, Oron Catts, Gabriella Coleman, Critical Art Ensemble, Gwen D'Arcangelis, Troy Duster, Donna Haraway, Mark Harrington, Jens Hauser, Kathy High, Fatimah Jackson, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan King, Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin, Rachel Mayeri, Sherie McDonald, Claire Pentecost, Kavita Philip, Paul Rabinow, Banu Subramanian, subRosa, Abha Sur, Samir Sur, Jacqueline Stevens, Eugene Thacker, Paul Vanouse, Ionat Zurr
