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Télécharger le livre :  Virago Reprints and Modern Classics
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Virago Reprints and Modern Classics


D-M Withers


Reprinting, republishing and re-covering old books in new clothes is an established publishing practice. How are books that have fallen out of taste and favour resituated by publishers, and recognised by readers, as relevant and timely? This Element outlines three...

Parution : 2021-05-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Bluestockings and Travel Accounts
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Bluestockings and Travel Accounts


Nataliia Voloshkova


This Element proposes to relate the eighteenth-century world of travel and travel writing with the bluestocking salon. It locates eminent British travellers and explorers in the female-presided intellectual space and examines their multifaceted interaction with the...

Parution : 2021-03-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Aboriginal Writers and Popular Fiction
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Aboriginal Writers and Popular Fiction


Fiannuala Morgan


Wiradjuri woman, Anita Heiss, is arguably one of the first Aboriginal Australian authors of popular fiction. A focus on the political characterises her chick lit; and her identity as an author is both supplemented and complemented by her roles as an academic, activist...

Parution : 2021-02-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Computer-Generated Texts
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Reading Computer-Generated Texts


Leah Henrickson


Natural language generation (NLG) is the process wherein computers produce output in readable human languages. Such output takes many forms, including news articles, sports reports, prose fiction, and poetry. These computer-generated texts are often indistinguishable...

Parution : 2021-02-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Peer Review
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Reading Peer Review


Collectif


This Element describes for the first time the database of peer review reports at PLOS ONE, the largest scientific journal in the world, to which the authors had unique access. Specifically, this Element presents the background contexts and histories of peer review, the...

Parution : 2021-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Principles of Image Printing Technology
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Principles of Image Printing Technology


Yuri V. Kuznetsov


Principles of Image Printing Technology is a unique review of technology use in the printing industry since the time of the medieval engravers and busy newsroom typesetters. It provides a historical review of the advancement of technology and describes in-depth both...

Parution : 2021-02-03
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Underdevelopment and African Literature
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Underdevelopment and African Literature


Sarah Brouillette


People looking for works in cities are immersed in English as the lingua franca of the mobile phone and the urban hustle – more effective instigations to reading than decades of work by traditional publishers and development agencies. The legal publishing industry...

Parution : 2021-01-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
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Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth-Century Collections Online


Stephen H. Gregg


This is a history of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, a database of over 180,000 titles. Published by Gale in 2003 it has had an enormous impact of the study of the eighteenth century. Like many commercial digital archives, ECCO's continuing development obscures...

Parution : 2021-01-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Network Turn
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The Network Turn


Ruth Ahnert , Sebastian E. Ahnert , Catherine Nicole Coleman , Scott B. Weingart


We live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because of the technological nature of such networks, their study has predominantly taken place within the domains of computer...

Parution : 2021-01-21
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Télécharger le livre :  African Literature and the CIA
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African Literature and the CIA


Caroline Davis


During the period of decolonisation in Africa, the CIA covertly subsidised a number of African authors, editors and publishers as part of its anti-communist propaganda strategy. Managed by two front organisations, the Congress of Cultural Freedom and the Farfield...

Parution : 2021-01-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Publishing against Apartheid South Africa
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Publishing against Apartheid South Africa


Elizabeth Le Roux


In many parts of the world, oppositional publishing has emerged in contexts of state oppression.In South Africa, censorship laws were enacted in the 1960s, and the next decade saw increased pressure on freedom of speech and publishing. With growing restrictions on...

Parution : 2021-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850–1920s
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Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850–1920s


Archie L. Dick


Voluntary societies and government initiatives stimulated the growth of reading communities in South Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century. A system of Parliamentary grants to establish public libraries in country towns and villages nurtured a lively...

Parution : 2020-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business
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The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business


Beth Driscoll , Claire Squires


The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and international networks. In this Element, we pursue an Ullapoolist approach to excavate beneath the production of bestsellers at the Fair. Our...

Parution : 2020-10-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Scientific Journeys
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Scientific Journeys


H. Frederick Dylla


This collection of essays traces a scientific journey bookmarked by remarkable mentors and milestones of science. It provides fascinating reading for everyone interested in the history, public appreciation, and value of science, as well as giving first-hand accounts of...

Parution : 2020-09-26
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Disguised Academic Plagiarism
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Disguised Academic Plagiarism


M. V. Dougherty


This volume is the first book-length study of disguised forms of plagiarism that mar the body of published research in humanities disciplines. As a contribution to applied research ethics, this practical guide offers a typology of the principal forms of...

Parution : 2020-07-11
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Éditeur : Springer
Collection : Research Ethics Forum
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Télécharger le livre :  The Edited Collection
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The Edited Collection


Peter Webster


Edited collections are widely supposed to contain lesser work than scholarly journals; to be incoherent as volumes, no more than the sum of their parts; and to be less visible to potential readers once published. It is also often taken as axiomatic that those who make...

Parution : 2020-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  London and the Modernist Bookshop
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London and the Modernist Bookshop


Matthew Chambers


The modernist bookshop, best exemplified by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. and Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop, has received scant attention outside these more prominent examples. This writing will review how bookshops like David Archer's on Parton Street (London) in...

Parution : 2020-05-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Mastering the Process
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Mastering the Process


Elizabeth George


'After a number of years teaching writing courses and appearing at writers' conferences, I began to see that creating a process book utilising one of my novels as an example of each step of my process might prove useful to people who are interested in novel writing or...

Parution : 2020-04-23
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Hodder & Stoughton
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Télécharger le livre :  Book Clubs and Book Commerce
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Book Clubs and Book Commerce


Corinna Norrick-Rühl


In the twentieth century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Book Society or Bertelsmann Club. This Element offers an introduction to book clubs as a distribution channel and cultural phenomenon, and...

Parution : 2020-02-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Adapting Bestsellers
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Adapting Bestsellers


Ken Gelder


This Element looks at adaptations of bestselling works of popular fiction to cinema, television, stage, radio, video games and other media platforms. It focuses on 'transmedia storytelling', building its case studies around the genre of modern fantasy: because the...

Parution : 2020-01-02
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