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Analysing the marketing in christmas time
An analysis of selling 3 books
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Book Science, grade: 1,3, Edinburgh Napier University, language: English, abstract: Authors always have recognized the opportunity to make a lot of money and sell a lot of books when it comes to Christmas, but not only new books are being marketed. Literary...
by Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, Christopher Reid
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This study offers an authoritative and readable account of the hidden history of book theft in eighteenth-century London. It exploits a rich primary source, the compelling narratives of crime contained in the digitised Proceedings of the Old Bailey. The authors explain how cases of book theft came...
Anti-Book
On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. Not exactly. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Presenting what he terms “a communism of textual matter,” Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and experimental writing and publishing, shifting...
by Henry Hitchings
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Ever wondered how some people seem to have an opinion on every book ever published? Nowadays, there are so many books: how can anyone be well read anymore? Well, help is at hand. Let Henry Hitchings educate you in the invaluable skill of literary bluffing in this survivor's guide to talking about...
In Search of Lost Books
The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The gripping and elegiac stories of eight lost books, and the mysterious circumstances behind their disappearances.
They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, censorship, theft, war or deliberate destruction, yet those who seek...
by Henry Petroski
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage.
Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately...
More Alive and Less Lonely
On Books and Writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
From the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Ecstasy of Influence comes a new collection of essays that celebrates a life spent in books
More Alive and Less Lonely collects over a decade of Jonathan Lethem’s finest writing on writing, with new and previously unpublished material,...
The Case for Books
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers of digital information. Already, more books have...
Time Was Soft There
A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
"Some bookstores are filled with stories both inside and outside the bindings. These are places of sanctuary, even redemption---and Jeremy Mercer has found both amid the stacks of Shakespeare & Co."
---Paul Collins, author of Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
In a small...
The Tattooed Girl
The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The fascinating stories behind what have been rightly called the "hottest books on the planet": The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Through insightful commentary and revealing interviews, you will enter the unique...
Harry Potter's Bookshelf
The Great Books behind the Hogwarts Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Harry Potter. The name conjures up J.K. Rowling's wondrous world of magic that has captured the imaginations of millions on both the printed page and the silver screen with bestselling novels and blockbuster films. The true magic found in this children's fantasy series lies not only in its appeal...
Picturing Canada
A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The study of children's illustrated books is located within the broad histories of print culture, publishing, the book trade, and concepts of childhood. An interdisciplinary history, Picturing Canada provides a critical understanding of the changing geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of...
Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?
The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-LovedBooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
The captivating stories behind fifty of the greatest authors and their most famous literary creations
Before Who the Hell is Pansy O?Hara ?, there had never been a single volume that explored the backstories of so many of the greatest books in the English language. A work sure to captivate...
by Timothy W. Ryback
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
A Washington Post Notable Book
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler...