A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology

A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology
Author: Richard Pearce-Moses
Publisher: Society of American Archivists (SAA)
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Intended to provide the basic foundation for modern archival practice and theory.

The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870

The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870
Author: William Charvat
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1992
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780231070775

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.

The Old Printer and the Modern Press

The Old Printer and the Modern Press
Author: Charles Knight
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1854
Genre: Book industries and trade Great Britain History
ISBN:

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".

Blown to Bits

Blown to Bits
Author: Harold Abelson
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2008
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0137135599

'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.