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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When America entered World War II in 1941, [it] faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million small, lightweight paperbacks, for troops to carry...
Publisher
American Library Association
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sue Polanka brings together a variety of professionals to share their expertise about e-books with librarians and publishers. Providing forward-thinking ideas while remaining grounded in practical information that can be implemented in all kinds of libraries, the topics explored include an introduction to e-books and their different types, an overview of their history and development, e-book technology, why e-books are good for learning, and how librarians...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Providing an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a global context, this volume presents the use of emoji as a hugely important facet of computer-mediated communication, leading author Jieun Kiaer to coin the term 'emoji speak'. Exploring why and how emojis are born, and the different ways in which people use them, this book highlights the diversity of emoji speak. Presenting the results of empirical investigations with participants of British, Belgian,...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2011], ©2011
Language
English
Description
Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from trade journals, news media, films, advertisements, and a host of other commercial and scholarly materials, Striphas tells a story of modern publishing that proves, even in a rapidly digitizing world, books are anything but dead. From the rise of retail superstores...
Series
After series [Todd films] volume 2
Publisher
Voltage Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Hardin will always be ... Hardin. But is he really the deep, thoughtful guy Tessa fell madly in love with or has he been a stranger all along? She wishes she could walk away. It's just not that easy. Not with the memory of the passionate nights they spent together. Still, Tessa's not sure she can endure one more broken promise. She's focused on her studies and just starting an exiciting new internship at Vance Publishing. She's also being pursued...
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In the seven years since the previous edition debuted, we have seen an extraordinary evolution in the way we create and share knowledge. This seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create, and cite information that readers are as likely to access from their pockets as from a bookshelf. It offers updated guidelines on electronic workflows and publication formats, tools for PDF annotation...
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
This user-friendly training guide includes groups of instructional exercises and practice tests on various aspects and features of the sixth edition of the "Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association."
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, something that aspiring readers would have both the ability and the desire to read. The result was an unlikely children's classic, The Cat in the Hat. But Geisel didn't stop there. Using The Cat in the Hat as a template, he teamed with Helen Geisel and Phyllis Cerf to create Beginner Books, a whole new category of readers that combined...
Author
Publisher
ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
As library collections of all types of libraries increasingly become electronic, librarians are faced with coping with rising costs while meeting increasing user expectations; understanding copyright and fair use in the digital environment; and following rapidly changing technologies. Johnson incorporates current information while providing practical information that will guide librarians in their work with electronic content.
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition is the official source for APA Style. With millions of copies sold worldwide in multiple languages, it is the style manual of choice for writers, researchers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, nursing, communications, education, business, engineering, and other fields. Known for its authoritative, easy-to-use reference...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Rolling Stone founder, editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a memoir from the heart of the rock and roll generation: from the triumphs of the Beatles and the Stones to Bono and the Boss, from Burning Man to the White House. Jann Wenner has been called by his peers "the greatest editor of his generation." His deeply personal memoir brings you inside the music, the politics, and the lifestyle of a generation, an epoch of cultural change that swept...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We've all wished romance could be more like fiction. Patience Bloom certainly did. As a teen she fell in love with Harlequin novels and imagined her life turning out just like the heroines' on the pages. Years later she moved to New York and found her dream job editing Harlequin romances. Bloom became an expert at fictional love stories, but her dating life was uninspired. She'd nearly given up on love when a Facebook message from a high-school friend...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The author traces the significant yet underappreciated historical role that mass-market paperbacks of Jane Austen's books have played in making her the celebrated author she is today. This is a work of bibliography and of literary history. The author has amassed a large collection of rare and forgotten Austen volumes with rich, colorful, and sometimes gaudy covers that are featured, selectively, as figures in the book"--
20) The Post
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Determined to uphold the nation's civil liberties, Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, and hard-nosed editor Ben Bradlee join forces to expose a decades-long cover-up. However, the two must risk their careers and their freedom to bring truth to light.
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