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Dieting... It's all too often such an ugly word, conjuring up memories of limitations, frustrations and ultimate failures. We start our diets off with such high hopes, declaring, "This is it " This is the point where we put our foot down, close our mouths and smile down at our scales, feeling confident in our ability to lose weight. And so it begins. We succeed for a day. A week. Maybe a month or two. We see results, but then something happens to disrupt our lives, and our diets fall to pieces. As do we. If that dieting rollercoaster is a familiar ride, don't despair. As Karen Imhof shows in...

This is an interdisciplinary study of Christopher Plantin's pioneering role in the production and distribution of books with engraved and etched illustrations in sixteenth-century Europe. Using the rich archival sources at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Belgium, Karen Bowen and Dirk Imhof examine the artists that worked on these illustrations, the types of illustrations that appealed to specific markets, and the technological, cultural and economic constraints under which Christopher Plantin operated as he ventured into this new area of publishing. They demonstrate how Plantin's innovations...