ilość książek w kategorii: 3316
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The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries and Their Fittings, from the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Cent
ISBN: 9781108005081 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wide-ranging history of libraries which will interest academic historians and others interested in book culture.
A wide-ranging history of libraries which will interest academic historians and others interested in book culture.
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262,88 |
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A History of the Cambridge University Press 1521-1921
ISBN: 9781108002516 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of the Press' first four centuries, written just after World War I by one of its senior staff.
The story of the Press' first four centuries, written just after World War I by one of its senior staff.
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202,21 |
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Ichabod Dawks and His Newsletter: With an Account of the Dawks Family
ISBN: 9780521163019 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the Dawkses, a family of booksellers and printers who practised their craft in London during the seventeenth century and later.
This book describes the Dawkses, a family of booksellers and printers who practised their craft in London during the seventeenth century and later.
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189,98 |
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New Directions in Picturebook Research
ISBN: 9780415876902 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this new collection, children's literature scholars from twelve different countries contribute to the ongoing debate on the importance of picturebook research, focusing on aesthetic and cognitive aspects of picture books. Contributors take interdisciplinary approaches that integrate different disciplines such as literary studies, art history, linguistics, narratology, cognitive psychology, sociology, memory studies, and picture theory. Topics discussed include intervisuality, twist endings, autobiographical narration, and metaliterary awareness in picturebooks. The essays also examine... In this new collection, children's literature scholars from twelve different countries contribute to the ongoing debate on the importance of pictur... |
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772,46 |
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The English Newspaper, 1622-1932: An Account of the Physical Development of Journals Printed in London
ISBN: 9780521122696 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The text of The English Newspaper is substantially that given as a series of six lectures in the Sandars Readership in Bibliography in February 1932, a post that Stanley Morison held at Cambridge University from 1931 2. He based most of his research on original sources from, among others, the British Museum, the Bodleian and University Libraries. His aim was to stimulate interest in the bibliographical history of newspaper development, despite this form being 'essentially ephemeral', which 'yet has a place, though humble, beside the cocdex and the printed book - the most permanent of records...
The text of The English Newspaper is substantially that given as a series of six lectures in the Sandars Readership in Bibliography in February 1932, ...
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289,49 |
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55 Ways to Promote & Sell Your Book on the Internet
ISBN: 9780971483866 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,83 |
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The Public Domain Publishing Bible: How to Create Royalty Income for Life
ISBN: 9780982499412 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nagy explains how he has built a public domain publishing company on a shoestring budget and how he has used his company to publish his own writing.
Nagy explains how he has built a public domain publishing company on a shoestring budget and how he has used his company to publish his own writing.
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46,62 |
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English Prayer Books: An Introduction to the Literature of Christian Public Worship
ISBN: 9780521142526 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by the respected typographer Stanley Arthur Morison (1889 1967), English Prayer Books examines the history of the various liturgical books used in public worship in England, from their origins in apostolic times to the later stages of their development in the middle of the twentieth century. Using the books themselves as the first source of critical enquiry, Morison draws attention to the rich history of change underlying church liturgies and throws light on a subject too often neglected in the study of Christian sacred texts."
Written by the respected typographer Stanley Arthur Morison (1889 1967), English Prayer Books examines the history of the various liturgical books use...
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203,54 |
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The Bobbio Missal: Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul
ISBN: 9780521126915 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major re-evaluation of one of the most important liturgical manuscripts of late Merovingian Francia.
A major re-evaluation of one of the most important liturgical manuscripts of late Merovingian Francia.
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244,25 |
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John Bell, 1745 1831: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780521143141 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Bell (1745 1831) was an English publisher. The Dictionary of National Biography has Charles Knight calling Bell a 'mischievous spirit, the very Puck of booksellers'. His 109-volume, literature-for-the-masses Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, which rivalled Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781), was published from 1777 to 1783. Each volume cost just six shillings, at a time when similar volumes usually cost many times that. The drawings and illustrations with which Bell adorned his publications influenced later publishers, as did his...
John Bell (1745 1831) was an English publisher. The Dictionary of National Biography has Charles Knight calling Bell a 'mischievous spirit, the very P...
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203,54 |
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Sally Stuart's Guide to Getting Published
ISBN: 9780877883319 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every Writer Needs One Book that Jump-Starts a Writing Career. This Book Is It.
In this one-stop writing resources, Sally Stuart will tell you how to: -Find the publisher you want -Write a professional query letter or book proposal -Approach and work with editors -Decipher copyright and tax laws -Negotiate contracts -Manage the writing life -Set up a home office -Develop your book and article ideas With practical tips and anecdotes, technical details and legal helps, this essential compendium provides the information every writer needs to get in... Every Writer Needs One Book that Jump-Starts a Writing Career. This Book Is It.
In this one-stop writing resources, Sally Stuart will te... |
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83,58 |
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So You Want to Get Published
ISBN: 9780981836782 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing a book is easy. Selling a book is hard. Now you can learn how the publishing business really works from an industry insider. Adam Lee evaluates hundreds of queries every week as a Publishing Analyst for Lasaria Creative Publishing. He decides which manuscripts move on in the publishing process and which manuscripts are rejected. In this honest and entertaining handbook for authors, Adam provides his unique insight into: Queries, Submissions, Literary Agents, Publishers, Contracts, the Publishing Process, Editing, Book Promotion, Fiction, Non-fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Short Stories,...
Writing a book is easy. Selling a book is hard. Now you can learn how the publishing business really works from an industry insider. Adam Lee evaluate...
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34,02 |
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The Book in the Jewish World, 1700-1900
ISBN: 9781906764050 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers the reader a voyage in the new world that opened up to the enlightened Jewish reader of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time when the first glimmerings of emancipation and secular education were giving large numbers of Jews their first exposure to science, literature, and art, and opening their minds to new ideas. And as on any voyage led by a knowledgeable guide, there are fascinating side-trips along the way: insights into the world of scholarship, then and now, and into the nature of knowledge. All this was happening at a time when Jews' civil status and place...
This book offers the reader a voyage in the new world that opened up to the enlightened Jewish reader of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a ti...
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136,96 |
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Reference Sources and Services for Youth
ISBN: 9781555706418 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With so much content available, the challenge for K-12 library media specialists, teachers, and youth services librarians alike is how and where to direct students so they spend time on productive research rather than aimless Internet searches. This "user-friendly" book will help you teach and support students as they learn to access, evaluate and use print and electronic information successfully. For library professionals, there are skill-based exercises and case study scenarios in each chapter. These tools will sharpen your professional reference skills and your insights into reference...
With so much content available, the challenge for K-12 library media specialists, teachers, and youth services librarians alike is how and where to di...
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289,67 |
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Beyond The Literary-Industrial Complex: Using The Amazon Kindle And Other New Technologies To Unleash An Indie Movement Of Readers & Writers
ISBN: 9780971577893 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Find out why you need a publisher ... like a fish needs a bicycle. Here's the book that is helping thousands of authors to unleash a 21st-century indie movement of writers and readers, by the #1 selling author in the Amazon Kindle bookstore. Elegantly combining mission and manual, Windwalker narrates the end of the old world of publishing due to the failure of major publishers to serve either readers or authors, issues a compelling call for change, and guides authors and independent publishers through the steps that will allow them to succeed and to connect with discerning readers, in the...
Find out why you need a publisher ... like a fish needs a bicycle. Here's the book that is helping thousands of authors to unleash a 21st-century indi...
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59,66 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill
ISBN: 9780521493222 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill's extraordinary and ground-breaking work. Chapters explore a cluster of major plays in relation to pressing social topics - ecological crisis, sexual politics, revolution, terror and selfhood - providing close readings of texts in their theatrical, theoretical and historical contexts. These topic-based essays...
Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fie...
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363,06 |
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Treatise on the Laws of Literary Property: Comprising the Statutes and Cases Relating to Books, Manuscripts, Lectures, Dramatic and Musical Compositio
ISBN: 9781108009454 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1828 treatise was the first comprehensive examination of copyright laws in Britain.
This 1828 treatise was the first comprehensive examination of copyright laws in Britain.
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192,10 |
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Glances Back Through Seventy Years: Autobiographical and Other Reminiscences
ISBN: 9781108009300 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This autobiography recalls the eventful career of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820 1894). Born in London, Vizetelly was apprenticed to a wood engraver as a young child. He entered the printing business and helped found two successful but short-lived newspapers, the Pictorial Times and the Illustrated Times. From 1865 Vizetelly worked in Paris and Berlin as a foreign correspondent for the Illustrated London News, and also wrote and published several books. He later became a publisher of foreign novels and gained notoriety for his translations of Emile Zola...
This autobiography recalls the eventful career of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820 1894). Born in London, Vizete...
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288,15 |
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Glances Back Through Seventy Years: Autobiographical and Other Reminiscences
ISBN: 9781108009294 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This autobiography recalls the eventful career of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820 1894). Born in London, Vizetelly was apprenticed to a wood engraver as a young child. He entered the printing business and helped found two successful but short-lived newspapers, the Pictorial Times and the Illustrated Times. From 1865 Vizetelly worked in Paris and later Berlin as a foreign correspondent for the Illustrated London News, and also wrote and published several books. On his return to England, he became a publisher of foreign novels and gained notoriety for his...
This autobiography recalls the eventful career of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820 1894). Born in London, Vizete...
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298,26 |
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Life and Times of the Right Honourable William Henry Smith, M.P
ISBN: 9781108009232 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a lively two-volume biography, first published in 1893, of the influential Victorian businessman and politician W. H. Smith (1825 1891), whose father and uncle established the well-known stationery and bookselling business. The author, Herbert Maxwell (1845-1932), was a Scottish essayist and Conservative Member of Parliament who greatly admired Smith's human qualities and had access to his personal papers. Volume 1 documents the foundation of the newspaper wholesaling business, Smith's education and his thwarted desire to become a priest. It describes how Smith helped his father...
This is a lively two-volume biography, first published in 1893, of the influential Victorian businessman and politician W. H. Smith (1825 1891), whose...
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237,55 |