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Author : Solveig Robinson
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1554810744
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book in Society written by Solveig Robinson and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture examines the origins and development of one of the most important inventions in human history. Books can inform, entertain, inspire, irritate, liberate, or challenge readers, and their forms can be tangible and traditional, like a printed, casebound volume, or virtual and transitory, like a screen-page of a cell-phone novel. Written in clear, non-specialist prose, The Book in Society first provides an overview of the rise of the book and of the modern publishing and bookselling industries. It explores the evolution of written texts from early forms to contemporary formats, the interrelationship between literacy and technology, and the prospects for the book in the twenty-first century. The second half of the book is based on historian Robert Darnton’s concept of a book publishing “communication circuit.” It examines how books migrate from the minds of authors to the minds of readers, exploring such topics as the rise of the modern notion of the author, the role of states and others in promoting or restricting the circulation of books, various modes of reproducing and circulating texts, and how readers’ responses help shape the form and content of the books available to them. Feature boxes highlighting key texts, individuals, and developments in the history of the book, carefully selected illustrations, and a glossary all help bring the history of the book to life.

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613128622
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler’s mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century. Butler’s most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana’s own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him. Held up as an essential work in feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, and a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, there are over 500,000 copies of Kindred in print. The intersectionality of race, history, and the treatment of women addressed within the original work remain critical topics in contemporary dialogue, both in the classroom and in the public sphere. Frightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history, transformed by the graphic novel format into a visually stunning work for a new generation of readers.

Author : Richard Soule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manual of English Pronunciation and Spelling written by Richard Soule and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Spiers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Standard Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages written by Alexander Spiers and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Seth Dowland
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291913
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right written by Seth Dowland and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last three decades of the twentieth century, evangelical leaders and conservative politicians developed a political agenda that thrust "family values" onto the nation's consciousness. Ministers, legislators, and laypeople came together to fight abortion, gay rights, and major feminist objectives. They supported private Christian schools, home schooling, and a strong military. Family values leaders like Jerry Falwell, Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, and James Dobson became increasingly supportive of the Republican Party, which accommodated the language of family values in its platforms and campaigns. The family values agenda created a bond between evangelicalism and political conservatism. Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right chronicles how the family values agenda became so powerful in American political life and why it appealed to conservative evangelical Christians. Conservative evangelicals saw traditional gender norms as crucial in cultivating morality. They thought these gender norms would reaffirm the importance of clear lines of authority that the social revolutions of the 1960s had undermined. In the 1970s and 1980s, then, evangelicals founded Christian academies and developed homeschooling curricula that put conservative ideas about gender and authority front and center. Campaigns against abortion and feminism coalesced around a belief that God created women as wives and mothers—a belief that conservative evangelicals thought feminists and pro-choice advocates threatened. Likewise, Christian right leaders championed a particular vision of masculinity in their campaigns against gay rights and nuclear disarmament. Movements like the Promise Keepers called men to take responsibility for leading their families. Christian right political campaigns and pro-family organizations drew on conservative evangelical beliefs about men, women, children, and authority. These beliefs—known collectively as family values—became the most important religious agenda in late twentieth-century American politics.

Author : J. Castaréde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Complete Treatise on the Conjugation of French Verbs ... written by J. Castaréde and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph THOMAS (M.D., of Philadelphia.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Comprehensive Medical Dictionary: containing the pronunciation, etymology, and signification of the terms made use of in Medicine and the kindred sciences. With an appendix, etc written by Joseph THOMAS (M.D., of Philadelphia.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carl Albert Thimm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egyptian Self-taught (Arabic) written by Carl Albert Thimm and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1244 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: