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Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature by Alison Lurie 9780316246255
RRP: €23.79€17.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316246255Author Alison LurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out by Shannon Reed 9781335007964
RRP: €33.31€20.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335007964Author Shannon ReedFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 218mm... -
Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing by Nicholas Thoburn
RRP: €30.93€27.68No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. Not exactly. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Presenting what he terms "a communism of textual matter," Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and... -
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
RRP: €15.46€13.52Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its... -
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork by Whitney Trettien
RRP: €28.55€24.29How do early modern media underlie today's digital creativity? In Cut/Copy/Paste, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London print trade to uncover makerspaces and collaboratories where paper media were cut up and reassembled into radical,... -
The Printed Reader: Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Amelia Dale
RRP: €35.69€30.93Shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association for Romantic Studies) The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a... -
Book Ownership in Stuart England by David Pearson
RRP: €99.96€91.19This volume provides a wide-ranging account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upon many kinds of evidence, including examination of thousands of books, and a list of over... -
Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books by Margaret Willes
RRP: €16.65€15.05An entertaining journey through five centuries of acquiring, reading, and enjoying books in Britain and America It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who... -
Monsieur Proust's Library: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Marcel Proust by Anka Muhlstein
RRP: €20.22€11.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635421880Author Anka MuhlsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
The Rise of the Arabic Book by Beatrice Gruendler
RRP: €42.78€33.81The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages.During the thirteenth century, Europe's largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had... -
The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time by Daniel S. Burt 9780816078608
RRP: €23.74€23.09Which novels are truly great, and why? The Novel 100, Revised Edition is a unique reference that profiles great novels drawn from all cultures and periods of literature. Each entry provides a plot summary and assessment of a particular novel, with an... -
Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965-1999 by Evan Brier 9781609389390
RRP: €86.87€70.15Novel Competition describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. As corporations took over the book business, Hollywood movies, popular music, and other forms of mass-produced culture competed with... -
Index to the Court Books of the Stationers' Company, 1679 to 1717 by Alison Shell 9780948170157
€140.75An Index to the names of those printers referred to in the Court Registers, and to the various activities in that connection (eg Acts of Parliament, Almanacks, and Apprentices)Book InformationISBN 9780948170157Author Alison ShellFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Archival Fictions: Materiality, Form, and Media History in Contemporary Literature by Paul Benzon 9781625345998
RRP: €29.69€24.11Technological innovation has long threatened the printed book, but ultimately, most digital alternatives to the codex have been onscreen replications. While a range of critics have debated the benefits and dangers of this media technology, contemporary... -
Out of Print: Mediating Information in the Novel and the Book by Julia Panko 9781625345592
RRP: €91.63€74.83Through technological experiments, readers have seen the concept of the book change over the years, and the novel reflects these experiments, acting as a kind of archive for information. Out of Print reveals that the novel continues to shape popular... -
Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading by Donna Harrington-Lueker 9781625343833
RRP: €30.88€25.04The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly... -
Made Under Pressure: Literary Translation in the Soviet Union, 1960-1991 by Natalia Kamovnikova 9781625343413
€35.02During the Cold War, determined translators and publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together to increase the number of foreign literary texts available in Russian, despite fluctuating government restrictions. Based on extensive interviews with... -
Censorship in Vietnam: Brave New World by Thomas A. Bass 9781625342959
€32.87What does censorship do to a culture? How do censors justify their work? What are the mechanisms by which censorship - and self-censorship - alter people's sense of time and memory, truth and reality? Thomas Bass faced these questions when The Spy Who... -
Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas: Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series by Gregory M. Pfitzer 9781625346926
RRP: €34.45€27.80Between 1932 and 1958, thousands of children read volumes in the book series Childhood of Famous Americans. With colorful cover art and compelling—and often highly fictionalized—narrative storylines, these biographies celebrated the national virtues and... -
History Repeating Itself: The Republication of Children's Historical Literature and the Christian Right by Gregory M. Pfitzer 9781625341242
RRP: €30.88€25.04Recently publishers on the Christian Right have been reprinting nineteenth-century children's history books and marketing them to parents as "anchor texts" for homeschool instruction. Why, Gregory M. Pfitzer asks, would books written more than... -
Suburban Plots: Men at Home in Nineteenth-Century American Print Culture by Maura D'Amore 9781625340955
€31.57In the middle of the nineteenth century, as Americans contended with rapid industrial and technological change, readers relied on periodicals and books for information about their changing world. Within this print culture, a host of writers, editors,... -
For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law by Myra Tawfik 9781487545246
€75.27For the Encouragement of Learning addresses the contested history of copyright law in Canada, where the economic and reputational interests of authors and the commercial interests of publishers often conflict with the public interest in access to... -
Addressing the Letter: Italian Women Writers' Epistolary Fiction by Laura A. Salsini 9781487526276
RRP: €24.98€22.63Women writers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy reinvigorated the modern epistolary novel through their re-fashioning of the genre as a tool for examining women's roles and experiences. Addressing the Letter argues that many epistolary novels... -
Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text by Darcy Cullen 9781442610392
RRP: €35.69€32.58An academic book is much more than paper and ink, pixels and electrons. A dynamic social network of authors, editors, typesetters, proofreaders, indexers, printers, and marketers must work together to turn a manuscript into a book. Editors, Scholars,... -
Introducing Scholarly Research: Ready-to-Use Lesson Plans and Activities for Undergraduates by Toni M. Carter 9780838937822
RRP: €77.35€62.61From this book, instruction librarians will gain strategies and practical tools for introducing undergraduates to scholarly research topics such as research ethics, the role of research in higher education, quantitative and qualitative methods, and... -
The Samoa Reader: Anthropologists Take Stock by Hiram Caton 9780819177209
€134.27The Samoa Reader is a source book on the most extensive controversy in the history of anthropology, touched off by the publication of Derek Freeman's Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. Freeman's book purported to... -
No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization by Eva Hemmungs Wirten 9780802086082
RRP: €41.65€37.76In this scholarly yet highly accessible work, Eva Hemmungs Wirten traces three main themes within the scope of cultural ownership: authorship as one of the basic features of print culture, the use of intellectual property rights as a privileged... -
The Near-Death of the Author: Creativity in the Internet Age by John Potts 9781487546120
RRP: €27.36€24.66In the modern world of networked digital media, authors must navigate many challenges. Most pressingly, the illegal downloading and streaming of copyright material on the internet deprives authors of royalties, and in some cases it has discouraged... -
Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America by Gail Pool 9780826217271
RRP: €51.11€41.79Faint Praise takes a hard and long-overdue look at the institution of book reviewing. Gail Pool, herself an accomplished reviewer and review editor, analyzes the inner workings of this troubled trade to show how it works - and why it so often fails to... -
Animal, Vegetable, Digital: Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics by Elizabeth Swanstrom 9780817318956
RRP: €51.11€42.27Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature In Animal, Vegetable, Digital, Elizabeth Swanstrom makes a confident and spirited argument for the use of digital art in support of ameliorating human engagement with the environment and suggests... -
Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009 by Stan Persky 9780773540477
RRP: €19.03€17.08In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both the triumphs and tensions of reading and writing today. Evaluating works by established authors Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, J.M... -
A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlan to Amherst by Thomas Hallock 9780817320836
RRP: €51.11€42.27Essays that fuse traditional scholarship and narrative nonfiction and explore US literature A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlan to Amherst follows a two-part question: what does travel teach us about literature,... -
Irish Writers in the Irish American Press, 1882-1964 by Stephen G. Butler 9781625343673
RRP: €29.69€24.11Literary anthologies feature many of Ireland's most well-known authors, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, James Joyce, and Brendan Behan among them. While a number of notable scholars have contended that... -
The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary Culture in Modern Chile by Jane D. Griffin 9781625342096
RRP: €28.50€23.19By producing literature in nontraditional forms-books made of cardboard trash, posters in subway stations, miniature shopping bags, digital publications, and even children's toys-Chileans have made and circulated literary objects in defiance of state... -
Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America by Vanessa Meikle Schulman 9781625341952
RRP: €30.88€25.04In this extensively illustrated work, Vanessa Meikle Schulman reveals how visual representations of labor, technology, and industry were crucial in shaping the way nineteenth-century Americans understood their nation and its place in the world. Her focus... -
Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America by David M Stewart 9780814211588
RRP: €76.10€70.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814211588Author David M StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 431g -
The Near-Death of the Author: Creativity in the Internet Age by John Potts 9781487541347
€71.25In the modern world of networked digital media, authors must navigate many challenges. Most pressingly, the illegal downloading and streaming of copyright material on the internet deprives authors of royalties, and in some cases it has discouraged... -
'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675 by Elizabeth Sauer 9781487526283
RRP: €26.17€23.65The mass production and dissemination of printed materials were unparalleled in England during the 1640s and 50s. While theatrical performance traditionally defined literary culture, print steadily gained ground, becoming more prevalent and enabling the... -
Paper Electronic Literature: An Archaeology of Born-Digital Materials by Richard Hughes Gibson 9781625346018
RRP: €29.69€24.11The field of electronic literature has a familiar catchphrase, "You can't do it on paper." But the field has in fact never gone paperless. Reaching back to early experiments with digital writing in the mainframe era and then moving through the... -
Reading by Design: The Visual Interfaces of the English Renaissance Book by Pauline Reid 9781487500696
€71.25Renaissance readers perceived the print book as both a thing and a medium - a thing that could be broken or reassembled, and a visual medium that had the power to reflect, transform, or deceive. At the same historical moment that print books remediated...