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Preserving Digital Information

Preserving Digital Information


Henry M. Gladney



Review From the reviews: "The book provides a wide range of examples that illustrate the various types of information. It...
Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants

Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants


Martyn Lyons



Review "...a valuable contribution to its field..."--James Smith Allen, Libraries & CultureThe book is well crafted, writ...
Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell

Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell


Colin Davis



Review "Davis's book demonstrates, in exemplary fashion, the extent to which practices of overreading have come to consti...
George Eliot: The Novels (Analysing Texts)

George Eliot: The Novels (Analysing Texts)


Mike Edwards



About the Author Mike Edwards is Former Head of Humanities, Crosskeys College, Gwent. ...
Kamishibai Story Theater: The Art of Picture Telling

Kamishibai Story Theater: The Art of Picture Telling


Dianne De Las Casas



From School Library Journal De Las Casas was attracted to this form of street storytelling, popular from the late 1920s u...
Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England

Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England


John Spiers



Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England...
Digital Communication, 2nd Edition

Digital Communication, 2nd Edition


Edward A. Lee David G. Messerschmitt



From the Back Cover This book is for designers and would-be designers of digital communication systems. The general appro...
The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators

The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators


Anita Silvey



From Publishers Weekly Aficionados of children's literature get an education with The Essential Guide to Children's Books...
Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition


Gerald Graff



Review "Both E. D. Hirsch and Allan Bloom share...a nostalgia for a not very closely examined past in which things were b...
Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)


Jean Fernandez



About the Author Jean Fernandez is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, Balt...
The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder

The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder


Christina Scull, Wayne G. Hammond



The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder...
Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema (Cinema and Modernity Series)

Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema (Cinema and Modernity Series)


Peter Jansen, Stefan Andriopoulos



Review “Not only a groundbreaking study of early twentieth-century German film and literature, Stefan Andriopoulos...
A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)


Neil H. Donahue



Review (A) reliable resource for nonspecialists, accurately reflecting historical and contemporary scholarship. CHOICE B...
Horror Readers' Advisory: The Librarian's Guide to Vampires, Killer Tomatoes, and Haunted Houses (Ala Readers' Advisory Series)

Horror Readers' Advisory: The Librarian's Guide to Vampires, Killer Tomatoes, and Haunted Houses (Ala Readers' Advisory Series)


Becky Siegel Spratford



From School Library Journal Spratford and Clausen offer up an easy-to-use introduction for fielding requests from teens f...
Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov

Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov


Kevin Ohi



Review "Beautiful, judicious, and finely wrought. Ohi’s wonderfully absorbing study shows how 'style' and 'the chi...
Bookish Histories: Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900

Bookish Histories: Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900


Ina Ferris, Paul Keen



About the Author INA FERRIS is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her books include a critica...
Literary Memoirs (Library of Latin America)

Literary Memoirs (Library of Latin America)


Frederick Nunn, Jose Victorino Lastarria



From Publishers Weekly From Oxford University Press's Library of Latin America comes a significant but dry work about the...
Loving With a Vengeance: Mass Produced Fantasies for Women

Loving With a Vengeance: Mass Produced Fantasies for Women


Tania Modleski



About the Author Tania Modleski is Florence R. Scott Professor of English at the University of Southern California. She i...
Reading with Babies, Toddlers and Twos (N A)

Reading with Babies, Toddlers and Twos (N A)


Kj Dell'Antonia, Susan Straub



About the Author KJ Dell'Antonia is an attorney turned writer whose work has recently appeared in Mothering, Time Out New...
The Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)

The Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)


Bruce Shaw



About the Author Bruce Shaw did his early professional work in anthropology, compiling oral history of aboriginal Austral...
English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public

English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public


Richard D. Altick



English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public...
Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books about Boys (Black Books Galore)

Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books about Boys (Black Books Galore)


Black Books Galore!, Donna Rand, Toni Trent Parker



Amazon.com Review In 1992 two mothers founded Black Books Galore, the nation's leading organizer of African American chi...
The Librarian's Guide to Intellectual Property in the Digital Age: Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks

The Librarian's Guide to Intellectual Property in the Digital Age: Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks


Timothy Lee Wherry



The Librarian's Guide to Intellectual Property in the Digital Age: Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks...
More Outstanding Books for the College Bound

More Outstanding Books for the College Bound


Young Adult Library Services Association



More Outstanding Books for the College Bound...
Listening to the Page

Listening to the Page


Alan Cheuse



From Publishers Weekly NPR listeners know Cheuse as the friendly book commentator who's been a fixture on All Things Cons...
Frightening Fiction (Contemporary Classics in Children's Literature)

Frightening Fiction (Contemporary Classics in Children's Literature)


Geraldine Brennan, Kevin Mccarron, Kimberly Reynolds



Review "Finally readers have a book that takes a serious and critical look at the horror genre for children....For those ...
Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women

Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women


Barbara Sicherman



Review "Well-Read Lives provides a highly accessible, engaging examination of the latent potential in the female literary...
The Man Who Collected Psychos: Critical Essays on Robert Bloch

The Man Who Collected Psychos: Critical Essays on Robert Bloch


Benjamin Szumskyj



About the Author Benjamin Szumskyj a private high school teacher and qualified library technician, has edited anthologies...
Agitations: Essays on Life and Literature

Agitations: Essays on Life and Literature


Arthur Krystal



From Library Journal Essayist, reviewer, and editor Krystal (A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W.H. Auden, Ja...
Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion

Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion


Paul J. Griffiths



Review "...straightforward and convincing....Griffiths' analysis of religious reading is subtle and wide-ranging."--First...