Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books, and Periodicals: Book catalog, State M-Z. Corporate subjects and authors
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books, and Periodicals: Titles. Subjects. Periodical shelf list
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books, and Periodicals: Manuscript inventories, A-P
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books and Pictures: Book catalog, M-Z. Etiquette. Periodicals
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780816110537
Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Report of the Hypertension Task Force
Author: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Hypertension Task ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hypertension
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
International Books in Print
Author: The Long Day Wanes
Author: Anthony BurgessPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393309430
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward. A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
Author: Allison Hoover BartlettPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101140305
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him. Rare-book theft is even more widespread than fine-art theft. Most thieves, of course, steal for profit. John Charles Gilkey steals purely for the love of books. In an attempt to understand him better, journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett plunged herself into the world of book lust and discovered just how dangerous it can be. John Gilkey is an obsessed, unrepentant book thief who has stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of rare books from book fairs, stores, and libraries around the country. Ken Sanders is the self-appointed "bibliodick" (book dealer with a penchant for detective work) driven to catch him. Bartlett befriended both outlandish characters and found herself caught in the middle of efforts to recover hidden treasure. With a mixture of suspense, insight, and humor, she has woven this entertaining cat-and-mouse chase into a narrative that not only reveals exactly how Gilkey pulled off his dirtiest crimes, where he stashed the loot, and how Sanders ultimately caught him but also explores the romance of books, the lure to collect them, and the temptation to steal them. Immersing the reader in a rich, wide world of literary obsession, Bartlett looks at the history of book passion, collection, and theft through the ages, to examine the craving that makes some people willing to stop at nothing to possess the books they love.
Paper Machines
Author: Markus KrajewskiPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262297272
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer. Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars. The story begins with Konrad Gessner, a sixteenth-century Swiss polymath who described a new method of processing data: to cut up a sheet of handwritten notes into slips of paper, with one fact or topic per slip, and arrange as desired. In the late eighteenth century, the card catalog became the librarian's answer to the threat of information overload. Then, at the turn of the twentieth century, business adopted the technology of the card catalog as a bookkeeping tool. Krajewski explores this conceptual development and casts the card file as a “universal paper machine” that accomplishes the basic operations of Turing's universal discrete machine: storing, processing, and transferring data. In telling his story, Krajewski takes the reader on a number of illuminating detours, telling us, for example, that the card catalog and the numbered street address emerged at the same time in the same city (Vienna), and that Harvard University's home-grown cataloging system grew out of a librarian's laziness; and that Melvil Dewey (originator of the Dewey Decimal System) helped bring about the technology transfer of card files to business.
ACS Style Guide
Author: Anne M. CoghillPublisher: American Chemical Society
ISBN: 9780841239494
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the time since the second edition of The ACS Style Guide was published, the rapid growth of electronic communication has dramatically changed the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publication world. This dynamic mode of dissemination is enabling scientists, engineers, and medicalpractitioners all over the world to obtain and transmit information quickly and easily. An essential constant in this changing environment is the requirement that information remain accurate, clear, unambiguous, and ethically sound.This extensive revision of The ACS Style Guide thoroughly examines electronic tools now available to assist STM writers in preparing manuscripts and communicating with publishers. Valuable updates include discussions of markup languages, citation of electronic sources, online submission ofmanuscripts, and preparation of figures, tables, and structures. In keeping current with the changing environment, this edition also contains references to many resources on the internet.With this wealth of new information, The ACS Style Guide's Third Edition continues its long tradition of providing invaluable insight on ethics in scientific communication, the editorial process, copyright, conventions in chemistry, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and writing style for any STMauthor, reviewer, or editor. The Third Edition is the definitive source for all information needed to write, review, submit, and edit scholarly and scientific manuscripts.