Author: Malcolm S. Forbes
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 9780385182157
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"Read better, write better, communicate better by learning how to use the power of the printed word. A unique compilation of practical advice and information from the pros: thirteen nationally known figures whose very success has depended on their ability to communicate." -- Back cover.
How to Use the Power of the Printed Word
Every Book Its Reader
Author: Nicholas A. Basbanes
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060593245
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the imagination of countless influential people. In his fifth work to examine a specific aspect of book culture, Basbanes also asks what we can know about such figures as John Milton, Edward Gibbon, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Adams, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry James, Thomas Edison, Helen Keller––even the notorious Marquis de Sade and Adolf Hitler––by knowing what they have read. He shows how books that many of these people have consulted, in some cases annotated with their marginal notes, can offer tantalizing clues to the evolution of their character and the development of their thought.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060593245
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the imagination of countless influential people. In his fifth work to examine a specific aspect of book culture, Basbanes also asks what we can know about such figures as John Milton, Edward Gibbon, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Adams, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry James, Thomas Edison, Helen Keller––even the notorious Marquis de Sade and Adolf Hitler––by knowing what they have read. He shows how books that many of these people have consulted, in some cases annotated with their marginal notes, can offer tantalizing clues to the evolution of their character and the development of their thought.
A Century of Dishonor
Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
How to Use the Power of the Printed Word
Author: Billings S. Fuess, Jr.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780792426127
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780792426127
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Power of the Written Word
Author: Alfred Burns
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book examines how developments in the technology of writing and literacy stimulated changes in Western civilization from its beginnings to the present. The study suggests that a few rather short periods between long static intervals generated significant cultural and cognitive innovations which still dominate «modern» civilization. Concentrating on these milestone eras - the first urban civilization in the Near East, the Greek and Roman periods, and the Renaissance - the author finds a consistent association of advances in the technique of writing and literacy with intense intellectual creativity.
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book examines how developments in the technology of writing and literacy stimulated changes in Western civilization from its beginnings to the present. The study suggests that a few rather short periods between long static intervals generated significant cultural and cognitive innovations which still dominate «modern» civilization. Concentrating on these milestone eras - the first urban civilization in the Near East, the Greek and Roman periods, and the Renaissance - the author finds a consistent association of advances in the technique of writing and literacy with intense intellectual creativity.
Every Book Its Reader
Author: Nicholas A. Basbanes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584561774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584561774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Power of the Printed Word
Author: Michael Henderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957512054
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957512054
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
How to Use the Power of the Printed Word
Author: Malcolm S. Forbes
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 9780385182164
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Essays tell how to write a business letter, improve one's vocabulary, read faster, write with style, use the library, enjoy the classics, and understand an annual report
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 9780385182164
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Essays tell how to write a business letter, improve one's vocabulary, read faster, write with style, use the library, enjoy the classics, and understand an annual report
The Power of the Printed Word During the American Enlightenment
Author: Carrie E. Barney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
The Power of the Printed Word
Author: International Paper Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reading
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reading
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description