Author: James MoranPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Printing presses
Author: James MoranPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Gandhi’s Printing Press
Author: Isabel HofmeyrPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674074742
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
When Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper, Indian Opinion. In Gandhi’s Printing Press Isabel Hofmeyr provides an account of how this footnote to a career shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma.
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Author: Elizabeth L. EisensteinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521299558
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
A full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change, first published in 1980.
Johannes Gutenberg
Author: Fran ReesPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756509897
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Johannes Gutenberg, a man of the Renaissance, developed a printing press and transformed the world of books.
How the Printing Press Changed the World
Author: Avery Elizabeth HurtPublisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1502641151
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Upon its invention in the mid-1400s, the printing press instantly became a revolutionary device. It introduced literacy to the masses and led Europe out of the Middle Ages. This book explores the press' exciting history, the social and political conditions in place at the time Johannes Gutenberg invented it, and the changes the invention wrought afterward. It traces the evolution of moveable type and information dissemination up to modern electronic communications technology, examining the positive and negative effects of these developments, both in the past and on democracy and humankind today. This book will give readers a new appreciation for the written word, whether it is printed on paper or displayed on a screen.
East India periodical publications, and licensed printing presses
Author: The Printing Press
Author: Samuel Willard CromptonPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438123434
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
When Johannes Gutenberg invented his printing press almost 700 years ago, he effectively changed the world.
Johannes Gutenberg: Printing Press Innovator
Author: Sue Vander HookPublisher: ABDO
ISBN: 160453916X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
This title examines the remarkable life of Johannes Gutenberg and his innovation of the printing press. Readers will learn about Gutenberg's background and education, as well as his creation of the Gutenberg Bible for the Catholic Church. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Publishing Pioneers is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey NiffeneggerPublisher: Night Bookmobile Editions
ISBN: 0578889412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love. “Niffenegger’s inventive and poignant writing is well worth a trip” (Entertainment Weekly).
Gandhi’s Printing Press
Author: Isabel HofmeyrPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674074777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
At the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper. Gandhi’s Printing Press is an account of how this project, an apparent footnote to a titanic career, shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma. Pioneering publisher, experimental editor, ethical anthologist—these roles reveal a Gandhi developing the qualities and talents that would later define him. Isabel Hofmeyr presents a detailed study of Gandhi’s work in South Africa (1893–1914), when he was the some-time proprietor of a printing press and launched the periodical Indian Opinion. The skills Gandhi honed as a newspaperman—distilling stories from numerous sources, circumventing shortages of type—influenced his spare prose style. Operating out of the colonized Indian Ocean world, Gandhi saw firsthand how a global empire depended on the rapid transmission of information over vast distances. He sensed that communication in an industrialized age was becoming calibrated to technological tempos. But he responded by slowing the pace, experimenting with modes of reading and writing focused on bodily, not mechanical, rhythms. Favoring the use of hand-operated presses, he produced a newspaper to contemplate rather than scan, one more likely to excerpt Thoreau than feature easily glossed headlines. Gandhi’s Printing Press illuminates how the concentration and self-discipline inculcated by slow reading, imbuing the self with knowledge and ethical values, evolved into satyagraha, truth-force, the cornerstone of Gandhi’s revolutionary idea of nonviolent resistance.