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  • Digital Scholarly Editing in Practice

    Making Oxford University Voltaire

    by Dan Barker, Nicholas Cronk, Glenn Roe ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    Scholarly editions in print have long been central to literary studies, produced according to well-established methodologies. In recent decades, digital scholarly editions have gained prominence, with some publishers digitising existing print editions and others creating born-digital resources. The shift from print to digital demands not only new editorial approaches but also sustained attention ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Voltaire's Correspondence

    Digital Readings

    by Nicholas Cronk, Glenn Roe ...
    Series series Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
    Voltaire's correspondence has been described as his 'greatest masterpiece' – but if it is, it is also his least studied. One of the most prodigious correspondences in Western literature, it poses significant interpretative challenges to the critic and reader alike. Considered individually, the letters present a series of complex, subtle, and playful literary performances; taken together, they ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • The Case for Books

    Past, Present, and Future

    by Robert Darnton ...
    The invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological breakthroughs in human history. With the printed book, information and ideas could disseminate more widely and effectively than ever before -- and in some cases, affect and redirect the sway of history. Today, nearly one million books are published each year. But is the era of the book as we know it -- ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Place for Everything

    The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

    by Judith Flanders ...
    **From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world.A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Content Machine

    Towards a Theory of Publishing from the Printing Press to the Digital Network

    by Michael Bhaskar ...
    Series series Anthem Publishing Studies
    Publishing is in crisis. Publishing has always been in crisis, but today’s version, fuelled by the digital boom, has some frightening symptoms. Trade publishers see their mid-lists hollowed, academic customers face budgetary pressures from higher education spending cuts, and educational publishers encounter increased competition across their markets. But over the centuries, forced change has been ... Read more

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  • Coding Literacy

    How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing

    by Annette Vee ...
    Series series Software Studies
    How the theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming in its historical, social and conceptual contexts.The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming, promoters of coding for everyone often invoke the concept of “literacy,” drawing parallels between ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • What is the History of the Book?

    by James Raven ...
    Series series What is History?
    James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages.Students, teachers, researchers and general readers will benefit from the book's investigation of the subject's origins, scope and future direction. Based on original research and a ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Libraries of the Mind

    by William Marx ...
    Series series The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture
    How we build our invisible librariesErich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading. Having left his physical library behind when he fled to Istanbul to escape the Nazis, he was forced to rely on the invisible library of his mind. Each of us has such a library—if not as extensive as Auerbach’s—even if we are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Burdens of Proof

    Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents

    by Jean-Francois Blanchette ...
    An examination of the challenges of establishing the authenticity of electronic documents—in particular the design of a cryptographic equivalent to handwritten signatures.The gradual disappearance of paper and its familiar evidential qualities affects almost every dimension of contemporary life. From health records to ballots, almost all documents are now digitized at some point of their life ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • History in the Digital Age

    Edited by Toni Weller ...
    The digital age is affecting all aspects of historical study, but much of the existing literature about history in the digital age can be alienating to the traditional historian who does not necessarily value or wish to embrace digital resources. History in the Digital Age takes a more conceptual look at how the digital age is affecting the field of history for both scholars and students. The ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Translation in the Digital Age

    by Michael Cronin ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Translation is living through a period of revolutionary upheaval. The effects of digital technology and the internet on translation are continuous, widespread and profound. From automatic online translation services to the rise of crowdsourced translation and the proliferation of translation Apps for smartphones, the translation revolution is everywhere. The implications for human languages, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Digital Scholarly Editing

    Theories and PracticeS

    by Matthew Driscoll and Elena Pierazzo (eds.) ...
    Series Book 4 - Digital Humanities Series
    This volume presents the state of the art in digital scholarly editing. Drawing together the work of established and emerging researchers, it gives pause at a crucial moment in the history of technology in order to offer a sustained reflection on the practices involved in producing, editing and reading digital scholarly editions—and the theories that underpin them.The unrelenting progress of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus