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Iohannis philoponi
To anyone who has ever examined in any of its printed forms the little work on Greek words which differ in meaning according to difference in accent, which is attributed to John Philoponus, it must be evident that this text is of interest to the historian of lexicography or of pedagogy rather tha...
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Both english and latin
This study examines the interplay of Latin and English in a selection of John Milton’s neo-Latin writings. It argues that this interplay is indicative of an inherent bilingualism that proceeds hand-in-hand with a self-fashioning that is bicultural in essence. Interlingual flexibility ultimately p...
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Urdu grammar and reader
The area in which people speak Urdu as their mother tongue includes east and west Pakistan (where, with Bangali, it functions as the official language of the land) and northern India. The language in this volume is based on the Urdu dialect of the educated population of Pakistan.The purpose of th...
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On calculating the factor of chance in language comparison
While all human languages are likely to be genetically related, the remoter relationships cannot be demonstrated by reliable linguistic methods because the languages in question have diverged too much. Any demonstration of a relationship between languages depends on finding words & grammatica...
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Language in the inner city
With the recent controversy in the Oakland, California school district about Ebonics—or as it is referred to in sociolinguistic circles, African American Vernacular English or Black English Vernacular—much attention has been paid to the patterns of speech prevalent among African Americans in the ...
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Multilingualism and intercultural communication
An in-depth look at the changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society. To date, there has been no published textbook which takes into account changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society. Multilingualism and Intercultural Communicatio...
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In the beginning
Decodes the long history of Hebrew and its influential place as the ancestor of many modern written languagesHebrew as a language is just over 3,000 years old, and the story of its alphabet is unique among the languages of the world. Hebrew set the stage for almost every modern alphabet, and was ...
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African-language literatures
African-language writing is in crisis. The conditions under which African writing developed in the past (only remotely similar to those of Western models), resulted in an inability of Eurocentric literary models to explore the hermeneutic world of African language poetics inherited from the oral ...
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A preservation guide
Don't let accumulated certificates, photographs, documents, and other family heirlooms deteriorate in files or shoe boxes. This book provides simple guidelines to ensure that your fragile treasures will survive for future generations. The author offers specific instructions for maintaining and st...
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Changing patterns of scholarship and the future of research libraries
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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The university library in the united states
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Word power for multilingual learners of english
The Power of Latin and Greek Roots and Affixes in English Acquisition focuses on the ways that teaching Latin and Greek roots can inform English language teaching classroom practice. The book provides multilingual learners of English with a powerful framework to develop students’ vocabulary. Stu...
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The past, present, and future of libraries
In October 2018, the Amer, Philosophical Soc. (APS) gathered a group of scholars, library professionals, & thought leaders to discuss the past, present, & future of the library. This also marked the 275th ann’y. of the APS, founded by Benjamin Franklin & several friends. Topics includ...
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Street smarts
Travel through the endless lore of roads, turnpikes, highways, and whatever byways humans have put on Earth in these short, funny, and interconnected essays. Deborah Warren is a sure and entertaining guide to nearly every road-related topic out there—from odonymy (the study of street names) to ma...
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Blimey, i’m knackered!
Brit Speak for Yanks! Back in 1887, Oscar Wilde wrote, “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.” One would think, in a world homogenized by technology and social media, that differences between British English and American English would gradually di...
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Reading publics
A history of public libraries in New York City before the founding of the New York Public Library. Most of these libraries were accessible through a membership or an annual subscription. Explores the private and public purposes of public libraries before the advent of tax-supported public libraries.
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Recoding world literature
From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, Recoding World Literature presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation on routes of Bibliomigrancy—physical and virtual movement of books--this book claims that...
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Settler colonial ways of seeing
An innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state.How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refuse...
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Cruising the library
Cruising the Library examines the ways in which library classifications have organized sexuality and sexual perversion. The author studies the Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification, as well as the Library of Congress’s Delta Collection, a restricted collection of obscenity until...
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Theory for beginners
Theory for Beginners explores how philosophy and theory draw on children’s literature while also coming to resemble such in their strategies for cultivating the child and/or the beginner. Topics include the Philosophy for Children (P4C) movement, graphic guides such as Freud for Beginners, and ch...
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Curious english words and phrases
Written by language expert Max Cryer, Curious Words and Phrases has all the answers behind some of the most interesting and perplexing words and expressions in the English language.
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Local library, global passport
This colourful story of one town's library provides material enough for a movie as it reveals universal patterns about love of reading and battles for books while librarians, politicians, architects, educators, philanthropists, and avid book readers mix it up for more than century.
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Collecting in the twenty-first century
An interdisciplinary volume of essays identifying the impact of technology on the age-old cultural practice of collecting as well as the opportunities and pitfalls of collecting in the digital era.Seminal to the rise of human cultures, the practice of collecting is an expression of individual and...
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Cultures of the popular in the modern hispanic world
How many cassette tapes do you still own? In one hundred years, how many TikTok videos or Instagram posts will still be accessible? Yet much of today's news and mass culture is produced and disseminated via transient means. Just as in previous eras.Hispanic popular cultures of previous centuries,...
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Textiles in manuscripts
Preserved between the covers of books, textiles offer a remarkable glimpse into how the local production of books was connected to vibrant global trade networks from late antiquity through the early modern period. This volume takes a unique interdisciplinary approach to examining the widespread u...
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Information
Bringing together essays by prominent critics, Information: Keywords highlights the humanistic nature of information practices and concepts by thinking through key terms. It describes and anticipates directions for how the humanities can contribute to our understanding of information from a range...
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The latin -iēs/ia inflection
The monograph concerns the origin of the Latin -iēs/-ia inflection, the topic which to this day has not been explained satisfactorily. The proposal presented in the book allows for the most economic solution to the problem without difficult assumptions which were present in the previous hypothese...
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Languages in contact and contrast
This book is a collection of papers written in honor of Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld on the occasion of her seventieth birthday. The chapters have been written by linguists affiliated with different universities in Poland and abroad, all of whom wish to pay tribute to her outstanding contr...
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Information
Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural studies. It features excerpts from more than forty texts by theorists and critics who have helped establish the notion of the “information age” or expand upon it.
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Communicating research
This book looks at the rise of electronic media and changes in the dissemination of research; outlines the problems and concerns of researchers/librarians/publishers; discusses research practices across scholarly disciplines; and investigates the biases/intentions of practitioners.
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Advances in librarianship
An essential reference source for developments in the field of libraries and library science. All areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries are given up-to-date, critical analysis by experts engaged in the practice of librarianship, in teaching, an...
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Non-trivial mathematics librarian
Part of a series which discusses the foundations of library and information science, this volume focuses on library service in mathematics. Topics covered include mathematics library service in academic and public libraries, as well as in special libraries.
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Information services for innovative organizations
This book offers a sound basis for the design and management of information services to: provide decision-makers with help for the management of change; make corporate decision-makers aware of information as an asset and a strategy for improved, innovative decisions; and make information service ...
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New directions in information behaviour
New Research in Information Behaviour provides an understanding of the new directions, leading edge theories and models in information behaviour. Information behaviour is conceptualized as complex human information related processes that are embedded within an individual's everyday social and lif...
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Information tasks
Information Tasks summarizes user research, then presents design sketches of systems that illustrate how design is linked to research. This comprehensive user-centered approach provides an agenda for information research, design and education that challenges many accepted beliefs and suggests new...
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Mergers and alliances
Volume 36 of Advances in Librarianship seeks to provide a broad review of the factors that lead to mergers and other alliances, the methods used to ensure effective and successful collaborations, and descriptions of the factors which contributed to less successful efforts at consolidation.
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Current issues in libraries, information science and related fields
This volume is unusual in that the theme is quite broad in scope yet focused on a specific topic; innovations and boundary-pushing studies in areas not usually found in library literature. It examines the periphery of the field surveyed in previous volumes. The chapters are grouped in two categor...
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Web search engine research
Provides an understanding of Web search engines from the unique perspective of Library and Information Science. This book explores a range of topics including retrieval effectiveness, user satisfaction, the evaluation of search interfaces, the impact of search on society, and the influence of sea...
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Management and leadership innovations
Vol. 38 of Advances in Librarianship focus on innovative leadership and management techniques e.g. selecting new team members, service design, mindful leadership, burnout causes and management, librarians as independent active public leaders and how libraries and other non-profit organizations ca...
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Library and information science trends and research
This book draws out and examines the trends in education and research in the field of library and information science (LIS) in the vast Asia-Oceania region. Information is an important part of the human condition and critical to the development of the Asia-Oceania region. The book is timely, ther...
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Advances in librarianship
Presents a reference source for developments in the field of libraries and library science. This book also contains analysis of areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries, by experts engaged in the practice of librarianship, in teaching, and in rese...
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Facets of knowledge organization
The ISKO UK Biennial Conference, 4th - 5th July, 2011, London honoured the life and achievements of Brian C Vickery. This book celebrates his influence on the development of the information profession, with contributions from over 50 authors to address research and developments in knowledge organ...
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Advances in librarianship
Features chapters grouped into sections which reflect themes in librarianship: tracing issues in communication: relevance and freedom of expression; focusing on library services and resources; tailoring services to different user groups; and educating the profession for the future. This book offe...
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Advances in library administration and organization
Contains articles describing efforts at cooperation and collaboration within the library profession. This title includes scholarship that illustrates both concepts, defined in one of the chapters as terms 'often used loosely to describe relationships among entities or people working together.'
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Automated information retrieval
This book describes a fully automated Boolean System and gives special attention to theoretical problems in automatic retrieval of textual information. The book details algorithms in each process in the system, including those that are radically new in the retrieval process and those that are ada...
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Understanding reference transactions
The goal of this book is to improve reference service in libraries and information centers, by improving the accuracy of answering capabilities. It provides a detailed analysis of the question-answering process and methods of evaluating the completeness, usefulness, user satisfaction, and accurac...
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Using subject headings for online retrieval
An indispensable tool for online system designers who are grappling with developing new systems or refining existing ones, this ready reference describes subject analysis and subject searching in online catalogs, including the limitations of retrieval, and demonstrates how such limitations can be...
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Advances in librarianship
An essential reference source for developments in the field of libraries and library science. All areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries are given up-to-date, critical analysis by experts engaged in the practice of librarianship, in teaching, an...
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Library technical services
This revised Second Edition addresses developments that have transformed library operations in the recent past. The bibliography has been improved to include more management literature and chapters on technical services administration, automation, acquisitions, bibliographic control and preservat...
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Text information retrieval systems
Dealing with computer-based retrieval systems, this book covers the nature of information, how it is organized for use by a computer, how search functions are carried out, and the theory underlying these functions. It also discusses the interaction between user and system and how retrieved items,...
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Advances in human performance and cognitive engineering research
This volume launches a series that will focus on providing chapters that advance our understanding of human performance in organizational systems as cognitive engineering principles are applied. It includes a historical review of a cognitive engineering research at a national laboratory.
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Operations research for libraries and information agencies
This book is intended for those in the library community with an understanding of library processes and a desire to actually make use of scientific management techniques. The emphasis is on presenting insights into which tool may be appropriate for particular problems, not on the isolated underst...
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Information experience in theory and design
SI 14 provides a rigorous theoretical foundation for the study of information experience, an emerging field within Information Science. With particular focus on information behavior and literacy, it explores the importance and implications of individual user experience through the themes of under...
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Advances in librarianship
Presents international research and professional issues in libraries, the information industry, education and development of information professionals. This title is suitable for practitioners, researchers, students and faculty members seeking literature and solutions to various issues in library...
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Advances in librarianship
This volume focuses on how libraries have been changed by electronic communication of information and knowledge. his volume not only covers digital trends but also looks at issues of significance to librarians today in the areas of reference and management in its last three papers.
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Loex of the west
Part of "Foundations in Library and Information Science" series, this title deals with the topics in library and information science.
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Library and information science trends and research
Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, academics, educators, and information professionals interested in library and information science, this title provides an understanding of the advanced directions in library and information science/management, education and research in Europe.
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Exploring the digital frontier
This volume presents international research and exhaustive reviews of literature on a range of issues related to the evolving digital environment. With the growing trend for digital-only access to information, this volume makes an important contribution in both highlighting problems and challenge...
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Changing face of reference
This volume covers such topics in the area of reference as changing approaches to reference service, the reference service encounter, combining disparate units, integrating federal documents and reference service for changing user populations.
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All that glitters
A result of the poster session which focussed on teaching the need to evaluate information found on the Internet, this book presents a collection of contributions from individuals who present their best thinking on the subject of evaluation in the library context.
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Advances in library administration and organization
A collection of papers that address the tension between what researchers can deliver, what they define as reputable knowledge, and what library practitioners need to know "to get the job done".
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Information experience
This book comprises innovative research on the information behavior of various age groups. It also looks at special populations such as ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, and users with disabilities. The book presents research and reflections on designing systems that help the new generation ...
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Social information research
Social Information Research, co-edited by Gunilla Widen and Kim Holmberg communicates current research looking into different aspects of social information as part of information behaviour research. There is a special emphasis on the new innovations supporting contemporary information behavior an...
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Robotic technology, artificial intelligence and the 4ir libraries
This book addresses the challenges associated with information provided in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) and the attendant opportunities that arise for libraries and other information services. Robotic technology and artificial intelligence are key developments in the information age, with ...
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Handbook of communication, media, and digital technologies in iberoamerica
With contributions from a wide range of international scholars, this handbook brings together research, theory, and practice from diverse perspectives on the impacts of communication, media, and digital technologies on our society with a particular emphasis on digital technologies and societal fu...
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Better data visualizations
This book details essential strategies to create more effective data visualizations. Jonathan Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts.
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Peculiar satisfaction
How Thomas Jefferson’s vision for knowledge shapes what we know and how we access it—and why that matters more than ever As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Peculiar Satisfaction examines how the ideals and contradictions of the nation’s found...
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The lost words
From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist and author Jackie Morris, a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the magic of the natural world. In 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary — widely used in schools aro...
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Knowledge, reading and culture
Knowledge, Reading and Culture: Studies in Information Practice is an interdisciplinary inquiry focusing on four decades of work by the South African information scientist, Emeritus Professor Archie Dick. The edited volume brings together library, information and history specialists to engage wit...
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Designing next-gen libraries
Recent trends in the advancement of technology, in processes and systems enable humankind to undergo a lot of challenges in upgrading their skills and systems in the information world. One needs to quickly understand these robust changes and adopt them in their work environment to keep pace with ...
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El impresor josé maría moreno y sus pliegos (s. xix)
This book investigates the "pliegos de cordel" (printed booklets) that came out of the printing house of José María Moreno in the 19th century. It addresses the history of the printer, traces invaluable material lost among archives and libraries, and offers an inventory of 750 prints preserved b...
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Annals in carolingian europe
In the 8th-9th centuries annals became the predominant genre of Frankish historiography, displaying a remarkable variety of texts. Yet for a long time scholarly appreciation of this variety has been limited, stuck in 19th-century fixations on urtexts and doubts about the proficiency of annalists....
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Die klandestine zeitschrift diáspora(s)
The book series “Latin American Literatures of the World” presents an innovative understanding of literatures written in Latin America and the Caribbean. Informed by current perspectives on world literary studies and cultural theory, it focuses on works that deal with the multiple global connecti...
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El discurso crítico-literario en el siglo xix hispánico
This book approaches the prolific critical activity that took place in the Hispanic 19th century, both in Europe and America. It gathers 17 studies that seek to establish the basic axes of the critical receptions of that time and shed light on literary diffusion circuits. Contemporary criticism i...
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Thinking in the margins
How was knowledge produced by different people in different times and at different places? How was knowledge stored, managed, classified, organized, deployed, forgotten, and recycled? Finally, how did such practices affect what counted as knowledge? The series invites contributions on the ‘long’...
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Changing information services and user experiences
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of th...
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Quand les muses prennent les armes
While poets and poetry played a major role in France during the German Occupation, the many foreign poems translated there between 1940 and 1944 has attracted little attention so far. Who were the authors, languages, strategies and translators at work? Based on unpublished sources, this book shed...
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Cultura literaria y políticas de mercado
The volume addresses three key aspects of today’s book culture: independent publishing, book fairs and literary festivals. Using an innovative theoretical framework (a literary "value criticism"), it offers an in-depth field study of some 349 independent publishers as well as 10 book fairs and fe...
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