Download or read book An Accidental Bookseller written by Bill Samuel and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very personal memoir of the author's relationship with the iconic and much loved bookshop Foyles of Charing Cross Road in London. From fond childhood memories of his eccentric and brilliant grandfather William Foyle, 'the Barnum of Bookselling' and his aunt, the beautiful, charming, witty, self centred and at times utterly ruthless Christina Foyle, to the 21st century rejuvenation of a dying family business, An Accidental Bookseller will appeal to all who have their own memories of Foyles.
Download or read book Vanishing Animals written by Andy Warhol and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Especially for this book, Andy Warhol has created prints (silkscreen over collage) of some of the most endangered animals in the world. Here they are joined with a stimulating text by Dr Kurt Benirschke affording the reader an opportunity to discover the lives and habits of these animals and what the outlook is for their survival. Extinction, the tragic and permanent loss of entire species of animals, should be a concern for everyone This concern and a strong desire to take action toward preventing the loss of more animals has brought about an unusual collaboration between art and science. The result is this beautiful volume in which artist and scientist have joined efforts to inform and inspire others to take action. It is hoped that these fascinating and striking portrayals will stimulate readers to join their own energies and talents to this important fight against the loss of more species. This book brings some of the less well known endangered animals to the reader's attention. These animals deserve just as much attention as the giant panda or the mountain gorilla about which so much has already been said. Naturally, the animals presented here are very personal choices, having been selected from a virtually endless supply of animals whose last hour is rapidly approaching.
Download or read book An Accidental Envoy written by Bill Samuel and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Accidental Envoy is a memoir covering the period 1990 to 2005 during which I was involved with the Turks & Caicos Islands, initially as one of a team of consultants charged with devising a strategy to lift that small Caribbean nation, a British Dependent Territory, out of its dependency then successively as Director of Tourism, Superintendent of Banking & Offshore Finance and Government Representative in London. It was a time of great change in TCI during which it went from hopeless dependence on the UK to thriving economic independence. During that time I made many good friends and a few enemies, had much enjoyment and an acceptable level of stress. This is a personal memoir and is naturally subjective. In it I have tried to capture some of the atmosphere of what was a very exhilarating period in the history of the Turks & Caicos
Download or read book The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bookseller s catalogues written by William Brough (bookseller.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dust Off the Gold Medal written by Sara L. Schwebel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest and most prestigious children’s literature award, the Newbery Medal has since 1922 been granted annually by the American Library Association to the children’s book it deems "most distinguished." Medal books enjoy an outsized influence on American children’s literature, figuring perennially on publishers’ lists, on library and bookstore shelves, and in school curricula. As such, they offer a compelling window into the history of US children’s literature and publishing, as well as into changing societal attitudes about which books are "best" for America’s schoolchildren. Yet literary scholars have disproportionately ignored the Medal winners in their research. This volume provides a critically- and historically-grounded scholarly analysis of representative but understudied Newbery Medal books from the 1920s through the 2010s, interrogating the disjunction between the books’ omnipresence and influence, on the one hand, and the critical silence surrounding them, on the other. Dust Off the Gold Medal makes a case for closing these scholarly gaps by revealing neglected texts’ insights into the politics of children’s literature prizing and by demonstrating how neglected titles illuminate critical debates currently central to the field of children’s literature. In particular, the essays shed light on the hidden elements of diversity apparent in the neglected Newbery canon while illustrating how the books respond—sometimes in quite subtle ways—to contemporaneous concerns around race, class, gender, disability, nationalism, and globalism.
Download or read book Publisher and Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Download or read book Fifty Years Recollections of an Old Bookseller written by William West and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty years recollections of an old bookseller consisting of anecdotes characteristic sketches and original traits and eccentricities of Authors Artists Actors Books Booksellers and of the Periodical Press for the last half century including some extraordinary circumstances relative to the letters of Junius and a chain of corroborative evidence respecting their Author and an unlimited retrospect etc The preface signed W W i e William West written by William WEST (Bookseller.) and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty years recollections of an old bookseller signed W W Followed by Three hundred and fifty years retrospection of an old bookseller written by William West and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bookseller Stationer written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty Years recollections of an Old Bookseller Second Edition To which is Added Some Additional Sketches of Captain Grose Including His Rules for Drawing Caricatures and an Unlimited Retrospect Etc The Preface Signed W W I e William West written by William West and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Edmund Curll Bookseller written by Paul Baines and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Curll was a notorious figure among the publishers of the early eighteenth century: for his boldness, his lack of scruple, his publication of work without author's consent, and his taste for erotic and scandalous publications. He was in legal trouble on several occasions for piracy and copyright infringement, unauthorised publication of the works of peers, and for seditious, blasphemous, and obscene publications. He stood in the pillory in 1728 for seditious libel. Above all, he was the constant target of the greatest poet and satirist of his age, Alexander Pope, whose work he pirated whenever he could and who responded with direct physical revenge (an emetic slipped into a drink) and persistent malign caricature. The war between Pope and Curll typifies some of the main cultural battles being waged between creativity and business. The story has normally been told from the poet's point of view, though more recently Curll has been celebrated as a kind of literary freedom-fighter; this book, the first full biography of Curll since Ralph Straus's The Unspeakable Curll (1927), seeks to give a balanced and thoroughly-researched account of Curll's career in publishing between 1706 and 1747, untangling the mistakes and misrepresentations that have accrued over the years and restoring a clear sense of perspective to Curll's dealings in the literary marketplace. It examines the full range of Curll's output, including his notable antiquarian series, and uses extensive archive material to detail Curll's legal and other troubles. For the first time, what is known about this strange, interesting, and awkward figure is authoritatively told.
Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
