Download or read book The Bookfinder written by Sharon Spredemann Dreyer and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of the Book written by Sidney E. Berger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Library Journal Best Reference of 2023 - From Library Journal's Starred Review: "This ambitious and entertaining update solidifies Berger’s volume as a must-have title for librarians, booksellers, collectors, and students of the book arts and book history." This new edition of The Dictionary of the Book adds more than 700 new entries and many new illustrations and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new reality. The definitive glossary of the book covers all the terms needed for a thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term—more than 2,000—that could be used in booksellers’ catalogs, library records, and collectors’ descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge, including: The book as physical object Typeface terminology Paper terminology Printing Book collecting Cataloging Book design Bibliography as a discipline, bibliographies, and bibliographical description Physical Condition and how to describe it Calligraphy Language of manuscripts Writing implements Librarianship Legal issues Parts of a book Book condition terminology Pricing of books Buying and selling Auctions Items one will see an antiquarian book fairs Preservation and conservation issues, and the notion of restoration Key figures, presses / publishers, and libraries in the history of books Book collecting clubs and societies How to read and decipher new and old dealers’ catalogs And much more The Dictionary also contains an extensive bibliography—more than 1,000 key readings in the book world and it gives current (and past) definitions of terms whose meaning has shifted over the centuries. More than 200 images accompany the entries, making the work even more valuable for understanding the terms described.
Download or read book Selling Old Books the New Dot Com Way written by Suzanne Pitner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Internet growing at a phenomenal rate, and E-commerce quickly becoming the norm, now is the time to take your dream of becoming a bookseller to the online world. This book will teach you, step by step, everything you need to know to succeed. You''ll learn where to buy your books, how to clean and care for them, what software is available for your online business, how and where to market your books, and how to develop long term relationships with your customers. Start living your dream by putting the advice in this book into action in your life!
Download or read book Selling Used Books Online written by Stephen Windwalker and published by Harvard Perspectives Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Book Sale How To Guide written by Pat Ditzler and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2012 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors provide a tested and successful formula for making money for local libraries in a practical and fun way-- a library book sale.
Download or read book NET 7 Design Patterns In Depth written by Vahid Farahmandian and published by BPB Publications. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the power of design patterns to build robust and scalable .NET applications KEY FEATURES ● Develop a solid understanding of SOLID principles and learn effective strategies to master their application. ● Gain the knowledge and skills to elevate software architecture by applying appropriate design patterns. ● Get a comprehensive analysis of the advantages and limitations inherent in each design pattern. DESCRIPTION Design patterns in .NET improve code quality, encourage collaboration, and address common software design issues, resulting in more efficient and effective software development projects. This book is an ideal resource for those seeking to learn about design patterns in .NET and their practical application. The book highlights the importance of design patterns in solving software design challenges. It then proceeds to explore creational design patterns, which primarily address object creation, followed by structural design patterns that handle object composition and organization. Furthermore, the book delves into behavioral design patterns, which center around the interaction and communication between objects. It also covers domain logic design patterns, data source architectural design patterns, object-relational behaviors, structures, and metadata mapping design patterns. Moving on, the book provides insights into web presentation design patterns, offering guidance on the effective design of web interfaces. It also examines distribution design patterns, offline concurrency design patterns, and session state design patterns. Lastly, the book presents base design patterns as fundamental building blocks for other patterns. Upon completion of this book, you will possess the knowledge and skills required to design and implement suitable software infrastructures using design patterns, .NET 7.0, and the C# programming language. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Enhance proficiency in managing object creation by utilizing creational design patterns. ● Learn how to manage class relationships using structural design patterns. ● Implement behavioral design patterns to manage object and class behavior effectively. ● Understand how to use Concurrency design patterns to handle multi-threaded scenarios. ● Learn how to use data access design patterns to optimize data management capabilities. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book caters to software engineers, programmers, and software system architects with intermediate knowledge of the C#.NET programming language, .NET 7.0, and UML. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction to Design Patterns 2. Creational Design Patterns 3. Structural Design Patterns 4. Behavioral Design Patterns – Part I 5. Behavioral Design Patterns – Part II 6. Domain Logic Design Patterns 7. Data Source Architecture Design Patterns 8. Object-Relational Behaviors Design Patterns 9. Object-Relational Structures Design Patterns 10. Object-Relational Metadata Mapping Design Patterns 11. Web Presentation Design Patterns 12. Distribution Design Patterns 13. Offline Concurrency Design Patterns 14. Session State Design Patterns 15. Base Design Patterns
Download or read book Online Bookselling written by Michael E. Mould and published by Michael Mould. This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide for the potential online bookseller and a great reference for the experienced online bookseller. Covers: how to buy used books, where to buy books, how much to pay for books, where to sell books online, how to grade books, online postage services, wireless lookup services, how to store and manage your inventory, what books to avoid, packing and shipping (with pictures to avoid "lost in the mail" books), packaging material suppliers, websites and advertising, legal structure and business planning, tips and terms, and much more. Also includes an exhaustive list of wholesale and remainder book distributors
Download or read book Dyslexia and Accessibility in the Modern Era Emerging Research and Opportunities written by Balharová, Kamila and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the written word is an important means of communication among people, the technological revolution has increased the demands on mental processes involved in the processing of written information, which endangers the quality of life of people who have reading difficulties and are not completely functionally literate. Educational technologies have vastly improved in past decades, especially in the realm of aiding individuals with development and learning disorders. With these learning technologies becoming more mainstream, individuals struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy in everyday life now have a chance to overcome various barriers. Dyslexia and Accessibility in the Modern Era: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides emerging research on a literacy portal that offers the virtual background for the support and strengthening of reading skills and for leading the user while using the internet. The book also creates a tool based on user feedback with instructions on how to adapt current tools to meet the accessibility requirements for people with dyslexia. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as e-learning, lifelong learning, and neurodevelopment disabilities, this book is ideally designed for teachers, software developers, academics, researchers, students, and learning professionals.
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliographic Guide to Educational Research written by Dorothea M. Berry and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 585 new titles, most published from 1980 to 1989, and 213 new editions and supplement volumes of titles cited in the second edition. Appendix and extensive indexes. Recommended for undergraduate bibliographic collections. --ARBA
Download or read book Inside Book Publishing written by Giles Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its fifth edition, Inside Book Publishing remains the classic introduction to the book publishing industry, being both a manual for the profession for over two decades and the bestselling textbook for students of publishing.The book remains essential reading for publishing students, those seeking a career in publishing, recent entrants to the industry, and authors seeking an insider's view. The accompanying website supports the book by providing up-to-date and relevant content.This new edition has been fully updated to respond to the rapid changes in the market and technology. Now more global in its references and scope, the book explores the tensions and trends affecting the industry, including the growth of ebooks, self-publishing, and online retailing, and new business models and workflows. The book provides excellent overviews of the main aspects of the publishing process, including commissioning, product development, design and production, marketing, sales and distribution.
Download or read book Buying Books Online written by Stephen Windwalker and published by Harvard Perspectives Press. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Bookfinder and Serially American Book Prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Picture Book Almanac written by Nancy J. Polette and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide has exactly the right books to help you celebrate special days throughout the year—even "holidays" you've never heard of—and provides hundreds of fun titles and activities that could inspire your students to become life-long readers. Young students need to continually be presented with a vast variety of types of books, authors, illustrators, and subject matter in order to find the perfect concept or image that sparks their imagination, takes their comprehension to a new level, or helps them turn the corner to becoming a book lover. Nancy J. Polette's The Picture Book Almanac: Picture Books and Activities to Celebrate 365 Familiar and Unusual Holidays can be used year-round as a key to open that great literary treasure vault. The books Polette has painstakingly selected for their value as learning opportunities tie into both familiar and unusual holidays, ranging from official, nationally recognized holidays to obscure ones such as Milk Day and Thesaurus Day. The daily featured book titles cover the classics, such as books in the Paddington Bear series and Cinderella to outstanding current and just-published titles, collectively representing the best choices for collection building over time. This book is an excellent tool for collection development as well as an indispensable resource for reading teachers and classroom teachers.
Download or read book Children s Literature for All God s Children written by Virginia Thomas and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The themes, words, and concepts in children's literature speak to the whole Christian community. Virginia Thomas and Betty Miller have examined children's literature and designed an extensive annotated list of children's stories, poems, folk tales, and fiction that express faith, belief, theology, and Christian principles. This unique resource/reference handbook gives the church the opportunity to function as a united community of believers. Children and adults have the chance to study and learn together -- grow as a whole community.Thomas and Miller offer a practical approach to children's literature that gives background and theory, an evaluation of techniques, "how-to" guidelines, suggestions for use, lists of books, two annotated bibliographies, and indices: subject and themes, genre, and book awards. Explains: why children's literature is a good resource for Christians where to find good stories how significant themes are adapted for different age levels how to evaluate stories how to use them Parents, teachers, and ministers will delight with children in this new approach to sharing, learning, teaching, and worship. The bibliography of books for all ages is a treasure-house of information. Features basic book information, summary, and themes values. This is an educational tool that provides a new avenue to understanding our faith.
Download or read book Modern Book Collecting written by Robert A. Wilson and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Book Collecting offers advice that answers all the basic questions a book lover and collector might have—what to collect and where to find it, how to tell a first edition from a reprint, how to build an author collection, how to get the best price from dealers, how to understand the prices and rarity of books, and more. With a handy dictionary of terms used in auction and dealer catalogs and a new section on Internet resources, this is a must-have guide for book lovers.
Download or read book Favorite Counseling and Therapy Techniques written by Howard Rosenthal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is divided into four parts. In Part I, "Serendipitous Suggestion: An Introduction to the Wonderful World of Psychotherapeutic Techniques," a case example of a creative counseling technique implemented by the editor and a colleague is described. This section also discusses six key reasons why techniques can enhance therapeutic effectiveness, and describes the evolution of the book. Also included is a description of the techniques acquisitions process, samples of the information sent to the therapists, and a cautionary note concerning the utilization of the techniques discussed in Part III. In Part II, "The Dark Side of Techniques: Beware of the Milton H. Erickson Clone," more cautionary warnings are offered through the editor's descriptions of failures and successes with his patients along with a list of seven points for therapists to keep in mind when studying the various techniques offered. Part II concludes with comments from one of the therapists solicited to provide creative techniques. In Part III, "Techniques," creative counseling techniques are described from 51 therapists. Each entry names the therapists, gives his/or her affiliation(s) and major works, describes the population for which the technique is intended, provides cautionary notes, and finally, describes the technique. "Part IV: 15 Recommendations for Effectively Implementing Counseling and Therapy Techniques" is a brief list of tips. Of particular interest to school psychologist and counselors are: (1) "Using stories in Therapy with Children and Families" (Larry Golden); (2) "Memory Work with Children" (Linda Goldman); and (3) "Bibliotherapy" (Bea Wehrly).(MKA)
