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Journals of the Century

Author : Tony Stankus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000757927
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Journals of the Century written by Tony Stankus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2002, gathers some of America's top subject expert librarians to determine the most influential journals in their respective fields. 32 contributing authors reviewed journals from over twenty countries that have successfully shaped the evolution of their individual specialties worldwide. Their choices reflect the history of each discipline or profession, taking into account rivalries between universities, professional societies, for-profit and not-for-profit publishers, and even nation-states and international ideologies, in each journal's quest for reputational dominance. Each journal was judged using criteria such as longevity of publication, foresight in carving out its niche, ability to attract & sustain professional or academic affiliations, opinion leadership or agenda-setting power, and ongoing criticality to the study or practice of their field. The book presents wholly independent reviewers; none are in the employ of any publisher, but each is fully credentialed and well published, and many are award-winners. The authors guide college and professional school librarians on limited budgets via an exposition of their analytical and critical winnowing process in determining the classic resources for their faculty, students, and working professional clientele.

The Scientific Journal

Author : Alex Csiszar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022655337X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Journal written by Alex Csiszar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of academic scientists and to the public legitimacy of scientific knowledge. But that was not always the case. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, academies and societies dominated elite study of the natural world. Journals were a relatively marginal feature of this world, and sometimes even an object of outright suspicion. The Scientific Journal tells the story of how that changed. Alex Csiszar takes readers deep into nineteenth-century London and Paris, where savants struggled to reshape scientific life in the light of rapidly changing political mores and the growing importance of the press in public life. The scientific journal did not arise as a natural solution to the problem of communicating scientific discoveries. Rather, as Csiszar shows, its dominance was a hard-won compromise born of political exigencies, shifting epistemic values, intellectual property debates, and the demands of commerce. Many of the tensions and problems that plague scholarly publishing today are rooted in these tangled beginnings. As we seek to make sense of our own moment of intense experimentation in publishing platforms, peer review, and information curation, Csiszar argues powerfully that a better understanding of the journal’s past will be crucial to imagining future forms for the expression and organization of knowledge.

The Journal of the Century

Author : Bryan Holme
Publisher : Penguin Putnam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the Century written by Bryan Holme and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1976 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of nearly 100 years of Ladies' Home Journal.

The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké

Author : Charlotte L. Forten
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195052381
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké written by Charlotte L. Forten and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

Literature After Euclid

Author : Matthew Wickman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247957
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Literature After Euclid written by Matthew Wickman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature After Euclid tells the story of the creative adaptation of geometry in Scotland during and after the long eighteenth century. Analyzing the work of Scottish literati, Matthew Wickman challenges how we perceive the Scottish Enlightenment and the modernist ethos that relegated "classical" Enlightenment to the dustbin of history.

A Century of Nature

Author : Laura Garwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226284166
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Nature written by Laura Garwin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature. A Century of Nature brings together in one volume Nature's greatest hits—reproductions of seminal contributions that changed science and the world, accompanied by essays written by leading scientists (including four Nobel laureates) that provide historical context for each article, explain its insights in graceful, accessible prose, and celebrate the serendipity of discovery and the rewards of searching for needles in haystacks.

Alfred Kazin's Journals

Author : Alfred Kazin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030014203X
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Alfred Kazin's Journals written by Alfred Kazin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Kazin was considered one of the most influential intellectuals of postwar America. What is less well known is that Kazin had been contributing almost daily to an extensive private journal, which arguably contains some of his best writing. These journals collectively tell the story of his journey from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood to his position as a dominant figure in twentieth-century cultural life. To Kazin, the daily entry was a psychological and spiritual act. To read through these entries is to reexperience history as a series of daily discoveries by an alert, adventurous, if often mercurial intelligence. It is also to encounter an array of interesting and notable personalities. Sketches of friends, mistresses, family figures, and other intellectuals are woven in with commentary on Kazin's childhood, early religious interests, problems with parents, bouts of loneliness, dealings with publishers, and thoughts on the Holocaust. The journals also highlight his engagement with the political and cultural debates of the decades through which he lived. He wrestles with communism, cultural nationalism, liberalism, existentialism, Israel, modernism, and much more. Judiciously selected and edited by acclaimed Kazin biographer Richard Cook, this collection provides the public with access to these previously unavailable writings and, in doing so, offers a fascinating social, historical, literary, and cultural record.

DDT and the American Century

Author : David Kinkela
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807869307
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book DDT and the American Century written by David Kinkela and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised for its ability to kill insects effectively and cheaply and reviled as an ecological hazard, DDT continues to engender passion across the political spectrum as one of the world's most controversial chemical pesticides. In DDT and the American Century, David Kinkela chronicles the use of DDT around the world from 1941 to the present with a particular focus on the United States, which has played a critical role in encouraging the global use of the pesticide. Kinkela's study offers a unique approach to understanding both this contentious chemical and modern environmentalism in an international context.

Nineteenth-Century Music Review

Author : Bennett Zon
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409403357
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Music Review written by Bennett Zon and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to locate music within the framework of intellectual activity pertaining to the long nineteenth century (c 1789-1914). This title focuses on the interdisciplinary scholarship that explores music within the context of other artistic and scientific discourses.

The 18th Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786

Author : Michael Chenoweth
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871699329
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The 18th Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786 written by Michael Chenoweth and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Thistlewood is known for his daily records of life on a slave plantation in eighteenth-century Jamaica. Thistlewood's previously unexamined weather journal is shown here to be the most important written record from the Earth's tropical regions available. His observation methods are superior to most of his contemporaries & provide a high-quality daily record of more than 35 years. Comparison of his records with modern weather records indicates that Thistlewood's Jamaica was a much cooler & moister place than in modern times. A 252-year record of tropical storm & hurricane frequency in Jamaica reveals that the late 20th-century minimum in storm frequency is unprecedented.

Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary

Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary written by Merriam-Webster, Inc and published by Merriam-Webster Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical dictionary which profiles over 30,000 individuals, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

Pages from the Goncourt Journal

Author : Edmond de Goncourt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Pages from the Goncourt Journal written by Edmond de Goncourt and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Century of Artists Books

Author : Riva Castleman
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 9780810961814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Artists Books written by Riva Castleman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.

Aspiring Saints

Author : Anne Jacobson Schutte
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801876869
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Aspiring Saints written by Anne Jacobson Schutte and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of an Honorable Mention in the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards given by the Association of American Publishers Between 1618 and 1750, sixteen people—nine women and seven men—were brought to the attention of the ecclesiastical authorities in Venice because they were reporting visions, revelations, and special privileges from heaven. All were investigated, and most were put on trial by the Holy Office of the Inquisition on a charge of heresy under various rubrics that might be translated as "pretense of holiness." Anne Jacobson Schutte looks closely at the institutional, cultural, and religious contexts that gave rise to the phenomenon of visionaries in Venice. To explain the worldview of the prosecutors as well as the prosecuted, Schutte examines inquisitorial trial dossiers, theological manuals, spiritual treatises, and medical works that shaped early modern Italians' understanding of the differences between orthodox Catholic belief and heresy. In particular, she demonstrates that socially constructed assumptions about males and females affected how the Inquisition treated the accused parties. The women charged with heresy were non-elites who generally claimed to experience ecstatic visions and receive messages; the men were usually clergy who responded to these women without claiming any supernatural experience themselves. Because they "should have known better," the men were judged more harshly by authorities. Placing the events in a context larger than just the inquisitorial process, Aspiring Saints sheds new light on the history of religion, the dynamics of gender relations, and the ambiguous boundary between sincerity and pretense in early modern Italy.

Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century

Author : Michel Hockx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108331092
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century written by Michel Hockx and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new collection, an international team of scholars examine the relationship between the Chinese women's periodical press and global modernity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essays in this richly illustrated volume probe the ramifications for women of two monumental developments in this period: the intensification of China's encounters with foreign powers and a media transformation comparable in its impact to the current internet age. The book offers a distinctive methodology for studying the periodical press, which is supported by the development of a bilingual database of early Chinese periodicals. Throughout the study, essays on China are punctuated by transdisciplinary reflections from scholars working on periodicals outside of the Chinese context, encouraging readers to rethink common stereotypes about lived womanhood in modern China, and to reconsider the nature of Chinese modernity in a global context.

Our History of the 20th Century

Author : Travis Elborough
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782437363
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Our History of the 20th Century written by Travis Elborough and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing events but also the domestic and personal moments of those who lived through it. The book draws on over one hundred diarists. They include the great and the good - from Beatrice Webb to Tony Benn, from A. C. Benson to Alan Bennett, from Virginia Ironside to Hanif Kureishi - as well as many less-well-known individuals such as Gladys Langford and Kathleen Tipper, whose writings for the Mass Observation Project offer brilliant glimpses into what the man or woman on the street really made of the stuff of history at the time. From the Easter Rising to the arrival of email, from the Boer War to New Labour, here are responses to the death of Princess Diana, the resignation of Margaret Thatcher, the Moon landing, the Beatles and much more. Guardian Best Books of 2017, selected by David Kynaston Praise for Travis Elborough: 'One of Britain's finest pop culture historians.' Guardian 'Elborough is an English nostalgist in the mode of John Betjeman . as a cultural commentator he is a terrific companion.' Sunday Times 'Travis Elborough is becoming a latter-day Alan Bennett.' Spectator 'Elborough has the passion of a true enthusiast.' Mail on Sunday 'Elborough is a charming, funny and frequently fascinating guide.' Telegraph

Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author : Gowan Dawson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022668346X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Gowan Dawson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants in local natural history clubs. In addition to disseminating authorized scientific discovery, they fostered a sense of collective identity among their geographically dispersed and often socially disparate readers by facilitating the reciprocal interchange of ideas and information. As such, they offer privileged access into the workings of scientific communities in the period. The essays in this volume set the historical exploration of the scientific and medical periodicals of the era on a new footing, examining their precise function and role in the making of nineteenth-century science and enhancing our vision of the shifting communities and practices of science in the period. This radical rethinking of the scientific journal offers a new approach to the reconfiguration of the sciences in nineteenth-century Britain and sheds instructive light on contemporary debates about the purpose, practices, and price of scientific journals.