22 results for 'gutenberg ia'

A critical biography of the mysterious but prolific medieval printer. Johannes Gutenberg is famous as the inventor of Europe's first typographic printing method, and his life and legacy have long...

"[A] THOUGHTFUL AND HEARTFELT BOOK...A literary cri de coeur--a lament for literature and everything implicit in it."--The Washington PostIn our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are...

A cogent analysis of the new realities of newspaper publishing created by the revolutionary use of computers considers the potential of computerization to alter the quantity, nature, and texture of...

Herausgegeben Von Horst Wenzel ; In Zusammenarbeit Mit Friedrich Kittler Und Manfred Schneider. Papers From A Conference Held At The Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, June 25-28, 1992,...

El esperado nuevo libro de Yuval Noah Harari, uno de los pensadores más innovadores, interesantes y clarividentes de la actualidad, y autor de Sapiens, el fenómeno literario global que ha cautivado a...

The global history of the rise and transformation of bookstores, from medieval book merchants to today's neighborhood indies. "This is the arresting and ultimately optimistic story of the making and...

An important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer’s depictions of Muslim figures and subjects are considered by many to be among his most perplexing images...

Enter the workshop, meet the typographer, and discover the world of letterpress printing. A companion to the beloved title Meet the Lithographer, Meet the Typographer showcases the fascinating...

Tanto è manifesto l'appetito di Ezio Raimondi per i libri, che un'allieva impertinente gli attribuì la qualifica di "libridinoso". Non è però la passione del collezionista o del bibliomane. Il libro,...

In Immemory, Chris Marker originally used the format of the CD-Rom to create a multilayered, multimedia memoir. The reader investigates "zones" of travel, war, cinema, and poetry, navigating through...

Menjadi dewasa adalah mutlak. Manusia tak bisa kembali ke masa kanak-kanaknya. Tetapi, menjadi dewasa dan selalu berpikir kompleks, pelik, dan serius bukanlah sesuatu yang bisa kita jadikan kebiasaan...

Takes young readers inside the lives and minds of the greatest inventors in history Genius! tells the stories behind the amazing inventions that helped shape our modern world. Young readers are...

In his new book, William J. Bernstein, the celebrated author of A Splendid Exchange, chronicles the history of media, starting with the origin of writing thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia. The...

Hot Type is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg's movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the...

Trenchant, expansive essays on the cultural consequences of ongoing, all-permeating technological innovationIn 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to...

A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle...

This book examines the ecological characteristics of tropical savanna- most simply defined as those ecosystems which lie between the equatorial rainforests and the deserts and semi-deserts of Africa,...

Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers...

This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the self-publishing...