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The People of Print

Eighteenth-Century England

by Adam James Smith, Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer, Helen Williams, Jacob Baxter, Kate Ozment, Sarah Griffin, Lisa Maruca, Barbara Crosbie, Dominic Bridge, John Hinks ...

Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the eighteenth century. With an explicit focus on intervening in the critical history of the trades, this volume profiles seven women and three men, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a biographical introduction to each figure, placing them in their ... Read more

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This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the eighteenth century. With an explicit focus on intervening in the critical history of the trades, this volume profiles seven women and three men, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a biographical introduction to each figure, placing them in their
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Impolite Periodicals

Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century

by Emrys D. Jones, Adam James Smith, Katarina Stenke, Anthony Pollock, Jennifer Batt, Claire Knowles, Richard Squibbs, Jennifer Buckley0, Laura Davies1, Amélie Junqua2, Charlotte Roberts3, Manushag Powell4 ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Studies of the eighteenth-century periodical have long tended to understand the form according to the period’s own insistence on adhering to and promoting politeness. In contrast, this collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodicals such as Addison and Steele’s popular The Spectator, and a fuller sense of their value within ... Read more

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Studies of the eighteenth-century periodical have long tended to understand the form according to the period’s own insistence on adhering to and promoting politeness. In contrast, this collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodicals such as Addison and Steele’s popular The Spectator, and a fuller sense of their value within
... Read more
1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 28)

by M-C. Newbould, Devoney Looser, Helen Williams, Jack Orchard, Adam James Smith, Gabriella Hartvig, Jakub Lipski, John Regan, Paul Goring, Malcolm Jack, Rui Romao, Béatrice Guion, Edmundo Balsemão Pires, Mauro Simonazzi ...

Series Book 28 - 1650-1850
Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly ... Read more

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Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly
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The People of Print

Seventeenth-Century England

by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer, Adam James Smith, Georgina E. M. Wilson, Joe Saunders, William Clayton, Jennifer Young, Alan B. Farmer, Benjamin Woodring, Michael Durrant, Verônica Calsoni Lima, Rosalind Johnson ...

Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the seventeenth century. With an equal balance between women and men, it intervenes in the history of the trades, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a biographical introduction to each figure, placing them in their social, professional, and ... Read more

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This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the seventeenth century. With an equal balance between women and men, it intervenes in the history of the trades, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a biographical introduction to each figure, placing them in their social, professional, and
... Read more
The Essays of Adam Smith

Enriched edition. Foundational Essays in Economic Philosophy

by Adam Smith, Autumn Ainsworth ...

In "The Essays of Adam Smith," an influential collection of his essays written during the 18th century, Smith explores a range of topics, from moral philosophy to economics and the nature of human relationships. His prose is characterized by clarity and eloquence, reflecting the Enlightenment ideals of reason and empiricism. These essays are foundational texts in both moral philosophy and economic ... Read more

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In "The Essays of Adam Smith," an influential collection of his essays written during the 18th century, Smith explores a range of topics, from moral philosophy to economics and the nature of human relationships. His prose is characterized by clarity and eloquence, reflecting the Enlightenment ideals of reason and empiricism. These essays are foundational texts in both moral philosophy and economic
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Artificial Intelligence and Software Testing

Building systems you can trust

by Adam Leon Smith, Rex Black, James Davenport, Joanna Olszewska, Jeremias Rößler, Jonathon Wright ...

WINNER: Independent Press Awards 2023 - Category: TechnologyAI presents a new paradigm in software development, representing the biggest change to how we think about quality and testing in decades. Many of the well known issues around AI, such as bias, manifest themselves as quality management problems. This book, aimed at testing and quality management practitioners who want to understand more, ... Read more

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WINNER: Independent Press Awards 2023 - Category: TechnologyAI presents a new paradigm in software development, representing the biggest change to how we think about quality and testing in decades. Many of the well known issues around AI, such as bias, manifest themselves as quality management problems. This book, aimed at testing and quality management practitioners who want to understand more,
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The World's Great Sermons

Volume X—Drummond to Jowett

by Kleiser Grenville, Henry Drummond, Charles Wagner, Charles Angier Gordon, William James Dawson, George Adam Smith, Frank Wakely Gunsaulus, Newell Dwight Hillis, Charles Edward Jefferson, G. Campbell Morgan, S. Parkes Cadman, John Henry Jowett ...

Series Book 10 - The World's Great Sermons
The aim in preparing this work has been to bring together the best examples of the products of the pulpit through the Christian centuries, and to present these masterpieces in attractive and convenient form. It is believed that they will be found valuable as instruction to ministers of to-day. They should also be helpful to others who, tho not preachers, yet seek reading of this kind for the ... Read more

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The aim in preparing this work has been to bring together the best examples of the products of the pulpit through the Christian centuries, and to present these masterpieces in attractive and convenient form. It is believed that they will be found valuable as instruction to ministers of to-day. They should also be helpful to others who, tho not preachers, yet seek reading of this kind for the
... Read more
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The Life Triumphant: Mastering the Heart and Mind ( Unabridged )

by James Allen ...

Narrated by Adam Smith ...

Unabridged

1 hour 47 min

Are you tired of ignoring your conscience? Do you want to to follow the inward guide to wherever it may lead? Are you ready to realise your full potential even though those around you may have no idea how to relate? Then The Life Triumphant is for you. This book is uncompromising! It shows you the way to the realisation of that inward power that you have so long wanted to experience but have ... Read more

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Are you tired of ignoring your conscience? Do you want to to follow the inward guide to wherever it may lead? Are you ready to realise your full potential even though those around you may have no idea how to relate? Then The Life Triumphant is for you. This book is uncompromising! It shows you the way to the realisation of that inward power that you have so long wanted to experience but have
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Charlie and the Christmas Factory

And Other Stories

by Roald Dahl ...

Narrated by Susan Wokoma, Adam Kay, Adam Hills, Greg James, Chris Smith, Konnie Huq, Ben Bailey Smith, Nathan Bryon ...

Unabridged

4 hours 30 min

A splendiferous new anthology of Christmas stories inspired by the world of Roald Dahl with six new stories by six all-star authors! A perfect gift for the holiday season!Experience the wonder that is Willy Wonka's factory at Christmastime, make Santa grow ten times his size with a fresh batch of George's Marvelous Medicine, save London from a flood of oversized baubles, rescue a school from the ... Read more

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A splendiferous new anthology of Christmas stories inspired by the world of Roald Dahl with six new stories by six all-star authors! A perfect gift for the holiday season!Experience the wonder that is Willy Wonka's factory at Christmastime, make Santa grow ten times his size with a fresh batch of George's Marvelous Medicine, save London from a flood of oversized baubles, rescue a school from the
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Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period

Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer, Adam James Smith ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period illuminates the diverse ways that people in the British regional print trades exerted their agency through interventions in regional and national politics as well as their civic, commercial, and cultural contributions. Works printed in regional communities were a crucial part of developing narratives of local industrial, technological ... Read more

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Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period illuminates the diverse ways that people in the British regional print trades exerted their agency through interventions in regional and national politics as well as their civic, commercial, and cultural contributions. Works printed in regional communities were a crucial part of developing narratives of local industrial, technological
... Read more

Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750

Studies in Social Rank and Communication

by Elspeth Jajdelska ...

Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading, Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship between speech, rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. Jajdelska draws on anthropological findings to shed light on the different ways that speech was understood to relate to writing across the period, bringing together status and speech, literary and verbal decorum, ... Read more

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Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading, Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship between speech, rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. Jajdelska draws on anthropological findings to shed light on the different ways that speech was understood to relate to writing across the period, bringing together status and speech, literary and verbal decorum,
... Read more
The Early Roxburghe Club 18121835

Book Club Pioneers and the Advancement of English Literature

by Shayne Husbands ...

The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. Since the Club’s edition of ‘Havelok the Dane’ appeared in 1828, the Roxburghe has gained a reputation as a producer of beautifully printed editions of manuscripts and reprinted early books. The founding period of the Club, however, has been viewed with less approval, often seen as a frivolous, ... Read more

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The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. Since the Club’s edition of ‘Havelok the Dane’ appeared in 1828, the Roxburghe has gained a reputation as a producer of beautifully printed editions of manuscripts and reprinted early books. The founding period of the Club, however, has been viewed with less approval, often seen as a frivolous,
... Read more

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