A Dictionary Of Publishing

Author : Adrian Bullock,Chris Jennings,Nicola Timbrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192558473

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A Dictionary of Publishing by Adrian Bullock,Chris Jennings,Nicola Timbrell Pdf

This new dictionary covers the full range of publishing-related topics, defining terms encountered in the processes of editing, producing, printing, and distributing books and digital content. With entries ranging from proofreading and binding to discoverability and royalties, and covering contemporary areas of publishing such as digital workflow and digital rights management, the dictionary provides easy-to-find and accurate information on key terms and concepts. Comprising over 250 concise and up-to-date A to Z entries, it is an invaluable reference resource for students of publishing, as well as for those currently working in the industry.

Author : John A. Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0195218892

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Oxford English Dictionary by John A. Simpson Pdf

The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.

Author : Peter Hodgson Collin
Publisher : Peter Collin Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Design
ISBN : 0948549998

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Dictionary of Printing and Publishing by Peter Hodgson Collin Pdf

A dictionary of the basic vocabulary used in the printing and publishing industries, covering printing machines, paper, ink, binding, typesetting (letterpress and computerized), typefaces, desk-top publishing, editing, proofreading, layout, commercial publishing and bookselling, and much more.

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781408101629

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Dictionary of Publishing and Printing by Bloomsbury Publishing Pdf

This fully revised edition includes over 8,000 words, expressions and terminology relating to the publishing and printing industries and allied trades. Topics covered are papermaking, ink, printing and binding machinery, bookselling, typesetting, desktop publishing and design, copyright, editing, commissioning, contracts, rights and electronic publishing. Definitions are given in clear, simple English, meaning that this dictionary is perfect for anyone wanting comprehensive information at their fingertips.

Author : Ellis Peters, pseud.,Maria de Lurdes Medeiros
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Printing
ISBN : 9721034169

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Dictionary of Printing and Publishing by Ellis Peters, pseud.,Maria de Lurdes Medeiros Pdf

Author : John Feather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UCSC:32106009497543

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A Dictionary of Book History by John Feather Pdf

Author : John Scott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191047558

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A Dictionary of Sociology by John Scott Pdf

A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science. For this fourth edition, Professor John Scott has conducted a thorough review of all entries to ensure that they are concise, focused, and up to date. Revisions reflect current intellectual debates and social conditions, particularly in relation to global and multi-cultural issues. New entries cover relevant contemporary concepts, such as climate change, social media, terrorism, and intersectionality, as well as key living sociologists. This Dictionary is both an invaluable introduction to sociology for beginners, and an essential source of reference for more advanced students and teachers.

Author : Collin P H
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8185392935

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Dictionary of Printing and Publishing by Collin P H Pdf

Author : Greg Brooks
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783741076

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Dictionary of the British English Spelling System by Greg Brooks Pdf

This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It's a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words, so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of words, but the other words with which those with unusual phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company. Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists of correspondences and various regularities not described by previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters ) to be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables.

Author : Andrew M. Colman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UCSC:32106018531332

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A Dictionary of Psychology by Andrew M. Colman Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780199208272

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pip Williams
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984820730

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The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD

Author : Walter Spencer Avis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Canadianisms
ISBN : IND:32000004659571

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The Gage Canadian Dictionary by Walter Spencer Avis Pdf

Author : Gabriele Griffin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192534668

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A Dictionary of Gender Studies by Gabriele Griffin Pdf

This new dictionary provides clear and accessible definitions of a range of terms from within the fast-developing field of gender studies. It covers terms which have emerged out of gender studies, such as cyber feminism, double burden, and male gaze, and gender-focused definitions of more general terms, such as housework, intersectionality, and trolling, It also covers major historical figures including Hélène Cixous, bell hooks, Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as groups and movements from votes for women to Reclaim the Night. It is an invaluable reference resource for students taking gender studies courses, at undergraduate or postgraduate level, and for those applying a gender perspective within other subject areas.

Author : Anne Kerr,Edmund Wright
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191044786

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A Dictionary of World History by Anne Kerr,Edmund Wright Pdf

This wide-ranging dictionary contains a wealth of information on all aspects of history, from prehistory right up to the present day. Over 4,000 clear, concise entries include biographies of key figures in world history (living and dead), separate entries for every country in the world (summarising key historical events), and in-depth entries on religious and political movements, international organizations, and major conflicts and events and their after-effects. For this new edition, existing entries have been revised and updated to reflect the very latest global events including changes in leadership, wars, political situations, and the statistical information given for each country (population counts, currency, languages, religions). New entries have been included for key figures who have recently come to prominence and world events. The book also contains twenty-five detailed maps linked to key historical events and topics. These include the African slave trade, the Black Death, and the Normandy campaign. Also included are over 200 country maps. The dictionary is enhanced by entry-level web links which are accessed via a dedicated companion website. Encyclopedic in scope, this ambitious A to Z provides an excellent overview of world history both for students and anyone with an interest in the subject.