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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"; Printed books"”.
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Limp, laced-case binding in parchment on sixteenth-century Mexican printed books
… of the features of the bindings of Mexican printed books from that period. In addition, by the analysis of the materials and techniques used to bind these books, as well as the specific structural characteristics of the bindings, the patterns of work that could be described as typically …
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An Examination Of Print Awareness When Using Electronic And Printed Books With Preschool-Aged Children
… skills through dialogic reading using both printed and ebook formats. During this study, five participants were selected from a local, private preschool and participated in a weeklong study in which they were read to dialogically with specific prompts concerning print awareness skills for a …
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An LCA study comparing e-books read on an Apple Air iPad to printed books in South Africa
… and cumulative energy demand of electronic books (e-books)read from a Tablet personal computer (PC) or Apple Air iPad, the digital system, with the equivalent printed paper books (print system) in South Africa, and establish which of two systems has less of an environmental and energy demand …
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From Gutenberg to Luther
… characteristics and development. The trade with printed books emanating from Germany expanded to a reliable, well-established trade of European dimensions. While being a challenge for Scandinavian printing, which they met successfully not before after 1525, for readers it meant an opportunity. …
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Managing Nature in the Age of Enlightenment: The Practice of Natural History in Britain, 1760-1820
The relationship between printed books, manuscripts and specimens dominated the practice of natural history during the late eighteenth century. This dissertation explores the complex connections between these materials and shows how they were used to apply systematic structure to nature on a global …
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Marketing Good Taste: Print Agents' Use Of Paratext To Shape Markets And Readers In Early Modern England
… strategies deployed by print agents (publishers, booksellers, and printers) to create their unique niche in the marketplace. Building on scholarship that discusses how print agents shaped authorship, I argue that paratexts designed by print agents influenced the development of popular taste and …
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Electronic Books: An Overview of the First Two Generations.
… the production of a device to challenge the printed book’s dominance as the media for information transmission. These microprocessor-based devices are attempts to exceed the limitations of printed texts while retaining their strengths. Two generations of these devices, and the companies that …
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THE REHABILITATION OF FULTON BAG & COTTON MILLS: A Case for a Unique Public-History Site and Open-Air Museum
… archives) and Secondary Sources (such as printed books and articles related to the history of The Mill, published biographies, and online resources that included relevant academic theses).</p> <p>Research finds that the rehabilitated mill does, in fact, present itself as a public-history …
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The views, adoption and use of e-books by undergraduate students at the University of Namibia
… information sources such as e-journals and e-books. The research aimed at investigating the adoption of views about and use of e-books at the University of Namibia. The research design was exploratory and the study adopted a mixed approach, in which both quantitative and qualitative methods …
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The Role of Women in the Canonisation of Shakespeare: From Elizabethan Theatre to the Shakespeare Jubilee
… ownership history of pre-mid-eighteenth-century printed books<br/>of Shakespeare’s plays.<br/>This thesis is divided into four chapters. In the first chapter, I analyse women’s<br/>engagement with theatre in Renaissance England, and consider Shakespeare’s<br/>popularity amongst them based on …
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Collecting, communicating, and commemorating: The significance of Thomas Plume's manuscript collection, left to his Library in Maldon, est. 1704
… who left them with a substantial body of books and pamphlets to the Library he endowed in Maldon. They take the form of notebooks and papers complied by a number of different clergymen, in particular Dr Robert Boreman (d.1675) and Dr Edward Hyde (1607-1659), in addition to Plume. The …
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Competing to succeed: Monarchy and succession in English history plays and tracts, 1559-1607
… ideological dissemination far beyond that of printed books and includes the diverse and dissident voices of women, plebeians, foreigners, and rebels.
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New World Drugs in England's Early Empire
… customs records, first-hand colonial accounts, printed books and pamphlets, manuscript commonplace books, letters, prescription lists and medical journals. This study contributes to research programmes on English colonial development, global commodities, the Columbian exchange and the early …
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Reading for Pleasure in Nigeria: An In-depth Case Study of the Reading Habits of a Small Group of 9–12 Year Olds in Nigeria
… for pleasure differs. All the participants read printed books, and a few participants also read digitally. Popular reading materials include fiction, comics, factual books, crime and detective books, and adventure books. The children have different motivations for reading, but many state that …
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A comparative study of the manuscripts and early printed editions of the Cretan tragedy Erofili and its interludes
… but also to the production of manuscripts and printed books in Crete, the Heptanese and Venice in general. As far as the condition of the text is concerned, three witnesses preserve the most reliable texts: the second edition and the two manuscripts originating from Crete. The investigation of …
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RICOSTRUZIONE STORICA DEL COLLEZIONISMO D'ARTE GIAPPONESE DI ERA MEIJI IN ITALIA SETTENTRIONALE. SVILUPPI DI UN MERCATO PARALLELO AGLI SCAMBI COMMERCIALI E DIPLOMATICI.
… by the beauty of the prints, illustrated books, lacquers, bronzes, ivories, and porcelain, they collected avidly for personal pleasure driven by a strong desire to learn about a new culture. For example, Paolo Velini, Giacomo Bolmida, Giovanni Battista Imberti, and the Bertone brothers …
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'Like Iron to a Magnet': Moses Hayim Luzzatto's Quest for Providence
… documents and manuscripts, as well as rare printed books, I seek to reconcile the seemingly incompatible aspects of Luzzatto as 'heretic' and 'hero.'</p> <p>Chapter one sets the tone for the dissertation by analyzing the original version of <em>Mesilat Yesharim</em>, which differs …
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The Qur'an after Babel: Translating and Printing the Qur'an in Late Ottoman and Modern Turkey
… intelligibility bolstered by the availability of printed books, the spread of state schools, and increased knowledge of European history and intellectual currents. Turkish nationalists later adopted and advocated the issue, reconstruing the "Turkish Qur'an" as a nationalist symbol. </p><p>Over the …
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A Forgotten Bestselling Author: Laura Terracina in Early Modern Naples
… the Italian peninsula. Terracina published eight books and left a ninth in manuscript at the time of her death, winning legions of admirers and making her sixteenth-century Italy’s most commercially successful female author. Yet in spite of her enormous popularity amongst her contemporaries, …
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Utilisation of digital media in improving children's reading habits
… not good readers and that a limited number of books are published for children as there are actual boundaries preventing Jordanian writers from publishing books. In particular, subjecting the typical sorts of children¿s websites ¿ 'Club Penguin', 'PBS Kids', 'A Story before Bed', 'Baraem', …
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