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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"printed book"”.
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The History of The Printed Book Catalogue in The United States
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Forms for electronic books
The book is proposed as a candidate form for new electronic information systems. The electronic book casts the powerfully expressive new media of computers and video in the accessible forms of the printed book. It is a testbed for developing novel methods of interactive information retrieval and …
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Η "φυσική" του Νικηφόρου Θεοτόκη σταθμός στην επιστημονική σκέψη τον 18ο αιώνα
… the "Stichia Phisikis" (=Elements of Physics), a book written by one of the most famous Greek scholars of that period, Nikeforos Theotokis and published in Leipsia in 1766-1767. As it is demonstrated, this book is the first printed book, which imported and supported as a whole the Newtonian …
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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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The design, production and evaluation of a computer-based multimedia learning program
… the effectiveness of the electronic storybook portion of the program, as used in conjunction with an electronic glossary, on improved word comprehension and story recall in Grade 2 (7-9) year old students. Sixty subjects were exposed to either the electronic storybook with an 'on-screen' …
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The poetics of the medium : aesthetic forms and technologies of the word in the English Middle Ages
… such as codex, oral tradition, epigraphy, printed book, and dramatic performance not only transmit early English poetry but supply symbolic forms that shape it as well. Approaching poetics through the medium allows original insights into several paradigmatic works of the English Middle Ages …
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Red Lake / Black Mine: Affective Bodies and Material Complicity in Sound Art Practice
… comprising sound and video pieces and a printed book of text and images, contributes to a growing body of work dedicated to expanding field recording practice as well as a pluralistic set of concepts and methods that situate sound practice within a wider context.
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Computers, cut-ups and combinatory volvelles : an archaeology of text-generating mechanisms
… archaeology answers Roger Chartier's call for book historians to "take on the task of retracing forgotten gestures and habits" that do not fit "the genealogy of our own contemporary manner of reading," a call echoed in much recent work on the "use" of early modem books. It thus challenges our …
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Visual Narrative: A Theory and Model for Image-Driven Digital Historiography based on a Case Study of China’s Boxer Uprising (c. 1900)
… the visual record, as an alternative to the printed book. Unlike the quantitative “big data” approach to digital humanities, this research explores visuality itself. In a practice-led approach, the research addresses both aspects of historiography: (1) a method of historical representation; …
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From Manuscript to Multimedia: Illuminating Memory and Re[image]ning Composition
… are] to either ancient speech or the modern printed book"" (Bolter, 1993), I turn to these illuminated manuscripts, and their underlying rhetorics, to begin the work of interrogating and substantiating these similarities. Ultimately, I argue that twenty-first century multimodal texts, like …
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What Do Book Publishers Do and How is the Book Evolving?
… captures an ongoing exploration of the book industry and the changes affecting the book itself. Two central questions are examined: What do book publishers do? How is the book evolving? The thesis shows the coherence of the research questions, demonstrates the linkages between the …
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Privacy and print: Reading and writing in seventeenth century England
… changes of seventeenth-century England, the printed book became the site for authors' and readers' negotiations between public and private life; the printing press simultaneously encouraged public revelation even as it created opportunities for solitary contact with the text. As it attempts …
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Making mathematical practice : gentlemen, practitioners and artisans in Elizabethan England
… through the impersonal medium and market of the printed book. The work of my practitioners encompassed a broad range of Renaissance mathematical arts; geometry, mathematical astronomy, surveying, navigation, gunnery, architecture and shipbuilding, as well as the harbour design represented by …
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Strategies of Adaptation: Constructing <i>Gōkan</i> in Late-Edo Japan
… <i>gōkan</i>: a type of illustrated, woodblock-printed book that epitomises the adaptive spirit of early-modern Japan through its serialised, eye-catching, and diverse storytelling. By engaging with early-modern discourse and contemporary theory alike, this dissertation makes three …
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'The Screen Is A Dim Page Spread Before Us': Thomas Pynchon, Digital-Age Fiction, and the Theory of the Reflexive Correlative
… which I term reflexive correlatives, place the printed book we are reading and the computing technology being represented on the same common denominator – namely, that both are kinds of information technology. Rather than simply describing computers, or showing characters using computers, these …