Human Science / Language arts & disciplines

Writing for Others, Writing for Ourselves: Telling Stories in an Age of Blogging

by Jerry Lanson

Using a narrative thread that ties practical advice to his personal experience as a professor, reporter, and blogger, Jerry Lanson fills his book on nonfiction story telling with time-proven techniques to beat...

Writing Screenplays

by Jessie Coleman & Paul Peditto

Writing Screenplays will show you the fundamentals that are essential to writing a compelling screenplay that will pull readers in, and sell, by using your own memoirs, or life, as a starting point.

Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents

by Boris Gasparov

The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) revolutionized the study of language, signs, and discourse in the twentieth century. He successfully reconstructed the proto-Indo-European vowel system,...

The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry

by Victor Navasky & Evan Cornog

From finding and cultivating authors to effectively incorporating art and design, from the importance of fact checking and copyediting to the critical relationship between advertising dollars and content, this...

Story Starters

by Lou W. Stanek

What If . . .

. . . every classmate passed the bar exam—except one?

. . . the killer left a calling card—the ace of spades?

. . . she was a sleeping beauty—

but it wasn't prince's kiss that woke her up?

. ....

Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities

by Marilyn Deegan & Willard McCarty

Collaboration within digital humanities is both a pertinent and a pressing topic as the traditional mode of the humanist, working alone in his or her study, is supplemented by explicitly co-operative, interdependent...

Government Information Management in the 21st Century: International Perspectives

by Peggy Garvin

The authors in this timely book are practitioners, scholars, and government officials. Together they provide an informed look at how managing government information is being tested at a time of rapid change....

The IALL International Handbook of Legal Information Management

by Richard A. Danner & Jules Winterton

This International Handbook describes the legal environments in which librarians work and policy issues with which they need to engage. It provides resources, analysis, and considered studies for seasoned international...

Managing Information Services: A Sustainable Approach

by Jo Bryson

This third edition of Jo Bryson's highly regarded Managing Information Services has been thoroughly revised with an emphasis on managing for a sustainable future. Libraries and information services face uncertain...

Museum Educator's Handbook

by Graeme K. Talboys

Described by GEM* as 'a very informative and practical book ... worth having on any museum shelf', the Museum Educator's Handbook is a thorough and practical guide to setting up and running education services...

University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments

by Penny Dale & Jill Beard

The digital environment offers opportunities and challenges for librarians in all aspects of their work - in information literacy, virtual reference, institutional repositories, e-learning, managing digital...

Books, Bytes and Business: The Promise of Digital Publishing

by Bill Martin & Xuemei Tian

In this readable, informative account, Books Bytes and Business uses book publishing to study challenge and change in the knowledge-based industries. Currently experiencing fierce levels of competition, extreme...

Public Libraries and Social Justice

by John Pateman & John Vincent

This book examines the historical background to social exclusion and the strategic context in terms of government and professional policy. The authors propose a compelling manifesto for change, and outline practical...

Harrod's Librarians' Glossary and Reference Book: A Directory of Over 10,200 Terms, Organizations, Projects and Acronyms in the Areas of Information M

by Ray Prytherch

A dictionary of over nearly 10,000 terms, abbreviations, acronyms, URLs and other useful information relating to library and information management, archives, publishing, knowledge management and e-commerce....

Archives and Archivists in 20th Century England

by Elizabeth Shepherd

Archives and Archivists in 20th Century England innovatively focuses on the multifunctional reasons behind the creations of archives. They are the raw material of our history and memory while archivists and...

Modern Methods for Musicology: Prospects, Proposals, and Realities

by Tim Crawford & Lorna Gibson

Written by leading experts, this volume provides a picture of the realities of current ICT use in musicology as well as prospects and proposals for how it could be fruitfully used in the future. This volume...

Handbook of Library Training Practice and Development: Volume Three

by Alan Brine

This Handbook of Library Training Practice and Development addresses new aspects of service provision both in the UK and abroad, and provides an up-to-date review of the current developments which are becoming...

What's in a Word-list?: Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction

by Dawn Archer

This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research written by leading experts in the field on the construction of word-lists for the analysis of both frequency and keyword usage. Taken together, these...

Narrative-based Practice

by Peter Brophy

In this important book Peter Brophy introduces and explains the concept of story-telling or narrative-based practice in teaching, research, professional practice and organizations. This book will be essential...

Text Editing, Print and the Digital World

by Marilyn Deegan & Kathryn Sutherland

Digital developments have extended the range of text objects we can reproduce and investigate critically. Should all future texts be produced in digital or online form, or does print, developed over five centuries,...