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This book addresses the gap between print and digital scholarly
approaches by combining both praxis and theory in a case study of a
new international collaborative digital project, the Modernist
Archives Publishing Project (MAPP). MAPP is an international
collaborative digital project, funded by the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, that uses digital tools to
showcase archival traces of twentieth-century publishing. The
twenty-first century has witnessed, and is living through, some of
the most dynamic changes ever experienced in the publishing
industry, arguably altering our very understanding of what it means
to read a book. This book brings to both general readers and
scholarly researchers a new way of accessing, and thereby
assessing, the historical meanings of change within the
twentieth-century publication industry by building a resource which
organises, interacts with, and uses historical information about
book culture to narrate the continuities and discontinuities in
reading and publishing over the last century.
Late 18th century Ireland. Two women from noble families, Lady
Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, meet and form an intense
romantic friendship. Against the will of their families - and
overcoming many obstacles - they leave Ireland and settle at Plas
Newydd. Here they become famous, as the Ladies of Llangollen.
I do not accept there is anything wrong with me. Days before her
wedding Megan discovers she has a 50-50 chance of developing early
onset Alzheimer's. Years later she's offered a genetic test. But if
she's got the gene does she really want to know? Megan, 21. Megan,
47. Megan, 32. Megan, 27. One woman lurches through time while her
young family deal with the consequences. I can't think. But I still
feel. And most of the time I feel scared. Scared because it's too
soon. I haven't finished yet. Plaques and Tangles by Nicola Wilson
premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 2015.
This book addresses the gap between print and digital scholarly
approaches by combining both praxis and theory in a case study of a
new international collaborative digital project, the Modernist
Archives Publishing Project (MAPP). MAPP is an international
collaborative digital project, funded by the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, that uses digital tools to
showcase archival traces of twentieth-century publishing. The
twenty-first century has witnessed, and is living through, some of
the most dynamic changes ever experienced in the publishing
industry, arguably altering our very understanding of what it means
to read a book. This book brings to both general readers and
scholarly researchers a new way of accessing, and thereby
assessing, the historical meanings of change within the
twentieth-century publication industry by building a resource which
organises, interacts with, and uses historical information about
book culture to narrate the continuities and discontinuities in
reading and publishing over the last century.
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Nexus (Paperback)
Nicolas Wilson
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R397
Discovery Miles 3 970
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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As national governments cede society to international and
soon-to-be intergalactic corporations, Sontem launches the Nexus
and the Argus, two intergenerational starships sent as emissaries
to the cosmos, but whose sole mission is to secure mining rights
for the parent company. The ships are armed with the best of
mankind's minds and technology, and a sense of manifest destiny.
Captain Anderson Grant of the Nexus, the second starship in
Sontem's budding armada, prepares to boldly fight and screw where
no man has before. But Anderson and his crew struggle to maintain
their humanity in the face of deception, exploitation, (sexually)
aggressive aliens, and a system that ultimately respects its crew
more for their genetic capacity than their individuality.
Knight, the sheriff of the local magical government, or "the
Gambit," is called to recover a mutilated body, tainted with magic
and dumped at a popular haunt. When the corpse is identified as a
close associate of the Gambit, he suspects a larger conspiracy
threatening the fragile peace amongst the city's magic-wielding
factions. As more bodies fall, Knight finds himself fighting for
the lives of those he cares about.
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Dag (Paperback)
Nicolas Wilson
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R351
Discovery Miles 3 510
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Dagney Morgan, a sarcastic Department of Agriculture employee with
an affinity for paperwork, has a chance run-in with a farmer
covered in toxic chemicals, and walks away with a genetically
modified baby, along with the seeds of a military-industrial
conspiracy. Dagney and her makeshift family scramble to stay ahead
of artificial soldiers and megalomaniacal businessmen long enough
to reap the truths behind an international web of corruption and
intrigue. They also stop for pie, at one point.
Humanity has been decimated by a violent new species that nests in
any enclosed spaces, and slaughters everything unfortunate enough
to come indoors. Mitch is a 'Wall Banger', an explosives expert who
'cracks' buildings, exposing them to air and sunlight to kill these
invasive organisms. When a friend of Mitch's asks for help tracking
down a murderer, Mitch recruits Cori, a 'Shadow Runner' who races
through infested spaces to gather supplies and saleable loot. But
this terrifying contagion isn't the only danger, as their world
descends into a harrowing marathon against oversupplied militias,
murderous gangs, self-righteous survivors, and all-out starvation.
It's a profitable time to be a bastard, one of the most profitable
in history. Mark Dane intends to take full advantage of that and be
the bastard at the top- if he can make his way past his fellow
predators, through a concrete jungle of murder, sex, greed, and
revenge.
In the near future, women's rights are eroding, and those who
refuse their newly proscribed societal role are hunted as gender
criminals, by the authorities when they're lucky, and by militias
when they're not. This harrowing dystopia is seen through the eyes
of a woman cast into a resistance group by circumstance, and a
newly minted gender crimes detective tasked with bringing them to
justice, as he grapples with whether or not that word still has
meaning. Please note: Whores contains some graphic violence, adult
language, and mature themes.
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Miss Nobody (Paperback)
Ethel Carnie; Edited by Nicola Wilson
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R504
Discovery Miles 5 040
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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A centenary edition of the 1913 novel, Miss Nobody, by Ethel Carnie
(later Ethel Carnie Holdsworth), widely believed to be the first
published novel written by a working-class woman in Britain. Miss
Nobody charts the fortunes of the independent Carrie Brown, a
former 'scullery drudge' turned oyster shop owner from Ardwick,
Greater Manchester. Schooled in the popular romances of cheap
yellow-backed novelettes, Carrie decides to sell up and leave the
grey city of Manchester when she receives a surprising offer of
marriage from a country farmer. The plot sees Carrie struggling to
reconcile herself to the 'mixed up' reality of marriage and the
loneliness of country life, and ultimately results in her striking
out on her own. The story describes Carrie's picaresque adventures
as she strives to find love and self-fulfilment in a harsh and
oftentimes bitter world.
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