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"Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period" is a collection of essays that explores the role of print outside of major cities during the hand press period. The essays cover a range of topics, including the experiences of female printers, the relationship between print and regional identity, and the circulation of print materials. The collection also addresses the need for further research in areas such as women's agency, the impact of print on enslavement and abolitionist causes, and the intersection of print and critical theory. Overall, the book expands our understanding of non-metropolitan print activities and is a valuable resource for researchers in the field. [Extracted from the article]

The US psychologist Rona M. Field's book A Society on the Run (1973) offered a psychological account of the nature and effects of the Northern Irish Troubles at their peak in the early 1970s. The book was withdrawn shortly after publication by its publisher, Penguin Books Limited, and never reissued. Fields alleged publicly that the book had been suppressed by the British state, a claim that has often been treated uncritically. Local Northern Irish psychologists suggested that the book was taken off the market because of its scientific deficiencies. Rigorous book‐historical investigation using Penguin editorial fields reveals, however, that what might appear to be a case of state suppression, or an instance of disciplinary boundary work, can be explained instead by the commercial interests and professional standards of a publisher keen to preserve its reputation for quality and reliability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the article, the author discusses the challenges in the diagnosis of dizziness and other similar conditions like benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) and acute vestibular syndrome (AVS). Other topics include the book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn and how the paradigm about dizziness has shifted.

It is nearly 20 years since Harold Love's salutary remarks on the concept of "print culture" in book history and media theory: 'At an elementary level, "print culture" is an umbrella term for an indiscriminate body of subject matter linked in one way or another with the printed word and image'; a quick search of WorldCat shows that the term is as current today "in a number of, at best, semi-related senses" as it was in the early 2000s, but, observed Love, "the concept has never been a clearly defined one", and there are a number of divergent models. I The Printer as Author i offers a conceptual and bibliographic framework for such study, a new perspective on the problematic but far from redundant idea of print culture and print as a culture of consciousness. Again traversing scholarly paradigms (for the most part, I should stress, a strength, not a weakness of this book), Engel prefers Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday's "paperworld" for the culture of consciousness that he describes, but it is (I believe) within the still nebulous galaxy of studies of print culture that I The Printer as Author i will exert its greatest force. [Extracted from the article]

Murray Sidman's (1960) Tactics of Scientific Research: Evaluating Experimental Data in Psychology just celebrated its sixtieth anniversary. It is without doubt one of the most influential books in the history of Behavior Analysis. This review outlines the rationales for, and details of, methods for the investigation of the behavior of individual subjects that Sidman presented. Many of his observations and recommendations are as timely as ever, maybe even more so, given the "reproducibility crisis" and one of its major origins. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This survey synthesizes and examines existing scholarship on women's practices and positions within eighteenth‐century British book culture. Since feminist scholarship began in the 1980s, the recovery of women's literary history has been largely focused on recovering their written contributions in print. However, more recently, eighteenth centuryists have noticed the interconnections between oral, written and print cultures; engaged in bibliographical studies on the significance of the expansion of print and the book trades; and considered how rising literacy rates and diverse reading practices shaped culture. Women, as writers and readers, and as intermediaries in the production and circulation of culture, played a critical role in shaping these developments. This essay reviews the considerable scholarship that addresses women's various engagements with book culture, research that collectively has generated a more capacious understanding of the history of books in the long eighteenth century and the women who produced, shared and read them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aims: The aims of the present study were to assess the prevalence of recipes about invalid cookery in Australian cookbooks published from 1860 to 1950; describe the dishes regarded as suitable for invalids and summarise the advice about how best to feed invalids or convalescents in the home. Methods: Using published bibliographies, the Trove database, and the author's private collection, all available cookbooks published in Australia up to 1950 were reviewed and all recipes and advice about feeding invalids were recorded. Results: Eight hundred and eighty‐nine book titles were examined and 25% contained some recipes specifically designed for people who were sick or convalescing. One thousand, four hundred and seventy‐one different recipes were recorded with more than half for beverages, desserts and soups. The most common recipes were for beef tea, barley water, gruel and meat broths. Advice about feeding focused on the food requirements of invalids, safe and appealing meal service, cooking methods and suitable food choices. The recipes and advice did not appear to change substantially over the nine decades and most did not appear to be based on any clear scientific evidence. Conclusions: Many of the general principles of invalid cookery in these books are similar to the requirements of the light diet, commonly used in Australian hospitals up until the 1980s. Further research into the source and rationale for the advice in these books would be worthwhile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire, edited by distinguished historians Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, brings together ten essays on individual books with a substantial methodological introduction. Covering the full geographical expanse of the Empire, the volume seeks to unify book and imperial history through careful accounts of the circulation, recycling, and uptake of each of the books under consideration. The upshot is an invaluable overall work with important individual contributions. At the same time, the project's methodology and mode of presentation raise questions for the writing of history, particularly at the nexus of the histories of empire and of the book, that are reiterated but never queried within the volume itself. Specifically, in its focus on the moment of the circulation of texts, Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire reflects a general condition in the human sciences: a resistance to narrative, to causality, and to critique, which this essay attempts to describe and briefly explain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented to this special issue focused on themes of Renaissance and early modern print culture, book history, and the translation of texts into the vernacular languages of Europe during the period.

Cross-channel exchanges in the rise of the novel in the long 18th century have become an emerging area of scholarly interest in the last decade, informed by new work on cultural exchanges and on translation theory, and earlier work on book history and reception studies. And yet this is an area that is yet to move beyond exceptional case studies of individual translations and translators, much less to fully articulate what is at stake for the study of the 18th-century novel, or indeed 18th-century studies more generally. This article traces the field from the mid-1970s to today, arguing that the study of women writers has been central to our growing recognition that the novel was shaped by pan-European and cross-channel exchanges and translation. It concludes by highlighting the main threat to the field: the dearth of language-learning. Translation - in the 18th century, and now - is thus presented as a political issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Robert Burton called his period 'this scribling age', in which the copiousness of printed matter and the multitude of authors caused problems both of discernment - how to distinguish true scholars from intellectual quacks? - and of quantity: how can the scholar hope to master the 'vast Chaos and confusion of Bookes'? This article addresses Burton's engagement with these questions, and examines both his attempt to establish a polymathic persona, and the relationship of the Anatomy to other compendious genres of the period. Section II of this essay compares Burton's versions of polymathy with Johannes Wower's De polymathia tractatio (1603), showing how, in both the Anatomy and his academic play, Philosophaster, Burton contrasts the true polymath with the figure of the 'polypragmatist', representing a kind of miscellaneous learning which is shallow, deceptive, and mercenary. The third section examines Burton's relationship to another model of disciplinary multifariousness: the encyclopaedia, understood by Burton not as a genre, but as an ethos. In the fourth section, attention turns to polyantheas and other compendious literary genres. Burton's complaints about such shortcuts to learning are shown to participate in the controversy over the scholarly method which followed the publication of John Selden's Historie of Tithes (1618). The final section addresses polymathic style: Burton's ambiguous relationship to Erasmian copia, and the struggle to find a voice amid the clamour of citations demanded of the scholar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inspired by Leah Price's recent plea on behalf of the study of 'nonreading' and literary logistics, this essay reconstructs a slice of the history of reading locations by analysing the decoration advice, the changing symbolic associations and the modes of print circulation connected with private libraries and toilets in the writings of two modern authors: Edith Wharton and Henry Miller. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A book on the history of four pioneers in structural biology, written by the late John Meurig Thomas, is reviewed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last thirty years scholarly attention has moved from the study of poets, playwrights and essayists towards the study of novelists, particularly women novelists. Academics in English departments are also increasingly concerned with a range of 'non-literary' texts, and there has been burgeoning interest in the book trade and the history of the book. The irruption of 'theory' into eighteenth-century English studies resulted in a huge shift in methodological awareness, but this pales into insignificance beside the impact of computers in general and the World Wide Web in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on the role of illustrations in eighteenth-century children's books in Great Britain and France. The author discusses how the books of eighteenth century influenced the minds of young people, what makes it interesting for children to read and how it affects childrens' lives in terms of social interaction with others. The author states that during the century, the special nature of children was recognized, and that it should be guided and molded. The most common theme of the children's books during the century is about obedience to adult and discipline that reminds the children on their position in household and social hierarchy.

Focuses on the concern of those involved in social thought that economic forces play an important role in historical change. Historical information, highlighting such events as World War I and the Industrial Revolution; Economic analysis of interwar periods, particularly within the United States; Reviews of various books on the subject matter.

This article critically discusses essays published in the November 2, 1992 issue of the journal "Sociological Forum." The author criticizes writers who cite and quote themselves extensively. The present issue presents a remarkable set of review essays. They appear as three pairs, in the first pair, Jonathan Rieder reflects on the writing of a book about a Brooklyn neighborhood published in 1985, while Philip Kasinitz compares three recent books about urban neighborhoods. In the second pair, Lewis Coser writes about collective memory, with special reference to Maurice Halbwachs, White Alan Wolfe examines Eviatar Zerubavels book on how people make distinctions. In the third pair, Dennis Wrong looks back to David Riesmans' "The Lonely Crowd," first published in 1950, then Riesman himself reflects on these books history.

Early modern Irish book history has been reinvigorated in the last couple of decades; thanks largely to pioneering studies by Raymond Gillespie and Toby Barnard. Examining the impact of the book through the lens of social and cultural change has vastly improved our knowledge of 17th‐century Ireland. Indeed, the genre continues to expand. By focusing on the historian and antiquarian, Sir James Ware (1594–1666), this essay looks at potentially new ways book history can be analyzed. Three key aspects are investigated. First, it assesses Ware's scholarly achievements and suggests that his 11 publications were in some ways reflective of the evolving social dynamics in Stuart Ireland. Second, it analyzes his library and explores the reading habits of individuals who contacted Ware to borrow manuscripts and printed works. The items he loaned to both Catholics and Protestants are revealing, especially given the restrictive nature of institutional and private libraries. Third, it examines Ware's diverse network that crisscrossed ethnic, confessional, and political lines. In so doing, this essay challenges preconceived ideas that the various groupings in Ireland were diametrically opposed to supporting any kind of common endeavor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "An Introduction to Book History" 2nd edition, by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery.

Provides insights on art books and book history. Factors that would prove that art books are financially successful; Functions of book historians; Role of art books in assessing the cultural impact of art and artists.

This article reports that the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce its 1986 Summer Institute in the Early Printed Book, which will be directed by professor Henri-Jean Martin from June 23 to August 1, 1986. Beginning in the late Middle Ages with the transition from the manuscript to the printed book, the institute will analyze the changing relationship between the book as a material object and its socio-cultural context through the 18th century. The course will be taught in French and will focus on France, but comparative materials from other western European countries will be introduced.

Presents an abstract of the article "Historical Perspectives on the Role of the Book in Society," by Howard W. Winger published in the October 1955 issue of "Library Quarterly."