Explains the process of making a book by following the production of Nancy Carlson's book, "It's Not My Fault!," through its stages of writing, illustrating, editing, designing, printing, and binding.

The pettiness of an English seaside town. It is described by Florence Green, a middle-aged widow who buys a house for a bookshop, something the town has not had for over a century. Leading her enemies is Mrs. Gamart who wanted the house for an arts center.

Brief text and color photographs describe the steps in making a book, from idea to manuscript to layout to printer to library.

"A memoir of life in the antiquarian book trade, in London, England, and, in keeping with Kociejowski's travel writing, a journey through people's lives. Beginning with his childhood in rural Ontario, where at the annual village jumble sale he would buy books not so much for their content as for their tactile qualities, and from there to Ottawa, where he first learned books can have a value, and from there to England, where he fell into the book trade...

A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the relationship between such policymaking and transformations in the economy. Focusing on UNESCO's use of books, Sarah Brouillette identifies three phases in the agency's history and explores the literary and cultural programming of each. In the immediate postwar period, healthy economies made possible the funding...

With the availability of self-publishing services and the rise of the entrepreneur as a thought leader, writing a book is becoming more appealing to an increasing number of small business owners. The problem? Most small business owners aren't writers, have never written a book before, are time poor and don't know where to start. While many want to write a book, they worry about investing months of their time and thousands of their dollars to write...

Shows two illustrators going through all the steps involved in creating new picture books of "Jack and the Beanstalk," including layout, scale, and point-of-view.

"Step right up and read the genuine stories of writers so intoxicated by the shapes and sound of language that they collected, dissected, and constructed verbal wonders of the most extraordinary kind ... A love letter to all those who love words, language, writing, writers, and stories, Alphamaniacs is [an] ... illustrated collection of mini-biographies about the most daring and peculiar of writers and their audacious, courageous, temerarious way...

"This book takes us into the social networks of contemporary literary culture, examining how small-scale presses, writers, book distributors, and editors make new fiction-and make a living-in a mass market indifferent to all but a tiny slice of the literature produced today. McSweeney's, the small San Francisco-based press founded by Dave Eggers, is the book's central subject, but the story of that press serves also as portal to broader networks of...

"Winner of the 2014 Robert Lowry Patten Award, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900" "Honorable Mention for the 2012 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association" Leah Price is professor of English at Harvard University. She is the author of The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the...