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Teaching Book Arts: Collaborative Learning and Interdisciplinarity

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The Spanish Artists' Books in México: Cocina Ediciones y El Archivero

The artists' books transformed since the sixties and seventies the traditional condition of bookness. This paper is about the mexican pioneer woman in this genre.

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The Disintermediation of the Journal

This paper argues that it could be the traditional scholarly journal in its present forms, be they print or electronic, which may be removed from the scholarly communication process.

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Institutional Repositories: The Next Phase

While much has been accomplished in the technical development of IRs, challenges remain with both faculty acceptance and use of IRs.

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One Man Still Stands

Not too long ago, Google, the world’s leading search engine, announced a business deal with the Chinese Government to release a censored Chinese version of its proprietary search engine.

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The Footprints of Raka: On Rewriting and Canonisation

The continuous rewritings of Raka by Van Wyk Louw shows it's relevance as masterpiece within the Afrikaans literary canon. Focuss falls on continually changing ideological paradigms underpinning rewriting processes.

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A Priceless Gift: Book-Giving in Late Medieval French Manuscript Illumination

Book-giving was a very important ritual which involved a highly visual ceremony usually represented in the preface of the manuscript.

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Ich, Du, Und Sie: Private and Public Writing by Multiliterate Authors

While most bi- and multilingual writers publish in a single language, their private writings may exhibit code-switching. Recently, however, such mixed-language works have become increasingly public, assuming a multiliterate readership.

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Strategic Publishing Brands Management PART2

The paper addresses the following questions: What is a publishing brand and how publishing corporations and products can be managed in order to attain brand equity?

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The Book as Tool and Verb

An assessment of the utilization of traditional book arts studio techniques to teach principles of research, authorship, publishing, and design.

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