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Author insights 2015 survey
No full textThe annual Author Insights Survey, run by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and sister company Palgrave Macmillan forms part of a wider research programme which aims to understand general author attitudes and behaviours around publishing, to track any changes over time.
The survey is conducted for internal purposes each year to provide longitudinal data and track changes in attitudes and behaviours. This year’s survey included questions on topics as diverse as factors that contribute to a journal’s reputation, the value of services offered by publishers and authors’ ideal audiences for their research. Demographic questions were also included in the survey to enable analysis by fields such as region and discipline
Hydrology of Hope
No full textThis is the author version (pre-publication) of Chapter 4 in the volume: Whiteness in Zimbabwe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).Peer reviewe
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“An appreciative and grateful author”: Edith Wharton and the House of Macmillan
No full textThis essay is the first piece of scholarship to examine the relationship between the expatriate American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) and her chief British publisher, Macmillan and Co. Entirely original analysis draws extensively upon the author/publisher correspondence held in the Macmillan Archive in the British Library, and challenges existing readings of the firm's handling of women novelists in the period 1900-1930
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Project Information Literacy: News About Students and News
No full textSoon-to-be Professor Emerita, Margy MacMillan is currently a Senior Researcher with Project Information Literacy on their latest study "How Students Engage with News". The study surveyed over 5,800 students across 11 U.S. institutions about where they encountered news, what tools they used, what topics they followed and shared, and the role of news in their lives. It also asked specifically about the differences between their personal and academic news habits. The results were fascinating, and countered popular narratives of disengaged 'newsless' youth; on the contrary, following the news takes effort and time, and while many of the participants have developed effective strategies for managing the glut of information, others feel overwhelmed.
Margy will present key findings and then open a discussion around translating the findings into teaching across the disciplines.John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
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The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901-1930
No full textThis book publishes, for the first time, some 400 letters between America's leading woman of letters, Edith Wharton, and London's most prestigious publishing house, Macmillan, written over a thirty-year period. The meticulously transcribed correspondence highlights Wharton's determination to be taken seriously as a novelist, as well as her exceptionally developed understanding of the 'sociology of text' in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Copious editorial annotation provides valuable contextual information on the socio-economics of the book trade, Wharton and Macmillan's relationships with the leading writers of the time, and Wharton's interventions in the production of her books. The book casts new light on Wharton's working practices, and will be of crucial importance for literary scholars. As the complete record of an author-publisher relationship, this book offers readers a valuable and intimate insight into the transatlantic book trade of the period
Social reproduction in the realm of the intangible
No full textThe discourse of intellectual property rights demonstrates an almost total marginalisation of questions of social reproduction. This rhetorical aporia in what is already an invisible space has operated to obscure these questions in at least two significant ways. First, it has resulted in a failure to engage with the sublimation of social reproduction in the creation of a range of culturally, politically and economically distinct and significant property relations. Secondly, it operates to obscure the role of social reproduction in legal regimes governing technological innovation. By focusing on the figure of the “author” in copyright law and the “inventor” in patent law, this article aims to sketch the formation of a strategic position in the so-called “intellectual property wars” that is capable of recognising the role of social reproduction in the realm of the intangible
Judah Benjamin: the Confederate barrister
No full textCatharine MacMillan considers the life, impact and legacy of the American politician and lawyer Judah Benjamin (1811-1884) assessing his contributions to American history, serving the Confederate States of America, and English law through work as a barrister and Queen's Counsel. The author undertook research on Judah Benjamin's life during her Visiting Fellowship at IALS and sabbatical from Queen Mary, University of London
Judah Benjamin: the Confederate barrister
No full textCatharine MacMillan considers the life, impact and legacy of the American politician and lawyer Judah Benjamin (1811-1884) assessing his contributions to American history, serving the Confederate States of America, and English law through work as a barrister and Queen's Counsel. The author undertook research on Judah Benjamin's life during her Visiting Fellowship at IALS and sabbatical from Queen Mary, University of London.
Locally made equipment for teaching and research in agricultural engineering. Manual No.1. Hydraulic cylinders as force cells
No full text© 2003 R.H. Macmillan Author contact: [email protected] eprint provides information on the use of this equipment for teaching and research.
This manual, which is one of a series on locally made equipment for teaching and research in agricultural engineering, describes the selection, calibration & use of hydraulic cylinders as force cells
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