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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
It is doubtless inevitable that a publishing house should celebrate an important anniversary by publishing a book. It is perhaps equally inevitable that such a book should include a description of the founding and growth of the house concerned. However, it is hoped that The University as Publisher...
New Canadian Library
The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
In the mid-1950s, much Canadian literature was out of print, making it relatively inaccessible to readers, including those studying the subject in schools and universities. When English professor Malcolm Ross approached Toronto publisher Jack McClelland in 1952 to propose a Canadian literary reprint...
The Thesis and the Book
A Guide for First-Time Academic Authors
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2003
The academic caveat Publish or Perish is not a new one, and for over a quarter of a century, The Thesis and the Book has come to the aid of graduate students in their quest for publication. The doctoral dissertation, usually the first book-length study completed by a scholar, is, however, only rarely...
by Kirk Melnikoff
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture explores the influence of the book trade over English literary culture in the decades following incorporation of the Stationers’ Company in 1557. Through an analysis of the often overlooked contributions of bookmen like Thomas Hacket, Richard...
Kegan Paul – A Victorian Imprint
Publishers, Books and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
The Kegan Paul imprint was created and its reputation for a distinguished list of titles established during a forty-year period from 1871 to 1911. Several publishers, and their firms, were involved in the development of the imprint during this period, beginning with Henry S. King and Company, and...
The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada
Making Books and Mapping Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Fifth Business and Alligator Pie. Stephen Leacock, Grey Owl, and Morley Callaghan: these treasured Canadian books and authors were all nurtured by the Macmillan Company of Canada, one of the country's foremost twentieth-century publishing houses. The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada...
Victorian Jesus
J.R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Ecce Homo: A Survey in the Life and Work of Jesus Christ, published anonymously in 1865, alarmed some readers and delighted others by its presentation of a humanitarian view of Christ and early Christian history. Victorian Jesus explores the relationship between historian J. R. Seeley and his publisher...
The Sustainability Edge
How to Drive Top-Line Growth with Triple-Bottom-Line Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Business leaders need to embrace sustainability in order to ensure the lasting success of their organizations. Co-authors Suhas Apte and Jagdish Sheth bring their expertise from practice and from academia to illustrate how business leaders can embed sustainability in a truly holistic and transformative...
Leadership is Half the Story
A Fresh Look at Followership, Leadership, and Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Can you imagine a choreographer only training one dancer to lead while his or her partner sits in the lobby staring at the wall? Yet we do this all the time in organizations. Half the partnership is missing.
Leadership is Half the Story introduces the first model to seamlessly integrate leadership,...
The Retail Value Proposition
Crafting Unique Experiences at Compelling Prices
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
How do leading retailers create value for their customers? They craft unique experiences at compelling prices. This book introduces a new and effective way to manage those experiences based on three critical factors – environment, selection, and engagement (ESE) – that separate successful retailers...
Unpopular Culture
Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
In the last fifteen years or so, a wide community of artists working in a variety of western European nations have overturned the dominant traditions of comic book publishing as it has existed since the end of the Second World War. These artists reject both the traditional form and content of comic...
Canada
What It Is, What It Can Be
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Canadians have achieved an enviable balance of economic prosperity and civic harmony, but as emerging countries like China, India, and Brazil take their place alongside developed economies, we cannot be complacent. Our high paying jobs, world-class learning and research institutes, excellent health...
Relentless Change
A Casebook for the Study of Canadian Business History
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Casebooks in business history are designed to instruct students in classrooms and boardrooms about the evolution of business management. The first casebook for the study of business history in a Canadian context, Joseph E. Martin's text will help students, both in the classroom and the boardroom,...
The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Volume Two: A Critical Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Following on the heels of the first volume of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, this second volume narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery’s (1874–1942) critical reputation in the seventy years since her death. Edited by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre, it traces milestones and turning...