Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity.

The results show that the price-to-book value method generates more robust market value estimates than the price-to-earnings method.

This is a comprehensive introduction to books and print culture which examines the move from the spoken word to written texts, the book as commodity, the power and profile of readers, and the future of the book in an electronic age.

Making Sense of Media is a lively and accessible text that helps readers understand mass media and the texts they carry.

This thesis analyses squeeze-outs - a deal where a controlling shareholder has the right to buy out minority shareholders at a fair compensation.

In this detailed overview of the history of the handmade book, Avrin looks at the development of scripts and styles of illumination, the making of manuscripts, and the technological processes involved in paper-making and book-binding.

Noted essayist and editor Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the six-thousand-year-old conversation between words and that hero without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader.

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