Paper Knowledge
Paper Knowledge

Author: Lisa Gitelman

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2014-05-07

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0822376768

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Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today, Lisa Gitelman thinks across the media that the document form has come to inhabit over the last 150 years, including letterpress printing, typing and carbon paper, mimeograph, microfilm, offset printing, photocopying, and scanning. Whether examining late nineteenth century commercial, or "job" printing, or the Xerox machine and the role of reproduction in our understanding of the document, Gitelman reveals a keen eye for vernacular uses of technology. She tells nuanced, anecdote-filled stories of the waning of old technologies and the emergence of new. Along the way, she discusses documentary matters such as the relation between twentieth-century technological innovation and the management of paper, and the interdependence of computer programming and documentation. Paper Knowledge is destined to set a new agenda for media studies.

Dialogue within Discourse Communities
Dialogue within Discourse Communities

Author: Julia Bamford

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-12-07

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 3110933225

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The book explores aspects of reflexivity and interactivity in a variety of academic genres: oral and written, scientific and educational. Academic discourse is explored from a variety of perspectives that take a dialogic view of language use as their starting point, ranging from conversation analysis to descriptive or applied genre studies. Particular attention is paid to the way metadiscursive expressions contribute to a representation of the communicative procedures that characterise the ongoing (scientific and educational) dialogues.

Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences
Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences

Author: Jeffrey T. Huber

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2014-04-22

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 083891957X

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Prepared in collaboration with the Medical Library Association, this completely updated, revised, and expanded edition lists classic and up-to-the-minute print and electronic resources in the health sciences, helping librarians find the answers that library users seek.

Index of NLM Serial Titles
Index of NLM Serial Titles

Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 1576

ISBN-13:

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A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.

Eutrophication of Deep Lakes
Eutrophication of Deep Lakes

Author: S. H. Jenkins

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1483136981

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Eutrophication of Deep Lakes focuses on research and experiments that are deemed valuable to mitigate the eutrophication of lakes. Containing the contributions of authors who have continuously conducted studies in this field, the book proceeds by pointing out how the loading concept can serve as a basis in the control of eutrophication. This discussion is seconded by discussions on the factors affecting the eutrophication of freshwaters in Norway. Particularly given attention in this book is the phosphorous content of small and large lakes. The relationship of pollution and eutrophication is also noted. The large inputs of nutrients into lakes is emphasized, and then the application of the US OECD eutrophication study results to deep lakes is discussed. The book also points to the stage of eutrophication of lakes in Norway, and particularly concerns the effect of eutrophication on living organisms in lakes. A review of the toxic substances that affect these organisms is also presented. The text is a valuable source of information for researchers and readers who are interested in studying how eutrophication affects the natural composition of lakes; how this process affects life in lakes; and the control measures and processes that need to be taken to control it.