The Swifts
The Swifts

Author: Walker Rumble

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780813921617

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"In The Swifts, Walker Rumble, himself a printer and printing historian, follows the trail of these colorful compositors who became famous by winning typesetting races. Tellingly, at the same time that the most celebrated contests were taking place, technological and cultural forces were threatening the Swifts' way of life. First, women printers vied for shopfloor legitimacy; then, in the mid-1880s, typesetting machines such as Mergenthaler's Linotype arrived, replacing the artisans forever."--BOOK JACKET.

New Typographic Design
New Typographic Design

Author: Roger Fawcett-Tang

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781856694681

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A visual guide to the best in contemporary typographic design, this book features examples and usages of modern typography from around the world.

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.

Tissue Type Plasminogen Activity
Tissue Type Plasminogen Activity

Author: Cornelius Kluft

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 135108576X

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This book is made possible by the enthusiastic contributions of the authors of the chapters. They have been invited from young and active scientists in the field of t-PA research. I am grateful for their contribution and for the fact that all accepted the specifications of their chapter in order to obtain a structured book. Inevitably, some overlap does exist; on the one hand to enable controversial or unsettled areas to be discussed by the different experts with a different approach and background.It is a particular pleasure and honor that Dr. T. Astrup, as an eye-witness and essential contributor to the history of t-PA discovery and research, gives a unique account of the history of t-PA research in the first chapter of the book.