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Wood and metal letters pressed into paper laid the foundation for the modern world. Once essential to communication, letterpress printing unexpectedly thrives in our digital age. PRESSING ON is required viewing for design centered audiences, advertising and type nerds, history buffs and documentary lovers.
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Reveals how books and the materials that make them reflect the history of human civilization, tracing the development of writing, printing, illustrating, and binding to demonstrate the transition from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the mass-distributed books of today.
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The bestselling author of Brunelleschi's dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's ceiling captures the excitement and spirit of the Renaissance in this chronicle of the life and work of 'the king of the world's booksellers" and the technological disruption that forever changed the ways knowledge spread.
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Geronimo Stilton (Graphic novels) volume 9
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Geronimo, Benjamin, Trap, Petunia, and Bugsy Wugsy, go back in time to Germany in the 1400s to stop the pirate cats from sabotaging the workshop of Gutenberg - the inventor of the printing press.
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Excerpt: "When we speak of the invention of printing, we mean the invention of the art of multiplying books by means of single types capable of being used again and again in different combinations for the printing of different books. Taking the word printing in its widest sense, it means merely the impression of any image; and the art of impressing or stamping words or pictures seems to have been known from the very earliest times. The handles of...
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The 21st Century Junior Library introduces young readers to important core content. Simple activities encourage students to look, think, make a guess, ask questions, and create. The combination of reading and inquiring helps them develop the skills needed to master content and learn and succeed in the 21st century. -- back cover.
11) Gutenberg
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A biography of the fifteenth-century German printer who revolutionized printing with the invention of movable type.
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In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, goes on to discuss how printing challenged traditional institutions and affected three major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation,...
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Few books have had as much of an impact on history as the Gutenberg Bible. Readers will learn how the Bible that Johannes Gutenberg began work on in 1450 resulted in a transformation in the distribution of knowledge and sparked incredible growth in literacy. They'll find out how Gutenberg's printing press worked, how books had to be copied out by hand before its invention, and what already extant tools helped inspire Gutenberg. The Gutenberg Bible's...
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The Anatomy of Type is the ultimate stylistic guide to the intricacies and design of 100 indispensable typefaces. A delightful, colorful, and visual reference guide created by Stephen Coles and Tony Seddon---two acknowledged pros in the font design world---The Anatomy of Type was developed with typographers, graphic designers, and font geeks in mind, graphically and visually expanding on the current font-mania initiated by Simon Garfields's Just My...
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"The printing press is one of the single most important inventions in human history. It allowed information to spread more quickly and widely than ever before. Many people credit German Johannes Gutenberg with inventing the printing press, but the earliest known printed text is actually Chinese! Historic, full-color photographs and enlightening graphic organizers will attract and educate budding historians. Through 20 truly fun facts, they'll learn...
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