This illustrated and abridged edition of The Printing Press as an Agent of Change gives a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth century.
In all, it is a thoughtful and insightful desktop reference for everyone who works with written words. To writers, this book offers a whole new set of skills and tools for effective expression and communication.
This book tells the story of Harvard University Press, including its ancestry, founding, and evolution, its vividly contrasting leaders, its successes, failures, and troubles, all in the context of the university of which it is a department ...
T.H. Barrett, a leading scholar of medieval China, presents an engaging perspective on the history of printing and the intriguing story of Empress Wu (AD 625-705).
The work goes on to contest the impact of Confucianism on pre-modern and modern Vietnam and, based on materials never before used, provides a radically new perspective on the rise of Vietnamese communism from 1929 to 1945.