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Paradigms lost : the life and deaths of the printed word
- Title
- Paradigms lost : the life and deaths of the printed word / William J. Sonn.
- Author
- Sonn, William J., 1948-
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006.
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- Description
- iv, 393 pages; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-378) and index.
- Contents
- Peter Printing Pants in Linotype Hell, 1993 -- Part I. The Birth of Type: From Hand to Lever -- Primordial Scratches -- The Machine in the Manger -- A Certain Scrambling -- Recollection: A Happy Man, Concerned -- The Terrible Contagion -- Faster Than Asparagus -- Part II. The Type Age: From Lever to Machine -- Cat Troubles -- Trickle, stream, torrent, wave ... -- Extreme Cheapness -- The Dam's Last Brick -- "The Hasty Approach of Evil" -- Complacency's Triumph -- The World Without Kinship -- Part III. The End of Type: From Machine to Math -- Full Pantry, No Can Opener -- War After The War -- Dreams of Girl Typists -- Buck Rogers Stuff -- Like A Burlesque Blonde -- Speedups and Slowdowns -- Union's End -- Recollection: Aristocrats in Dotage -- Part IV. Life After Type -- Words Out of Dots, Rolled Out of Factories -- ... and Offices and. . . -- The Last Transaction Cost -- The Descent Into Free.
- ISBN
- 0810852624 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780810852624 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005023073
- OCLC
- ocm61285529
- 61285529
- SCSB-5235067
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries