Publishing & Books

The first guide to the single most comprehensive source of unpublished documentary material on the history of architecture, this major reference work will be essential for anyone seeking source material for the study of architectural history and practice and for the conservation and restoration of t... More

This reference provides the groundwork, tools, and terminology required when conducting specialized searches for information and resources pertaining to traditional and emerging fields of agriculture. The editors present 16 contributions from librarians and other information workers that offer infor... More

This book is a lively and accessible biographical guide to lesbian and gay literary culture from Sappho to modern pulp fiction. It includes fascinating entries on authors from W.H. Auden to Alice Walker, James Baldwin to Virginia Wolff, and also includes works of those who have theorized lesbian and... More

Charles Darwin's correspondence provides a unique window on Darwin's working methods, the atmosphere of intellectual revolution of his time, and his doubts, anxieties, and false starts that are now little known. This volume is the most comprehensive catalog to date of all presently known letters bet... More

Are you struggling to write a short story?Or keen to try, but unsure where to start?Do you want to learn from published writers, but don't know how you can? "Writing Short Stories" is the solution. Ideal for those new to the genre or for anyone who wishes to improve their technique, Ailsa Cox's guid... More

These essays explore the remarkable expansion of publishing from 1750 to 1850 which reflected the growth of literacy, and the diversification of the reading public. Experimentation with new genres, methods of advertising, marketing and dissemination, forms of critical reception and modes of access t... More

Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Martin Amis to Ian McEwan, Nick Hornby to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guide to the contemporary literary scene. Each entry includes concise biographical information on each of the key novel... More

This checklist is witness to the vast and varied production of 20th-century French women playwrights. Like Beach's preceding volume, French Women Playwrights Before the Twentieth Century: A Checklist (Greenwood, 1994), this reference book presents an extensive list of dramatic works. Beach provides ... More

This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of books and articles published in a single calendar year. It covers all periods of British and Irish history from Roman Britain to the end of the twentieth century, and also includes a section on imperial and commonwealth history.... More

Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, this series provides the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. Arranged by topic and indexed by author, subject, and place-name, each bibliography lists and annotates the mos... More