Essays on Publishing

Here is an update on the Kull hardcover that Rusty Burke recently posted on the REHupa website: Bill Schafer of Subterranean Press reports that the slipcases for their edition of Kull: Exile of Atlantis are reported to be on their way to him, and the books are finished and ready to go, so as soon…

There were many consequences to the printing press; including the spread of the protestant reformation and the growth of more accurate maps. However, the most important of them would be the creation of affordable books. When the printing press spread through Europe, Martin Luther heard about it, and when he did he got a hold…

In general there are two kinds of press nowadays: tabloids and quality press. Each of them has its own way of parenting people, events and news. However, they often write about the same events, their styles are completely different. Tabloids focus on celebrities, their lives, successes, love affairs and rumours. The quality press presents the…

Grandpapi1: hill… first if she didnt want to talk i would understand more than you can fathom, second i 100% believed you Grandpapi1: i have so much to say to her Grandpapi1: this has been the worst and yet most awakening weekend of my life Cool H11: i mean i guess that is a good…

In Ellen Goodman’s “The Company Man” the brief items on the family members and the presidents of the company tell the readers many things about themselves and Phil. This essay shows how a workaholic is too involved with working to be with his family. Phil’s wife, Helen, feels she lost him to his work years…

From the time, Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba tensions ran high between the Cuban government and the United States government. Relations between Cuba and the United States grew during Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. Not as much during the Eisenhower administration as the Kennedy administration did tensions between between the two countries intensify. Kennedy…

William Cowper, pronounced “Cooper,” is one of the few English hymn writers who ranks highly among the English poets as well. Cowper wrote about the simple pleasures of life in the country and expressed a deep concern with human cruelty and suffering. The simplicity of his work and his treatment of subjects in nature contrasted…

“When designers think of typography, we invariably consider semiotics which consists of semantics (the relation between signs and the concepts they represent), syntax (the formal relation between signs in a system), and pragmatics (the study of signs in use). Depending upon our concept and our sensibility to typographic form, the type can be our main…

The only way to ensure that sterilization has occurred is to use the biological monitoring methods. This is because these are the only tests done which show whether or not actual microbial life has been killed. Biological methods are the only ones which are recommended by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the…

The wife of Dr. Sam Sheppard(Marilyn Sheppard) was bludgeoned to death on July 4, 1954. She was found in the upstairs bedroom of her home in Bay Village, Ohio. The town mayor called the local police, Dr. Sheppards brother(also a doctor) and the next door neighbors. Local police advised the local coroner and the Cleveland…