John Grossman Books

This thoroughly revised and updated edition serves as an essential reference for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers. It is nearly 200 pages longer than its predecessor and incorporates significant changes in style, usage, procedure, and technology, making it easier to use and enriched with illustrative examples. The influence of computers in publishing is evident throughout, covering manuscript preparation, editing, typesetting, indexing, design, and printing. The updates stem from over a decade of continuous editing and revision, categorized into two main areas. The first focuses on making the editorial guidelines more systematic, inclusive, reflective of contemporary usage, and accessible. Key revisions include a more comprehensive chapter on quotations, an expanded discussion on names and terms related to nationalities and races, a reorganized section on foreign languages with new content on Hebrew, and an updated tabular spelling guide for compound words and prefixes/suffixes. The most extensively revised section is the documentation guidelines, now streamlined into two chapters. Chapter 15 addresses humanities-style documentation, while Chapter 16 covers the author-date style favored in the natural and social sciences. This section clearly separates notes and bibliographic entries, text citations, and reference-list entries, providing numerous examples for citing a wide rang

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Victoriana and cats-it's a natural marriage. Celebrating the era when mousers, tabbies, and toms were swept off the farm and cherished with a passion unrivaled since ancient Egypt, Parlor Cats is a dazzling collaboration from the creators of A Victorian Scrapbook, Forget-Me-Nots, Joy to the World: A Victorian Book of LoveFor the Love of Lace, Nonsense & Common Sense, We Wish You a Merry Christmas: A Victorian Caroling Kit, and the bestselling Victoriana Calendar. Originally adorning antique greeting cards and cut-out dolls, matchboxes and advertising trade cards, stationery and calendars, the endearing faces of Victorian cats live anew in Cynthia Hart's distinctive collages. Mixing paper ephemera from John Grossman's museum-quality Collection of Antique Images with fresh flowers, collectibles, lace and brocade, each lushly layered composition evokes a time that personified the cat as the epitome of domestic virtue. Generously quoting from poetry, nursing rhymes, Godey's Lady's Book, and popular authors, Josephine Banks recounts the love affair between the Victorians and their cats. It's no accident that the cat is America's most popular pet-here is how it all got started. A selection of the Literary Guild. 126,000 copies in print.