1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458896703321

Autore

Dodgson Mark <1957->

Titolo

Innovation : a very short introduction / / Mark Dodgson and David Gann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010

ISBN

0-19-157328-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 148 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Collana

Very short introductions ; ; 227

Altri autori (Persone)

GannDavid

Disciplina

338.064

Soggetti

Technological innovations

Business

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Josiah Wedgwood: the world's greatest innovator; 2 Joseph Schumpeter's gales of creative destruction; 3 London's wobbly bridge: learning from failure; 4 Stephanie Kwolek's new polymer: from labs to riches; 5 Thomas Edison's organizational genius; 6 Building a smarter planet?; References; Further reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What is innovation? How can it be used? Why is failure so common in the process of innovation? This title looks at what innovation is, what it has done for us, and why it has been so important in the last 150 years.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910311930603321

Autore

Hobbs Andrew

Titolo

A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Open Book Publishers, 2018

ISBN

1-78374-561-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (478)

Disciplina

070.50942090/34

Soggetti

c 1800 to c 1900

Media studies

Press & journalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"At the heart of Victorian culture was the local weekly newspaper. More popular than books, more widely read than the London papers, the local press was a national phenomenon. This book redraws the Victorian cultural map, shifting our focus away from one centre, London, and towards the many centres of the provinces. It offers a new paradigm in which place, and a sense of place, are vital to the histories of the newspaper, reading and publishing.

Hobbs offers new perspectives on the nineteenth century from an enormous yet neglected body of literature: the hundreds of local newspapers published and read across England. He reveals the people, processes and networks behind the publishing, maintaining a unique focus on readers and what they did with the local paper as individuals, families and communities. Case studies and an unusual mix of quantitative and qualitative evidence show that the vast majority of readers preferred the local paper, because it was about them and the places they loved.

A Fleet Street in Every Town positions the local paper at the centre of debates on Victorian newspapers, periodicals, reading and publishing.



It reorientates our view of the Victorian press away from metropolitan high culture and parliamentary politics, and towards the places where most people lived, loved and read. This is an essential book for anybody interested in nineteenth-century print culture, journalism and reading.