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The first issue of Volume 8 of The International Journal of the Book is now available.

Volume 8, Number 1 contains:

• How to Choose your EFL Textbook? Some Useful Guidelines by Dina El-Dakhs.
• Seceding from the Narrative: How the Criminal Underworlds in William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch Map out a Non-Linear Narrative through the Creation of “Temporary Autonomous Zones” by Kenneth DiMaggio.
• Encyclopedic Arc: Gravity’s Rainbow and Ephraim Chambers’ Cyclopaedia by Carl Gutierrez-Jones.
• Paper or Electronic Books: Reading World Literature with High School Students and Staff by Dorothy Mikuska and Marti Seaton.
• Teaching Monograph Literacy to a Digital Generation by Robert Perret.
• From Crumbling Record to New Memorial: Remaking a Military History as a Digital Archive by Claire A. Woods.
• “Reader, I Married Him”: 19th Century Reading Practices, Reading, and Readers in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre by Corinna Norrick.

Continue reading ‘Book Journal, Volume 8, Number 1 now available’

Congratulations to Adam Riggio the winner of the International Award for Excellence n the development of the book with his paper Peer Review and the Revolutionary Academic: A Kuhnian Critique.

Abstract: This paper explores what I take to be a significant activity of human thought: the creation and enforcement of orthodoxies. I do so through investigating examples with which many academics are familiar: the formations both of standards for publication in peer reviewed journals, and of our allegiances with particular traditions and predecessors in our fields. Several sociological studies of these phenomena could lead one to conclude that our current methods of academic discipline stifle the progress of many fields. When the standard for publication or recognition of the merit of academic work is based on how well the work fits with established orthodoxy, an academic field can become repetitive and moribund. However, the vocabulary of Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, can give us the ability to understand a different way of relating to orthodoxies, in which our thinking is more open to novelty and creativity.

Congratulations to all of the Award finalists:

• Shayla Alarie - Failure in a Successful Interpretation: The Problem of Visual Literacy in Hablot Knight Browne’s Illustrations for Bleak House
• Jason Lisi – Media Rich PDF Publishing: Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Print and Multimedia Publishing
• Anne E. McLaren - Producing Texts in Chinese Dialects: A Study of the Lower Yangzi Delta Region
• Elizabeth Paton – The Role of Readers in the Process of Creating Australian Fiction: A Case Study for Rethinking the Way We Understand and Foster Creativity
• Matthew Philpotts - Through Thick and Thin: On the Typology and Agency of Literary Journals

• Wendy Jane Thompson and Jane Gill – Literacy Learning, Direction and Play in a Pre-school Environment

• Claire Timpany – Developing Key Concepts for the Design of Hypertext for Printed Books
• Nicholas Vanderschantz, Claire Timpany, David Whitehead and Wendy Carss – A Small Scale Study into the Effect that Text & Background Colour has on Processing and Self-Correction Rates for Childrens’ On-Screen Reading
• John W. Warren -The Progression of Digital Publishing: Innovation and the E-volution of E-books

Want to get your publications underway now?

We are now accepting submissions for the next volume of The International Journal of the Book. The next submission deadline is Monday 2 August 2010.

Refereeing of submitted papers will commence shortly so start the submission process early by submitting your proposal.

Paper submission guidelines are available online.