The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book. (Reviews).
Andrew Pettegree, Paul Nelles, and Philip Conner, eds., The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. xvi + 366 pp. + index. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0278-8. This collection of seventeen papers read at St. Andrews in 1999 bids fair to...

Death of the book? Challenges and opportunities for scholarly publishing. (Conference Report).
This event, the 16th National Scholarly Communications Forum, was held at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney over two autumn days in March. In attendance were scholars, librarians and publishers, brought together by their common interest in the book and its future. The Forum was sponsored by the Australian...

Madeleine Lazard. Les Avenues de Femynie: Les femmes et la Renaissance.
Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, 2001. 437 pp. bibl. index. 23 [euro]. ISBN: 2-213-61022-3. In her twelfth book on the French Renaissance, Madeleine Lazard has brought together a summa of information about women in this period. Unlike her previous study of women (Images litteaires de la femme a...

Books to bytes.
Byline: Rolando V. de la Rosa, O.P. A FEW years ago, Marshall McLuhan prophesied that the print culture would become obsolete, with the ascension and domination of the electronic media. It seems that his prediction is coming true. Less and less people want to read...

National data shows that while the number of apprentices and trainees has increased significantly since 1995, the occupational mix has markedly changed.
National data shows that while the number of apprentices and trainees has increased significantly since 1995, the occupational mix has markedly changed. Large rises for professional, associate professional and intermediate service and clerical jobs have outweighed declines in several trade-related sectors. According to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and...

A gender-based analysis of performance of small and medium printing firms in Metro Manila.
Abstract The objective of the paper is to present a comparative analysis of the performance of men-owned and women-owned businesses. The study uses a multidimensional framework of entrepreneurial success, where the indicators refer to the financial, nonfinancial and personal goals indicated in literature as being important to...

An interview with Chuck Geschke and John Warnock, founders and chairmen of Adobe systems.
JABS: Can you give us an overview of your Asian operations? A: Overall, our largest market is the United States, next it's Europe, and then Asia and the Pacific Rim. All of Asia together accounts for roughly 20% of our business. Although we have operations in China,...

Changing equipment and reducing solvent use in screen reclamation.
The Design for the Environment (DfE) Screen Printing Project is a unique, cooperative effort between the screen printing industry and the U.S. EPA. This voluntary project helps screen printers improve their efforts to reduce risks to their workers and the environment in cost-effective ways. EPA and the screen printing...

Print Culture in Renaissance Italy.
This study traces the evolution of the role of the editor in Italy as the printing industry developed over the course of the sixteenth century. Richardson contends that the editor, once an anonymous figure, by 1530 had become an important part in the production of most texts. By introducing lexical...

OBITUARIES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Robert Burns SPRINGFIELD - A military graveside service will held Aug. 7 for Robert Gail Burns of Springfield, who died Aug. 2 of respiratory failure. He was 79. Burns was born July 5, 1924, in Laurel, Neb., to Guy and...