Posts Tagged ‘Hardcover’

Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Technographies) (Hardcover)

Review

“Sound Recording traces the development of sound technology in the US and Europe from the first demonstration of the phono-autograph in 1857 to the latest MP3 technology. Morton skillfully blends a basic understanding of the physical principles involved in recording sound waves with an interesting chronological account that examines the cultural and economic issues affecting the development of sound technology. The inclusion of the discoveries of European inventors adds (more…)

The Assistants: A Novel (Hardcover)

Amazon.com Review

Wanted: Young, photogenic writer with one year of experience as an assistant to Hollywood power players to pen easy-reading, summer novel about same. If the publisher had run this advertisement to find an author for Robin Lynn Williams’ debut novel, The Assistants, they would have gotten all that and an innovator to boot. Rather than content herself with the established axiom of Assistant Lit–one lowly assistant, one mean boss–she presents five attractive (more…)