By Accident or Design

By Accident or DesignIn this reflective autobiography, Rosemary Sassoon, a leading expert on handwriting and typography, looks back on her long and varied career, paying special attention to her unorthodox progression through a variety of fields. She details the route that took her from design to the educational and medical aspects of handwriting problems, then on to research and a PhD and finally to working in the area of legibility in type design. In telling the story

From Hollywood blockbusters to artists’ film and video

Drawing in an eclectic range of primary and secondary sources

craft and writing

Thomas Prosser argues that our views tend to satisfy self-interest

it integrates theory and practice as demonstrated by creative professionals working in the field of art librarianship

Through practical examples

Was Rousseau--the great theorist of the French Revolution--really a conservative

It explores changes in the media construction of young people’s generational

This comparative collection makes the case for the sustained contribution of migrants to European literatures

For Jacobean society

Provides a concise

looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state