Commerce and culture in the career of the permanent innovative press : New Directions, Grove Press, and George Braziller Inc.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of History, 2009.New Directions, Grove Press, and George Braziller Inc. were exemplary members of the permanent innovative press in the years between 1945 and 1975. Positioned between the small presses and the large corporate houses, the permanent innovative press balanced its cultural mission with the demands that the institutional form of the for-profit business placed on the cultural producer. The publishers and editors of these companies were self-conscious about the conflict between commerical and cultural values. They attempted to dedicate themselves to cultural values, as they understood them, while also reaching expanding book markets with new commercial techniques. They promoted cosmopolitanism, artistic innovation, the elevation of modernist art, and the popularization of academic scholarship through their work in reprint and paperback publishing, book clubs, journals and anthologies, translation, and book series

Undergraduate Computing Projects — an Investigation into the Student Experience

This paper reports the results of a survey of third year undergraduate computing students undertaking an individual project. Using data gathered from the students themselves, we offer new insights into how students approach such projects. We identify the amount and focus of effort that students experience as appropriate to such an activity, together with the role of the supervisor, and we contrast the methodological approaches which academics advise with those adopted by the students themselves