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[Pickman's model]

Annual publication - Wikipedia


periodical
pɪərɪˈɒdɪk(ə)l/
noun

1. 1.
   a magazine or newspaper published at regular intervals.
   synonyms: journal, publication, magazine, newspaper, paper, review, digest, gazette, newsletter, organ, serial, annual, quarterly, monthly, bimonthly, fortnightly, weekly, biweekly;More

Wrong! Sad! Poor ratings Pickmans
Many journals have ISBNs too

yeh. where you fall down here is that it is not a magazine or newspaper published at regular intervals but a book issued once a year.

but fnarr points for slipping the word organ into a post about viz.

show me a couple of these journals with isbns

 

[ska invita]

yeh. where you fall down here is that it is not a magazine or newspaper published at regular intervals but a book issued once a year.

but fnarr points for slipping the word organ into a post about viz.

...its not just a book, its an Annual - a periodical Annual. A "book" is "a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers."

 

[Pickman's model]

...its not just a book, its an Annual - a periodical Annual. A "book" is "a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers."

 

[ska invita]

View attachment 124844

AS Volume 25 No. 1
ISBN: 9781912064663
/ Spring 2017
etc

 

[Pickman's model]

AS Volume 25 No. 1
ISBN: 9781912064663
/ Spring 2017
etc

being as you've already conceded on the book front i'm not sure why you're prolonging this exchange.

 

[imposs1904]

No punch ups in the reading room, please!

 

[ska invita]

being as you've already conceded on the book front i'm not sure why you're prolonging this exchange.

ive done no such thing! facts speak for themselves

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

1. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century - Jessica Bruder

 

[Pickman's model]

ive done no such thing! facts speak for themselves

...its not just a book <snip>

yeh, the facts do speak for themselves

 

[Plumdaff]

1/25 A Horse Walks Into A Bar by David Grossman

A read from my book club. A disappointment. I wanted to like it, warmed to the themes, yet the central emotional revelation makes absolutely no sense to me.

 

[nogojones]

show me a couple of these journals with isbns

9781898876700: International Socialism: a quarterly journal of socialist theory, Autumn 2000 (88): Anti-capitalism theory and practice - AbeBooks - Chris and others INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM / HARMAN: 1898876703

 

[nogojones]

1/40 - Catherynne Valente - Deathless

 

[Pickman's model]

9781898876700: International Socialism: a quarterly journal of socialist theory, Autumn 2000 (88): Anti-capitalism theory and practice - AbeBooks - Chris and others INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM / HARMAN: 1898876703

That's not a book or a journal, it's something you put under a table leg to stop it rocking

 

[nogojones]

That's not a book or a journal, it's something you put under a table leg to stop it rocking

It does have an ISBN though

 

[Beats & Pieces]

07. Desolation Island - Patrick O'Brian

 

[Orang Utan]

Thinking of trying a behemoth of literature this year. Das Kapital, Ulysses and Infinite Jest are at the top of that list

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

1/25 A Horse Walks Into A Bar by David Grossman

A read from my book club. A disappointment. I wanted to like it, warmed to the themes, yet the central emotional revelation makes absolutely no sense to me.

Is the sequel called "Why the long face?"

 

[braindancer]

1/25 This Perfect Day - Ira Levin

 

[kropotkin]

Aim 55.

1. The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
2. The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
*3. The Brothers Ashkenazi - I. J. Singer [ongoing]
*4. Chronicle of a Death Foretold- Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ongoing]

 

[marty21]

1/76 The Thirst - Jo Nesbo
2/76 Alt-America : The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump. David Neiwert
3/76 Pursuit of Honour - Vince Flynn
4/76 American Assassin - Vince Flynn

 

[gawkrodger]

right, my first entries

1) Wolff - Fire and Fury
2) Feigenbaum - Tear Gas - pleasently surprised. Very much enjoyed

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/30 Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2/30 China Miéville - October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

3/30 Michael Wolff - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

 

[shifting gears]

Aiming for 25 and resolving to stick to the thread this time to stay on target - lost count last year but I didn't read anywhere near as much as I wanted to....

1/ Nanni Balestrini - We Want Everything

 

[Badgers]

1. Calling Major Tom - David M. Barnett
2. The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams
3. Going to Sea in a Sieve - Danny Baker

 

[kropotkin]

1. The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
2. The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
3. The Brothers Ashkenazi - I. J. Singer
4. Chronicle of a Death Foretold- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View- Ellen Meiksins Wood

 

[butchersapron]

3 - Cultures of Post-War British Fascism - John E. Richardson
4 - Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism - Robert C. Holub
5 - Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists The Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980 - Aaron J. Leonard &‎ Conor A. Gallagher
6 - Fascist Interactions: Proposals for a New Approach to Fascism and Its Era, 1919-1945 - David D. Roberts
7 - Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump - David Neiwert (have to disagree with marty, this was dangerous shallow huff-post regurgitation whose political lesson is those silly racists better learn to love clinton/obmama/clinton style liberalism)
8 - Pessimism of the Intellect?: A History of New Left Review - Duncan Thompson

 

[Beats & Pieces]

08. The Fortune of War - Patrick O'Brian
09. On Anarchism - Noam Chomsky

 

[iona]

1/25 A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
2/25 A Life for the Stars - James Blish
3/25 The Triumph of Time - James Blish
4/25 A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow - George R. R. Martin

25¾ hours (minus time spent asleep or doing other stuff) Voley

 

[BoatieBird]

1/65 - Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
2/65 - Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

3/65 - Ruth Rendell - An Unkindness of Ravens

 

[Fozzie Bear]

1/30 Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot