![]() ![]() ![]() The company aggressively overhauled its editorial operation now content is updated on Britannica Online every 20 minutes. ![]() Wikipedia’s success reinforced EB’s strategic decision to reduce reliance on consumer reference and accelerate activity in the K–12 market. This is the story of how Encyclopædia Britannica became savvy-first with CD-ROM, then with the internet, and finally with the learning business. By 1996, the year Cauz joined the company, sales were down to 3,000 units. Busy families had less patience for personal solicitations, and PCs had started shipping with CD-ROM drives, which created a demand for multimedia and interactivity-unknown territory for print-focused editorial and product teams. The encyclopedia’s famous door-to-door sales force had reached its peak in 1990 with more than 100,000 units sold. The decision to stop printing it was, the author writes, “a nonevent.” EB’s content model was dismissed as “vintage.” What many people didn’t know was that sales of the print set were by then responsible for only 1% of the business. Some people were shocked, and many assumed that EB had buckled under the internet-specifically, Wikipedia. In the spring of 2012, the president of Encylopædia Britannica announced that the company would cease producing bound volumes of the iconic reference work. ![]()
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![]() Her nonfiction work includes the 1986 memoir 'Mother Less Child' (WW Norton) and essays in more than 30 anthologies. Mitchard is a contributing editor for More (magazine) and is featured regularly in Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Hallmark, Real Simple and other publications. Her weekly column, The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship, appeared in 125 newspapers nationwide until she retired it in 2007. ![]() She became a newspaper reporter in 1979, eventually achieving a position as lifestyle columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper. She studied creative writing for three semesters under Mark Costello (author of The Murphy Stories) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ![]() ![]() JSTOR ( December 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īorn and raised in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, Mitchard's father was a plumber, from Newfoundland, Canada, and her mother a hardware store clerk, a competitive horsewoman, and a member of the Lac du Flambeau Chippewa Cree tribe.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Jacquelyn Mitchard" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. ![]() This section needs additional citations for verification. ![]() ![]() Minutes later her head was struck from her body with a single stroke of a heavy axe. “Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same.” These were the heartbreaking words of a seventeen-year-old girl, Lady Jane Grey, as she stood on the scaffold awaiting death on a cold February morning in 1554.
![]() Taking its cues from Agatha Christie’s locked-room classic And Then There Were None, the setup is this: The members of a university detective-fiction club, each nicknamed for a favorite crime writer (Poe, Carr, Orczy, Van Queen, Leroux and - yes - Christie), spend a week on remote Tsunojima Island, attracted to the place, and its eerie 10-sided house, because of a spate of murders that transpired the year before. "Read Yukito Ayatsuji’s landmark mystery, The Decagon House Murders, and discover a real depth of feeling beneath the fiendish foul play. A classic in Japan, available in English for the first time. ![]() ![]() Every word counts, leading up to a jaw-dropping but logical reveal " - Publishers WeeklyĪ hugely enjoyable, page-turning murder mystery sure to appeal to fans of Elly Griffiths, Anthony Horowitz, and Agatha Christie, with one of the best and most-satisfying conclusions you'll ever read. Synopsis: "Ayatsuji's brilliant and richly atmospheric puzzle will appeal to fans of golden age whodunits. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The figure of Jesus as the “faithful witness” ( ho martys, ho pistos) becomes the shadow under which Rodrigues makes his plaint known. The novel begins with Rodrigues’s recollection of the vision of God in the fourth and fifth chapters of the Apocalypse it concludes with the image of final judgment, in chapter twenty of the Apocalypse, breaking in upon his consciousness. The narrative supplies no clean answers to the question of faithfulness rather, the path forward is constant struggle, as found in Sebastião Rodrigues’s declaration after his apostasy that “even now I am the last priest in this land.”įaithfulness hovers behind Endō’s use of the Apocalypse to frame the narrative. Endō examines what it means to be a faithful Christian and what faithful Christianity might look like in Japan, even as he wrestles with whether there can be a form of Christianity that is faithful to Japan’s own culture. While there are a number of subplots, the theme of faithfulness integrates the various issues Endō explores in the novel. Set in the 1640s at the end of Japan's “Christian Century” (1549-1639), Silence is a haunting journey through one priest’s struggles to remain faithful in the most challenging of circumstances. The novel warrants the attention it is getting. Readers of First Thoughts will know by now that Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Silence by Shūsaku Endō was released in select theaters on December 23. ![]() |