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The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text

First published in 1830, the Book of Mormon is the authoritative scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its estimated 13 million members. Over the past twenty-one years, editor Royal Skousen has pored over Joseph Smith’s original manuscripts and identified more than 2,000 textual errors in the 1830 edition. Although most of these discrepancies stem from inadvertent errors in copying and typesetting the text, the Yale edition contains about 600 corrections that have never appeared in any standard edition of the Book of Mormon, and about 250 of them affect the text’s meaning. Skousen’s corrected text is a work of remarkable dedication and will be a landmark in American religious scholarship.   Completely redesigned and typeset by nationally award-winning typographer Jonathan Saltzman, this new edition has been reformatted in sense-lines, making the text much more logical and pleasurable to read. Featuring a lucid introduction by historian

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    Algebra: An Elementary Text Book for the Higher Classes of Secondary Schools and for Colleges [ V.2 ] [ 1904-06 ]

    Originally published in 1904-06. This volume from the Cornell University Library’s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original

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    Facing the Text: Content and Structure in Book Indexing

    Based on Do Mi Stauber’s popular and empowering workshop, the book discusses such standard topics as subheadings, cross-references and indexability, in the context of particular texts and indexes. Hundreds of examples illustrate the many practical strategies that Do Mi has drawn from her own practice in social sciences and humanities indexing.

    The book goes beyond abstract rules to confront the unique needs of each text and index, and provides guidelines to help novice and experienced indexers alike make common-sense, flexible, and reader-centered decisions.

    You will learn such strategies as:
    ? addressing the main topic of the book in your index structure
    ? pinning down the elusive main argument of a scholarly book
    ? using local main topics to understand the structure of the text
    ? deciding which topics should be indexed
    ? understanding subheadings with a new typology created by Do Mi Stauber and Nancy Mulvany
    ? choosing subheadings for long spans and locator strings
    ? deciding

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