This revisionist view is more fully developed by Simon Conway Morris, a Cambridge University paleontologist, in "Crucible of Creation," published in 1998.
Consider, for instance, John Lawrence's "Philosophical and Practical Treatise on Horses, and on the Moral Duties of Man Towards the Brute Creation," published in London in 1796.
His article "Anton Bruckner and the Process of Musical Creation," published in 1938, considered the questions raised by Bruckner's revisions with the critical sense of a good scholar and the musical sensibility of a fellow composer.
The man himself conveyed his own flair in what may be the most luminous memoir by any American statesman, "Present at the Creation," published in 1969, as polished and elegant as its author.
He gives an admirably thorough account of Siegel and Shuster's long struggle to get their creation published; their decision to sell the rights for $130 in 1938; and their much longer struggle to get a fair shake, or at least a fairer one, from National Comics (now DC), the corporate behemoth that Superman built and that is now owned by Time Warner.
In the first story, "Creation," published in 1979, he explores the powerlessness a man must accept when he and his wife are trapped, "No Exit" style, on a tropical island whose only airport's flights are overbooked, day after day after day.
Liberio is a new platform (launching today out of private beta) for simple eBook creation and publishing straight from Google Drive.
The latest, and to my mind the most important, horseless carriage right now may be online documents the creation and publishing of content through products like Microsoft Office Online, Zoho Writer and Google Docs.
Companies like News Corp have invested in the e-commerce end of online content in the past, and on the other side, companies like Amazon have become more involved in content creation and publishing.
Just a few hours after signing up, online merchants can begin launching deals, after which they control everything and don't have to worry about space or any of the nuts and bolts of deal creation or publishing.
