Library and information sciences / Museology

What is the uniquely human factor in finding and using information to produce new knowledge?

This book contains research findings from three major study areas, natural sciences, social sciences, and public policy and management.

This original and authoritative book offers a first-ever attempt to define a poetics of the editing arts.

Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact-especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics.

This book provides a comprehensive review of complex networks from three different domains, presents novel methods for analyzing them, and highlights applications with accompanying case studies.

This go-to reference work surveys the current state of knowledge in the field of metal soap-related degradation phenomena in art works.

Over the last century, international law has sought to keep pace with sweeping changes that have revolutionised the international community.

This book is the first scientific publication on diseases caused by agents circulating in natural environments independently from humans, covering the whole territory of the Russian Federation.

This book addresses the true 'landscape' perspective approach that archaeologists in Italy, and in many parts of the Mediterranean, use to study the archaeology of landscapes, marking a departure from the traditional site-based approach.

This proceedings volume explores the socio-economic dimension of the heritage sector from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective.

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the science and application of the Exposome through seventeen chapters from leaders in the field.

This book describes the application of non-destructive geophysical methods in subsurface archaeological features.

This is the first book to explore prehistoric warfare and violence by integrating qualitative research methods with quantitative, scientific techniques of analysis such as paleopathology, morphometry, wear analysis, and experimental archaeology.

This book explores the objects, means and ends of international cultural heritage protection.

The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned.

This book gives a detailed account of the holistic research carried out on the analytical data obtained historically on the products of the Nantgarw and Swansea porcelain manufactories which existed for a few years only during the second decade of the 19th Century.

This book presents groundbreaking new research on a fifteenth-century world map by Henricus Martellus, c.

This book investigates architectural and urban dimensions of the ethnic-nationalist conflict in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during and after the siege of 1992-1995.

This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer.

This book details the application of advanced characterisation techniques and diagnostic tools to heritage science, including the evaluation of heritage assets' condition, their preservation and restoration.

This book provides information and tools necessary to bridge and integrate the knowledge gaps related to the acquisition and processing of archaeological data, specifically in the field of preventive diagnostics, urban centers, archaeological parks and historical monuments, through activities that involve the application of non-invasive diagnostic detection systems, in the field of applied geophysics.

This book takes the concept of "e;dark tourism"e;-journeys to sites of death, suffering, and calamity-in an innovative yet essential direction by applying it to the virtual realms of literature, film and television, the Internet, and gaming.

This book provides important insight on a range of issues focused on three themes; what new climate change information is being developed, how that knowledge is communicated and how it can be usefully applied across international, regional and local scales.

Amsterdamse Bos, Bois de Boulognes, Epping Forest, Hong Kong's country parks, Stanley Park: throughout history cities across the world have developed close relationships with nearby woodland areas.

This volume brings together the world's leading experts on urban and transport planning, environmental exposures, physical activity, health and health impact assessment to discuss challenges and solutions in cities.

This clear-sighted volume synthesizes wide-ranging knowledge of human food consumption, food production systems, and sustainability to offer methods of improving the impact of food choices on people and the environment.

This book explores the interplay between performing arts, intangible cultural heritage and digital environments through a compendium of essays on emerging practices and case studies, as well as critical, historical and theoretical perspectives.

This book addresses environmental and medical issues that could risk our well-being, our health, or even cause death.

The aim of this book is to present articles that are stimulating to read and inform readers with the most up-to-date clinical research.

This book explores the in-depth relationship between historic-cultural heritage and landscape, urban, and regional planning.

This book identifies novel advanced materials that can be utilized as protective agents for the preservation of stone.

This book is the first full-length study of the development of Irish political print culture from the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 to the advent of the Hanoverian succession in 1714.

There has been a proliferation of literary festivals in recent decades, with more than 450 held annually in the UK and Australia alone.

This book investigates different aspects of the relationship between "e;healthy cities"e; and "e;urban planning"e;, examining various best practices in Europe.

This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.

What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology?

This work is an overview of the state of art on Ageing of Materials and structures in the world.

Every site that is inscribed on the World Heritage List (WHL) must have a management plan or some other management system.

This book is an exploration of the material conditions of the production of African literature.

This volume brings together the experiences and research of heritage practitioners, archaeologists, and educators to explore new and unique approaches to heritage studies.

This book presents recent advances in mechatronic and integrated monitoring and management systems with applications to architectural, archaeology survey, construction management and civil engineering.

This book explains the general principles of scientific and technical communication in the context of modern museums.

This book examines the many ways in which innovative technologies represent a powerful development tool for the tourism and leisure sector and presents novel strategies based on these technologies that foster sustainable tourism management and promote sustainable destinations.

This is the Proceedings of the International Workshop Heritagebot 2017 that was held in Cassino, Italy in September 2017.

This edited volume addresses memory practices among youth, families, cultural workers, activists, and engaged citizens in Lebanon and Morocco.

This book explores South Korean responses to the architecture of the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea and the ways that architecture illustrates the relationship between difficult heritage and the formation of national identity.

This book-aimed at both the general reader and the specialist-offers a transatlantic, transnational, and multidisciplinary cartography of the rapidly expanding intellectual field of Galician Studies.

This volume asks how the current Information Technology Revolution influences archaeological interpretations of techno-social change.

This book examines a range of contemporary ideas and arguments concerning the core yet unsettled clinical issues.

This book documents research activities and design experimentation carried out within the scope of a project addressing conservation, urban regeneration, responsible use of resources, and sustainable development in a truly exceptional place: the city of Luxor.