Library and information sciences / Museology

This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century-the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass-placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures.

This book covers the latest environmental issues based on current research objectives.

This volume gathers a variety of applications for remote sensing of vegetation health (VH) and concretely shows how this information can be used in service of ending hunger and of ensuring future food security.

This unique book - the first ever on bariatric endocrinology - is a comprehensive endocrine and metabolism approach to the diseases that result from excess fat mass accumulation and adipose tissue dysfunction.

This work brings together a wealth of data regarding the reference values and factors of variation in biochemical parameters used by camel veterinarians and scientists to determine these animals' nutritional and clinical status.

This SpringerBrief explains the importance of Maillard reactions in food processing.

This book presents a detailed overview and critical evaluation of recent advances and remaining challenges in improving nutritional quality and/or avoiding the accumulation of undesirable substances in plants using a variety of strategies based on modern biological tools and techniques.

This book presents a comprehensive study of the environmental situation prevailing in the areas located near the Koshkar-Ata (Kazakhstan) tailings dump and the development of rehabilitation measures taking into account the area's soil and climatic features.

This book explores the relationship between the sciences of representation and the strategy of landscape valorisation.

This book explores various and distinct aspects of environmental health literacy (EHL) from the perspective of investigators working in this emerging field and their community partners in research.

Archaeological heritage legislation aims to ensure the best possible protection for the archaeological heritage, yet it remains the case that legislation can remain ineffective through  other practical considerations.

Early anthropological evidence for plant use as medicine is 60,000 years old as reported from the Neanderthal grave in Iraq.

This book explores-at the macro, meso and micro levels and in terms of qualitative as well as quantitative studies-the current and future role of museums for art and society.

This Brief describes in three concise chapters one of the newest 'hot topics' under EU Food Law and Policy: the new Regulation (EU) No 2015/2283 from the European Parliament and by the Council, November 25, 2015, on novel foods, applicable from January 2018.

This collection is the first book to comprehensively analyse the relatively new and under-researched phenomenon of 'ruin porn'.

Rediscovering Kurdistan's Cultures and Identities: The Call of the Cricket offers insight into little-known aspects of the social and cultural activity and changes taking place in different parts of Kurdistan (Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran), linking different theoretical approaches within a postcolonial perspective.

This book maps extreme temperature increase under dangerous climate change scenarios in Brazil and their impacts on four key sectors: agriculture, health, biodiversity and energy.

Archaeological sites opened to the public, and especially those highly photogenic sites that have achieved iconic status, are often major tourist attractions.

Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion, as such practices can favor certain values over others.

This book is a contribution to the new field of literary studies which is informed by book history and takes interest in the intersection of the ideal and material aspects of literature.

Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920-1950 tells the story of the arts explosion that launched at the end of the Mexican revolution, when composers, choreographers, and muralists had produced state-sponsored works in wide public spaces.

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.

This book is a unique cross fertilization of aquatic ecology and aquaculture.

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.

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

Nutrition is an important environmental factor for the maturation of the human immune system and essential for maintaining immunological homeostasis.

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 illustrates the role of Mediterranean diet in connection with well-being and particularly its impact on health and elderly care, as well as on the mechanisms of aging.

This Brief discusses potential alternative sources for feeds in aquaculture fish diet, and explains that the future of aquaculture's development is dependent on the costs of fishmeal and fish oil.

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 is the second volume of two volumes on cyclodextrins published in the series Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World.

This book is the first volume of two volumes on cyclodextrins published in the series Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World.

This salient resource offers clinicians a comprehensive multi-tiered framework for identifying, addressing, and reducing food insecurity among children and their families.

Food Security Governance in the Arctic-Barents Region provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the major food security and safety challenges faced in the Arctic region.

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 Brief provides an overview of different analytical methods and techniques for the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of Maillard Reactions and their reaction products in foods during processing and storage.