Library and information sciences / Museology

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.

This unique book is intended for all health professionals caring for older people with diabetes such as specialist and general nurses, doctors, primary care practioners and dieteticians.

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.

Licorice (Glycyrrhiza) is one of the most widely used in foods, herbal medicine and one of the extensively researched medicinal plants of the world.

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 Brief describes the chemical features of canned food products and gives background information on the technology of canning foods.

Ascorbic acid (AsA), vitamin C, is one of the most abundant water-soluble antioxidant in plants and animals.

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.

While the skeletal effects of vitamin D are well-documented, the role and importance of vitamin D outside of bone health has not been well-established.

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 handbook provides key information on the clinical use of nutraceuticals, an increasingly common practice grounded in an understanding of the pharmacological activities of natural compounds and clinical evidence of efficacy and safety.

School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education.

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 provides a comprehensive overview of key aspects of food insecurity, including definitional and conceptual issues, information systems and data sources, indicators, and policies.

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 book explores the link between individual lives and significant environmental issues affecting millions of people around the world.

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 offers a collection of expert reviews on the use of plant-based antioxidant therapies in disease prevention and treatment.

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 Brief explains and discusses honey and its production from a chemical perspective.

This Brief evaluates the consequences of protein modifications in cheeses, with special emphasis on mozzarella cheeses.

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.

This volume expands understandings of crafting practices, which in the past was the major relational interaction between the social agency of materials, technology, and people, in co-creating an emergent ever-changing world.

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health.

This book explores the significance of the international book town movement and its impact on contemporary society.

This book explores the relationship between transition and tourism geographies on a global scale, discussing how tourism has been used as a tool to recover from decline or to manage change caused by event-driven, rapid transitions in a region's economy, politics or environment.

This book is the first study in English of the multi-volume set of texts and engravings of the Description of Egypt, a work produced following the three-year-long Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798.

The purpose of this book is to bring together the latest findings on metabolic disorders that are strongly implicated in various critically ill patients.

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the production of Turkish cultural policies in the context of globalization and of the circulation of knowledge and practices.