This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in England and Wales in the late nineteenth century, but which were not supported by local taxation.
This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in England and Wales in the late nineteenth century, but which were not supported by local taxation.
Originally published in 1982, From Author to Reader, the first of its kind, is a complete review of books in modern society that draws upon the author's own and many other published sources concerning the social aspects of books.
This practical guidebook presents an infrastructure for training library staff, starting with a robust onboarding process and continuing through a staff member's entire duration at an institution.
Insights from Visitor Studies: A purpose-oriented model for museums provides a systematic overview of the value of visitor studies and, for the first time in English, a comprehensive overview of the development of visitor studies in mainland China.
Abu Hayyan's writing of the book "Enjoyment and Sociability" has an interesting story, because Abu al-Wafa' al-Muhandis was a friend of Abu Hayyan and the minister, Abu Abdullah al-Arid.
This reference serves as a reader-friendly guide to every basic tool and skill required in the mathematical library and helps mathematicians find resources in any format in the mathematics literature.
Learn Python with Pygame, and create a full pacman game without the headachessPython is a great programming language; however, most people spend too long trying to learn how to code and create games with Python the hard way.
This edited volume, written by historians of art and visual culture who are working in the field of animal studies, seeks to understand how our ways of positioning (and ex-positioning) animals have separated us from the other-than-human animals that are an integral part of our interconnected world.
Originally published in 1982, From Author to Reader, the first of its kind, is a complete review of books in modern society that draws upon the author's own and many other published sources concerning the social aspects of books.
This second collection of perspectives on excessive teacher/faculty entitlement draws together authors from nine countries to address afresh the 'conundrums' affecting teaching and teacher education through the new lens afforded by the notion of excessive entitlement.
Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums provides examples of the active and diverse roles that museums are taking to expand futures thinking in communities, including developing capabilities to envision and enact more prosperous, equitable, and sustainable futures.
Learn how to take an apolitical, unbiased stance to support students as they pursue research, literature connections, maker activities, and civic engagement projects in their communities, nationally, and globally.
The stories of the prophets and messengers, may God's prayers be upon them, provide kindness that calls for good morals, and are lessons that deter doubt and hypocrisy, and that mentioning their news and effects brings us closer to obedience and worship.
Ethics of Contemporary Collecting addresses pressing and pertinent issues around ethical contemporary collecting, reflecting on how practices are evolving or in flux.
This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.
Museums as Ritual Sites critically examines the assumption that museums inherently function as ritual sites and, in turn, are poised to exert influence on cultural and societal change.
Cette table ronde, organisee par le Centre d'etudes d'histoire de la Defense, a reuni des chercheurs frarn;:ais et etrangers qui ont pu travailler sur des sources riches et variees.
We, readers of Arabic, know that the book "Kalila and Dimna" is from Indian literature, and that "Scheherazade" and the novel "One Thousand and One Nights" borrowed some of its nights from India via the Persian language, and that the anecdotes that we heard in our childhood are not devoid of an Indian touch.
Participation and the Post-Museum discusses the concept of participation in museum practice, as well as ideas that constitute the paradigm of the post-museum.
Quickly and easilyfind anti-aging and health strategies on the Internet Even the most sophisticated Web surfer can become frustrated searching for specific health information on the Internet.
