Library and information sciences / Museology

Offers an instructional plan for plagiarism education for middle school and high school students, allowing librarians to become a resource for students, teachers, and school administrators.

Many librarians' job responsibilities increasingly require them to understand and handle data.

School librarians are prepared to be leaders and can use their strengths to advocate for policy that benefits school libraries.

If you're new to running a library or looking for a refresher, this book can serve as your first reference source for school library operation, providing overview information on a wealth of topics, lists of resources for more in-depth information, and coverage of current topics such as Web 2.

Featuring 20 selected bully-themed children's picture books, this teacher-friendly resource book offers lesson plans and activities to assist educators in strengthening bystander support against bullying.

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation.

As one of the most visited museums in Germany s capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history, but also German identity in an era of unprecedented ethnic and religious diversity.

Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts.

The world s collective archaeological heritage is threatened by war, development, poverty, climate change, and ignorance.

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon.

Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage.

Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities.

There is a World Heritage Craze in China.

The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997.

Eugene Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures.

Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of inquiry.

"e;As is well known, Pete is an outstanding storyteller, and this book is no exception.

Heritage, as an area of research and learning, often deals with difficult historical questions, due to the strong emotions and political commitments that are often at stake.

In recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "e;museum object.

Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity.

Since the 1960s, nations across the developed world have been profoundly shaped by deindustrialization.

In the crowded and busy arena of obesity and fat studies, there is a lack of attention to the lived experiences of people, how and why they eat what they do, and how people in cross-cultural settings understand risk, health, and bodies.

The home and the museum are typically understood as divergent, even oppositional, social realms: whereas one evokes privacy and familial intimacy, the other is conceived of as a public institution oriented around various forms of civic identity.

Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age.

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War.

This book explores the transdisciplinary approach to general surgery for the frail patient, promoting the use of a geriatric model of care in general surgical settings and thus proposing a "e;gerosurgery"e; approach in frail persons beyond chronological age.

This collection seeks to define the emerging field of "e;ubiquitous learning,"e; an educational paradigm made possible in part by the omnipresence of digital media, supporting new modes of knowledge creation, communication, and access.

Bridging the gap in expertise between coal and coalbed gas, subfields in which opportunities for cross training have been nonexistent, Coal and Coalbed Gas sets the standard for publishing in these areas.

The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nchinchimam is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture.

Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding.

In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments.

Imperial tombs, Buddhist architecture, palaces, and art treasures in Korea and Japan have attracted scholars, collectors, and conservatorsand millions of tourists.

Often when Native nations assert their treaty rights and sovereignty, they are confronted with a backlash from their neighbors, who are fearful of losing control of the natural resources.

Following the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they would revive their whale hunts; their relatives, the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation of British Columbia, shortly followed suit.

Cutting-edge reference for nutrition and nursing professionals working in all healthcare settings.

The essentials of teaching carbohydrate counting are presented in this revised and much expanded edition.

As governments and health care systems direct more attention and resources to treating the rising rates of obesity worldwide, one thing has become very clear: obesity is best treated as a chronic condition.

Childhood friends Griffin the dragon, Jackson the hyena and 8-year-old boy Cattails discuss healthy eating habits.

The 17 Day Diet offers a lifetime plan for shedding pounds fast in a safe and lasting way.

Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas.

In den letzten Jahren erfährt der Wert des ,Dokuments‘ als Überlieferungsträger für eine Edition in der philologischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschung einen grundlegenden Wandel.

This book captures the entrepreneurial stories and mindsets of contemporary Native Americans.

This book describes the current understanding of symptoms, diagnosis, mode of transmission, and treatments of four important intestinal diseases, taking into consideration the molecular interactions between host cells and infectious agents.

The importance of meeting the dietary needs of individuals is critical for good health.

The field of pediatric nutrition has developed into an area essential to the components of academic pediatric programs throughout the world.

Over the years, approaches to obesity prevention and treatment have gone from focusing on genetic and other biological factors to exploring a diversity of diets and individual behavior modification interventions anchored primarily in the power of the mind, to the recent shift focusing on societal interventions to design "e;temptation-proof"e; physical, social, and economic environments.

This book developed from a series of conferences to facilitate the application of mathematical modeling to experimental nutrition.

With the amount of data a business accumulates now doubling every 12 to 18 months, IT professionals need to know how to develop a system for archiving important database data, in a way that both satisfies regulatory requirements and is durable and secure.

Olives and Olive Oil in Health and Disease Prevention, Second Edition expands the last releases content and coverage, including new sections on materials in packaging, the Mediterranean diet, metabolic syndrome, diabetic health, generational effects, epigenetics, glycemic control, ketogenic diet, antioxidant effects, the use of olive oil in protection against skin cancer, oleuropein and ERK1/2 MAP-Kinase, oleocanthal and estrogen receptors, and oleocanthal and neurological effects.