Educating Librarians in the Contemporary University: An Essay on iSchools and Emancipatory Resilience in Library and Information Science, Paperback -

DescriptionLibrary education is changing. At a time when librarianship is increasingly seen as part of the information industry, Library and Inform...

Reducere. Exploring the diverse terrain that makes up library and information science (LIS), this collection features the work of scholars, practitioners, an...

Reducere. The only things librarians encounter more often than acronyms are strings of jargon and arcane technical phrases--and there are so many floating ar...

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus r...

One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon--the first of its species to see Europe f...

Reducere. MacIntyre explores the central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods require...

Contributor(s): Author: Alasdair MacIntyreAlasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argue...

Description" Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work Comment on ecrit l'histoire; and he declares that its aim w...

How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? If there are social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of the natural sci...

An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russell's first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement i...

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative - Alasdair MacIntyre

"Librarians with Spines is both ahead of its time and has been a long time coming. It defines a new era of librarianship and calls us to look at ho...

Offers a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative history, ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter (Tutor and Musician in Residence, St. John's College) PesicIllustration(s): 46 illus.; 46 Illustrations, u...

With GIS technologies ranging from Google Maps and Google Earth to the use of smart phones and in-car navigation systems, spatial knowledge is ofte...

We may think of video games as being "fun, " but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play vide...

Fred Evans develops philosophical and political criteria for assessing how public art can respond to the fragility of democracy. He calls for consi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librari...

Reducere. Humans have long turned to gardens-both real and imaginary-for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as fa...

Originally published in 1766, the Laoco n has been called the first extended attempt in modern times to define the distinctive spheres of art and p...

Rongbin Han offers a powerful counterintuitive explanation for China's survival in the digital age. Han reveals how the state, service providers, a...

Late Medieval Christianity's encounter with miraculous materials viewed in the context of changing conceptions of matter itself.In the period betwe...

An esoteric study of Shakespeare plays.Publisher: Temple Lodge PublishingAuthor(s): Brien MastersNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2016Dimensio...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Marc CreponTranslator: Tyler WilliamsNumber of pages: 288Collection: IncitementsPublication date: 2...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Lydia (Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Columbia Un...

How, then, do people decide which risks to take and which to ignore? On what basis are certain dangers guarded against and others relegated to seco...

A defense of aesthetic personalism that affirms an inclusive God's eye or ideal observer view of goodness and beauty, the reality and integrity of ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Grant FarredNumber of pages: 208Collection: Thinking TheoryPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 140...

This timely volume challenges the ongoing underrepresentation of Latina women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and highl...

One of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers presents the results of his lifetime study of man's cultural achievements An Essay on Man is a...

DescriptionAs the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains increa...

DescriptionHumans have long turned to gardens--both real and imaginary--for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens...

With inspiration from the non-violence resistance movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., Crepon reveals how philos...