Museum Studies

Reducere. Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) was one of the leading British landscape painters of the 19th century. Inspired by his mentor, the artist and poet Willia...

Reducere. Author Myra Kahn Adams' popular, ongoing, weekly Sunday Bible study on Townhall.com has been compiled into a book as requested by Townhall readers....

Reducere. Nancy Turner describes more than 150 plants traditionally harvested and eaten by First Peoples east of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia and ...

Reducere. "Two Leggings . . . was one of the last Crow Warriors. From 1919 to 1923 he told his story of Crow life and wars to William Wildschut, an ethnologi...

This volume exposes at once the nature of World War I and its depth and duration in personal lives. Contributors, including historians, museum prof...

Reflections on Critical Museology: Inside and Outside Museums offers a reflective and reflexive re-assessment of museum studies and the first wide-...

Reducere. Approaching the Holocaust in your classroom can be a difficult, often daunting task. This practical guide for English and social studies teachers f...

Reducere. First published in 1955, with a revised edition appearing five years later, H. G. Adler's Theresienstadt, 1941-1945 is a foundational work in the f...

Reducere. Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries. L...

Reducere. Gorgeous contemporary reconstructions and reinterpretations of the rich knitting traditions of Iceland. The Textile Museum in Blönduós in northern ...

Reducere. Should Christians even bother with the modern wing at the art museum? After all, modern art and artists are often caricatured as rabidly opposed to...

Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the "death of cinema" debate, Film History as...

* Examines the most important issues at the heart of contemporary debates in museum studies. * Includes original essays by noted artists, curators,...

Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe only building the artist designed, Austin is Kelly's most enduring legacyIn January 2015, the renowned American artist Ellsworth Kel...

Reducere. More Screams, Different Deserts is another invitation to join Sue on her adventures in cross-cultural living and biblical studies that have helped ...

Reducere. The majesty of Earth's most magnificent features was the domain of Wilson Hurley (1924-2008). In paintings of natural wonders throughout the galaxy...

In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its cre...

Fostering Empathy through Museums features fifteen case studies with clear take-away ideas, and lessons learned by vividly illustrating a spectrum ...

This collection of 36 monographs serves as a well-rounded introduction to the Law of Thelema. ?Lapis Philosophorum? redefines the magical philosoph...

Riot is an intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (born 1960), looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influen...

In a series of richly detailed studies from Britain, Australia and North America, Bennett investigates how 19th and 20th century museums, fairs and...

Reducere. Teacher resource book for Ohio and Indiana Native American history lessons. Over 250 pages of activities, worksheets, projects, puzzles, and readin...

A general introduction to the art and architecture of Greece, the Cycladic islands and Crete, from c.3300 - 1000 BC. The authors have been highly s...

Reducere. Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years ...

Reducere. Collected and highly valued all over the world, Navajo weaving has been the subject of many aesthetic and historic studies. Grounded in archival re...

Reducere. PROSEIn 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented t...

Author David Saunders, former keeper of conservation and scientific research at the British Museum, explores how to balance the conflicting goals o...

Applying the principles of human-centered design to real-world health care challenges, from drug packaging to early detection of breast cancer.This...

Reducere. Children and parents will love learning their very first ideas about North Carolina in My N.C. from A-Z. This colorful, sturdy board book celebrate...

Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski, a strong and stubborn Polish orphan, leaves Chicago on an orphan train, expecting to be adopted and turned...

Where did the mummy come from? What happened to the person that became the mummy? Find out all this and more High-interest topics, real stories, en...

Surveying the American artist's multimedia works on paper from 1964 to the presentAmerican artist Louise Fishman's (born 1939) physical and process...

The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Emma CoffieldIllustration(s): 18 Halftones, black and white; 2 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 23...

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the c...

DescriptionExhibitions for Social Justice assesses the state of curatorial work for social justice in the Americas and Europe today. Analyzing best...

Reducere. Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century--from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today--but...

DescriptionIn 1910 and 1914, a two-volume study of New York's native birds was issued as part of the State Museum's annual report. A vast catalog o...

DescriptionTart, richly flavoured damsons have been growing in England since the island's earliest recorded history. Whether wild and foraged, or c...

... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of Africa...

DescriptionCoinciding with a major exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, this anthology of essays and reflections casts a discursiv...

Reducere. This book examines the historical context of museums, their collections, and the objects that form them. Susan M. Pearce probes the psychological a...

Many books have been written about how to build cigar box guitars and other unique hand-made instruments... but few have touched on why. This book ...

"A survey of the current state of study of indigenous Caribbean people by archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists. . . . Emphasizes that ev...

Reducere. This volume brings together an international team of contributors to reconnect field research on the shaft tombs of western Mexico (ca. 300 B.C.-A....

Rethinking Research in the Art Museum presents an original and radical perspective on how research can function as an agent of change in art museum...

Reducere. A handsome presentation of Scottish artist Sarah Graham's up-close drawings of insects and plantsIn her majestic drawings, London-based artist Sara...

Reducere. Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is a unique contribution to the fields of visual culture, arts education, and American Indi...

Reducere. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Loren Eiseley began his lifelong exploration of nature in the salt flats and ponds around his hometown and in the ma...

Winner of the 2018 Ontario Museum Association Award of Excellence Creating Exhibits that Engage: A Manual for Museums and Historical Organizations ...

The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale--such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus--a...

Reducere. In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolin...

Between the countless works of art in the world and numerous laws on their care, the task of deciphering correct procedure can seem daunting. In Ar...

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes the Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as we...

Reducere. Taxidermy is everywhere these days--from hip restaurants to posh clothing stores. Yet few realize that behind these "stuffed" animals is a world of...

DescriptionSecond Samuel includes some of the most well-known and theologically layered episodes in the Old Testament, such as the Lord's establish...

Reducere. Long regarded as one the leading texts in museology, Introduction to Museum Work in now thoroughly revised and updated. While citing recent changes...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Buffalo Bill Center of the West is a fount of major collections of art from some of the most renowned painters and sculptors of the ...

Fiction. Jewish Studies. Days before his thirty-third birthday, Jacob Paul, an ordinary New Yorker, learns that his life is the dream of a man bein...

Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Co...

Reducere. DescriptionCo-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonThis book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that a...

Description Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History join forces in a thrilling new picture book about the discovery of the Titanosaur...

Reducere. Museums serve to help us understand the past and navigate our future--as individuals, as societies, and as a global community. A careful and accura...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nina SimonVisitor participation is a hot topic in the contemporary world of museums, art galleries, science centers, librar...

Reducere. "The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum wi...

DescriptionLGBT individuals and families are increasingly visible in popular culture and local communities; their struggles for equality appear reg...

The 1920s and 1930s saw the birth of modernism in the United States, a new aesthetic, based on the principles of the Bauhaus in Germany: its mergin...

Reducere. The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society's most p...

Reducere. From planetary movements and the exploration of our solar system to black holes and dark matter, this comprehensive reference simplifies all aspect...