The Objects of Experience. Transforming Visitor-Object Encounters in Museums, Paperback - Kiersten F Latham

Explores human relationships to objects, shows what museums can learn from them, and offers practical tools and exercises for using objects to crea...

Through essays and interviews, this anthology tells the story of the history of the artists, art critics, collectors, curators, journalists, and ac...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 88 Line drawings, black and white; 39 Halftones, black and white; 35 Tables, black and whiteNumber ...

Publisher: XlibrisAuthor(s): Lesley FisherNumber of pages: 388Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

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...

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Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a "museum object" in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, th...

An account of the changing attitudes to the way art is presented in the modern museum of art. It examines the relationship between the artist, the ...

A fresh look at the influential pedagogy and practice pioneered by the Bauhaus Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus...

Creating Great Visitor Experiences: A Guide for Museum Professionals will help museums define their service, hire and train a dynamic frontline tea...

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For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from th...

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

A respected scholar offers an introduction to the intriguing topic of religious experience and its viability as support for Christian belief.Publis...

Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This ...

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

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Identifies five key types of visitors who attend museums and defines the internal processes that drive them there over and over again. This book sh...

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Tourism, hospitality and event managers seek to provide 'wow' experiences to their visitors through better design and management. This book encoura...

For decades, the manufacturing industry has employed the Toyota Production System -- the most powerful production method in the world -- to reduce ...

Museums, Modernity and Conflict examines the history of the relationship between museums, collections and war, revealing how museums have responded...

This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultu...

Reducere. Award NameChristian Retailing's BestAward categoryBible Reference/StudyStudying the Bible is not just the pursuit of biblical and theological head ...

Reducere. Confounding the Color Line is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Bla...

The Brain-Friendly Museum proposes an innovative approach to experiencing and enjoying the museum environment in new ways, based on the systematic ...

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Reducere. Between AD 900-1600, the native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and...

Employing a generational analysis, this book offers an original approach to the study of Higher Education and documents the changing nature of the ...

Reducere. The arrangement was just meant to fix their marriage.No one was supposed to get hurt.But when the rules of this open marriage are broken, the conse...

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressAuthor(s): Jane F. ThrailkillIllustration(s): 5 halftones, 1 lineNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2...

A treasure trove of human creativity from around the world. History of the World in 1000 Objects takes a fresh look at world history, viewing cultu...

Reducere. Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a...

Reducere. Colectia: Fapte, Idei, Documente ERNEST H. LATHAM, Jr., Ph.D., American historian and diplomat. He served as the American cultural attach e in Roma...

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature - William James

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Reducere. The next psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Good Neighbors...There's something strange about Loren's new mother-in-law...Whe...

Divided into thematic sections, these collected papers celebrate the career and research interests of Lindsay Allason-Jones, who has been at the fo...

Reducere. Juneau, Alaska is an integral part of the United States, yet offers up the feeling that's it's a world away from the Lower 48. Juneau holds the uni...

The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arbor...

Reducere. Someone dies. What happens next?One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each yea...

The story of ocean liners brought to life by objects and ephemera, revealing life on board, luxury and magnificence, and peril and disasterIllustra...

Reducere. They disappeared...That was just the beginning.When five strangers are abandoned on an island without any idea where they are or whom to trust, the...

Reducere. The arrangement was just meant to fix their marriage.No one was supposed to get hurt.But when the rules of this open marriage are broken, the conse...