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Author: Tobias Wolffhardt
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2017-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1785336894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScottish experiences -- Building an East Indian career -- On the route: from military imperatives to the tasks of government -- Mackenzie's survey -- Mapping history, producing territory -- Knowledge for the future -- The past in the present -- The surveyor general -- Epilogue
Author: Mary Calmes
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2015-06-29
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1634763041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf Jin can regain his memory and Logan overcome the threats to his leadership, they can resume their lives. But is that what they want?
Author: Arnold Hirshon
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2016-06-20
Total Pages: 251
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce treated as exclusive spaces for valuable but hidden and under-utilized material, over the past few decades special collections departments have been transformed by increased digitization and educational outreach efforts into unique and highly visible major institutional assets. What libraries must now contemplate is how to continue this momentum by articulating and implementing a dynamic strategic vision for their special collections. Drawing on the expertise of a world-class array of librarians, university faculty, book dealers, collectors, and donors, this collected volume surveys the emerging requirements of today’s knowledge ecosystem and charts a course for the future of special collections. Expanding upon the proceedings of the National Colloquium on Special Collections organized by the Kelvin Smith Library of Case Western Reserve University in October 2014, this timely resource for special collections librarians, administrators, academics, and rare book dealers and collectors recounts the factors that governed the growth and use of special collections in the past;explores ways to build 21st-century special collections that are accessible globally, and how to provide the expertise and services necessary to support collection use;gives advice on developing and maintaining strong relationships between libraries and collectors, with special attention paid to the importance of donor relations;provides critical information on how libraries and their institutions’ faculty can best collaborate to ensure students and other researchers are aware of the resources available to them;showcases proactive, forward-thinking approaches to applying digital scholarship techniques to special collections materials;looks at how the changes in the way authors work—from analog to digital—increases the importance of archives in preserving the aspects of humanity that elevate us; and examines sustainable and scalable approaches to promoting the use of special collections in the digital age, including the roles of social media and crowdsourcing to bring collections directly to the user.More than simply a guide to collection management, this book details myriad ways to forge the future of special collections, ensuring that these scholarly treasures advance knowledge for years to come.
Author: Yaël Farber
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-09-28
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1786823276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu Yael Farber's trilogy of plays bears powerful testimony to the personal truths of those who lived through the brutal Apartheid regime in South Africa. Woman in Waiting tells of Thembi Mtshali's separation from her mother as a child, only to continue this legacy of waiting when forced to leave her own baby to mind other people's children in the white suburbs. Amajuba is a moving tapestry of different personal perspectives on growing up under Apartheid. He Left Quietly is the harrowing experience of Duma Kumalo, one of the wrongly accused Sharpeville Six, on South Africa's Death Row; preparations made for his death and ultimate reprieve.
Author: Aimee Robinson
Publisher: AMR Publishing LLC
Published: 2022-04-26
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHis heart was cold iron, until she broke through the fissures and lit him aflame. Beth Carmichael was at the top of her medical career, married to a handsome allergist, and loving life…until she caught her newly minted husband cheating on their wedding day. Jilted and heartbroken, she flees to an antique shop, where an old artifact sends her through time to 1770. For the widower blacksmith Thomas Brannigan, every strike of his hammer opens a new wound. His days are hollow as he forges bayonets en masse to feed the needs of a burgeoning colonial Boston. But his heart’s no longer in it. The spark died along with his wife, as well as his interest in love. When Beth is mistaken for a serving girl in the home of a wealthy whaler, she’s not prepared for the charade…or her dealings with the quiet, hulking blacksmith who makes her run as hot as his forge, even through his icy coldness. Tempers flare hot against the rising peril of pre-Revolutionary War Boston. While Beth finds acceptance as a midwife, Thomas struggles to tamp down his attraction to the enticing, curvaceous redhead. But with Beth’s time in the past running out, Thomas must face losing his heart again or risk Beth’s life in the process.
Author: Molly McGarry
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-09-30
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0520274539
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Author: 國立故宮博物院
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 666
ISBN-13: 0810964945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major scholarly work, published in conjunction with the exhibition titled "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei" (on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during 1996, and scheduled for several other American cities during 1996-1997). Written by scholars of both Chinese and Western cultural backgrounds and conceived as a cultural history, the book synthesizes scholarship of the past three decades to present the historical and cultural significance of individual works of art and analyses of their aesthetic content, as well as reevaluation of the cultural dynamics of Chinese history. Includes some 600 illustrations, 436 in color. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Michel Mallet
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-08-06
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 3110730871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholarship on Eastern Europe after 1989 often focuses narrowly on the socialist past as authoritarian, dictatorial, or totalitarian. This collection, by contrast, illuminates an additional dimension of post-socialist memory: it traces the survival of hopes and dreams born under socialism and the legacy of the unrealized alternative futures embedded within the socialist past. Looking at contemporary German-language literature, film, theater, and art, the volume analyzes reflections on everyday socialist realities as well as narratives of opposition and dissent. The texts discussed here not only revisit the past, but also challenge the present and help us imagine alternative futures. Rather than framing the unrealized futures envisioned in the pre-1989 era as failures, this collection probes post-socialist memory for its future-oriented potential to rethink issues of community, equity and equality, and late-stage capitalism. Foregrounding the complexities of Eastern European legacies also helps us reimagine the relationship between East and West both in Germany and in Europe as a whole.
Author: Matthew G. Knight
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2019-07-31
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1789692490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did past communities view, understand and communicate their pasts? And how can we, as archaeologists, understand this? This volume brings together a range of case studies in which objects of the past were encountered and reappropriated.
Author: Stephanie Meeks
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 161091709X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt its most basic, historic preservation is about keeping old places alive, in active use, and relevant to the needs of communities today. As cities across America experience a remarkable renaissance, and more and more young, diverse families choose to live, work, and play in historic neighborhoods, the promise and potential of using our older and historic buildings to revitalize our cities is stronger than ever. This urban resurgence is a national phenomenon, boosting cities from Cleveland to Buffalo and Portland to Pittsburgh. Experts offer a range of theories on what is driving the return to the city—from the impact of the recent housing crisis to a desire to be socially engaged, live near work, and reduce automobile use. But there’s also more to it. Time and again, when asked why they moved to the city, people talk about the desire to live somewhere distinctive, to be some place rather than no place. Often these distinguishing urban landmarks are exciting neighborhoods—Miami boasts its Art Deco district, New Orleans the French Quarter. Sometimes, as in the case of Baltimore’s historic rowhouses, the most distinguishing feature is the urban fabric itself. While many aspects of this urban resurgence are a cause for celebration, the changes have also brought to the forefront issues of access, affordable housing, inequality, sustainability, and how we should commemorate difficult history. This book speaks directly to all of these issues. In The Past and Future City, Stephanie Meeks, the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, describes in detail, and with unique empirical research, the many ways that saving and restoring historic fabric can help a city create thriving neighborhoods, good jobs, and a vibrant economy. She explains the critical importance of preservation for all our communities, the ways the historic preservation field has evolved to embrace the challenges of the twenty-first century, and the innovative work being done in the preservation space now. This book is for anyone who cares about cities, places, and saving America’s diverse stories, in a way that will bring us together and help us better understand our past, present, and future.
