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This anthology of newly commissioned texts presents a series of detailed examples of the different kinds of knowledge production that have recently emerged within the field of curatorial practice. The first volume of its kind to provide an overview of the theme of research...

When you're exploring the hidden gems of Vietnam, from the natural wonders of Halong Bay to the pristine beaches of Phu Quoc, be sure to make VIETNAMESE a language map your guide to the local language. Packed with the most essential words and phrases...

Comparisons is designed to broaden readers' parliamentary knowledge and to challenge students in their use of parliamentary research. New sections on each specific class of motions, documents of authority, order of business, boards and committees, electronic meetings, methods of voting, including electronic voting, and...

Translated by Inkeri Vaananen-Jensen. Proverbs of Finland heritage. Front and back covers of Finland State Forest, Minnesota. Hand calligraphy and line art throughout by Esther Feske. An axe is not sharpened on only one side. Keep learning as long as you live. Hurry slowly....

This is the first guide to the works of this well-known science fiction and fantasy writer. When Roger Zelazny exploded on the science fiction scene in 1962, it was not with a whimper, but a bang. The fallout was a shower of simile, symbol,...

This acclaimed, influential work applies the concepts of systemic family therapy to the emotional life of congregations. Edwin H. Friedman shows how the same understanding of family process that can aid clergy in their pastoral role also has important ramifications for negotiating congregational dynamics...

Wilson, who is acknowledged for the consistently high quality of his prose, whether it be fiction, nonfiction, or criticism, has refused to accept the limitations of genre or form, or to be placed in some literary cubbyhole. Clifford P. Bendau here covers Wilson's work,...

27 templates to create authentic Native Art. Learn about some of the real and legendary creatures revered by the natives of the west coast by using these templates to create spectacular pictures. The first coloring book in the Northwest Native Arts Series. Author: Robert...

The most up-to-date and detailed compilation of world wide Avicultural species recorded to date. Initiated as a book on African birds that feature in private avicultural and zoological collections around the globe, it soon became apparent that much of the information gathered pertained to...

A guide through the may variations of SpanishAuthor: Morry SoferISBN-10: 0884003175ISBN-13: 9780884003175Publisher: Schreiber PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2013Pages: 1Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 8.52h x 5.52w x 0.70d

Get all you need to know with Super Reviews Each Super Review is packed with in-depth, student-friendly topic reviews that fully explain everything about the subject. The Pre-Calculus Super Review includes sets, numbers, operations and properties, coordinate geometry, fundamental algebraic topics, solving equations and...

Contains over 4,900 definitions. Includes a guide to pronunciation, stresses, and tone changes as well as useful phrases and proverbs.Author: Ernest E. HeimbachISBN-10: 0877270759ISBN-13: 9780877270751Publisher: Southeast Asia Program PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/1969Pages: 523Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.97lbsSize: 11.05h x 8.78w x 0.78d

From small do-it-yourself projects to major renovations, get professional estimates for the most popular remodeling and repair projects. Interior Home Improvement Costs includes more than 65 projects with complete, customizable cost breakdowns for doing the work -- with or without a contractor. You'll have...

The first and only comprehensive biographical dictionary devoted to mythological women. Divinities, humans, female monsters and animals, hermaphrodites, and transsexuals are all here. Women of Classical Mythology offers unprecedented access to information on women largely neglected in reference works on Greek and Roman myth...

Within our state's borders you'll find such exotic place names as Amor and Darling, Fertile and Conception, Comfort and Happyland, Looneyville and Nimrod, Flour Lake and the Diarrhoea River, Great Scott and Eureka, Home and Nowhere, Moonshine and Whiskey Creek, Stringtown and Pig's Eye,...

What allows kids to use a lot of energy, make funny noises, relax, and learn to focus all at the same time? Yoga! While many yoga books present individual poses, this book explains how to create a flowing yoga practice that will holds kids'...

Five hundred and thirty-eight questions and their answers about the State of Florida from its origins to the present day cover such subjects as the Native Americans, the Spanish explorers, wars for dominance, the history of religion, politics, population, resources, wildlife and remarkable people...

This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent. Foregrounding new curatorial strategies, it addresses a significant gap in the available literature, exploring some of the complex issues arising from recent...

By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting 'difficult' objects, from a historical and contemporary perspective; and discusses the acquisition of objects related to war and genocide, and those purchased from...

Coats of arms were at first used only by kings and princes, then by their great nobles, but by the mid-13th century arms were being used extensively by the lesser nobility, knights and those who later came to be styled gentlemen. In some countries...

In this study, Angus Maddison explores the causes of the West's economic growth over the last 2,000 years and contrasts it with the economic history of the rest of the world. Maddison explores the impact of Western conquest on the Americas and analyzes the...

Spanish by Association's unique "Linkword" approach makes it easy for you to learn hundreds of Spanish words in just a few hours. Thoroughly researched and tested, this highly effective method teaches you vocabulary and grammar through association and memory. Hundreds of words are introduced...

Introduces a basic French vocabulary and the first principles of French grammar through word-association techniques.Author: GrunebergISBN-10: 0844294454ISBN-13: 9780844294452Publisher: McGraw-HillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1994Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.45h x 5.51w x 0.69d

This guide gives you tested and practical techniques to ensure your library's growth. It includes practical tools and tested strategies as well as hands-on guidelines for attracting local support and building partnerships.Author: Herbert B. LandauISBN-10: 0838935753ISBN-13: 9780838935750Publisher: American Library AssociationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2009Pages: 159Format: PaperbackWeight:...

- Small libraries that need to do standard cataloging but don't need all the details of structure and content of the full text - Beginning students who need to learn about cataloging but do not intend to be catalogers - Paraprofessionals engaged in copy...

Focusing on print and electronic sources that are key to business and economics reference, this work is a must-have for every reference desk. Readers will find sources of information on such topics as * Business law * E-commerce * Internatinal business * Management of...

Carving out new service areas within existing space can offer a cost-effective solution for budget-conscious libraries. This new hands-on workbook in the proven For Results series guides library directors, staff, and boards through the process to: prioritize new services that need space; make plans...

Getting teens to read for fun is the ultimate challenge, yet research shows that it improves skills in grammar and spelling while expanding vocabularies. Accessible and encouraging for beginners and an informative refresher for those more experienced, this hands-on expert guide addresses teens' unique...

Plenty of people want to write poetry yet while it is not necessarily difficult to write poetry badly, it is harder to write it well. In this guide Fred Sedgwick explains - this numerous examples from successful poets - how the creative process works,...

During the Mao era, China's museums served an explicit and uniform propaganda function, underlining official Party history, eulogizing revolutionary heroes, and contributing to nation building and socialist construction. With the implementation of the post-Mao modernization program in the late 1970s and 1980s and the...

An English to French Technical Dictionary for use in the fields of: Electricity, Mechanics, Mining, Metallurgy, and the Sciences. Seventh Edition Revised and Enlarged.Author: Francis CussetISBN-10: 0820600768ISBN-13: 9780820600765Publisher: Chemical Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1967Pages: 438Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89dLarge Print

Featuring more than 700 A-to-Z entries, this title provides access to the concepts, personalities, historical events, and institutions that helped shape the history of Islam and the way it is practiced. It includes an introduction that provides readers with an overview of Islam, a...

This is a comprehensive resource for any literary buff. Each profile distills the essence of the writer's career and character to help prompt consideration of literary merit and relationships.Author: Daniel S. BurtISBN-10: 0816062684ISBN-13: 9780816062683Publisher: Checkmark BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2008Pages: 541Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w...

What is the relationship today between museums, galleries and learning? The Responsive Museum interrogates the thinking, policies and practices that underpin the educational role of the museum. It unravels the complex relationship of museums with their publics, and discusses today's challenges and the debates...

The cornerstone of the American republic is an educated, active, and engaged citizenry; however, the multifaceted inner workings of government and the political forces that shape it are incredibly complex. Kentucky Government, Politics, and Public Policy is the first book in nearly three decades...

Updated edition of the essential guide for enlisted soldiers in the U.S. Army This military reference guide, completely revised for the current army, is targeted at young men and women who have enlisted in the U.S. Army or are thinking about doing so. The...

A complete, modern guide to meeting procedures. From voting and debating to rules on quorum, this guidebook is packed with simplified information that avoids jargon, meeting the needs of most non-profit organizations and professional associations. The author emphasizes the principles of meetings and introduces...

This collection profiles the people who helped shape life in North Carolina in the twentieth century. It includes 160 biographical sketches of Tar Heels who made a difference, highlighting their accomplishments in the areas of agriculture, the arts, business, education, law, media, politics, popular...

Kenneth H. Williams, Associate Editor Peggy L. Dillard, Editorial Associate The autumn of 1863 was a trying time for Jefferson Davis. Even as he expressed unwavering confidence about the eventual success of the Confederate movement, he had to realize that mounting economic problems, low...

Foreign adoption is an often tricky, sometimes treacherous venture that is steadily gaining in popularity. Myra Alperson realizes that families pursuing this avenue of adoption need all the help they can get-and she fits it all into this handy guide.Author: Myra AlpersonISBN-10: 0805045791ISBN-13: 9780805045796Publisher:...

A Stanford University Press classic.Author: George Bradley McFarlandISBN-10: 0804703833ISBN-13: 9780804703833Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1944Pages: 1084Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.40lbsSize: 9.19h x 6.46w x 2.14d

Dominant throughout the temperate northern hemisphere, conifers form the backbone of boreal ecosystems. This comprehensive reference work explains the complex life cycles of these trees.Based on more than five decades of study, Graham R. Powell provides an illustrated, guided tour of conifers from seed...

Includes a biographical sketch of Jonathan Edwards by Phillip E. Howard Jr. This intensely devotional diary of a young 1740s missionary in the American wilderness inspired the world missions movement.Author: David BrainerdISBN-10: 0801009766ISBN-13: 9780801009761Publisher: Baker BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1989Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w...

Learn the essentials of Asian gemstones with this useful and portable reference book. Gemstones, both mythical and real, are deeply embedded in the arts, religions and cultures of Asia. This handy pocket guide provides an excellent introduction to the full range of superb gemstones...

An inquiry into the religious environment of the person Muslims hail as the "Envoy of God" and an attempt to trace his progress along the path from paganism to that distinctive form of monotheism called Islam.Author: F. E. PetersISBN-10: 0791418766ISBN-13: 9780791418765Publisher: State University of...

Use Frankl's insights and techniques to improve life for your aging clients or parishioners. Viktor Frankl, a holocaust survivor who experienced firsthand the horrors of Auschwitz, saw man as "a being who continuously decides what he is: a being who equally harbors the potential...

Public and private organizations can benefit from the creation and implementation of an ombudsman program designed to problem-solve at the organizational level. This timely book presents the ombudsman in concept and in practice, offering full design and operational details from start-up to key activities...

The pipe organ, an instrument whose origins date to ancient Greece, is prominent in the development of secular and church music, and its builders were as artistic as the composers like Bach, Pachelbel and Handel who played them. This book describes the mechanics, fabrication,...

One of the most prolific crime writers of the last century, Evan Hunter published more than 120 novels from 1952 to 2005 under a variety of pseudonymns. He also wrote several teleplays and screenplays, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and the 1954 novel The...

Ken Dryden moves from the personal to the global in setting forth a resolution oriented vision of Canada's role in the 21st century. By drawing upon his own diverse experience, Ken Dryden addresses the question "What is Canada?" Using images and illustrations drawn from...