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The Oxford classical dictionary
\"Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition of this established dictionary offers entries on all aspects of the classical world. With reception and anthropology as new focus areas and numerous new entries, it is an essential reference work for students, scholars, and teachers of classics and for anyone with an interest in the classical era\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Museum websites and social media
Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume offers a holistic picture of museum online activities that can serve as a starting point for cross-disciplinary discussion. It is a resource for museum staff, students, designers, and researchers working at the intersection of cultural institutions and digital technologies. The aim is to provide insight into the issues behind designing and implementing web pages and social media to serve the broadest range of museum stakeholders.
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Complete film criticism : reviews, essays, and manuscripts
\"From 1942 to 1948, James Agee wrote rather voluminous move reviews for Time and The Nation at a time when motion pictures captured wide swaths of the viewing public. This fifth volume in the Works of James Agee series includes Maland's historical introduction and his textual introduction as well as Agee's reviews from Time, The Nation, other published film criticism, and unpublished articles. Agee's Time reviews have never been published in their entirety, and early reviews from Agee's time at Exeter Academy are also included\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Places of Public Memory
A sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections
of memory, place, and rhetoric Though we live in a
time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities,
memory remains central to personal, communal, and national
identities. And although popular and public discourses from
speeches to films invite a shared sense of the past, official
sites of memory such as memorials, museums, and battlefields
embody unique rhetorical principles.
Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and
Memorials is a sustained and rigorous consideration of the
intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric. From the mnemonic
systems inscribed upon ancient architecture to the roadside
accident memorials that line America’s highways, memory and
place have always been deeply interconnected. This book
investigates the intersections of memory and place through nine
original essays written by leading memory studies scholars from
the fields of rhetoric, media studies, organizational
communication, history, performance studies, and English. The
essays address, among other subjects, the rhetorical strategies
of those vying for competing visions of a 9/11 memorial at New
York City’s Ground Zero; rhetorics of resistance embedded
in the plans for an expansion of the National Civil Rights
Museum; representations of nuclear energy—both as power
source and weapon—in Cold War and post–Cold War
museums; and tours and tourism as acts of performance. By
focusing on “official” places of memory, the
collection causes readers to reflect on how nations and local
communities remember history and on how some voices and views are
legitimated and others are minimized or erased.
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Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XXX
Information modeling and knowledge bases have become essential subjects in the last three decades, not only in academic communities related to information systems and computer science, but also in the areas of business where information technology is applied.This book presents the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Information.
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How to cook everything : simple recipes for great food
Updated to incorporate the latest tastes and cooking trends, a step-by-step guide to cooking includes more than two thousand contemporary recipes complemented by how-to information, tips on cooking techniques, and an expanded coverage of healthy foods.
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Translating Museums
Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum. Bhatti thus presents an alternative example of visitor experience and museum practice to that of the West, which has been the dominant museological model to date. This examination of the Lahore Museum's objects, staff, and visitors (past and present) provides an informative case study that reveals local perceptions and uses of museums in non-Western societies to be fraught with social, political, and cultural implications and appropriations. Through Lahore, Bhatti examines the history of exchange between Britian and South Asia and advances our current understanding of what constitutes postcolonial museum interpretation and its public.
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Mummies around the world : an encyclopedia of mummies in history, religion, and popular culture
\"Perfect for school and public libraries, this is the only reference book to combine pop culture with science to uncover the mystery behind mummies and the mummification phenomena\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Oka Asajirō, Wojna i pokój (tłumaczenie z języka japońskiego)
„War and Peace” by Oka Asajirō, written in 1904, in the middle of Japan-Russia War, can take its place among modern texts regarding the development of Japan at the dawn of 20th century. For some time, Japanese political thought seemed to be heterogenous – with sources in Confucianism, Western philosophy, social Darwinism, art, natural sciences etc. Oka himself firmly belonged to the last group – he was a scientist focused on moss animals (kokemushi). With time, observations on bryozoa’s superorganisms gave way to formulating a political idea about nations as a similar construct. “War and Peace” is the very beginning of such political thought for Oka, and a source of inspiration for others.
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