Filter by
A Handbook for Media Librarians
Media librarians - information workers employed by media organizations such as broadcasters and publishers of newspapers, magazines and websites - often seem to have a low profile in both the information profession and among their employers. Academic, legal and public librarians are often intrigued to discover that some of their peers work for the same people who provide their television progra…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781856049955
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
A Handbook for Corporate Information Professionals
This edited collection provides a cutting edge overview of issues of key concern for information professionals providing information services in corporate environments. Corporate information professionals serving the workplace rather than learning communities or the general public face specific challenges and demands, from providing competitive intelligence to managing information in a global e…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783300433
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
A Guide to Teaching Information Literacy
The role of the librarian increasingly involves delivering information literacy using a range of teaching methods, from delivering induction sessions to informal one-to-one support on a day-to-day basis. Although this is increasingly recognized, many practitioners do not have teaching qualifications and are often left to fulfil a role for which they feel ill-equipped. Even when they do have tea…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781856048767
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia
Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life. This book focuses on the Christian Dani of West Papua, providing a social and ethnographic history of the most important indigenous population in the troubled province. It presents a fascinating overview of the Dani’s conversion to…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780203007556
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil A Frenchman between France an…
This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings in North Africa (November 1942), 'inventor' of General Henri Giraud as a candidate for the leaders…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780203004968
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Republic in Danger : Drusus Libo and the Succession of Tiberius
M. Scribonius Drusus Libo has always been considered an inexplicable victim of predatory prosecutors, destroyed in the changed conditions of Tiberius’ succession to the founder of the Principate. This is wrong. Drusus Libo conspired with a group of Tiberius’ opponents to challenge Tiberius’ right. The senate’s investigation of Drusus Libo will be examined in Chapter One and Chapter Two.…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978–0–19–960174–5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900 PET r
Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Modeling and Simulation…
Springer Proceedings in Complexity
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319205915
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950
Globalizing the Soybean asks how the soybean conquered the West and analyzes why and how the crop gained entry into agriculture and industry in regions beyond Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Historian Ines Prodöhl describes the soybean’s journey centered on three hubs: Northeast China, as the crop’s main growing area up to the Second World War; Germany, to where most of…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781000877342
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to Modern Times
Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we are overwhelmed with news about the cataclysmic effects of recent forest fires, floods, and storms. Due to the ongoing climate crisis, extreme weather events will likely have ev…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048557707
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Evidence in Action between Science and Society
This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge. The tensions between competing paradigms, different bodies of knowledge and the relative hierarchies between them are a crucial element of the historical and contemporary dynamics of s…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781032037059
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography