Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Studies

Originally published in 1916, this work provides a detailed study of the first century of the Ottoman Empire. It traces the life and career of Osma...

Using an interdisciplinary and transhistorical framework this book examines the cultural, material, and symbolic articulations of Irish migration r...

As a part of popular culture, sport has made a deep impression in American life. And nowhere is this clearer than in baseball, the game that seems ...

This book defines the attitude of English writers between 1500 and 1625 toward the question of literary property rights, of imitation, of what toda...

This book offers the first accessible, systematic study of the five schools of thought that dominate modern political science in the West. The auth...

The goal of Essays on Communication & Spirituality is to expand students' understanding of communication theory and inquiry. The editor and con...

Most people believe China's foreign behavior is driven by its growing power status in world politics. Chinese leaders still firmly uphold some trad...

The objective of this book is to teach native speakers of Spanish how to write and use correctly their own language. This text is designed for Span...

First Published in 1971. When, in the spring of 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe landed in Liverpool at the beginning of her first triumphal tour of the...

Nineteenth-Century Energies explores the idea of ‘energy’, a concept central to new directions in interdisciplinary studies today. It examines the ...

The lines between the fields of strategy, urban planning, architecture and sociology are currently blurred by ‘futurising’ discourses about progres...

Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius or "Sidereal Messenger" published in Venice in 1610, is one of those books that rewrote history, as did Copernic...

What if you were a public librarian and then you wanted to become an academic librarian? How different are those worlds and how would you know what...

Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science is designed to help new librarians begin to manage a successful and satisfying career in ...

What does the future hold for cataloging education? Written by some of the best-known authors and most innovative thinkers in the field, including...

The university subject librarians' role is at the centre of new models of teaching and learning, yet further debate and published contributions are...

In The Deconstitutionalization of America: The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic Rule, Roger M. Barrus and his coauthors embark on a discussion of ...

In The Deconstitutionalization of America: The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic Rule, Roger M. Barrus and his coauthors embark on a discussion of ...

Research libraries face many challenges in today’s declining economy. The essays in this book explore these challenges and were originally delivere...

This reference work chronicles all legal executions performed in seven western states, from the date each attained statehood to December 31, 201...

This book features: Sizing up the problem Tools & how to use them Painting Fixing scratches, squeaks, scrapes, & chips Repairing leaks ...

This book, first published in 1990, examines the relationships between scientists, publishers and journals. It focuses on managing acquisitions bud...

Written by Gilead Sher, Israeli Chief of Staff during the tumultuous 1999-2000 peace negotiations, this book provides a fast paced description and ...

The Munda group of languages of the Austroasiatic family are spoken within central and eastern India by almost ten million people. To date, they ar...