Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Studies

Why has Argentina suffered so much political and economic instability? How could Argentina, once one of the wealthiest countries in the world, fail...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to a world in the midst of a telecommunications revolution. What this means is that societies through...

Curating Under Pressure breaks the silence surrounding curatorial self-censorship and shows that it is both endemic to the practice and ubiquitous....

Managing Natural Science Collections demonstrates the need for consistency and evidence-based decision making in the management of natural science ...

Title first published in 2003. Despite all the hype about e-learning, the real breakthrough in technology, at least as far as HR goes, is in the de...

Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities serves as a key interdisciplinary title that links the social sciences an...

Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understan...

Nominated for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in non-fiction This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) ...

This book reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage site of inestimable value the Venice Arsenal. Focusing on the chal...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

Displaced archives have long been a problem and their existence continues to trouble archivists, historians and government officials. Displaced Arc...

Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of...

Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of processes to counter that risk. ...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19t...

This is a concise and practical manual of instruction for the guidance and training of interviewers gathering data for all types of surveys. It cle...

Engaging Communities in Museums is designed for museum professionals who are hungry for information about how to design experiences in partnership ...

This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches to the use and study of literary archives. Interrogating literary and archival...

How do history museums and historic sites tell the richly diverse stories of the American people? What fascinates us most about American history?To...

This is the first book to examine, in depth, the multi-million pound redisplay and reinterpretation process in British museums in the early twenty-...

This book considers the lessons learnt so far from the emergence of the Internet and the development of the field of Internet studies, whilst also ...

The Pharmaceutical Industry has been undergoing a major transformation since the heady days of 'big pharma' in the 1970s and 80s. Patent expiry, t...