Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Studies

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carr...

Saving Spaces offers an historical overview of the struggle to conserve both individual parcels of land and entire landscapes from destruction in t...

This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecur...

What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present...

Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design showcases 18 diverse essays written by people who design, work in, and study museums, offering a variet...

Museums and Photography combines a strong theoretical approach with international case studies to investigate the display of death in various types...

Creativity and Learning in Later Life examines how processes such as creativity and inspiration are experienced by writers who engage with the visu...

The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions retain certain attribu...

Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing...

Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in d...

Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum provides new thinking on exhibitions of global art and world art in relation to unive...

This new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of he...

The scientific and technological advances that influence the protection of cultural heritage are developing at an ever-increasing pace. Systems to ...

This standard text has been fully revised and updated for its fourth edition to reflect continuing technological changes, as well as issues such as...

There is no area of business that is more dramatically affected by the explosion of web-based services delivered to computers, PDAs and mobile phon...

Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity examines the effects of disability and ageing on engagement with cultural heritage and associat...

Graphic Design in Museum Exhibitions offers an in-depth analysis of the multiple roles that exhibition graphics perform in contemporary museums and...

Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the con...

The Digital Future of Museums: Conversations and Provocations argues that museums today can neither ignore the importance of digital technologies w...

Conservation of Easel Paintings, Second Edition provides a much-anticipated update to the previous edition, which has come to be known internationa...

This title was first published in 2000. European Intellectual Property is a survey and discussion of the impact of the economic principles of the E...

It has taken Liverpool almost half a century to come to terms with the musical, cultural and now economic legacy of the Beatles and popular music. ...

Theatre of the Sphere is Luis Valdezs exploration of the principles that underlie his innovations as a playwright, teacher, and theatrical innovato...

Underwater Cultural Heritage investigates cases of underwater cultural heritage, exploring ethical issues that have never been studied before. A va...

This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlan...

Museums and the Challenge of Change explores the profound challenges facing museums and charts ways forward that are grounded in partnership with a...

Object-Based Learning and Well-Being provides the first explicit analysis of the combined learning and well-being benefits of working with material...

UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory discusses one of the greatest challenges for twenty-first-century society: what is to be done...

Thie title was first published in 2003. Computer technology and changing student needs have prompted universities to develop modern learning centre...

This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary Northwest India. It traverses the worldview of shrine spaces, rituals ...

Since the 1990s, heritage studies has emerged as a distinct academic field, and practices and rhetoric drawn from mainstream corporate management a...

The remarkable success of the 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage is borne out by the fact that...

This title was first published in 2002.In this age of globalization, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society movements and coa...

This title was first published in 2001. Technology-led developments are changing the nature of the information marketplace. In the face of rapid ch...