Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Studies

Despite ubiquitous powerful technologies such as networked computers, global positioning systems, and cell phones; human failures in decision-makin...

Museums and the Ancient Middle East is the first book to focus on contemporary exhibit practice in museums that present the ancient Middle East. Br...

In this book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage formation. He shows how the senses...

'Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas, and Uncomfortable Truths' presents multi-perspective critical analyses of the ethics and principles that guide...

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

Dark Tourism, as well as other terms such as Thanatourism and Grief Tourism, has been much discussed in the past two decades. This volume provides ...

The open source phenomenon has attracted an increased interest among commercial firms and governments. It is becoming one of the most influential p...

Pasargadae is the location of the tomb of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Through the ages it was Islamised and the tomb was asc...

Artistic Lives examines cultural production as a non-standard, self-directed, and frequently unpaid activity, which is susceptible to developments ...

Innovation in technology and services was once the result of specialist knowledge developed within a single corporation; now, a single focus on the...

University libraries around the world have embraced the possibilities of the digital learning environment, facilitating its use and proactively see...

Browsing for information is a significant part of most research activity, but many online collections hamper browsing with interfaces that are vari...

This new edition of An Introduction to Materials and Chemistry, the first in the updated Science for Conservators series, provides conservators and...

This book brings into focus the technologically augmented nature of global online communities, advancing research methods that reveal the imprint o...

This book focuses on a forgotten placethe Khami World Heritage site in Zimbabwe. It examines how professionally ascribed values and conservation pr...

Museums throughout the world are under increasing pressure in the wake of the 2008/2009 economic recession and the many pressing social and environ...

Interpreting Heritage is a practical book about the planning and delivery of interpretation that will give anyone working in the heritage sector th...

Landlord villages dominated Iranian land tenure for hundreds of years, whereby one powerful landlord owned the village structures, surrounding farm...

Historic reconstructions have been a consistent part of the historic preservation and heritage conservation movements in the United States and Cana...

Most museums collections contain a wide variety of natural materials, and a diverse range of knowledge is necessary to keep so many types of object...