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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Protecting Your Collection
Author: Slade Richard GandertPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317940466
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Here is a practical volume that focuses on the major security problems for libraries, archives, and museums. Written by a respected librarian and security consultant, Protecting Your Collection provides provides a thorough review of the procedures for protecting library, art, and archival collections against losses from theft, fire, flooding, and mutilation. Author Slade Gandert includes fascinating interviews with librarians, rare book dealers, archivists, detectives, and security professionals to find out who steals from institutional collections--how they do it and why they do it. Each chapter features case studies of intriguing security leaks in the institutional system and describes their outcome. This important book is beneficial reading for library staff and administrators.
The Contest of Meaning
Author: Richard BoltonPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262521697
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Photography's great success gives the impression that the major questions that have haunted the medium are now resolved. On the contrary, the most important questions about photography are just beginning to be asked. These fourteen essays, with over 200 illustrations, critically examine prevailing beliefs about the medium and suggest new ways to explain the history of photography. They are organized around the questions: What are the social consequences of aesthetic practice? How does photography construct sexual difference? How is photography used to promote class and national interests? What are the politics of photographic truth? The Contest of Meaning summarizes the challenges to traditional photographic history that have developed in the last decade out of a consciously political critique of photographic production. Contributions by a wide range of important Americans critics reexamine the complex—and often contradictory—roles of photography within society. Douglas Crimp, Christopher Phillips, Benjamin Buchloh, and Abigail Solomon Godeau examine the gradually developed exclusivity of art photography and describe the politics of canon formation throughout modernism. Catherine Lord, Deborah Bright, Sally Stein, and Jan Zita Grover examine the ways in which the female is configured as a subject, and explain how sexual difference is constructed across various registers of photographic representation. Carol Squiers, Esther Parada, and Richard Bolton clarify the ways in which photography serves as a form of mass communication, demonstrating in particular how photographic production is affected by the interests of the powerful patrons of communications. The three concluding essays, by Rosalind Krauss, Martha Rosler, and Allan Sekula, critically examine the concept of photographic truth by exploring the intentions informing various uses of "objective" images within society.
Small Business Bibliography
Author: Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science
Author: Allen KentPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780824720629
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Automated Discourse Generation to the User-Centered Revolution: 1970-1995
A Directory of Dealers in Secondhand and Antiquarian Books in the British Isles
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Lindbergh Case
Author: Jim FisherPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813521473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Was Bruno Hauptmann an innocent carpenter, or a cold-blooded killer?
Bookdealers in North America
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Bibliography of the History of Medicine
Author: Warmly Inscribed
Author: Lawrence GoldstonePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312262686
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
With their typically warm and insightful style, two amateur antiquarian book collectors reveal one of the dirty secrets of the book collecting world: forgeries.