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This book delves into the notion of intimacy as a defining feature of podcasting, examining the concept of intimacy itself and how the public sphere explores the relationships created and maintained through podcasts.

The Remaking of Archival Values posits that archival theory and practice are fields in flux, and that recent critical archival discourse that addresses neoliberalism, racism, the legacies of colonialism and patriarchy represents a disruption not only to established principles but to the values that underpin them.

Nanetti outlines a methodology for deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance historical research.

Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understand the meaning of "collection" as an entity and as an act.

Museums, Collections, and Social Repair in Vietnam analyses the relationship between museums, collections, and social repair in contemporary Vietnam.

This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of the processes and actors contributing to autocratization in South Asia, providing an understanding of the interconnectedness of the states in the region. It is an important reference work for students and researchers of South Asian Studies, Asian Studies, Area Studies, and Political Science.

Managing Digital Records in Africa draws on the research work of the InterPARES Trust (ITrust) project that investigated interrelated archival issues focusing on legal analysis, infrastructure, trust, authentication, and education within the African context.

Museum Exhibitions and Suspense takes insights from screenwriting to revolutionise our understanding of exhibition curating.

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the 19th and early 20th century. Introducing now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the Victorian periodical presses rolling, and the public entertained.

This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecological ideas and ecological thinking into discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design.

Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the 'caribbeanization' of archives in the region, considering what those archives could include in the future and exploring the potential for new records in new formats.

Independent Museums and Culture Centres in Colonial and Post-colonial Zimbabwe presents case studies that grapple with the issue of 'decolonising practice' in privately owned museums and cultural centres in Zimbabwe.

This unique bibliography provides detailed and up-to-date bibliographic and buying information on over 4,000 English- and French-language Canadian periodicals.

In compiling a catalogue of these exhibitions, Evelyn McMann has produced a comprehensive record of Canadian art during nine decades of tremendous development. Her work refers the reader to biographical information about the majority of the artists, and makes available for the first time information on hundreds of lesser-known artists.

This detailed reference work lists, by artists, all works exhibited by the Royal Canadian Academy in its first 100 years. This book draws on many previously unpublished sources, presents an historic view of Canadian art, and greatly enhances a precise knowledge of canadian artists' contributions to our heritage.

This volume provides up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements, activism, and is a reference point for international work in the field. It offers an assessment of environmental movements around the world, macrostructural, microstructural and social-psychological dimensions, current trends and prospects for social change.

As the first of the Canterbury Tales, the Knight's Tale has been the subject of a vast body of comment by scholars and lay readers. Monica McAlpine provides access to this material in the first of the Chaucer Bibliographies series to deal with a narrative portion of that author's best-known work.

"A comprehensive illustrated field guide to the 340 dragonfly species found in North America"--

A marvelously illustrated guide to color in the natural worldRecent years have seen tremendous strides in the fields of vision, visual ecology, and our own multilayered experience of color in life and the world. These advances have been driven by astonishing discoveries in neuroscience and evolutionary biology as well as psychology and design. This beautifully illustrated book unlocks nature’s colorful purpose, revealing how creatures see color as well as shedding light on the important part that it plays in animal behavior, from reproduction and communication to aggression and defense. Color in Nature also places the human experience and uses of color in the context of all the colors around us, both in the natural world and in the world that we humans create for our own pleasure and purpose. A wide-ranging survey of a vibrant and compelling topic, Color in Nature will open your eyes to new ways of perceiving the world.Features a wealth of stunning color illustrationsExplains what color is and how it happensCovers the physics, genetics, chemistry, physiology, and psychology of animal color perceptionDiscusses colors humans don’t see or rarely useSheds light on the evolution of colors for mating, hunting, fighting, deceiving, and hidingProvides insights into color blindness, bio-inspired colors, and people’s appreciation for art and design

Presents interviews with over 40 librarians from around the world who tell of their library programs. The volumes are arranged geographically with Volume 1 offering interviews from library professionals from the USA and Europe, and with Volume 2 sharing programs from Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Middle East.

The 55th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook covers developments during 2023 in security and conflicts; military spending and armaments; non-proliferation; arms control; and disarmament.

The Irish Racing Post Annual is firmly established as the perfect Christmas gift for any horseracing fan. Racing Post's top writers look back on the best of the Flat and jumps seasons, the big names, the moments to treasure and unusual stories of the year; plus there's a look forward at the top prospects for 2025.