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  • New Directions in Museum Ethics

    Edited by Janet Marstine, Alexander Bauer, Chelsea Haines ...
    This book considers key ethical questions in museum policy and practice, particularly those related to issues of collection and display. What does a collection signify in the twenty-first century museum? How does an engagement with immateriality challenge museums’ concept of ownership, and how does that immateriality translate into the design of exhibitions and museum space? Are museums still ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Biogas Science and Technology

    Edited by Alexander Bauer, Guenther Bochmann, Andreas Gronauer, Stefan Weiss, Georg Gübitz ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Michael Lebuhn, Stefan Weiß, Bernhard Munk, Georg M. GuebitzMicrobiology and Molecular Biology Tools for Biogas Process Analysis, Diagnosis and ControlVeronika Dollhofer, Sabine Marie Podmirseg, Tony Martin Callaghan, Gareth Wyn Griffith & Katerina FliegerováAnaerobic Fungi and their Potential for Biogas ProductionBianca Fröschle, Monika Heiermann, Michael Lebuhn, Ute Messelhäusser, Matthias ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Museums Matter

    In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum

    by James Cuno ...
    Series series Campbell Lectures
    The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society’s growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. But in recent years, museums have been under attack, with critics arguing that they are little more than relics and promoters of imperialism. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Museums in a Troubled World

    Renewal, Irrelevance or Collapse?

    by Robert R. Janes ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Are Museums Irrelevant?Museums are rarely acknowledged in the global discussion of climate change, environmental degradation, the inevitability of depleted fossil fuels, and the myriad local issues concerning the well-being of particular communities – suggesting the irrelevance of museums as social institutions. At the same time, there is a growing preoccupation among museums with the marketplace, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Antidote

    Inside the World of New Pharma

    by Barry Werth ...
    In this timely and much praised book, Barry Werth draws upon inside reporting that spans more than two decades. He provides a groundbreaking close-up of the upstart pharmaceutical company Vertex and the ferocious but indispensable world of Big Pharma that it inhabits.In 1989, the charismatic Joshua Boger left Merck, then America’s most admired business, to found a drug company that would challenge ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Civilizing Rituals

    Inside Public Art Museums

    by Carol Duncan ...
    Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community.Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Introduction to Nanoscience

    by Stuart Lindsay ...
    Nanoscience is not physics, chemistry, engineering or biology. It is all of them, and it is time for a text that integrates the disciplines. This is such a text, aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the sciences. The consequences of smallness and quantum behaviour are well known and described Richard Feynman's visionary essay 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom' ... Read more

    $95.39 USD

  • Who Owns America's Past?

    The Smithsonian and the Problem of History

    by Robert C. Post ...
    When preserving our history, what do we choose to value, why, and who decides?Honorable Mention for the National Council on Public History Book Award of the National Council on Public HistoryIn 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, the ensuing political uproar caught the museum's parent ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Antibiotics

    The Perfect Storm

    by David M. Shlaes ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Antibiotics are truly miracle drugs. As a class, they are one of the only ones that actually cure disease as opposed to most drugs that only help relieve symptoms or control disease. Since bacteria that cause serious disease in humans are becoming more and more resistant to the antibiotics we have today, and because they will ultimately become resistant to any antibiotic that we use for treatment ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Best of Both Worlds

    Museums, Libraries, and Archives in the Digital Age

    by G. Wayne Clough ...
    Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, asks “How can we prepare ourselves to reach the generation of digital natives who bring a huge appetite—and aptitude—for the digital world?” He explains how the Smithsonian is tackling this issue in Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age.Libraries and archives have already made many documents available through ... Read more

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  • Ligand Efficiency Indices for Drug Discovery

    Towards an Atlas-Guided Paradigm

    by Celerino Abad-Zapatero ...
    The purpose of Ligand Efficiency Indices for Drug Discovery: Towards an Atlas-Guided Paradigm is to introduce in a concise and self-contained form the concepts, ideas, applications and examples of efficiency-driven drug discovery to the biomedical community at large. The book emphasizes the use of 'new variables' and more objective numerical methods to drive drug discovery in an encompassing way. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Museums and Community

    Ideas, Issues and Challenges

    by Elizabeth Crooke ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Combining research that stretches across all of the social sciences and international case studies, Elizabeth Crooke here explores the dynamics of the relationship between the community and the museum.Focusing strongly on areas such as Northern Ireland, South Africa, Australia and North America to highlight the complex issues faced by museums and local groups, Crooke examines one of the museum's ... Read more

    $70.99 USD