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Legacies

Author : Steven Lubar
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1935623486
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Legacies written by Steven Lubar and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smithsonian Institution has been America's museum since 1846. What do its vast collections -- from the ruby slippers to a piece of Plymouth Rock, first ladies' gowns to patchwork quilts, a Model T Ford to a customized Ford LTD low rider -- tell Americans about themselves? In this lavishly illustrated guide to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Steven Lubar and Kathleen M. Kendrick tell the stories behind more than 250 of the museum's treasures, many of them never before photographed for publication. These stories not only reveal what America as a nation has decided to save and why but also speak to changing visions of national identity. As the authors demonstrate, views of history change over time, methods of historical investigation evolve and improve, and America's understanding of the past matures. Shifts in focus and attitude lie at the hearth of Legacies, which is organized around four concepts of what a national museum of history can be: a treasure house, a shrine to the famous, a palace of progress, and a mirror of the nation. Thus, the museum collects cherished or precious objects, houses celebrity memorabilia, documents technological advances, and reflects visitors' own lives. Taking examples from science and technology, politics, decorative arts, military history, ethnic heritage, popular culture and everyday life, the authors provide historical context for the work of the Smithsonian and shed new light on what is important, and who is included, in American history. Throughout its history, Lubar and Kendrick conclude, the museum has played a vital role in both shaping and reflecting America's sense of itself as a nation.

House Reports

Author :
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1912 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book House Reports written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 1912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

MS - Pcz

Author : Michael Peschke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110957965
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book MS - Pcz written by Michael Peschke and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For researchers in business, government and academe, the ""Dictionary"" decodes abbreviations and acronyms for approximately 720,000 associations, banks, government authorities, military intelligence agencies, universities and other teaching and research establishments.

Reports and Documents

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1922 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wildlife Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Wildlife Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life on Display

Author : Karen A. Rader
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022607966X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Life on Display written by Karen A. Rader and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life on Display traces the history of biological exhibits in American museums to demonstrate how science museums have shaped and been shaped by understandings of science and public education in twentieth-century society. Karen Rader and Victoria Cain document how public natural history and science museums’ ongoing efforts to create popular educational displays led these institutions to develop new identities, ones that changed their positions in both twentieth-century science and American culture. They describe how, pre-1945, biological exhibitions changed dramatically--from rows upon rows of specimen collections to large-scale dioramas with push-button displays--as museums attempted to negotiate the changing, and often conflicting, interests of scientists, educators, and the public. The authors then reveal how, from the 1950s through the 1980s, museum staffs experimented with wildly different definitions of life science and life science education, and how, in the process, natural history and science museums and science centers faced significant public and scientific scrutiny. The book concludes with a discussion of the ways corporate sponsorship and contemporary blockbuster economics influenced the content and display of science and natural history museums in the century’s last decades. As a dynamic historical account of how museums negotiated their multiple roles in science and society, Life on Display will attract a diverse audience of cultural historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of science, as well as museum practitioners.

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1676 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Resources in Education

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Education and Labor

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1820 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Education and Labor written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience

Author : John H Falk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315427044
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience written by John H Falk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon a career in studying museum visitors, renowned researcher John Falk attempts to create a predictive model of visitor experience, one that can help museum professionals better meet those visitors’ needs.

Reculturing Museums

Author : Doris B. Ash
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000536122
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Reculturing Museums written by Doris B. Ash and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many conflicts museums experience in the 21st century. Embracing conflict, Ash asks: What can practitioners and researchers do to create the change they want to see when old systems remain stubbornly in place? Using a unified sociocultural, cultural-historical, activity-theoretical approach to analyzing historically bound conflicts that plague museums, each chapter is organized around a central contradiction, including finances ("Who will pay for museums?"), demographic shifts ("Who will come to museums?"), the roles of narratives ("Whose story is it?"), ownership of objects ("Who owns the artifact?"), and learning and teaching ("What is learning and how can we teach equitably?"). The reculturing stance taken by Ash promotes social justice and equity, ‘making change’ first, within museums, called inreach, rather than outside the museum, called outreach; challenges existing norms; is sensitive to neoliberal and deficit ideologies; and pays attention to the structure agency dialectic. Reculturing Museums will be essential reading for academics, students, museum practitioners, educational researchers, and others who care about museums and want to ensure that all people have equal access to the activities, objects, and ideas residing in them.

Museum Architecture

Author : Suzanne MacLeod
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134053622
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Museum Architecture written by Suzanne MacLeod and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent publication of multiple texts dedicated to the subject. Museum Architecture: A new biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and the problems of architectural history when applied to the museum and gallery. Starting from a discussion of the key issues in contemporary museum design, the book explores the role of architectural history in the prioritisation of specific stories of museum building and museum architects and the exclusion of other actors from the history of museum making. These omissions have contemporary relevance and impact directly on the ways in which the physical structures of museums are shaped. Theoretically, the book places a particular emphasis on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Henri Lefebvre in order to establish an understanding of buildings as social relations; the outcome of complex human interactions and relationships. The book utilises a micro history, an in-depth case study of the ‘National Gallery of the North’, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, to expose the myriad ways in which museum architecture is made. Coupled with this detailed exploration is an emphasis on contemporary museum design which utilises the understanding of the social realities of museum making to explore ideas for a socially sustainable museum architecture fit for the twenty-first century.

New Serial Titles

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book New Serial Titles written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1586 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Defense Innovation Handbook

Author : Adedeji B. Badiru
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351686526
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Defense Innovation Handbook written by Adedeji B. Badiru and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation is the lifeline of national development. This handbook is a collection of chapters that provide techniques and methodologies for achieving the transfer of defense-targeted science and technology development for general industrial applications. The handbook shows how to translate theory and ideas into practical applications. Experts from national defense institutions, government laboratories, business, and industry contributed chapters to this handbook. The handbook also serves as an archival guide for nations, communities, and businesses expecting to embark upon science and technology transfer to industry. Included are several domestic and international case examples of practical innovation. Since the dawn of history, nations have engrossed themselves in developing new tools, techniques, and methodologies to protect their geographical boundaries. From the crude implements used by prehistorical people to very modern technologies, the end game has been the same. That is, to protect the homeland. Even in times of peace, efforts must be made to develop new machinery, equipment, processes, and devices targeted for the protection of the nation. The emergence of organized nations and structured communities facilitated even more innovative techniques of national defense. Evolution, revolution, and innovation have defined human existence for millennia. From the Ice Age to the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, and to the modern age, innovation, rudimentary as it may be in many cases, has determined how humans move from one stage to the next. This comprehensive handbook provides a clear guide on the nuances of initiating and actualizing innovation. Both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of innovation are covered in the handbook. Features: Uses a systems framework to zero in on science and technology transfer Focuses on leveraging technical developments in defense organizations for general societal applications Coalesces the transfer strategies collated from various sources and practical applications Represents a world-class diverse collection of science and technology development, utilization, and transfer Highlights a strategy for government, academia, and industry partnerships

The Museum Manager's Compendium

Author : John W. Jacobsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442271396
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Museum Manager's Compendium written by John W. Jacobsen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Museum Manager’s Compendium: 101 Essential Tools and Resources helps you make and implement your decisions as a museum manager and strategic planner. This book’s 101 sections present a treasure trove of definitions, diagrams, processes, choices, and worksheets, in major areas of museum management. Collectively, they reflect the literature and contributions of some of the field’s best thinkers. The resources distill half a century of museum experience over hundreds of projects done by scores of talents and experts internationally for all types of museums. The Museum Manager’s Compendium can be used as: A frequent reference book to consult when facing decisions or planning for the future A source of examples and templates of common museum reports A source of answers and options for strategic planning questions A crib book to extract text when drafting internal proposals and plans A primer when welcoming new partners and Board members A quick study and refresher of key aspects of museum practice An orientation to new staff A glossary for building shared definition among team members The Museum Manager’s Compendium is for museum professionals—leaders, managers, coordinators, professional counsel, contractors, evaluators, supporters, and policy makers— to use often. It is a must-own reference book for every museum professional responsible for decisions and implementation.