Learning in the Museum (Hein George E.)(Paperback)

Learning in the Museum (Hein George E.)(Paperback)

Learning in the Museum examines major issues and shows how research in visitor studies and the philosophy of education can be applied to facilitate a meaningful educational experience in museums. Hein combines a brief history of education in public museums, with a rigorous examination of how the

Light in the Darkness (Falcke Heino)(Paperback)

Behind The Scenes At The Museum (Atkinson Kate)(Paperback / softback)

Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient

Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution (Prochnik George)(Pevná vazba)

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was a virtuoso German poet, satirist, and visionary humanist best known for his lyric poetry. In this vividly imagined exploration of Heine's life and work, George Prochnik describes a fully dimensional character while also casting into sharp relief the reasons his

Queering the Museum (Sullivan Nikki)(Paperback)

Queering the Museum develops a queer analysis of the ways in which museums construct themselves, their core business, and their publics through the, often unconscious, use of inherited ways of knowing and doing. Providing a critique of both the practices and conventions associated with the modern

Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age (Grincheva Natalia)(Paperback)

Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age explores online museums as sites of contemporary cultural diplomacy. Building on scholarship that highlights how museums can constitute and regulate citizens, construct national communities, and project messages across borders, the book explores the political

The Vanishing Museum on the Rue Mistral (Longworth M. L.)(Paperback)

Something strange has happened at the unassuming Mus e de Quentin-Savary in Aix-en-Provence. When the director, Monsieur Achille Formentin, walks in one beautiful April morning, he is shocked to find the whole museum emptied of its contents--only a bench, the reception desk, and a lowly fern

Whitney - The Whitney Museum of Art(Paperback / softback)

The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Due to open on May 1st, 2015, the project will substantially enlarge the Whitney's exhibition and programming

Tragsysteme/Structure Systems (Engel Heino)(Pevná vazba)

Back in print--the standard work on Heino Engel's structure systems. The hundreds of drawings and photographs reproduced in this hardback volume offer almost endless variations on the many structural systems that can keep buildings together: within a few pages of one another, tents, domes and cubes

Museum Registration Methods, Sixth Edition (Simmons John E.)(Paperback)

The sixth edition of Museum Registration Methods is a comprehensive guide to registration and collections management of museum collections, from acquisition, use, and deaccessioning

Sleepover at the Haunted Museum, 21 (Dadey Debbie)(Paperback)

Shelly and her merfriends are excited to sleep in the museum until they start to wonder if it's haunted in this spooky Mermaid Tales adventure. It's almost Shelly's birthday She can't wait to have her friends over and eat her grandfather's homemade pizza. But when Pearl gets involved in the party

Personalization and Collaboration in Adaptive E-Learning (Tadlaoui Mouenis Anouar)(Pevná vazba)

Describes the specific steps in designing a scenario for a collaborative learning activity in the context of personalization in adaptive systems and the key decisions that need to be made by the teacher-learner. The book features coverage on a broad range of topics that include adaptive teaching,

Museum of Innocence (Pamuk Orhan)(Paperback / softback)

The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small

British Museum: The Legend of Troy (Hawk Goldie)(Paperback / softback)

Coinciding with the hotly anticipated British Museum exhibition Troy: Myth and Reality in November 2019, this is the fascinating story of the destruction of an ancient city and the many ways it has been told and retold over

Learning Analytics in the Classroom: Translating Learning Analytics Research for Teachers (Lodge Jason)(Paperback)

Learning Analytics in the Classroom presents a coherent framework for the effective translation of learning analytics research for educational practice to its practical application in different education domains. Highlighting the real potential of learning analytics as a way to better understand

Multimedia Learning (Mayer Richard E.)(Paperback)

Advances in computer graphic technologies have inspired new efforts to understand the potential of multimedia instruction as a means of promoting human learning. In Multimedia Learning, Third Edition, Richard E. Mayer takes an evidence-based approach to improving education using well-designed

George Cole - The World Was My Lobster (Cole George)(Paperback / softback)

In The World was my Lobster, a title taken from a classic line in a Minder episode, George Cole talks candidly, humorously and sensitively about his adoption, his life, his roles and many of the people he has worked with throughout his long

Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts, Second Edition (Carbonell Bettina Messias)(Paperback)

Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts presents a comprehensive collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture and philosophy. Unique in its deep range of

Museum Basics: The International Handbook (Ambrose Timothy)(Paperback)

This fourth edition of Museum Basics has been produced for use in the many museums worldwide that operate with few professional staff and limited resources. The fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect the many changes that have taken place in museums around the world over the last six

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (Scranton Roy)(Paperback)

In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book.--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Roy Scranton's

The House of Everything: Poems Inspired by Sir John Soane's Museum (Seatter Robert)(Paperback)

Sir John Soane's Museum in central London is a unique and idiosyncratic 'house museum', designed and built in the early 19th century by its obsessive architect/collector owner. This book takes the reader on a personal and poetic trail, capturing the tragic story of the man who created it, the

An Instinct to Draw: John Ruskin's Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (Wildman Stephen)(Paperback)

The Remarkable Women of the Bible (George Elizabeth)(Paperback)

In this inspiring look at the lives of women in the Bible, bestselling author Elizabeth George reveals refreshing models of faith for today. Stories about Eve, Deborah, Sarah, Ruth, Mary, and other women from Scripture offer testimonies of changed lives and reflections on the remarkable strengths

Strange Tricks: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Moore Syd)(Paperback)

Rosie Strange is back in the latest of the fabulously creepy Essex Witch Museum Mysteries Secretly Rosie Strange has always thought herself a little bit more interesting than most people - the legacy her family has bequeathed her is definitely so, she's long believed. But then life takes a peculiar