Library & Information Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789361957Imprint Rockschool LtdPublisher Rockschool Ltd

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science 'Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his scientific creativity, originality, and power. In this exhilarating little book, he shows his human side,...

'Rich, authoritative, and highly readable ... [a] tour de force' David Kynaston Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited. Since the advent of modern...

The Netherlands Society for Systems Research was founded on 9 May 1970 to promote interdisciplinary scientific activity on basis of a systems approach. It has its seat in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Officers for the years 1975/1976: President: G...

Art + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines how the archive emerged in art writing in the mid-1990s and how its subsequent ubiquity can be understood...

Now more than ever, content must be visual if it is to travel far. Readers everywhere are overwhelmed with a flow of data, news, and text. Visuals can cut through the noise and make it easier for readers to recognize and recall information. Yet many...

Tate Britain: Look Again: the National Collection of British Art reimagined for today. Feminism is a powerful new interpretation of British art from an intersectional feminist perspective, from one of Britain's greatest writers. 'Art museums have long...

Codebreaker in the Far East is the first book to describe how Bletchley Park and its Indian and Far Eastern outposts broke a series of Japanese codes and cipher systems of dazzling variety and complexity. Their achievements made a major contribution to...

In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954872004Author Rizwan VirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Bayview Labs, LLCPublisher Bayview Labs, LLCWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786069836316Author J H DampFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Zen Mastery SrlPublisher Zen Mastery SrlWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 4mm

WINNER: International Book Awards 2023 - Business: Technology (1st edition) Not everyone needs to be a data scientist, but everyone should be data literate in a fast-moving world that brings new technological developments every day. It is not...

Exploring how information is more fundamental than energy, matter, space, or time, Jude Currivan, Ph.D., examines the latest research across many fields of study and many scales of existence to show how our Universe is in-formed and holographically...

Since its foundation in 1860, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History's world-renowned collections have become a key centre for scientific study and its much-loved building an important icon for visitors from around the world. The museum now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784566050Author Derek MackFormat PaperbackPage Count 301Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm * 16mm

An information retrieval (IR) system is designed to analyse, process and store sources of information and retrieve those that match a particular user's requirements. A bewildering range of techniques is now available to the information professional...

Social, cultural and technological developments are revolutionizing library services. The way ahead for the profession is now generally seen as a practical blend of traditional and electronic materials with integrated support services which fit...

A clear easy-to-read guide to presenting your message using statistical data Poor presentation of data is everywhere; basic principles are forgotten or ignored. As a result, audiences are presented with confusing tables and charts that do not make...

The 30 original, reproducible puppet scripts in this collection are designed for the one-person show. Advice and suggestions on all aspects of presenting a puppet show, patterns for puppets, and illustrated instructions for construction accompany the...

Every individual book has a history which can help us to understand what difference it may have made in the world. Within these pages you will find books damaged by bullets or graffiti, recovered from fire or water, or even disguised as completely...

Cryptography is the most effective way to achieve data security and is essential to e-commerce activities such as online shopping, stock trading, and bankingThis invaluable introduction to the basics of encryption covers everything from the terminology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645666229Author Carlo DumontetFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Bibliographical Society of Australia and NzPublisher Bibliographical Society of...

Written by leading experts, this self-contained text provides systematic coverage of LDPC codes and their construction techniques, unifying both algebraic- and graph-based approaches into a single theoretical framework (the superposition construction)...

A New York Times Book of the Year, 2018A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICKA dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our libraries.After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean became fascinated by a mysterious local crime that has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739672706Author James V StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint James V StonePublisher James V StoneWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This is not a book about the history of computing or the history of information. Instead, it is a meta-historical book about the research and writing of these types of history. The formal presentation of historical research in the form of a publication...

Beginning with new evidence that cites the presence of books in Roman villas and concluding with present day vicissitudes of collecting, this generously illustrated book presents a complete survey of British and Irish country house libraries. Replete...

Bees existed long before human beings, but our future is perhaps more reliant upon them than any other species. They pollinate 80 per cent of the world's crops and plants, but how much do we really know about them? Small, clever and mysterious, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911500070Author Andrew WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Innovative LibrariesPublisher Innovative LibrariesWeight(grams) 263g

Continuing the case for free voluntary reading set out in the book's 1993 first edition, this new, updated, and much-looked-for second edition explores new research done on the topic in the last ten years as well as looking anew at some of the original...

Multivariate biomarker discovery is increasingly important in the realm of biomedical research, and is poised to become a crucial facet of personalized medicine. This will prompt the demand for a myriad of novel biomarkers representing distinct 'omic'...

Now fully revised and updated for its sixth edition, Inside Book Publishing is the classic introduction to the book publishing industry.Giles Clark and Angus Phillips offer authoritative coverage of all sectors of the industry, from commercial fiction...

A back-to-basics guide on coding for absolute beginners, whether adults or children - no prior experience required! Coding is set to change the way we work and the skills we will need in the future. For those who know nothing about coding, getting to...

Today, Alan Turing is a well-recognised name, but it was not always so. Until the last few years of the 20th century hardly anyone had heard of him or his achievements. All that changed when the British government permitted the story of Bletchley Park...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956372857Author James V. StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Sebtel PressPublisher Sebtel PressWeight(grams) 700g

This ambitious volume, newly available in paperback, explores the rich history of the book, one of the most efficient, influential and enduring technologies ever invented. For more than 2,500 years, the book, in a wide range of forms, has been used to...

Whole Person Librarianship guides librarians through the practical process of facilitating connections among libraries, social workers, and social services; explains why those connections are important; and puts them in the context of a national movement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913627348Author Lorraine MarinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press

Austria 1867-1955 connects the political history of German-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire before 1914 (Vienna and the Alpine Lands) with the history of the Austrian Republic that emerged in 1918. John W. Boyer presents the case of modern...