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Twenty Questions About a Unified Theory of Information: A Short Exploration into Information from a Complex Systems View by Wolfgang Hofkirchner 9780984216475
Booksplease Price: €17.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984216475Author Wolfgang HofkirchnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint ISCE PublishingPublisher ISCE PublishingWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 129mm... -
Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History by Antoinette Burton
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €34.44Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them-about the effect that the researcher's race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that... -
Everyday Cryptography: Fundamental Principles and Applications by Keith Martin 9780198788010
Booksplease Price: €67.50Cryptography is a vital technology that underpins the security of information in computer networks. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the role that cryptography plays in providing information security for everyday technologies such as... -
The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Tom Dalzell
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €39.06The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume.Containing over 60,000 entries, this concise new edition of the... -
Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands Stella Halkyard 9781800174375
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €14.91Library Lives plots the lifelong love affair between one particular bookworm and the John Rylands Library in Manchester, its collections drawn from every corner and period of the textual and meta-textual world. How do we read - and what can we read from... -
Are Libraries Obsolete?: An Argument for Relevance in the Digital Age Mark Y. Herring 9780786473564
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.55The digital age has transformed information access in ways that few ever dreamed. But the afterclap of our digital wonders has left libraries reeling as they are no longer the chief contender in information delivery.The author gives both sides - the web... -
A First Course in Random Matrix Theory: for Physicists, Engineers and Data Scientists by Marc Potters
RRP: €69.01Booksplease Price: €65.47The real world is perceived and broken down as data, models and algorithms in the eyes of physicists and engineers. Data is noisy by nature and classical statistical tools have so far been successful in dealing with relatively smaller levels of... -
Tribe of Hackers Blue Team: Tribal Knowledge from the Best in Defensive Cybersecurity Marcus J. Carey 9781119643418
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.42Blue Team defensive advice from the biggest names in cybersecurity The Tribe of Hackers team is back. This new guide is packed with insights on blue team issues from the biggest names in cybersecurity. Inside, dozens of the world's leading Blue Team... -
When Was Arts in Health?: A History of the Present by Frances Williams
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €42.28This book critically appraises the field of Arts in Health in the light of the recent public health crisis and so-called culture wars. A new term was coined in Britain in 2017 for this area of work by an All-Party Parliamentary Group: "creative health"... -
Miniature Railways by David Henshaw
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.54There are more than 400 miniature railways in Britain. Some are hidden away and privately owned, others are parkland attractions, and some - such as the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch - are large commercial enterprises. They come in an array of gauges (from... -
Introducing Chaos: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar 9781848310131
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.20If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Chaos theory attempts to answer such baffling questions. The discovery of randomness in apparently predictable physical systems has evolved into a science that declares the... -
Managing Archives: Foundations, Principles and Practice by Caroline Williams 9781843341123
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €52.40Managing Archives provides a practical guide to archives management. It has three main target audiences: those who have been tasked by their organization to manage its archives but who have no prior training; those who are starting out as professionals... -
The State of the World Atlas by Dan Smith
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408870Author Dan SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
Information and News Literacy Pedagogy: A Learner-Centered Lifespan Approach by James H. Wittebols 9781433196768
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €32.11Living in a post-truth world during an era of information wars, making sense of events is increasingly challenging for everyone. The fact that today’s politics has found many retreating to ideologically “safe” spaces online where their world view is not... -
Text Analysis with R: For Students of Literature by Matthew L. Jockers 9783030396459
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €54.64Now in its second edition, Text Analysis with R provides a practical introduction to computational text analysis using the open source programming language R. R is an extremely popular programming language, used throughout the sciences; due to its... -
Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL by Dean Allemang 9780123859655
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €50.68Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL, Second Edition, discusses the capabilities of Semantic Web modeling languages, such as RDFS (Resource Description Framework Schema) and OWL (Web Ontology Language). Organized... -
A Practical Guide to Costumed Interpretation by Jackie Lee
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €35.15A Practical Guide to Costumed Interpretation is just that - a book that takes you through the various stages of becoming an historical costumed interpreter. Jackie Lee has worked in this area of heritage interpretation for over twenty years and sets out... -
The Freedom of Information Officer's Handbook by Paul Gibbons
RRP: €80.33Booksplease Price: €68.45Freedom of information (FOI) is now an international phenomenon with over 100 countries from Albania to Zimbabwe enacting the right to know for their citizens. Since 2005, the UK's Freedom of Information Act has opened up thousands of public bodies to... -
One hundred objects in the Frick Art Reference Library by Stephen J. Bury 9781910010280
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €18.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010280Author Stephen J. BuryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks -
A Student's Guide to Coding and Information Theory by Stefan M. Moser 9781107601963
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.39This easy-to-read guide provides a concise introduction to the engineering background of modern communication systems, from mobile phones to data compression and storage. Background mathematics and specific engineering techniques are kept to a minimum so... -
The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death Trish Biers 9781032050751
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.84This book provides a comprehensive examination of death, dying, and human remains in museums and heritage sites around the world.Presenting a diverse range of contributions from scholars, practitioners, and artists, the book reminds us that death and the... -
Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement by Cassidy R. Sugimoto
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €29.43The first large-scale empirical analysis of the gender gap in science, showing how the structure of scientific labor and rewards-publications, citations, funding-systematically obstructs women's career advancement.If current trends continue, women and... -
Practical Cataloguing: AACR, RDA and MARC21 by Anne Welsh
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €68.45This essential new textbook provides cataloguers with the skills needed for transition to Resource Description and Access (RDA). The book builds on John Bowman's highly regarded Essential Cataloguing and gives an introduction to Functional Requirements... -
TLS Cryptography in Depth: Explore the intricacies of modern cryptography and the inner workings of TLS by Dr. Paul Duplys 9781804611951
Booksplease Price: €46.52A practical introduction to modern cryptography using the Transport Layer Security protocol as the primary reference Key Features Learn about real-world cryptographic pitfalls and how to avoid them Understand past attacks on TLS, how these attacks... -
The Trouble With Big Data: How Datafication Displaces Cultural Practices by Jennifer Edmond 9781350239661
Booksplease Price: €35.37Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023This open access book explores the challenges society faces with big data, through the lens of culture rather than social, political or economic trends, as demonstrated in the words we use, the values that underpin... -
Libraries and the Enlightenment by Wayne Bivens-Tatum 9781936117420
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €32.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936117420Author Wayne Bivens-TatumFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Litwin Books, LLCPublisher Litwin Books, LLCWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)... -
Curating with Care Elke Krasny 9781032069968
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €42.47This book presents over 20 authors' reflections on 'curating care' - and presents a call to give curatorial attention to the primacy of care for all life and for more 'caring curating' that responds to the social, ecological and political analysis of... -
The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture by Peter Garratt 9781137593283
Booksplease Price: €120.67This book identifies the 'cognitive humanities' with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science. If cognition should be approached less as a matter of internal representation-a... -
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age by Steven Levy 9780140244328
Booksplease Price: €20.04If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy the author who made "hackers" a household word comes this account of a revolution that is already... -
Scientific Data Analysis by Graham Currell 9780198712541
Booksplease Price: €60.45Reliable data analysis lies at the heart of scientific research, helping you to figure out what your data is really telling you. Yet the analysis of data can be a stumbling block for even the most experienced researcher - and can be a particularly... -
Vauxhall Cars by James Taylor
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.54Vauxhall cars have been central to motoring in Britain for over a century. The company built a formidable reputation in its early years with notable machines like the Prince Henry, the 30/98 and the 1914 Grand Prix cars, and then moved into a more... -
Writing the Annotated Bibliography: A Guide for Students & Researchers by Luke Beatty
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €42.11This comprehensive and practical guide covers the elements, style, and use of annotated bibliographies in the research and writing process for any discipline; key disciplinary conventions; and tips for working with digital sources. Written jointly... -
Taxonomies: Practical Approaches to Developing and Managing Vocabularies for Digital Information by Helen Lippell
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €49.58As organisations across the globe commit to digital transformation, well-managed taxonomies are more critical than ever in supporting a wide range of business applications. Amidst growing industry uptake of controlled vocabularies, ontologies and... -
Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire: Negotiating Post-Colonial Returns by Cynthia Scott 9781032084497
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.10Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire analyzes the history of the negotiations that led to the atypical return of colonial-era cultural property from the Netherlands to Indonesia in the 1970s. By doing so, the book shows that competing visions of... -
The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications by Murray Dick
RRP: €39.27Booksplease Price: €34.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043823Author Murray DickFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm -
What are Archives?: Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives: a reader Louise Craven 9780815399612
RRP: €44.02Booksplease Price: €41.13This collection of essays breaks new ground in archival studies in the UK where professional archival texts have traditionally concentrated on the how, not the why, of archival work. Studies of the theoretical role of, for example, the archive and the... -
Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson 9780300097214
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.04This delightful book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when "books" were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Renowned classicist Lionel Casson takes us on a lively tour, from the royal libraries of the... -
The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History by Alice Crawford 9780691166391
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €36.51From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. The Meaning of the Library is a generously illustrated examination of this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what... -
Effective Machine Learning Teams: Best Practices for ML Practitioners by David Tan 9781098144630
RRP: €76.15Booksplease Price: €51.60Gain the valuable skills and techniques you need to accelerate the delivery of machine learning solutions. With this practical guide, data scientists and ML engineers will learn how to bridge the gap between data science and Lean software delivery in a... -
Everyday Evidence-Based Practice in Academic Libraries: Case Studies and Reflections by Clare Walker Wiley 9780838939857
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €80.05Evidence-based practice (EBP) in academic librarianship is embedded in the way we approach our work. An EBP project might be a yearlong study with many types of evidence collected or a simple assessment that helps you make a small adjustment to your work...