Library & Information Science
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Library: An Unquiet History
$24.99 Add to cartThrough the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB vision
- Author: Battles, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351459
- Language: English
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Mh Convrstnl Amer English
$25.00 Add to cartLearn more than 3,000 English expressions and speak and understand the language easily
As a new speaker of English, you may hear some expressions in your daily conversations that you do not understan
- Series: McGraw-Hill ESL References
- Author: Spears, Richard A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0071741313
- Language: English
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Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
$28.99 Add to cart“One part love letter, one part eulogy, Overdue tells the story of America’s public library system . . . Amanda Oliver proves herself a vibrant new literary voice . . . This is a book for all book lov… [more below]
- Author: Oliver, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1641605316
- Language: English
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Access and Mediation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Attention
$21.99 Add to cartRecent years have seen a rise in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the mind. However, relatively little emphasis has been placed on attention, its functions, and phenomenology. As a result,… [more below]
- Series: Age of Access? Grundfragen Der Informationsgesellschaft #11
- Author: Wehrle, Maren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 03 2023
- ISBN10: 3111353133
- Language: English
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Symbols: An Evolutionary History from the Stone Age to the Future
$44.99 Add to cartFor millennia humans have used visible marks to communicate information. Modern examples of conventional graphical symbols include written language, and non-linguistic symbol systems such as mathemati… [more below]
- Author: Sproat, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 235
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 3031268083
- Language: English
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Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog
$20.99 Add to cartEveryone does research. Some just do it better than others. In this chaotic world of information and misinformation, referred to as “information fog,” university students, in particular, need to learn… [more below]
- Author: Badke, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1663218749
- Language: English
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The Library: A World History
$75.00 Add to cartA library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. As varied and inventive as the volumes they hold, such buildings can be much more than the dusty, dark wooden shelv… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James W. P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2013
- ISBN10: 022609281X
- Language: English
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The Library: A Fragile History
$35.00 Read morePerfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.
Famed across the known world, jealously- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600770
- Language: English
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The Library: A Fragile History
$22.99 Add to cartThe “engaging” and “ambitious” (Washington Post) history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.
The history of the library is rich, varied, and
- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603729
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works
$22.00 Add to cartA guide to understanding the major genres of the story world by the legendary writing teacher and author of The Anatomy of Story, John Truby.
Most people think genres are simply categories on Netflix- Author: Truby, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: 29-Nov-22
- ISBN10: 0374539227
- Language: English
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On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the Us
$16.95 Add to cart“An insightful and humorous look into the complex issues of censorship, Jamie LaRue’s book is at times intellectually and emotionally challenging–like all of the best books should be.” –R. Alan Broo
- Series: Speaker’s Corner
- Author: Larue, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1682753476
- Language: English
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The Library Book
$20.00 Add to cartSusan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)–a dazzling… [more below]
- Author: Orlean, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1476740194
- Language: English
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Hacking School Libraries: 10 Ways to Incorporate Library Media Centers into Your Learning Community
$28.95 Add to cartWelcome to the modern school library and librarian
Whether students are using books, audiobooks, ebooks, or Chromebooks, school libraries are more relevant than ever. They are places for research, refu
- Series: Hack Learning #20
- Author: Kristina, Holzweiss a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 29, 2018
- ISBN10: 1948212064
- Language: English
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
$18.00 Add to cart**New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice**
To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is.- Author: Hammer, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04, 2017
- ISBN10: 1476777411
- Language: English
