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Creating Great Visitor Experiences: A Guide for Museum Professionals

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Report copyright infringementby Colleen Higginbotham (Author)If a museum is trying to improve visitor satisfaction, grow and diversify their audience, or engage with their community, they must focus on the experience visitors have inside the museum. Unfortunately, some people don't visit museums because they have had a previous negative experience, or they simply don't feel museums are for people like them. Not only do we need to win back those who we haven't welcomed properly in the past, we...

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Report copyright infringementby Gail Anderson (Editor)Reinventing the Museum: Relevance, Inclusion, and Global Responsibilities is the third edition following the 2004 and 2012 versions of the Reinventing series. More than a decade since the prior volume was published, this edition features all new content written since 2017 relevant to this pivotal time for museums operating in a complex world. This anthology features leading thinkers from across the globe who expertly discuss the realities ...

Museum Education for Today's Audiences: Meeting Expectations with New Models

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Report copyright infringementby Jason L. Porter (Editor), Mary Kay Cunningham (Editor)Today's museum educators are tackling urgent social issues, addressing historic inequalities of museum collections, innovating for accessibility, leveraging technology for new in-person and virtual learning experiences, and cultivating partnerships with schools, businesses, elders, scientists, and other social services to build relationships and be of service to their communities. Despite the physical distan...

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Report copyright infringementby Adina Langer (Editor)With chapters written by a diverse set of practitioners from across the museum field and around the world, Storytelling in Museums explores the efficacy and ethics of storytelling in museums. The book shows how museums use personal, local, and specific stories to make visitors feel welcome while inspiring them to engage with new ideas and unfamiliar situations. At the same time, the book explores the responsibilities of museum practitioners...

Healing from a Narcissistic Relationship: A Caretaker's Guide to Recovery, Empowerment, and Transformation

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Report copyright infringementby Margalis Fjelstad (Author)When a relationship with a narcissist ends, the caretaking partner is often left confused, deeply hurt, and often still emotionally connected, while the narcissist seems to easily move on to the next relationship. Healing from a Narcissistic Relationship offers guidance about what to expect as the relationship unravels and how to cope with the fallout. It also helps the reader learn to truly disengage and move through the grief process...

School Law for Public, Private, and Parochial Educators

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Report copyright infringementby Leo H. Bradley (Author), Mark Meyers (With), Kathleen Winterman (With)School Law for Public, Private, and Parochial Educators serves educators from all types of school systems in preservice or professional development. It is designed as an academic text for master's and doctoral level, and administrative licensure (postmaster's). Since educators often work in both the public and the private sector, this text prepares them for a career in either domain. This is ...

Television Series of the 1960s: Essential Facts and Quirky Details

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Report copyright infringementby Vincent Terrace (Author)By 1960, watching television had become the pastime of millions of viewers around the world. Week after week, audiences tuned in to watch their favorite programs and catch up with their favorite characters. During the 1960s, some of the most beloved shows of all time originally aired, including The Andy Griffith Show, The Fugitive, Get Smart, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and The Wild, Wild West. Even after these shows departed the airwaves, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Sutton (Author)Grant funding is a critical part of museum life, yet to many it seems mysterious. This second edition of Is Your Museum Grant-Ready? isyour guide to assessing readiness to attract grants, understanding how grant funders work, learning how to design highly-fundable projects and programs, and writing and submitting proposals. The author's tips, charts, models, and examples will help you create a manageable and rewarding grant program, or upda...

Music Theory Secrets: 94 Strategies for the Starting Musician

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Report copyright infringementby Brent Coppenbarger (Author)Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor of music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Rowman and Littlefield), Music Secrets is designed for instrumentalists, singers, conductors, composers, and other instructors and professionals seeking a quick set of pointers to improve their work as performers and producers of music. Easy to ...

Regulating Digital Industries: How Public Oversight Can Encourage Competition, Protect Privacy, and Ensure Free Speech

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Report copyright infringementby Mark MacCarthy (Author)Regulating Digital Industries is the first book to address the tech backlash within a coherent policy framework. It treats competition, privacy and free speech as objectives that must be pursued in a coordinated fashion by a dedicated industry regulator. It contains detailed discussions of current policy controversies involving social media companies, search engines, electronic commerce platforms and mobile apps. It argues for new laws an...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrei Brezianu (Author), Vlad Spânu (Author)The Republic of Moldova claims a European lineage reaching back in time long before its 14th century accession to statehood. In the 15th century, it managed against all odds to avoid being conquered by Islam and-albeit an intermittent vassal after 1485-it maintained its autonomy and was never turned into a province of the Ottoman Empire. After this period, however, Moldova would not be so fortunate, as it altered bet...

The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space

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Report copyright infringementby Nina Levent (Editor), Alvaro Pascual-Leone (Editor)Recent research in the cognitive sciences gives us a new perspective on the cognitive and sensory landscape. In The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, museum expert Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School bring together scholars and museum practitioners from around the world to highlight new trends and un...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Prokurat (Author), Michael D. Peterson (Author), Alexander Golitzin (Author)Of the three major branches of Christianity, Orthodoxy is the least known and most misunderstood. The A to Z of the Orthodox Church provides students, researchers, and specialists with a desk encyclopedia of the theology and theologians, saints, sinners, places and events of the Eastern Church. Two millennia of the religion are surveyed in over five hundred concise entries, conc...

Principal's Companion: A Workbook for Future School Leaders

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Report copyright infringementby Ross Sherman (Author), Jason R. Mixon (Author), Theodore Creighton (Foreword by)This book serves as a tool for aspiring school leaders to connect preparation to realities of school leadership. It transfers theory to practice by offering situational exercises, such as analyzing situations in a school and synthesizing overall operations, with the aim of improving their leadership and decision making skills.Author BiographyRoss Sherman, Ed.D., is department chair...

Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His Legacy

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Report copyright infringementby David C. Major (Author), John S. Major (Author)A Huguenot on the Hackensack explores the life and legacy of David Demarest, a seventeenth-century French Protestant who, in middle age, emigrated to New Amsterdam and became one of the earliest settlers of the Hackensack Valley. There he founded a prosperous family that for nearly three centuries retained local influence and high status before being eclipsed by post-World War II economic and demographic changes. T...

National Writers Association Guide to Writing for Beginners: A How-To Reference for Plot, Dialogue, Nonfiction, Internet Publishing, and More

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Report copyright infringementby Sandra Whelchel (Author)The National Writers Association Guide to Writing for Beginners has been used successfully as printed handouts for over twenty-five years with college classes and conference workshops. Unlike many writing books, this guide is broken into small chapters with specific areas of writing addressed within. This gives the beginning writer a chance to read the chapter and then utilize the knowledge on their own projects. By utilizing the instruc...

Seeing with Our Souls: Monastic Wisdom for Every Day

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Report copyright infringementby Joan D. Chittister (Author)As part of her ongoing quest to break open monastic wisdom for the modern world, Sr. Joan Chittister's latest book addresses the question: What qualities of the soul must be cultivated by each of us if we are to become a positive presence in a changing world? Rooted in the ancient tradition of lectio divina - sacred reading that connects Scripture with the pursuit of personal transformation - Seeing with Our Souls highlights a key Bib...

The Jewish Traveler: Hadassah Magazine's Guide to the World's Jewish Communities and Sights

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Report copyright infringementby Alan M. Tigay (Editor)What is there of Jewish interest to see in Bombay? In Casablanca? Where are the kosher restaurants in Seattle? How did the Jewish community in Hong Kong originate? The Jewish Traveler: Hadassah Magazine's Guide to the World's Jewish Communities and Sights provides this information and much more.Author BiographyAlan M. Tigay is the executive editor of Hadassah Magazine. He has contributed articles to The People's Almanac and The Book of Lis...

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Report copyright infringementby Monika K. Hellwig (Author)The central action of the Eucharist-sharing of food, not only eating-underscores the interdependence of all people and the sharing of resources.Author BiographyMonika Hellwig is professor of theology at Georgetown University. Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.38 x 5.74 IN Publication Date: July 01, 1992

Harriet Tubman: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Clifford Larson (Author)A Library Journal Best Reference Book of 2022 Harriet Ross Tubman, born enslaved in Maryland emerged from the most oppressive of conditions to lead others to freedom along the Underground Railroad and then continue her fight against slavery on the battlefields of the Civil War. During the last fifty years of her life in New York she campaigned for voting and civil rights, became an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, community organizer...

On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History One Day at a Time

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Report copyright infringementby Jo Bell (Author), Tania Hershman (Author), Ailsa Holland (Author)A fascinating page-a-day collection profiling extraordinary women of all races, eras, and nationalities. Our past is full of influential women. Whether politicians, troublemakers, explorers, artists, and even the odd murderer, women have shaped society around the globe. But too often, these women have been unfairly confined to the margins of history. On This Day She: Putting Women Back into Histor...

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Report copyright infringementby M. Keith Booker (Author)First airing in 1966, with a promise to "boldly go where no man has gone before," Star Trek would eventually become a bona fide phenomenon. Week after week, viewers of the series tuned in to watch Captain Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the crew of the USS Enterprise as they conducted their five-year mission in space. Their mission was cut short by a corporate monolith that demanded higher ratings, but Star Trek lived on in syndication, ult...

Archaeological Thinking: How to Make Sense of the Past

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Report copyright infringementby Charles E. Orser Jr (Author)How do archaeologists think? How do archaeologists take the scattered and fragmentary remains collected from past settlements and create meaningful, reasonable interpretations of past human history? In the second edition of Archaeological Thinking, Charles E. Orser, Jr. provides answers to these questions and more by explaining in non-technical language the most basic elements of critical thinking in archaeology. This book explores a...

Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen: Myth Versus Reality

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory S. Aldrete (Author), Graham Sumner (Author), Lindsay Powell (Foreword by)An unparalleled exploration of films set in Ancient Rome, from the silent Cleopatra to the modern rendition of Ben-Hur. No sooner had the dazzling new technology of cinema been invented near the end of the 19th century than filmmakers immediately turned to ancient history for inspiration. Nero, Cleopatra, Caesar, and more all found their way to the silver screen and would return ag...

Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the Histories, Functions, and Aspirations of Museums

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Report copyright infringementby Juilee Decker (Author)This book explores the histories and functions of museums while also looking at the current standing of museums and their ongoing efforts toward relevance, resiliency, and future-proofing. Section I examines the beginnings of museums with chapters dedicated to art and design museums; natural history and anthropological museums; science museums; museums focused history and the past; and gardens, zoos, and children's museums. Emphasis is on ...

The Art of Access: A Practical Guide for Museum Accessibility

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Report copyright infringementby Heather Pressman (Author), Danielle Schulz (Author)The Art of Access: A Practical Guide for Museum Accessibility is a one-stop guide to the incremental ways your museum can build a comprehensive approach to accessibility that can be easily integrated into the fabric of your museum. Highlights include: Consultation with leaders in the field and calling on practitioners from across the disciplines (art, science, history, business, living collections)Concrete exam...

Museum Membership Innovation: Unlocking Ideas for Audience Engagement and Sustainable Revenue

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Report copyright infringementby Rosie Siemer (Author)Cultural organizations are entering an era of significant challenges. Rising operating costs, unpredictable funding sources, stagnant membership, and an increasingly competitive landscape for leisure activities indicate that these institutions have reached a critical juncture: what has worked for them in the past will not work going forward. At the same time, massive shifts in demographics and lifestyles are driving changes in consumer beha...

Arias, Ensembles, & Choruses: An Excerpt Finder for Orchestras

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Report copyright infringementby John Yaffé (Author), David Daniels (Author)Conductors John Yaffé and David Daniels have created a one-stop sourcebook for orchestras, opera companies, conductors, and librarians who research and/or prepare programs of vocal excerpts--such as solos, ensembles, and choruses--for concert performance. In this book, readers will find detailed information on a vast repertoire of vocal pieces commonly extracted from operas, operettas, musicals, and oratorios--more tha...

Philosophical Inquiry: Combining the Tools of Philosophy with Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Cam (Author)Philosophical Inquiry shows how to use the tools of philosophy for educational purposes. It is a practical guide to the philosophical arts of questioning, conceptual exploration and reasoning, with wide application across the school curriculum. It provides educators with an effective means of teaching students to think critically and creatively, to use their knowledge to solve problems, to deal with issues, to explore possibilities and work w...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Sainer (Author)Arthur Sainer's research, particularly among members of the Mostel family, has been prodigious and the facts of Zero's life are here. But the author does not hesitate to digress when there is a good story to tell. Number of Pages: 446 Dimensions: 1.57 x 9.33 x 6.39 IN Publication Date: August 01, 2004

Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir

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Report copyright infringementby Foster Hirsch (Author)"Detours and Lost Highways begins with the Orson Welles film, Touch of Evil (1958), which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie is often cited as the end of the line, noir's rococo tombstone...the film after which noir could no longer be made, or at least could no longer be made in the same way... It is my belief, Hirsch writes, that neo-noir does exist and that noir is entitled to full generic status. Over the...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard L. Sartore (Editor)A selection of readings by Joseph Campbell, including the editor's comments on the influence of mythology on personal and societal behaviour and the evolution of the creative mythologies of today. The development of Campbell's thought is traced and an analysis of 'The Hero's Journey' is included. Number of Pages: 138 Dimensions: 0.32 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 09, 1993