Steven Miller: 34 books

Deaccessioning Today: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive international overview of deaccessioning. Author Steven Miller covers reasons for removing items from collections, looks at how and why deaccessioning occurs in museums around the world, and discusses recommended disposition procedures. Collections...

Does the general public need to understand science? And if so, is it scientists' responsibility to communicate? Critics have argued that, despite the huge strides made in technology, we live in a "scientifically illiterate" society--one that thinks about the world and makes important decisions...

Written by a museum professional and based on a course taught for many years, The Anatomy of a Museum is an engaging and accessible volume that provides a unique insider’s guide to what museums are and how they operate. An insider’s view of the rarefied world of the museum that provides a...

War after Death considers forms of violence that regularly occur in actual wars but do not often factor into the stories we tell about war, which revolve invariably around killing and death. Recent history demonstrates that body counts are more necessary than ever, but the fact remains that...

Finding a museum job is a highly competitive endeavor today. The unprecedented international growth of museums combined with a similar growth in programs to train staff for these unique institutions has vastly increased the number of qualified applicants for positions of all sorts. Finding work in...

Given the tremendous recent advances in the understanding of acquired neonatal brain injury and in the care of affected newborn infants, this book provides a timely review for the practising neurologist, neonatologist and pediatrician. The editors take a pragmatic approach, focusing on specific populations...

At the start of the twenty-first century, America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. The Purpose Driven Life. Joel Osteen. The Left Behind novels. George W. Bush. Evangelicalism had become so powerful and pervasive that political scientist Alan Wolfe wrote of "a sense in which we are all...

While spreading the gospel around the world through his signature crusades, internationally renowned evangelist Billy Graham maintained a visible and controversial presence in his native South, a region that underwent substantial political and economic change in the latter half of the twentieth century....

From the time of Christ’s command to never swear, up to the 1650s when Quakers were executed in Massachusetts, people would rather suffer painful executions than to swear oaths. This book is for those who suspect that Christianity has not changed.If you want to understand the legalities that ensnared...

-- If you don’t understand the outrage over forced identification, then you will not recognize the government’s brutal plans for humanity.-- In 1964 the U.S. Supreme Court said that identification credentials are “abhorrent in the United States.”-- Most Americans have relinquished what traditional...

A collection of new and original steampunk short stories. Tommy's Game by LM Cooke A young man is drawn into an unusual - and lethal - game of chance. Celestine by Steven C Davis A sophisticated automaton awakes in a confused state in a laboratory; how did she arrive there...

A story of a child and her love of animals, in this case, a white rabbit. Though this story takes place in north Texas, similar situations exist all over the world within families wherein a child wants a warm furry animal. The story is about the Dad being reminded of his white rabbit he had when he...

The government has a duty to count the number of Persons. “We The People” gave them that duty in the Constitution. They do not have a right to compel us to waive our rights. The Constitution authorizes a census. The first census had 4 questions (Act of March 1, 1790, ch.2, 1 Stat. 101.) Where...

American pragmatism has always had at its heart a focus on questions of communities and ethics. This book explores the interrelated work of three thinkers influenced by the pragmatist tradition: Josiah Royce, Wilfrid Sellars, and Richard Rorty. These thinkers’ work spanned the range of twentieth-century...