Scarecrow Press: 1180 books
Build It Once
A Basic Primer for the Creation of Online Exhibitions
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
While online exhibitions vary in complexity, basic tenets apply to the design of fluid, descriptive, and easily navigable displays. Build It Once: A Basic Primer for the Creation of Online Exhibitions explains these principles, as well as the basic structure for a flexible, easy-to-use exhibition...
Social Networking
The Essence of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2007
Social network analysis (SNA) is a technique that is used to determine knowledge flows and gaps in mapping social networks for various knowledge types. Social Networking: The Essence of Innovation discusses how social networking and SNA can influence innovation in an organization through the presentation...
The World's Best Thin Books, Revised
What to Read When Your Book Report is Due Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2000
The book report is due and panic sets in. A THIN book is the ticket. But perhaps a THINNER book? Or the THINNEST book of all? And how to pick one (quickly) that will be interesting?
Students, teachers, and librarians will love this handy little volume that describes 100 titles recommended for...
Scholarly Resources for Children and Childhood Studies
A Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
Editor Vibiana Bowman has drawn together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of children and childhood studies (CCS) in this guided approach to literature searching in CCS. The contributors to this book are both faculty currently teaching in the area of CCS...
The Phenomenon of Information
A Conceptual Approach to Information Flow
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
We are surrounded by information. Even the most routine situations in which we find ourselves conceal a hidden information flow. Every step we take, a host of signals meet us, providing information about what is happening in other parts of reality. The cherry tree in bloom reveals that spring has...
Technology and the School Library
A Comprehensive Guide for Media Specialists and Other Educators
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2006
Technology has become one of the three main areas of focus for school librarians, along with collaboration and leadership. To meet the growing need in this area, Technology and the School Library provides an overview of the types of technologies used in school libraries, from traditional low-tech...
by Elizabeth Yakel
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1996
Starting an Archives is designed for institutional administrators, archivists, and records managers thinking about beginning a historical records program in their organization. The book covers the decision making process which should precede the establishment of an archival program, outlines the first...
by Richard A. Lobban Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2003
The Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia covers the period from the Paleolithic, all the periods of ancient Nubia (Predynastic, Kerma, Dynasty XXV, Napatan, Meroitic, Post-Meroitic) and to the end of medieval Christianity in Nubia (Sudan). This resource focuses on Nubian history through...
by Thomas O'Toole, Mohamed Saliou Camara, Janice E. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The most significant thing about Guinea is its potential. It is strategically located in West Africa, with a well-educated and hardworking population, and endowed with considerable natural resources, indeed, enough to make it reasonably affluent if properly utilized. But this potential has never really...
by Francisco J. Romero Salvadó
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The tragedy that devastated Spain for 33 months from July 1936 to April 1939, was, first and foremost, a brutal fratricidal conflict, the product of the fatal clash between diametrically opposed views of Spain and an attempt to settle crucial issues which had divided Spaniards for generations: agrarian...
by Edward H. Moseley, Paul C. Clark Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
The first reference work of its kind, this volume on the United States-Mexican War encompasses the decade of the 1840s, focusing on the war years of 1846-1848. More than a dozen maps were drawn for this book, some of which depict major regions and localities over which armies of both nations moved...
Iraq's Modern Arabic Literature
A Guide to English Translations Since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Covering 60 years of materials, this bibliography cites translations, studies, and other writings, which represent Iraq's national literature, including recent works of numerous Iraqi writers living in Western exile. The volume serves as a guide to three interrelated data:
o Translations that...
by Angela Leeper
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Poetry in Literature for Youth offers teachers, librarians, parents, and students with an instrumental guide for incorporating all forms of poetry into the curriculum. More than 900 annotated entries provide descriptions of books and other resources, including anthologies, classics, various poetry...
The Chinese Imperial Examination System
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
The Chinese imperial examination system is unique in traditional Chinese society with origins dating back 1,300 years, and has had a far-reaching impact not only on contemporary Chinese society, but also on government systems of other countries around the world. The system was originally created as...