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This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407391014 (Volume I), ISBN 9781407391021 (Volume II), ISBN 9780860542360 (Volume set).

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407391014 (Volume I), ISBN 9781407391021 (Volume II), ISBN 9780860542360 (Volume set).

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The relationship between science and the public is one of the great contemporary debates, involving questions of accountability, resource, the construction of knowledge and its legal implications. Mutual understanding between scientists and non-scientists is a key figure in the dialogue and here the interpretation of science in museums has a significant part to play.

This fascinating portrait of the Society of Antiquaries of London, founded in 1707, assesses the impact that individual Fellows and the Society as a whole have had in influencing the way we visualise and understand the past. There are, for example, essays on the Society's pioneering role in recording monuments and antiquities for posterity, in establishing the scientific and empirical basis of archaeological studies, in replacing Biblically ba...

The study of collection is a growth point in cultural studies, conceived as a study of practice, of the ways in which people make sense of the world by bringing elements together. This volume focuses on 19th- and earlier 20th-century collectors.

This volume focuses on the nature and study of collectors and collecting from 1960 onwards. Concentrating on "new" collecting, this volume explores how old trends such as the collecting of antiques, have been superseded by the collection of more "everyday" items, such as telephone cards.

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This volume brings together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections. Together these collected writings examine the part that objects play in our lives, how people relate to material culture and why they collect things. "Interpreting Objects and Collections" begins by setting out the philosophical and historical context of object interpretation. This is followed by a collection of papers discussing objects v...

This book examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere.

Martina Sheehan and Susan Pearse are dedicated to making the science of the mind accessible to all. For over a decade they have shared their mind gardening techniques with some of Australia's most high profile businesses. In 2009 they launched the Mind Gardener¿ range, a series of step-by-step guides that making mind training easy. Often seen in the media, articles on Mind Gardener¿ have been published widely. The authors have appeared on nati...

Highlights the gendered quality of the immigration process in the US, drawing on Census data and interviews

A collection of papers in honour of Henrietta Quinnell.

This clear and lively book provides an illuminating analysis of collecting as a major social and individual phenomenon in contemporary society. The book is based on the understanding of collecting practice, rather than the collections themselves. It highlights the significance of collecting in relation to the cultural process, popular culture, contemporary attitudes to material culture and the idea of collecting as a postmodern activity. Susan...

Presents a national portrait of immigrant women who live in the United States today. Through an examination of US Census data, this book highlights the gendered quality of the immigration process, and interrogates how human agency and societal structures interact within the intersecting social locations of gender and migration.

This clear and lively book provides an illuminating analysis of collecting as a major social and individual phenomenon in contemporary society. The book is based on the understanding of collecting practice, rather than the collections themselves. It highlights the significance of collecting in relation to the cultural process, popular culture, contemporary attitudes to material culture and the idea of collecting as a postmodern activity. Susan...

Canvasses past and contemporary problems of cultural representation and the relationship between the artist, the museum and society.

Charles R. Cockerell (1788-1863) was one of the most significant nineteenth-century British architects and a major player in the cultural shift from the Georgian eighteenth to the Victorian nineteenth century. Cockerell's travelsin the eastern Mediterranean between 1810 and 1817 were the formative experience of his life. His forty letters from this period, held in the archives of the Royal Institute of British Architects and published here for...

Breaking new ground in its analysis of our relationship to the material world, On Collecting examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere. Gathering objects together is a universal human custom, yet every society collects in different ways. Susan Pearce looks at the way we collect and what this tells us about ourselves and our society. She also explores the psychology of coll...

Exploring what happens when love for family and love for religion overlap, this novel follows a woman swept into a religious cult, who believes she has been offered one last chance at salvation. With her deeper involvement in the cult comes increasing alienation from her daughter and husband, resulting in a dangerous entanglement of passion, ambition, love, and duty.