Author: Lance Grande Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022619275X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 431
Book Description
Natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of engaging exhibits that share those discoveries with students and an enthusiastic general public. Grande offers a portrait of curators and their research, conveying the intellectual excitement and the educational and social value of curation. He uses the personal story of his own career-- most of it spent at Chicago's Field Museum-- to explore the value of research and collections, the importance of public engagement, changing ecological and ethical considerations, and the impact of rapidly improving technology.
Author: Guy Steven Needler Publisher: Ozark Mountain Publishing ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 762
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Ever wondered what made the Universe? - Was it the big bang? - Why is it not expanding or contracting? Why does it appear to have an orderly level of functionality? Are there more universes within a much larger multiversal environment? If so, where are they? Are theoretical physicists correct? In The Curators the reader is exposed to the mechanics of the multiversal environment we exist within and those entities that maintain it. In The Curators you will learn:- · That there is a hierarchy of entities that maintain the evolutionary efficiency of the multiverse · The roles and responsibilities of these entities · What nature spirits or elementals are · That we exist in many “Event Spaces” and the Realities within them · That there are different classifications of Event Space and Realities · That these entities can change our Event Spaces and/or Realities at will · That evolutionary efficiency is the primary reason for change in the multiverse · That there are different levels of structure to support the maintenance and functionality of the multiverse.
Author: Jessie Wipperman Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1524523836 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
While being an inventor doesnt seem to be the best line of profession for the accident prone, an inventor working on a way to speed up the cooking time of a microwave unknowingly invents the first time machine. Not realizing what he has just made, he throws it out with all of his other nonworking inventions only realizing what it was he had made after it is stolen. After a daring rescue and a visit to the oracle (really just a crazy old cat lady), he must save time and maybe even fall in love armed with just a superheated ice-cream scoop, a modified version of his time machine, and his talking cat Gitz.
Author: Melanie Dobson Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 1496444191 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 416
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A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of World War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and—decades later—a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry an SS officer and adopt a young girl, Hanna begins to see behind the Nazi facade. A prayer labyrinth becomes a storehouse for Hanna’s secrets, but as she comes to love Lilly as her own daughter, she fears that what she’s hiding—and what she begins to uncover—could put them both in mortal danger. Eighty years later, Ember Ellis is a Holocaust researcher intent on confronting hatred toward the Jewish people and other minorities. She reconnects with a former teacher on Martha’s Vineyard after she learns that Mrs. Kiehl’s mother once worked with the Nazi Ahnenerbe. And yet, Mrs. Kiehl describes her mother as “a friend to the Jewish people.” Wondering how both could be true, Ember helps Mrs. Kiehl regain her fractured childhood memories of World War II while at the same time confronting the heartache of her own secret past—and the person who wants to silence Ember forever.
Author: Nicola Pickering Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited ISBN: 9781848223240 Category : Museums Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The Museum Curator's Guide is a practical reference book for emerging arts and heritage professionals working with a wide range of objects (including fine art, decorative arts, social history, ethnographic and archaeological collections), and explores the core work of the curator within a gallery or museum setting. Nicola Pickering provides a clear introduction to current material culture and museum studies theories, and shows the practical application of these theories to museum collections. She considers the role of the curator, their duties and interaction with objects, and also examines the care or preservation of objects and the ways they can be catalogued, displayed, moved, arranged, stored, interpreted and explained in museums today. The Museum Curator's Guide represents an essential and lasting resource for all those working with the collection, preservation and presentation of objects, including students of collections management and curatorship; current gallery and museum professionals; and private collectors.
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Author: Jessie Wipperman
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