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Book The Spirit of Inquiry

Download or read book The Spirit of Inquiry written by John V. Richardson and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1982 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spirit of Inquiry in Library Science

Download or read book The Spirit of Inquiry in Library Science written by John Vinson Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spirit of Inquiry in Library Science

Download or read book The Spirit of Inquiry in Library Science written by John Vinson Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spirit of Inquiry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susannah Gibson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-02-15
  • ISBN : 0192569880
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book The Spirit of Inquiry written by Susannah Gibson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importance in the University of Cambridge. But that began to change in 1819 when two young Cambridge fellows took a geological fieldtrip to the Isle of Wight. Adam Sedgwick and John Stevens Henslow spent their days there exploring, unearthing dazzling fossils, dreaming up elaborate theories about the formation of the earth, and bemoaning the lack of serious science in their ancient university. As they threw themselves into the exciting new science of geology - conjuring millions of years of history from the evidence they found in the island's rocks - they also began to dream of a new scientific society for Cambridge. This society would bring together like-minded young men who wished to learn of the latest science from overseas, and would encourage original research in Cambridge. It would be, they wrote, a society "to keep alive the spirit of inquiry". Their vision was realised when they founded the Cambridge Philosophical Society later that same year. Its founders could not have imagined the impact the Cambridge Philosophical Society would have: it was responsible for the first publication of Charles Darwin's scientific writings, and hosted some of the most heated debates about evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century; it saw the first announcement of x-ray diffraction by a young Lawrence Bragg - a technique that would revolutionise the physical, chemical and life sciences; it published the first paper by C.T.R. Wilson on his cloud chamber - a device that opened up a previously-unimaginable world of sub-atomic particles. 200 years on from the Society's foundation, this book reflects on the achievements of Sedgwick, Henslow, their peers, and their successors. Susannah Gibson explains how Cambridge moved from what Sedgwick saw as a "death-like stagnation" (really little more than a provincial training school for Church of England clergy) to being a world-leader in the sciences. And she shows how science, once a peripheral activity undertaken for interest by a small number of wealthy gentlemen, has transformed into an enormously well-funded activity that can affect every aspect of our lives.

Book The Spirit of Inquiry in Library Science

Download or read book The Spirit of Inquiry in Library Science written by John V. Richardson and published by . This book was released on with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science written by Allen Kent and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 68th volume (supplement 31) in a series which examines library and information science.

Book Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare

Download or read book Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare written by David Stanley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical leadership, along with values-based care and compassion, are critical in supporting the development of high quality healthcare service and delivery. Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare: Values into Action offers a range of tools and topics that support and foster clinically focused nurses and other healthcare professionals to develop their leadership potential. The new edition has been updated in light of recent key changes in health service approaches to care and values. Divided into three parts, it offers information on the attributes of clinical leaders, as well as the tools healthcare students and staff can use to develop their leadership potential. It also outlines a number of principles, frameworks and topics that support nurses and healthcare professionals to develop and deliver effective clinical care as clinical leaders. Covering a wide spectrum of practical topics, Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare includes information on: Theories of leadership and management Organisational culture Gender Generational issues and leaders Project management Quality initiatives Working in teams Managing change Effective clinical decision making How to network and delegate How to deal with conflict Implementing evidence-based practice Each chapter also has a range of reflective questions and self-assessments to help consolidate learning. Itis invaluable reading for all nursing and healthcare professionals, as well as students and those newly qualified.

Book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science  Volume 12   Inquiry

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science Volume 12 Inquiry written by Allen Kent and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1971-09-01 with total page 1644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."

Book Library and Information Science

Download or read book Library and Information Science written by M. Esperanza and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Challenges and Opportunities for Knowledge Organization in the Digital Age

Download or read book Challenges and Opportunities for Knowledge Organization in the Digital Age written by Fernanda Ribeiro and published by Ergon Verlag. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 995 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thema der 15. Internationalen Konferenz der International Society for Knowledge Organization vom 9. bis 11. Juli 2018 in Porto ist "Challenges and Opportunities for Knowledge Organization in the Digital Age". Der Konferenzband fasst die Vorträge von Wissenschaftlern aus aller Welt zusammen.

Book Sacred Science

Download or read book Sacred Science written by John Heron and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Library Science Research Reader and Bibliographic Guide

Download or read book A Library Science Research Reader and Bibliographic Guide written by Charles H. Busha and published by Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1981 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliografia : p. 164-190.

Book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences written by John D. McDonald and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 5538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, comprising of seven volumes, now in its fourth edition, compiles the contributions of major researchers and practitioners and explores the cultural institutions of more than 30 countries. This major reference presents over 550 entries extensively reviewed for accuracy in seven print volumes or online. The new fourth edition, which includes 55 new entires and 60 revised entries, continues to reflect the growing convergence among the disciplines that influence information and the cultural record, with coverage of the latest topics as well as classic articles of historical and theoretical importance.

Book American Library History

Download or read book American Library History written by Arthur P. Young and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...a leaping departure in comprehensiveness, organizational format, and accessibility through indexing...A magnificent contribution to the study of American library history. --LIBRARIES & CULTURE ...a work of enormous and painstaking scholarship. --LIBRARY ASSOCIATION RECORD (UK)

Book The Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson

Download or read book The Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson" explores the history of science in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries"--

Book The Science of Reading

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adrian Johns
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2023-04-05
  • ISBN : 022682148X
  • Pages : 503 pages

Download or read book The Science of Reading written by Adrian Johns and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Science of Reading is the surprisingly unsung history of scientific research into reading practices, from the origin of the field in German psychophysics to its current extension into digital and online areas. Starting in the late nineteenth century and continuing through to the present, the practice of reading has been made the subject of extensive scientific investigation, and historian Adrian Johns here explores the questions that motivated this research program, the technologies that enabled it, the ambitions that drove it, and the consequences it produced as it was carried out. Its champions' ambitions extended far beyond the laboratory: psychological experimenters were keen to point out that everything in a modern society depended on the population's ability to read, and to read well. These scientists sought to reconstruct mass education, and the childhood experiences of millions of Americans were reshaped according to their maxims. They sought to transform mass capitalism, and, following a national campaign to boost "reading efficiency," the workplace experiences of millions of American adults shifted as well. They sought to place the defense of the nation on a secure footing, and so servicemen and spies were subjected to their science, from the heart of the Pentagon to the decks of aircraft carriers in the Pacific. By the end of the twentieth century, Johns argues, it would not be an exaggeration to say that modernity itself had been substantially shaped by the conscious application of the scientific study of reading"--

Book Erving Goffman and the Cold War

Download or read book Erving Goffman and the Cold War written by Gary D. Jaworski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erving Goffman and the Cold War presents a provocative new reading of the work of sociologist Erving Goffman. Instead of viewing him as a “marginal man” or academic outsider, Gary D. Jaworski explores Goffman as a social theorist of the Cold War. Goffman was deeply connected to both the ethos of his time and to a range of cold warriors and their critics, such as Edward A. Shils, Thomas C. Schelling, and the researchers on “brainwashing” associated with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, among others. Chapters on loyalty, betrayal, secrecy, strategy, interrogation, provocation, and aggression concretely illustrate these connections. Erving Goffman and the Cold War shows that Goffman was much more than a microsociologist of mundane life; he was a perceptive analyst of the Cold War America.