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Ancient egyptian coffins : past, present, future
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ISBN: 1785709216 1785709194 9781785709197 9781785709210 9781785709180 1785709186 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford, England ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books,

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Coffins --- Caskets (Coffins) --- Boxes --- Burial


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Boxes : A Field Guide
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ISBN: 9781912729012 1912729016 1912729032 Year: 2020 Publisher: Mattering Press

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A book full of boxes. A box in itself. An unboxing. This book explores boxes in their broadest sense and size. It invites us to step into the field, unravel how and why things are contained and how it might be otherwise. By turning the focus of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to boxing practices, this collation of essays examines boxes as world-making devices. Gathered in the format of a field guide, it offers an introduction to ways of ordering the world, unpacking their boxed-up, largely invisible politics and epistemics. Performatively, pushing against conventional uses of academic books, this volume is about rethinking taken-for-granted formats and infrastructures of scholarly ordering - thinking, writing, reading. It diverges from encyclopedic logics and representative overviews of boxing practices and the architectural organization of monographs and edited volumes through a single, overarching argument. This book asks its users to leave well-trodden paths of linear and comprehensive reading and invites them to read sideways, creating their own orders through associations and relating. Thus, this book is best understood as an intervention, a beginning, an open box, a slim volume that needs expansion and further experiments with ordering by its users.


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Removing the emperor's clothes : Australia and tobacco plain packaging
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ISBN: 1743323980 1743324294 9781743324295 9781743323991 1743323999 9781743323984 9781743323977 1743323972 Year: 2014 Publisher: New South Wales : Sydney University Press,

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Water hammer : practical solutions
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ISBN: 0340645970 9786611119539 1281119539 0080543677 9780470235997 0470235993 9780340645970 9781281119537 6611119531 9780080543673 Year: 1996 Publisher: London : New York : Arnold ; Halsted Press,

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Water hammer, or the study of fluid transient behaviour, is one of the most common problems in the water engineering community. This book covers the many causes and solutions in a practical way and is an essential reference for all those concerned with the flow of liquids, not just water, in pipe systems. It follows on from the authors' previous monograph on the problems and solutions of water hammer and presents common problems in the form of case studies.This is an interesting and useful read for practising engineers working in this area and it will enable them to make comparisons wi


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Innovation by design : lessons from Post Box design & development
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ISBN: 8132209001 813220901X Year: 2013 Publisher: New Delhi ; New York : Springer,

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The book provides an in-depth knowledge on how a product is designed and developed by Product Designers. This has been achieved through a case study of one product – the Post Box. This product was chosen for the study primarily due to its simple and non-technical nature as that would make it easy for the readers to comprehend the design process. At the same time the Post Box posed all the challenges a designer would face while creating a new product. Through a step by step process the book gradually takes the reader through the design and development journey – right from understanding the product, identifying the user need through market research, comprehending client’s brief, generating product ideas and concepts to development of prototype, manufacturing and final performance of the product. The book illustrates the stages in the design process that lead to innovation which is applicable to all types of products. To make the book more stimulating, interesting facts, figures and pictures on related issues like origin and evolution of Post Boxes in India and abroad are included. They are presented separately in boxes and columns without interrupting the flow of the core subject matter. The narrative and the language is simple and lucid and possibly balanced with a vivid formatting and layout that is easy on the eye. Dr. B. K. Chakravarthy is a Professor in Product Innovation at the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Bombay. He has facilitated innovation initiatives in diverse contexts across several reputed organisations and has brought in the industry perspective to classrooms. To promote innovation in a sustained manner in both the academic and industry circles he established the Shenoy Innovation Studio at IDC with a mandate to humanise technology. Ms. Janaki Krishnamoorthi is a Freelance Journalist based in Mumbai. She has been writing for over three decades on various topics including product design in several leading newspapers and magazines like the Times of India, Indian Express, Construction World and Infrastructure Today.

Insurmountable simplicities : thirty-nine philosophical stories
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ISBN: 1283007991 9786613007995 0231510403 9780231510400 9781283007993 0231137222 0231137230 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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"Perhaps not all the stories that follow are true. They could, however, be true, and the Reader is invited to ponder this. "So begins Insurmountable Simplicities, Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi's colorful incarnation of the many philosophical conundrums that hide in the wrinkles of everyday life. Why do mirrors seem to invert left and right but not up and down? How do we know whether strawberries taste the same for everyone? Where is it written that we must observe the law, and if it is not written, why should we observe it? What if we could swap brains-or the rest of our bodies? Insurmountable Simplicities is filled with stories, dialogues, and epistolary exchanges that cover a range of themes-such as personal identity, causality and responsibility, fortune, the nature of things, the paradoxes of time and space, the interface between logic and language-in captivating and inventive ways. Clear, concise, and intellectually engaging, this internationally acclaimed book brilliantly demonstrates that the beauty of philosophy resides in its thorough engagement with the simplicities of the world, insurmountable as they might initially appear.


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Great answers to difficult questions about adoption : what children need to know
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ISBN: 1281782459 9786611782450 1846428173 9781846428173 9781281782458 9781843106715 184310671X Year: 2008 Publisher: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley,

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The author covers all the common questions that children ask about adoption and provides sensitive, candid answers in a way that children will be able to understand and relate to. Each chapter is devoted to a particular issue, such as why a child is adopted, who chose the child's first name and what happens when the child grows up.


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Automotive black boxes : background, issues, engineering data analysis
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ISBN: 1634630971 9781634630979 9781634630603 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : Nova Publishers,

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is proposing to require event data recorders (EDRs)-widely referred to as ""black boxes""-on all new passenger vehicles sold in the United States. Although over 90% of the new cars and light trucks sold in the United States already come with EDRs intended to capture information about the final seconds before a crash, these are installed voluntarily by the manufacturers. This book discusses the background of automotive black boxes. It also provides issues that these black boxes create, as well as a engineering data analysis.


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Wood coffin burial of Kinabatangan, Sabah
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ISBN: 9838617261 9789838617260 9789838615938 9838615935 Year: 2014 Publisher: Pulau Pinang, Malaysia : Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia,


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Museen und Outreach : Outreach als strategisches Diversity-Instrument
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ISBN: 3830986874 9783830986874 3830936877 Year: 2018 Publisher: Münster Waxmann

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Wie erreichen Museen eine diversere, die Gesellschaft widerspiegelnde Besucherschaft? Welche Ansätze kuratorischer Arbeit braucht es, um neue Formen von Narrativen zu entwickeln? Welche Fragestellungen ergeben sich dadurch in Bezug auf Führungskultur, Personalstrukturen und Arbeitsweisen? Wie ist es möglich, mit neuen Partnerschaften und strategischen Allianzen Relevanz für mehr Menschen zu erreichen? Mit einer Outreach-Strategie können Museen gezielt mit individuell entwickelten Programmen auf eine Diversifizierung der Besucherschaft und auf die Veränderung der Organisationskultur hinwirken. Dieses Buch zeigt die Stärken von Outreach als strategischem Diversity-Instrument. Es liefert eine Definition von Outreach, entwirft einen Überblick über den Forschungsstand zur aktuellen demographischen und sozioökonomischen Situation des Museumspublikums, zeichnet die historische Entwicklung von Outreach im internationalen Zusammenhang nach und stellt dar, wie sich Outreach im Kontext von Audience Development, Sozialer Inklusion, Partizipation und Empowerment verortet. Es werden verschiedene Outreach-Formate wie Museumsboxen und -koffer, Mobile Museen und Satellitenmuseen sowie digitale Outreach-Formate wie Webseiten, Social Media, Apps, digitale Sammlungen, MOOCs und digitale Strategien vorgestellt. Beispiele aus der musealen Praxis in Deutschland, Großbritannien, Skandinavien und den Niederlanden mit Erfahrungsberichten aus Interviews veranschaulichen diese Formate. Ein Blick geht dabei auch in andere Bereiche und Kultursparten wie Oper und klassische Musik, Bibliothekswesen und Wissenschaft. Zusammenfassend werden Grundlagen und konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen zur Planung und Umsetzung einer Outreach-Strategie erläutert und Empfehlungen für kulturpolitische Rahmenbedingungen gegeben. Denn neben einigen Praxisbeispielen besticht das Buch vor allem durch eine grundlegende Besprechung dessen, was alles im Stichwort Outreach steckt. [...] Das Buch [...] liefert neben den theoretischen Grundlagen vor allem viel Einblick in die Praxis des Outreach und liefert zahlreiche Argumente, warum dieser Ansatz für die Zukunft der Museen hilfreich sein kann. - Anke von Heyl auf Ihrer Website [Die Autorinnen] möchten Museen anhand ihrer Erfahrungen Impulse geben, um ein diverses Publikum mittels anderer Formate und Konzepte anzusprechen. Neben einem historischen Abriss offerieren sie Ansätze vom Museumkoffer über Mobile Museen bis hin zu Apps, Digitalen Sammlungen und MOOCs. Outreach-Praktiken werden anhand von deutschen und weltweiten Museen sowie anderen Kulturinstitutionen dargestellt. - Birgit Wolf, in: Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen 1/2019, S. 99. [Die Autorinnen] haben mit ihrem Buch - auch weil es erfreulich knapp und auf den Punkt formuliert ist - eine hilfreiche Anregung vorgelegt, die einem helfen kann, die eigenen Gedanken für die strategische Planung zu systematisieren und durch Impulse von anderswo anzureichern. - Hiram Kümper, in: Zeitarbeit 1/2019, S. 97. Positiv sticht [...] besonders die Verwendung statistischer Daten zu Publikum und Besuchen, aber auch zu Interesse und Beliebtheit hervor, weshalb eine Unterteilung in Museumskategorien vorgenommen wurde, die wiederum guten Aufschluss darüber gibt, welche Art von Museen vorrangig von Besuchermangel betroffen sind. Außerdem erfolgte durch die Autorinnen eine detaillierte Untersuchung des Museumspublikums hinsichtlich demographischer Daten, sozialem Stand und Lebensstil. Gleichzeitig wird das bisher ungenutzt Potential an möglichen Besuchern aufgezeigt, bei dem noch einmal deutlich wird, dass Bildung und Einkommen die entscheidenden Faktoren sind. - Julia Elisabeth Langholz, in: b.i.t. online 6/2019, S. 550. Das Buch "Museen und Outreach" bietet einen überaus hilfreichen Einblick in die Möglichkeiten, neue Besuchergruppen zu erschließen und bereits bestehende nachhaltig an eine Institution zu binden; es ist daher für Leser aus allen Bereichen des Kulturmanagements eine Lektüre wert. - Angelika Schuster-Fox, in: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 1/2020, S. 157. Die Publikation kann als geglückter Versuch angesehen werden, den Museen im deutschsprachigen Raum eine erste Übersicht über die Bandbreite von Outreach an die Hand zu geben und sie zu ermutigen, die einzelnen, bislang noch losen Fäden einzeln implementierter Strategien zu einem Gesamtkonzept zu verknüpfen. - Maren Böhm, in: Rheinisch-westfälische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 54/65 2019/2020, S.138 ff.

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