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Publisher
Facet Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Over the years there has been profound changes in how library collections are developed and managed. Digital resources are increasingly central to collections. This collection is cross-sectoral and international in scope, drawing together the perspectives of practitioners and academics at the forefront of modern collection development.
Publisher
Facet Publishing
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Despite the fact that e-books have been in existence for decades in various guises and added to library collections for several years now, there has been a noticeable lack of published manuals on the subject. This is doubtless owing to the rapidly evolving nature of the market. There is now a plethora of different types of digital object that may be termed 'e-books' and a bewildering number of business and access models to match. Moreover the pace...
Author
Series
AGARD report volume no. 625
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Series
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With all of the environmental and social problems confronting our food systems today, it is apparent that none of the strategies we have relied on in the past - higher-yielding varieties, increased irrigation, inorganic fertilizers, pest damage reduction - can be counted on to come to the rescue. In fact, these solutions are now part of the problem. It is becoming quite clear that the only way to keep the food crisis from escalating is to promote...
Author
Series
AGARD report volume no. 635
Publisher
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
11) Toni Morrison
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
A collection of criticism of Morrison's novels with essays arranged in the chronological order of their original publication.
12) Sylvia Plath
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A collection of critical essays on Plath's poetry, arranged chronologically in the order of their original publication.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"Lately I've been possessed of a singularly unhappy idea: the greatest influence on American fiction for the last twenty years may have been Richard Nixon." What happens to American fiction in a time when villains are deprived of their villainy; when our consumer culture insists on happy endings? Did Richard Nixon start a trend of dysfunctional narration that is now rife throughout fiction? In Burning Down the House, Baxter delves into the social...
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Brings together the best criticism yet devoted to The Portrait of a Lady--analyzes James's high mode of comedy, explores the Portrait's relation to Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, examines the thematic changes brought about by James's 1908 revision, and presents an acute and advanced rehetorical analysis of the novel's allegories.
