Ken Arnold

The last few years has, within museums, witnessed nothing short of a revolution. Worried that the very institution was itself in danger of becoming a dusty, forgotten, culturally irrelevant exhibit, vigorous efforts have been made to reshape the museum mission. Fearing that history was coming to be ignored by modern society, many institutions have instead marketed a de-intellectualised heritage, overly relying on computer technology to captivate a contemporary audience. The theme of this work is that we can do much to reassess the rationale that inspires contemporary collections through a study of seventeenth century museums. England's first museums were quite literally wonderful; founded that is on the disciplined application of the faculty of wonder. The type of wonder employed was not that post-Romantic idea of disbelief, but rather an active form of curiosity developed during the Renaissance, particularly by the individuals who set about gathering objects and founding museums to further their enquiries. The argument put forward in this book is that this museological practice of using objects actually to create, as well as disseminate knowledge makes just as much sense today as it did in the seventeenth century and, further, that the best way of reinvigorating contemporary museums, is to return to that form of wonder. By taking such a comparative approach, this book works both as a scholarly historical text, and as an historically informed analysis of the key issues facing today's museums. As such, it will prove essential reading both for historians of collecting and museums, and for anyone interested in the philosophies of modern museum management.

Looking Back at Early English Museums

Cabinets for the Curious

Danielle Olsen

After about 1895, when Wellcome (1853-) had already made a considerable fortune in the pharmaceutical industry and had traveled extensively looking for new drugs or new sources for established ones, he began developing his collecting interests, and began his medical museum about 1903. An exhibition based on it was mounted at the British Museum in 2003, and is here documented. There is no index. Distributed by The David Brown Book Company. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome

Medicine Man

David Bickford

Over 600 photographs of demijohns, old stores, 150 invoice and advertisements. Most demijohns are accompanied by a history of the business thus the book only deals with the wine and spirit merchants who had their own stone demijohns (containers) within Victoria north of a line from Nhill across to the east cost of Victoriana most important addition for any bottle collector, family history groups or historians.

Victorian Demijohns

James Gosling

David Holmes

Restructured to deliver in-depth coverage of Java's critical new features, this guide contains code examples to help developers make the most of new Java features. It offers a creator's eye view of the rationale behind Java's design, and its latest enhancements, all designed to help developers make the most of Java's power, portability, and flexibility.

The Java Programming Language

Eric Freeman

Susanne Hupfer

Annotation "JavaSpaces technology is a powerful Jini service from Sun Microsystems, Inc. that facilitates building distributed applications. The JavaSpaces model provides persistent object exchange "areas" in which remote Java processes can coordinate their actions and exchange data. JavaSpaces technology supplies a necessary, cross-platform framework for distributed computing with Jini technology." "This book introduces the JavaSpaces technology architecture and provides a comprehensive description of the model. Using an example-driven approach, this book shows you how to use JavaSpaces technology to develop distributed computing applications." "JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns, and Practice also includes two full-scale applications - one collaborative and the other parallel - that demonstrate how to put the JavaSpaces model to work."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns, and Practice

Maurice Stewart

Design of Oil-handling Systems and Facilities

Equipment and process trouble-shooting techniques.

Gas Sweetening and Processing Field Manual

"Includes hydrate prevention, chemical injection systems, hydrate inhibitor methods; Condensation process, Glycol Regeneration and Molecular Sieves; An appendix provides the reader with additional exercises and solutions"--

Gas Dehydration Field Manual

This revised edition puts the most current information about gas-handling systems and facilities at your fingertips. The authors channeled their classroom and field experience into this volume, which features many new sections such as: * Heat recovery units * Kinetic inhibitors and anti-agglomerators * Trays and packing for distillation and absorption towers * Compressor valves * Foundation design considerations for reciprocating compressors * Pressure vessel issues and components * Nox reduction in engines and turbines * Safety management systems This book walks you through the equipment and processes used in gas-handling operations to help you design and manage a production facility. Production engineers will keep this volume on the desktop for the latest information on how to DESIGN, SPECIFY, and OPERATE gas-handling systems and facilities. The book allows engineers with little or background in production facility design to easily locate details about equipment, processes, and design parameters. With this volume, you will more completely comprehend the techniques of handling produced fluids from gas wells so your facility can be more efficient and productive. * Revised edition puts the most current information about gas-handling systems at your fingertips * Features brand new sections!

Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities

Surface Production Operations, Volume 2:

James Peto

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Whilst contemporary society shines a relentless spotlight on the self and has given birth to a 'me generation', social structures and scientific innovations have reduced the idea of the self to a mere statistic through the use of DNA profiling, identity cards and PIN numbers. New technologies have also shifted the idea of the self by enabling us to lead alternative existences and create virtual selves. A diverse range of perspectives are presented, including historical case studies to interviews exploring the more immediate social, cultural and political pressures shaping contemporary identity issues. Interviewees include singer, songwriter and political campaigner Billy Bragg, Independent columnist and Who Do We Think We Are? author Yasmin Alibhai, Paul Brooks, neuroscientist and author of Into The Silent Land, and Roz Kaveney, critic and writer, who was "born male but got over it". Generously illustrated and visually provocative the book is infused throughout with the paraphernalia of identity, such as diary extracts, fingerprint collections, artworks, photographs and death masks, bringing a strong visual component to the subject. ILLUSTRATIONS 206 b/w and colour images *

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