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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Finders Keepers Finders Keepers Craig Childs From Publishers Weekly Childs (The Animal Dialogues) intermingles personal experiences as a desert ecologist and adventurer with a journalistic look at scientists, collectors, museum officials, and … OL16335912W
Never mind the captions Never mind the captions Alistair Findlay "Join Alistair Findlay on an off-beat tour of Scotland, from museum artifacts to public pieces of art, where he captures the humorous, passionate, and sometimes biting voices of some of our national … OL16656596W
Saving Italy Saving Italy Robert M. Edsel When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the… OL16811128W
New Frontiers of Intellectual Property Law New Frontiers of Intellectual Property Law Christopher Heath This book, arising from the collaboration between the IEEM in Macao and the Max Planck Institute in Munich, provides up-to-date information on developments in global intellectual property law and pol… OL16930684W
Studies in art and archaeological conservation Studies in art and archaeological conservation A. S. Bisht Festschrift for B.B. Lal, 1913-2000, Indian archaeologist and conservation specialist; contributed articles. OL19523154W
Archaeoastronomy Archaeoastronomy Giulio Magli This book provides the first complete, easy to read, up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studi… OL19664692W
Luo Zhewen li shi wen hua ming cheng yu gu jian zhu bao hu wen ji Luo Zhewen li shi wen hua ming cheng yu gu jian zhu bao hu wen ji Zhewen Luo Ben shu hui ji le zuo zhe 50 duo nian lai you guan li shi wen hua ming cheng he gu jian zhu bao hu de 50 duo pian wen zhang, nei rong she ji li shi wen hua ming cheng bao hu li lun yu shi jian ji zho… OL20674641W
Integrated management tools in the heritage of South-East Europe Integrated management tools in the heritage of South-East Europe Rob Pickard,Juris Dambis As part of the Institutional Capacity Building Plan, a transnational theme-based debate was organized. The second step in this debate stemmed from an assessment of requests from the countries/regions… OL20871758W
By-roads and hidden treasures By-roads and hidden treasures Ross Gibson,Chris Gibson,Paul Ashton What is keeping people strong in isolated and under-populated locales, and how much of that is cultural? In 2008 the Cultural Asset Mapping for Regional Australia (CAMRA) project was born with the ve… OL22323755W
Great Basin restoration initiative Great Basin restoration initiative Michael P. Drews "The Great Basin Restoration Initiative (GBRI) is a multi-state, multi-agency, state, local, and federal initiative focused on 'restoration' of the sage/pinion/juniper biome within 75 million acres o… OL24419113W
Les peuples premiers Les peuples premiers Jérôme Bimbenet Présentation de nombreuses sociétés autochtones des cinq continents et des dangers auxquels elles sont confrontées. L'auteur dresse un bilan de leur situation dramatique, des enjeux qui pèsent sur le… OL24428399W
Intrigue of the past Intrigue of the past Kelly Letts,Danielle Paterson,Jeanne Moe,Shelley J. Smith Education program using 28 lessons "to educate students to take responsible and thoughtful actions towards our archaeological heritage." Covers fundamental concepts, process of, and issues in archaeo… OL28960978W
Looters, smugglers and collectors Looters, smugglers and collectors Ana María Bresciani,Alexander Alberro,Tone Hansen Looters, smugglers, and collectors: Provenance research and the market departs from and extends beyond the restitution case of Henri Matisse's "Blue Dress in a Yellow Armchair" (1937) to the heirs of… OL31212324W
Managing our cultural heritage Managing our cultural heritage Xavier Greffe With reference to France. OL750914W
The Ancient City The Ancient City Peter Connolly Superb, detailed reconstructions of buildings provide the starting-point for a vivid exploration of these two great cities and the lives of the people who inhabited them. Peter Connolly's illustratio… OL859407W
Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities Dennis Rodwell Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities examines how the two key issues of urban conservation and sustainability relate to each other in the context of historic cities, and how they can be… OL8719266W
Splendor of Tibet Splendor of Tibet Phuntsok Namgyal 150 pages : 30 cm OL8954453W