Author: Bernard Finn
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: artefacts, electronics, exposing
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2000-12-21
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 9058230570
ISBN-13: 9789058230577

It is clear that artefacts have the power to provoke thought, inspire action and arouse passions. There is evidence of this in the ever-increasing number of museums as well as in the ability of those museums to stimulate controversy through exhibits. As a consequence, much has been written analysing the interaction between objects and museum visitors. Less well recognised, or understood, is the value of objects for historical research.In this series of books we propose to show by example how artefacts can be employed in the study of the history of science and technology in ways ranging from mo

Author: R.W Cahn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: science, materials, essays, artefacts, artifice
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 075030152X
ISBN-13: 9780750301527

For more than a quarter of a century Robert Cahn has been writing articles for Nature and other esteemed journals. Written in the author’s distinctive style, Artifice and Artefacts: 100 Essays in Materials Science presents a compilation of 100 articles and reviews chosen to represent a broad range of subjects that map the growth of materials science during this period. The book provides an informative and entertaining record of scientific development. Topics range from the fractal analysis of fracture surfaces on flint to the scientific detection of frauds in the labeling of wine. The ar

Author: Dawn Moore
Publisher: UBC Press
Keywords: law, society, users, drugs, artefacts, governing, criminal
Number of Pages: 189
Published: 2007-12
List price: $94.00
ISBN-10: 0774813865
ISBN-13: 9780774813860

Drawing on theoretical tools inspired by Foucault, Latour, and Goffman, Criminal Artefacts casts doubt on the assumption that drugs lie at the heart of crime. Case studies from drug treatment courts and addiction treatment programs illustrate the tensions between law and psychology, treatment and punishment, and conflicting theories of addiction. By looking at the criminal addict as an artefact of criminal justice, this book asks us to question why the criminalized drug user has become such a focus of contemporary criminal justice practices.

Authors:Timothy H. Lim, Hector L. MacQueen, Calum M. Carmich
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Keywords: jsp, supplements, property, intellectual, artefacts, scrolls
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2001-11
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 1841272124
ISBN-13: 9781841272122

What are the legal rights to ancient documents of editors, archaeologists, curators, or modern states? In the light of recent controversies, this collection emphasizes the status of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in Palestine, recovered in Jordan, and largely edited by an international Christian team who prevented public access to unpublished manuscripts. Subsquently, the state of Israel, which had already purchased many of the Scrolls, has assumed responsibility for all of them. Most recently, one scroll editor has claimed copyright on his reconstruction, instigating a

Author: M H G Kuijpers
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Keywords: artefacts, social, position, smith, related, metallurgy, metalworking, netherlands, research, preservation, bronze
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 2008-12-31
List price: $44.50
ISBN-10: 9088900159
ISBN-13: 9789088900150

Almost fifty years ago J. J. Butler started his research to trace the possible remains of a Bronze Age metalworker’s workshop in the Netherlands. Yet, while metalworking has been deduced on the ground of the existence of regional types of axes and some scarce finds related to metalworking, the smith’s workplace has remained elusive. In this Research Master Thesis I have tried to tackle this problem. I have considered both the social as well as the technological aspects of metalworking to be able to determine conclusively whether metalworking took place in the Netherlands or not. Th

Authors:Gill Rose, David Rose, Nina Randall,
Publisher: Folens Publishers UK
Keywords: photopacks, primary, worship, artefacts
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2003-09-15
List price: $37.10
ISBN-10: 1843034417
ISBN-13: 9781843034414

The books in this series provide stimulating images to resource a range of topics and themes in the clas sroom, as well as giving invaluable background information, ideas for teaching strategies and extension activities ’

Authors:Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: archaeology, one, world, texts, artefacts, language, iii, languages
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-06-21
List price: $193.00
ISBN-10: 0415100542
ISBN-13: 9780415100540

Archaeology and Language III is the third volume of a groundbreaking survey of the new results emerging from the synthesis of linguistics and archaeology. This installment interprets results from archaeological data in terms of language distribution and change, providing tools for a radical rewriting of the conventional dicourse of prehistory and a rich new narrative of the past. It will be of interest to archaeologists, linguists and anthropologists.