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  • The Great Fossil Enigma

    The Search for the Conodont Animal

    by Simon J. Knell ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology's greatest mysteries: "Deserves to be widely read and enjoyed" ( Priscum).Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the eel-like conodont animal as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The search for its identity confounded scientists for more than a century. Some thought ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Great Fossil Enigma

    The Search for the Conodont Animal

    by Simon J. Knell ...
    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 47 min

    A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology's greatest mysteries: "Deserves to be widely read and enjoyed" (Priscum).Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the eel-like conodont animal as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The search for its identity confounded scientists for more than a century. Some thought it ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Museum’s Borders

    On the Challenge of Knowing and Remembering Well

    by Simon Knell ...
    The Museum’s Borders demonstrates that museum practices are deeply entangled in border making, patrol, mitigation and erasure, and that the border lens offers a new tool for deconstructing and reconfiguring such practices.Arguing that the museum is a critical institution for the operation of knowledge-based democracies, Knell investigates how they have been used by scientists, art historians and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • National Galleries

    by Simon Knell ...
    Are national galleries different from other kinds of art gallery or museum?What value is there for the nation in a collection of international masterpieces?How are national galleries involved in the construction national art?National Galleries is the first book to undertake a panoramic view of a type of national institution – which are sometimes called national museums of fine art – that is now ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • National Museums

    New Studies from Around the World

    Edited by Simon Knell, Peter Aronsson, Arne Amundsen ...
    National Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book reveals how these national museums have been used to create a sense of national self, place the nation in the arts, deal with the consequences of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • A Bibliography of Museum Studies

    Edited by Simon J. Knell ...
    A comprehensive bibliographic reference for students and others wishing to investigate the contemporary literature on museums and collections. The references are systematically arranged into sections including collections management, communication and exhibitions, museum education, material culture, the museums profession and museum management. Compiled from the research and teaching materials of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Museums in the Material World

    Edited by Simon Knell ...
    Series series Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
    Museums in the Material World seeks to both introduce classic and thought-provoking pieces and contrast them with articles which reveal grounded practice. The articles are selected from across the full breadth of museum disciplines and are linked by a logical narrative, as detailed in the section introductions.The choice of articles reveals how the debate has opened up on disciplinary practice, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Museum Revolutions

    How museums change and are changed

    Edited by Suzanne MacLeod, Sheila Watson, Simon Knell ...
    This single-volume museum studies reference title explores the ways in which museums are shaped and configured and how they themselves attempt to shape and change the world around them.Written by a leading group of museum professionals and academics from around the world and including new research, the chapters reveal the diverse and subtle means by which museums engage and in so doing change and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Care of Collections

    Edited by Simon Knell ...
    Series series Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
    Confronting contemporary issues in museum practice, this collection provides a practical guide to all aspects of collections care.Contributors cover a wide range of issues including:conservation practicethe monitoring and control of lightrelative humidity and atmospheric pollutionpacking, handling and transportation of collectionsstorage and access to collectionsbiological infestationdisaster ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Contemporary Museum

    Shaping Museums for the Global Now

    Edited by Simon Knell ...
    The Contemporary Museum issues a challenge to those who view the museum as an artefact of history, constrained in its outlook as much by professional, institutional and disciplinary creed, as by the collections it accumulated in the distant past. Denying that the museum can locate its purpose in the pursuit of tradition or in idealistic speculation about the future, the book asserts that this can ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Museums and the Future of Collecting

    Edited by Simon J. Knell ...
    Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. This book exposes the many meanings of collections, the different perspectives taken by different cultures, and the institutional response to the collecting problem. One major concern is omission, whether this be determined by ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    The Elements We Live By

    How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table

    by Anja Røyne ...
    Narrated by Donna Postel ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 54 min

    An around-the-world journey to discover where in the wild we can find the elements of life and the surprising ways they're essential to our survivalWe all know that we depend on elements for survival—from the oxygen in the air we breathe to the carbon in the molecular structures of all living things. But we don't often stop to appreciate how, say, phosphorous holds our DNA together or how ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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