Author: Bobby C. Wynn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Utopian Literature, Pre-1900 Imprints
Author: Bobby C. Wynn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Oxford Guide to Library Research
Author: Thomas Mann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199394466
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his text to reflect those changes. This book will answer two basic questions: First, what is the extent of the significant research resources you will you miss if you confine your research entirely, or even primarily, to sources available on the open Internet? Second, if you are trying to get a reasonably good overview of the literature on a particular topic, rather than just "something quickly" on it, what are the several alternative methods of subject searching--which are not available on the Web--that are usually much more efficient for that purpose than typing keywords into a blank search box, with the results displayed by relevance-ranking computer algorithms? This book shows researchers how to do comprehensive research on any topic. It explains the variety of search mechanisms available, so that the researcher can have the reasonable confidence that s/he has not overlooked something important. This includes not just lists of resources, but discussions of the ways to search within them: how to find the best search terms, how to combine the terms, and how to make the databases (and other sources) show relevant material even when you don't know how to specify the best search terms in advance. The book's overall structuring by nine methods of searching that are applicable in any subject area, rather than by subjects or by types of literature, is unique among guides to research. Also unique is the range and variety of concrete examples of what to do--and of what not to do. The book is not "about" the Internet: it is about the best alternatives to the Internet--the sources that are not on the open Web to begin with, that can be found only through research libraries and that are more than ever necessary for any kind of substantive scholarly research. More than any other research guide available, this book directly addresses and provides solutions to the serious problems outlined in recent studies documenting the profound lack of research skills possessed by today's "digital natives."
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199394466
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his text to reflect those changes. This book will answer two basic questions: First, what is the extent of the significant research resources you will you miss if you confine your research entirely, or even primarily, to sources available on the open Internet? Second, if you are trying to get a reasonably good overview of the literature on a particular topic, rather than just "something quickly" on it, what are the several alternative methods of subject searching--which are not available on the Web--that are usually much more efficient for that purpose than typing keywords into a blank search box, with the results displayed by relevance-ranking computer algorithms? This book shows researchers how to do comprehensive research on any topic. It explains the variety of search mechanisms available, so that the researcher can have the reasonable confidence that s/he has not overlooked something important. This includes not just lists of resources, but discussions of the ways to search within them: how to find the best search terms, how to combine the terms, and how to make the databases (and other sources) show relevant material even when you don't know how to specify the best search terms in advance. The book's overall structuring by nine methods of searching that are applicable in any subject area, rather than by subjects or by types of literature, is unique among guides to research. Also unique is the range and variety of concrete examples of what to do--and of what not to do. The book is not "about" the Internet: it is about the best alternatives to the Internet--the sources that are not on the open Web to begin with, that can be found only through research libraries and that are more than ever necessary for any kind of substantive scholarly research. More than any other research guide available, this book directly addresses and provides solutions to the serious problems outlined in recent studies documenting the profound lack of research skills possessed by today's "digital natives."
Microform Research Collections
Author: Suzanne Cates Dodson
Publisher: Westport, CT : Meckler Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Publisher: Westport, CT : Meckler Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Guide to Microforms in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microcards
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microcards
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Utopia Ltd.
Author: Matthew Beaumont
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047407091
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This book uncovers the historical preconditions for the explosive revival of utopian literature at the nineteenth-century fin de siècle, and excavates its ideological content. It marks a contribution not only to the literary and cultural history of the late-Victorian period, and to the expanding field of utopian studies, but to the development of a Marxist critique of utopianism. The book is particularly concerned with three kinds of political utopia or anti-utopia, those of 'state socialism', feminism, and anti-communism (the characteristic expression of this last example being the cacotopia). After an extensive contextual account of the politics of utopia in late-nineteenth century England, it devotes a chapter to each of these topics before developing an original reinterpretation of William Morris's seminal Marxist utopia, News from Nowhere.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047407091
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This book uncovers the historical preconditions for the explosive revival of utopian literature at the nineteenth-century fin de siècle, and excavates its ideological content. It marks a contribution not only to the literary and cultural history of the late-Victorian period, and to the expanding field of utopian studies, but to the development of a Marxist critique of utopianism. The book is particularly concerned with three kinds of political utopia or anti-utopia, those of 'state socialism', feminism, and anti-communism (the characteristic expression of this last example being the cacotopia). After an extensive contextual account of the politics of utopia in late-nineteenth century England, it devotes a chapter to each of these topics before developing an original reinterpretation of William Morris's seminal Marxist utopia, News from Nowhere.
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
An Annotated International Bibliography of Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno Books
Author: Byron W. Sewell
Publisher: British Library
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Sewell and Imholtz have demonstrated that there has been far greater interest in Sylvie and Bruno than has generally been recognized. The bibliography reveals the many literary and cultural figures who have commented on, disparaged, imitated, parodied, quoted or in some other way drawn upon the Sylvie books."--Jacket.
Publisher: British Library
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Sewell and Imholtz have demonstrated that there has been far greater interest in Sylvie and Bruno than has generally been recognized. The bibliography reveals the many literary and cultural figures who have commented on, disparaged, imitated, parodied, quoted or in some other way drawn upon the Sylvie books."--Jacket.
A Rational Millennium
Author: James Holstun
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Taking a new approach to the history of utopia, this volume combines the political study of literary form with the literary study of political rhetoric. After arguing that early modern utopists, both literary and non-literary, attempt to reshape displaced populations, Holstun concentrates on two utopian projects of the mid-17th century: the political platforms and Algonquin "praying towns" of John Eliot in Massachusetts and the republican political writing of James Harrington in Protectorate England. Moving between these projects and modern analyses of rationalization, he shows that Puritan utopia shares the modern Western longing for universal social discipline and that it envisions this discipline as the rational means to the Millennium.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Taking a new approach to the history of utopia, this volume combines the political study of literary form with the literary study of political rhetoric. After arguing that early modern utopists, both literary and non-literary, attempt to reshape displaced populations, Holstun concentrates on two utopian projects of the mid-17th century: the political platforms and Algonquin "praying towns" of John Eliot in Massachusetts and the republican political writing of James Harrington in Protectorate England. Moving between these projects and modern analyses of rationalization, he shows that Puritan utopia shares the modern Western longing for universal social discipline and that it envisions this discipline as the rational means to the Millennium.
Alternative Futures
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description