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“alistair black”

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Information History

    Edited by Toni Weller, Alistair Black, Bonnie Mak, Laura Skouvig ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Information History offers a definitive, inclusive, and far-reaching study of how information practices have influenced—and have been influenced by—society, politics, culture, and technology over millennia.Information is often considered a defining characteristic of modern society, but it is far from a modern phenomenon. In the last decades, historians have started to ask ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Understanding Community Librarianship

    The Public Library in Post-Modern Britain

    by Alistair Black, David Muddiman ...
    In the information society, is the community focused library a real possibility? This book reappraises the relationship between the library and its communities through an examination of the rise and decline of ’community’ librarianship over the last three decades. The authors consider key models of community based library service and argue that bland assertions of community prevalence mask a ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • The Early Information Society

    Information Management in Britain before the Computer

    by Alistair Black, Dave Muddiman ...
    Whether termed the 'network society', the 'knowledge society' or the 'information society', it is widely accepted that a new age has dawned, unveiled by powerful computer and communication technologies. Yet for millennia humans have been recording knowledge and culture, engaging in the dissemination and preservation of information. In `The Early Information Society', the authors argue for an ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Books, Buildings and Social Engineering

    Early Public Libraries in Britain from Past to Present

    by Alistair Black, Simon Pepper, Kaye Bagshaw ...
    Public libraries have strangely never been the subject of an extensive design history. Consequently, this important and comprehensive book represents a ground-breaking socio-architectural study of pre-1939 public library buildings. A surprisingly high proportion of these urban civic buildings remain intact and present an increasingly difficult architectural problem for many communities. The book ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Libraries of Light

    British public library design in the long 1960s

    by Alistair Black ...
    For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This backward-looking tradition was decisively broken in the 1960s as many new libraries were erected up and down the country.In this new Routledge book, Alistair Black argues that the architectural modernism of the post-war years was symptomatic of the age’s ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • The houses of history

    A critical reader in history and theory, second edition

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  • African Europeans

    An Untold History

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