Understanding Public Libraries

Understanding Public LibrariesThis book will enable practitioners, students and researchers to apply an analytical framework, based on the theories of dialectical materialism and cultural hegemony, to the public library.

multidisciplinary analysis of privacy debates

Innovation

'Collaboration between researchers across space is clearly increasing

a struggle that would shape the city we know today

this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north

and a rich photographic archive

This book features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field to offer new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era

It traces the targeting of cities and militarisation of urban space from interwar to Cold War and highlights how air raids became incorporated into civilian planning debates about cities and infrastructure

anatomical exhibitions

and examining the roles of fashion

which provides the story with its dramatic tension

for the first time