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Web Search: Public Searching of the Web

By: Amanda Spink,Bernard J. Jansen

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Web Search: Public Searching of the Web

By: Amanda Spink,Bernard J. Jansen

This book brings together results from the Web search studies we conducted from 1997 through 2004. The aim of our studies has been twofold: to examine how the public at large searches the Web and to highlight trends in public Web searching. The eight-year period from 1997 to 2004 saw the beginnings and maturity of public Web searching. Commercial Web search engines have come and gone, or endured, through the fall of the dot.com companies. We saw the rise and, in some cases, the demise of several high profile, publicly available Web search engines. The study of the Web search is an exciting and important area of interdisciplinary research. Our book provides a valuable insight into the growth and development of human interaction with Web search engines. In this book, our focus is on the human aspect of the interaction between user and Web search engine. We do not investigate the Web search engines themselves or their constantly changing interfaces, algorithms and features. We focus on exploring the cognitive and user aspects of public Web searching in the aggregate. We use a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods within the overall methodology known as transaction log analysis.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402022697

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9781402022692

Information Behavior

An Evolutionary Instinct

By: Amanda Spink

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Information Behavior

An Evolutionary Instinct

By: Amanda Spink

Information behavior has emerged as an important aspect of human life, however our knowledge and understanding of it is incomplete and underdeveloped scientifically. Research on the topic is largely contemporary in focus and has generally not incorporated results from other disciplines. In this monograph Spink provides a new understanding of information behavior by incorporating related findings, theories and models from social sciences, psychology and cognition. In her presentation, she argues that information behavior is an important instinctive sociocognitive ability that can only be fully understood with a highly interdisciplinary approach. The leitmotivs of her examination are three important research questions: First, what is the evolutionary, biological and developmental nature of information behavior? Second, what is the role of instinct versus environment in shaping information behavior? And, third, how have information behavior capabilities evolved and developed over time? Written for researchers in information science as well as social and cognitive sciences, Spink’s controversial text lays the foundation for a new interdisciplinary theoretical perspective on information behavior that will not only provide a more holistic framework for this field but will also impact those sciences, and thus also open up many new research directions.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642114970

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9783642114977

Information Behavior

An Evolutionary Instinct

By: Amanda Spink

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An Evolutionary Instinct

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3642114970

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Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

By: Amanda Eubanks Winkler

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Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

By: Amanda Eubanks Winkler

The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.

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261

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Cambridge University Press

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1108490867

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9781108490863

O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note

Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage

By: Amanda Eubanks Winkler

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O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note

Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage

By: Amanda Eubanks Winkler

In the 17th century, harmonious sounds were thought to represent the well-ordered body of the obedient subject, and, by extension, the well-ordered state; conversely, discordant, unpleasant music represented both those who caused disorder (murderers, drunkards, witches, traitors) and those who suffered from bodily disorders (melancholics, madmen, and madwomen). While these theoretical correspondences seem straightforward, in theatrical practice the musical portrayals of disorderly characters were multivalent and often ambiguous. O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note focuses on the various ways that theatrical music represented disorderly subjects—those who presented either a direct or metaphorical threat to the health of the English kingdom in 17th-century England. Using theater music to examine narratives of social history, Winkler demonstrates how music reinscribed and often resisted conservative, political, religious, gender, and social ideologies.

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250

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Indiana University Press

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0253348056

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9780253348050

Narratives of (Dis)Enfranchisement

Reckoning with the History of Libraries and the Black and African American Experience

By: Tracey Overbey,Amanda L. Folk

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Narratives of (Dis)Enfranchisement

Reckoning with the History of Libraries and the Black and African American Experience

By: Tracey Overbey,Amanda L. Folk

This first Special Report in a two-volume set on Black and African Americans’ experiences in libraries provides an overview of their historical exclusion from libraries and educational institutions in the United States, also exploring the ways in which this legacy is manifest in our contemporary context. A compelling call to action, it will serve as the beginning of many conversations in which librarianship reckons with its racist past to move towards a more equitable future. Still a predominantly white profession, librarianship has a legacy of racial discrimination, and it is essential that we face the ways that race impacts how we meet the needs of diverse user communities. Identifying and acknowledging implicit and learned bias is a necessary step toward transforming not only our professional practice but also our scholarship, assessment, and evaluation practices. From this Special Report, readers will learn the hidden history of Africa’s contributions to libraries and educational institutions, which are often omitted from K-12, higher education, and library school curricula; engage with the racist legacies of libraries as well as contemporary scholarship related to Black and African American users’ experiences with libraries; be introduced to frameworks and theories that can help to identify and unpack the role of race in librarianship and in library users’ experiences; and garner practical takeaways to bring to their own views and practice of librarianship.

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American Library Association

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0838949924

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9780838949924

Living with Chronic Illness and Disability - eBook

Principles for nursing practice

By: Esther Chang,Amanda Johnson

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Living with Chronic Illness and Disability - eBook

Principles for nursing practice

By: Esther Chang,Amanda Johnson

- A reinforced focus on person- and family-centred care - Chapter 2 Partnerships in collaborative care includes new sections on the role of the pharmacist, paramedic and exercise physiologist - Principles for nursing practice are embedded throughout Section 2 - Evolve Resources for students and instructors provide additional multimedia resources and reflective questions to assist learning and promote self-inquiry

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536

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729586235

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9780729586238

Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire

By: Amanda Lahikainen

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Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire

By: Amanda Lahikainen

Value & the inflation of Georgian graphic satire -- Crisis -- Subjectivity & trust -- Imitation & immateriality -- Materiality -- Epilogue: Deflation -- Appendix: Beyond Britain.

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242

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Rutgers University Press

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1644532689

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9781644532683

A Scots Dictionary of Nature

By: Amanda Thomson

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A Scots Dictionary of Nature

By: Amanda Thomson

Scotland is a nation of dramatic weather and breathtaking landscapes – of nature resplendent. And, over the centuries, the people who have lived, explored and thrived in this country have developed a rich language to describe their surroundings: a uniquely Scottish lexicon shaped by the very environment itself. A Scots Dictionary of Nature brings together – for the first time – the deeply expressive vocabulary customarily used to describe land, wood, weather, birds, water and walking in Scotland. Artist Amanda Thomson collates and celebrates these traditional Scots words, which reveal ways of seeing and being in the world that are in danger of disappearing forever. What emerges is a vivid evocation of the nature and people of Scotland, past and present; of lives lived between the mountains and the sky.

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Saraband

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191508945X

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9781915089458

Georgiana

Duchess of Devonshire

By: Amanda Foreman

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Georgiana

Duchess of Devonshire

By: Amanda Foreman

The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time was its undisputed leader. Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774, at the age of seventeen, Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying one of England's richest and most influential aristocrats, the Duke of Devonshire. Launched into a world of wealth and power, she quickly became the queen of fashionable society, adored by the Prince of Wales, a dear friend of Marie-Antoinette, and leader of the most important salon of her time. Not content with the role of society hostess, she used her connections to enter politics, eventually becoming more influential than most of the men who held office. Her good works and social exploits made her loved by the multitudes, but Georgiana's public success, like Diana's, concealed a personal life that was fraught with suffering. The Duke of Devonshire was unimpressed by his wife's legendary charms, preferring instead those of her closest friend, a woman with whom Georgiana herself was rumored to be on intimate terms. For over twenty years, the three lived together in a jealous and uneasy ménage à trois, during which time both women bore the Duke's children—as well as those of other men. Foreman's descriptions of Georgiana's uncontrollable gambling, all- night drinking, drug taking, and love affairs with the leading politicians of the day give us fascinating insight into the lives of the British aristocracy in the era of the madness of King George III, the American and French revolutions, and the defeat of Napoleon. A gifted young historian whom critics are already likening to Antonia Fraser, Amanda Foreman draws on a wealth of fresh research and writes colorfully and penetratingly about the fascinating Georgiana, whose struggle against her own weaknesses, whose great beauty and flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in the affairs of the world make her a vibrant, astonishingly contemporary figure.

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Random House

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0812993918

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9780812993912

Motivation for Sustaining Health Behavior Change

The Self-as-Doer Identity

By: Amanda M. Brouwer

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Motivation for Sustaining Health Behavior Change

The Self-as-Doer Identity

By: Amanda M. Brouwer

With a balance of theory, research, and applications, Motivation for Sustaining Health Behavior Change: The Self-as-Doer Identity introduces the self-as-doer identity as an accessible motivational identity and discusses how it can be incorporated into health behavior change efforts. The book introduces the self-as-doer theory and presents research and recommendations for how the self-as-doer can be used in both clinical and non-clinical populations to promote health behavior change and maintenance. The book will be of interest to researchers, students, and professionals interested in health promotion.

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Routledge

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1351714007

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9781351714006

The Duchess

By: Amanda Foreman

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The Duchess

By: Amanda Foreman

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England’s richest and most influential aristocrats. She became the queen of fashionable society and founder of the most important political salon of her time. But Georgiana’s public success concealed an unhappy marriage, a gambling addiction, drinking, drug-taking, and rampant love affairs with the leading politicians of the day. With penetrating insight, Amanda Foreman reveals a fascinating woman whose struggle against her own weaknesses, whose great beauty and flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in the affairs of the world make her a vibrant, astonishingly contemporary figure. Praise for The Duchess “Georgiana bursts from the pages of Amanda Foreman’s dazzling biography like the force of nature she undoubtedly was–passionate, political, addicted to gambling, and drunk on life. This is a stunning book about an astonishing woman.”–Simon Schama “Biography at its best . . . seamlessly merges a life and its times, capturing not just an individual but an age.”–The New York Times Book Review “Riveting . . . marvelously diverting.”–The New Yorker

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Random House

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1588368394

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Web Search: Public Searching of the Web

By: Amanda Spink,Bernard J. Jansen

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By: Amanda Spink,Bernard J. Jansen

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402022697

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9781402022692

Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis

By: Jansen, Bernard J.,Spink, Amanda,Taksa, Isak

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Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis

By: Jansen, Bernard J.,Spink, Amanda,Taksa, Isak

This book reflects on the multifaceted themes of Web use and presents various approaches to log analysis"--Provided by publisher.

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IGI Global

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1599049759

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9781599049755

Web Search

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

By: Amanda Spink,Michael Zimmer

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Web Search

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

By: Amanda Spink,Michael Zimmer

Web search engines are not just indispensable tools for finding and accessing information online, but have become a defining component of the human condition and can be conceptualized as a complex behavior embedded within an individual's everyday social, cultural, political, and information-seeking activities. This book investigates Web search from the non-technical perspective, bringing together chapters that represent a range of multidisciplinary theories, models, and ideas.

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Springer

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3540758283

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Web Search: Public Searching of the Web

Web Search: Public Searching of the Web

Information Behavior

Information Behavior

Information Behavior

Information Behavior

Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note

O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note

Narratives of (Dis)Enfranchisement

Narratives of (Dis)Enfranchisement

Living with Chronic Illness and Disability - eBook

Living with Chronic Illness and Disability - eBook

Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire

Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire

A Scots Dictionary of Nature

A Scots Dictionary of Nature

Georgiana

Georgiana

Motivation for Sustaining Health Behavior Change

Motivation for Sustaining Health Behavior Change

The Duchess

The Duchess

Web Search: Public Searching of the Web

Web Search: Public Searching of the Web

Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis

Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis

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