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Developing Interpretive History Exhibits

By: Kenneth L. Ames

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Ideas and Images

Developing Interpretive History Exhibits

By: Kenneth L. Ames

A reprint of eleven case studies of successful history museum exhibitions supplying a compendium of highly regarded installations which can stand as a creative guide to other institutions. The contributing museum specialists analyze what works in an outstanding history exhibition from building new audiences and experimenting with new subjects to design techniques and working with consultants. Among the exhibitions featured are the Hispanic Heritage Wing of the Museum of International Folk Art and the Indianapolis Children's Museum. Includes photographs. Originally published by the American Association for State and Local History. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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348

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Rowman Altamira

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ISBN 10

0761989323

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9780761989325

Theatre of the Fraternity

Staging the Ritual Space of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 1896-1929

By: Kenneth L. Ames

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Theatre of the Fraternity

Staging the Ritual Space of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 1896-1929

By: Kenneth L. Ames

A collection of evocative icons and stage designs used by a fraternal order of freemasonry

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132

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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0878059474

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9780878059478

A History of Ashton Villa

By: Kenneth Hafertepe

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A History of Ashton Villa

By: Kenneth Hafertepe

This volume tells the story of the stately Italianate Galveston mansion known as Ashton Villa. Built in 1859, Ashton Villa stood out in antebellum Galveston for its extensive use of new materials: brick and cast iron. It has weathered many a storm, including the Great Hurricane of 1900, when floodwaters invaded its first floor. Now as a historic house museum, Ashton Villa speaks eloquently about the lives and aspirations of an upper-class Texas family in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1625110138

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9781625110138

Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology E-Book

By: Howard M. Fillit,Kenneth Rockwood,John B Young

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Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology E-Book

By: Howard M. Fillit,Kenneth Rockwood,John B Young

The leading reference in the field of geriatric care, Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 8th Edition, provides a contemporary, global perspective on topics of importance to today's gerontologists, internal medicine physicians, and family doctors. An increased focus on frailty, along with coverage of key issues in gerontology, disease-specific geriatrics, and complex syndromes specific to the elderly, makes this 8th Edition the reference you'll turn to in order to meet the unique challenges posed by this growing patient population. - Consistent discussions of clinical manifestations, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and more make reference quick and easy. - More than 250 figures, including algorithms, photographs, and tables, complement the text and help you find what you need on a given condition. - Clinical relevance of the latest scientific findings helps you easily apply the material to everyday practice. - A new chapter on frailty, plus an emphasis on frailty throughout the book, addresses the complex medical and social issues that affect care, and the specific knowledge and skills essential for meeting your patients' complex needs. - New content brings you up to date with information on gerontechnology, emergency and pre-hospital care, HIV and aging, intensive treatment of older adults, telemedicine, the built environment, and transcultural geriatrics. - New editor Professor John Young brings a fresh perspective and unique expertise to this edition.

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1499

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702063444

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9780702063442

Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America

A Study in Typology

By: Kenneth A. Breisch

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Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America

A Study in Typology

By: Kenneth A. Breisch

An examination of Richardson's small public libraries that places them in the design, cultural, political, and economic contexts of their times.

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376

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MIT Press

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0262523469

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9780262523462

Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture

By: Kenneth L. Ames

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Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture

By: Kenneth L. Ames

In this provocative look at Victorian America, Kenneth Ames explores the minds of Victorians by examining some of their most distinctive and fascinating creations. Featuring five once-prominent home furnishings, he reconstructs a vanished culture and demonstrates the centrality of the artifact to historical understanding. Richly illustrated with photographs of surviving objects as well as images from a wide variety of period sources, the five essays discuss specific pieces—hallstands, sideboards, embroidered mottoes, parlor organs, and seating furniture—within the context of broader cultural issues and concerns. Ames reveals not only the major outlines of Victorian culture but also the conflicts and tensions deep within that culture. An extraordinary proliferation of goods characterizes the Victorian world. Throughout the study, Ames considers the relationship of some of these household objects to issues of class, gender, and place. For example, the importance of public image was dramatized by the rituals of the front hall in Victorian homes: its placement within the house, the massive hallstand with its receptacles for calling cards and umbrellas, accommodations for temporary and usually uncomfortable seating. The dining room was a shrine to the notion of "man's" dominion over nature—each elaborately carved sideboard displayed a frieze of slaughtered game and harvested vegetation. Parlor organs, a blending of the sacred and the profane, provided an occasion to display feminine accomplishment and to symbolize the role of the bourgeois Christian lady. Ames also discusses how the prevailing class and gender hierarchy was echoed in the posture of seating furniture and its arrangement. The author is one of the premier interpreters of Victorian culture in America. His witty, provocative, and irreverent commentary on the "quaint" fixtures of the Victorian household will fascinate scholars, antique buffs, and collectors on nostalgia. Author note: Kenneth L. Ames is Chief of Historical and Anthropological Surveys at the New York State Museum and was formerly Chair of the Office of Advanced Studies at the Winterthur Museum.

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1566393337

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Ideas and Images

Ideas and Images

Theatre of the Fraternity

Theatre of the Fraternity

A History of Ashton Villa

A History of Ashton Villa

Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology E-Book

Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology E-Book

Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America

Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America

Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture

Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture

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