|
Showing 1 - 25 of
132 matches in All Departments
An important figure in the establishment of free libraries in the
United Kingdom, Edward Edwards (1812 1886) wrote this study, first
published in 1869, as a handbook intended for promoters and
managers of free town libraries. The book outlines the formation
and workings of public libraries, beginning with British examples
and proceeding to compare the British experience with libraries
abroad, especially in America. Edwards presents strong evidence of
the increasing number, and improving management, of libraries at
this time, and also stresses the strikingly diverse circumstances
under which libraries in the United Kingdom and abroad were
established. The volume is an important historical document in
library studies, and a testimony to Edwards' commitment and
contribution to the free library movement which have been an
inspiration to later generations of professional librarians.
Edward Edwards (1812-86), librarian, writer and utilitarian, has
been described as a founder of modern librarianship. Employed to
catalogue the Earl of Macclesfield's library in 1861, he came
across the large illuminated manuscript of the chronicle and
cartulary that comprise this work, first published in 1866. The
Latin text moves chronologically from 455 and the 'Legend of
Albina' through six centuries of medieval English history,
finishing at 1023 and the reign of King Cnut. Edwards, as editor,
displays a librarian's zeal for detail: his extensive introduction
provides a thorough history of Hyde Abbey, from foundation to
dissolution. In the appendix, English translations of Anglo-Saxon
charters and testaments (including those of Alfred the Great and
King Eadred - the only known wills of Anglo-Saxon kings) provide
further insight into England in the Early Middle Ages.
Since the 1970s, we have witnessed astonishing scientific and
technical progress in the field of organ transplantation. Patients
who suffer organ failure can now often have their lives greatly
improved both in terms of quality and quantity of years. The
success of transplantation techniques has created an enormous
demand for donor organs. Unfortunately, donor organs are in short
supply, relative to the number of patients who could greatly
benefit from them. Therefore, donor organs are a scarce and
valuable resource that must be thoughtfully and fairly allocated
among waiting patients. Not surprisingly, this situation raises
many pressing ethical questions, each requiring careful
consideration. This volume presents a systematic and balanced
treatment of some of the most pressing ethical questions including:
what is our ethical obligation to become organ donors and who
should be allowed to donate?; to what extent can markets facilitate
the fair allocation of organs and how should we most fairly
determine who should be recipients?; how do we determine death when
the donor is not brain dead?; should non-human donor organs be used
to save human lives and should we use organs from anencephalic
infants and tissue from embryos? ; and what is the role of the news
media in covering stories about organ transplantation? Many of the
leading authorities in medical ethics come together in this volume
to develop extensive analyses and arguments. The reader is provided
with a sound understanding of the ethical, as well as many of the
broader issues in organ donation and transplantation.
This two-volume work covers the period 1570 1870, and is one of
several written on book collections by Edward Edwards (1812 1886),
whose three-volume Memoirs of Libraries is also reissued in this
series. Volume 1 considers the gatherers of the 'foundation
collections' of the British Museum. Among them were Henry, Prince
of Wales, the son of James I, Sir Robert Cotton (1571 1631), and
Sir Hans Sloane (1660 1753), whose bequest of his collections to
George II led directly to the foundation of the Museum by Act of
Parliament in 1753. The administrators and early donors to the
Museum - archaeologists, travellers and dilettanti such as Sir
William Hamilton and the earl of Elgin - are also discussed.
This two-volume work covers the period 1570 1870, and is one of
several written on book collections by Edward Edwards (1812 1886),
whose three-volume Memoirs of Libraries is also reissued in this
series. Volume 2 looks at some of the early donors of books to the
Museum. A chapter is then devoted to the Royal Library of King
George III. Finally, Edwards concentrates on the period 1829 1870,
giving a general view of the growth of the British Museum under a
series of chief librarians, including his own contemporary, Sir
Anthony Panizzi. Later chapters look at the donors of items in the
ever-growing collection of antiquities, and give an account of the
Grenville Library of over 20,000 books, bequeathed to the Museum in
1846 by one of its Trustees.
This monumental work, first published in 1859, covers the history
of libraries from classical times to the mid-nineteenth century, in
Britain, Europe and America. The author was influential in founding
municipal libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and regarded
access to good libraries as crucial to education and civilisation.
Volume 1, divided by the author into five 'books', is reissued here
in two parts. The first two books deal with classical and medieval
libraries, examining English and European monastic libraries in
depth. Book 3 describes the core collections of the British Museum
and other major university, ecclesiastical and public libraries of
Britain and Ireland. Book 4 discusses the principal libraries of
America and Book 5 those of continental Europe, from France to
Hungary and Russia. The final volume (in four 'books') sets out
Edwards' views on all aspects of library management, from physical
layout and classification to rules and regulations.
This monumental work, first published in 1859, covers the history
of libraries from classical times to the mid-nineteenth century, in
Britain, Europe and America. The author was influential in founding
municipal libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and regarded
access to good libraries as crucial to education and civilisation.
Volume 1, divided by the author into five 'books', is reissued here
in two parts. The first two books deal with classical and medieval
libraries, examining English and European monastic libraries in
depth. Book 3 describes the core collections of the British Museum
and other major university, ecclesiastical and public libraries of
Britain and Ireland. Book 4 discusses the principal libraries of
America and Book 5 those of continental Europe, from France to
Hungary and Russia. The final volume (in four 'books') sets out
Edwards' views on all aspects of library management, from physical
layout and classification to rules and regulations.
This monumental work, first published in 1859, covers the history
of libraries from classical times to the mid-nineteenth century, in
Britain, Europe and America. The author was influential in founding
municipal libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and regarded
access to good libraries as crucial to education and civilisation.
Volume 1, divided by the author into five 'books', is reissued here
in two parts. The first two books deal with classical and medieval
libraries, examining English and European monastic libraries in
depth. Book 3 describes the core collections of the British Museum
and other major university, ecclesiastical and public libraries of
Britain and Ireland. Book 4 discusses the principal libraries of
America and Book 5 those of continental Europe, from France to
Hungary and Russia. This final volume (in four 'books') sets out
Edwards' views on all aspects of library management, from physical
layout and classification to rules and regulations.
This comprehensive volume, first published in 1864, covers the
history of libraries from classical times to the nineteenth
century, principally in England but also further afield. The author
was an influential figure in the founding of municipal libraries in
nineteenth-century Britain and regarded access to good libraries as
crucial to education and civilisation. He emphasises the importance
of individual collectors in the building of great libraries, and
examines the personal holdings of many writers and scholars as well
as members of royal families, the aristocracy, and clergy. Some of
these are well known, others less commonly encountered in surveys
of library history. Edwards also discusses the subsequent history
of these collections, their dispersal or incorporation into other
libraries. Other important topics covered by Edwards include the
development and organisation of the State Paper Office and Public
Records Office from the medieval period onwards.
It is apparent that the current literature fails to systematically
describe and examine the diverse value and ethical issues that
arise in relation to alcohol abuse. This volume attempts to fulfil
this void by addressing the most basic scientific and philosophical
questions about the causes of alcoholism, their implications for
individual responsibility and the most basic public policy
questions that stem from clinical medicine and public health.
Anthologies on abortion and general medical ethics texts often seem
to recycle the same old, but good, arguments. Can anything new be
said about this sensitive and contentious topic? Contributors to
this volume were invited to say something original, as well as
something old, but essential about the factual, valuational,
religious and metaphysical issues relevant to abortion, all of
which are woven together so intricately into our diverse and
seemingly irreconcilable world-views.
Essays in this volume consider the conceptual links between
views on abortion and foetal development, abortion procedures,
religion, laws and public funding (or no funding) policies. Authors
also defend well-defined and differentiated positions on abortion
that can broadly be described as the Roman Catholic, the
Conservative, the Moderate and the Liberal positions.
New Essays on Abortion and Bioethics will provide readers with
useful models of critical and rational thinking for addressing the
topic of abortion. The essays will help to illuminate a subject
about which there is often too much heat and too little light.
|
You may like...
Hampstead
Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, …
DVD
R49
Discovery Miles 490
|