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Introduction to Documentation Studies

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2025 ASIS&T Best Information Science Book AwardThis book presents the first comprehensive introduction to documentation studies. It outlines the historical background of, and the theoretical foundation for a complementary approach to documentation issues and processes: not only in the context of academic study, but also in the practice of documentation in different parts of society.What do a ... Read more

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Named "One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada" (The Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Springis a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed scholar and writer Modris Eksteins.Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, Rites of Spring probes the origins, the impact and the ... Read more

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Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century

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