Bloomsbury Digital Resources 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing

2018

Bloomsbury Digital Resources provides creative online learning environments that support scholarly research and inspire students throughout the world. We seek to engage our users with academically rigorous, editorially crafted content that encourages people to think and explore. We believe in working in partnership with librarians, researchers, and instructors to offer flexible solutions and unparalleled customer support, and we strive to create a culture of excellence and entrepreneurial thinking that is solutions-focused and rewards innovation.

Table of Contents Humanities and Social Sciences

Bloomsbury Collections

3 Bloomsbury Food Library

4 Bloomsbury Cultural History

5 Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers

6 Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies

8 Arcadian Library Online

Churchill Archive

Film, Music, and Performing Arts 9–10

Drama Online

11 Bloomsbury Popular Music

Screen Studies

Visual Arts and Design 13–14 Bloomsbury Fashion Central—Berg Fashion Library and Fashion Photography Archive

15 Fairchild Books Library

16 Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases

17 Bloomsbury Design Library

18 Bloomsbury Architecture Library

Reference and Professional 19–20

Bloomsbury Professional

Whitaker’s Almanack

22 Bloomsbury Digital Resources Sales Rep Info

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“...librarians who know their community will be able to add valuable editions to their eBook collection using this resource.” —Library Journal DRM free access to more than 6,000 award-winning eBooks across subject areas in the humanities and social sciences including latest research publications from Bloomsbury, T&T Clark, The Arden Shakespeare and Hart Publishing, alongside scholarship from historic imprints Continuum, Berg and Bristol Classical Press. It is an essential resource for any academic library looking to help its readers effortlessly access a wide range of valuable content.

Subjects covered include: Anthropology • Biblical Studies • Classical Studies & Archaeology • Education • Film & Media • History • Law • Linguistics • Literary Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Theology

Available through Bloomsbury Collections: • 125 Collections expanded annually by discipline • Archive Collections in key subject areas such as Ancient History, Christology, Continental Philosophy, Classical Literature, Modernism, Philosophy of Education, and Shakespeare Studies • Special Collections such as the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, The Churchill Collection, and the International Critical Commentary • Landmark Texts Collections covering Japanese History, Biblical Studies, History (British, European, Latin American and history of science and technology), Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, and Shakespeare Studies

Features and Benefits • Cite, share and personalize content • Download and print chapter PDFs without DRM restriction • Unlimited concurrent access for students • Search full text of titles; filter by date, series or subject • DOIs at book & chapter level • Accessible on a tablet or smartphone • MARC records • COUNTER 4 usage statistics

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Images courtesy of Getty and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Bloomsbury Food Library is an unparalleled resource featuring high quality content from Bloomsbury’s leading publishing program in food studies. It combines comprehensive reference works with cuttingedge academic research, a wealth of educational resources, and primary materials. It is an essential product for students and scholars studying food in all its manifestations in disciplines such as history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, human geography, sustainability, agriculture, culinary arts, political science, development studies, food science, and nutrition. Content Highlights Bloomsbury Food Library offers cross-searchable access to a broad and expanding range of encyclopedias, reference works, e-books, images, and more: • Global coverage including Ken Albala’s Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia and the Cambridge World History of Food • Several major reference works including Bloomsbury’s A Cultural History of Food in six volumes and key chapters from Food History: Critical and Primary Sources • Over 60 eBooks by key authors in the field including Warren Belasco, Carol J. Adams, Anne Murcott, Rick Wilk, Fabio Parasecoli and Peter Jackson • Image collections from leading institutions around the globe including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA

Features and Benefits Bloomsbury Food Library offers a unique user experience featuring: • Fast, cross-searchable access to the widest-ranging collection of food-related studies content • A tailored taxonomy that recognizes the different disciplines that inform food studies enabling easy browsing across discipline, topic, place, and period • Interactive visual timeline highlighting key facts in food history from pre-history to the present day • World Map enabling users to navigate to books and articles covering a particular country or region • A powerful browse and search functionality, allowing users to find relevant materials across all types of content and disciplines • Regular updates and new content, making this an ever-expanding resource • Related Content links on every content page making it easy to discover relevant material • Intuitive, user-friendly interface for desktop, tablet and mobile • Easy to cite, share, and print content • Personal Account feature enables users to save books, chapters or other items to view later; organize saved items into folders; email and export citations; save searches and set up search alerts

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Images courtesy of Getty and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Bloomsbury Cultural History is an interactive resource comprising Bloomsbury’s ground-breaking Cultural Histories series. An authoritative digital reference tool, it provides students and researchers with a set of curated, comprehensive, and illustrated reference works within a single platform, supplemented by extensive eBook and image collections. Content Highlights The Cultural Histories series presents an authoritative survey of a wide range of subjects throughout history. Each subject is looked at in Antiquity, the Medieval Age, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Age of Empire, and the Modern Age and thematic coverage is consistent across all periods so that users can either gain a broad overview of a period or follow a theme through the ages. Subjects will include: • • • • • •

Animals Business Childhood and Family Death Dress and Fashion Food

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Furniture Gardens Human Body Law Medicine Money

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Peace Plants Religion in the West Senses Sexuality Shopping

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Sport Theatre Work Women

Features and Benefits Designed specifically for students and scholars, Bloomsbury Cultural History offers a unique user experience: • Supplementary reading with an extensive list of eBooks • An illustrated and interactive timeline provides contextual background from antiquity to modernity • A bespoke taxonomy allows users to discover the most relevant content • 1,000 images from the Wellcome Collection to enable a deeper insight and understanding • The vast range of interdisciplinary content makes this a valuable resource for students and scholars of history, anthropology, archaeology, cultural studies, visual culture, history of science, and much more • Browse by theme or period to find the most beneficial content

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers brings together thousands of philosophers from a wide range of subjects, schools of thought, places, time periods, and traditions, granting students and researchers access to a broad and global history of intellectual thinking. Featuring renowned thinkers alongside those often neglected in historical surveys, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers makes new and exciting connections between different philosophers and schools of thought. Content Highlights • Launching with 6,500 biographical articles on significant intellectual thinkers • Covers the Anglo-American, Continental, Asian, and Islamic traditions • Includes figures from economics, sciences, classics, political thought, theology, literature, law, and medicine • Highly detailed and cross-referenced entries covering the life, work, and reception of a thinker as well as a bibliography and suggestions for further reading

Features and Benefits • Access a global history of philosophical thought • Browse content by subject, school of thought, region, and period • Interactive visual timeline highlighting key facts and events throughout history to provide contextual understanding • Regular updates and new content, making this an ever-expanding resource

All images courtesy of Getty

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Forthcoming 2019 A comprehensive source of authoritative and up-to-date information, Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies is a wide-ranging resource on educational systems, policy and practice, and childhood and youth experience in countries around the world. Peer-reviewed articles, policy reports, reference works, and eBooks are all included to offer an ideal research tool to study international education. Content Highlights • Extensive peer-reviewed articles allowing users to explore and compare a diverse range of key educational topics in countries around the world • The Education Around the World reference series, comprising 18 volumes and covering every single country in the world • A growing collection of eBooks focused on comparative and international education as well as a collection of policy oriented reports • Statistical educational data for each country, providing users with necessary background information to compare educational systems • Web links to further resources, including statistical data, results of international testing exercises, policy reports, and governmental websites

Features and Benefits • Browse and compare articles by topic or by country • Discover content using an interactive world map • Search and explore across the resource and the comprehensive glossary of international educational terms

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The Churchill Archive is designed to support teaching, study, and research, providing an invaluable resource for a wide range of courses. It includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents that range from Churchill’s personal correspondence to exchanges between the great leaders of the 19th and 20th centuries. In-depth guides • Offer a comprehensive exploration of key topics in 20th century history in which Churchill played a central role, such as Churchill and the Cold War or Churchill and Nuclear Weapons • Written by leading academics who are experts in their field • Provide clear links to the relevant primary source documents in the Archive • Supported by extensive lecture slides on various topics • Offer links to further reading lists, bibliographies and references

Introductions • Offer an overview of broader areas of research and study and are based around key teaching topics such as Women and Social Change and Empire and Imperialism • Provide a structured way to introduce students to primary source material and explore its relevance to their study and research topics • Highlight a small number of documents from the Archive and suggest useful parts to explore further as part of independent research

Features and Benefits • Powerful search gives users quick and advanced search options as well as the unique search taxonomy to filter by topic, place, period, or people, or browse the Churchill Archives Centre’s own cataloging system • Personalization features to save searches, export citations and favorite, download or print documents • Ask the Archivist provides guidance on using an archive for research

Letters courtesy of the Churchill Archive. Yalta Summit 1945, US military

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“This is a beautiful and fascinating collection primarily for scholars and researchers with a deep interest in the influence of the Middle East on the West.” —Library Journal The Arcadian Library is an exceptional, privately-owned library, which respects and celebrates the centuries-old interface between Europe and the Middle East. Collected over the last 40 years, the Library’s holdings are distinguished by their rarity, importance, and quality and include manuscripts, early books and incunabula, documents, maps, and printed books ranging from the 10th to the 20th centuries. Content Highlights Library modules include: • History of Science and Medicine • Europe and the Ottoman World (coming soon) • Travel and Exploration (coming soon)

Features and Benefits • High-resolution, full-colour images (400ppi), including binding and decorated clasps and page edges • Metadata in English and Arabic with Arabic keyboard • Fully indexed with a dedicated taxonomy enabling filtered search by topic, place, period, people, language, or content type • Commentary articles linked to primary texts • Cite, share and bookmark content • Full catalogue records include available provenance and condition notes • View images within record or full screen

All images courtesy of the Arcadian Library

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Richard III, The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses; film still by Robert Viglasky; source: Neal Street / Carnival / NBCUniversal / THIRTEEN

Henry IV Part 2, The Hollow Crown; film still by Joss Barratt; source: Neal Street / NBCUniversal / WNET

Discover • Read • Listen • Watch “Drama Online is a well-designed and easy-to-use database that succeeds admirably in making the texts of plays available on line in an environment that will enhance their use for study and performance. Its collections of audio and video performances of plays enrich the database considerably and should be seriously considered by most libraries that can afford their extra costs as add-ons to the Core Collection of play texts.” —The Charleston Advisor An award-winning and rapidly expanding digital library of 2,500 playtexts, 100 scholarly works and practical guides, over 360 audio plays, and 150 hours of video—all taken from renowned publishers, imprints, and expert sources. Drama Online is designed to meet the full range of teaching needs for theatre studies, literature courses, and drama schools. Awards • Best Interface—The Charleston Advisor • Innovation Excellence Award—Stationer’s Livery Company

Playtext Collections • Core Collection—Titles from Bloomsbury (including Methuen Drama, and Arden Shakespeare) and Faber & Faber, plus production stills from the Victoria and Albert Museum and the American Shakespeare Center • Playwrights Canada Press—Over 170 plays from notable and award-winning authors including Daniel MacIvor and Hannah Moscovitch • Aurora Metro Books—Over 120 plays from a wide-ranging and contemporary list of new drama including women’s drama, international drama, and drama by Black and Asian writers • Nick Hern Books—Over 400 plays from a specialist theatre publisher featuring pre-eminent playwrights including Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth, and Caryl Churchill

Video Collections • Hollow Crown Series 1 and 2—Shakespeare’s history plays featuring a star-studded cast including Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant, Judi Dench, Hugh Bonneville, and Tom Hiddleston • BBC Drama Films and Documentaries—Adaptations of core curriculum plays from Sophocles to Oscar Wilde, alongside modern classics such as Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen • Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen—22 films recorded live on the Globe stage from leading actors including Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, and Roger Allam’s Olivier Award-winning Falstaff in Henry IV • Hamlet, starring Maxine Peake—A landmark reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with Maxine Peake in the title role • Stage on Screen—Critically acclaimed stage productions of four key set drama and literature texts: The Duchess of Malfi, Doctor Faustus, The School for Scandal, and Volpone • Shakespeare in the Present—A six hour acting masterclass with international coach Patsy Rodenburg, starring Joseph Fiennes

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Photograph by Simon Kane; source: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

Photograph by Jonathan Keenan; source: Genesius Pictures

Photograph by John Tramper; source: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

Content Highlights Customize your institution’s Drama Online experience with individual collections from leading drama publishers, theatres, and practitioners.

Audio Collections • L.A. Theatre Works—369 professionally recorded audio plays featuring modern works from the oeuvres of leading American playwrights

Scholarly Collections • The Arden Shakespeare Studies Archive—Provides historical, critical, and theoretical background to Shakespeare’s work • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Theatre Studies Archive—Companions to theatrical movements, theatre histories, geographies, playwrights, and research into applied theatre • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Performing Arts Collection—Covers acting methods as well as practical instruction on performance and stagecraft

NEW 2017–18 COLLECTIONS NEW! Bloomsbury Scholarly Collection: Critical Studies and Performance Practice—170 critical and reference works from Methuen Drama and the Arden Shakespeare

Features and Benefits • NEW! Interactive Transcript Player—Full transcripts for video plays, real-time tracking of lines spoken, automatic text scrolling, hyperlinked text throughout for navigation to the relevant timestamp, ‘search transcript’ function • Play Finder—Select plays based on cast size, gender of roles, word count, period, and playwright • Personalization Features—Save searches, highlight and annotate text, and bookmark content • Monologue Search—Find monologues by keyword, gender, and word count • Character Grid and Words and Speeches Graph—Available for each play • Develop a Part Book—View lines and stage directions for individual roles • Intuitive eReader—featuring scholarly editions and in-text annotations

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Miriam Makeba; Nas, photo by Frank Hoensch; Joni Mitchell, photo by by Baron Wolman; Talking Heads, photo by Gysbert Hanekroot; Dizzy Gillespie, photo by David Redfern—all images courtesy of Getty Images

Bloomsbury Popular Music is a comprehensive scholarly library on global music, designed to support academics, researchers, and students. It brings together leading reference works, the acclaimed 33 1/3 series, peer-reviewed monographs, and a variety of interactive features, all in one cross-searchable, fully-indexed platform. Content Highlights • 14 volumes of the landmark reference work, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, featuring top international contributors • All 120+ volumes of the widely acclaimed 33 1/3 book series, providing in-depth analysis of influential albums across diverse musical eras, by artists ranging from Belle & Sebastian to Black Sabbath • An expanding range of scholarly books from Bloomsbury’s Popular Music Studies list: 20 titles, comprising edited volumes, biographies, and historical overviews • Titles in the new 33 1/3 Global book series, with initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, and volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and beyond, to follow

Features and Benefits • Provides cross-searchable access to full-text content covering all genres of popular music from almost every country in the world, allowing users to move easily between different cities, scenes, movements, and sounds • Helps users to make connections between various artists, albums, musical eras, and genres, through Artist Pages offering curated links to relevant content for each artist • Guides users to books and articles covering a particular country or region that is of interest to them or their research through the World Map feature • contextualizes artists and albums within their time, in the Timeline of Popular Music which gives a fully linked overview of relevant events in musical and political history

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Screen Studies is a dynamic new platform taking users from script to screen, and beyond, with a broad range of content for film and media studies courses. It comprises an initial collection of 600 iconic titles from some of the finest screenwriters, award-winning directors, well-known films, and key texts on media history and theory. Content Highlights • Iconic and contemporary screenplays from both Bloomsbury and Faber & Faber including The Grand Budapest Hotel, Interstellar, The Big Lebowski, and 21 Grams • Critical and contextual works covering the major genres, regions, approaches, and history • Practical instruction on the art of screenwriting, film and TV production, animation techniques, and documentary filmmaking • Works by leading film directors such as Wes Anderson; Joel Coen and Ethan Coen; Christopher Nolan; Stephen Soderbergh; Danny Boyle; and John Boorman providing insight into professional and creative practice

Features and Benefits • Offers advanced full-text search, with filtering options to refine results and a subject–specific taxonomy, linking related content in an intuitive way which aids a smooth journey through relevant parts of the platform • Provides an intuitive e-reader featuring screenplays presented in the industry standard studio format, as well as page numbers corresponding with the print edition • Allows users to take control of their research experience with a clutter free e-reading experience and personalization features including the ability to save books, chapters or items to view later within folders; to email and export citations; and to save searches

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Winner of the Dartmouth Medal, Berg Fashion Library is a leading source of scholarly, multidisciplinary information on all aspects of dress and fashion worldwide, from pre-history to the present day. With contributors from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, history and beyond, Berg Fashion Library is a highly versatile resource. It presents dress in cultural, sociological, geographical, political, and historical contexts, and will enhance study in any of these areas. © Herbert Levine The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Content Highlights: • Reference works including the 10-volume Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, which consists of 2,000 images and more than 800 in-depth articles, A–Z of Fashion, and The Dictionary of Fashion History • 100+ academic e-books that cover important classic and modern writings on fashion

• An invaluable museum directory which features information on specialties and holdings, plus sample images, and links to further information • Over 13,000 color images from prestigious partners such as the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Mode Museum, and the Commercial Pattern Archive • Unique exhibition archive, which showcases images from historic exhibitions from museums around the world, including the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology and Somerset House

Features and Benefits The award-winning Berg Fashion Library is the only online resource to provide integrated text and images on world dress and fashion through history, and is perfect for use in teaching. Those teaching or researching anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theatre and cultural studies, as well as fashion and textiles will discover:

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• Teaching resources including free lesson plans and biblio guides • Reference works • Primary sources • A vast image bank for research

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AN ESSENTIAL AND DYNAMIC DIGITAL HUB FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FASHION AND DRESS.

Showcasing more than 750,000 newly-digitized and high-quality runway, backstage, and street style images, Fashion Photography Archive features forty years of contemporary fashion history curated by Editor-in-Chief Valerie Steele, Director of the Museum at FIT in New York.

Content Highlights: • I ncludes rare images featuring internationally renowned designers and brands including Alexander McQueen, Christian Dior, Vivienne Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto, Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace, Calvin Klein, Chanel, and many more • International coverage from Paris, London, New York, Milan and beyond • Detailed metadata for each photograph has been prepared to ensure accuracy, enhance search and browse, and to guarantee effective linking between text and images • Supports cross disciplinary research in a vibrant period of fashion history. Designed to excite, engage and inspire students across a wide range of courses and promote further discovery • Exclusive academic articles providing essential context on key catwalk collections, specific themes or styles of dressing, fashion icons, single object analysis, specific decades, and the use of colors in fashion

Features and Benefits • 750,000 rare images from the pre-digital era that provide a unique window into fashion history • Resources including a timeline, lesson plans, and videos that are supported by a rich taxonomy and comprehensive indexing • Accurate and highly detailed indexed images and articles to support projects and research • Personalize, save content, and search across all products on Bloomsbury Fashion Central

Photographer: Niall McInerney, © Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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Essential resources covering the entire range of fashion education, from the creative to corporate • Content covers the full spectrum of topics in fashion including construction, draping, fashion business and management, history, illustration, journalism, marketing, promotion, theory, pattern making, styling, product development, sustainable fashion, textiles, and more.

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• Book chapters are aggregated and fully indexed to provide both a learning and a reference experience • An interactive timeline feature provides historical context • Integrated STUDIO ancillaries specific to each book allow users to personalize their study with multiple choice questions and quizzes, flashcards, and video and audio resources. Specially commissioned video content supports visual learners through ‘how to’ demos as well as visual overviews of key topics, reinforcing and expanding on content in chapters • As part of Bloomsbury Fashion Central, students can extend their learning and expand their research by accessing related content from Berg Fashion Library and Fashion Photography Archive

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• Teaching resources and lesson plans are available to instructors upon request

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Forthcoming 2019 With hundreds of cases from across the fashion industry, from design and sourcing to marketing and retail, Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases will enable students to develop essential business skills required by the next generation of fashion industry professionals. Global in focus, cases will present real-world challenges facing the business of fashion around the world and across sectors, tackling important issues such as sustainability, technology, ethics, and leadership. Content Highlights • Hundreds of cases covering a vast range of topics designed to suit the entire breadth of the fashion curriculum, from design to retailing • Global cases exploring the industry beyond the USA and UK into territories such as Europe, Asia, and the Pacific • A range of levels, lengths and approaches to suit varying student requirements throughout their studies • Partner case collections from leading fashion business schools around the world • Teaching notes and supplemental teaching resources to help educators make the most out of the dynamic case study method of teaching

Features and Benefits • Authoritative and visually oriented cases selected and reviewed by subject specialist editors who bring valuable educator and industry experience • Real cases that explore issues facing the industry right now, with of-the-moment challenges • Updates twice a year, every year, tackling the key issues facing varying sectors of the industry • A comprehensive taxonomy that aligns with global fashion curriculums, allowing powerful search and browse to discover new and relevant content • IP-wide access to cases via the academic library, simplifying discovery and access to cases outside of the traditional per-case purchase model offered by other resources

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This authoritative online resource provides expansive scholarly coverage of design and crafts worldwide, from 1500 BCE to the present day. It offers a carefully curated selection of fully-searchable text and image content of the highest quality with an intuitive taxonomy for research and discovery. It is the ideal choice to enhance research, teaching, and learning in the fields of visual arts, design, and craft studies. Content Highlights • Definitive reference works including Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design—featuring over 1,700 authoritative articles by leading international scholars; and World History of Design, written by eminent design historian, Victor Margolin • Over 60 eBooks in design and craft studies by leading scholars including Glenn Adamson, Tony Fry, John Heskett, Penny Sparke, Judith Attfield, and Nigel Cross • More than 100 Designer Pages providing essential details and links to further reading about key figures including Ettore Sottsass, Walter Gropius, William Morris, Charles Eames and Ray Kaiser Eames • An interactive timeline provides a richly illustrated overview of global design and crafts history from 1500 BCE to the contemporary period, accompanied by contextual information and click-through links to related content

Features and Benefits • Allows users to navigate seamlessly between designers, places and periods, theory and practice, using the platform’s intuitive search function and customized taxonomy • O ffers a choice between practical and more traditional research tools to suit individual styles of working, with peerreviewed reference works complemented by a lively interactive timeline • U pdated on an annual basis with new content of the highest quality including reference articles, image collections, and exhibition archives from prestigious museum partners

Images provided courtesy of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Not for reproduction.

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Forthcoming 2018 Bloomsbury Architecture Library is the leading sources of information for the study of architecture, urbanism, and interior design. With cross-searchable access to an expanding range of text, image, and interactive content, this dynamic research tool is essential for academics and provides innovative educational resources for students. Content Highlights • A growing list of major new reference works including Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture (21st Edition) and Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World (2nd Edition) • A wide collection of eBooks from Bloomsbury’s academic lists • An image library featuring thousands of images including from major national archives and collections • Interactive maps showing key buildings around the world • Free lesson plans and bibliographic guides with links to online content

Features and Benefits Bloomsbury Architecture Library offers a user experience that extends beyond that of a collection of eBooks and images. • An intuitive custom taxonomy that will enable ‘search and discovery’ of buildings and architects by place, date, building type, culture, and technology • Regular updates to keep students, scholars, and professionals at the cutting edge of their subject • Browse content using illustrated timelines and interactive maps

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Bloomsbury Law Online Instant access to a fully-searchable database of 160 titles across 24 practice areas. Bloomsbury Law Online provides access to a comprehensive database of authoritative legal texts, containing commentary from experts in their field of practice.

Content Highlights

Bloomsbury Law Online covers the following fields: • Banking and Finance Law

• Insurance Law

• Personal Injury Law

• Charities

• IP and IT Law

• Planning Law

• Clinical Negligence

• Local Government Law

• Practice and Procedure

• Company and Commercial Law

• Maritime and Shipping Law

• Professional Negligence Law

• Court of Session Practice (Scotland)

• Mediation

• Property and Land Law

• Employment Law

• National Infrastructure

• Scots Law Library

• Environmental Law

• Planning Service

• Sports Law

• Family Law

• Partnerships

• Insolvency Law

• Pensions Law

Features and Benefits Normally the preserve of top law firms and chambers, Bloomsbury Law Online brings quality legal commentary within the reach of academics and students, with the following key features: • Content drawn from established texts written by experts in practice or academia • Variety of search options, including quick search, advanced search, or browse the database • Share search results, or content easily with social media—great for project work • Save and repeat searches—no need to remember search criteria • Notification of new documents when they are added to previous search results • Subscribe to the whole service, or by practice area—flexible packages to fit different needs • Clear citations ensure users know the currency of the law in question

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UK Tax Online Years of real life practical application of tax legislation from our team of experienced authors Bloomsbury Professional’s UK Tax online service provides the user with a resource comprising highly authoritative, clear and practical coverage, of key tax issues, written by renowned names in the tax world.

Content highlights UK Tax Online gives access to highly authoritative coverage of the key and changing areas of UK taxation including: • Entrepreneurs’ relief

• IHT Residence nil-rate band

• Taxation of pensions

• Residence rules

• Private residence relief

... and many, many more

• Dividend taxation

• Research and Development relief

• Tax treatment of goodwill upon incorporation

• Reorganisations and reconstructions

Features and Benefits • Clearly laid out practical guidance with hundreds of up-to-date examples based on issues regularly faced by companies and their advisors • Content written and maintained by the some of the most highly regarded names in the tax world including Peter Rayney, Mark McLaughlin, Robert Maas, and Rebecca Cave • A fast, reliable and intuitive platform which allows users to search quickly and effectively, and share information

Financial Reporting for Smaller Companies Practical guidance on the application of all UK Accounting standards and company law to financial statement Authoritative coverage on the interpretation of FRS 102 and FRS 105 for UK companies, with hundreds of examples of how they might be applied in practice.

Content highlights • Complete and up-to-date text for all UK accounting and auditing standards under UK GAAP • Commentary on application of these standards to unlisted company accounts as well as pension schemes, LLPs and charities

• A range of experienced contributors, from Steve Collings to Clark Whitehill provide their commentary

Features and Benefits • Many practical examples of required disclosures and policy wordings • Easily navigable platform with intuitive and granular search functionality • Personalization features allow rapid sharing and easy ways to save information • Personalization features allow rapid sharing, and easy ways to save information and frequent searches

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How much of the Earth’s surface is covered in sand? How many British monarchs does the House of Windsor claim? Galileo Galilei first discovered the major moons of Jupiter in 1610, how many Galilean Moons are there? Whitaker’s is the ultimate reference tool for anyone interested in current affairs and general knowledge. Comprehensive. Reliable. Easy to Navigate. With over 6,000 index references Whitaker’s is updated throughout the year as new information becomes available from our sources, via the news and our own research. This information is reliable and accurate and updated on our database continually and, once checked, content is posted immediately to the website. The dedicated team of in-house editors and specialist contributors spend around 6,000 hours each year checking and updating content for Whitaker’s. This includes contacting thousands of organisations and government departments, researching information from official annual reports, and gathering statistics and facts from the most current authoritative sources available.

Features and Benefits • Easily create citations • Create a personal library of chapters and sections of content • Bookmark and annotate content

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