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loomsbury 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 2 Bloomsbury Collections 3 Bloomsbury Food Library 4 Bloomsbury Cultural History 5 Bloomsbury Medieval Studies 6 Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers 7–8 Theology & Religion Online Visual Arts and Design 9 Bloomsbury Design Library 10 Bloomsbury Architecture Library Bloomsbury Fashion Central 11 Berg Fashion Library 12 Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases 13 Fashion Photography Archive 14 Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive 15 Fairchild Books Library 16 FS 17 Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts 18 Bloomsbury Education and Studies Film, Music, and Performing Arts 19–22 Drama Online 23 Bloomsbury Popular Music 24 Screen Studies History, Reference, and Distribution Partners 25 Churchill Archive 26 Arcadian Library Online 27–28 Bloomsbury Professional Arbitration and UK Tax Law 29 manchesterhive 30 Rowman & Littlefield 31 Whitaker’s Almanack 32 Features and Benefits 33–34 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
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loomsbury Collections offers excellence and originality in scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Discover our everexpanding eBook library that offers more than 8000 titles across 22 subject areas. Bloomsbury Collections contributes innovative and forward-thinking scholarship to the global academic community. Comprised of titles from Bloomsbury as well as such prestigious imprints as The Arden Shakespeare, Methuen Drama, T & T Clark, and I.B. Tauris, Bloomsbury Collections provides rich and resourceful titles that offer the latest critical thought, incisive insight, and accessible overviews to a comprehensive collection of dynamic disciplines.
Subjects covered include: Anthropology • Art & Visual Culture • Architecture • Biblical Studies • Classical Studies & Archaeology • Education • Design • Drama • Fashion • Film & Media • History • Law • Linguistics • Literary Studies • Middle East • Music & Sound • Philosophy • Photography • Politics & International Relations • Religious Studies • Sociology • Theology
Features and Benefits • DRM free access • Cite, share, and personalize content • eBook page numbers match the print version • Mobile responsive for a tablet or smartphone • Download and print chapter PDFs without restriction • Unlimited concurrent access for students • Search full text of titles; filter by date, series, or subject • MARC records • COUNTER 4 usage statistics
Available via perpetual access. Collections are available as discrete discipline modules, Title by Title, or via Evidence Based Acquisition.
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“ Foodies, scholars, and students of culinary arts now have a highquality source of contemporary and historical information to aid in the research of their favorite subject.” —Library Journal
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eaturing exceptional content from Bloomsbury’s leading publishing program in food studies, studies, Bloomsbury Food Library is an award-winning online resource that combines comprehensive reference works with cutting-edge academic research, educational resources, and primary materials.
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• Global coverage including Ken Albala’s Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia and the Cambridge World History of Food • Major reference works including Bloomsbury’s A Cultural History of Food and key chapters from Food History: Critical and Primary Sources • Over 80 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 institutions around the globe including the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University, The National Archives, The New York Public Library and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA • A growing selection of lesson plans to aid teaching
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• Fast, cross-searchable access to the widest-ranging collection of food-related studies content • A tailored taxonomy enabling easy browsing across discipline, topic, place, and period • An interactive visual timeline highlighting key facts in food history from pre-history to the present day • A 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 • Annual updates will be made available 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
Available via Subscription or Perpetual Access
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“ The content is fascinating.... Original and beautifully designed, Bloomsbury Cultural History shows promise as a onestop shop for cultural history reference surveys.” —Library Journal
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loomsbury Cultural History is an authoritative, peer-reviewed resource showing how people lived their everyday lives throughout history. It provides students and researchers with access to Bloomsbury’s Cultural Histories series, a set of curated, comprehensive, and illustrated reference works, in addition to 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. Thematic coverage is consistent across all periods so 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 • Furniture
• Gardens • Human Body • Law • Medicine • Money • Peace • Plants • Religion in the West
• Senses • Sexuality • Shopping • Sport • Theatre • Work • Women
Features and Benefits • More than 80 eBooks to complement the reference works • An illustrated and interactive timeline provides contextual background from antiquity to modernity • Browse by theme or period to find the most beneficial content • Annual updates will be made available making this a constantly expanding resource for students and researchers • A bespoke taxonomy allows users to discover the most relevant content • Annual updates will be made available making this a constantly expanding resource for students and researchers • Image partnerships with the Wellcome Collection and the Rijksmuseum, containing over 2000 images to enable a deeper insight and understanding of the subjects • A growing selection of lesson plans to assist teaching
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loomsbury Medieval Studies combines high-quality secondary content with visual primary sources, a brand new reference work and curated pedagogical resources in a one-stop digital resource which will support students and scholars across this rich field of study.
Content Highlights • Fully-searchable access to a broad range of over 150 scholarly books including primary texts, research monographs, companions and more • Leading texts from Bloomsbury and other top publishers in the field such as IB Tauris, Arc Humanities Press and Amsterdam University Press • The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages, a new and exclusive reference work written by international scholars which combines thematic overviews, primary source analyses, and core case studies • Exceptional visual sources, including newly-digitized and rare incunabula from Senate House Library, highresolution medieval maps from the British Library, and over 1000 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art • A growing selection of study resources curated by major scholars, to be expanded in product updates • An interactive timeline with a global focus which places image and text content from across the resource within their time and geographical region
Features and Benefits • Enhances research with a unique combination of global primary and second material, including visual sources to boost student engagement • Draws out regional interconnectivity and differences through the innovative and internationally authored articles in the Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages • Brings the period to life with material culture object images, illuminated manuscript pages and other artwork which deepen understanding and give substance to key themes • Supports undergraduate study across disciplines covering the medieval period, as a one-stop resource with consolidated, searchable material
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“ Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers is committed to highlighting global and noncanonical thinkers that may not be covered in other resources.” —CCAdvisor
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loomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers brings together thousands of thinkers 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 philosopherss alongside those often neglected in historical surveys, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers will change your conception of the canon.
Content Highlights • Growing each year, it currently includes over 8,000 biographical articles on thinkers from North America, Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the Middle East. • Figures from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa will be added to make this an ever-expanding, global resource • Alongside the giants of philosophy are civil rights activists, classicists, clergymen, economists, mathematicians, novelists, poets, politicians, and scientists • Highly detailed and cross-referenced entries cover the life, work, and reception of a thinker as well as a bibliography and suggestions for further reading
Features and Benefits • Access authoritative, peer-reviewed, biographical, and critical articles • Browse content by subject, school of thought, region, and period • Develop contextual understanding through an interactive historical timeline • Get regular updates and new content from this expanding resource
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&t clark Theology Library offers students and scholars detailed and thorough analysis of core theological content via primary texts, exclusive articles, and authoritative reference works. An imprint of Bloomsbury, t&t clark has been publishing cutting-edge books in biblical studies since 1821 and brings authoritative and systematic scholarship to this comprehensive resource.
Content Highlights • Encyclopedia of Christian Theology— Doctrinially driven, and edited by an international and multi-denominational team of the top scholars in the field, this work is the most comprehensive resource on the topic. • Primary Texts by Major Theologians—Over 70 classic texts from the most important theologians that shaped theology in the 20th century offering detailed examination of a wide number of doctrines, such as the Trinity, Atonement, Creation, Pneumatology, and Creation. • Digitally Exclusive Articles—Introductions to doctrines to help understand their relevance for study today and their importance for our understanding of theology. • Interactive Timeline—Underpinning every product within Theology and Religion Online, the timeline presents essential broader context for research as well as key information on theology and theologians specific to the resource
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omprised of 40 comprehensive reference resources, t&t clark Handbooks of Theology provide an overview of key topics, research areas, new directions. Each Handbook provides practical guidance on advanced study and research in the field, including research methods and subject-specific resources.
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&t clark Jesus Library is dedicated to the study of the person, history, context, impact, and reception of Jesus, which is central to the study of the Bible and Christianity. With unique and amply layered content rooted in publishing from t&t clark, t&t clark Jesus Library blends text, images, audio, and visual materials to form a comprehensive digital resource for students and researchers of Religion, Theology, Biblical Studies, Classics, and History.
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• Major Reference Works—The Jesus Tradition in the First Three Centuries (digitally exclusive to the resource), Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media, History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, Christianity: The Complete Guide, Mary: The Complete Resource, Jesus: The Complete Guide • Companions and Texts—Providing comprehensive coverage of the discipline, these texts provide overviews of key topics, research areas, new directions. • Monographs and Classic Works—More than 60 titles spanning topics including the historical Jesus, reading and literary in the time of Jesus, Jesus and film, and early Christology. • Digital Exclusive Articles—Written by an international range of leading scholars to support research and study of core and cutting edge topics • Images—Showcasing key sites and archaeological locations, reliquaries, mosaics, places of worship, and representations of Jesus in art to provide a way of locating Jesus in the history of faith and culture • Audio Resources—Podcasts on core topics and publications
Features and Benefits for Theology & Religion Online
• Comprehensive and detailed content including a unique mix of primary texts and peer-reviewed secondary reading on every core topic • Exclusive Teaching and Study Resources including a timeline, lesson plans and bibliographic uides, designed to support teachers and scholars • My Content feature allowing users to save relevant material • Regular updates including exclusive new articles ensure the resource reflects the latest theological developments and cutting-edge scholarship
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“ Offering tons of unique content, it’s highly recommended for institutions with design studies, architecture, and visual arts and culture programs” —Library Journal
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roviding unrivalled coverage of global design and crafts from 1500 BCE to the present day, this authoritative resource is the ideal research and learning tool for design, craft studies, and other visual arts.
Content Highlights • Definitive reference works including the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Victor Margolin’s renowned World History of Design, and exclusive articles from the Encyclopedia of Asian Design • More than 85 eBooks by scholars including Glenn Adamson, Tony Fry, John Heskett, and Penny Sparke • Over 100 Designer Pages providing essential details and links to further reading about key figures such as Ettore Sottsass, William Morris, and Charles and Ray Kaiser Eames • A rich selection of 2000 object images from Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art collections—featuring a range of forms • Exhibition pages providing key information on design exhibitions, with exhibits from the Designmuseum Danmark, and the Museum of Crafts and Design, San Francisco • Exclusive lesson plans and bibliographic guides to help users navigate key content, with inspiration to bolster course teaching, and thematic guides for an introduction to core readings on a particular topic
Features and Benefits • An interactive timeline offering an illustrated and linked overview of global design history to enhance contextual understanding • Powerful search function and customized taxonomy that allow users to navigate seamlessly between the designers, places, and periods relevant to their work • Updated on a biannual basis with new content of the highest quality including reference articles, image collections, and exhibition archives from an expanding number of museum of partners
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www.bloomsburydesignlibrary.com Images courtesy of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York
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loomsbury Architecture Library is a dynamic research tool for architecture and architecture studies. With cross-searchable access to an expanding range of text, image, and interactive content, this dynamic platform is essential for academics and provides innovative educational resources for students.
Content Highlights • Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, the classic, authoritative reference for architecture history, enters its 21st edition completely rewritten and up-todate with a fully global perspective • 42 eBooks with regular updates of new Bloomsbury architecture publications, including a wide-range of scholarly eBooks on architecture, architectural history, theory, design, urbanism, landscape, and interiors, including The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design • Rich visual content with over 2,200 images from Sir Banister Fletcher and 600 images from the National Archive at Kew
Features and Benefits • Buildings pages with key information about the world’s most important buildings all in one place: location, date, architect, description, materials, images, and more • Clickable world map linked to building pages and articles, making location-specific research easy • An interactive timeline puts architecture history in perspective, giving context to movements, themes, and periods throughout architecture history • Students can use the glossary and index to look up key terms and easily find the proper period, movement, building, or architect • Browse contents by place, period, style, or peoples and cultures
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inner of the Dartmouth Medal, Berg Fashion Library is the leading resource for students and researchers of Fashion Studies. More than 13,000 color images, over 100 academic eBooks, an invaluable museum directory, a unique exhibition archive, reference works, and teaching resources are available to enrich and enliven studies across many disciplines.
Content Highlights Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion The Encyclopedia consists of 2,000 images and more than 800 in-depth articles, and explores the dressed and adorned body across cultures and throughout history. Cross cultural and multidisciplinary in approach, it provides readers with an appreciation of the richness and complexity of global dress. Reference Works In addition to the Encylopedia, our reference works also include Classic and Modern Writings on Fashion, the A–Z of Fashion, and The Dictionary of Fashion History. Museum Directory An invaluable museum directory which features information on specialties and holdings, plus sample images, and links to further information eBooks 100+ academic e-books that cover important classic and modern writings on fashion and include such titles as Paris Fashion, A Cultural History, by Valerie Steele useum Exhibitions M Unique exhibition archive, which showcases images from historic exhibitions from museums around the world, including the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York; Somerset House, London; Fashion Museum, Bath; and Museo de la Moda, Santiago, Chile I mage Partnerships 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 esearch and Learning Tools R Lesson plans and bibliographic guides
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ith valuable case studies from across the fashion industry, from design and sourcing to marketing and retail, Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases enables students to develop essential business skills required by the next generation of fashion industry professionals.
Content Highlights • Over 170 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 in the US, UK, Europe, Asia Pacific, and beyond. • 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 including LIM College, New York and RMIT University, Melbourne • Teaching notes and supplemental 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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“ I love, love, love this database!” —Reference Reviews
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dited by world-renowned fashion historian Valerie Steele, Director of the Museum at FIT in New York, the Fashion Photography Archive provides an unrivalled window onto fashion history from the late 1970s to 2000. The resource includes over 750,000 images that predate the advent of digital photography—many exceedingly rare, such as those of key designers’ graduation shows (McQueen and Galliano)— alongside biographies and scholarly articles providing context. The period saw an unparalleled flourishing of creative design, the evolution of the fashion show from runway to spectacle, the rise of the supermodel and the celebrity, and the relentless expansion of fashion as both industry and cultural phenomenon.
Content Highlights • 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 to ensure accuracy, enhance search and browse, and 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 and styles of dressing, fashion icons, single object analysis, specific decades, and the use of colors in fashion
Features and Benefits • 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 Available via Subscription or Perpetual Access
www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com Niall McInerney, © Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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ffering 2,500 videos and 1,200 hours of footage from the YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP Runway Archive Collections, Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive offers an unrivalled window into fashion history between 1979 and 2003. The period covered by the archive saw the disruptive impact of innovative designers such as the Antwerp Six, Rei Kawakubo, and Hussein Chalayan and spans more than two decades of London, Paris, New York and Milan runway shows. The Archive includes priceless footage including Alexander McQueen’s 1992 Jack the Ripper graduate show, Jean Paul Gaultier’s controversial ‘Rabbi Chic’ show, extraordinary Westwood and rare Galliano, as well as the radical Belgian, Martin Margiela. It is an absolute treasure trove for fashion students and researchers as well as anyone interested in broader cultural and aesthetic trends of the period.
Content Highlights • 1,200 hours of highly desirable footage, indexed extensively to enable easy searching and discovery, representing 2,621 full catwalk shows from the Paris, London, New York and Milan. • 460 international designers represented in the 2,621 shows from 1979 to 2003 • Rich metadata to allow advanced, easy searching across content at a granular level, Indexing will cover: Show title, Show theme & Inspiration, Season, Year, Brand, designer, Product Types, Garment Parts and descriptions, Textiles and Materials, Color, Music, Trends, Persons shown and Keywords. • Exclusive, scholarly articles providing essential context that shed light on key collections, the evolution of trends, colours, individual designers’ work, the performance art of staging a runway show, and more all curated by world-renowned fashion historian and Director of the Museum at FIT in New York, Dr Valerie Steele. • ‘Clip making tool’ to easily save specific sections of videos for reference or for use in presentations • Full show or snippet viewing to watch full catwalk shows in their entirety or to jump to specific sections • A timeline of influential collections
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A library tailored for the fashion student
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comprehensive digital library that fully prepares students to enter the fashion industry by supplying everything they need to know to have a successful career. The content comes from the market-leading Fairchild Books, which has been producing the highest quality educational materials for fashion students for the past 50 years and covers a 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.
Content Highlights • Rich content that blends the practical with the theoretical with titles covering every core topic in fashion to guide a student through their studies • Content is indexed at the chapter level to enable easy discovery to provide both a learning and a reference experience • An interactive timeline showing the development of clothing from its earliest history through to the present day
Features and Benefits • 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. • Especially 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, Fashion Photography Archive, and Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases. • Teaching resources and lesson plans are available to instructors upon request
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he FS trend platform provides insight on future trends along with powerful tools to take action on those insights. Students and faculty get direct access to the commercial version of the platform, allowing schools to teach various disciplines of design, marketing, and trend forecasting and students to apply their problem-solving skills and critical thinking.
Content Highlights • Research and analysis of macro culture • Design inspiration form early forecasts to short-term seasonal stories • Trend takeaways (colors, themes, products, graphics, materials, ingredients, packaging, design details, and more) • Coverage of over 100 events per season
Features and Benefits • Project interface to manage individual projects • Image library with millions of hi-res downloadable images • An image curation tool with direct link to Pinterest • Color Palette Builder supporting all leading color systems • Collage maker with hundreds of dynamic templates • Mobile apps for on-the-go inspiration
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loomsbury Applied Visual Arts brings together an unprecedented collection of fully illustrated books packed with practical tools, guidance, and inspiration for students on practiceled visual arts courses. It provides material relevant to studies across design and illustration, fashion and textiles, architecture and interiors, film and media, marketing and advertising, and photography.
Content Highlights • Over 170 illustrated books across all the main fields of applied visual arts combining pedagogy and career guidance within a searchable platform • A versatile combination of titles covering key skills and topics in each field and at different levels of study, sequentially from basic concepts to careers and professional practice • Richly illustrated content, with each title typically offering over 200 full-color illustrations or images, expressly designed to meet the needs of visual learners
Features and Benefits • Structured, accessible coverage of applied visual and graphic arts which will support a wide variety of interdisciplinary and multimedia programs • A wealth of practical pedagogy, such as case studies, leading practitioner interviews, and activities provide teaching resources for instructors, while embedding students’ understanding of real-world applications and supporting portfolio development • Enhanced PDF viewing allows invaluable close engagement with visual materials such as illustrations showcasing work or explaining techniques, to help spur creative thinking • New editions will be added each year to ensure students are exposed to the best and latest technical know-how and trends in professional practice
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loomsbury Education and Childhood Studies provides systematic and comprehensive coverage of education and childhood studies worldwide. Using highly structured and original content, users can easily study and compare countries through six key sections: early childhood, childhood, youth, primary education, secondary education, and higher education. Combined with existing eBooks, articles, and helpful research tools, students can study and build an understanding of education systems, policies, and the nature of childhood and youth experience in different countries throughout the world.
Content Highlights • Over 250 peer-reviewed articles on six levels of education and childhood across 18 countries • Country Overview articles provide accessible introductory information on Early Childhood, Childhood, Youth, Primary Education, Secondary Education, and Higher Education • The entire Education Around the World reference series, comprising 18 volumes and covering every single country in the world • Over 65 academic eBooks on comparative and international education, including Peace Education (Prose Award Honorable Mention 2017) • A collection of over 60 policy reports from the World Bank Group Open Knowledge Repository • Links to external resources, educational data, and statistical information • Downloadable tables and enhanced graphs for easy viewing • Annual updates twice a year will include eBooks and new articles that will expand to cover all countries in the world
Features and Benefits • Powerful search function and related content makes finding relevant information quick and easy • Browse contents by Place, Education Level, Topic, and Content Type • Country and Section landing pages bring relevant content together • An interactive world map helps users find content by region and country • A seamless pop-up glossary enhances students’ understanding of the text Available via Subscription
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eveloped in partnership by Bloomsbury Publishing and Faber & Faber, Drama Online was created as a response to the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. The award-winning digital library is a fast growing study resource which now features over 2,500 playtexts from 800 playwrights, 400 audio plays, 260 hours of video, and 330 scholarly books from leading theatre publishers and companies, offering a complete multimedia experience of theatre.
Playtext Collections • Core Collection—The Core Collection forms the nexus of Drama Online with nearly 1,700 playtexts from Bloomsbury’s authoritative imprints, Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare, as well as Faber & Faber, and production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and The American Shakespeare Center • Playwrights Canada Press—Over 175 plays from notable and award-winning authors including Daniel MacIvor and Hannah Moscovitch • Aurora Metro Books—Over 125 plays from a wideranging and contemporary list of new drama including women’s drama, international drama, and drama by Black and Asian writers • Nick Hern Books—Over 570 plays from many of the UK and Ireland’s preeminent playwrights, including Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth, and Caryl Churchill
Audio Collections L.A. Theatre Works—400 professionally recorded audio plays featuring classic and modern works from the oeuvres of leading American playwrights
Criticism and Scholarship Critical Studies and Performance Practice—Featuring over 330 academic eBooks from the prestigious Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare imprints, offering invaluable critical, contextual, and pedagogic content from leading voices in theatre, performance, and Shakespeare.
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www.dramaonlinelibrary.com (Left) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen (2008–2015)
(Upper Right) The Mountaintop, L.A. Theatre Works, (Lower Right) Maxine Peake as Hamlet
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Video Collections • The Hollow Crown— 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 (2008– 2015)—21 films recorded live on the Globe Theatre stage from leading actors including Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, and Roger Allam’s Olivier Award-winning Falstaff in Henry IV • Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 2 (2016– 2018)—Features 9 plays including the first production from the indoor Jacobean theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. • Maxine Peake as Hamlet—A stripped-back, fast-paced, landmark reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with Maxine Peake in the title role • Stage on Screen—Critically acclaimed stage productions of four key 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 and Lynn Cohen • The Royal Shakespeare Company Live—Building over time, RSC Live will offer films of live productions of all 36 of Shakespeare’s plays, creating a Complete Works video collection by 2022. NEW releases: 4 new films in 2019; 4 new films in 2020. • Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains—Theatre-practitioner Steven Berkoff brings a host of Shakespeare’s most famous characters vividly to life, lifting complex characters from page to stage • Physical Actor Training—an Online A–Z—Provides provides a creative approach to actor training through 60 short, dynamic videos, building a foundation for physical acting. Available as part of the Critical Studies and Performance Practice collection.
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Best Interface —The Charleston Advisor Innovation Excellence Award —Stationer’s Livery Company “ Drama Online is a well-designed and easy-to-use database that succeeds admirably in making the texts of plays available online 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....” —The Charleston Advisor “ A ground-breaking digital resource that makes available a vast library of plays and reference works while offering bespoke features tailored to the needs of individual students and researchers. Drama Online blazes the trail for a new era of digital theatre publishing.” —Dr. Chris Megson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Content Highlights • Curated collections—Customize your institution’s Drama Online experience with any combination of collections, which are available on a perpetual access or subscription based model • Powerful cross-searching—All collections on the Drama Online platform are indexed according to a detailed taxonomy effectively integrating content across products and content types • Access for all—Drama Online offers unlimited simultaneous access and streaming, so students can access the materials they need anywhere on campus, at home, or even abroad • From page to stage, bring the words to life—Reading any play, from any period, is never the same as listening to or watching professional actors add depth, emotion, inflection, and context to the words. Drama Online combines playtexts, audio recordings, and video in one place, so every student can access the text in a meaningful way
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www.dramaonlinelibrary.com (Left) Richard II, The Hollow Crown, (Right) The Tempest, The Royal Shakespeare Company Live
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“ Highly recommended for academic libraries with a focus on music, offering a user-friendly platform that is invaluable for studying music around the world.” —Library Journal
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his invaluable digital library for global popular music brings together leading scholarship and interactive tools to hit the right note for research and learning. It is the ideal choice to enhance research and courses within music and related disciplines.
Content Highlights • Multi-volume landmark reference work, the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, featuring top international contributors and online-exclusive article updates—now includes access to the latest new volume; XII—Genres: Sub-Saharan Africa • All over 130 volumes of the widely acclaimed 33 1/3 and 33 1/3 Global book series, providing indepth analysis of influential albums across diverse musical eras, by artists ranging from Caetano Veloso to Public Enemy • An expanding selection of scholarly books from Bloomsbury’s Popular Music Studies list, comprising edited volumes, biographies, and historical overviews • Artist pages, with a selection of artist biographies— ideal for quick reference and contexualizing the life and work of key figures in popular music
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omprising a diverse range of exceptional book and screenplay content from Bloomsbury and Faber & Faber, Screen Studies is a dynamic and expanding platform. It supports academics and students engaged with studies of film history, theory and practice; as well as other moving image disciplines.
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“ This is a phenomenal resource, both in terms of the content and the navigational mechanisms. It allows researchers not just to understand one man, but a century of world, diplomatic and social history.” —Reference Reviews
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he Churchill Archive is designed to support teaching, study, and research, providing an invaluable resource for a wide range of courses. It comprises 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.
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“...the Arcadian Library Online is a masterly achievement in content and design that adds value to any large or specialized research library.” —The Charleston Advisor
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he Arcadian Library is an exceptional, privately-owned library, which documents 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 Available • Europe and the Ottoman World: Diplomacy and International Relations Available • Further modules planned in the areas of Europe and the Ottoman World and Travel and Exploration
Features and Benefits • Access high-resolution, full-colour facsimile images (400ppi) • Search in either English or Arabic • Browse by topic, place, period, people, language, or content type • Explore commentary articles linked to primary texts • Benefit from personalization features—cite, share, and favorite content
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Benefits • Content written by those in practice dealing with issues covered on a day to day basis • Quick and intuitive search • Save and share content
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anchesterhive, the home for digital content across the humanities and social sciences from Manchester University Press, offers excellent research from leading names and up-and-coming scholars from around the world.
Collections Manchester Film Studies Manchester Gothic Studies Manchester History of Medicine Manchester Medieval Sources Online Manchester Political Studies Manchester Religious Studies Manchester Security, Conflict, & Peace Manchester Shakespeare Manchester Studies in Imperialism
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Features and Benefits • Unrestricted simultaneous user access through IP authentication • Remote and mobile access provided via Shibboleth and Open Athens • Federated search enabled • DRM free to subscribers • Availability of COUNTER usage statistics • Secured archive via CLOCKSS, LOCKSS and Portico
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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.
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