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Uprooted from her ancestral home of Aquilac in the South of France, Francesca Allegri comes to live with her uncle, the noted composer Gregorio Allegri, in Rome. Almost instantly, this highly educated, headstrong woman is plunged into the high-stakes intrigues of the Vatican. Her defiance of a papal decree makes her an enemy of the establishment who chase her and her lover all across Europe. If she is caught, a dungeon awaits and, perhaps, burning at the stake. Her response? She stokes their anger even further by authoring a book, more heretical even than Galileo, in which she challenges the Church's worldview.
This work provides librarians with a much-needed introduction to instruction in college and university libraries. Filled with real world case studies that can be directly applied to classroom use and on-the-job training, the text brings together many experienced librarian-instructors to detail their professional experiences.
Get the foundational knowledge about health sciences librarianship. The general term “health sciences libraries” covers a wide range of areas beyond medical libraries, such as biomedical, nursing, allied health, pharmacy, and others. Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship provides a sound foundation to all aspects of these types of libraries to students and librarians new to the field. This helpful guide provides a helpful overview of the health care environment, technical services, public services, management issues, academic health sciences, hospital libraries, health informatics, evidence-based practice, and more. This text provides crucial information every beginning and pract...
Here is ready access to a wide range of information for librarians who teach users how to best utilize information resources. Library and information science students and practitioners can learn from the educational programs that have been developed over the last decade, as presented in this volume, to build and expand their roles as consultants and educators. Bringing together the best information on the subject from the pages of Medical Reference Services Quarterly, this book is intended to create an interest in user education in libraries and generate ideas for new or expanded user education programs.
Contributors from various disciplines examine conflicts in ethical issues related to elder abuse and suggest ways to address these differences and initiate moves toward consensus. They review three cases of mistreatment from the perspectives of medicine, social work, law, religion, and ethics, and identify ethical values and dilemmas, touching on subjects such as autonomy, legal competence, and community-based multidisciplinary care. Of interest to social workers and health professionals. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Intended for all professionals who work with physically disabled persons. Selected references included are multidisciplinary in approach. Arranged according to topic or form, e.g., there are chapters on blindness, independent living, and journals. Each entry gives bibliographical information and an annotation. Author, title indexes.