It appears that in too many instances the administrators who must decide what classification schemes libraries should use lack understanding of comparative classification. As a result, these decisions are frequently based upon irrelevant considerations. The author points to the several weighty reasons for claiming that such systems as Bliss, the Colon Scheme, and the UDC are superior to those i...

Only three of the essays are taken from Aequanimitas, which is still readily available. The value of the collection is greatly enhanced by the commentaries of the fourteen distinguished American medical specialists and librarians, which puts each essay critically in perspective. In the sum of its parts, it is a book which may be read and enjoyed by those who are interested in medical education ...

The author discusses the recent development and implementation of The Teleporter Zone, a permanent interactive art installation commissioned by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity for the new Evelina Children’s Hospital in London. The article places the production and conception of this installation in the context of the author’s research in telematic and telepresent art over the past 15 years, alongs...

Abstract This article considers the place that sermons held in early modern book market through a quantitative survey of title pages sermon-books published English between 1620 and 1642. Working from an EEBO dataset, this research examines four features pages: (a) dating referents, (b) location (c) references to living or status preacher, (d) whether books were collections. demonstrates vast ma...

stylistics is one of the literary topics that the literati and writers have had a special attention to it during the past decade. literary style is a method or a special way of expressing thoughts that the writer or the narrator tries to transfer his ideas and thoughts about the realities through selecting words, terms and specific interpretations. amir-al-moemenin has expressed his intended mo...

T homas Merton, the American intellectual turned Trappist monk, recounts in The Seven Storey Mountain that his conversion to Catholicism was triggered by reading an account of a sermon in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a novel that draws from Joyce’s own departure from the faith. Merton fully recognizes the oddness and paradox of such a reading, but there was something, ...

" Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. "