Sentences with phrase «database of academic books»

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Indeed, recalling Britton's discussion of the importance of determining «the sakes» of a film, scholars scouring university libraries and online scholarly databases for film books and essays also need to be discriminating the sakes of academic scholarship.

In my book, The Collapse of Parenting, I share data from many sources — including the National Institutes of Health, international databases such as the PISA program, scholarly papers by researchers such as Professor Jean Twenge, and many other sources — showing that American kids are indeed more likely to be obese, less likely to be physically fit, more likely to be anxious and depressed, compared with American kids 30 years ago — and in the case of academic achievement, doing much less well compared with kids in other countries, again a big change compared with American kids 30 years ago.

Once a year, the Frankfurter Buchmesse becomes the Global City of Ideas: the most important international trading place for content, from novels and children's books to academic databases.

Google Books is an online database that contains a massive library of scanned books from the collections of public and academic libraBooks is an online database that contains a massive library of scanned books from the collections of public and academic librabooks from the collections of public and academic libraries.

From classic literature to modern best - sellers to academic texts to the entire Harry Potter series, the Kindle Owners» Lending Library offers a database of 80,000 books to anyone with a Kindle or Amazon Prime membership.

While they enjoy the searchability of electronic documents and databases, academics still prefer holding a book in their hands to read it.

The discussion was mostly around digital preservation, in the course of this it became apparent that the biggest growing concern in academic law libraries is wholesale tossing of print book and journal collections in favour of databases such as the «Making of Modern Law» [http://www.galeuk.com/trials/moml/] in addition to the plan of Google and large research libraries (Harvard, Yale, Oxford, etc.) to digitize their entire collections.

On the one hand, open access databases of books and articles, many of which are provided by academic libraries, dramatically increase public access to academic libraries» holdings.

Additionally, college libraries offer access to academic journals, reserach books, historical databases and other important periodicals, regardless of the complexity of the subject.