American Museum Of Natural History Card Deck

Author : American Museum Of Natural History,David Sobel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1579129943

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American Museum of Natural History Card Deck by American Museum Of Natural History,David Sobel Pdf

Created in partnership with the world-renowned American Museum of Natural History, this beautiful, informative card deck captures, in pictures and words, 100 of the museum's most important artifacts, specimens, and exhibits—from a fossilized dinosaur's nest to the largest blue star sapphire in the world (563 carats!). The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is one of the world's preeminent natural history museums and research institutions. Its collections contain more than 32 million specimens of plants, humans, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and cultural artifacts. Now, for the first time, this acclaimed collection is represented in a stunning and informative card deck featuring 100 treasures, hand-selected by the museum's curators, that encompass the most fascinating, iconic, and wide-ranging of the museum's artifacts. The card deck covers each of the museum's major areas of exhibition, including Birds, Reptiles, and Amphibians; Earth and Planetary Science; Fossils; Human Origins and Culture; Mammals; Biodiversity and the Environmental; and the Hayden Planetarium. Some of the 100 objects include the Cape York Meteorite, discovered in Greenland in 1894; the Haida Canoe, built in 1878 by the Indians of the Pacific Northwest and carved from the trunk of a large cedar tree; the Blue Whale, a fiberglass replica of a 94-foot whale caught in 1925 off South George Island and the Warren Mastodon skeleton, the first complete mastodon skeleton discovered in the United States. Each card presents a full-frame photograph of the object on the front and a 200-word description on the back that tells of the origin and age of the object and its scientific and historic significance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316393287

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Photographic Card Deck by Anonim Pdf

Created in partnership with the world-renowned Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, this beautifully packaged, informative card deck captures, in words and stunning photographs, 100 of the museum's most important artifacts. The NASM is the world's largest, most-visited collection of historical aircraft and spacecraft, and commemorate major milestones in flight and space exploration. The 100 treasures in this deck, hand-selected by the curators, include the Spirit of St. Louis, flown by Charles Lindbergh on the first non-stop transatlantic flight; Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1, in which he broke the sound barrier; Buzz Aldrin's space suit, worn during the Apollo 11 mission, and the Space Shuttle Discovery, which flew 39 missions and spent 365 days in space. Each card includes a photograph of the object on the front and a 200-word description plus key data on the back.

Author : Barry Joseph
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781538159750

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Making Dinosaurs Dance by Barry Joseph Pdf

Making Dinosaurs Dance: A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums takes the reader behind the scenes to learn how the American Museum of Natural History innovates visitor digital engagement, highlighting design techniques used both there and at museums around the world. Based on the author’s six years at the landmark institution that inspired the Night at the Museum franchise, the book introduces The Six Tools of Digital Design - user research, rapid prototyping, public piloting, iterative design, youth collaboration, and teaming up – then applies them through case studies across a range of topics: Combining digital experience design with physical museum assets in a guided format, featuring Crime Scene Neanderthal (CSN), a youth co-designed and facilitated in-Hall experience that invited museum visitors to use a mobile app and other tools to investigate a science-based mystery. Game-based learning, featuring three case: a tabletop games (Pterosaurs: The Card Game), mobile games (Playing with Dinos), and commercial off-the-shelf games (Minecraft). Mobile augmented reality games, featuring MicroRangers, which used AR to invite visitors to shrink to microscopic size and explore the Museum to combat threats to global biodiversity. XR experience design, featuring case studies about 360 videos on paleontology and virtual reality projects about ocean life. Science visualizations, featuring Galactic Golf, an astro-visualization that addressed the topics of mass and gravity through a round of mixed reality Martian golf; interactive science visualizations that invited visitors to hold CT-scans of bat skulls in their hand; and Finding Flamingos, a youth program focused on how Conservation Biologists protect endangered flamingos through GIS mapping and predictions software. In addition, the book explores related topics at institutions in Greece and France, and from Washington, D.C. to California.

Author : Colin Davey
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823287079

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The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way by Colin Davey Pdf

Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and exploration, including the roles of American presidents, New York power brokers, museum presidents, planetarium directors, polar and African explorers, and German rocket scientists. The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City’s most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the world. Since 1869, generations of New Yorkers and tourists of all ages have been educated and entertained here. Located across from Central Park, the sprawling structure, spanning four city blocks, is a fascinating conglomeration of many buildings of diverse architectural styles built over a period of 150 years. The first book to tell the history of the museum from the point of view of these buildings, including the planned Gilder Center, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way contextualizes them within New York and American history and the history of science. Part II, “The Heavens in the Attic,” is the first detailed history of the Hayden Planetarium, from the museum’s earliest astronomy exhibits, to Clyde Fisher and the original planetarium, to Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and it features a photographic tour through the original Hayden Planetarium. Author Colin Davey spent much of his childhood literally and figuratively lost in the museum’s labyrinthine hallways. The museum grew in fits and starts according to the vicissitudes of backroom deals, personal agendas, two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Cold War. Chronicling its evolution―from the selection of a desolate, rocky, hilly, swampy site, known as Manhattan Square to the present day―the book includes some of the most important and colorful characters in the city’s history, including the notoriously corrupt and powerful “Boss” Tweed, “Father of New York City” Andrew Haswell Green, and twentieth-century powerbroker and master builder Robert Moses; museum presidents Morris K. Jesup, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Ellen Futter; and American presidents, polar and African explorers, dinosaur hunters, and German rocket scientists. Richly illustrated with period photos, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way is based on deep archival research and interviews.

Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : PSU:000007932878

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Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History Pdf

Author : Elaine Pofeldt
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781682686447

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Tiny Business, Big Money: Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Microbusiness by Elaine Pofeldt Pdf

An entrepreneur’s complete guide to making it big while keeping things small. Small business specialist Elaine Pofeldt offers her blueprint for getting a running start with your microbusiness—that is, a business with no more than 20 employees, including yourself. Following her previous book, The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Pofeldt gives readers the steps toward their next entrepreneurial venture, including testing an idea’s market viability while limiting risk, finding cash without giving up control, protecting your personal time and avoiding burn out, and knowing when it is time to start micro-scaling. Pofeldt’s focus is always on staying lean financially so that you can achieve your personal goals on an average person’s budget. In this book, Pofeldt profiles nearly 60 microbusinesses that have all reached $1 million in annual revenue without losing control or selling out. Tiny Business, Big Money also includes the results of a survey with the founders of 50 seven-figure microbusinesses that got to $1 million with no payroll or very small teams, which provides deeper visibility into their shared principles of success that you can apply to your own small business.

Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Natural history museums
ISBN : CORNELL:31924001532039

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General Guide to the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History Pdf

Author : James Hutson,Piper Hutson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031436154

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Inclusive Smart Museums by James Hutson,Piper Hutson Pdf

This book delves into the significant and timely intersection of cultural heritage, neurodiversity, and smart museums, exploring how various immersive techniques can create more inclusive and engaging heritage experiences for neurodiverse audiences. By focusing on these three aspects, the book aims to contribute significantly to the fields of cultural heritage, neuro-inclusivity, and smart museums, offering practical solutions and examples for heritage professionals and researchers. The book highlights the importance of preserving and enhancing cultural heritage by incorporating immersive technologies and inclusive practices that cater to the needs of neurodiverse audiences. It emphasizes the need for museums and heritage sites to be more inclusive and accessible for neurodivergent individuals, showcasing best practices and innovative techniques to engage this audience effectively.

Author : Stewart Culin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0486231259

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Games of the North American Indians by Stewart Culin Pdf

The most complete work ever prepared on the subject — based on museum collections, travel and ethnographic accounts, and author's own research. Covers over 200 tribes and everything from games of chance and dexterity to such minor amusements as shuttlecock and tipcat. Bureau of American Ethnology report worth a substantial sum in original edition. 1,112 figures.

Author : Stewart Culin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803263554

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Games of the North American Indians: Games of chance by Stewart Culin Pdf

Games figured prominently in the myths of North American Indian tribes, and also in their ceremonies for bringing rain and fertility and combating misfortune. In his classic study, originally published in 1907 as a report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Stewart Culin divided the games played by Indian men and women into two general types. Volume 1 of this Bison Books edition takes up games of chance, involving guessing and throwing dice. Culin was able to show that the games of North American tribes were remarkably similar in method and purpose. He found that games using dice of various materials—wood, cane, bone, animal teeth, fruit stones—existed among 130 tribes belonging to 30 linguistic groups. The games are described in detail in this volume, and so are the popular guessing games drawing on sticks and wooden disks and involving hidden objects. Volume 2 is just as absorbing in its elaboration of skills like archery and games like snow-snake, in which darts or javelins were hurled over snow or ice. Played throughout the continent north of Mexico were the hoop and pole game and its miniature, solitaire form called ring and pin, here illustrated. With equal authority Culin discusses ball games: racket, shinny, football, and hot ball. He includes accounts of "minor amusements": shuttlecock, tipcat, quoits, popgun, bean shooter, and cat's cradle. Originally published in 1907, Stewart Culin's comprehensive work reveals a side of American Indian culture still only rarely shown. An experienced observer, Culin was curator of ethnology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the author of books about games in other cultures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Documentation
ISBN : OSU:32435027088244

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Current Research and Development in Scientific Documentation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aileen Weintraub
Publisher : Union Square Kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Museums
ISBN : 1454921994

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Secrets of American Museum of Natural History O/P by Aileen Weintraub Pdf

It has millions of visitors, renowned exhibits, and one of the largest collection of dinosaur fossils anywhere--and now kids can enjoy a special behind-the-scenes look at the amazing American Museum of Natural History. This stunning book showcases fascinating, little-known details and secrets known only to insiders! With incredible information and photos, it truly brings the Museum to life.

Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UCAL:B5152352

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Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History Pdf

Author : Timothy B. Husband
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781588396082

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The World in Play by Timothy B. Husband Pdf

In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, card playing was widely enjoyed at all levels of society. The playing cards in this engaging volume are unique works of art that illuminate the transition from late medieval to early modern Europe, a period of tumultuous social, artistic, economic, and religious change. Included are the most important luxury decks of hand-painted European playing cards that have survived, as well as a selection of hand-colored woodblock cards, engraved cards, and tarot packs. The casts of characters they illustrate range from royals to commoners. Many feature animals such as falcons and hounds, while other portray such diverse objects as acorns, helmets, or coins. This is the only study of its kind in English and the only one in a generation in any language. The insightful narrative by Timothy B. Husband discusses the significance of playing cards in the secular art of the period and also recounts the varied stories they tell, conjuring the customs and facts of life of the time. Little is known abut the games played with these cards, but as Husband notes: "The playing out of a hand of cards can be seen as a microcosmic reflection of the ever-changing world around us—a world in play—a view that the creators of the cards under discussion here would seem to have shared.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015028764226

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Soldiers by Anonim Pdf