The Case of the Missing Museum Archives
Title | The Case of the Missing Museum Archives PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Brezenoff |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2015-03-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1496521919 |
When the plans for the prototype of a failed flying machine go missing from the Air and Space Museum's archives, Amal's father, the assistant archivist, is blamed. No one suspects a crime has been committed except Amal and her friends. With her father's job on the line, it's up to them to track down the missing plans. Can Amal and her friends get to the bottom of the museum mystery before it's too late? Discussion questions, writing prompts, a glossary, and nonfiction resources continue the reader's learning experience long after this e-book ends.
The Case of the Missing Servant
Title | The Case of the Missing Servant PDF eBook |
Author | Tarquin Hall |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2009-06-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1416584021 |
The first in a detective series that “immediately joins the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency as representing the best in international cozies” (Booklist, starred review). Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swath through modern India’s swindlers, cheats, and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri’s main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puri’s resources to investigate. With his team of undercover operatives—Tubelight, Flush, and Facecream—Puri combines modern techniques with principles of detection established in India more than two thousand years ago, and reveals modern India in all its seething complexity.
Case of the Stolen Space Suit
Title | Case of the Stolen Space Suit PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Brezenoff |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2016-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1496525167 |
When the spacesuit of famous astronaut Sally Ride disappears from a traveling exhibit, Amal Farah, daughter of the Air and Space Museum's archivist, and her three friends, are determined to find the culprit before the exhibit is cancelled.
Archival Silences
Title | Archival Silences PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Moss |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2021-05-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 100038523X |
Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions from archivists and scholars working around the world, this truly international collection examines archives in Australia, Brazil, Denmark, England, India, Iceland, Jamaica, Malawi, The Philippines, Scotland, Turkey and the United States. Making a clear link between autocratic regimes and the failure to record often horrendous crimes against humanity, the volume demonstrates that the failure of governments to create records, or to allow access to records, appears to be universal. Arguing that this helps to establish a hegemonic narrative that excludes the ‘other’, this book showcases the actions historians and archivists have taken to ensure that gaps in archives are filled. Yet the book also claims that silences in archives are inevitable and argues not only that recordkeeping should be mandated by international courts and bodies, but that we need to develop other ways of reading archives broadly conceived to compensate for absences. Archival Silences addresses fundamental issues of access to the written record around the world. It is directed at those with a concern for social justice, particularly scholars and students of archival studies, history, sociology, international relations, international law, business administration and information science.
Disappearing Ink
Title | Disappearing Ink PDF eBook |
Author | Travis McDade |
Publisher | Diversion Books |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2015-09-07 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1626818967 |
The remarkable true story of the document heist that shocked the world. Like many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems. But what he also had was unsupervised access to one of the finest special collections libraries in the country. In October 1990, Kenyon College hired Breithaupt as its library’s part-time evening supervisor. In April 2000, he was fired after a Georgia librarian discovered him selling a letter by Flannery O’Connor on eBay, but that was only the tip of the iceberg: for the past ten years, Breithaupt had been browsing the collection, taking from it whatever rare books, manuscripts, and documents caught his eye—W. H. Auden annotated typescripts, a Thomas Pynchon manuscript, and much, much more. It was a large-scale, long-term pillaging of Kenyon College’s most precious works. After he was caught, the American justice system looked like it was about to disappoint the college the way it had countless rare book crime victims before—but Kenyon, refused to let this happen . . .
The Case of the Haunted History Museum
Title | The Case of the Haunted History Museum PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Brezenoff |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1434296873 |
It's up to Wilson Kipper and his friends to get to the bottom of the mysterious haunting at the Natural History Museum before it's too late.
The Case of the Stolen Sculpture
Title | The Case of the Stolen Sculpture PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Brezenoff |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Art museums |
ISBN | 1434296865 |
When a priceless sculpture is stolen from the Capitol City Art Museum, it's up to Clementine and her friends to figure out who's responsible.