Books and CD-roms

New titles 2010

ARCHAEOLOGY

Arheologie aeriană. În România și Europa [Aerial Archaeology.  In Romania and in Europe]

By Rog Palmer, Irina Oberländer-Târnoveanu, Carmen Bem NEW!

This work aims to bring to the attention of archaeologists and those interested in this area the meaning of using aerial photographs and satellite images in archaeology and their role in protecting the vestiges of the past. The volume includes an introduction to aerial photography, interpretation and mapping methods and techniques in archaeology, a report on the Romanian aerial investigation project in Southern Romania (Misti;tea Valley) and the final report of the project ˝European Landscapes - past, present and future”, which presents, in texts and images, the aerial investigation projects in 11 partner European countries (2004 – 2008). At the end of the book we added a selective bibliography and a web reference list for those who wish to read more, while the more technical terms (sometimes hard to translate into Romanian) are explained in a glossary.

In Romanian. 

Contents (pdf); Foreword (pdf); Fragments (pdf)

208 pages

ISBN 978-973-7930-25-5

Price: 17,06 lei

MUSEOLOGY – CULTURAL HERITAGE

Muzee şi colecţii din România. Museum and collections in Romania

Irina Oberländer-Târnoveanu, Aurelia Duţu (Eds.) NEW!

This Guide to Museums and Collections in Romania offers the most complex image upon over 800 public museums in the country, ordered by locality, including udated information on addresses, visiting hours, collections and special cultural attractions, andn1500 colour images.

In Romanian and English.

Foreword (pdf); Excerpt (pdf)
437 pages
ISBN 978-973-7930-24-8

Price:  22,51 lei

Standarde și recomandări în documentarea bunurilor culturale [Standards and Recommendations in Cultural Heritage Documentation]        

By Irina Oberländer-Târnoveanu, Dan Matei NEW!

The book presents for the first time in Romanian the main data and metadata standards and cataloguing rules, the main international, European and national norms, provisions and recommendations governing the field of cultural heritage documentation, which have to be included in any inventory project or information application regarding cultural property at institutional, regional, national or international levels. These regulations refer both to the physical heritage, conventionally or digitally documented, and to the digital heritage, obtained from digitizing operations, for example, documents and scanned images files, as well as directly produced in the digital environment, such as native digital maps and images.

In Romanian.

Contents (pdf); Foreword (pdf); Excerpt (pdf)

134 pages

ISBN 978-973-7930-26-2

Price: 12,95 lei

Spre Europeana.eu: o introducere în bibliotecile digitale [Towards Europeana.eu: An Introduction to Digital Libraries]

By Dan Matei NEW!  

The work tackles both the themes of the European Digital Library (Europeana.eu), and the more technical areas (using a non-technical language) of the digital library field. It is meant for librarians, curators, editors, researchers, archivists and documentarists (and to a lesser degree, information scientists) and, especially, decision-makers in memory institutions. The author has been involved directly in the last years in the Europeana project and in various processes of digitisation and online publication of cultural resources.

In Romanian.

Contents (pdf); Excerpt (pdf)

186 pages

ISBN 978-973-7930-28-6

Price: 9,71 lei

Experţi acreditaţi în domenii ale patrimoniului cultural mobil 

[Accredeted Experts in Movable Cultural Heritage Fields]

By Anişoara Burlacu (Editor) NEW!

The volume contains the Directory of Experts and the Directory of the Conservators and Restorers accredited by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (up to October 2009) – 1067 expertise specialists in the fields of the movable national cultural heritage, who work in museums, libraries, subsidiaries of the Romanian Academy, religious units, county directories for culture and heritage, research institutes or universities. The data included in the Directory for each expert are: last name, first name, profession or position, number and date of the certificate, heritage field and sub-field for which he or she was certified as an expert. The presentation runs in alphabetical order, by name, with an index by county and one by heritage field. We also attached a list of institution contact addresses, as a firs step in contacting an expert.

In Romanian.

Contents (pdf); Excerpt (pdf)

182 pages

ISBN 978-973-7930-20-0

Price: 10,00 lei

HISTORY

The Social Structure of the Peasantry: Kinship Structure (10^th – 18^th centuries)

By Florentina Udrea NEW!

The work (PhD thesis) is a comparative history study regarding the social structures of Romanian and European peasantry between the 10^th and 18^th centuries, laying emphasis on the property and kinship systems, a general perspective upon the evolution of peasantry. After 1989, no such comparative study was made, one that attempts a synthesis, a general perspective upon the social developments of peasantry. The author tackles the issues of property, the unbreakable link between peasantry and property, as well as upon the social institutions and structures in the Romanian Countries and Mediaeval Europe.

In Romanian. English Abstract.

Contents (pdf); Excerpt (pdf)

328 pages

ISBN 978-973-7930-27-9

Price: 21,62 lei