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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Death sentences: a content analysis of children's death literature.

30 May 2008 A multidimensional concept of death must include biological, sociocultural, and emotional components. Children glean information about death in many ways, one of which is through books. In this study, the authors compared the 3 dimensions of ... Read more...

Do illustrations enhance preschoolers' memories for stories? Age-related change in the picture facilitation effect.

19 Aug 2007 This study investigated whether illustrations facilitate story recall in preschoolers (N=58) 46 to 63 months of age. Each child was exposed to either a verbal story narrative with illustrations (Verbal and Picture condition), the narrative alone ... Read more...

Historical evolution of anatomical terminology from ancient to modern.

30 May 2007 The historical development of anatomical terminology from the ancient to the modern can be divided into five stages. The initial stage is represented by the oldest extant anatomical treatises by Galen of Pergamon in the Roman Empire. The anatomical ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Books, Illustrated'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Bartolomeo Eustachius--the author of the first published book on dental medicine] 30 Aug 2008
• Edgar Allan Poe: The raven. 30 Jul 2008
• Giulio Cesare Arantius (1530-1589): a surgeon and anatomist: his role in nasal reconstruction and influence on Gaspare Tagliacozzi. 30 May 2008
• Death sentences: a content analysis of children's death literature. 30 May 2008
• [Giovanni Alfonso Borelli: "De Motu Animalium" (1680-1681)] 29 Nov 2007
• Do illustrations enhance preschoolers' memories for stories? Age-related change in the picture facilitation effect. 19 Aug 2007
• Absence of schizophrenia in a 15th-century Islamic medical textbook. 29 Jun 2007
• Historical evolution of anatomical terminology from ancient to modern. 30 May 2007
• An introduction to Turning the Pages. 30 May 2007
• Ethics of illustration and information, conflicts of interest. 30 Dec 2006
• [Gout in Valchiavenna in the XVII century: a case report] 30 Dec 2006
• The earliest known French translation of Galen (ca. 1530) at the Osler library. 30 Dec 2006
• Early color illustrations of psychiatric treatment methods, as drawn by physician Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu (1385-1470). 29 Nov 2006
• Mondino de' Liuzzi and his Anothomia: a milestone in the development of modern anatomy. 29 Sep 2006
• The captivating coral--the origins of early evolutionary imagery. 9 Jul 2006
• Taking things apart: ovario-hysterectomy--textbook knowledge and actual practice in veterinary surgery. 30 May 2006
• First known image of Cucurbita in Europe, 1503-1508. 8 May 2006
• First illustrations of female "Neurosurgeons" in the fifteenth century by Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu. 30 Mar 2006
• Draughtsmen, botanists and nature: constructing eighteenth-century botanical illustrations. 27 Feb 2006
• An examination of the seductive details effect in terms of working memory capacity. 27 Feb 2006

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Technical information about 'Books, Illustrated'

Definition: Books containing photographs, prints, drawings, portraits, plates, diagrams, facsimiles, maps, tables, or other representations or systematic arrangement of data designed to elucidate or decorate its contents. (From The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983, p114)

Descriptor UI: D001878

Alternative terms: Books, Illustrated; Book, Illustrated; Illustrated Book; Illustrated Books; Book Illustration; Illustration, Book; Illustrations, Book;

Allowable Qualifiers: history;

Tree Number: J01.897.280.500.117; L01.178.682.192.289;

Technical Notes: IM; coord with subject (IM) or type of illus (IM); do not confuse X ref BOOK ILLUSTRATION with Publication Type BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS