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Aesthetics & Beauty Therapy

Anthropology

Architecture

Art
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Astronomy & Astrophysics




Aesthetics & Beauty Therapy

About: Skin & Beauty
This site is directed to the skin and beauty of the skin. It covers areas such as skin disease, skin anatomy, how to have a beautiful and younger skin. About: Skin & Beauty has a search engine which will then lead you on to all aspects of beauty, covering a vast number of areas. The site is interesting, easy to navigate and useful to a wide range of individuals.


Anthropology

Anthropology Glossary
A searchable glossary of terms used in anthropology and archaeology. Results include definitions as well as a bibliography of articles related to the search term. maintained by the Department on Anthropology at the University of Alabama.


Experience Rich Anthropology
This web site resurrects the very best aspects of the case study tradition in anthropology, combining a wide variety of problems, places, evidence, and reasoning process. It presents ethnologic analyses-with publications, photographs, field notes, and other primary materials.


Ethnographic resources related to folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology and the humanities
The Library of Congress resource is valuable to many users including the general public, but particularly to scholars in anthropology, ethnomusicology and folklife. There are a dozen section of links: “General Sources”, “Directories”, “Scholarly Programs”, “Scholarly Societies and Organizations”, etc. This site is easily navigated, the links load quickly and are generally current. This is a compelling, beneficial Internet resource.


Librarian's Internet Index - Anthropology
Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. Excellent resource of reviewed websites covering the facets of anthropology.


Architecture


archINFORM
This database for international architecture, originally emerging from records of interesting building projects from architecture students, has meanwhile become the largest online-database about worldwide architects and buildings from past to present.
This database includes information over more than 18 000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners. The architecture of the 20th century is the main theme of this database.

ArchNet: Digital Library
ArchNet is an international online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, conservationists and scholars with a focus on Muslim cultures and civilisations. Images of contemporary buildings, historical monuments and general views with special focus on the Islamic world.

ArtServe
Australian National University Image database contains images of art and architecture from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan and India.

ARCspace.com
ARCspace is an architecture and design magazine that features today's most creative projects as well as the most influential of the past.

Asian Historical Architecture: An Historical Survey
Thousands of online photos of historical architecture in Asia from China, Japan, North & South Korea, Cambodia, Thailand Nepal, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Cities and Buildings Database
Created in 1995, the Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web.

Collage
Art and Architectural images from the Guildhall Libraries and Art Gallery, London an image database containing over 20,000 works of art from its collections.

Emporis Buildings
The world's largest publicly available database on architectural and building data.  Get detailed information on architecture and tall buildings.

Google Image Search
The most comprehensive image search on the web using the Google search engine.

GreatBuildings.com
This is a gateway to architecture around the world and across history, it documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web-links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds, for up-to-the-moment coverage of the latest buildings, designers, ideas and trends. GreatBuilding.com is richly cross-linked with Architecture Week, the leading architecture magazine online and Archiplanet, the community created all-buildings collection.

Librarian's Internet Index - Architecture
Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. Excellent resource of reviewed websites covering the facets of architecture.

Structurae
Created in October 1998 this Web site showcases the works and art of structural engineering and to some extent, architecture from around the world. With nearly 10,000 structures listed, it may be one of the largest Internet databases of its kind, focusing on a diverse range of structures, from bridges, skyscrapers, and towers to dams and offshore structures. Most periods of history are covered, ranging from the pyramids of ancient Egypt and Gothic cathedrals to some of the unique bridges of today.

Melbourne's Great Buildings
Melbourne's skyscraper record is impressive, by any standards. The city has a history of tall buildings, just as do other cities such as Chicago and New York. Database of images and information about Melbourne's buildings. Searchable by 'Architect', 'Name' or 'Location'.

Royal Institute of Architects
This is the online home page of the Royal Institute of Architects. The RIBA provides the link to www.architecture.com which is the world’s most extensive portals, to the world of architecture, designed for anyone who wants to find an architect, understand architecture or learn how to become an architect.

Society of Architectural Historians - Image Exchange
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) is an international not-for-profit membership organization that promotes the study and preservation of the built environment worldwide. The SAH Image Exchange began in 1996 by the SAH Electronic Media Committee with a set of electronic images meant to be used by university professors and independent scholars for teaching basic survey courses. Now the SAH Image Exchange is one of the richest image collections on the open Web that is geared especially toward teaching surveys, representing most building sties with a range of complementary images, including plans.

The International Archive of Women in Architecture
A collection of “professional papers of women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural historians and critics, and urban planners, and the records of women’s architectural organizations, from around the world.” The site includes 800 images of architects and their works and biographical information.

Visual Arts Data Service
More than 6 000 images covering many areas of late 20th Century design, with the emphasis mainly on British design from 1945. Also contains a large number of original and unique images that record many of the Design Council's own activities.



Art

Artcyclopedia
Provides links to art images on the Web. The site is searchable by artist, work, and museum and browsable by subject, medium, nationality. It includes information about art movements with examples of relevant artworks and a section on women artists.


Art History Resources on the Web
Provides links to hundreds of sites related all periods of art history, from prehistoric to twenty-first century, arranged by period and region. Many links are to museums and galleries or to artists' pages that provide biographical information and images.


ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Arts
More than 2,600 terms covering all aspects of art. Basic definitions of art terms, numerous illustrations, quotations, pronunciation notes, and links to other resources on the web. The work is to some extent encyclopedic in coverage. Recommended for all readers seeking definitions for art terms.


Archives of American Art
The main Web page sets out choices clearly and explains about the Archives. The entire AAA site is easy to use with “helpful tips for searching”. The user may find a very obscure painting with ease and receive a prompt e-mail reply to a query. Finally AAA is a great source for starting out in research on American art history.


Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
The University of Wisconsin-Madison library has compiled a unique resource of digital facsimiles, image collections, virtual exhibits, primary resource documents, links to journals, and other resources suitable for the interdisciplinary study of material culture. The site focuses primarily on early American decorative arts.


Himalayan Art Resources
The Himalayan Art Project’s purpose is “to exhibit and catalog Himalayan and Tibetan art from collections around the world with the long term goal of creating a comprehensive and definitive archive”. Genres found here are paintings, sculpture, block prints, initiation cards and murals drawn from museum, university and private collections. A search button finds images by subject, region, style, date and keyword. An index of subjects (A-Z) has short descriptions to help users unfamiliar with Tibetan or Sanskrit terms. Also included are links to styles, regions and types, religious traditions, museum collections and other collections. An audio glossary supplies pronunciations of Tibetan or Sanskrit words. Highly recommended for all users.


Librarian's Internet Index - Art
Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. Excellent resource of reviewed websites covering the facets of art.


The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The most engaging aspect of the Metropolitan site is “My Met Gallery”, a unique feature that allows the viewer to design a personal gallery by building a set of links to favorite entries from the hundreds of works now browseable on the site. Each work of art is presented in an expandable thumbnail view and is accompanied by basic information on the object, its provenance, and related links.

Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts is a simply wonderful site providing extensive and easy access to a major international cultural treasure. The site offers a one-stop current information source on all aspects of the Museum of Fine Arts for viewers at all levels of interest. The site also covers the Museum School and the Museum of the National Center for Afro-American Artists. The quality of the information is solid and obviously prepared by appropriate experts in each area. Navigation is speedy, intuitive and extremely easy. The site is interactive throughout and includes an e-mail connection for questions and comments. The material is current and reflects a substantial institutional investment in this resource.


National Museum of Women in the Arts
This high-quality Web site has excellent content and is an eloquent and sophisticated representation of the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ mission to bring recognition to the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities through exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and educating the public concerning their accomplishments. Taken as a whole, this is an admirable, highly useful site that should be utilized by all serious students of women’s art.


National Gallery of Art-the collection
This site provides a phenomenal tour of the National Gallery and is one of the best sites on the Internet. It is also an orientation to the history and purpose of the National Gallery. For example, the Picasso exhibit includes detailed resources for teachers, including a study guide and teaching ideas and links to other Picasso sites.


Tate Gallery
The Tate serves two million visitors a year as the national collection of British art since 1500 and of international modern art. Its clean-looking, attractive Web site function as an invaluable guide to the rapidly changing museum. Some 8 000 works of art are said to be illustrated and as one expects from a leading museum the quality of the images is good. Students of art history can use this impressive online catalog to explore the works of single artists or to investigate the breadth of the Tate’s holdings. Navigation is straightforward and fast, and all links are internal.

Timeline of Art History
A chronology of art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with links to images primarily in the museum's collections. The site is organized both thematically and geographically and includes an alphabetical index and search engine.


World Wide Arts Resources
This is one of the Web’s largest arts-related sites. Self-described as “the definitive gateway to arts information and culture.” Besides searchable databases on a variety of topics in the visual, performing, and other arts, it offers services such as resume posting, and discussions on art-related topics.


Astronomy & Astrophysics

Astrobiology Magazine
Has intelligence evolved somewhere other than on Earth? Has any life evolved off this planet? Astrobiology has taken up the challenge to answer these questions by studying life as it is known on Earth and exploiting the findings to theoretical and known alien environments. Astrobiology Magazine offers quick access to information in the field and is an excellent source of education for this area. The magazine makes astrobiology readily available to anyone; its Web site is visually beautiful, responds quickly and allows quick access to various topics the magazine covers. The section "Great Debates" continually changes, giving access to a wide range of current topics. The site has a link to NASA with an excellent search function that allows quick access to topics not covered by the magazine, and an equally excellent search function that allows users to access any recent or past topic covered by the magazine.

Encyclopaedia Astronautica
Need a quick answer to a ready-reference question on astronautics? The site is sponsored by the Friends and Partners in Space, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1994 dedicated to improving communication and cooperation between the West and Russia. Information is included on US, Soviet, Chinese, Japanese, and European astronautics. The site is divided into three sections: a quick subject list with such items as spacecrafts, rockets, and astronauts; an alphabetical index to jump quickly to any section; and a collection of links to hot topics of interest, such as "First Chinese Manned Flight", and "Never Before Revealed Designs". There is a chronology of significant events in astronautics; biographical information on every astronaut, including a special section on women astronauts ranked by number of days of space flight; and a statistics page with such items as top ten astronauts by space flight time. Contains both technical and general information.

Librarian's Internet Index - Astronomy
Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. Excellent resource of reviewed websites covering the facets of astronomy.

The NASA Homepage
This site is an indispensable resource for information on NASA and space-related fields such as astronomy, geoscience, and aerospace technology. It has up-to-date material of value to almost anyone, from elementary school students and teachers to professional researchers. Highly recommended for all levels.

The Nine Planets: a Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
This Web site introduction to the solar system is located at the Lunar Planetary Laboratory. The site is organized by planet with excellent general narrative, factual and graphical information about each. There are also sections on the sun and other solar system bodies as the moons of the planets, asteroids and comets. The strengths of this site are its logical organization, ease of navigation and its many internal and external hotlinks. Hotlinks to other sites are available and several are archives with numerous excellent photographs that can be downloaded in common graphical formats.

Views of the Solar System
Many people will flock to this site for the treasure trove of high resolution images of planets, moons, meteors, and comets, which are there in abundance and easily accessed (and thoughtfully indexed) on the front page. All pages are well designed, easy to negotiate, with a uniform and integrated visual style. Both technical and biographic glossaries are included, and pages are extensively referenced. The links page includes a list of similar tours of the solar system.