This monograph deals with the verb in Nyakyusa, a Bantu language of south-western Tanzania. AsNurse (2008: 21) puts it, “Bantu languages are ‘verby’, thatis, they are morphologically agglutinating languages, expressing by verbal inflec-tion what other languages may express lexically or syntactically.” Grammaticalcategories marked on the verb include subject, object, negation, a number o…
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all member states ofthe United Nations in 2015, is a shared blueprint for people and the planet,intending to achieve peace and prosperity for all. The Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs) is a call to action, to develop innovative solutions to some of theworld’s most complex, societal, and environmental challenges. Businesses play acrucia…
Technological advancement makes it possible for videogames1 to ofer increasingly complex gameplay experiences (Dovey and Kennedy 2006: 51; Kerr 2017: 29–30). This is perhaps even more powerfully felt now that we are on the doorstep of the next console cycle, with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X set to launch in late 2020, and Microsoft Flight Sim…
Volcanic unrest is a complex multi-hazard phe-nomenon of volcanism. Although it is fair toassume that probably all volcanic eruptions arepreceded by some form of unrest, the cause andeffect relationship between subsurface processesand resulting unrest signals (geophysical orgeochemical data recorded at the ground surface,phenomenological observations) is unclear andsurrounded by uncertainty (e.…
Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world. In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range of documentary evidence that includes letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen scholars trace the history of English from its ancient Ind…
This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management. Specifically, the book focuses on Global Forest Watch, the most developed and widely available forest-monitoring platform, created in 1997 by the World Resource Institute. Forest maps are always political as they visualize power relations and for…
The influential are no longer only those with celebrity status – but until now there has been no authoritative resource on the theory and practice of influencer marketing. This book will educate and inspire decision makers, researchers, students, and influencers themselves. Diving deeper than the many ""how-to"" books on the influencer phenomenon, this book brings in frameworks from marketing…
2019 titelte dAs journALScientific American: The Mycelium Revolution Is upon Us« (Eine Pilz-Revolu-tion steht uns bevor).1 Was war damit gemeint? 100Jahre nach der Geburt der Pilzbiotechnologie – die amerikanische Firma Pfizer begann 1919 zum ersten Mal mithilfe des Pilzes Aspergillus nigerZitronensäure zu produzieren, ein Produkt, welches heute über einen Mil-l…
Setiap negara, tentu mempunyai sistem pemerintaan tersendiri. Namun, tak jarang ada kemiripan antara satu dengan yang lain. Hal ini dapat dipengarui oleh sejarah terbentuknya suatu negara. Afrika Selatan misalnya. Negara itu menganut sistem pemerintahan parlementer kareana wilayahnya pernah dikuasai Inggris yang menganut sistem pemerintahan tersebut. Lalu, bagaimana dengan negara lainnya? Seti…