E-book Road to Net Zero : Strategic Pathways for Sustainability-Driven Busine…

This book is the outcome of a joint experiment—an experimental exercise in university–industry relationship building between our institutions: BMW and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU). To be sure, our institutions have always had good and trusting relationships between individual experts—long before our time in leadership roles. People at BMW and FAU have been in…

E-book Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature

What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching in a present-day schoolroom? Rather than regarding such anachronisms as errors, Samurai with Telephones develops a theory of how texts can use different types of anachronisms to challenge or rewrite history, play with history, or open history up to…

E-book The China Alternative : Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands

The Pacific Islands region has entered a new period of uncertainty precipitated in large part by the emergence of China as a major regional actor as well as the reaction of more established powers to perceived threats to their longstanding influence. In March 2019, in the wake of a flurry of activity on the part of Australia, New Zealand and the United States …

E-book What Works in Conservation 2021

This book is for people who have to make decisions about how best to support or conserve biodiversity. These include land managers, conservationists in the public or private sector, farmers, campaigners, advisors or consultants, policymakers, researchers or people taking action to protect local wildlife. What Works in Conservation and the associated synopses summari…

E-book Eyewitness Books: Future

Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the 21st century and beyond. Original photography and artworks illustrate the extraordinary visions of the future of scientists, artists and inventors through the ages, offering a unique "eyewitness" view of a world we are yet to know. See an insect robot learning to walk, a hypersonic plane, a calendar for the next century, a space hotel and a mil…

E-book Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601�…

On 15 September 1622, the poet, onetime MP, lawyer and cleric JohnDonne delivered a sermon in the grounds of the old cathedral at St Paul’sCross, in which he argued the importance of religion to the govern-mental success of the Virginia Company (VC). Donne demonstrated,in his inimitable style, that structured religious governance would leadto the company successfully establishing control over…

E-boo Like Fire : The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia

In early 2012, when I visited Theodore (Ted) Schwartz at his home in Del Mar, California, he had recently finished digitising audio recordings of interviews he had conducted with Manus people in Papua New Guinea (PNG) from 1953 through 1995; the annotated catalogue went on for many pages.1 Ted gave me an audio tour and we listened to Paliau, his supporters, an…

E-book Benson's Microbiological Applications Short Version: Laboratory Manual…

Benson's Microbiological Applications has been the gold standard of microbiology laboratory manuals for over 30 years. The 77 self-contained, clearly-illustrated exercises, and four-color format with a wealth of added photographs makes this the ideal lab manual. Appropriate for either a majors or non-majors lab course, this manual assumes no prior organic chemistry course has been taken.

E-book Human Body Encyclopedia

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9781405308486

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124 halaman, ilus.

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612 SMI h

E-book Ableism in Academia : Theorising experiences of disabilities and chron…

In the contemporary context of social rights and activist movements such as those associated with combatting sexual harassment, gun and knife crime or climate change, we can observe a typical pattern of public responses. These movements offer voices to those who are marginalised, and indeed provide the confidence needed for many people to stand up for specific issues. This, …

Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul: Musim Semi di Paris

Ada banyak cara untuk melukiskan seorang wanita: seorang anak, ibu, nenek, istri, pacar, wanita karier, sahabat, murid, guru, bos. Tetapi, persamaan yang tak bisa dilepaskan dari para wanita ini adalah: mereka memiliki hati untuk merasakan kelembutan cinta, menempa persahabatan seumur hidup, mengejar karier yang dipilih, membentuk kehidupan baru, bertanggung jawab tanpa kenal lelah atas pekerja…

E-book The Creighton Century, 1907-2007

The first Creighton Lecture took place on 4 October 1907, almost seven years after the death of the scholar and bishop whom it honoured. Apart from being delivered by a lifelong friend, its published version stands in no discernible relation to Mandell Creighton himself, except for treating of his narrower patria, the Anglo-Scottish border. In fact the whole subsequent lect…

E-book Television Drama in Spain and Latin America : Genre and Format Transla…

An unexpected and enviable problem has emerged in the US: the existence of an excess of quality television series sometimes known as ‘peak TV’. The year 2015 beat the previous record with the transmission of more than four hundred titles. It is no wonder, then, that the special issue of Entertainment Weekly dated 18 September of that year, which provides a preview of t…

E-book The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits

To be an airline passenger in transit is to move through states without permanently adopting them. The very legal nature of a transit lounge embodies this perfectly. When one is in tran-sit, one does not pass through immigration and enter the legal boundaries of a nation-state. The strange nature of transit is best exemplified by its failures — the case of Mehran Karimi Nas…

E-book Warping Time : How Contending Political Forces Manipulate the Past, Pr…

In a 2017 speech, Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe declared that the Confederate monuments should be removed because they helped to keep racism alive in present-day institutions and attitudes. President Donald Trump, for his part, argued that those attempting to remove the monu-ments were seeking to rewrite history in order to remove all traces of ideas with whi…

E-book Across the Copperbelt : Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Bord…

With a roller coaster history of economic boom followed by crushing bust, the Central African Copperbelt has come to epitomise Africa’s faltering ‘Industrial Revolution’.1 Throughout the twentieth century, its large-scale industrial copper mines attracted people, capital and power across national and continental boundaries. Following a protracted period of expansion after 1945,…

E-book Norwegian Garden Cities : Yesterday, Today – and Tomorrow?

This book deals with the legacy of Norway’s garden cities. It tracks the origins of the Norwegian garden city movement and discusses the current status of built examples. Through a detailed study of one example, Sinsen Garden City in Oslo, the book links the garden city heritage to a number of ongoing scholarly debates on topics like densification, sustainability, socio-economic conditions, l…

E-book Jamaica Making : The Theresa Roberts Art Collection

his exhibition at the historic Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool, comprises almost entirely of art works in the collection of Theresa Roberts, who is founder and owner of the Jamaica Patty Co. restaurant, based in Covent Garden, London.Theresa Roberts was born in Jamaica to parents who emigrated to the United Kingdom as part of the ‘Windrush Generation’: those who were invited by Briti…

E-book The Temples of Khajuraho

The magnificent 10th-12th century Hindu temples of Khajuraho — with their soaring towers and engaging sculptures — represent the pinnacle of the North Indian temple style. Still infused with their historical magic, they are yours to discover.

E-book The Laboratory Guinea Pig

Guinea pigs hold a place in human history that predates the European acquaintance with this small mammal. Long before guinea pigs, or cavies, became synonymous with research subject, humans valued this animal as an important food source. To this day guinea pigs are considered a delicacy in many areas of South America, where domes-tic guinea pigs are allowed to roam and scavenge in and around th…

E-book Java: Guide to The Temples of Borobudur & Prambanan

Java is home to two of the most impressive temples in all of southeast Asia: Buddhist Borobudur and Hindu Prambanan. Borobudur (built 760-830) rises gradually in a series of majestic tiers, a testament to its stupa-mound inspiration; while Prambanan (built 850-856) soars vertically, drawing on south Indian temple prototypes. Both inspire with their innovative architectural designs, world-class …

E-book Myanmar (Burma): The Temples of Bagan

Bagan, the ancient Buddhist capital in central Myanmar (Burma) that thrived from 850-1300, is one of the most magnificent and inspiring sites in Southeast Asia. It is yours to uncover.

E-book Thailand: Temples of Bangkok, Sukhothai & Ayutthaya

The temples of Thailand — overflowing with golden Buddhas, soaring spires and glistening surfaces of infinite complexity — stir the spirit, inviting contemplation and wonder. This Approach Guide reveals the country’s best art and architecture from its three great historical capitals: Sukhothai (1238-1368), Ayutthaya (1350-1767), and Bangkok (1782-present). It is yours to discover.

E-book Vietnam Revealed: The Royal Tombs of Hue

A fantastic collection of royal tombs sits solemnly along the banks of the Perfume river, upstream of Hue to the southwest. They were built by the Nguyen dynasty — which ruled over a unified Vietnam from 1802-1945 — to maintain their legacy for ages to come. Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993, the tombs inspire with their perfectly-integrated natural surroundings, captivating dragon…

E-book Cambodia: Temples of Angkor

With insightful profiles for 23 of Angkor's top temples and nearly 200 high-resolution images, this is the definitive travel guide to Angkor, Cambodia's premier World Heritage destination. Angkor — the capital of the Khmer empire that thrived for 500 years from 802-1327 — is one of the most magnificent sites in Southeast Asia. The ancient city’s temples inspire with their innovative ar…

E-book The Afterworld : Long COVID and International Relations

In the spring of 2020, the world came to a halt. Schools, shops, and restaurants closed. Millions of people lost their jobs. Office staffmoved to teleworking while essential workers did double shifts to attend to patients or deliver food. Manufacturing almost stopped. Roads emptied. Airports shut down. This came to be known as the Great Lockdown. The COVID-19 pandemic is the most …

E-book Empty Spaces : Perspectives on Emptiness in Modern History

Emptiness is a challenging concept: slippery in definition and elastic in meaning. It implies a total lack of content: people, buildings, objects or markings on a map. In the abstract, emptiness equals nothingness, a perfect void. Yet when one thinks of places on the globe that one might associate with being empty – the Gobi or Sahara deserts, t…

E-book True Cost Accounting for Food : Balancing the Scale

Behind all the food that we eat is a vast realm of unaccounted for interactions:the diversion of water from rivers; the extraction of nutrients from soil; thedischarge of pollutants to air and water; the exaction of labor to grow, manage,pick, and package; the release of carbon dioxide to transport and deliver; and soon. When we shine a light on these interactions it becomes clear that a 99¢ha…

E-book A Literary History of Medicine, Volume 3-2: Annotated English Translat…

A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Ab? U?aybi?ah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the author’s contemporaries, describing their training and practice, often as court physicians, and listing their medical works; all this interlaced with poems and anecdotes. The…

E-book Destination London : The Expansion of the Visitor Economy

No city in the world is better covered by literature – fictional and non-fictional – than London. From Pepys, via Dickens, to Ackroyd, London has benefited from a series of talented historians, novelists and commentators who have provided detailed accounts of the city’s condition. In the past few years a new tranche of books has been published on the contemporary character of the…

E-book Dying in Full Detail : Mortality and Digital Documentary

Dying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary will consider the con-sequences of that new practicality, examining documentarians’ recent pursuits of death with equipment that promises to capture its “full detail.” In The Note-books of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910), Rainer Maria Rilke composes the phrase I have appropriated for my title. In context, its meaning refers to a style of…

E-book Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research

"How does technology impact research practices in the humanities? How does digitisation shape scholarly identity? How do we negotiate trust in the digital realm? What is scholarship, what forms can it take, and how does it acquire authority? This diverse set of essays demonstrate the importance of asking such questions, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of disci…

E-book The American Short Story Cycle

owever, in their eagerness to have these volumes read and stud-ied, Dunn and Morris miss how formative the short story is to such books, so much so that Rolf Lundén argues for short story com-posite. His study rightly attends to the tensions between unity and fragmentation that distinguish the genre, and he argues that not every such volume features cyclicality …

E-book Waste Management Options and Climate Change

The study is intended to inform developing EU-level waste policy, in terms of climate change impacts only. Climate change impacts are only one of a number of environmental impacts that derive from solid waste management options. Other impacts include health effects attributable to air pollutants such as NOx , SO2 , dioxins and fine particles, emissions of ozonedepleting substances, contaminatio…

E-book Moving Histories : Irish Women’s Emigration to Britain from Independ…

This book looks at the impact women’s migration had on Ireland in the crucial years of initial independence, from the partition of the island and the founding of the Free state to the declaration of a Republic. This period saw Ireland move from internal political instability in the 1920s to a more internationally focused country in the 1950s. However, emi…

E-Book A Doctor Across Borders: Raphael Cilento and Public Health from Empire…

In his day, Raphael Cilento was one of the most prominent and controversial figures in Australian medicine. As a senior medical officer in the Commonwealth and Queensland governments, he was an active participant in public health reform during the inter-war years and is best known for his vocal engagement with public discourse on the relationship between hygiene, race and Australian nationhood.…

E-Book The Reflector

Incorporates etymology, history, art, drawing, and reflective writing to support medical students in the integration of the science and humanity of anatomy. A comprehensive and holistic understanding of human anatomy is foundational to the care of patients. The Reflector is an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to the learning of human anatomy; it incorporates etymology, history, art, dr…

E-book Funding International Development Organizations : AIIB Yearbook of Int…

Funding development requires access to financial resources. While this causal-ity is commonsense, the underlying complexity and struggle has accompanied international development organizations ever since they were founded. The objective of the 2020 aiib Legal Conference and the 4th Volume of the aiibYearbook of International Law is to take stock. Taking stock requires us t…

E-book Georgette Heyer : History and Historical Fiction

In June 2018, in preparation for writing this chapter, I undertook two distinct searches. The first was of Oxford college and faculty libraries (around 40 in all), using the search tool SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online). The second, of local charity shops around Oxford, I undertook on foot. In both I was looking for copies of historical novels by British women writers of the mid-…

E-book Piracy in World History

Pirates, it is frequently claimed, have existed since the dawn of history, as long as there has been traff ic and commerce at sea.1 Presumably, the origins of piracy would thus be sometime in the pre-historic past, when people f irst took to the sea for commercial purposes, probably around eight thousand years ago, along the coast of the Persian Gulf.2 Historical records over close to three and…

E-book Politicizing Digital Space: Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy

n the wake of the so-called ‘Arab Spring,’ Occupy, and Anonymous move-ments, attention has increasingly been paid to the intersection of politics and the internet. In the popular media, commentators such as Roger Cohen of the New York Times took a technological determinist approach, as he declared Face-book founder Mark Zuckerberg to be the true leader of the protests spreading a…

E-book Understanding Media and Culture : An Introduction to Mass Communication

In 1850, an epidemic swept America—but instead of leaving victims sick with fever or flu, this epidemic involved a rabid craze for the music of Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. American showman P. T. Barnum (who would later go on to found the circus now known as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey), a shrewd marketer and self-made millionaire, is credited with spreading “Lindomania” through a s…

E-book Out of Place : Artists, Pedagogy, and Purpose

The academic landscape is broad and fickle; academic fields, disciplines, and teach-ing perspectives always shift and change. In these academic places, identities, and communities overlap and work together. This book holds space for identities that are often undervoiced in academia. The perspectives of the contributors serve as models for how artists work within communit…

E-book Introduction to Philosophy

For most college students, an Introduction to Philosophy course is their first encounter with the study of philosophy. Unlike most of your other courses, philosophy is not something usually covered in high school. Yet you are probably familiar with the term philosophy and may have some preconceived notion about what philosophy is and what philosophers do. Perhaps you have stayed up late at nig…

E-book Hukum Hak Asasi Manusia

Pengajaran hak asasi manusia di perguruan tinggi di Indonesia hingga saat ini masih sangat didominasi oleh pendekatan filosofis dan kultural. Dalam pendekatan yang demikian, pengajaran hak asasi manusia lebih ditekankan pada perbincangan mengenai isu-isu pendasaran konsep hak asasi manusia, asal-usul dan justifikasinya (baik segi legal maupun kultural) yang tidak bisa dilepaskan dari konteks po…

E-book What Works in Conservation 2020

This book has been created to help you make decisions about practical conservation management by providing an assessment, from the available scientific evidence, of what works and what does not work in conservation. It also tells you if no evidence has been found about whether or not a conservation intervention is effective. This is the 2020 edition of What Works in Conservation, which was firs…

Microelectronic Circuits

The subject of this book is modern electronics, a field that has come to be known as microelectronics. Microelectronics referes to the integrated-circuit (IC) technology that at the time of this writing is capable of producing circuits that contain more than 1 million components in a small piece of silicon (silicon chip) whose area is in the order of 60 mm2. We shall study electronic devices th…

E-book Terrestrial mammal conservation

Terrestrial Mammal Conservation provides a thorough summary of the available scientific evidence of what is known, or not known, about the effectiveness of all of the conservation actions for wild terrestrial mammals across the world (excluding bats and primates, which are covered in separate synopses). Actions are organized into categories based on the International Union for Conservation of N…

Intermediate accounting :comprehensive volume.

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Conscientizacao : Tujuan pendidikan paulo freire

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979-9483-69-7

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