E-book Brokers of Modernity : East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist A…

In 1925 a rare type of building made its appearance in the literary world: a house entirely constructed of glass, prefabricated yet individualized, light but stable, flat-roofed but with walls which changed colour according to the surrounding land-scape. The cavity walls allowed for the movement of water – warm in winter-time and cold in summer-time – which generated a co…

E-book Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide : A cross-disciplinary exploration

Maps in this book were reproduced by Paul Heggarty from maps provided by chapter authors, by converting them into a GIS (Geographic Information System) database, collated and enriched for South America for the purposes of this book. All data used on the maps are thus geo- referenced – set to actual latitude and longitude coordi-nates – as precisely as possible. Individual p…

E-book The Sustainable Asian House: Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia,…

The Sustainable Asian House celebrates modern architecture as an expression of environmental, social and cultural sustainability, as seen in some of the most breathtaking luxury homes in Southeast Asia. Gorgeous residences in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines beautifully exemplify the trend towards sustainable architecture that engages with the natural world. The 2…

E-book Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Prote…

New York Times Bestseller Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat and change the way your brain ages, in this cutting-edge, practical guide to eliminating brain fog, optimizing brain health, and achieving peak mental performance from media personality and leading voice in health Max Lugavere. After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form of dementia, Max…

E-book The Crisis of the 14th Century

A combination of all three aspects is also feasible. For example, the cult of a protective saint against the plague spreads in a European region hardly affected by the Black Death, even as the pandemic itself was sparked in part by changing precipitation pat-terns in Central Asia.Perhaps it is more useful to think of the multi-level impacts of a meteorological extreme event on a s…

E-book The Last Man Who Knew Everything

No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame. As a physicist, Young challenged the theories of Isaac Newton and proved that light is a wave. As a physician, he showed how the ey…

E-book Error-Correction Coding and Decoding : Bounds, Codes, Decoders, Analys…

The sphere packing bound by Shannon [18] provides a lower bound to the frameerror rate (FER) achievable by an(n,k,d)code but is not directly applicable tobinary codes. Gallager [4] presented his coding theorem for the average FER forthe ensemble of all random binary(n,k,d)codes. There are 2npossible binarycombinations for each codeword which in terms of then-dimensional signal spacehyp…

E-book Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life

A spectacularly illustrated, comprehensive guide to the prehistoric world and the plants and animals that lived there provides in-depth discussions of early Earth's climates and conditions, and the life forms that flourished and floundered throughout each era. Reprint.

E-book Understanding Public Debates : What Literary Studies Can Do

This book makes the case that literary studies can play a key role in un-derstanding public debates in present-day pluralist democracies1 – by his-toricizing and contextualizing them through readings of carefully selected literary texts. The debates I discuss include those on different conceptions of liberty (as they arose, say, during the COVID pandemic), on identity politics an…

E-book Bible Prophecy: What did Jesus, Daniel, Ezekiel, Paul, and John Teach …

Keep Watch! That simple warning summaries Jesus’ teaching about the end-times. That warning accompanied parables that explained its significance. One such story concluded that if the owner of the house had known when the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and not been robbed. (Matthew 24:43) There are practical aspects of keeping watch. Epic world events have already placed the world …

E-book Spacecraft Structures: A Lesson in Engineering

NASA engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center, along with their partners at other NASA centers and in private industry, are designing and building the next generation of rockets and spacecraft to transport cargo, equipment, and human explorers to space. Known collectively as Deep Space Exploration Systems, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the Orion spacecraft, and ground systems at Kenned…

E-book Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works

Who drives transformation in society? How do they do it? In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. All of these leaders--call them disrupters, visionaries,…

E-book Life Cycle Assessment of Indoor Vertical Farms

It is becoming increasingly important to find solutions for more resilient food production methods closer to urban environments with less vulnerability to supply-chain shocks (Benke and Tomkins, 2017; O’Sullivan et al., 2020; Pulighe and Lupia, 2020). Indoor vertical farming (IVF1) systems have emerged worldwide as a result of the need for more resilient food provisioning.…

E-book Perspectives on the "Collapse" of Angkor and the Khmer Empire (Chapter…

The Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asia’s largest ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE. Chapters by leading scholars combine evidence from archaeology, texts, and the natural sciences to introduce the Angkorian state, describe its structure, and explain its persistence over more than six centuries. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be an indis…

E-book The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej

Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and at the time of his death, in October 2016, was the world’s longest serving monarch. The King Never Smiles, the first independent biography of Thailand's monarch, tells the unexpected story of Bhumibol's life and sixty-year rule—how a Western-raised boy came to be seen…

E-book Rural Granaries in Northern Gaul (Sixth Century BCE – Fourth Century…

Compared with other pre-industrial societies, a rather high percentage of the Roman population in the Gallic and Germanic provinces was not involved in agrarian production during the High Empire. Rural produce was needed to feed soldiers and the inhabitants of vici, small towns and cities. To maintain this system the Gallo-Roman villae – the rural settlements whose…

Tanah Air yang Hilang

Buku ini mengumpulkan cerita 19 orang Indonesia yang terpaksa kehilangan tanah air dan tinggal di berbagai sudut Eropa. Mereka berkelana menyeberangi berbagai batas negara dalam ketakutan, tanpa paspor, untuk menghindari pengejaran yang dilancarkan oleh sebuah rezim yang bertahta berdasawarsa lamanya. Ketika mendapat suaka di negara baru, mereka lega. Ketika pulang ke Indonesia, mereka menggun…

E-book Sustainability: What Everyone Needs to Know®

While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of them, and many of us, may struggle to define the term, let alone trace its history. What is sustainability? Is it always about the environment? What science do we need to fully grasp what it requires? What does sustainability mean for business? How ca…

E-book Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History

Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect. Martin Paul Eve calls attention to the digital-textual metaphors that condition our experience of digital space, and traces their history as they interact with physical cultures. Eve posits that digital-textual metap…

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 Data Disclosure : Global Developments and Perspectives

Within the research project,one of the first steps was to select the eight countries /jurisdictionsto be examined. The aim was to achieveawidelyspread representa-tion of regionsaround the globe, restrictingthe scope toamanageable number ofjurisdictions (eight)while allowing for diversity,explicitly focusing on the inclusionof nations in the global south. The aim of achievingdiversity is related…

E-book Transparent Minds in Science Fiction : An Introduction to Alien, AI an…

It should be more widely appreciated that literature is a kind of scientific tool that can be used to shed light on consciousness. The argument is that the richest description of the phenomenon of human experience come from our finest writers, who are capable of capturing moments in time in exquisite detail from multiple perspectives. In this view, there is no …

E-book Contemporary Challenges in Securing Human Rights

Since 1948, the study of human rights has been dominated by legal scholarship that has sought to investigate the development of human rights law, emerging jurisprudence, regional systems, the decisions and recommendations of human rights mechanisms and institutions and to a lesser extent the ‘compliance gaps’ between state commitments and actions. Even so, in all of these spheres there are …

E-book The Saburo Hasegawa Reader

Saburo Hasegawa’s suddenly high-profile work and ideas resonated in a mid-twen-tieth-century American art world that had been largely leveled and restructured by the turmoil of World War II and its geopolitical aftermath. Modernist players and an existential ethos from Europe as well as philosophies from Asia eventually supplanted American scene regionalist artists and figurative and …

E-book The Poetry of Meng Haoran

After the three most famous poets – Li Bo ?? (701–762?), Wang Wei?? (701–761), Du Fu ?? (712–770) – of the reign of the Tangemperor Xuanzong ?? (r. 712–756) and extending roughly a decadeafterward, a half-century generally regarded as comprising the finestperiod of Tang poetry (i.e., the so-called “High Tang”), it is the poetMeng Haoran ??? (689–740) whose…

E-book Chinese Water Systems : Applied Water Management in China

With increased political and academic concerns, the term “water governance” hasbeen debated that it responds to challenges of sustainable development [42]. TheOrganization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines watergovernance as a “range of political, institutional and administrative rules, practicesand processes (formal and informal) through which decisions are taken a…

E-book The Secret to Teen Power

The truth is, THE SECRET helps bring riches to the poor, abundance to the hungry, peace to the war-torn, wellness to the unhealthy. But it can also help make dreams come true for you. Maybe you don’t think you deserve it. But you do. And if you can dream it, you have the power to make it happen. Seriously. Now, it might seem obvious, but the hardest part about living your dream is knowing jus…

E-book Sustainable Rice Straw Management

Rice straw is a residual byproduct of rice production at harvest. The total biomass of this residue depends on various factors such as varieties, soils and nutrient man-agement and weather. At harvest, rice straw is piled or spread in the field depending on the harvesting methods, using stationary threshers or self-propelled combine harvesters, respectively. The amount of rice straw t…

E-book Freshwater Microplastics : Emerging Environmental Contaminants?

Anthropogenic activity has resulted in the deposition of a complex combination ofmaterials in lake sediments, including synthetic polymers (plastics) that differgreatly from the Holocene signatures. Accordingly, plastics are considered oneindicator of the Anthropocene [1]. Plastic has for some time been known to be amajor component of riverine pollution [2–6], and plastic degradation products…

E-book Deforming the Reform : The Impact of Elites on Romania’s Post-access…

On 1 January 2007, Romania became a full member of the European Union. Thestatethat joined the EU was already since 1991 a constitutional republic with abicameral Parliament elected by popular vote and with a dual executive formed by adirectly elected president and an appointed prime minister. In the lead-up to itsaccession, Romania had to amend and adopt numerous laws in order to bring themint…

E-book Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia : Innovations, Scaling, and Policies f…

Agricultural development in Asia has undergone multiple phases and has experienced a remarkable evolution that also advanced general economic development. The region has become a major agricultural producer in the world due to the Green Revolution in the second half of the twentieth century (Hazell 2009). In particular, its rice exports have become essentia…

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Australia

The best places to visit in Australia are showcased with fantastic photography and detailed descriptions, plus DK's unique illustrations and floor plans. Packed with valuable insider information such as Sydney's best beaches and Melbourne's buzzing shopping districts, along with a wealth of practical tips including hotel and restaurant listings, transportation maps, suggested itineraries, and t…

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Seville & Andalucia

From beautiful palaces such as Seville's Real Alcázar and the magical Alhambra in Granada, splendid religious edifices such as the Mezquita in Córdoba, Seville Cathedral and La Giralda, to the historic coastal cities of Málaga and Cádiz, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Seville & Andalucía will show you all of the top sights in this especially colorful part of Spain. Learn about Hispano-Moorish…

E-book International Relations: A Very Short Introduction

Covering topics such as foreign policy, the world economy, and globalization, this Very Short Introduction exemplifies the many disciplines that come together in the study of international events. Discussing not only the main academic theories, but also the practical problems and issues, Wilkinson considers key normative questions, such as how the international state system might be reformed so…

E-book The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy

Conventional wisdom on strategy is no longer a reliable guide. In Essential Advantage, Booz & Company's Cesare Mainardi and Paul Leinwand maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with coherence: a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Achieving this clarity takes a sharpness of focus that only exceptional companies have mastered…

E-book North Korea: State of Paranoia: A Modern History

North Korea is a country that continues to make headlines - arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it is a nation that still has Gulag-style prison camps, no internet and bans its people from talking to foreigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, internationally bestselling author Paul French examines in forensi…

E-book Civic Media Literacies : Re-Imagining Human Connection in an Age of Di…

In the fall of 2014, the small suburban Massachusetts town of Chelmsford was stirred by news about problems with their public school budget. The superinten-dent of schools announced an unexpected budget shortfall caused by various fac-tors within and beyond the school district. As an immediate emergency measure, it was announced that the school would relieve three administrators fr…

E-book A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence

This informative but concise history of China and Southeast Asia is perfect for travelers, students, teachers, and businesspeople. Portable and attractively designed, it includes color illustrations, maps, and a brief history of the region. Explored are relations between China and Southeast Asia across two millennia; patterns of diplomacy, commercial networks, and migration; and how these have …

E-book Connecting the Nation : A Short Thematic History of Australian Civil A…

Aviation has played an important part in shaping Australia’s culture and history through the course of the twentieth century. Australia embraced aviation from its earliest days, eagerly responding to its potential to cover a challenging country, to bring far-flung communities closer and to provide services that could not be delivered any other way. Add the romance of pioneer heroes, the vital…

E-book Armed Conflict and Environment : From World War II to Contemporary Asy…

This is the longest of any discussion of the subject. The leading militarytheorists always have known that an entire war or single military opera?tions do not take place in sandboxes, but in the field of battle. Since theNapoleonic Wars, the social conditions of war, Clausewitz called it will,have repeatedly being discussed, taking into account the influence of natu?ral factors on warfare, terr…

E-book Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients

Aqueous solutions are subject to bacterial or enzymatic degradation but may be preserved by initially boiling the solution for a short time to inactivate any enzymes present; microwave irradiation can also be used. Aqueous solutions may also be preserved by the addition of an antimicrobial preservative such as 0.1% w/v benzoic acid, 0.1% w/v sodium benzoate, or a mixture of 0.17% w/v methylpara…

E-book HBR's 10 Must Reads on MENTAL TOUGHNESS

This collection of articles includes "How the Best of the Best Get Better and Better," by Graham Jones; "Crucibles of Leadership," by Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas; "Building Resilience," by Martin E.P. Seligman; "Cognitive Fitness," by Roderick Gilkey and Clint Kilts; "The Making of a Corporate Athlete," by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz; "Stress Can Be a Good Thing If You Know How to Use…

E-book HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI, ANALYTICS, AND THE NEW MACHINE AGE

Machine learning and data analytics are powering a wave of groundbreaking technologies. Is your company ready? We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand how these technologies work together, how to adopt them, and why your strategy can't ignore them. In this book, you'll learn how: data science, driven by …

E-book Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning

How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young people Boyband One Direction fanfiction writers, gamers who solve math problems together, Harry Potter fans who knit for a cause. Across subcultures and geographies, young fans have found each other and formed community online, learning from one another along the way. From these and other in-depth case studies of online affi…

E-book The Sage Handbook of Diplomacy

Preparing a handbook on diplomacy nowadays reflects a major challenge that was not present during Satow’s times, and which lets us say a great deal more about diplomacy than Satow could. Specifically, a handbook today encounters and benefits from the development over the last 100 years of the academic discipline of International Relations and within it the rich and expanding field of Diplomat…

E-book The Handy Geography Answer Book

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E-book Abstractions Based on Circles: Papers on Prehistoric Rock Art Presente…

Presented to Stan Beckensall on his 90th birthday, this diverse and stimulating collection of papers celebrates his crucial contribution to rock art studies, and also looks to the future. It should be of value to students of prehistoric Britain and Ireland, and anyone with an interest in rock art, for many decades to come. Stan has done a phenomenal amount of work over recent decades, on an …

E-book The Philosophy of Mathematics Education

This ICME-13 Topical Survey is designed to provide an overview of contemporaryresearch in the philosophy of mathematics education. This is a broad cluster ofoverlapping but at times disparate themes. In thefirst instance, this publicationexposes some of the problems and questions in mathematics education that thephilosophy of mathematics education clarifies, illuminates and sometimes helps toso…

E-book Filming, Researching, Annotating : Research Video Handbook

The handbook Research Video is the introduction to a new kind of software and publication based on annotated videos. Practitioners and researchers who work with motion data, such as those from the fields of performative art, film, behavioral research or sports science, are supported in their work process and are given the opportunity to feed in content that a printed book cannot convey.

E-book Child Participation

This book defines children as people between the ages of 0 and 18 years. The extent of child participation should depend on the age, experience and maturity of the child. A baby cannot be expected to make logical decisions, while a child of seven years old should not be expected to take on the burdens and responsibilities of an adult. However, all children should be involved and consulted in so…