E-book The Power of the Story

Right after the 2010 earthquake that rocked the Port-au-Prince region and killed many people, a big data competition began between states and in-ternational organizations involved in the relief eff ort. The journalists Rob-ert Muggah and Athena Kolbe, a year and half after the disaster, wrote that “in Haiti, fewer than 46,000 people were killed in the January 2010ear…

E-book North Korea : The Last Transition Economy

Insofar as available statistics allow for any such comparisons, some estimates suggest that North Korea’s rapid post-war industrialisation put it ahead of South Korea by the mid-1960s (Eichengreen et al., 2015). During the next three decades, however, South Korea grew very rapidly, far outpacing North Korea, where trend growth declined and turned negative as Soviet support ended and the terms…

E-book The History of Correlation

After 30 years of research, the author of The History of Correlation organized his notes into a manuscript draft during the lockdown months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Getting it into shape for publication took another few years. It was a labor of love. Readers will enjoy learning in detail how correlation evolved from a completely non-mathematical concept to one today that is virtually always vi…

E-book Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

In his most provocative and practical book yet,one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one’s own ri…

E-book Concepts at the Interface

Research on concepts has concentrated on the way people apply concepts online, when presented with a stimulus. Just as important, however, is the use of concepts offline, when planning what to do or thinking about what is the case. There is strong evidence that inferences driven by conceptual thought draw heavily on special-purpose resources: sensory, motoric, affective, and evaluative. At the …

E-book Vita Radbodi : Het Leven van Radboud

Over de eerste eeuwen van het christendom in het noorden van de Lage Landen valt weinig met zekerheid te zeggen. De school­boekjes van vroeger wilden de mensen nog wel doen geloven dat met de komst van missionarissen als Willibrord en Bonifatius de verspreiding van het christendom op Nederlandse bodem een beklonken zaak was. Maar historici vermoeden inmiddels dat …

E-book Karl Popper, Science and Enightenment

Karl Popper is famous for having proposed that science advances by a process of conjecture and refutation. He is also famous for defending the open society against those he saw as its arch enemies – Plato and Marx.Popper’s contributions to thought are of profound importance, but they are not the last word on the subject. They need to be improved. My concern in this book …

E-book Music: A Very Short Introduction

What is music? How is it constructed? How is it consumed? Why do you enjoy it at all? In Music: A Very Short plays Introduction, Nicholas Cook invites us to really think about music and the role it plays in our lives and our ears. Drawing on a number of accessible examples, the author prompts us to call on our own musical experiences in order to think more critically about the roles of the perf…

E-book Modelling the Logistics of Mantzikert

The Battle of Mantzikert had profound consequences for both Byzantine and Turkish history, yet the historical sources for this campaign contain significant gaps. This book presents the results of a project that seeks to demonstrate the important role computer simulation can play in the analysis of pre-modern military logistics.

E-book The Dialectical Primatologist : The Past, Present and Future of Life i…

Entrance into the sacred heart of the Sancang forest requires a steep descent of 337 unevenly aligned, concrete steps. With every passing year, the tentacles of tree roots make further advances in their inevitable quest to reclaim the forest floor. Ka handap; ka luhur – the Sundanese (West Javan) terms for descending and ascending – I climb the steps several times a day following gibbons fr…

E-book Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction

The Magna Carta is arguably the greatest constitutional document in recorded history, yet few people today understand either its contents or its context. This Very Short Introduction, which includes a full English translation of the 1215 Magna Carta, introduces the document to a modern audience, explaining its origins in the troubled reign of King John, and tracing the significant role that it …

E-book City of Culture 2600 BC: Early Mesopotamian History and Archaeology at…

This book presents the city beneath the surface of Abu Salabikh, southern Iraq. The archaeology and the textual data combine to reveal its architecture, agricultural and industrial enterprises, and social structure. Integrated with our wider knowledge of south Mesopotamia at this time it creates a vivid image of city life in 2600 BC.

E-book Sugar Beet : A competitive innovation

After cutting into small fragments of their DNA, millions of reads of 100 bases in length and in both directions of reading (forward and reverse) were performed for each of the sixteen plants, also called accessions. Thus, for each accession, a library of short sequences of its genome was obtained. We could compare them to bags containing the pieces of a puzzle that must be assembled…

E-book Stories

Storytelling was clearly of major importance in the development of cinema and television, as well as new forms of printed and graphic media, during the early twentieth century. But even if these media were new (or, more accurately, new inf lections of existing screen and print forms), storytelling is as old and universal as any sense of consciousness, according to the neuroscientist, Antonio Da…

E-Book Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940: Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Glob…

In Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, they revisit the holy city of three religions, which has often been defined solely as an eternal battlefield and studied exclusively through the prism of geopolitics and religio…

E-book The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present

The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nineteenth century, with the aftermath of the consumers’ revolution, and reaches all the way to the present. The fashion and garment industries have been international from the beginning and, as such, this volume looks at the history of fashion and dress through the lenses of both international and global histor…

E-book Disturbing Times : Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures

These are disturbing times. Scholars in medieval and premod-ern studies are tired of explaining why, yet this labor continues to be performed by those who often have the least personal and professional security.1 A case in point here is Mary Rambaran-Olm, who consistently advocated, and with considerable risk for her own scholarly career and personal well-being, for the re-tire…

E-book Musical Gentrification : Popular Music, Distinction and Social Mobility

The aim of this book is to explore the role of music with regard to social dynamics and processes of cultural inclusion and exclusion through the concept of musical gentrification. Our investigation of these phenomena pays special attention to the expanding role that popular music plays, and has played, in the listening habits of people of all kinds as well as in a variety of edu…

E-book Migrants shaping Europe, past and present

This comparative volume advances an argument about the sustained contribu-tion of migrants to Europe’s literatures, social cultures, and arts.Firstly, those named most often by others as “migrants” do not represent a sudden, unprecedented crisis, as pundits and politicians continue to claim, with successive waves of migration. Instead, people arriving in the Spanish enclaves in Morocco, l…

E-book A Conversation about Healthy Eating

OK, this is really more of a glorified preface but I wanted to be sure that you didn’t skip it. I tend to skip prefaces because I prefer my experience of a book to be unbiased. I don’t want to know anyone else’s thoughts about a book – not even the author’s – until I’ve finished reading it and formed thoughts of my own. But this approach does have its risks: sometimes my expecta…

E-book The Art of Parenting : Training Guide

The principle of investing in children rarely evokes controversy. However we look at it, to invest in a child is to invest in our common future: The world of tomorrow will inherit the children of today. Whether nations grow and prosper will depend heavily on the survival, health, education and protection of their citizens, particularly the youngest. There are several compelling reasons to inves…

E-book Four Histories about Early Dutch Football, 1910-1920

I remember being interested in Dutch football from a young age. The first football match I can remember watching was the Italia 1990 World Cup match between England and the Netherlands – although saying I remember ‘watching’ it is a little inaccurate. To be honest, until I looked up the score, while writing this, I could not remember who had won (actua…

E-book Poems of 1890 : A Selection

In the same year he published his first Dutch poetry in the influential magazine De nieuwe gids (The New Guide). The journal, founded in 1885, was dominated at this period by the poet Willem Kloos (1859–1938), who used its pages to proclaim a radical aestheticism and advocate literature that was both non-sectarian and non-utilitarian. Poetry, Kloos famously asserted, was ‘the supremely indi…

E-book Poems of Guido Gezelle : A Billingual Anthology

Guido Gezelle, born in Bruges in 1830, left a varied œuvre as a man of letters, journalist, translator and populariser. But it is mainly as a poet that he occupies an illustrious position in the history of Dutch literature. He is undoubtedly the most innovative and original Flemish poet between 1680 and 1880. With his exceptional lyrical poetry he was some twenty years ahead of the renewal mov…

The black swan : Rahasia terjadinya peristiwa-peristiwa langka yang tak terduga

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Tops team-oriented problem solving : Panduan kreatif solusi masalah untuk sukses

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Kekuatan berpikir positif bagi muda-mudi

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Die hard antrepreneur born a leader, made a champion

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978-602-02-3173

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Berpikir positif : kunci sukses

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BERPIKIR POSITIF:

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Perempuan-perempua perkasa di Jawa abad XVIII-XIX

BUKU ini memperlihatkan, perempuan priayi dan perempuan keluarga keraton di Jawa Tengah selatan, setidaknya sampai akhir Perang Jawa (1825-1830), menikmati kesempatan bertindak atau mengambil inisiatif pribadi yang jauh lebih luas daripada saudari-saudari mereka yang hidup di akhir abad ke-19, di zaman Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879-1904). Jejak mereka bahkan menembus bidang yang dianggap sebagai du…

PENYELAMATAN

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MALAM-MALAM DI RODANTHE

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BUKU HARIAN

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