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E-book Blue Planet Law The Ecology of our Economic and Technological World

In the twenty-first century, the internationalcommunity and states face the challenge ofreconciling the economic and technologicaldevelopment of our post-industrial societieswith the prevention or mitigation of globalenvironmental problems such as climatechange, ocean degradation, and biodiversityloss. Nowadays, international environmentallaw leaves up to the sovereignty of each statemost o…

E-book Women in STEM in Higher Education : Good Practices of Attraction, Acce…

Women present a historic and worrying gap in science and technology-related disciplines, generally knowns as STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics), except in the case of health professions. A holistic approach isneeded to support policymakers worldwide in bridging the gender gap in STEM, inwhich higher education institutions have a crucial role. Promoting this active impli-cat…

Land Use Cover Datasets and Validation Tools : Validation Practices with QGIS

This chapter sets out the aims of this book and explains themethods and approaches applied in its production. It alsoaspires to be a guide, offering readers instructions as to howbest to use the book. We therefore strongly encourage allreaders to read this chapter carefully, so as to gain a clearerunderstanding of all the different aspects analysed in thisbook. This chapter also provides essent…

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Enhanced and Assisted living environments (ELE/ALE) have been in focus ofthe researches for more than decade [8]. Adaptation of novel technologies inhealthcare has taken a slow but steady pace, from the first wearable sensors forchronic disease conditions and activity detection with offline processing towardsimplantable or non-invasive sensors supported by advanced data analytics forpervasive a…

E-book Global History and New Polycentric Approaches : Europe, Asia and the A…

We believe that by joining forces and harmonizing diverse theories, sources and methods of different academic traditions like those from China and Japan, the field of global history receives a new impulse through diverse case studies. The constant participation of special-ists in this field is crucial, as they share their experiences and new …

E-book Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Bring meaning and joy to all your days with this internationally best-selling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai - the happiness of always being busy - as revealed by the daily habits of the world's longest-living people. "Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years." (Japanese proverb) According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai - a reason for living. And ac…

E-book Empire and Environment : Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific

How can we begin to chronicle the ecological ruination of the Pacific and Transpacific? What radiates outward to reveal the extent of the catastrophe? The editors and authors of Empire and Environment offer profound analyt-ics, poetics, and tools toward understanding the historical and contemporary dynamics of the relationship between capitalism, empire, and our planet in crisis. …

E-book Hydrohumanities : Water Discourse and Environmental Futures

In the twenty-first century, a new water discourse is emerging, carried by the humanities. It focuses on cultural changes, such as an emphasis on gender and race differentiations in water relations, ways water features in urban design, and decolonial analyses of water practices. It is deeply informed by new materialist and posthumanist attention to the acti…

E-book Blood, Land and Power : The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and …

Western and eastern values of society underscore the family as a fundamental social structure and institution.1 The family reveals the most significant sociocultural features of European communi-ties in a given context, and these become central communication channels back to the family. This idea asserts James Casey’s axiom that family and society are part of a single unit.2The family is at t…

E-Book Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context: …

In this volume amulets and talismans are studied within a broader system of meaning that shapes how they were manufactured, activated and used in different networks. Text, material features and the environments in which these artifacts circulated, are studied alongside each other, resulting in an innovative approach to understand the many different functions these objects could fulfil in pre-mo…

E-Book Propaganda and Neutrality: Global Case Studies in the Twentieth Century

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The Rock: Through the Lens: His Life, His Movies, His World

Dynamic, funny, and inspiring photos of global entertainment icon, entrepreneur, and trailblazer, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, featuring twenty years' worth of candids, family moments, and snapshots from film and television sets, many never-before-seen.

E-book A History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects

This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the history of genomics across three different species and four decades, from the 1980s to the recent past. It takes an inclusive approach in order to capture not only the international initiatives to map and sequence the genomes of various organisms, but also the work of smaller-scale institutions engaged in the mapping and sequencing of…

E-book Pyrrhic Progress : The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food P…

In winter 2015, a door unexpectedly opened on a group of pigs. Where a moment before the room had been filled with the sound of grunts, squeals, and squeaks, the author and his wife were greeted by an expectant silence as sixty healthy-looking pigs turned toward the door, sat down on their behinds—and coughed. The surprisingly human sound of sixty coughing pigs has stayed with us to this day.…

E-book One Crazy Summer

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E-Book Fana

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E-book Panduan Gerakan Literasi Sekolah di SMA tahun 2020

E-book ini membahas mengenai latar pelakang, persiapan, pelaksanaan, pemantauan, evaluasi, tindak lanjut, dan strategi dalam menyelenggarakan gerakan literasi sekolah.

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. It was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. But instead, it's about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how you can be humbled by a thirteen-year-old.

Good families don't just happen : what we learned from raising our 10 sons an…

The book that shows you how to create the family life you want—by parents who’ve learned by raising ten sons! Catherine Musco Garcia-Prats and Joseph A. Garcia-Prats, M.D. would be remarkable if only for the fact that they have ten sons. But what’s really impressive is that they’ve succeeded at raising ten “good son” who are not only successful at their studies and sports—but are…

Why Always Me

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Edisi

cet. 1

ISBN/ISSN

978-979-22-7730

Deskripsi Fisik

234 hlm;13,5 x 20 cm

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