E-book Driving Digital Transformation : Lessons from Seven Developing Countries

The road’s potholes were a stark contrast to the destination of the coach-loadof young women driving over them: a brand new building housing one ofBangalore’s many internet-enabled service companies—this one providingaccountancy support services—newly built on the outskirts of the city. Thiscontrast is not something we saw only in India. In the overcrowded streets ofIndonesia’s capita…

E-book Botanical Art with Scientific Illustration

Botanical and scientific illustration share many common themes - the meticulous observation, the crucial composition, the precision of rendering and the accuracy of colour are all intrinsic to this niche genre of art. In this beautiful book, Sarah Jane Humphrey explains the techniques of the botanical artist but also introduces ideas for scientific illustration, so that the illustrator has a fu…

E-book More & More: The Invisible Oceans

More&More is an art and research project that explores the language and mechanics of global trade, container shipping, and the exchange of goods. It questions a mercantile structure that by necessity disallows the presence of ocean as a real space in order to flatten the world into a Pangaea of capital. The project is presented in two volumes, released in conjunction with an exhibition of Marin…

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 Eyewitness Travel: Top 10 Dubai and Abu Dhabi

Dubai and Abu Dhabi have so much to offer, and you can experience it all, from unique shops, malls, and souks to the finest restaurants and cafes. Luxuriate at the best golf courses, hotels, and spa resorts, or embrace adventure on exciting desert excursions, at local sporting events, or at lively bars and clubs. In addition to traditional historic palaces and mosques, Dubai and Abu Dhabi have …

E-book China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®

In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Framing their answers through the historical legac…

E-book Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know

Drones quite possibly represent the most transformative military innovation since jet engines and atomic weaponry. No longer do humans have to engage in close military action or be in the same geographical vicinity as the target. Now, through satellite imaging and remote technology, countries such as the United States can destroy small targets halfway around the world with pinpoint accuracy. …

E-book Agricultural and Food Controversies: What Everyone Needs to Know®

The world is more interested in issues surrounding agricultural and food issues than ever before. Are pesticides safe? Should we choose locally grown food? Why do some people embrace new agricultural technologies while others steadfastly defend traditional farming methods? In the debates about organic food, genetically modified organisms, and farm animal welfare, it's not always clear what the …

What Is a Family?: Answers from Early Modern Japan

What is a family? The essays gathered here explore disparate family histories in early modern Japan, attending variously to the samurai elite, agrarian villagers, urban merchants, communities of outcastes, and the circles surrounding priests, artists, and scholars. They draw on diverse sources—from population registers and legal documents to personal letters and diaries, from genealogies and …

E-book Being Single in India: Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility

Today, the majority of the world’s population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single women in India, examining what makes living outside of marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the s…

E-book What Photographs Do: The Making and Remaking of Museum Cultures

What are photographs ‘doing’ in museums? Why are some photographs valued and others not? Why are some photographic practices visible and not others? What value systems and hierarchies do they reflect? What Photographs Do explores how museums are defined through their photographic practices. It focuses not on formal collections of photographs as accessioned objects, be they ‘fine art’ or…

E-book Remaking Gender and the Family : Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese-…

For as long as there has been cinema, there has been the remake; and for as long as there has been the remake, there has been a sense of critical unease about the value of making a film which has ‘already been made’. And yet, wave upon wave of remakes continue to wash over audiences worldwide. Arguably the most prolific global creator of these remakes, Hollywood, has audiences geared up for…

E-book Contact Zones : Photography, Migration, and Cultural Encounters in the…

Histories of migration to the United States are also a history of American photogra-phy. Yet, the relationship between these histories are rarely discussed in surveys of the history of photography in America. Neither are immigrants’ uses and circula-tion of photographs discussed in the historiographies of the European immigration to the United States.1 However, US migration history and the hi…

E-book Connecting Territories : Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850

The final decades of the 18th century became a crucial period for the differ-ent fields of natural history and related disciplines of ethnology and archaeol-ogy, as academic subjects in light of the advancement of Linnaean systematic classification in botany and zoology.5 The perception and systematization of the natural world went through a paradigmatic shift as a result. Collections and the p…

Eyewonder: Big Cats

From the award-winning Eyewitness Guides team - one of four new Eye Wonder titles for 2002 - for all young children with a fascination for big cats! Vocabulary is accessible to children aged 5 plus with the meanings of new subject-related words clearly explained in a glossary.

E-book Armoede en sociale uitsluiting : Jaarboek 2021 = Kemiskinan dan Penguc…

n het kader van de coronapandemie, waarin we vertoeven bij het schrijven van deze uitgave van het Jaarboek Armoede en Sociale Uitsluiting, blijkt een aantal werken uit de literaire rijkdom erg goed te scoren. Zo ziet uitgeverij Penguin een opmerkelijke stijging in de verkoop van zogenaamde pandemie- en rampenliteratuur. In Frankrijk en Italië is de verkoop van La Peste van Albert Camus, versch…

E-book Russian Energy Strategy in the Asia-Pacific : Implications for Australia

Given Australia’s lack of energy security strategy, it is not surprising that the country is void of institutional knowledge and know-how of Russian foreign energy strategy. The ‘lucky country’ as it were, relies entirely on sea lines of communication to the north to supply fuel and to export Australian coal and natural gas. Australia has entered the 2020s as the world’s largest liquefi…

E-book The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century

In recent research, there has been growing emphasis on the collaborative, social, and collective nature of musical behaviour and practices. Among the emerging hypotheses in this connection are the idea that listening to music is always listening together and being with the other; that music making is a matter of intercorporeality, mutuality, and emphatic attunement; and that creative agency in …

E-book Medieval Londoners : Essays to mark the eightieth birthday of Caroline…

Caroline Barron leads the field on medieval London and her work on its politics, governance, economy and fabric has greatly enhanced our understanding of the late medieval city. It is, however, her interest in and enthusiasm for the men and women who lived and worked in, or were visitors to, the capital, and her ability to inspire that interest and enthusiasm …

E-book Remote Capture : Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations

Digitisation is complex and although there are many resources available, there is nothing that quite targets the specialist needs of any current or prospective EAP applicant. A potential EAP grant holder needs to become an expert in so many disciplines: they are required to be competent at project management; be able to accurately assess the amount of material t…

Aspectuality

Over the past thirty years, there has been growing interest in aspect, not somuch in traditional Romance research but rather in typological studies. Here,there has been intensive and increasing concern with the combination of those grammatical verbal categories that are often realised by morphological syncre-tism in many of the world’s languages, the so-called TMA categories: tense,mode and a…

E-book The Terms of Our Surrender : Colonialism, Dispossession and the Resist…

Based on the experience of the Innu resident in Quebec and Labrador, this book is intended to be a work of advocacy for the full extent of the rights of indigenous peoples whose landholdings have been devastated in the Canadian land claims process. As things stand at present, the Innu who are resident in government villages in Quebec have lost their rights to …

E-book Illustrated History of Landscape Design

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E-book FUTURE/PRESENT: Arts in a Changing America

Building on five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism in the art world, FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of poetry, essays and criticism, visual and performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, and reflections on community practice.

E-book Butterflies : Taking Science to the Backyard

Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, and Nymphalidae. Close to 750 species inhabit the United States and Canada, most notably the Monarch and Regal Fritillary can be found in Nebraska. Approximately 3% of butterfly species are threatened with extinction. This decline in butterfly populations is attributed primarily to habitat loss due to urbanization and agriculture. As populations continue to d…

E-Book The Ex Files (Ocean View #1)

In fact, it’s her job. A favor for a friend in college who was afraid she’d been catfished soon turned into a full-blown business. Now, as the owner of The Ex Files, a matchmaking service based Ocean View, she dates men nearly every day of the week in order to vet them, assuring the matches she makes are perfectly informed and free of heartache. With her job comes pitfalls, though: every…

E-Book Documenting Maritime Heritage at Risk: Digital Tools, Communities, and…

Documenting Maritime Heritage at Risk addresses the risks posed to coastal piers and quays due to climate change, the urgent need for documentation and attendant questions regarding long-term conservation, and the role communities could have in this endeavour. Case studies from communities, researchers, and national agencies offer insights into the documentation and analysis of coastal heritage…

E-book Step-up to Medicine

It is hard to believe that it has been 14 years since the first edition of Step-Up to Medicine was published. Now in its fifth edition, the success of this book has always been linked to its in-depth, yet concise coverage of every medical topic that a student will encounter during the clinical years of medical school and corresponding NBME shelf examinations. This fifth edition of Step-Up to Me…

E-book A Memory of Ice : The Antarctic Voyage of the Glomar Challenger

Growing up in Western Australia, in the southwestern corner of that huge and sparsely populated state, it was difficult to be unaware of the bizarre splendour, diversity and colour of the local vegetation. This, the South West Botanical Province, is now recognised as one of 25 biodiversity hotspots in the world. Its abundance of flowering plants, possibly over 9,000 species, is greater than alm…

E-book Encyclopedia of the Horse

Until the enf of the eighteenth century, two races of the wild horse Equus ferus, existed in Europe and the Russian steppes, and the Mongolian wild horse, or Przewalski's horse, in Mongolia wild horse, or Przewalksi's horse in Mongolia. These two races were the relics of vast populations of wild equines that inhabited virtually the whole of Europe, Asia, and North America at the close of the la…

E-Book Children’s English in Singapore: Acquisition, Properties, and Use

Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology, this book investigates children’s acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual Singapore, one of the traditional Kachruvian Outer Circle or ESL countries. The book investigates language choice, use, and dominance in Singaporean families, identifies common linguistic characteristics of L1 Singapore…

E-Book Europe’s Islamic Legacy: 1900 to the Present

Seven new scholarly essays present original research that includes rare historical and photographic materials highlighting the significance of Islamic civilization and its vexed legacy in a variety of contemporary European countries and challenging the perception of European identity as exclusively Christian. This volume unearths a rich, complex history of relationships between Muslims and Chri…

E-Book English in the Nordic Countries: Connections, Tensions, and Everyday R…

People in the Nordic states – Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland – rank as among the most proficient speakers of English in the world. In this unique volume, international experts explore how this came to be, what English usage and integration looks like in different spheres of society and the economy in these countries, and the implications of this linguistic phenomenon for lang…

E-book Classical Mythology and Children’s Literature : An Alphabetical Odyssey

As a result, a unique amalgam was formed. On the one hand, the Alpha-betical Odyssey is a guide showing the breadth of the creative field of children’s literature that blends the ancient and the modern for readers of all ages, thereby making it possible for them to travel beyond time, to learn about new things, but also to rediscover what may already seem familiar. Short chapters on clas-sica…

Six Crimson Cranes

Bagaimana rasanya punya enam orang kakak laki-laki? Merasa dilindungi? Selalu dijaili? Setidaknya itu yang dirasakan Putri Shiori, putri bungsu Kaisar Kiata. Sayangnya, hari-harinya yang riuh bersama keenam kakak lelakinya tak bisa berlangsung lama. Karena sebuah tragedi tak terduga, Raikama, sang ibu tiri menyihir keenam kakak Shiori menjadi bangau. Shiori pun dikutuk nyaris bisu. Jika satu ka…

E-book The Writing Public : Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenme…

On February 12, 1786, a letter to the editor appeared in the Affiches du Beauvaisis that described how readers interacted with the newspaper. The anonymous writer explained to the editor, “Your weekly papers are a sort of literary arena, where every athlete should have the right to present oneself, to choose an adversary and to combat them, without however, straying f…

E-book Population, providence and empire : The churches and emigration from n…

etween seven and eight million men and women left Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century.1 For a country whose popula-tion has never been more than eight and a half million, that is a mind-boggling statistic, and one that might easily obscure individual emigrant lives. Historians have therefore tended to tackle Irish emigration in two di…

E-book Sartorial Fandom : Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity

Our tastes as consumers and fans are reflected back to us whenever we open our closets. We immediately see our go-to clothing labels, often represent-ing years of fannish brand loyalty. We rifle through leaning towers of folded T-shirts featuring an eclectic mix of fan-designed and licensed imagery ref-erencing beloved media objects. As we move through the world, these forms…

E-book A Memory of Ice

"In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international Deep Sea Drilling Project to venture into the seas surrounding Antarctica, confronting severe weather and ever-present icebergs. A Memory of Ice presents the science and the excitement of that voyage in a manner readable for non-scientists. Woven into the modern story is the history of early expl…

E-book Animals, Plants and Afterimages : The Art and Science of Representing …

In hisremarkable study of the Upper Palaeolithic parietal art of Western Europe, The Mind in the Cave, David Lewis-Williams suggests that some imagery present in caves such as Chauvet and Lascaux was inspired by ex-periences of altered states of consciousness.1 Emergence from such altered states can be accompanied by the appearance of afterimages, mental pic-tures that hang suspended in the fie…

E-book Mosquitopia : The Place of Pests in a Healthy World

Global warming is ushering us into a new mosquito epoch. Ready or not, mos-quitoes are coming faster than before, both indigenous and non-, human-biting and not, disease-carrying and sometimes–disease-carrying. What are we to do with these buzzing creatures, and what has been done with them so far? Usually perceived as a pest or at least as a nuisance, their mere presence often prompts us to …

E-book Laws of the Sea : Interdisciplinary Currents

Most legal thinkers and practitioners view law as fundamentally terrestrial. Indeed, law—in its Eurocentric iteration at least—ultimately imagines itself as beginning and ending on terra firma. Land is perceived as a fully historicized, mapped, and regulated space that stands in stark opposition to the seemingly a-temporal, empty, and unruly sea.…

E-book Leading Cities : A Global Review of City Leadership

Cities are home to the majority of the world’s population, drivers of both national and global economic activity, hubs of culture and innovation, and are the locations in which many of society’s greatest challenges, from climate change to social unrest, play out. Given this, it is not surprising that, in recent years, cities have captured the global imagination. A focus on cities …

E-book Practical Aviation & Aerospace Law

If you are involved in aviation, you will deal with administrative agency regulations far more frequently than any other area of the law. Indeed, you will probably be confronted with making decisions based on the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) on a daily basis. Those regulations also establish standards of legal behavior by which a judge or jury may later decide whether you and your employ…

E-book Reshaping Social Life

Recent theories of society and social change have become caught in a dilemma. A renewed focus on individual agency, on beliefs and values and on cultural processes falls short of any adequate specification of social structural process. Sociological researchers have often made a leap of faith between agency and structure, and between norms and concrete social relations. This book explores a rang…

E-book Collecting Lives : Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in E…

On a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms drawn from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting and shaping the paths of our lives. Data is commonly assumed to bring us closer to objectivity, but the narrative paths these algorithms assign seem, more often than not, to replicate…

Deadly Call

Vira menghilang! Kabar itu cukup mengejutkan penghuni SMA 299. Tidak ada yang aneh di hari-hari sebelum hilangnya Vira. Dia dikenal sebagai gadis ceria yang sesekali berurusan dengan guru BK karena melanggar peraturan sekolah. Selain itu, tidak ada yang aneh. Kecuali... tentang cerita Vira pagi itu. Vira bilang menerima telepon dari orang misterius. Entah orang iseng mana yang menelpon tengah …

E-book Intelijen dan Politik Era Soekarno

Kemerdekaan yang diraih pada tahun 1945 memberikan harapan yang sangat besar bagi seluruh rakyat Indonesia. Mimpi untuk menjadi penduduk sebuah negara yang berdaulat pun terwujud, terlepas dari cengkeraman penjajah. Namun hal itu tidak menyurutkan dinamika politik-keamanan yang terjadi di tanah air, baik itu rongrongan konflik internal, gerakan separatisme maupun kembalinya kekuatan asing. Buku…

Committed

At the end of Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born Australian citizen. Resettling in America, they swore eternal fidelity, but also (each a survivor of a divorce, Enough said) swore never, ever, to get married. But when providence intervened in the form of the US government, they faced a stark choice: either marry, or Felipe could never return to the US. …

E-book Intelijen dan politik era Soekarno

Kemerdekaan yang diraih pada tahun 1945 memberikan harapan yang sangat besar bagi seluruh rakyat Indonesia. Mimpi untuk menjadi penduduk sebuah negara yang berdaulat pun terwujud, terlepas dari cengkeraman penjajah. Namun hal itu tidak menyurutkan dinamika politik-keamanan yang terjadi di tanah air, baik itu rongrongan konflik internal, gerakan separatisme maupun kembalinya kekuatan asing. Buku…