E-book Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative

Landscape architecture participates in development. Whether that participation isself-reflective or uncritical, complicit or compromised, this discipline has had signif-icant impacts on development practice and academia that are often unacknowledgedoutside what is otherwise a relatively narrow professional field. In the ways land-scapes are planned and studied, for instance, both geographic inf…

E-book The Decisive Battles of World History

Throughout history, military engagements have altered the course of historical events, causing major changes both on a global scale (the battles of Yarmouk & al-Qadisiyyah in 636 determined the religious/linguistic orientation of the Middle East that persists today) as well as within individual cultures (the 1836 battle of San Jacinto gave the United States nearly one-third of its continental t…

E-book Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics : The African Pollen Database

Palaeoecology of Africa(PoA) of which this is the 35th volume, is a series traditionally focusingon multi-disciplinary studies on palaeoenvironments of Africa, especially on more recent parts ofgeological time like the Neogene and Quaternary. The early PoA volumes reveal the developmenthistory of these palaeoscience aspects in Africa. Thanks to the pioneering and visionary effortsof Eduard Mein…

E-book Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early): How Far Would…

What if a happier life was only a few simple choices away? A successful entrepreneur living in Southern California, Scott Rieckens had built a “dream life”: a happy marriage, a two-year-old daughter, a membership to a boat club, and a BMW in the driveway. But underneath the surface, Scott was creatively stifled, depressed, and overworked trying to help pay for his family’s beach-town l…

E-book Reassembling Democracy : Ritual as Cultural Resource

Diverse processes of democratic participation – and exclusion – are braided with or propelled onwards by ritual acts and complexes. This volume is the result of collaborations and conversations between international researchers who have focused on the employment and deployment of those cultural resources identifiable as ‘ritual’ as pa…

E-book Here for the Hearing : Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater

Twenty years ago, very few music scholars examined Broadway musicals. If musicologists were a bit slow to approach the musical theater reper-toire (and they were), theorists and analysts arrived—and are only now arriving—more than fashionably late to the party. We hope that this vol-ume loudly announces that we are here.Music theorists care about musical theater. We kn…

E-book Widening Scripts: Cultivating Feminist Care in Academic Labor

Widening Scripts: Cultivating Feminist Care in Academic Labor is addressed to scholars, educators, and students devoted to the struggle against precarity, atomization, and the commodification of knowledge. Through shared reading, discussion, and reflection, and gathered around a shared interest in feminist theory and politics, the authors discovered a model of care within academia that helped t…

E-book The Dream-Slaves

To fight the gods—you must first become a slave. Our universe is dead. All that’s left are memories. But the powers indigenous to the new world are fighting back. Alexander, a handsome immigrant fleeing trouble in his poor native land, doesn’t even have a claim to his own name in the magic-rich city of Norio, where they call him Aleixo. But his name may be the least of what the sorcerers …

E-book Grey Area : Regulating Amsterdam’s Coffeeshops

y first trip to Amsterdam was for a couple of days in the autumn of 2003. A second-year student at the University of Georgia, I was studying abroad at Oxford, just a few hours by air from Amsterdam. Years before, I had learned how to smoke marijuana and enjoy its effects, probably too much so.1 For stoners like my former self, visiting Amsterdam’s coffeeshops is a recreational pi…

E-book Changing Seasonality : How Communities are Revising their Seasons

Planetary scientists suspect that, when young, our planet met with an enormouscelestial body in a random collision that tilted the earth’s rotational axis relativeto its orbital plane around the sun. This tilt has since determined which parts ofour globe are most exposed to solar radiation at different points in its solar cir-cuit, as a key physical pattern dictating the annual cycles of life…

E-book Ranaviruses : Lethal Pathogens of Ectothermic Vertebrates

The family Iridoviridae currently contains fi ve genera, two of which infect invertebrates ( Iridovirus and Chloriridovirus ) and three that infect only ectother-mic vertebrates ( Lymphocystivirus , Megalocytivirus , and Ranavirus ; Jancovich et al. 2015a ). Lymphocy stiviruses and megalocytiviruses only infect fi sh, whereas, as indicated above, r…

E-book Bandits in Print : "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the C…

The traditional long-form novel, as devel-oped in late Ming China, could be endlessly reshaped and repackaged. Its text could be freely altered. Commentaries could be added to its chapters, whether at their beginnings, at their ends, or even interpo-lated into the text itself, in order to assist less-experienced readers or to provide interpretations. Prefaces could be…

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 Essentials of Ecology, 5th Edition

G. Tyler Miller's worldwide bestsellers have evolved right along with the changing needs of your diverse student population. Focused specifically on energizing and engaging all your students, Miller and new coauthor Scott Spoolman have been at work scrutinizing every lineenhancing, clarifying, and streamlining to reduce word density as well as updating with the very latest environmental news an…

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Scotland

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Scotland is your in-depth guide to this unique country. Explore all that Scotland has to offer, from the streets of Edinburgh to the wind-swept highlands and lochs, from golf trips and whiskey tours to impromptu ceilidhs in cozy pubs.

E-book Depression: A Very Short Introduction

What is depression? What is bipolar disorder? How are they diagnosed and how are they treated? Can a small child be diagnosed with depression and treated with antidepressants - and should they be? Covering depression, manic depression, and bipolar disorder, this Very Short Introduction gives a brief account of the history of these concepts, before focussing on the descriptions and understand…

E-book Being Global: How to Think, Act, and Lead in a Transformed World

What does it take to lead a global business? What makes being a global business leader today such a complex task? It’s more than mastering your knowledge of various geographies and cultures, though that is essential. But to succeed, you must also master the complex mind-set and competencies needed to lead in today’s fully globalized world. Not an easy assignment. Enter Ángel Cabrera …

E-book Stable Isotopes in Tree Rings : Inferring Physiological, Climatic and …

This Open Access volume highlights how tree ring stable isotopes have been used to address a range of environmental issues from paleoclimatology to forest management, and anthropogenic impacts on forest growth. It will further evaluate weaknesses and strengths of isotope applications in tree rings. In contrast to older tree ring studies, which predominantly applied a pure statistical approach t…

E-book Labour Exploitation and Work-Based Harm

The relationship between a worker and his/her employer is one that is infinitely complex. At its core, however, is the simple need of the worker to make a decent living and the simple desire of the capitalist (employer, shareholder, property owner and so on) to make a decent profit. In the pursuit of these objectives hierarchical relationships inevitably emerge. These relationships for…

E-book The cinema of Oliver Stone : Art, authorship and activism

In fact, Oliver Stone’s career was never as outrageously conten-tious as this when it started, neither was it even at the putative height of his artistic and commercial powers in the decade that spanned the late 1980s and early 1990s. From unlikely writ-ing credits for The Hand (1981), which he also directed, Conan the Barbarian (John Milius, 198…

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 A History of Byzantium

This book is a concise narrative of Byzantine history from the time of Constantine the Great (AD 306) to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

E-book Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently

No organization can survive without iconoclasts -- innovators who single-handedly upturn conventional wisdom and manage to achieve what so many others deem impossible.Though indispensable, true iconoclasts are few and far between. In Iconoclast, neuroscientist Gregory Berns explains why. He explores the constraints the human brain places on innovative thinking, including fear of failure, the ur…

E-book Qatar: Evidence of the Palaeolithic Earliest People Revealed

Qatar: Evidence of the Palaeolithic Earliest People Revealed, with full text in both English and Arabic, tells the story of the long and difficult search to discover the identity of the first people to inhabit the sovereign State of Qatar, which is situated on a peninsula, that extends into the Arabian Gulf. The book synthesises the results of extensive fieldwork by the PADMAC Unit with the man…

E-book The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It

Innovation may be the hottest discipline around today?in business circles and beyond. And for good reason. Innovation transforms companies and markets. It’s the key to solving vexing social problems. And it makes or breaks professional careers. For all the enthusiasm the topic inspires, however, the practice of innovation remains stubbornly impenetrable. No longer. In The Little Black Book…

E-book Mammoths and Neanderthals in the Thames Valley

This richly illustrated book gives a detailed account of excavations that extended over ten years at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, following the discovery of a mammoth tusk in 1989. More than 1500 vertebrate fossils and a wealth of other biological material were recorded and recovered, along with 36 stone artefacts attributable to Neanderthals. The discovery in 1989 of a mammoth tusk in riv…

E-book Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States : A Scientific Assessment

Humans have a long history of using fire and it is difficult to separate humaninfluence from the natural occurrence of fire on the landscape (Pyne1997). Forcenturies, Native Americans used fire as a tool for multiple purposes, includingagriculture, managing wildlife habitat and hunting grounds, and cultural practices.As a result of lightning fires and Native American burning, as well as agricul…

E-Book Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades

This book examines how the military orders and the ideology of crusading gave rise to a new sacred landscape in the medieval Baltic region, an outpost of Latin Christianity. Drawing on a wide variety of sources and international scholarship, the book discusses the paganism of the landscape in written sources pre-dating the crusades, in addition to the narrative, legal, and visual evidence of th…

E-Book Films That Work Harder: The Circulation of Industrial Film

Industrial film, non-theatrical film, film studies and science and technology studies, economic history, visual culture

E-Book Freedom of Speech in Universities: Islam, Charities and Counter-terrorism

Freedom of speech and extremism in university campuses are major sources of debate and moral panic in the United Kingdom today. In 2018, the Joint Committee on Human Rights in Parliament undertook an inquiry into freedom of speech on campus. It found that much of the public concern is exaggerated, but identified a number of factors that require attention, including the impact of government coun…

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 Mapping Crisis Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the …

This book is being published in the midst of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, an event that was beyond the imagination of most people at the time that the project started, but one that now grips the world and is one of the principal factors in how we presently organise our daily existence. It was suggested that we might add some information to the book about these changes and…

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 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…

Rob Roy

From its first publication in 1817 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamorised, unprincipled predator to others. Scott approaches Rob Roy indirectly, through the adventu…

E-book ivanhoe

This, one of the great works of fiction, is of historical value for its graphic picture of the Saxons and Normans in England after the Norman occupation of the land. The tournament at Ashby, the siege of Torquilstone, the trial of Rebecca, the Jewess,--these are a few incidents in this story "of the days of old When knights were bold." Robin Hood, under the name of Locksley the yeoman, appears …

E-book Marmion : A tale of flodden field

The "Lay of the Last Minstrel," Scott's first romantic tale, was published in January, 1805, and won for its author his first great success. The writing of "Marmion" was begun in November, 1806. Constable offered as publisher to pay at once a thousand guineas for the copyright, when he heard that the new poem was begun, though he had not yet seen a line of it. Miller and Murray joined, eac…

E-book The great gatsby

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’

Benny Moerdani :profil prajurit negarawan

Indeks

Dari papua meneropong indonesia : Darah mengalir di bumi cenderawasih, catata…

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978-979-025-887

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xxii; 189 hlm;15 x 23 cm

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301.29 IRY d

The road less travelled

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978-602-8224-00

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v; 416 hlm;15 x 23 cm

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Tiada tawar menawar tanpa duri : Psikologi baru tentang cinta, nilai tradisio…

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viii; 230 hlm;15.5 x 24 cm

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155.2 PEC t

Membaca kepribadian orang

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979-963-392-3

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iii; 393 hlm;;14 x 21 cm

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155.2 YOU m

Sickened : Kisah nyata tentang seorang anak yang sengaja dibuat sakit

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979-22-1025-3

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ix; 280 hlm;;13.5 x 20 cm

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110 GRE s

Psikologi baru pengembangan diri : Meretas jalan baru pertumbuhan spiritual

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979-2462-14-7

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xiii; 484 hlm;;14 x 21 cm

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Ender's Game

Bumi tak lagi aman. Bugger, makhluk mirip belalang dari planet misterius menyerang. Keselamatan Bumi ada di tangan Ender seorang anak bungsu dari tiga bersaudara yang sebenarnya tidak begitu diinginkan.. Permasalahan tidak hanya disitu saja. Beberapa Pemimpin ambisius mulai memperebutkan Ender..

MENGUAK RAHASIA-RAHASIA MANAJER

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979-695-028-6

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xi ; 162 hlm;20,5 x 20,5 cm

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658.4 ADA m

HUKUM DAN KEADILAN

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979-655-784-3

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560 hlm;15 x 23 cm

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