Buku Cuplikan Berwarna Cerita-cerita Alkitab berhasil menyederhanakan cerita-cerita yang ada di dalam Alkitab. Dengan demikian anak-anak bahkan orang dewasa sekalipun dapat membaca dan menikmati cerita Alkitab dengan lengkap, sebagai salah satu kesatuan yang bersinambungan dan utuh. Inilah yang menarik bila kita membaca buku ini. Sebab, kesulitan menemukan bentangan alur cerita, dengan sendirin…
This open access book explores the complementarity of hydropower with new energy sources such as solar and wind in the global energy transition. It analyzes the technological advantages, environmental impacts, and economic potential of combining hydropower and new energy sources, while examining the related policies and market mechanisms. Through a multidimensional approach, the book demonstrat…
The importance of music is difficult to overstate. As historian R W Malcolmson noted, it was the most accessible and democratic of the creative arts, with the ability to give expression to a range of fundamental emotions.4 From a different perspective, musicologist, Philip Tagg emphasised how music and dance are ‘particularly suited to expressing the affec…
Over the last two decades, new cell and molecular biology toolshave become available, allowing the exploration of a broader rangeof metazoan regenerative mechanisms and prompting a (re)-expansion of the field of regenerative biology [3, 4]. A unifyingtheory of regeneration is nevertheless still lacking. Why do not allspecies regenerate? Does regeneration have a single or multiple(evolutionary) …
Visit and explore Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania during your trip to the Baltic States. From top restaurants, bars, and clubs to standout scenic sites and walks, our insider tips are sure to make your trip outstanding. Whether you're looking for unique and interesting shops and markets, or seeking the best venues for music and nightlife, we have entertainment and hotel recommendations for ever…
It is a basic premise of the Wind and Beyond series that nothing about the historical development of aircraft has ever been linear. On the way to aeronautical “progress”—however one chooses to define the term—there has always been, and always will be, countless twists and turns. And in the end, the entire story could have turned out differently—and still may. It is hoped that not only…
The first two volumes in the Wind and Beyond series and the succeeding four now in preparation all cover the impact of aerodynamic development on the evolution of the airplane in America. As the six-volume series will ultimately demonstrate, just as the airplane is a defining technology of the twentieth century, aerodynamics has been the defining element of the airplane.The forthcoming volumes …
The airplane ranks as one of history’s most ingenious and phenomenal inventions. It has surely been one of the most world-changing. How ideas about aerodynamics first came together and how the science and technology evolved to forge the airplane into the revolutionary machine that it became is the epic story told in this multivolume work, The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the Hi…
The demographic make-up of populations at the time of disaster determines whois impacted and the extent of impacts on residents and others. Improving technolo-gies, improved warning systems, investments in disaster mitigating infrastructureand improving community preparedness and response in the face of disasters areexamples of attempts to reduce disaster impacts. While a range of studies havel…
Are you looking to improve your photography repertoire? Take your photography skills and technique to the next level with this inspiring and informative guide. Featuring a comprehensive range of topics from experimenting with lenses, exposure, and aperture to useful post-production techniques, the easy-to-follow step-by-step tutorials show you how to master the functions on your cameras and …
This book attempts to understand the origins and development of religious belief in Iceland and greater Scandinavia through the lenses of five carefully selected Icelandic folktales collected in Iceland during the nineteenth century. Each of these five stories has a story of its own: a historical and cultural context, a literary legacy, influences from beliefs of all kinds (orthodox and heterod…
This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the long nineteenth century. During this period, popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were challenged, modified, and reframed by the politics and structures of ‘modern life’, understood in industrial, social, commercial, and technological te…
Urban histories tend to be dominated by large, global cities. But what does the history of the modern, colonial era look like from the perspective of smaller cities? By shifting the focus from the metropolis to the secondary city of Chiang Mai, this study provides an alternative narrative of the formation of the modern Thai state that highlights the overlap between European, American, and Siame…
Few visitors to art museums walk in expecting to find thirtyplus middle school students acting as their own docents, leading their peers through discussions of what they see and wonder about in works of art from abstract expressionism to wood turn-ings, to sculptures by Rodin. But for close to ten years, we led seventh and eighth grade students through patterned closeviewing and dialogical …
For one hundred and thirty years, from its establishment in 1880 to 2010, Imperial Oil Company Ltd. was the largest petroleum company in Canada; in 2009, Suncor merged with Petro Canada and Imperial fell to second place. Even so, in 2018 Imperial remained among the top ten non-financial companies in Canada, ranked by revenues and assets. The third ranked company, Enbridg…
The purāṇas are an important genre of Hindu literature.1 Together they constitute an authoritative archive—cosmogony and cosmology, theology and mythology as well as orthodoxy and orthopraxis—for Hindu traditions. Many important narratives relating to the deities Viṣṇu–Kṛṣṇa, Śiva and the great goddess Devī are found in their most authoritative form in pur…
This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional wal…
Contemporary British parasitologist Frank Cox has explored how the question of what parasitology is has shaped the history of the discipline. Given that the parasitic lifestyle is common to helminths, bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, parasitoid insects, some plants like mistletoe, and even birds like cuckoos, there is—and has historically been—a need to narrow down the subject …
The process of diagnosing a plant health problem without any specialised laboratory equipment is called ‘field diagnosis’. Field diagnosis involves careful observation of the symptoms on a plant and linking those symptoms with possible causes. While some plant health problems are relatively easy to diagnose, others can be very difficult for a number of reasons. For instance, there may be mu…
We are about to relate a story of mingled fact and fancy. The facts are borrowed from the Russian author, Petjerski; the fancy is our own. Our task will chiefly be to soften the outlines of incidents almost too sharp and rugged for literary use, to supply them with the necessary coloring and sentiment, and to give a coherent and proportioned shape to the irregular fragments of an old chro…
ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, Ensiklopedia Sains untuk Pelajar dan Umum Seri buku ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK ini terdiri atas 2 bagian. Bagian pertama berjudul ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, terdiri atas 5 jilid, merupakan buku sains best seller dunia yang disusun oleh para pakar di bidangnya. ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK mengajak pembaca untuk memahami prinsip-prinsip sains dan sekaligus menelusuri perkembangan iptek sepanjang se…
ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, Ensiklopedia Sains untuk Pelajar dan Umum Seri buku ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK ini terdiri atas 2 bagian. Bagian pertama berjudul ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, terdiri atas 5 jilid, merupakan buku sains best seller dunia yang disusun oleh para pakar di bidangnya. ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK mengajak pembaca untuk memahami prinsip-prinsip sains dan sekaligus menelusuri perkembangan iptek sepanjang se…
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ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, Ensiklopedia Sains untuk Pelajar dan Umum Seri buku ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK ini terdiri atas 2 bagian. Bagian pertama berjudul ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, terdiri atas 5 jilid, merupakan buku sains best seller dunia yang disusun oleh para pakar di bidangnya. ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK mengajak pembaca untuk memahami prinsip-prinsip sains dan sekaligus menelusuri perkembangan iptek sepanjang se…
ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, Ensiklopedia Sains untuk Pelajar dan Umum Seri buku ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK ini terdiri atas 2 bagian. Bagian pertama berjudul ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, terdiri atas 5 jilid, merupakan buku sains best seller dunia yang disusun oleh para pakar di bidangnya. ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK mengajak pembaca untuk memahami prinsip-prinsip sains dan sekaligus menelusuri perkembangan iptek sepanjang se…
Cahaya sangatlah aneh, kita tidak dapat merasakan cita rasanya, merasakan keberadaannya, mendengar atau menciumnya. Akan tetapi, kita dapat melihatnya. Di sini terdapat beberapa kenyataan menarik tentang cahaya. ]Cahaya bergerak sangat cepat. Dalam satu detik saja, seberkas cahaya dapat menempuh jarak tujuh kali keliling dunia. Cahaya adalah bentuk energi, jika suatu benda menjadi panas, bend…