E-book A Greek State in Formation : The Origins of Mycenaean Pylos

The Bronze Age in Greece began around 3100 B.C. with the first bronze work-ing for the manufacture of tools and weapons (see map 1). Already in the Neo-lithic, there had been limited use of copper, the essential ingredient of bronze, while stone tools were still essential for some purposes in the Bronze Age. Copper typically was alloyed with tin to produce bronze, but…

E-book Surgery: An Illustrated History

Designed like a fine art book, this beautiful work by the foremost American historian of surgery represents the finest pictorial record of the history of surgery ever assembled between two covers. Writing from a surgeon' perspective, Dr. Rutkow traces the development of surgery from its crude beginnings, from a primitive craft to one of modern society's most accomplished achievements. Brief bio…

E-book Conversations with Shotetsu

This leaves the question of whether Sogi and his cohorts sawsomething in the waka of their day that scholars since have not; andthe answer would seem to be yes. For while many poets of that agewere satisfied with vain repetitions of familiar lines, a few intrepidindividuals still managed to approach the old form with vitality andartistic purpose. …

E-book A Little History of the World: Illustrated Edition

E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World, an engaging and lively book written for readers both young and old, vividly brings the full span of human experience on Earth to life, from the stone age to the atomic age. Gombrich’s text paints a colorful picture of wars and conquests; of grand works of art; of the advances and limitations of science; of remarkable people and remarkable even…

E-book Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History

See the greatest medical breakthroughs come to life through superb illustrations! From ancient herbal medicine to traditional Chinese medicine, take a visual tour throughout the history of medicine with this comprehensive medical reference book.

E-book Seeing the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Urban

The city is a complex object. Some researchers look at its shape, others at its people, animals, ecology, policy, infrastructures, buildings, history, art, or technical networks. Some researchers analyse processes of in- or exclusion, gentrification, or social mobility; others biological evolution, traffic flows, or spatial development. Many combine these topics or add still more topics beyond …

E-book Hip Hop’s Organic Pedagogues: Teaching, Learning, and Organizing in …

What can Hip Hop culture and its art forms (dance, rap, DJing, graffiti/style writing) contribute to the development of individuals, communities, and even society? To answer this question, this book delves into Hip Hop activism in social work, education, and political movements in New York and Dakar. It follows the work of Hip Hop practitioners who teach their art forms in high schools, in neig…

E-book Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in The Ancient Near East…

Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered from archaeological excavations. Urban form is the focus: the physical appearance and overall plans of the cities, their architecture a…

E-book The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Hidden History: The U…

Discover 10,000 years of the shadowy side of our world in this treasure trove of alternative history. The Encyclopedia of Secret Societies features detailed information about.

E-book Ancient Rome: An Illustrated History

In this colorfully-illustrated reference for young adult readers, the history of ancient Rome is traced from the mythic founding of the city by the twins Romulus and Remus, through its many emperors and wars, to the disintegration of the empire in the third and fourth centuries CE. Boxed information provides further details on aspects of daily life, traditions, and laws; the Roman military; fam…

E-book An Illustrated History of Britain

This is an illustrated history of Britain from prehistoric times to the present day. The book analyzes the major political and military events in British history, and where appropriate, looks at these within a wider, international context. It also describes everyday life for men and women from different levels of society in different ages: the kind of work they did, family life, etc. Emphasis i…

E-book Before the Pyramids: Cracking Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

Were the pyramids of the pharaohs conceived in Britain? The acclaimed coauthors of Civilization One think so, and they take readers on a gripping excursion into ancient religion and astronomy. Knight and Butler not only establish the existence of an advanced civilization with astonishing, almost modern knowledge, but they also explain how the oldest Neolithic monuments--the henges of North York…

E-book Current Research in Egyptology 2023: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third A…

Collecting 22 selected papers from the twenty-third Current Research in Egyptology conference, topics include language and literature, archaeology and material culture, society and religion, archival research, intercultural relations, reports on archaeological excavations and methodological issues, regarding all periods of Ancient Egypt. The twenty-third Current Research in Egyptology confer…

To Kill a Mockingbird

"Kalian boleh menembak burung bluejay kalau bisa, tapi ingat, kalian berdosa apabila membunuh burung mockingbird". Hidup Scout dan Jem berubah saat ayah mereka menjadi pembela seorang kulit hitam. Ketika Atticus membela seorang yang dianggap sampah masyarakat, kecaman pun datang dari seluruh penjuru. Novel ini menunjukkan betapa prasangka sering kali membutakan manusia. Dan keadilan hanya dapa…

E-book The Wheat Genome

In 2018, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium published a reference genome sequence for bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The landmark achievement was the culmination of a thirteen-year international effort focused on the production of a genome sequence linked to genotypic/phenotypic maps to advance understanding of traits an…

Bacaan Harian dari Your Best Life Now

Penulis buku terlaris, Joel Osteen, menawarkan 90 hari inspirasi untuk menolong orang meraih potensi penuh mereka. Dalam buku terlarisnya Your Best Life Now, Joel Osteen menjamin kita kembali bahwa menjalani kehidupan yang penuh potensi itu ada dalam jangkauan kita. Ia berbicara tentang memperbesar visi kita, menyadari kuasa pikiran dan kata-kata kita, dan mengubah kesukaran menjadi kesempatan…

E-book Moves - Spaces - Places : The Life Worlds of Jamaican Women in Montrea…

“More Jamaican women migrating to Canada, Statistics reveal” is a headline inthe Jamaican newspaperThe Gleanerin January (2018) discussing the recent cen-sus results gathered in Canada from 2012 to 2016. The data indicates that almost20,000 more Jamaican women than men migrated to Canada within that timespan,demonstratinga recentdisparity in migrants’genderdistribution.The socio-economic …

E-book Certifying China: The Rise and Limits of Transnational Sustainability …

In the early 1990s, Mr. H, who was in his thirties at that time, was already the general manager of a state- owned tea company in the Jiangxi province of China. However, he was struggling to find customers for tea produced in his county, Wuyuan— which had been famous for its green tea for more than 1,000 years— in a free and open market after the government had ceas…

Majalah Gema Loyola 2024 : The Cultural Kaleidoscope

Berisikan cuplikan dari kegiatan-kegiatan yang telah diselenggarakan, seperti LOSAAC 2024 yang menampilkan lomba olah raga, akademik, dan seni, serta Gelar Karya Senandika Adiwarna, Live in Sragen dan Ekskursi 2024, juga perayaan P5.

Majalah Gema Loyola Reborn 2023 : A Glimpse of 2023

Berisikan cuplikan reportase dari kegiatan-kegiatan yang berlangsung selama tahun 2023, mulai dari launching antologi cerpen La Reverie, Temu Kolese, hingga Perayaan P5.

Majalah Gema Loyola Reborn Juni 2023 : Career & Passion

Menjadi sosok yang sukses dan berhasil dalam mencapai cita-cita tentu menjadi keinginan setiap orang. Tidak ada satupun orang yang ingin gagal, bukan? Namun, di balik kesuksesan seseorang, pasti ada latar belakang yang mengikuti. Salah satunya tak terlepas dari sebuah kata, yaitu passion. Kata ini sudah tidak asing lagi untuk kita dengar, terutama bagi kaum muda yang masih berada dalam fase men…

Majalah Gema Loyola Reborn Juni 2022 : Akan Jadi Apakah Kita?

Hayo, siapa yang punya mimpi di masa depan nanti? Kita semua pasti punya sebuah impian ataupun cita-cita. Memiliki impian dan cita-cita untuk masa depan adaalh suatu hal yang wajar di masa muda setiap orang. Namun, impian dan cita-cita yang dimiliki tidak harus besar atau tinggi, loh. Cita-cita juga bisa dalam bentuk sederhana. Tidak ada aturan dalam mewujudkan impian dan cita-cita. Tidak heran…

E-book 70 Years of Levothyroxine

n the opening chapter of this book, we consider the history of the therapeutic use of levothyroxine (LT4). Recognition of the therapeutic value of LT4 emerged from experience gained from, essentially, empirical administration by physicians of crude thyroid extracts to people with advanced sequelae of hypothyroidism [1–4]. These clinical experiments arose from early studies of people w…

E-book Rethinking the Public Fetus : Historical Perspectives on the Visual Cu…

Today, images of fetuses and pregnant bodies are ubiquitous. We encoun-ter them everywhere—from ultrasound pictures of expected babies in family albums to childbirth scenes in reality television shows or on social media platforms. Images of fetal bodies are also frequently seen in antiabortion campaigns. The capacity of fetal photographs and ultrasound images …

E-book The Children of Looked After Children : Outcomes, Experiences and Ensu…

This book is based on a research study which took place within CASCADE at Cardiff University, between October 2014 and March 2019. Funded by Health and Care Research Wales, the study was divided into several stages and incorporated a mixed method design. The study was specifi cally concerned with the Welsh context and each of the 22 local authorities in Wales participate…

E-book Decriminalising Abortion in the UK : What Would It Mean?

When people talk about the ‘abortion question’, what they generally mean is something like this: how should we balance the protection of unborn human life against the rights and interests of a pregnant woman to control her own body? Possibly, they also have in mind a further important (but analytically distinct) issue: how should law (criminal or otherwi…

E-book Repealing the 8th

The 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution was ratified in 1983,1and provides—in the form of Article 40.3.3—that:The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.At first glance, the 8th Amendment may seem innocuo…

E-book Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works

Who drives transformation in society? How do they do it? In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. All of these leaders--call them disrupters, visionaries,…

E-book Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner

If you’re aiming to innovate, failure along the way is a given. But can you fail better? Whether you’re rolling out a new product from a city-view office or rolling up your sleeves to deliver a social service in the field, learning why and how to embrace failure can help you do better, faster. Smart leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents design their innovation projects with a key ide…

E-book Formulaic Language : Theories and Methods

Of the many types of multiword expressions identified in the literature, the cur-rent study focuses on a small, structurally defined set of possible prefabricatedsequences (prefabs), in particular, attributive adjective-noun sequences as usedin American English conversation. The paper examines the role of frequency of One source of interest in multiword expressions (MWEs) derived from corpusstu…

E-book Cows

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E-book Encyclopedia of Aquarium and Pond Fish

Complemented by more than 1,300 photographs and illustrations, a comprehensive reference for owners of freshwater and saltwater fish provides the latest information on keeping an aquarium or pond, highlighting more than eight hundred species of popular freshwater, saltwater, tropical, and cold water fish, along with information on feeding, breeding, and care. Reprint.

E-book In Pursuit of Visibility: Essays in Archaeology, Ethnography, and Text…

In Pursuit of Visibility honors the distinguished career of a scholar of Canaan and ancient Israel, Beth Alpert Nakhai. In fifteen diverse essays, Professor Nakhai’s students and colleagues celebrate her important contributions to the field of Near Eastern Archaeology, including her research into gender, household, and cult in the Bronze and Iron Age southern Levant, and her tireless efforts …

E-book The EBMT Handbook : Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellul…

Research efforts on how to repair radiation effects resulted from observations on radiation damage among survivors of the atomic bomb explosions in Japan (reviewed in van Bekkum and de Vries 1967). In 1949, Jacobson and colleagues discov-ered protection of mice from TBI by shielding their spleens with lead. Two years later, Lorenz and colleagues reported radiation prot…

E-book Anatomy, Histology, and Cell Biology, 3rd Edition

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E-book Animals and Medicine : The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the C…

The Research Defence Society (RDS) was founded in 1908 by Dr Stephen Paget, son of the eminent Victorian surgeon, Sir James Paget. Its role was to defend scientists conducting medical research using animals and to inform the public about the importance of animal experimentation. In its first year it attracted a membership of 2000 which included scientists in th…

E-book Doing Feminist Urban Research (Insights from the GenUrb Project)

Doing Feminist Urban Research introduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st-century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies, software-enhanced qualitative data analysis, and knowledge mobilisation. This book delves into both the institutional and lived realities of t…

E-book Dutch Neorealism, Cinema, and the Politics of Painting, 1927–1945

This study offers a radically new perspective on Dutch Neorealism, one that emphasizes the role of film as an apparatus, the effects of which, when emulated in painting, can reproduce the affective experience of film-watching. More of a tendency than a tightly defined style or "ism," Neorealism is the Dutch variant of Magic Realism, an uncanny mode of figurative painting identified with Neue Sa…

E-book The Emergence of the Korean Art Collector and the Korean Art Market

Articulating the shifting interests in Korean art and offering new ways of conceiving the biases that initiated and impacted its collecting, this book traces the rise of the modern Korean art market from its formative period in the 1870s through to its peak and subsequent decline in the 1930s. The discussion centres on the collecting of Kory? celadon ceramics as they formed the focal point of c…

E-book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and Jame…

E-book The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty

Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator’s Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life, and co-authors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity, and offers a groundbreaking solution for true and lasting change. Global poverty is one of the wor…

E-book Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation

o ‘articulate’ media means to understand them by locating their connections in space and time. Articulating Media offers new approaches to the writing of technology and the technologies of writing by twinning an investigation of language with an attention to location. Where does media theory take place? How should media theory understand its own occupation of the spaces of media? What mater…

E-book A History of Asking

Asking is one of the simplest and most familiar of human actions, and has a right to be thought of as single most powerful and most variously cohering form of social-symbolic gesture. Because so much is at stake in the act of asking, asking, or asking for, almost anything, whether information, help, love or respect, can be asking for trouble, so a great deal of care must be taken with the ways …

E-book A Brief History of Time

A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends? Told in language we all can understand…

E-book How to Read Ancient Texts: With a Focus on Select Phoenician Inscripti…

How to Read Ancient Texts foregrounds the principles of interpretation that scholars employ when reading ancient inscriptions. In order to better come to grips with Canaanite, such as Phoenician, inscriptions, we need to first understand how people wrote and read texts in the ancient Mediterranean world, including that of the Greeks and Romans. The use of continual script and lack of punctuatio…

E-book The Square Kilometre Array : A Science Mega-Project in the Making, 199…

This is a book about a grand vision radio telescope project called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its transition from a global grass-roots collaboration among astronomers and engineers in the early 1990s to a formal legal entity two decades later, on the path towards an Inter-Governmental Organisation constructing a science mega-project. The …

E-book Mercury Pollution in Minamata

In July 2012, I was employed as a program-specific professor to implement the “Connectivity of Hills, Humans and Oceans Educational Program” which was opened to all graduate students of Kyoto University. In 2010 when I worked at the National Research Institute of Aquaculture, I visited the Minamata Disease Municipal Museum in south Kyushu. There, I learned d…

E-book Invoking Flora Nwapa : Nigerian women writers, femininity and spiritua…

By invoking Flora Nwapa, this monograph draws attention to Nigerian women writers in world literature, with an emphasis on femininity and spirituality. Flora Nwapa’s Efuru was the first internationally published novel in English by a female African writer (Nwapa 1966). With the establishment of Tana Press in 1977, Flora Nwapa also became the first fe…

E-book Land Tenure Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa : Interventions in Benin, Eth…

More than 965 million women and men in Africa cannot afford a healthy diet (FAO et al. 2020). Many governments and practitioners in the land sector expect that strengthening smallholder productivity will provide sufficient food and en-able rural Africans to move out of poverty (Gassner et al. 2019; Lawry et al. 2017). Recent literature examining the link between land tenure security (LTS) and …

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