E-Book Sirius Secret

Setahun setelah kecelakaan, dunia Ayalisse berubah. Layaknya malam yang tidak menemui fajar - segalanya gelap. Hidup, karier, bahkan orang-orang di sekitar Ayalisse. Tapi, siapa sangka, surat-surat dan rekaman-rekaman berisi dongeng yang dikirimkan sosok misterius bernama Sirius perlahan membangkitkan kembali semangat hidupnya. Tanpa disadari, Sirius menjadi bagian yang sangat penting dalam hi…

E-book Paganism: A Very Short Introduction

"Paganism" is an evocative word that even today conjures up deep-seated emotions and prejudices. Until recently, it was primarily a derogatory term used by Christians to describe the non-Christian cultures vanquished by their churches. For some it evokes images of sacrifice and barbaric behavior, while for others it symbolizes a peace-loving, nature-worshipping spiritual relationship with the e…

E-book A Genealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy : The Politics of Thai Détente with R…

‘Bamboo’ or ‘bending with the wind’ diplomacy is a key concept frequently used in international relations (IR) and describes Thailand’s diplomacy in particular. It alludes to the way in which the country has pursued a flexible, pragmatic policy, aimed at maintaining national survival and independence. In bamboo diplomacy, Thailand is blatantly pl…

E-book Black Dragon : Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination

In August 1969, a group of local Japanese martial arts masters in New York invited Ronald Duncan, a burgeoning Black1 American practitioner of the Japanese martial art of ninjutsu, commonly translated as the “art of stealth,” to exhibit his techniques as part of the second International Convention of Martial Arts hosted by Black Belt mag…

E-book Eskalation : G20 in Hamburg, Protest und Gewalt

Am 7. und 8. Juli 2017 versammelten sich in den Hamburger Messehallen Vertreter*innen der reichsten Länder der Welt für das Treffen der Gruppe der 20. Verschiedene Bündnisse und Initiativen riefen zu Protesten gegen das Treffen auf. Organisiert wurde ein vielfältiges Repertoire an Protest-aktionen, das von einem Gegengipfel und Protestcamps über Performan-ces, …

E-book Ecology of Angola : Terrestrial Biomes and Ecoregions

Southwards from the Maiombe, and running from Cabinda to the Cunene, is the Angolan Escarpment. This major topographic buttress between the coastal lowlands, the Marginal Mountain Chain and the interior high plateau—the planalto—is of special ecological importance. Providing a steep gradient of landscapes and habitats between the arid coast and …

E-book Belonging Beyond Borders : Cosmopolitan Affiliations in Contemporary S…

“El Perú soy yo aunque a algunos no les guste” (“I am Peru even if some do not like it”1), claimed Mario Vargas Llosa after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011. And indeed, even if it is a great hon-our for any nation to have one of its citizens receive such a prestigious distinction, many Peruvians questioned the Nobel Foundat…

E-book Maria Thereza Alves : Seeds of Change

In an era of extractivist economies, climate change, and forced mobil-ity, who and what belongs? Who and what does not? What can be learned from sitting with a plant you germinated from seed? One of the most significant voices to emerge in recent years, Brazil-born Maria 'lhereza Alves has focused precisely on such questions in her twenty-year art project Seeds o/Change that has spanned contine…

E-book Water and the Law : Water Management in the Statutory Legislation of L…

A recent report by the World Meteorological Organization updated to January 2022 showed that around 11% of the world’s population has no access to sufficiently safe sources of water. In addition, drought in some regions of Africa, Central Asia and the American continent is hastening the expansion of the desert belts and is causing serious difficulties in a growing…

E-book Engaging Environments in Tonga : Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Rela…

In October 1986, Kotu Island in the Lulunga district of the Tongan group of Ha‘apai appeared as a low silhouette on the Western horizon as the small boat we were in weaved its way through a channel in the fringing reef into the large lagoon surrounding the island for the first time. The tide was low, and the boat scraped the bottom and ground to a halt long before r…

E-book The Social Drama of Daily Work : A Manual for Historians

A second reason to study work is that it is inherently social: it necessarily involves relations between people that are arguably more fundamental than their ideological relationships. Since work must go on, while ideology may be ignored or even f louted, it is a good place to start trying to understand society. Applebaum argued that the study of work is even more important for studying societi…

E-book Futures and Beyond : Creativity and 4IR Conference 2022

The Futures and Beyond: Creativity and 4IR virtual conference was hosted online by UJ Arts & Culture on 30 and 31 August 2022. The University of Johannesburg has positioned the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) as its visionary focus in research and higher education, and UJ Arts & Culture, as a division of the Faculty of Art, Design and …

E-book Yuarn Music Dramas : Studies in Prosody and Structure and a Complete C…

The term shie-tzyy was appropriated from the Chinese car-penter, to whom it denoted a small wedge-shaped cut of wood usedto fill a crack or cleavage in an article of furniture. With similarprecision, the Yuarn dramatist could always turn to the demi-actfor a flexible alternative to the simple four-act format of the stan-dard music drama.…

E-book Turkish Drama Serials : The Importance and Influence of a Globally Pop…

n little more than a decade, Turkish serials have grown from being simply a popular television format in Türkiye, to solidifying their place within international popular culture, having won the hearts of audiences across the globe.1This book explores a significant development in television that started with Turkish dramas taking Arab screens by storm, and later expanding …

E-book Do Exclusionary Rules Ensure a Fair Trial? : A Comparative Perspective…

Criminal justice systems are barometers of social development. This claim, putforward by German criminal law scholars,1alludes to the fact that inherent in thecriminal justice process are conflicting interests between the need to ensure comprehensive fact-finding on the one hand, and the wish to safeguard individual rights,especially those of defendants, on the other hand. In all criminal justi…

E-book Scientific Integrity : The Rules of Academic Research

The subject of scientific integrity has generated a lot of attention in recent decades, both in the media—which is all too happy to report on the latest fraud or plagiarism scandal—and in the boardrooms of the scientific insti-tutions that have to respond to it. In the meantime, scientific research has continued, but researchers have become more attuned to the fact that scien-tific integrit…

E-book Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste

For some time, narratives and projects aimed at improving and diversifying economic activities in Timor-Leste have been the leitmotivs of a number of development programs. Framing such endeavours are several assumptions about Timor-Leste’s economy, namely, that it is unproductive, weak and unfair; that most of it is made up of subsistence agriculture benefitt…

E-Book Harta Pusaka Cinta

Chintiya Rubert diutus oleh ibunya, Friska Aisyaharni, untuk menemui neneknya di Ampek Angkek, Sumatera Barat. Misi Chintiya adalah meminta warisan yang menjadi hak ibunya. Friska sendiri tak mau menginjakkan kaki di kampung halamannya. Ia masih memendam dendam karena sikap ibunya yang keras dan selalu menghalang-halanginya, termasuk menentang keras keinginannya menikah dengan Hans Leonard Rube…

E-book The Hybrid Practitioner : Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture

Are architects who write a dying race?”1 asked Belgian architectural theorist and historian Hilde Heynen in 2017, reflecting on the position of the practis-ing architect as a writing scholar in the academic field. In her article, Heynen compares Joan Ockman’s Architecture Culture 1943–1968: A Documentary Anthology with Michael Hays’s selection in Architecture Theory s…

E-book Brokers of Modernity : East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist A…

In 1925 a rare type of building made its appearance in the literary world: a house entirely constructed of glass, prefabricated yet individualized, light but stable, flat-roofed but with walls which changed colour according to the surrounding land-scape. The cavity walls allowed for the movement of water – warm in winter-time and cold in summer-time – which generated a co…

E-book Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes : Navigating the Legal Landscap…

As a part of my transnational ethnography among Uzbek migrant workers in Moscow, Russia, and in their home village in Uzbekistan, on August 6, 2014, I trav-eled to the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan, to a village I call “Shabboda,” from whence the majority of Uzbek migrants I met in Moscow originated. Shabboda is one of the many remittance-dependent villages in rural …

E-Book Dangerous Romance

"Jangan ngasih cewek yang jatuh cinta sebuah penawaran. Kadang kala cinta itu bisa jadi sangat egois."-Maura Mungkin Maura hanya setengah bercanda ketika ia bilang, sebagai ganti balas budi, ia ingin Ben menikahinya. Mungkin. Maura memang jatuh cinta pada rekan kerjanya itu. Ia dibuat gila dan merindu untuk alasan-alasan tak masuk akal. Tapi pernikahan mendadak itu memang tak bisa disamakan d…

E-book The Bankruptcy : A Novel

Translators bear a heavy responsibility. When Jerome translated the Greek logos into the Latin verbum in the Vulgate Bible, he set Western theology and philosophy on an errant path for well over a millennium. But we should not be too harsh on old Jerome; even the brilliant Erasmus flailed in the face of the polysemic Greek word when he attempted a L…

E-book Sports and Human Rights

Historically, SGBs have been given significant autonomy when organizing sporting competitions as well as regarding their internal structure and regulations. One explanation for this is the idea that (international) sports should not be subject to the political influence of specific states, and that athletes should be free to organize their activitie…

E-book Integrating Food into Urban Planning

While urbanisation worldwide sets up unprecedented challenges for feeding cities with accessible, affordable food and healthy diets, urban food security and food systems are receiving growing attention at an international level and in a growing number of cities of all sizes. How-ever, the issue of food and urban planning is insufficiently covered in existing literature. How f…

E-book Tobacco Control Policy in the Netherlands : Between Economy, Public He…

Twenty years ago I worked on an advisory report on the effectiveness of various tobacco control policy measures, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Health1 as part of the process of presenting a revised Tobacco Act to the parliament (Willemsen, De Zwart, & Mooy, 1998). Soon after the report was finished I attended the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Beijing, where I sp…

E-Book Cinta Akhir Pekan

Arlin yakin ia telah diperkosa! Setelah menginvestigasi dan menginterogasi keempat teman prianya yang menginap dan berpesta di suatu akhir pekan, semua punya alibi yang meyakinkan bahwa mereka bukan pelakunya. Lalu, siapa? Dunia dan masa depan Arlin runtuh dalam semalam. Ia bahkan sempat memutuskan akan mengakhiri hidupnya karena tak sanggup menanggung aib dan malu. Ketika akhirnya salah seo…

E-book Designs on Pots : Ban Chiang and the Politics of Heritage in Thailand

I identify as an anthropologist, with a slight undercoating of archaeology, which was triggered f ifty years ago by seeing pots with unusual designs in a Bangkok market. In a grade seven project on choosing a career, I wrote that I wanted to be an archaeologist; much later I learned that anthropology was the best route to that career. I received my BA in anthropology from the University of Toro…

E-Book Your Evil Stepsister

Anggina Dimitri membangun benteng setinggi-tingginya dari orang-orang di sekitar. Persahabatannya dengan Abi, bos tampan di tempat kerja paruh waktunya, Gina anggap sudah cukup memenuhi syarat supaya dia sah disebut makhluk sosial. Tetapi, kemudian muncul Nisa dan Ghani yang mulai gencar mengusik kedamaian Gina dengan semua perhatian dan sikap menyebalkan mereka. Awalnya Gina ingin mengabaikan…

E-book Ohio under COVID : Lessons from America's Heartland in Crisis

In early March of 2020, Americans watched with uncertain terror as the “novel coronavirus” pandemic unfolded in the coastal cities of Seattle and Boston as well as around the world. No one in the heartland state of Ohio had been infected—as far as we knew, given the scarcity of tests. One week later, on March 9, Ohio announced its first confirmed cases of the disease we now…

E-book Wheat and Flour Testing Methods : A Guide to Understanding Wheat and F…

Wheat and Flour Testing Methods: A Guide to Understanding Wheat and Flour Quality Version 2 provides an introduction to the analysis of wheat and flour in a clear and concise format. Basic information is presented on standardized testing procedures for wheat and flour quality characteristics as well as dough properties. Results from these tests are explained and applied to processing performa…

E-book Understanding Blood Sugar

The best way to stay healthy with diabetes is to control the level of sugar in your blood. The medical word for sugar in the blood or blood sugar is glucose. Your goal is to keep your blood sugar as close to normal as possible without having high or low blood sugar problems.

E-book Big Ideas in Astronomy : A Proposed Definition of Astronomy Literacy

This is the motto of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Office for Astronomy Outreach. If “All” is a very vast term to define society and its communities, “Astronomy” as a body of knowledge is also similarly vast. This project, “Big Ideas in Astronomy”, explores the issue: “What should science-educated citizens know about astronomy?” As a result of several discussion…

E-book The Constitution of Greece

By the year 2023 the Constitution of 1975 will turn out to be the most long-lived Constitution that the Country has known, having surpassed in longevity the Constitution of 1864, which remained in force for 47 years. Under the institutional and political framework established by the Constitution of 1975, a Constitution which bears the mark of Konstantinos Karamanlis, Konstantinos Tsatsos …

E-book Indian Traditional Sweets

Traditional sweets in India are many different types. They may be based on dairy, cereals, pulses or fruits or combinations of ingredients. The list includes a large number of items with variations. Varieties are large and also depend on regional preferences and practices

E-book Guidance on Sustainable Cricket Farming

As requests for advice on how to start cricket farms, or overcome problems that were being experienced arose, the idea of collecting existing experiences and formulating guidance on cricket farming emerged. This section seeks to address this demand for more and clearer guidance and information. It systematically describes basic management techniques needed to ensure best practices in rais…

E-book Cricket Lesson Plans

The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) has partnered with Cricket Australia to develop 8 curriculum-aligned lesson plans for primary school teachers. These lessons are appropriate for students in Years 3 and 4. Some games may require teacher modification to ensure they are accessible for all students. The lesson plans aim to build students’ confidence and competence to participate in cri…

E-book Peraturan Resmi Bola Voli 2021-2024

Bolavoli adalah olahraga yang dimainkan oleh dua tim di dalam lapangan permainan yang dipisahkan oleh net. Ada versi yang berbeda untuk kondisi tertentu dan itu bertujuan agar bentuk permainan ini dikenal oleh semua orang. Tujuan permainan itu sendiri adalah melewatkan bola di atas net untuk tujuan mendaratkan bola di lapangan lawan dan mencegah agar lawan tidak bisa melakukan hal tersebut. Seb…

E-book The Inner Game of Tennis

Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game, and an inner game. The outer game is played against an external opponent to overcome external obstacles and to reach an external goal. Mas- - taring this game is the subject of many books offering instructions: on how to swing a racket, club or bat, and how to position arms, legs or torso to achieve the best results. But for some reason, …

E-book Mother

Every day the factory whistle bellowed forth its shrill, roaring, trembling noises into the smokebegrimed and greasy atmosphere of the workingmen’s suburb; and obedient to the summons of the power of steam, people poured out of little gray houses into the street. With somber faces they hastened forward like frightened roaches, their muscles stiff from insufficient sleep. In the chill morning …

E-book The Ice Palace

A young, white forehead boring through the darkness. An eleven-yearold girl. Siss. It was really only a?ernoon, but already dark. A hard frost in late autumn. Stars, but no moon, and no snow to give a glimmer of light – so the darkness was thick, in spite of the stars. On each side was the forest, deathly still, with everything that might be alive and shivering in there at that moment. …

E-book Cultural and Civilisational Links between India and Southeast Asia

The books presents the study undertaken by the ASEAN-India Centre (AIC) at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) on India’s cultural links with Southeast Asia, with particular reference to historical and contemporary dimensions. The book traces ancient trade and maritime links, Chola Empire and Southeast Asia, religious exchanges (the Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic he…

E-book The Weapons And Fighting Arts Of Indonesia

Edisi

Cetakan ke-5 /Fifth Printing

ISBN/ISSN

9781462905096

Deskripsi Fisik

256 halaman, ilus.

Judul Seri

-

No. Panggil

739.7 DRA t

E-book A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incre…

Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the Island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity and unending paradoxes that has a long and rich history stretching back a thousand …

E-book Ancient Southeast Asia (Routledge World Archaeology)

Ancient Southeast Asia provides readers with a much needed synthesis of the latest discoveries and research in the archaeology of the region, presenting the evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia from the protohistoric period, beginning around 500BC, to the arrival of British and Dutch colonists in 1600. Well-illustrated throughout, this comprehensive account explores the factors whic…

E-book The Arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas at the Dallas Mus…

In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and ritual objects, artwork from Southeast Asia, and decorative arts from India’s Mughal period. Artworks in the collection have origins from the former…

E-book Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 12th Edition

The twelfth edition of Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology continues this best-selling title's long tradition as one of the world's favorite physiology textbooks. The immense success of this book is due to its description of complex physiologic principles in language that is easy to read and understand. Now with an improved color art program, thorough updates reflecting today's medic…

E-book Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya

The Himalaya are world-renowned for their exquisite mountain scenery, ancient traditions, and diverse ethnic groups that tenaciously inhabit this harsh yet sublime landscape. Home to the world's highest peaks, including Mount Everest, and some of its deepest gorges, the region is a trove of biological and cultural diversity. Providing a panoramic overview of contemporary land and life in the Ea…

E-book Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans

From one of the most admired admirals of his generation—and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO—comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world’s most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in th…

E-book Waiting For The Revolution To End : Syrian displacement, time and subj…

‘Look! All the paths are closed!’ Hanan tells me, pointing at the pattern made by the grounds of the coffee we have just drunk from small white cups decorated with a blue eye. She continues to lament while turning her cup in her right hand: ‘Everything is closing down, everything is dark. There is no hope! There is nothing good coming. There isn’t even a small path!’ It is…