E-book Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World

Presents the latest archaeological and historical research on all aspects of Maya society, from its earliest beginnings to the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century.

E-book Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator

osef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk’s estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly resulting from Stalin's policies. What drove him toward such ruthlessness? This essential biography, by t…

E-book Babylon: Legend, History and the Ancient City

For two thousand years the real, physical metropolis lay buried while another, ghostly city lived on through ideas as varied as the legendary Hanging Gardens, the career of the biblical Daniel, and even the Apocalypse. More recently, the site of Babylon has been the centre of major excavation, yet the spectacular results of this work have done little to displace the many other fascinating ways …

E-book Cities of the Ancient World

We live in a world of cities - for the first time ever, the majority of the population lives in an urban environment - and reflecting on ancient models of the "city" as a human phenomenon offers important lessons for our culture today. Cities of the Ancient World is your opportunity to survey the breadth of the ancient world through the context of its urban development. Taught by esteemed Profe…

E-book An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me A…

Travel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield's "enthralling" bestseller as your eye-opening guide (Slate). Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clingi…

E-book Basics of Space Flight

Newton's first law describes how, once in motion, planets remain in motion. What it does not do is explain how the planets are observed to move in nearly circular orbits rather than straight lines. Enter the second law. To move in a curved path, a planet must have an acceleration toward the center of the circle. This is called centripetal acceleration and is supplied by the mutual gravitational…

E-book Astronautics: The Physics of Space Flight

This introductory text covers all the key concepts, relationships, and ideas behind spaceflight and is the perfect companion for students pursuing courses on or related to astronautics. As a crew member of the STS-55 Space Shuttle mission and a full professor of astronautics at the Technical University of Munich, Ulrich Walter is an acknowledged expert in the field. This book is based on his ex…

E-book Aeronautics and Astronautics

In its first centennial, aerospace has matured from a pioneering activity to an indispensable enabler of our daily life activities. In the next twenty to thirty years, aerospace will face a tremendous challenge - the development of flying objects that do not depend on fossil fuels. The twenty-three chapters in this book capture some of the new technologies and methods that are currently being d…

E-book The Art of Museum Exhibitions: How Story and Imagination Create Aesthe…

Leslie Bedford, former director of the highly regarded Bank Street College museum leadership program, expands the museum professional’s vision of exhibitions beyond the simple goal of transmitting knowledge to the visitor. Her view of exhibitions as interactive, emotional, embodied, imaginative experiences opens a new vista for those designing them. Using examples both from her own work at th…

E-book 50 Beaches to Blow Your Mind

From the people who have been delivering trustworthy guidebooks to every destination in the world for 40 years, Lonely Planet's 50 Beaches To Blow Your Mind helps you discover the planet's most pristine, jaw-dropping, wild and wonderful sandy spots. This pocket-sized book is the perfect gift for any sun-worshipper or beach-lover and is the ultimate guide to the world's best beaches. A beach …

E-book 50 Natural Wonders To Blow Your Mind

From the people who've been delivering trustworthy guidebooks to every destination in the world for 40 years,Lonely Planet's 50 Natural Wonders To Blow Your Mind will take you on a tour of the world's most mind-boggling wild and wonderful places, and help you discover just how extraordinary our planet really is. For all of our obsessions with man-made wonders, nothing compares to the creatio…

E-book 21 Days of Effective Communication: Everyday Habits and Exercises to I…

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E-book Ageing as Future : A Study by the Volkswagen Foundation

Like many other countries in the world, Germany is ageing. By now, no one can escape this insight. For decades, the Federal Republic of Germany was marked by a remarkable abstinence from population policy, both discursively and operationally. The bon mot handed down by the former German Chancellor Adenauer from 1949 to 1963, “People always have children,” is not only …

E-book Surgery in and around the Orbit : Cross Roads

Already in 1920, in a report to the UK Minister of Health, the concept of team-based care was con-ceived [1]. Now, PubMed shows no less than 61,496 hits when one searches for “multidisci-plinary.” This short chapter is certainly not a plea to approach each and every medical problem by a team of specialists, but in cross-disciplinary case-load, today interdisciplinary care …

E-book Responsible AI in Africa : Challenges and Opportunities

In the last few years, a growing and thriving AI ecosystem has emerged in Africa. Within this ecosystem, there are local tech spaces as well as a number of internationally driven technology hubs and centres estab-lished by big tech companies such as Twitter, Google, Facebook, Alibaba Group, Huawei, Amazon and Microsoft have significantly increas…

E-book Beyond Data : Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI

All AI applications rely on large datasets, to create algorithmic models, to trainthem, to run them over huge amounts of collected information and extract infer-ences, correlations, and new information for decision-making processes or otheroperations that, to some extent, replicate human cognitive abilities.These results can be achieved using a variety of different mathematical andcomputer-base…

E-book Making Moral Making Moral Judgments : Psychological Perspectives on Mo…

Moral judgments are the most significant social inferences people make about others and themselves. Those who are judged to be immoral are not just thought to be mistaken or misguided, but unacceptable in a fundamental way: corrupt, untrustworthy, malevolent, and possibly even evil. Moral philosophers’ detailed conceptual analyses of the nature of these judgments, along with psychologists’ …

E-book How Is It Between Us? : Relational Ethics and Care for the World

“How is it between us?” is the question I would like to consider as the most fundamental of all ethical questions. I will take this consideration up through an engagement with a debate concerning transcendence and the transcendental that has arisen recently within the anthropology of ethics1—though what is at stake within this debate has repercussions for the disciplin…

E-book Encountering Pain : Hearing, seeing, speaking

here may not yet be a cure for chronic pain but there is room for ‘accompanying’ people with pain along their journeys. Persistent pain makes demands on language inextricably bound up with the demands of moving beyond our individual experience to empathise with that of another. It raises ethical challenges in its management unlike those associate…

E-book Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa : Soc…

On a Wednesday morning the primary healthcare clinic in a small rural South African town is busy.1 A line of caregivers, mostly women, wait with babies and small children for routine check-ups and immunisations. In the adjacent waiting room patients sit or stand outside a door marked ‘Chronic Clinic’. A nurse is taking blood pressure readings and recording the numbe…

E-book Managing Chronicity in Unequal States : Ethnographic perspectives on c…

Living with chronic conditions requires careful, ongoing management, or what Annemarie Mol (2008) has defined as ‘tinkering’. This means continually making adjustments, and not only to the fluctuating symp-toms and moods, but also to the presence and action of the multiple, significant actors involved in the field of care. Anthropological research on…

E-book Data Power : Radical Geographies of Control and Resistance

One step after another, each recorded and located by the Global Position-ing System (GPS) and shared with the world. Sequential steps repeated daily in our morning run or commute become part of an economic cycle of digital tracking, extracting our location data and serving parts back to us as directions, as ads, as insurance rates. And also as egregious privacy violations which set …

E-book The Malays

Just who are ‘the Malays’? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical, ‘Malay’ context. The Malays is a comprehensive examination of the origins and development of Malay identity, ethnicity, and consciousn…

E-book The Malay Archipelago

A century and a half after it was first published, this book remains one of the great classics of natural history and travel—perhaps the greatest. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) deserves equal billing with Charles Darwin for his independently drawn but parallel conclusions on the theory of evolution. Darwin himself called Wallace "generous and noble" and referred favorably to his work in l…

E-book Write Yourself: Creative Writing and Personal Development (Writing for…

Write Yourself is a complete introduction to facilitating creative writing for therapy or personal development, both with individuals and groups. Clear and practical, and with a strong theoretical base, it is also an essential handbook for individuals embarking on their own personal writing journeys. Topics covered include the nature, values and principles of therapeutic creative writing, how t…

E-book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things A…

When asked simple questions about global trends?what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school?we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor …

E-Book Falling Star

Pernah jatuh cinta pada seseorang yang luar biasa keren tapi selalu menganggapmu hanya sebagai adik manis yang lucu? Begitulah nasib Anya Abigail selama bertahun-tahun. Gigit jari karena William Anthony yang notabene sohib kakaknya sendiri dan juga vokalis grup band Falling Star yang beken dan keren hanya menganggapnya sebagai adik sohibnya yang harus dijaga. Tadinya Anya sudah mengubur cinta…

E-book Reasons and Persons

This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will …

E-book Algorithmic Reason : The New Government of Self and Other

From the hidden entrails of the National Security Agency to Silicon Valley,algorithms appear to hold the key to insidious transformations of social, po-litical, and economic relations. “‘Ad-tech” has become “Natsec-tech.” Potentialadversaries will recognize what every advertiser and social media companyknows: AI is a powerful targeting tool’, announced the Final Report by theUnited …

E-book Advanced Digital Auditing : Theory and Practice of Auditing Complex In…

Complex technology has been around ever since the start of computers. MaxwellNewman’sfirst programmable computer Colossus in 1943 cracking World War IIcryptography was a truly complex system at that time (Haigh & Ceruzzi,2021). In1965 Gordon Moore posited that the number of transistors on microchips doublesevery 2 years, implying that the technical developments underlying our increasinglycomp…

E-book Democratic Algorithms : Ethnography of a Public Recommender System

This­is­a­book­about­social­order.­More­specifically,­it­is­about­the­compli-cated relationship between machine learning algorithms and the formation of democratic order. And there are good reasons for such a book. Algorithms appear­to­become­a­defining­moment­in­the­digitized­societies­of­the­21st­century – and it seems that no domain of life is spared from the rati…

E-book Bayesian Filter Design for Computational Medicine : A State-Space Esti…

The human body is an intricate network of multiple functioning sub-systems. Many unobserved processes quietly keep running within the body even while we remain largely unconscious of them. For decades, scientists have sought to understand how different physiological systems work and how they can be mathematically modeled. Mathematical models of biol…

E-book Moving Toward Net-Zero Carbon Society : Challenges and Opportunities

2021, the leaders of major industrial countries declared a shared goal of achieving a carbon-neutral international community by mid-century, during the G7 meeting. This objective is in alignment with the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit global warming to well below 2°C, and preferably to 1.5°C, compared to pre-industrial levels. In addition, …

E-book Gaspar van Weerbeke: Perspektives on his Life and Music

The known facts of Gaspar van Weerbeke’s life point to a composer who was one of the most successful and important of his lifetime. Born in the mid-fifteenth century in the city of Oudenaarde in the Burgundian Netherlands, now in the province of East Flanders, he occupied positions of prestige in the best-known musical institutions of the time: the Sforza court in Milan, the Burgundian court …

E-book Stem Cell Transplantations Between Siblings as Social Phenomena : The …

Questions concerning the ethical status of children, and their position and their relationships within families, have been widely debated in recent moral philosophy and biomedical ethics, as well as in pedagogic sciences and sociology. This volume is intended to contribute to these interdisciplinary debates from a very specific angle. Combining philosophical, ethical and q…

E-book Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings : An Assessment of Health R…

The term“built environment”refers to all aspects of the human-made surroundingsthat provide the setting for human activity: the human-made space in which peoplelive, work, and create on a day-to-day basis (Roof and Oleru2008). It ranges inscale from indoor to outdoor active spaces, and it extends in four-dimensional space(i.e., length-x, width-y, depth-z, time-t), so the boundaries among th…

E-book Well-Being and Mental Health in the Gig Economy : Policy Perspectives …

The expansion of the so-called gig economy, where flexible patterns of employment prevail in contrast to permanent jobs, is causing numerous issues. The UK Government’s inquiry into Employment Practices in the Modern Economy is a much-neededinitiative in response to this trend: the number of self-employedworkers in Britain has increased by 1 million between …

E-book Static Palace

The writing collected here is bookended by rupture. I began writing these essays because my body gave out in November 2016, at a time that was eerily aligned with the moment when my last thread of faith in American democracy also gave out. Or gave in, or gave way. The first time I wrote about chronic pain and politics was for an anthology curated by E…

E-book The Medieval Economy of Salvation : Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of…

It was a cold winter evening in 2010, and I had just arrived in Paris for a short research trip. The tiny hotel where I would be staying was on the fifth floor of the ophthalmological wing of the hôtel-Dieu (or hospital) just across from the cathedral of Notre Dame. 1 Given the subject of the book I was in France to research, it seemed appropri-ate that I should s…

E-book Selected Poems of Gregory of Nazianzus: I.2.17; II.1.10, 19, 32: A Cri…

St. Gregory of Nazianzus' (ca. AD 330-390) classicizing Christian verse is the earliest Greek verse of its kind that survives in any great quantity. This is a critical edition, with introduction and commentary, of four poems (I.2.17; II.1.10, 19, 32). The commentary is primarily linguistic, but attention is paid to historical and theological matters. The poems' fate in Byzantium is also examine…

E-book As If Already Free: Anthropology and Activism After David Graeber

A highly original thinker' - New York Times David Graeber (1961–2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist, who left us with new ways to understand humankind. This collection of new writing brings together his insights into one book, showing how deeply his work continues to influence us today. Graeber’s writing resonates with both scholars and activists looking to shake thi…

E-book Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent

Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model for the twenty-first-century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself. 2018 marks 30 years since the publication of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s ground-breaking book…

E-book Rock Fracture Mechanics and Fracture Criteria

For rock engineering projects, the cutting and fragmenting of rocks has attracted much attention. Exploring the fracture characteristics of rocks is helpful in achieving efficient and sustainable excavation for mining and tunneling engineering. The frac-ture toughness of rocks is a crucial mechanical indicator that weighs the initiation and extension…

E-book Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, and the Education of a Ne…

Given the increasing attention to managing, publishing, and preserving research datasets as scholarly assets, what competencies in working with research data will graduate students in STEM disciplines need to be successful in their fields? And what role can librarians play in helping students attain these competencies? In addressing these questions, this book articulates a new area of opportuni…

E-book Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A P…

In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist that we absolutely must rely on memory to make sense of past experience. Building on his 45 y…

E-Book Your Playgirl

Siapa yang nggak kenal Lyla Melati? Playgirl dari Fakultas Bahasa Inggris itu terkenal dengan kecantikan dan ciri khasnya yang selalu mengenakan baju warna putih. Sifatnya yang ramah tapi cool bikin cowok-cowok penasaran dan gemar mengejarnya. Mempunyai reputasi sebagai cewek playgirl yang hobi bikin rontok hati para cowok sama sekali bukan masalah bagi Lyla. Baginya, cinta sejati itu omong kos…

E-book History of Yugoslavia

Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history of Europe in the twentieth century? The Complete History of Yugoslavia by Marie-Janine Calic provides a concise, accessible, comprehensive…

E-book The Pop Theology of Videogames : Producing and Playing with Religion

During f ieldwork at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, I spent most of the week explaining my research to game designers. With over 28,000 of them attending GDC that year, there was a lot of explaining to do. The most common question was not, “Why do you study what we make?” Most game developers are acutely aware that their industry is the largest and most interesting c…

E-book Dancing Youth : Hip Hop and Gender in Late Socialist Vietnam

Hip hop is from the United States. So, in Vietnam they copy from gangsterrap videos, right?” “Hip hop is violent and misogynistic. So, why should it bea good thing for young Vietnamese people to engage with hip hop?” These aresome of the many concerned questions that I am often confronted with whentellingpeopleaboutmyresearchonyouthandhiphopinVietnam.Whatthesequestions imply, among many o…

E-book Diasporic Hallyu : The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture

The Korean Wave (or Hallyu), which refers to the global circulationof Korean media and popular culture, seems more visible than ever,despite almost two decades of doubt, skepticism, and disapproval aboutits continuation. In particular, the rapid surge of K-pop (Korean idolpop music) in the global mediascape, led by several idol groups andtheir dedicated overseas fans since the mid-2010s, reveal…