E-Book The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life

Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is ‘safe’ for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before?from an environmental point of view?by detailing the effects that this fundamental societal building block has had on our health …

E-book Lessons in Perception : The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychol…

Existing fi lm scholarship that draws from the fi eld of cognitive science has char-acterized commercial fi lmmakers as practical psychologists, who are experts at shaping our senses and ‘preying (usually in a good sense) on our habits of mind in order to produce experiences’ (Bordwell 2011). A skilled fi lmmaker will elicit emotional responses, draw the viewer’s attention to the appropri…

E-Book Open Scholarship in the Humanities

Exploring the rise of open scholarship in the digital era and its transformational impact on how knowledge is created, shared, and accessed, this open access book offers new insights on the history, development, and future directions of openness in the humanities and identifies key drivers, opportunities, and challenges. The concept of open research is reconfiguring scholarly communication acro…

E-Book Dogmatism: On the History of a Scholarly Vice

Why does the history of dogmatism deserve our attention? This open access book analyses uses of the term, following dogmatism from Victorian Britain to Cold War America, examining why it came to be regarded as a vice, and how understandings of its meaning have evolved. Whilst the field of scientific thought is committed to continuous innovation, ideas about dogmatism – with their roots in anc…

E-book Fundamentals of Cheese Science

It is believed that cheese evolved in the ‘Fertile Crescent’ between the Tigris and Euphratres rivers, in Iraq, some 8000 years ago during the “Agricultural Revolution”, when certain plants and animals were domesticated. Among the earliest animals domesticated were goats and sheep; being small, gregarious and easily herded, these were used to supply meat, milk, hides and wool. Cattle we…

E-Book Beyond Observation: A History of Authorship in Ethnographic Film

This book analyses the authoring of ethnographic films between 1895 and 2015. It is based on the general argument that the ethnographicness of a film should not be gauged according to whether it is about an exotic culture, but rather by the degree to which it conforms to the norms of ethnographic practice more generally. On these grounds, it considers films made in a broad range of styles, on a…

E-book Snowboard Manual : Your Guide to Teaching & Riding from Beginner to Ad…

Snowboarding is addictive! If youre reading this, its highly likely that you're aware of this already and know first-hand how addictive snowboarding can be. You may even be an addict yourself. For many, the addiction to snowboarding begins the first time they slide down a snow-covered hill sideways, linking their first turns. This can occur within hours of picking up a snowboard, or it can take…

E-book Handbook of Fish Biology and Fisheries

According to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), there was a steady increase of fish catches until the middle of the 1990s when the catch began to level off (Fig. 1.1). Recent work by Watson and Pauly (2001) has shown that in reality the total marine catch of fish has been declining by some 10% a year since 1988. The apparent continued increase until the mid1990s was du…

E-book Symptoms in the Pharmacy : A Guide to the Management of Common Illness

Most of the symptoms dealt with by the community pharmacist will be of a minor and self-limiting nature and should resolve within a few days. However, sometimes this will not be the case and it is the pharmacist’s responsibility to make sure that patients know what to do if they do not get better. Here, a defined timescale should be used, as suggested in the relevant sections of this book, so…

E-Book Developing Educators for The Digital Age: A Framework for Capturing Kn…

"Evaluating skills and knowledge capture lies at the cutting edge of contemporary higher education where there is a drive towards increasing evaluation of classroom performance and use of digital technologies in pedagogy. Developing Educators for the Digital Age is a book that provides a narrative account of teacher development geared towards the further usage of technologies (including iPads, …

E-Book Endeavoring for China’s Environment and Development Transformation

hina Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) has been woven into the fabric of China’s environmental development for the past 30 years—the length of an entire generation. It is also consistent with the most rapid modernization shift of the nation’s economy–environment relationship. This report provides insights into how CCICED operates and its succe…

E-book Accounting Principles

As a starting point to the accounting process, a company identifi es the economic events relevant to its business. Examples of economic events are the sale of snack chips by PepsiCo, the provision of cell phone services by AT&T, and the payment of wages by Facebook. Once a company like PepsiCo identifi es economic events, it records those events in order to provide a history of its fi nancial …

E-Book The Standard Language Ideology of the Hebrew and Arabic Grammarians of…

As a discipline, the study of Biblical Hebrew grammar began largely among Arabic-speaking Jews of the Middle Ages, particularly in the ʿAbbasid period (750–1258 CE). Indeed, it has long been acknowledged by scholars that the Hebrew grammatical tradition, in many ways, grew up out of and alongside the Arabic grammatical tradition. Many concepts present in Hebrew grammar have their origins in …

E-Book Transport Corridors in Africa

In-depth examination of the inherent tensions and dynamics of transport corridors in Africa: between short-term optics and long-term durability; between regional integration and national interest; between the facilitation of trade and the generation of corridor revenue. The image of the corridor, a central pathway of road and rail carving its way through Africa's interior, has guided the coordi…

In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries 1962-2003

'Privileged access into the spirituality of a pope'

E-book Funding International Development Organizations : AIIB Yearbook of Int…

Funding development requires access to financial resources. While this causal-ity is commonsense, the underlying complexity and struggle has accompanied international development organizations ever since they were founded. The objective of the 2020 aiib Legal Conference and the 4th Volume of the aiibYearbook of International Law is to take stock. Taking stock requires us t…

E-book Imagining Air : Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility

A poorly designed bottle sits atop a mantelpiece, contents slowly leaking into the surrounding environment. Not toxic, but affective, this bottle contains air collected from the Irish countryside—captured, commodified, and trans-ported across the globe to lonely “expats” separated from families amid the shuttering of global borders in response to the COVID-19 pandem…

E-book Speculations

he authority of contemporary science is fuelled by its achievements. The extraordinary experimental success of the Standard Model of particle physics and of the descrip-tion of quantum mechanical interactions between those particles, the observational data confirming the Big Bang theory and the age of the universe, as well as the discovery of its accelerating expansion (not to mention more spec…

E-book Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health

But Virchow’s understanding of politics was very particular, as revealedin the second and less well-known part of his statement. After character-izing politics as medicine on a larger scale, Virchow went on to write,‘Medicine as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obli-gation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution;the politician, the practical …

E-book Deconstructing Martial Arts

First things first. What are martial arts? What do we mean when we say ‘martial arts’? These two questions can be regarded as either very similar to each other or very different. Simplifying in the extreme, we might propose that, although there is a spectrum of possible answers, there are two main positions on these matters. On the one hand, there is a kind of strict or rigorou…

E-book Arcticness : Power and Voice from the North

People and communities, lives and livelihoods. These define the Arctic, just as with all other populated areas on the planet. Is there, then, any-thing special, specific, exceptional or unique about the Arctic? To the peoples in the Arctic, the answer is ‘of course’.Because it is home.As Arctic literature is fond of stating, there is no single Arctic. Definitions abo…

E-book Patent Landscape Reoprt on Animal Genetic Resources

This patent landscape report provides an overview of international patent activity for animal genetic resources, in particular those relating to food and agriculture. The empirical analysis of patent activity for animal genetic resources for food and agriculture has received remarkably little attention in the scientific literature. Indeed, in conducting the present research we found no example …

E-book Theories of History : History Read across the Humanities

In the past few decades, scholars have celebrated the end of history and pro-claimed its rebirth. Outside the walls of the academy, in the media, it is easy to find claims that readers and viewers are “witnessing” (or consuming) history, that certain events, from pie- eating contests to war catastrophes and natural phenomena, are “historical.” Govern…

E-book Knowing History in Schools : Powerful Knowledge and the Powers of Know…

This volume brings a sociologist of curriculum and history educators, from a range of contexts, into dialogue on questions of knowledge and knowing – questions about what school history should and could be, as an activity and mode of engaging with the world, and questions about what school history education should and could look like and be about. Like all tr…

E-book Mobile Museums : Collections in Circulation

This book presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present. Bringing together international researchers from a wide variety of disciplines (including the history of science, museum anthropology, archaeology, geography and postcolonial history) to consider the mobility of collections, we aim to provi…

E-book Chemistry

In-chapter Examples walk students through problems by posing a question, stepping out a solution, and then asking students to practice the skill with a “Check Your Learning” component. The book also includes assessments at the end of each chapter so students can apply what they’ve learned through practice problems. Chemistry was conceived and written to fit a particular topical sequence, …

E-book A History of Rome to 565 A.D

The student beginning the study of Roman History through the medium of the works of modern writers cannot fail to note wide differences in the treatment accorded by them to the early centuries of the life of the Roman State. These differences are mainly due to differences of opinion among moderns as to the credibility of the ancient accounts of this period. And so it will perhaps prove helpful …

E-book Entertainment-Education Behind the Scenes Case Studies for Theory and…

This book tracks the latest trends in the theory, research, and practice of entertainment-education, the field of communication that incorporates social change messaging into entertaining media. Sometimes called edutainment, social impact television, narrative persuasion, or cultural strategy, this approach to social and behavior change communication offers new opportunities including transmedi…

E-book Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Th e distribution of wealth is one of today’s most widely discussed and controversial issues. But what do we really know about its evolution over the long term? Do the dynamics of private capital accumulation inevitably lead to the concentration of wealth in ever fewer hands, as Karl Marx believed in the nineteenth century? Or do the balancing forces of growth, competition, and technological …

E-Book Sherlock Holmes Koleksi Kasus 1

Sejak muncul pertama kali tahun 1887, Sherlock Holmes menjadi tokoh fiksi yang paling fenomenal. Dia menjadi jagoan klasik yang legendaris dan menginspirasi dalam budaya pop bahkan hingga abad ke-21. Bersama Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes memecahkan kasus-kasus rumit berdasarkan kemampuannya menemukan petunjuk-petunjuk yang sering diabaikan orang lain. Koleksi Kasus Sherlock Holmes 1 ini dim…

E-book Digital Peripheries : The Online Circulation of Audiovisual Content fr…

The global reach of online platforms and services as well as the globally synchro-nized flows of audiovisual content might suggest that the global media market is nowfully integrated. This book argues contrariwise that the global digital market is farfrom united and that national borders, center-periphery hierarchies and differences inscale still matter, and perhaps they matter even more than i…

E-Book Sherlock Holmes Koleksi Kasus 2

Dalam Koleksi Kasus Sherlock Holmes 1, kita dikejutkan dengan tewasnya detektif fenomenal itu akibat duel maut dengan Dr. Moriarty di Air Terjun Reichenbach. Membuat Dr. Watson harus memecahkan kasus-kasus pelik seorang diri. Didesak oleh para pencinta novel misteri, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle akhirnya menghidupkan kembali tokoh detektif legendaris tersebut. Koleksi Kasus Sherlock Holmes 2 ini dim…

E-book Poems of 1890 : A Selection

In the same year he published his first Dutch poetry in the influential magazine De nieuwe gids (The New Guide). The journal, founded in 1885, was dominated at this period by the poet Willem Kloos (1859–1938), who used its pages to proclaim a radical aestheticism and advocate literature that was both non-sectarian and non-utilitarian. Poetry, Kloos famously asserted, was ‘the supremely indi…

E-book Genes and DNA : A Beginner's Guide to Genetics and Its Applications

Genetics is one of the greatest adventures in science. This book will help you explore everything from the foundations of genetics, a little over a century ago, to modern genetic applications, including the genetic engineering of plant products that you probably eat on a regular basis. You will learn about medical, legal, and ethical aspects of genetics, as well as the impact of genetics on our…

E-book Poems of Guido Gezelle : A Billingual Anthology

Guido Gezelle, born in Bruges in 1830, left a varied œuvre as a man of letters, journalist, translator and populariser. But it is mainly as a poet that he occupies an illustrious position in the history of Dutch literature. He is undoubtedly the most innovative and original Flemish poet between 1680 and 1880. With his exceptional lyrical poetry he was some twenty years ahead of the renewal mov…

E-book Proses Pengolahan Sampah Organik dengan Black Soldier Fly (BSF)

Pengelolaan sampah di daerah perkotaan merupakan salah satu hal yang paling mendesak dan merupakan permasalahan lingkungan yang serius, dihadapi oleh pemerintah di negara berpendapatan rendah dan menengah. Tantangan yang semakin berat ini akan terus meningkat karena adanya trend urbanisasi yang terjadi dan tumbuh dengan cepat di populasi masyarakat perkotaan. Karena meningkatnya tekanan dari ma…

By the Book

Merupakan literatur penulis-penulis di dunia, mulai dari David Sedaris, Lena Dunham, Anne Lamott, Dan Brown, J.K. Rowling, James McBride, Bryan Cranston dan masih banyak lagi.

Digital computer electronics

Textbooks on microprocessors are sometimes hard to understand. This text attempts to present the various aspects of microprocessors in ways that are are understandable and interesting.

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be

It's Not How Good You Are... is a concise guide to making the most of yourself - a pocket 'bible' for the talented and timid to make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. After decades at the top of one of the world's most competitive industries, Paul Arden offers insights into such diverse subjects as the value of being fired and why it's often better to be wrong than to be r…

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter more have to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, optimism, and self-control. Ho…

When breath becomes air

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïv…

Pendidikan budi pekerti untuk smu smk

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Intellectuals

A fascinating potrait about the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russel, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, Noam Chorusky contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.

E-book Governing the pandemic

Written by three eminent scholars in the field of the politics and policy of crisis management, it offers a unique ‘bird’s eye’ view of the immense logistical and political challenges of addressing a worst-case scenario that would prove the ultimate stress test for societies, governments, governing institutions and political leaders. It examines how governments and governing systems have …

E-book The home mission

THE tempest of grief which, for a time, had raged so wildly in the heart of Mrs. Freeland, exhausted by its own violence, sobbed itself away, and the stricken mother passed into the land of dreams. To the afflicted, sleep comes with a double blessing--rest is given to the wearied body and to the grieving spirit. Often, very often, the Angel of Consolation bends to the dreaming ear, and whi…

E-book The belted seas

The clock struck one. It was the tall standing clock in the front room of Pemberton's Hotel, and Pemberton's stands by the highway that runs by the coast of Long Island Sound. It is near the western edge of the village of Greenough, the gilt cupola of whose eminent steeple is noted by far-passing ships. On the beach are flimsy summer cottages, and hard beside them is the old harbour, guard…

Matematika, sains, dan teknologi untuk kemanusiaan. 70 th Prof.Dr.Frans Susil…

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E-book Tales of terror and mystery

The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some unknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humour, has now been abandoned by all who have examined the matter. The most macabre and imaginative of plotters would hesitate before linking his morbid fancies with the unquestioned and trag…

Spiritualitas guru

Guru merupakan salah satu unsur penting dalam pendidikan. Seorang guru yang mempunyai spiritualitas tinggi akan melakukan tugasnya dengan penuh kreativitas dan rasa tanggung jawab. Spiritualitas guru adalah dasar atau roh yang menyemangati dan menggerakkan guru dalam menjalankan tugas. Buku kecil ini membahas tentang pengertian, wujud, dan cara mengembangkan spiritualitas guru, serta dampakny…

E-book Round the red lamp

My first interview with Dr. James Winter was under dramatic circumstances. It occurred at two in the morning in the bedroom of an old country house. I kicked him twice on the white waistcoat and knocked off his gold spectacles, while he with the aid of a female accomplice stifled my angry cries in a flannel petticoat and thrust me into a warm bath. I am told that one of my parents, who h…