E-book Codeswitching in the Classroom

Bringing together sociolinguistic, linguistic, and educational perspectives, this cutting?edge overview of codeswitching examines language mixing in teaching and learning in bilingual classrooms. As interest in pedagogical applications of bilingual language mixing increases, so too does a need for a thorough discussion of the topic. This volume serves that need by providing an original and wide…

Jesus Among Other Gods (Yesus di antara Allah-Allah Lain)

Kita sedang hidup dalam suatu zaman di mana anda dapat mempercayai apa saja, selama anda tidak mengklaimnya sebagai kebenaran. Dengan mengatasnamakan "toleransi," budaya postmodern kita merangkul segala sesuatu dari mistisisme Timur sampai spiritualitas New Age. Tetapi sebagaimana dipaparkan oleh Ravi Zacharias, menerima segala hal rohani secara mentah-mentah sungguh tidak masuk akal. Jelaslah …

E-book Nanofibres in Drug Delivery

This volume concerns the potential of drug- loaded polymer nanofibres in pharmaceutics. It is designed to act as a primer for those about to start research in this area, be they new MSc or PhD students or more experienced researchers looking to move into the field. It places significant emphasis on the experimental aspects of fibre production, and provides hints…

E-book Culinary Heritage: Tracing, Shaping and Reshaping Food Culture from Th…

This anthology explores food and cultural heritage from various eras to show how food history helps us understand the past, present, and future. It provides new insight into local food cultures and focuses on the creative use of historical food culture for the future. The chapters cover new research on medieval food culture, starting with the Viking ship excavation at Gjellestad, which sheds li…

E-book Chapter 2 Viking Camps : A Historiographical Overview

As the range of papers in this volume makes clear, the subject of Vikingcamps is currently a thriving area of research, with both archaeologists andhistorians engaging with the subject from a range of perspectives. Both hereand in other recent publications, approaches include detailed studies of anumber of individual sites, studies of the camp phenomenon in different areas(particularly England,…

E-book Islamic Sensory History: Volume 2: 600–1500

Islamic Sensory History, Volume 2: 600–1500 presents a selection of texts translated into English from Arabic and Persian. These selected texts all offer illustrative engagements with issues related to the sensorium in different times, places, and social milieus throughout the early and medieval history of Islamic societies. Each chapter is prefaced by an introductory essay by the translator,…

E-book Eyewitness Travel Guide: Barcelona & Catalonia

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Barcelona and Catalonia will lead you to the best attractions this region has to offer. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of Barcelona's major architectural sights, plus a pull-out city map clearly marked with attractions from the guidebook and an easy-to-use street index. DK's insider travel tips and essential local …

E-book Housing the Poor : The Right to the City and Policy Arrangements in Ur…

What is so interesting about housing policies? I have been asked this question many times over the last years, ever since I became interested in the topic of housing. I used to respond in a simple way, disregarding the complexity of the topic: ‘We cannot allow the existence of one billion people living in slums!’, ‘We live in the 21st century; there must be a way to improve the living con…

E-book Pynchon’s Sound of Music

When Penguin announced the upcoming release of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice in 2009, they heightened the suspense with two marketing gimmicks. One was a series of short movie trailers with Pynchon providing Doc Sportello’s slurred voice. The other one was a playlist of songs that would be mentioned in the novel. The choice of media was fitting since film…

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Back Roads Germany

Take a journey through the back roads of Germany to discover the area's real soul and charm. Twenty-four themed drives, each lasting one to five days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems, and authentic local experiences that can only be discovered by road. Each tour is bursting with insider knowledge and loaded with ideas for varied activities, from short walks and longer hikes to days on…

The Nature Fix

From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind nature's positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships. As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these…

E-book Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems: Selected papers from the …

This open access proceedings presents new approaches to Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems, experiences and visions. It contains some selected papers from the international Conference ML4CPS – Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems, which was held in Hamburg (Germany), March 29th to 31st, 2023. Cyber-physical systems are characterized by their ability to adapt and to learn: They…

E-book Atlas of Butterflies and Diurnal Moths in the Monsoon Tropics of North…

In this book, we have attempted to break new ground. Our study is unique in several respects: not only does it produce a set of maps for a remote and poorly known area of Australia, but also the distributional point data of each species are integrated and compared with the spatial distribution of their larval food plants. The geographic range of each …

E-book The Economics of Water : Rules and Institutions

Water is not only the beginning of all things, as the old Greeks had alreadyrealized, but without water, no life on earth is possible, and clean water is also aprecondition for any form of sustainable development. There is enough availablefreshwater on earth (about 91,000 km3) to supply every individual on earth (about7.5 billion in 2020) approx. 12,000l, more than enough to live decently. Howe…

E-book The Seven Virtues of Highly Compassionate People: Tools for Cultivatin…

What are the practical implications of truly caring about yourself and others, of approaching each day with an open mind, an open heart, and a desire to reduce the suffering of all living beings? Can we learn compassion as a way of life, as an antidote to violence and cruelty? In The Seven Virtues of Highly Compassionate People, social scientists Nancy Guerra and Kirk R. Williams provide easy-t…

E-book Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

The world in which we live is fragile; a small layer of organismic activity covers the planet like a microbial film on top of a large boulder. Nonetheless, humans treat the Earth as if anthropogenic impacts on this delicate biological layer may be absorbed by unfailing natural buffers. Yet, convergent and overwhelming evidence from all over the world underlines that mankind has al…

E-book Animal Emotions : How They Drive Human Behavior

Uually, our emotions are strongly controlled. Therefore, we seldom experience situations of raw affect, where emotions simply overwhelm us. This is basically a good thing, because controlling our ancestral emotional urges helps us to respond more appropriately to most of the daily situational demands of our modern society. It is simply not acceptable to always show an emotional response i…

E-book HBR's 10 Must Reads on WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP

If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where gender equality is today--and how far we still have to go.

E-book Marine Mammals

Marine mammals live in and obtain their food from the sea. But, just like other mammals, marine mammals are warm-blooded; they have lungs and they breathe air. The give birth to living young that are dependent on milk from developed to catch their own food. The structure of a marine mammal is generally the same as that of land mammals; the internal organs and main elements of the skeleton are …

E-book Star Wars Made Easy

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E-book Connecting Mathematics and Mathematics Education : Collected Papers on…

he objective of this introductory chapter is to explain the common rationalebehind the papers of this volume. The structure is as follows.The first section shows that learning environments are a natural way to addressteachers in their main role, teaching, and that therefore this approach is promisingfor improving mathematics teaching in an effective way. The section ends with ateaching model ba…

E-book Medieval Londoners : Essays to mark the eightieth birthday of Caroline…

Caroline Barron leads the field on medieval London and her work on its politics, governance, economy and fabric has greatly enhanced our understanding of the late medieval city. It is, however, her interest in and enthusiasm for the men and women who lived and worked in, or were visitors to, the capital, and her ability to inspire that interest and enthusiasm …

E-book Wildlife Trafficking : The Illicit Trade in Wildlife, Animal Parts, an…

Wildlife trafficking includes the taking, trading, importing, exporting,processing, possessing, obtaining, and purchasing of wild animals, animalparts, and plants in contravention of international or national law. Wildlifetrafficking threatens the existence of many animal and plant species. Themore endangered a species becomes, the greater is the value of theremaining specime…

E-book Ultimate Visual Dictionary, 2nd Edition

Ultimate Visual Dictionary has been designed to give you easy access to the vocabulary you need. It contains more than 33,000 terms that are grouped into 14 sections that cover a wide range of topics, such as The Universe, Prehistoric Earth, Modern World, and Architecture. The accessible and paperback format makes this dictionary an ideal reference tool for new learners of the English langu…

E-book Sugar Beet : A competitive innovation

After cutting into small fragments of their DNA, millions of reads of 100 bases in length and in both directions of reading (forward and reverse) were performed for each of the sixteen plants, also called accessions. Thus, for each accession, a library of short sequences of its genome was obtained. We could compare them to bags containing the pieces of a puzzle that must be assembled…

E-Book How the World Hunger Problem Was not Solved

The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern’ inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation. This would turn subsistence producers into business owners, transform rural areas, invigorate national economies and the crisis-stricken world economy and thus stabilize capi…

E-Book Security. Cooperation. Governance.: The Canada-United States Open Bord…

Historically, national borders have evolved in ways that serve the interests of central states in security and the regulation of trade. This volume explores Canada–US border and security policies that have evolved from successive trade agreements since the 1950s, punctuated by new and emerging challenges to security in the twenty-first century. The sectoral and geographical diversity of cross…

E-Book The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960–2000

The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films to write a history of twentieth century Hollywood narrative cinema at the intersection of the geographies of narrative location, production, consumption and taste in the post-classical era, before the rise of digital cinema. This text reorients and redraws the boundarie…

E-book Fermentation Processes Engineering in the Food Industry

Fermented foods have been produced for many centuries with the basic aim of increasing the storage stability of processed foods and modifying the organoleptic and textural properties of raw materials. Fermented foods are very popular even today as a substantial percentage of daily-consumed foods are fermented. Notable examples include dairy products, such as yogurt, cheese, buttermilk, and sour…

E-book Mind Your Writing : How to be a Professional Academic Writ

Are you minding your writing? Are you deliberately tak-ing the myriad decisions that academic writing asks you to take? Do you know yourself as a writer well enough? Not at all, or not as much as you wish? I thought so. Why else would you pick up this book?Don’t feel ashamed. We all have our writing weak-nesses that we don’t want to look at too closely �…

E-book A World without Capitalism?

In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the ways in which identities, discourses, and topographies of both capitalist and anti-capitalist imaginaries and realities are embodied in the everyday practices of people. A World without Capitalism? is a sociolinguistic ethnography that explores the heretofore limited research in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics on the discursive and materiali…

E-book The Economics of Water : Rules and Institutions

Water is not only the beginning of all things, as the old Greeks had alreadyrealized, but without water, no life on earth is possible, and clean water is also aprecondition for any form of sustainable development. There is enough availablefreshwater on earth (about 91,000 km3) to supply every individual on earth (about7.5 billion in 2020) approx. 12,000l, more than enough to live decently. Howe…

E-book Evolutionary Genomics : Statistical and Computational Methods

The typical definition of the genome is often dualistic, referen-cing both structural features and its function to store and transmitbiological information [4]. For example, the US National Institutesof Health (NIH) uses the following definition: “A genome is anorganism’s complete set of DNA, including all of its genes. Eachgenome contains all of the information needed to build and main-tai…

E-book The Silk Roads : An ICOMOS Thematic Study

From as early as 2003 consideration was being given to the development of a transboundary nomination for the Silk Roads (Jing & van Oers 2004). A series of sub-regional workshops were then developed, in Almaty in November 2005, Turfan in August 2006, Samarkand in October 2006 (UNESCO 2006), Dushanbe in April 2007, Xi’an in June 2008, and Almaty in May 2009 (UNESCO 2009a), all of which culmina…

E-book Polar Cousins : Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures

The world’s polar regions are now central to geopolitical and strategic com-petition. Spillover effects from rapid political, social, and environmental change present unprecedented challenges for governance, environmental protection, and maritime operations in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Both geographic areas can be distinguished by specific terms—namely, the “Arctic” and…

E-book Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society

Astronomer and Marxist Anton Pannekoek was a remarkable f igure. As an astronomer, he pioneered quantitative astrophysics and founded the renowned Astronomical Institute in Amsterdam that now carries his name. Before World War I, however, he was employed as a Marxist theorist by the Social Democratic Party of Germany, making him one of the leading intel-lectuals of international socialism. Beca…

E-book The Online Advertising Tax : A Digital Policy Innovation

Google and Facebook now control about two thirds of global advertising revenue. They dominate the online advertising market in the form of a duopoly and avoid paying adequate taxes. This policy brief introduces a new possibility and policy innovation for taxing online adver-tising. This brief sheds new light on the question how to estabilish models for taxing online ad…

E-book The Pancreas : Biology and Physiology

The mandate for this chapter is to review the anatomy and histology of the pancreas. The pancreas (meaning all flesh) lies in the upper abdomen behind the stomach. The pancreas is a part of the gastrointestinal system that makes and secretes digestive enzymes into the intestine and also an endocrine organ that makes and secretes hormones into the blood to control energy metabolism and storage t…

E-book Mapping Good Work : The Quality of Working Life Across the Occupationa…

High-quality work is central for a productive and thriving society. Ensuring a sufficient quality of work – as a policy issue – as opposed the government’s conventional responsibility of ensuring a sufficient quantity of work – reached its zenith in the UK in July 2017 when the government published a review to scope out a new national job quality strategy. The public…

E-book Travel Writingson Asia Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge Across the…

Alexander von Humboldt starts his “Critical Inquiries” in 1852 withthe observation that the miscalculation of one authority has triggeredmany forms of human action in exploring the planet. It is for him theact of travelling that generates knowledge and ultimately drives forwardhuman intellectual progress, even if the travellers themselves might bemisguided. Human triggers and reasons for tr…

E-book Mobile Forensics – The File Format Handbook : Common File Formats an…

File system analysis examines one volume of a disk respective disk image. The datacontained in the volume is interpreted as a file system. Typically an interpreted filesystem offers a listing of files organized in directories (at least this is true for thefour described file systems in this book). One aim of file system analysis is usuallyrecovering deleted files. In contrast to files that have…

E-book One Crazy Summer

Good thing the plane had seat belts and we’d been strapped in tight before takeoff. Without them, that last jolt would have been enough to throw Vonetta into orbit and Fern across the aisle. Still, I anchored myself and my sisters best as I could to brace us for whatever came next. Those clouds weren’t through with us yet and dealt another Cassius Clay–left–and–a–right jab to the bo…

E-book Hukum Hak Asasi Manusia

Pengajaran hak asasi manusia di perguruan tinggi di Indonesia hingga saat ini masih sangat didominasi oleh pendekatan filosofis dan kultural. Dalam pendekatan yang demikian, pengajaran hak asasi manusia lebih ditekankan pada perbincangan mengenai isu-isu pendasaran konsep hak asasi manusia, asal-usul dan justifikasinya (baik segi legal maupun kultural) yang tidak bisa dilepaskan dari konteks po…

E-book History and Religion

History is one of the most important cultural tools to make sense of one’s situation, to establish identity, define otherness, and explain change. As a consequence, the scientific discipline of history is not only practiced, but the study of historiography has advanced to a thriving field of research. In fact, an impressive amount of theoretical literature on historiography has been brought f…

Muslim bertanya Kristen menjawab

Dirangkum dari dialog-dialog antaragama yang terjadi di Tunisia dan beberapa negara Muslim-Kristen lain, buku ini menyajikan kumpulan tanya jawab terstruktur dan objektif mengenai pertanyaan- pertanyaan dogmatis seputar agama Kristen, yang umum dilontarkan masyarakat Muslim.

E-book Andersen's fairy tales

He had a different suit for each hour of the day; and as of any other king or emperor, one is accustomed to say, ‘he is sitting in council,’ it was always said of him, ‘The Emperor is sitting in his wardrobe.’

RAHASIA KEKUATAN KERJA TIM: Prinsip-prinsip Nyata Membangun Tim Unggulan

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THE MAGIC OF TEAM WORK: Rahasia Kekuatan Kerja Tim

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