This book focuses on production technologies for integrating the componentsof an intelligent textile system into a Smart Textile product. Both aspectsare treated separately and are covered by strong international research anddevelopment activities.The current industrial landscape strongly resembles an individual prototypeproduction for the numerous product divers…
In 1939 Martinican writer Aimé Césaire first published his book length poem variously translated as Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, Return to My Native Land, or Journal of a Homecom-ing, in which this epigraph appears. As the colonial powers were taking the world into an era of mass destruction, Césaire drew upon a Caribbean imaginary to counterpose to th…
Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms—from jazz and cinema to dance and literature—this volume's contributors locate improvisation as a key site of mediation between the social and the aesthetic. As a catalyst for social experiment and political practice, improvisation aids in the creation, contestation, and codification of social realities and identities. Among other to…
What is the experience of truth and reconciliation? What is the purpose of a truth commission? What lessons can be learned from established truth and reconciliation processes? Flowers in the Wall explores the experience of truth and reconciliation Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific, with and without a formal truth commission. Although much has been written about the operational phases of …
This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies are formed and implemented in diverse locales around the world, from global policy spaces to sites of practice. The authors – both internationally respected anthropologists and new voices – demonstrate the value of ethnography and the utility of reproduction as a le…
For more than 150 years, since the publication of On the Origin of Species, biologists have focused on understanding the evolutionary chronicle of diversification and extinction, and the underlying evolutionary processes that have produced it. Although progress in evolutionary biology has been steady since Darwin’s time, developments in the last 20 years have ushered in a golden era of evolut…
This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victori…
Welcome as we share the successes of the International Space Station (ISS) in this third edition of the International Space Station Benefits for Humanity. The ISS is a unique scientific platform that has enabled more than 3,600 researchers in 106 countries and areas to conduct more than 2,500 experiments in microgravity through February 2018—and the research continues. Since November 2, 2000,…
Grape production in the United States is expanding rapidly as new growers are starting vineyards in all regions of the country. Commercial wine grape production in the Midwest, along with production in California, Oregon, and New York, has increased with the demand for high-quality wine. Commercial wine-grape production has a long history in the Midwestern states. Some of the earliest work with…
This book was written to provide a single, complete, and annotated description of our present knowledge of the Moon. It is intended for a wide range of readers, including scientists who are studying the Moon and trying to understand its place in the solar system, designers now planning missions to return to the Moon, and engineers and astronauts who may participate in the future exploration of …
On behalf of vehicle and engine manufacturers from around the world, the Worldwide Fuel Charter (WWFC) Committee is pleased to present the Sixth Edition of the Worldwide Fuel Charter for Gasoline and Diesel Fuel, 21 years after publishing the First Edition. In addition to this Charter, the Committee recently published the First Edition of the WWFC for Methane-Based Transportation Fuels and prev…
Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. The table of contents of this book was designed to address two main themes. What are the variables that affect how, when, where, and why managers perform their jo…
Being the end result, performance is one of the most used variables in sport psychology research. Several examples include the relationship between performance and anxiety(e.g., Craft et al., 2003), motivation (e.g., Gershgoren et al., 2011), self-efficacy (e.g., Moritz et al., 2000), and emotions (e.g., Lazarus, 2000). In team sports, the relationship between team performance and cohesion as w…
Fifteen to twenty billion years ago, the universe arose as a cataclysmic eruption of hot, energy-rich subatomic particles. Within seconds, the simplest elements (hydrogen and helium) were formed. As the universe expanded and cooled, material condensed under the influence of gravity to form stars. Some stars became enormous and then exploded as supernovae, releasing the energy needed to fuse sim…
Di Suriah, pada pertengahan abad ke-12, muncul sebuah kelompok rahasia pengisap ganja bernama Assassin, yang berusaha merebut takhta kepemimpinan Islam dengan cara-cara kekerasan. Kelompok ini juga berkembang di wilayah Persia. Pemimpin tertinggi mereka, Hasan bin Sabbah, terkenal dengan julukan "Orang Tua dari Gunung". Ia membangun istana megah yang merangkap sebagai benteng kokoh di Lembah A…
American Sign Language has had a durable history. Its origin can be traced to the emergence of a large community of deaf people centered around the first public school for deaf children in France, founded about 1761; the language that arose in this community is still being used in France today. In 1817, a Deaf teacher from this school helped establish the first public school for deaf children i…
Aircraft Electrical and Electronic Systems continues the series of textbooks written for aircraft engineering students. This book addresses the electrical contents of the EASA Part 66 Modules 11 and 13; it also provides reference material for the avionic and aircraft electrical units of various BTEC National and Higher National, City and Guilds, NVQ and Foundation Degree modules. This book is d…
Selama periode 1937-1945, Perang Dunia II yang diprovokatori tentara Jerman melanda hampir seluruh dunia. Dalam perang yang memakan korban antara sembilan hingga sebelas juta jiwa di seluruh dunia itu, Jerman di bawah komando Hitler harus bertekuk lutut. Sekutu menjadi pemenang. Sejarah berbicara : Hitler lah orang yang harus bertanggung jawab penuh atas holocaust, pembunuhan besar-besaran terh…
Apabila seseorang sukses dalam bisnis atau karir, biasanya dunia akan berkata "Dia mempunyai nasib baik", "Dia beruntung". Dunia tidak melihat bagaimana dia bekerja keras selama bertahun-tahun, fokus terhadap sasarannya, dan mengerahkan setiap energi untuk mencapai sasaran itu, serta bagaimana dia mengorbankan banyak hal untuk dirinya dan kesuksesannya. Dalam kesuksesan tidak ada faktor keberun…
Edisi keempat prinsip-prinsip kimia modern ini masih meneruskan tradisinya dalam membimbing par mahasiswa yang mempunyai keingintahuan lebih akan ilmu kimia dasar tingkat tinggi. Edisi baru ini sudah mengalami penyempurnaan yang substansial, memuat pengenalan dini akan struktur molekul dan semakin mempertegas argumen-argumen struktur dalam penyajian topik-topik sisanya. Hubungan antara struktur…
Akhir-akhir ini semakin terasa banyaknya minat untuk lebih mengenal kitab-kitab Perjanjian Baru, Penggunaan Kitab Suci dalam pertemuan dan persekutuan doa menuntut dari para pembinanya pengenalan yang lebih mendalam dan memadai tentang Firman Tuhan. Di samping itu banyak juga orang perseorangan yang berhasrat memahami latar belakang, isi pesan kitab-kitab yan menjadi dasar keimanannya. Untuk me…
All deflection instruments require three forces for correct functioning; deflecting force, a controlling force, and a damping force. Usually, the deflecting force is generated by a magnetic field produced by a current flowing through a coil. This field interacts with another magnetic field which may be form permanent magnet or from other current carrying coils.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures or conversation?’
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Living and Working in Australia, first published in 1998 and now in its 7th edition, is the most comprehensive and best-selling book available about daily life - and is essential reading for newcomers. What's it really like Living and Working in Australia? Not surprisingly, there's more to life than barbies, beaches, beer and bronzed bodies. This book is guaranteed to hasten your introduction t…
Pernahkah kita terganggu oleh amarah dan rasa takut? Dikendalikan oleh keinginan yang berlebihan? Tertekan rasa bosan, atau gelisah?. Begitulah otak penuh dengan pikiran yang menghambat, Terkadang kita bisa berkonsentrasi secara intens, tetapi itu hanya sejenak. Tak lama berselang perasaan gelisah, ragu, dan takut mulai merasuki diri kita dan ujung-ujungnya menjadi sulit bagi kita untuk meraih …
"Kenalilah dirimu." (Socrates) .... Sayang sekali, banyakk orang mencurahkan sebagian besar waktu dan tenaga mereka dengan tujuan untuk mengerti orang lain, sedangkan kesadaran sendiri diabaikan. Mereka sering berkata. "Saya tahu siapa kau. Kau tidak dapat membodohi saya. "Saya tidak mengerti mengapa saya lakukan itu?". Dewasa ini banyak orang dilanda oaleh desakan kesibukan dari kekomplekan …