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 …
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Alpha Girl’s Guide akan membahas tip-tipnya, seperti: Mana yang lebih penting, nilai atau pengalaman berorganisasi? Apakah teman kamu teman sejati atau teman yang menghambat? Bagaimana mengetahui cowok parasit dan manipulatif? Bagaimana bersikap saat patah hati? Apakah kamu akan menikah untuk alasan yang tepat? Apa yang penting dilakukan saat memulai bekerja? Buku ini adalah hasil pengam…
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…
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.
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... 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…
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…
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…
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.
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 …
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…
In Kentucky, during the spring of 1861, every shade of opinion prevailed, from the most pronounced Union sentiment to the most ultra secession sympathy. The Government at Washington wished to enlist Kentucky heartily in support of the Union, while every effort was made by the rebel leaders to secure the secession of the State from the Union, and to have it join its fortunes to those of th…
The parents were abed and sleeping. The clock on the wall ticked loudly and lazily, as if it had time to spare. Outside the rattling windows there was a restless, whispering wind. The room grew light, and dark, and wondrous light again, as the moon played hide-and-seek through the clouds. The boy, wide-awake and quiet in his bed, was thinking of the Stranger and his stories. "It was not …
Two men were sitting beside a camp-fire at Saddle Pass, a shallow notch in the lower end of the Sangre de Cristo Range in southern Colorado. Although it was the middle of June and summer had come to the valleys below, up here in the mountains the evenings were still chill, and the warmth of the crackling fire felt grateful to tired bodies. Daylight yet held, although it was fast deepening t…
Kepuasan bekerja sebagian ditentukan oleh cocok tidaknya pekerjaan anda degan tipe kepribadian anda. Apakah kepribadian anda tepat untuk pekerjaan anda saat ini, atau yang sedang anda cari? Pribadimu profesimu mengajak anda mengenal tipe kepribadian berdasarkan empat pasang aspek : Extraversion (E) atau Introversion (I), Intuition (N) atau Sensing (S), Feeling (F) atau thinking (T), Judging (J…
Bagi para pembaca di seluruh dunia, namanya identik dengan kepemimpinan. Di mata lebih dari 2 juga pemimpin organisasi,kebijaksanaan John C. Maxwell telah menyulut semangat mereka untuk belajar, bertumbuh, dan senantiasa melakukan perubahan. Kini, untuk pertama kalinya kebijaksanaan itu disarikan dalam buku yang sangat dahsyat. The Maxwell Daily Reader mengambil kekuatannya yang unik dari k…
Apakah anak saya normal? Setiap orangtua tentu pernah mempertanyakan kekhawatiran tersebut dan bisa jadi Anda adalah salah satnya. Sudah saatnya Anda membuang kekhawatiran tersebut jauh-jauh, karena Anda bisa menemani pertumbuhan dan perkembangan buah hati Anda denan penuh ketenangan. Buku Konseling dan Psikoterapi Anak yang ditulis oleh salah satu ahli kesehatan mental anak terbaik di Amerika …
Apakah anda membiarkan orang lain mendorong anda dalam antrian bis? Apakah anda membiarkan wiraniaga memaksa nada membeli barang yang tidak anda inginkan?JIka demikian
ILMU PENGETAHUAN TENTANG LINGKUNGAN ( Halaman 1-108) Apakah bumi akan merupakan tempat tinggal yang cocok bagi generasi yang akan datang? Pada bagian ini kita akan menyelidiki jenis tanaman, hewan terancam punah, dan rimba raya yang dilindungi, tentang lingkungan mulai dari sumber daya alam bumi-air, hutan, mineral, sampai industri, pertanian, transportasi, dan kegiatan lainnya. ILMU KIMIA…