E-book Cities and Affordable Housing

The shortage of affordable housing in cities is one of the most significant global challenges. It affects 1.6 billion people ( one- third of urban population) and is a key priority for policy change identified by the United Nations in the New Urban Agenda ( Tsenkova, 2016). Globally, cities and central governments have championed housing strategies and action plans, with a strong…

E-book Annunciations : Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century

In Sacred Music in Secular Society, Jonathan Arnold highlights a strange phenomenon: ‘the seeming paradox that, in today’s so-called secular society, sacred choral music is as powerful, compelling and popular as it has ever been’.1 The explosion of new media through the internet and digital technology has created a new, broader audience for ‘the creative art of Renaissance polyphony …

E-book Pathways : Exploring the Routes of a Movement Heritage

Humans are a walking species. We tread on the surface of the Earth. Without this primary mobility we would not be here and even when other means of getting around have become accessible, we don’t cease to walk. Our walking leaves traces. This is inevitable. No culture or civilisation or society can escape from this primordial mark-making. Some of these traces cluster and congregate into patte…

E-book The Cultural Set-up of Comedy: Affective Politics in the United States…

How do various forms of comedy – including stand up, satire and film and television – transform contemporary invocations of nationalism and citizenship in youth cultures? And how are attitudes about gender, race and sexuality transformed through comedic performances on social media? The Cultural Set Up of Comedy seeks to answer these questions by examining comedic performances by Chris Rock…

E-book Making Sense of the Arab State

For scholars of the Arab world, the state remains an elusive, unsettled, and unsettling presence. Since mandatory and then independent states emerged in the Arab world in the aftermath of World War I, theorizing the Arab state has been a central preoccupation for generations of regional specialists. The gravitational pull of the state is not surprising. As a pr…

E-book Nordic Knitting Traditions: Knit 25 Scandinavian, Icelandic and Fair I…

Traditional Scandinavian and Icelandic designs are given new life in the projects found in Nordic Knitting Traditions. 25 projects feature original floral, star, feather and geometric motifs, all knit in fresh and modern colors. With a diverse collection of hats, tams, mittens, gloves, socks, knee-highs and legwarmers, you'll find plenty of jaw-dropping, colorful accessories to knit for yoursel…

E-book At Home in Renaissance Bruges : Connecting Objects, People and Domesti…

Early fifteenth-century travellers such as Spanish writer Pero Tafur praised the city of Bruges because of its liveliness and economic activity: ‘Bruges was a large and wealthy city, and one of the greatest markets of the world [...] anyone who has mon-ey, and wished to spend it, will find in this town alone everything which the world produces’.1 Bruges had played an important…

E-book Creative Tourism in Smaller Communities : Place, Culture, and Local Re…

Issues arising from overtourism in many of the world’s major cities call into question the adage “bigger is better,” as do touristic desires for au-thentic, human-scale immersion in local life, culture, and knowledge. Overtourism accounts for many headlines, and some of these posit an alternate travel experience—for example, Elaine Glusac’s …

E-book The News Media: What Everyone Needs to Know®

The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history. Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the world, played key roles in exposing scandals, and has even been alleged to influence international policy. The past several years have seen the newspaper industry in a state of crisis, with Twitter and Facebook ushering in the rise of citizen journali…

E-book Antiquities: What Everyone Needs to Know®

The destruction of ancient monuments and artworks by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has shocked observers worldwide. Yet iconoclastic erasures of the past date back at least to the mid-1300s BCE, during the Amarna Period of ancient Egypt's 18th dynasty. Far more damage to the past has been inflicted by natural disasters, looters, and public works. Art hist…

E-book Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning : Bridging Disciplinary Gaps…

Disasters happen with appalling frequency in our world, resulting in death, injury, destruction, disruption and economic loss that can set back the development efforts of affected countries by decades. Disasters from natural hazards are growing at a rapid rate for several reasons. Population growth, migration and urbanisation are all leading to the poorest, most vulnerable, people …

E-book Archaeological Perspectives on Conflict and Warfare in Australia and t…

Archaeological investigation of places marked by violence such as Ruapekapeka Pa? in northern New Zealand, where both European and Maori combatants died during significant military operations, has contributed to a national day of remembrance (R? Maumahara) to acknowledge that while colonial settlement played a significant role in modern nation-building, so did intrusion…

E-book Agricultural Robotics: Part of the New Deal?

The farming and agricultural robotics industries are inextricably linked. This connection is reinforced every year at the FIRA International Forum of Agricultural Robots, where, inevitably, there are new players and new problems, bigger goals and better solutions.As the circumstances change, the innovators, disruptors, regulators and users change, too. This growth depends on everyone’s abilit…

E-book Languages: A Very Short Introduction

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen Anderson answers the above questions by looking at the science behind languages. Considering a wide range of different l…

E-book Reading Novels Translingually: Twenty-First-Century Case Studies

This book examines how literary fiction depicts multilingual practices and incorporates them on the level of the text. Multiple languages surround us today, rendered more visible in the digital and globalized age. In literature, too, languages intermingle, often to striking effect. The early twenty-first century has seen a new fascination with the age-old phenomena of literary multilingualism a…

E-book Qatar: Evidence of the Palaeolithic Earliest People Revealed

Qatar: Evidence of the Palaeolithic Earliest People Revealed, with full text in both English and Arabic, tells the story of the long and difficult search to discover the identity of the first people to inhabit the sovereign State of Qatar, which is situated on a peninsula, that extends into the Arabian Gulf. The book synthesises the results of extensive fieldwork by the PADMAC Unit with the man…

E-book Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice

This book argues that Plato’s Republic must be understood as developing out of a 5th Century sophistic debate. In Part One the author presents a new analysis of the sophists and their extant texts addressing the important topics of justice and its value. This part shows that already in the 5th Century there was a robust debate about whether the just or unjust life was better for the self-inte…

E-book The Graphic Design : Idea Book

Albers advanced the idea that colour is continually deceptive, and that the exact same colour can evoke innumerable responses depending on how it is seen against other colours. He argued against ‘mechanically applying or merely implying laws and rules of colour harmony’, because of the subjective nature of perception – it is almost impossible to see a colour by itself and not interacting …

E-book Connecting Continents : Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean World

equently missing from this burgeoning discourse, however, are contributions by archaeologists, and historical archaeologists in par-ticular,6 as well as conscious attempts to study this region’s past from an interdisciplinary perspective. A recent special edition of the journal Slavery and Abolition demonstrates that some historians are increas-ingly aware …

E-Book Encyclopedia of Human Body Systems

This encyclopedia provides a concise yet comprehensive introduction to each of the systems of the human body, exploring all 11 organ systems of the human body: the circulatory, digestive, endocrine, integumentary, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, skeletal, and urinary systems. Each chapter includes detailed descriptions of important physiological processes, cell and tiss…

E-book Butterflies : Taking Science to the Backyard

Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, and Nymphalidae. Close to 750 species inhabit the United States and Canada, most notably the Monarch and Regal Fritillary can be found in Nebraska. Approximately 3% of butterfly species are threatened with extinction. This decline in butterfly populations is attributed primarily to habitat loss due to urbanization and agriculture. As populations continue to d…

E-book Inspiration to Live Your Magic : 75 Inspiring Biographies

The most powerful story we tell is the story we tell to ourselves about our self. In my youth, my story was based on my experience. In gym class, I was always the last one picked for teams. “Who will take Larry?” the gym teacher would ask. Girls told me, “I just want to be friends,” but I wanted to be more than friends. My marks in school were not impressive. I passed, but that was abou…

E-Book From Scrolls to Scrolling: Sacred Texts, Materiality, and Dynamic Medi…

Using the digital turn as a starting point, the essays in this volume explore the materiality of sacred texts in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, along with transitions between various media cultures and material forms. The essays explore how material factors have shaped the production and transmission of sacred texts, as well as impacting the way in which people engage with, use, and perform …

E-Book Drawing Processes of Life: Molecules, Cells, Organisms

How the challenge of depicting biological systems can generate productive questions for artists and scientists. An artist drawing cell division faces a problem: what is the best way to visually represent a dynamic process? This anthology, edited by an artist and a philosopher of science, explores drawing as a way of inquiring into living processes at the molecular, cellular, and organismal scal…

E-book Everything Flows : Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology

his book is a venture in the metaphysics of science, the exploration of the most basicfeatures of the world implied or presupposed by science. One of its main aims is todemonstrate the fundamental importance of such an investigation. Getting this verygeneral picture right makes a real difference to whether we do the science well andunderstand properly what it tells us. The particular metaphysic…

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 Coffee wilt Disease

During the 20th century, a devastating disease called Coffee Wilt Disease (CWD) spread across Africa, reducing yields, destroying millions of coffee trees and costing millions of USD in lost earnings for producers (Flood, 2009). The disease has also contributed to a decline in the revenues of several African nations. CWD reached epidemic proportions twi…

E-book Phonology in the Twentieth Century

This book is primarily concerned with the history of linguistics, but it is notsimplyaboutthe history of linguistics. For one thing, positions are taken belowon issues which (while they arise in a historical context) are discussed for theirown sake, such as the motivation for assuming a significant level of phoneticrepresentation in linguistics. Further, while the text traces the development of…

E-book Panduan Gelombang Panas Kota Untuk Red Cross Red Cressent Branches

Gelombang panas amat mematikan yang semakin sering terjadi dan dapat berdampak serius bagi kesehatan dan kesejahteraan manusia. Saat gelombang panas melanda, yang paling rentan adalah yang paling terdampak. Dalam dekade terakhir, gelombang panas yang parah telah menyebabkan banyak kematian, termasuk lebih dari 400 kematian di Belanda pada tahun 2019, lebih dari 1.500 kematian di India pada tahu…

E-book Living Planet Report 2020

The global Living Planet Index continues to decline. It shows anaverage 68% decrease in population sizes of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish between 1970 and 2016. A 94% decline in the LPI for the tropical subregions of the Americas is the largest fall observed in any part of the world. Why does this matter? It matters because biodiversity is fundamental to human life on Earth, and…

E-book International Space Station Benefits for Humanity

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,…

E-book Waterlands : Prehistoric Life at Bar Pasture, Pode Hole Quarry, Peterb…

Waterlands: Prehistoric Life at Bar Pasture, Pode Hole Quarry, Peterborough recounts a decade-long archaeological investigation at Bar Pasture Farm, Pode Hole Quarry, Peterborough, and represents one of the most significant landscape excavations carried out in recent years. The 55-hectare archaeological dig was the scene of human activity on the fenland edge from the Mesolithic through to the L…

E-book Discovery Learning About Cocoa : An Inspirational Guide for Training F…

In the 17th century, markets in Europe were rapidly expanding and cocoa spread to most islands in the Caribbean and subsequently to mainland Venezuela and Colombia. In the same century, the Spanish succeeded in transferring a few live plants to Manila in the Philippines. Cocoa cultivation gradually spread southward through the East Indies, and ultimately also to Sri Lanka in the 19th century. A…

E-book Fundamentals of Aerodynamics

On August 8, 1588, the waters of the English Channel churned with the gyrations of hundreds of warships. The great Spanish Armada had arrived to carry out an invasion of Elizabethan England and was met head-on by the English fleet under the command of Sir Francis Drake. The Spanish ships were large and heavy; they were packed with soldiers and carried formidable cannons that fired 50 lb round …

GRANT'S ATLAS OF ANATOMY

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Sickened : Kisah nyata tentang seorang anak yang sengaja dibuat sakit

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Chicken soup for the soul: Kekuatan memaafkan = Chicken soup for the soul: Th…

Koleksi kisah di dalam buku ini akan menginspirasi kita untuk menggunakan kekuatan memaafkan demi bergerak maju dan melanjutkan hidup kita. Kita akan terbebas dari kemarahan kita dan memulai penyembuhan diri sendiri dengan melupakan kebencian dan memahami orang yang melukai kita. Justru dengan memaafkan seseoranglah hati kita akan menjadi lebih tenang dan bahagia. Kisah-kisahnya antara lain …

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Tsunami

Mitigasi bencana tsunami : Tsunami yang merupakan salah satu bencana alam yang sering memakan banyak korban. Tentunya bangsa Indonesia masih ingat peristiwa tsunami Aceh. Bencana alam yang menelan korban lebih dari 230.000 jiwa, ribuan rumah dan bangunan rusak serta sampai sekarang masih menyisakan trauma untuk korban-korban yang masih hidup terutama untuk anak-anak. Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Benc…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Kebakaran

Mitigasi bencana kebakaran. Bencana kebakaran seringkali melanda wilayah-wilayah di negara Indonesia. Rata-rata kebaakaran terjadi dikarenakan kesalahan manusia itu sendiri, namun tak jarang pula terjadi karena adanya korsleting listrik. Kebakaran sering melanda fasilitas umum seperti pasar, pom bensin, ruko atau toko menimbulkan kerugian material yang tidak sedikit jumlahnya. Rumah pribadi, ka…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Banjir

Mitigasi bencana banjir, banjir adalah bencana alam yang sangat dekat dengan kehidupan masyaakat di Indonesia. Terutama saat musim hujan tiba, banyak sekali wilayah di Indonesia yang dilanda banjir. Kerugian harta bahkan jiwa menjadi dampak negatif yang tak dapat terelakan. Oleh karena itu, mitigasi bencana banjir sangat penting untuk dipahami oleh masssssyarakat, terutama mereka yang tinggal d…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Gempa bumi

Mitigasi bencana gempa bumi : Gempa bumi adalah goncangan yang terjadi di permukaan bumi akibat adanya gelombang sistemik. Gempa bumi menjadi salah satu bencana alam yang sampai saat ini tidak bisa dikendalikan dan dicegah. Akibatnya, bencana gempa sering menjadi penyebab kerusakan dan runtuhnya bangunan, sampai dengan korban jiwa manusia. Ketidakmampuan mencegah gempa bumi menyebabkan upaya ya…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Angin topan

Mitigasi bencana angin topan. Angin merupakan fenomena alam yang amat dekat dengan manusia. Namun, angin juga memberikan dampak yang buruk bagi kehidupan manusia jika terjadi dalam tingkatan tertentu. Kecepatan gerk angin yang begitu tinggi disertai dengan arah gerakan tertentu dapat mengakibatkan kerusakan yangluar biasa. Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana Angin Topan memberikan gambaran, bagaiman…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Transportasi

Mitigasi bencana transportasi. Transportasi adalah kebutuhan masyarakat modern yang timbul akibat adanya aktivitas sosial dan ekonomi dalam kehidupan. Sarana transportasi baik di darat, laut, maupun udara diperlukan untuk melakukan distribusi barang maupun perpidahan manusia dari satu daerah ke daerah yang lain. Kecelakaan transportasi dapat disebabkan antara lain karena unsafe condition maupun…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Tanah longsor

Tanah longsor terjadi akibat pergerakan tanah karena jatuhnya bebatuan atau gumpalan besar tanah dalam berbagai tipe dan jenis ini, memberikan dampak kerugian baik material maupun psikis. Minimnya pengetahuan masyarakat akan penanganan prabencana, saat bencana, bahkan pascabencana menjadikan usaha antisipasi belum dilakukan secara maksimal. Mitigasi bencana menjadi usaha untuk mengurangi risiko…

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Gunung Berapi

Mitigasi bencana gunung berapi, Indonesia memiliki banyak bunung berapi baik yang masih aktif maupun tidak. Selain memberikan lahan yang subur, gunung berapi juga memberikan kerugian material terutama saat meletus. Buku ini yang dimulai dari definisi, penyebarannya di mua bumi, jenis-jenisnya mekanisme letusan, proses terjadi, dan perkembangan kegiatannya. Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana Gunung …

Ensiklopedia Mitigasi Bencana : Endemi Penyakit

Mitigasi Bencana Endemi Penyakit : Endemi penyakit menjadi salah satu pehatian lain dari mitigasi bncana. Endemi yang bisa diartikan sebagai penyakit yang menjangkiti suatu daerah atau bahkan suatu golongan masyarakat, akan memberikan dampak negatif atau kerugian bagi semua pihak bagi baik masyarakat atau pun pemerintah. Berbagai faktor mampu menyebabkan endemi penyakit ini akhirnya mewabah dan…

Anjing iblis dari Baskerville

Karena ulah keji salah satau leluhur di masa lampau, seluruh keturunan Baskerville dihantui oleh kutukan maut anjing iblis. Sir Charles Baskerville ditemukan telah tewas di dekat gerbang menuju padang. Tidak ditemukan tanda-tanda telah terjadinya tindah pembunuhan selain sebuah tapak kaki anjing pemburu berukuran raksasa. Sekali lagi, Sherlock Holmes ditantang untuk memecahkan misteri pembunuh…

KUDETA 1 OKTOBER 1965: Sebuah analisis awal

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MITOLOGI DAN TOLERANSI ORANG JAWA

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KREASI KARTU INDAH & MEMIKAT: Lebih dari 80 kreasi kartu untuk segala kesempatan

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