Money facilitates the billions of transactions that take place every day across the globe. Using ‘need to know’ boxes, step-by-step diagrams, and other eye-catching visuals, How Money Works shows you how this is possible. It explains economic theories, how governments raise and control money, what goes on in the stock exchange, how analysts predict where shares are heading, and many other i…
The study is intended to inform developing EU-level waste policy, in terms of climate change impacts only. Climate change impacts are only one of a number of environmental impacts that derive from solid waste management options. Other impacts include health effects attributable to air pollutants such as NOx , SO2 , dioxins and fine particles, emissions of ozonedepleting substances, contaminatio…
In response to an event in the Soviet Union in 1953 George Orwell wrote, “He who controls the present controls the past, and he who controls the past controls the future.” He was referring to an incident that involved a strategic adjustment to a book. Stalin had just died, and Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, the chief of Stalin’s secret police, had fallen out of favor. …
elonging is that sense of being somewhere you can be confident that you will fit in, a feeling of being safe in your identity and at home in a place. The ‘place’ at the heart of this book is school: one of the few shared social institutions that can create a sense of safety and belonging for young people or a sense of exclusion. Yet across many count…
Ada perkembangan yang patut disyukuri tapi juga disayangkan dalam pengelolaan kehidupan keagamaan di Indonesia pasca-Orde Baru. Di satu sisi, kekerasan kolektif antar-agama, seperti yang terjadi di Ambon, Maluku Utara, dan Poso (Sulawesi Tengah) sudah berhenti sejak sekitar sepuluh tahun lalu. Namun, di sisi lain, beberapa laporan menunjukkan peningkatan insiden konflik antar-agama, khususnya t…
Tidak ada orang bodoh di dunia ini! Orang cerdas dan pintar itu karena mereka melatih otak mereka lebih keras dibandingkan orang lain. Sekarang anda pun bisa melatih otak secerdas Einstein dan para ilmuwan yang menghitung angka rumit degan cepat. Jadi cerdas dan pintar itu bukan sebuah anugerah yang didapatkan sejak lahir atau karena keturunan. Buku ini berisi macam-macam latihan otak yang …