What is the meaning of food? We humans live by symbols; they help us to make sense of the world, to organize and give meaning to our existence. Our alphabets are symbolic: we agree that a certain symbol stands for a certain sound. Time is another human invention: daylight, standard, leap year. Christianity’s year 2006 is Judaism’s 5765, Islam’s 1427, and China’s 4703. Nobody needed a na…
Charting the increase in the use of games for the dissemination of extremist propaganda, radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization, this book examines the "gamification of extremism." Editors Linda Schlegel and Rachel Kowert bring together a range of insights from world-leading experts in the field to provide the first comprehensive overview of gaming and extremism. The potential nexus betw…
Absolute costadvantagescanplacecompetitors ata cost disadvantage, even if the scale of operations is similar for both firms. Such cost advantages can arise from an advanced position along the learning curve, where average costs decline as cumulative output rises over time. This differs from economies of scale, which involves the relationship between average costs and the output level per period…
On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish family. Who would commit such a heinous crime against a young man whose life was just beginning? The more Kate ge…
Cityscoopes: concise, illustrated guides that provide an overview of a city's past as well as a focused eye on its present.
Undang-Undang Dasar 1945 pasal 31 ayat (1) dan Undang-Undang (UU) Nomor 20 Tahun 2003 tentang Sistem Pendidikan Nasional menegaskan memberi jaminan sepenuhnya kepada penyandang disabilitas untuk memperoleh layanan pendidikan yang bermutu dan hal itu tidak dapat dilepaskan adanya istilah ‘pendidikan inklusif’. Negara semakin menegaskan melalui komitmen-komitmen global, dimana tidak ada seor…
This is a story of a mother and her daughter, named Enten, who lived in a small hut, on a mungguk (hill) called Segasing Sebemban. The mungguk is in Tayan, Sangau Regency, West Kalimantan. It is located near the magnificent Tayan Palace and the so-called second longest bridge in Indonesia after Suramadu. Tayan is a hilly region with large branched river streaming through the valley. It is ble…