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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…