Uncertainty and interconnecting crises are no longer exceptional. In almost everypart of the world, living with water crises is an everyday reality for many. Yet,water supply sustains a functioning society, and as such any threat to it must becountered head-on. Frontline water suppliers, routinely forced to respond andadapt so they can deliver water in the face of all challenges, have found tha…
Welcome to the 4th edition of this handbook. Over the previous editions, we have tried to evolve the content and style to make the book more accessible and useful to our readers. This has continued in edition four with alterations, in response to reader feedback and as a result of new data emerging in many cancer fields. Oncology has continued to produce novel diagnostics, treatment strategies,…
Available beds in any correctional facility have a tendency to become filled—no matter what the size of the facility. Jail crowding is a symptom of the policies and practices of the larger criminal justice system. The changes that have occurred in the nation’s jail population during the past 30 years provide evidence that policy shifts alone can bring about dramatic changes in the demand fo…
Progamming languages are notations for describing computations to people and to machines. The world as we know it depends on progamming language. But, before a program can be run, it first must be translated into a form in which it can be executed by a computer. In this preliminary chapter, we introduce the different forms of language translators, give a high level overview of the structure of …
Planet Earth is an ocean planet. We can hardly ignore the fact that the ocean covers almost two thirds of our planet. Since the dawn of time, humankind has had an ambivalent relationship with the immensity and hostility of this very specific environment. However, the ocean holds a strong attraction for human societies, with nearly 40% of the world’s population living less than 100 km from the…
Fredy, si anak baru di sekolah, emang ngetop berat. Selain jago basket, tampangnya di atas rata-rata. Nggak heran kalo separo lebih populasi cewek di sekolah pengin jadi pacarnya. Termasuk Betra. Segala tantangan dan halangan termasuk tentangan dari Hans (sahabatnya sejak kecil), serta kehadiran cewek kelas X yang genit, Risa, diterabas Betra. Betra yang nggak alim bahkan sudi ikut pendalaman …
Fredy, Hans, dan Betra kini sudah mahasiswa. Baru semester 1, lagi seru-serunya. Sejak SMA, cinta Hans pada Betra tak pernah padam. Cowok itu terus berusaha menarik perhatian Betra. Sayangnya, hati Betra tak tersentuh. Setelah kecewa cintanya ditolak Ferdy, Betra belum bisa berpaling pada satu cowok pun. Sebagai pelampiasan kekecewaannya, Betra mengencani tiga cowok sekaligus - Wisnu, Bastian,…
Vincent, aku tahu dialah yang terbaik, tapi aku tidak bisa mencintainya... Bukan karena dia tidak memiliki cinta setulus hati, tetapi karena hatiku masih dirantai oleh masa lalu... Ketika orang yang pernah aku cintai datang kembali dan menghadirkan cinta yang sama, aku hanya berharap dia tidak mengkhianatiku lagi. Aku berharap, hatinya hanya untukku seorang. Jika aku kembali ke dalam peluka…
Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The ess…