E-book Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all—from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel. Describing the lates…

E-book Cosmos

In clear-eyed prose, Carl Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring full-color illustrations, Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, E…

E-book Marine Plastics: Innovative Solutions to Tackling Waste

The global production of plastics continues to increase year on year, with 460 million tonnes produced in 2019 (OECD 2022). This is likely to increase, with projections from a business-as-usual scenario predicting a threefold increase in the amount of plastics use, waste, and cumulative presence in aquatic environments (OECD 2022). The most recent …

E-book Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People

Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as resulting from a range of biases that together ensure that human beings fall short of being genuinely rational animals. This book presents an alternative account. It argues that bad beliefs arise from genuinely rational p…

E-book Hydropower and Renewable Energies: Synergistic Integration for Future …

This open access book explores the complementarity of hydropower with new energy sources such as solar and wind in the global energy transition. It analyzes the technological advantages, environmental impacts, and economic potential of combining hydropower and new energy sources, while examining the related policies and market mechanisms. Through a multidimensional approach, the book demonstrat…

E-book From Mummers to Madness : A Social History of Popular Music in England…

The importance of music is difficult to overstate. As historian R W Malcolmson noted, it was the most accessible and democratic of the creative arts, with the ability to give expression to a range of fundamental emotions.4 From a different perspective, musicologist, Philip Tagg emphasised how music and dance are ‘particularly suited to expressing the affec…

E-book Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and media companies. This is no longer the case. In the age of social media and cloud storage, we have become a copying and sharing culture. Much of our everyday communication, work, and entertainment now directly involves copyright law. Copyright law and policy are ferociously contested. …

E-book Whole-Body Regeneration : Methods and Protocols

Over the last two decades, new cell and molecular biology toolshave become available, allowing the exploration of a broader rangeof metazoan regenerative mechanisms and prompting a (re)-expansion of the field of regenerative biology [3, 4]. A unifyingtheory of regeneration is nevertheless still lacking. Why do not allspecies regenerate? Does regeneration have a single or multiple(evolutionary) …

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Visit and explore Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania during your trip to the Baltic States. From top restaurants, bars, and clubs to standout scenic sites and walks, our insider tips are sure to make your trip outstanding. Whether you're looking for unique and interesting shops and markets, or seeking the best venues for music and nightlife, we have entertainment and hotel recommendations for ever…

E-book Fonthill Recovered : A Cultural History

Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is usually associated with the writer and collector William Beckford, who built his Gothic fantasy house Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eight-eenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for over- arching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story …

E-book The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodyn…

It is a basic premise of the Wind and Beyond series that nothing about the historical development of aircraft has ever been linear. On the way to aeronautical “progress”—however one chooses to define the term—there has always been, and always will be, countless twists and turns. And in the end, the entire story could have turned out differently—and still may. It is hoped that not only…

E-book The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodyn…

The first two volumes in the Wind and Beyond series and the succeeding four now in preparation all cover the impact of aerodynamic development on the evolution of the airplane in America. As the six-volume series will ultimately demonstrate, just as the airplane is a defining technology of the twentieth century, aerodynamics has been the defining element of the airplane.The forthcoming volumes …

E-book The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodyn…

The airplane ranks as one of history’s most ingenious and phenomenal inventions. It has surely been one of the most world-changing. How ideas about aerodynamics first came together and how the science and technology evolved to forge the airplane into the revolutionary machine that it became is the epic story told in this multivolume work, The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the Hi…

E-book Responsibility and Healthcare

Questions of responsibility arise at all levels of health care. Most prominent has been the issue of patient responsibility. Some health conditions that risk death or serious harm are partly the result of lifestyle behaviours such as smoking, lack of exercise, or extreme sports. Are patients with such conditions responsible for them? If so, might healthcare providers, be they state-run systems …

E-book The Demography of Disasters : Impacts for Population and Place

The demographic make-up of populations at the time of disaster determines whois impacted and the extent of impacts on residents and others. Improving technolo-gies, improved warning systems, investments in disaster mitigating infrastructureand improving community preparedness and response in the face of disasters areexamples of attempts to reduce disaster impacts. While a range of studies havel…

E-book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tys…

E-book The Advanced Photography Guide: Expert Techniques to Take Your Digital…

Are you looking to improve your photography repertoire? Take your photography skills and technique to the next level with this inspiring and informative guide. Featuring a comprehensive range of topics from experimenting with lenses, exposure, and aperture to useful post-production techniques, the easy-to-follow step-by-step tutorials show you how to master the functions on your cameras and …

E-Book Progress and Pathology: Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the long nineteenth century. During this period, popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were challenged, modified, and reframed by the politics and structures of ‘modern life’, understood in industrial, social, commercial, and technological te…

E-Book Chiang Mai between Empire and Modern Thailand: A City in the Colonial …

Urban histories tend to be dominated by large, global cities. But what does the history of the modern, colonial era look like from the perspective of smaller cities? By shifting the focus from the metropolis to the secondary city of Chiang Mai, this study provides an alternative narrative of the formation of the modern Thai state that highlights the overlap between European, American, and Siame…

E-book Imperial Standard : Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry…

For one hundred and thirty years, from its establishment in 1880 to 2010, Imperial Oil Company Ltd. was the largest petroleum company in Canada; in 2009, Suncor merged with Petro Canada and Imperial fell to second place. Even so, in 2018 Imperial remained among the top ten non-financial companies in Canada, ranked by revenues and assets. The third ranked company, Enbridg…

E-book The Visnu Purana : Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes

The purāṇas are an important genre of Hindu literature.1 Together they constitute an authoritative archive—cosmogony and cosmology, theology and mythology as well as orthodoxy and orthopraxis—for Hindu traditions. Many important narratives relating to the deities Viṣṇu–Kṛṣṇa, Śiva and the great goddess Devī are found in their most authoritative form in pur…

E-book Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century : In and Beyond the Asylum

This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional wal…

E-book Empire Under the Microscope : Parasitology and the British Literary Im…

Contemporary British parasitologist Frank Cox has explored how the question of what parasitology is has shaped the history of the discipline. Given that the parasitic lifestyle is common to helminths, bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, parasitoid insects, some plants like mistletoe, and even birds like cuckoos, there is—and has historically been—a need to narrow down the subject …

E-book The Definitive Guide to Copywriting

Copywriting is critical for success online in the current digital age. Design, content marketing, SEO, and growth hacking are all parts of a complete digital marketing plan, but copywriting is the glue that ties it all together. Copy gives your design meaning and lays the foundation for your content marketing, SEO, and growth hacking. Writing better copy enables you to convert more readers into…

E-book Cognitive Psychology

Upon waking each morning, you begin thinking—contemplating the tasks that you must complete that day. In what order should you run your errands? Should you go to the bank, the cleaners, or the grocery store first? Can you get these things done before you head to class or will they need to wait until school is done? These thoughts are one example of cognition at work. Exceptionally complex, co…

E-book PestSmart Diagnostic Field Guide

The process of diagnosing a plant health problem without any specialised laboratory equipment is called ‘field diagnosis’. Field diagnosis involves careful observation of the symptoms on a plant and linking those symptoms with possible causes. While some plant health problems are relatively easy to diagnose, others can be very difficult for a number of reasons. For instance, there may be mu…

E-book Beauty and the beast and tales from home

We are about to relate a story of mingled fact and fancy. The facts are borrowed from the Russian author, Petjerski; the fancy is our own. Our task will chiefly be to soften the outlines of incidents almost too sharp and rugged for literary use, to supply them with the necessary coloring and sentiment, and to give a coherent and proportioned shape to the irregular fragments of an old chro…

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Ensiklopedia IPTEK - 1 : Bumi - Ruang dan Waktu: Ensiklopedia Saint untuk Pel…

ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, Ensiklopedia Sains untuk Pelajar dan Umum Seri buku ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK ini terdiri atas 2 bagian. Bagian pertama berjudul ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, terdiri atas 5 jilid, merupakan buku sains best seller dunia yang disusun oleh para pakar di bidangnya. ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK mengajak pembaca untuk memahami prinsip-prinsip sains dan sekaligus menelusuri perkembangan iptek sepanjang se…

Ensiklopedia IPTEK - 2 : Makhluk hidup - Manusia: Ensiklopedia Saint untuk …

ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, Ensiklopedia Sains untuk Pelajar dan Umum Seri buku ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK ini terdiri atas 2 bagian. Bagian pertama berjudul ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, terdiri atas 5 jilid, merupakan buku sains best seller dunia yang disusun oleh para pakar di bidangnya. ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK mengajak pembaca untuk memahami prinsip-prinsip sains dan sekaligus menelusuri perkembangan iptek sepanjang se…

Ensiklopedia IPTEK - 3 : Kimia dan unsur - Bahan dan teknologi: Ensiklopedia …

MUATAN LOKAL ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, terdiri atas 3 jilid, dan berisi informasi penerapan atau perkembangan iptek di tanah air kita, Indonesia. Buku ini sangat tepat menjadi bacaan sains bagi keluarga dan terutama pelajar karena menyajikan pengetahuan sains yang paling lengkap dan terpercaya. Bahan mata pelajaran sains dari jenjang pendidikan dasar ( SD) sampai dengan menengah ( SMA) disajikan sec…

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ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, Ensiklopedia Sains untuk Pelajar dan Umum Seri buku ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK ini terdiri atas 2 bagian. Bagian pertama berjudul ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, terdiri atas 5 jilid, merupakan buku sains best seller dunia yang disusun oleh para pakar di bidangnya. ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK mengajak pembaca untuk memahami prinsip-prinsip sains dan sekaligus menelusuri perkembangan iptek sepanjang se…

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ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, Ensiklopedia Sains untuk Pelajar dan Umum Seri buku ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK ini terdiri atas 2 bagian. Bagian pertama berjudul ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK, terdiri atas 5 jilid, merupakan buku sains best seller dunia yang disusun oleh para pakar di bidangnya. ENSIKLOPEDIA IPTEK mengajak pembaca untuk memahami prinsip-prinsip sains dan sekaligus menelusuri perkembangan iptek sepanjang se…

Mengajar sebagai aktivitas subversif = Teaching as a subversif activity

apa yang telah kamu pelajari di sekolah hari ini, buyungku sayang? apa yang telah kamu pelajari di sekolah hari ini, buyunku sayang? apa yang telah kamu pelajari di sekolah hari ini, buyungku sayang? aku telah belajar bahwa pemerintah kita harus kuat pemerintah kita selalu benar dan tidak pernah salah para pemimpin kami adalah laki-laki yang terkuat dan kami memilih mereka, lagi dan lagi,…

Biologi - 2

Unit Empat Mekanisme Evolusi 22 Penurunan dengan Modifikasi: Pandangan Darwin tentang Kehidupan 4 23 Evolusi Populasi 22 24 Asal-usul Spesies 43 25 Sejarah Kehidupan di Bumi 64 Unit Lima Sejarah Evolusioner Keanekaragaman Hayati 26 Filogeni dan Pohon Kehidupan 96 27 Bakteri dan Archaea 118 28 Protista 139 29 Keanekaragaman Tumbuhan I: Bagaimana Tumbuhan Mengolonisasi Daratan 165 30 Ke…

Biologi - 1

1 Pengantar: Tema-tema dalam Ilmu Hayati Unit Satu Kimia Kehidupan 2 Konteks Kimiawi Kehidupan 3 Air dan Lingkungan yang Cocok bagi Kehidupan 4 Karbon dan Keanekaragaman Molekular Kehidupan 5 Struktur dan Fungsi Molekul Biologis Berukuran Besar Unit Dua Sel 6 Menjelajahi Sel 7 Struktur dan Fungsi Membran 8 Pengantar Metabolisme 9 Respirasi Selular: Memanen Energi Kimia 10 Fotosintesi…

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