The "global" is permanently made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, in language, and in literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global in its many facets. It aims to provide a sense in readers of how the global is not something »out there«, but that it is embedded in a wide range of the…
"The series “Russia and the Asia-Pacific” explores political, economic, social, cultural and environmental interactions of the Russian Far East within its Asian-Pacific context as well as with the Russian capital in the past and present. Its first volume addresses from a multidisciplinary perspective notably the following questions: How were and are directives from a centre thousands of kil…
London is by turns cutting edge and ancient, refined and gritty, and the streets of this city of contrasts are lined with idiosyncratic and beautiful architechture. This book describes over 50 key structures in authoritive and compelling style. The accompanying illustrations press out of the page, transforming your book into a cityspace to treasure and display.
Most of the paths described in this guide are old village paths. Before the roads came, you would travel between the villages using these paths, e.g. to trade, to visit family, to a Thing (local assembly) (page 58) or to church. Village paths were also used when the coffins of the dead were carried to the nearest church. The paths are marked with ancient cairns, a heap of stones set up as a la…
In Betty Smith’s description of the tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima), also known as the “ghetto palm,” the tree is contrasted with the memory of a school poem that evoked the “forest primeval” with its “murmuring pines and hemlocks.” For Smith, writing in the early 1940s, the presence of this tree was a marker, or even harbinger, of neighbourhood decline. The tree of heaven se…
LIPI Press berkolaborasi dengan Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia (PPI) Dunia menerbitkan rangkaian buku seri Indonesia Emas Berkelanjutan 2045: Kumpulan Pemikiran Pelajar Indonesia Sedunia. Rangkaian bunga rampai ini terdiri dari 12 buku dengan sejumlah topik yang mendukung Tujuan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan atau Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) untuk mencapai tujuan Indonesia Emas 2045. Buku in…
The first few pages of the Tree Book give you some tips on how to identify trees. Once you are familiar with the identifying features, turn to the identillcation keys and narrow your choices. To help you locate trees in the book, the colour used in the key for grouping trees with sinlilar features is the same as the coloured background in the upper right corner of the second page for each tree …
Buku ini diperuntukkan bagi pembaca umum yang ingin mengetahui dan mempelajari tentang seluk beluk olahraga renang beserta macam-macam gaya dan tekniknya. Di dalam buku ini dibahas tentang pengertian dan sejarah renang, pengenalan air dan teknik dasar renang, macam-macam gaya dan teknik renang, seperti gaya bebas, gaya dada, gaya punggung, gaya kupu-kupu, start, dan pembalikan. Diharapkan mela…
Keprihatinan masyarakat Indonesia, khususnya para pemerhati dan pakar bidang konservasi pohon langka, terhadap laju penyusutan hutan yang terus meningkat mewujud salah satunya melalui terbitnya buku Strategi Konservasi 12 Spesies Pohon Prioritas Nasional 2019–2029. Sebanyak 12 spesies pohon dinilai cenderung menuju ke arah kepunahan sehingga keberadaannya perlu segera diselamatkan melalui ser…