E-book Moves - Spaces - Places : The Life Worlds of Jamaican Women in Montrea…

“More Jamaican women migrating to Canada, Statistics reveal” is a headline inthe Jamaican newspaperThe Gleanerin January (2018) discussing the recent cen-sus results gathered in Canada from 2012 to 2016. The data indicates that almost20,000 more Jamaican women than men migrated to Canada within that timespan,demonstratinga recentdisparity in migrants’genderdistribution.The socio-economic …

E-book Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works

Who drives transformation in society? How do they do it? In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. All of these leaders--call them disrupters, visionaries,…

Comic Japan : Best of Zero Gravity Cartoons from the Japan Times

Newcommers to Tokyo are often blissfully deluded that not only are they surviving, they are thriving in the Big Sashimi. Nothing could be further from the truth, a harsh reality soon enough discovered by American couple Larry and Lily (and their everbaffled friend, Buck) once confronted with the inscrutable instructions on a bank ATM or computerized toilet. Navigating the lanes of Japan's capit…

E-book Trouble Songs: A Musicological Poetics

Trouble Songs is a hybrid serial work that tracks the appearance of the word “trouble” in 20th- and 21st-century American music. It reads (and sings) songs and poems, with reference to cultural events ranging from the death of a pop singer to the growth of popular resistance movements. The trouble singer invokes the word “trouble” in place of actual trouble—the song is a spell that co…

E-book Building Industries at Sea - ‘Blue Growth’ and the New Maritime Ec…

For thousands of years the oceans have been highly prized and have providedus with efficient transport and a plentiful supply of food. Therefore, it seemsobvious that our modern society should continue to use the oceans andmaximize the benefits. There might be great treasures of valuable materials,new bio-compounds and endless energy. However society is reluctant tochange an…

E-book Making Ammonia : Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Nature of Scient…

The discovery of ammonia synthesis from the elements forms the basis of dis-cussion for many topics including fertilizer and food, environmental protection,the repercussions of scientific research, and economic transformation, as well asother industrial, political, and social events. The story in this book focuses on thedevelopment of the natural sciences and de…

E-book Kant: A Very Short Introduction

Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring.

E-book Eyewitness Travel: South Africa

From the wilds of Kruger National Park, to cosmopolitan Cape Town, to the lush western cape winelands, to the stunning beaches along the Garden Route, this guide leads you straight to the greatest attractions this fascinating and varied country has to offer. Get insider tips on everything from the best shopping, restaurants, and hotels, to outdoor activities such as whale-watching, surfing, and…

E-book Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object--either in art, in nature, or the human form--beautiful, and ex…

E-book NACA to NASA to Now: The Frontiers of Air and Space in the American Ce…

NACA to NASA to Now: The Frontiers of Air and Space in the American Century tells the story of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and its successor, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The NACA and NASA facilitated the advance of technology for flight in air and space throughout the 20th and into the 21st century. This book explores how and why aerospac…

E-book Ovid on Cosmetics : Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts

It is fascinating to hypothesize Ovid’s views on the cosmeceutical and cosmetic industry in the modern west. Equally intriguing would be his opinion on elective cosmetic surgery. Both industries, driven by increasingly high consumer demand, have yearly profi ts in the billions of pounds as women, and increasingly men, seek to improve, preserve and even alter thei…

E-book Roars from the Mountain : Colonial Management of the 1951 Volcanic dis…

First, most of those who perished in the volcanic eruption were local Sangara people, one of a larger group of preliterate Papuans whom the colonists called the ‘Orokaiva’. This means, arguably, that the catastrophe at Lamington was not truly an ‘Australian’ one, and given also that only 35 white people—expatriates from Australia—were killed by the eruption. …

E-book Heritage Conservation and Social Engagement

Professionals working with cultural heritage preservation have had to respond to difficult challenges in the last few decades, mainly brought about by globalisation, armed conflicts, natural disasters and the use of heritage as an ultimate resource to redress injustices of the past. The topics and experiences discussed in this book demonstrate that conservators may …

E-book The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire

At the same time, archaeologists, anthropologists and historians have begun to explore the deep-time origins and early development of social inequality, articulating trends and patterns through analysis of material attributes such as size and complexity of household dwellings, access to storage space and variation in quantity and type of grave goods, on the basis that the pervasiveness of inequ…

E-book The Bentham Brothers and Russia : The Imperial Russian Constitution an…

In the eighteenth century Russia was a newcomer to the familiar concert of European nations, an exciting or worrying outsider among the established powers. In 1703 Tsar Peter Alekseevich, Peter I, the Great, founded a new city, St Petersburg, at the eastern end of the Baltic Sea. Thereby, in the famous words of Russia’s national poet Aleksandr Pushkin, he �…

E-book 1000 Inventions and Discoveries

From making fire to building the gadgets of the 21st century, uncover the stories behind the remarkable ideas and devices that have shaped our world in 1,000 Inventions and Discoveries. This revised and updated edition brings this comprehensive review of humanity's greatest ideas up to date. Innovations in science, space, technology, transportation, medicine, mathematics, and language are cove…

E-book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson, then thirty-one years old, was writing a professional man of letters to inqUIre whether her verses "breathed." Higginson was still living at Worcester, Massachusetts, where he had recently resigned his pastorate of a "free" church, and was begmning to establIsh a reputation as essayist and a lecturer in the cause of reforms. She dared bring herself to his attention because she …

E-book Butterflies : Taking Science to the Backyard

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…

E-Book Translations of Responsibility: Innovation Governance in Three Europea…

In 2020, a group of European researchers got a European Union (EU) grant to do a project called TRANSFORM. The objective of TRANSFORM was to integrate the principle of responsible research and innovation (RRI) into the research and innovation policies of three European regions: Lombardy, Brussels, and Catalonia. This book tells the story of how TRANSFORM translated RRI into practice, all the wa…

E-book Workplace Spirituality : Making a Difference

e had planned to hold the sixth conference in Vienna in September 2020, see-ing this as an opportunity to celebrate the tenth-year anniversary of IAMSR confer-ences. Our vision was to invite eminent scholars to present their perspectives onthe trends in the field of workplace spirituality over the past ten years and to strate-gically think about the future of the field for the next ten years. W…

E-book Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics

We begin with four tales of ancient philosophers. First, the time When Thales Fell in the Well. Thales was from a prominent Milesian family, and had dedicated himself to the contemplation of nature. Of particular interest was the nature of the heavens: he learned to determine when the sun would be eclipsed and the dates of the solstices. One night, as he was intently examining the st…

E-book Polar Cousins : Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures

The world’s polar regions are now central to geopolitical and strategic com-petition. Spillover effects from rapid political, social, and environmental change present unprecedented challenges for governance, environmental protection, and maritime operations in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Both geographic areas can be distinguished by specific terms—namely, the “Arctic” and…

E-book The Book Or The Woods

art the forest & bare the trees. Make an efes. The Book of books may be a forest of woods, as the page is a clearing, the monster is a letter (for example, Y, who reads the leaves), a river is a mirror, the underworld is supernal, the portal is the shadow over the shades, efes are all about (as wings, as aisles, as the edge of the woods), ††† are trees,…

E-book Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation

Without more rigorous measurement of effectiveness and disciplined recording of our efforts, how will we know if we are progressing as rapidly as needed to achieve our conservation goals? How will we become more efficient? How will we learn from one another? And how will we be able to demonstrate our achievements and build the public and political will needed to expand our resources and meet th…

E-Book 1453: Detik-Detik Jatuhnya Konstantinopel ke Tangan Muslim

Selama lebih dari seribu tahun, Konstantinopel adalah pusat dunia Barat sekaligus pertahanan Kristen terhadap Islam. Selama itu pula kota ini tak lepas dari ancaman, namun selalu selamat dari penyerangan rata-rata setiap empat puluh tahun. Hingga akhirnya, Sultan Usmani, Mehmet II, pemuda 21 tahun yang haus keagungan, berhasil melewati tembok pertahanan kota dengan bala tentaranya yang sangat b…

Intellectuals

A fascinating potrait about the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russel, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, Noam Chorusky contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.

Segala sesuatu yang perlu anda ketahui : Pemeriksaan medis - 2 = Medical test…

Pertama kalinya para pakar kesehatan menjelaskan secara benar kepada anda, anggota keluarga anda, serta orang yang anda cintai seluk beluk mengenai pemeriksaan medis yang dapat dijalani. Membahas lebih dari 400 macam pemeriksaan: Buku ini menyajikan pemeriksaan yang dilakukan di tempat praktik dokter, di rumah sakit, dan di klinik--yang kesemuanya sebenarnya dapat anda lakukan di rumah. 1. P…

Segala sesuatu yang perlu anda ketahui : Pemeriksaan medis - 1 = Medical tes…

Pertama kalinya para pakar kesehatan menjelaskan secara benar kepada anda, anggota keluarga anda, serta orang yang anda cintai seluk beluk mengenai pemeriksaan medis yang dapat dijalani. Membahas lebih dari 400 macam pemeriksaan: Buku ini menyajikan pemeriksaan yang dilakukan di tempat praktik dokter, di rumah sakit, dan di klinik--yang kesemuanya sebenarnya dapat anda lakukan di rumah. 1. P…

Segala sesuatu yang perlu anda ketahui : Penyakit - 2 = Diseases - 2

Lebih dari 100 dokter terkemuka dan ahli kesehatan menumbangkan keahlian mereka dalam buku ini. Anda akan menemukan informasi aktual dan akurat tentang kesehatan yang dapat dimanfaatkan di mana saja. Buku ini membahas lebih dari 500 macam penyakit dan mengupas setiap jenis penyakit utama, termasuk : 1. Tekanan darah tinggi, serangan jantung, dan stroke 2. Diabetes dan problema thyroid 3. In…

Segala sesuatu yang perlu anda ketahui : Penyakit - 1 = Diseases - 1

Lebih dari 100 dokter terkemuka dan ahli kesehatan menumbangkan keahlian mereka dalam buku ini. Anda akan menemukan informasi aktual dan akurat tentang kesehatan yang dapat dimanfaatkan di mana saja. Buku ini membahas lebih dari 500 macam penyakit dan mengupas setiap jenis penyakit utama, termasuk : 1. Tekanan darah tinggi, serangan jantung, dan stroke 2. Diabetes dan problema thyroid 3. In…

Guru satu menit : Cara mengajar orang lain untuk mengajar diri mereka sendiri

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First thing First :Dahulukan yang utama.

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Rahasia sukses seorang negosiator ulung

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Out of the maze : Cara jitu meloloskan diri

Melanjutkan pembahasan Who Moved My Cheese? kini Out of the Maze menyajikan cerita sederhana yang menawarkan kebenaran sejati tentang bagaimana cara mengubah hidup Anda. Ketika kita pertama kali bertemu mereka dalam Who Moved My Cheese? dua karakter kurcaci sebesar tikus bernama Hem dan Haw berhadapan dengan perubahan yang tidak pernah mereka duga ketika Cheese yang sangat mereka sayangi tiba-…

Peaks and valleys : Menjadikan masa susah dan masa senang bermanfaat bagi kit…

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Who moved my cheese? : Cara jitu menghadapi lika-liku perubahan dalam kehidup…

Setiap orang pasti memiliki zona kenyamanan masing-masing di dalam hidup. Tanpa kita sadari, manusia bisa menghabiskan satu, dua tahun bahkan berpuluh-puluh tahun untuk menggeluti dan menikmati zona kenyamanannya. Layaknya sebuah pai apel yang masih hangat, tentu tidak rela jika diharuskan untuk membuang apalagi jika kue itu masih panas. Ya.. sifat alamiah manusia yang cenderung mempertahankan …

Tuhan itu baik : Ia lebih baik dari yang anda pikir = God is Good

Sungguh suatu sukacita bagi saya untuk merekomendasikan buku terbaru teman saya Bill Johnson. Buku ini, Tuhan itu Baij, membukakan pernyataan yang tepat waktu tentang sifat dan karakter Bapa kita yang tidak berubah, yang tidak berubah, yang melimpah dalam kebaikan. Berjalan dekat dengan Allah dan bergerak dalm kuasa-Nya dan melepaskan kebaikan-Nya melibatkan lebih dari sekadar memiliki suatu si…

MENJADIKAN KEGIATAN BELAJAR-MENGAJAR MENGASYIKKAN DAN BERMAKNA

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WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?: Cara Cerdas Menyiasati Perubahan Dalam Hidup dan Pekerjaan

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IDENTIFIKASI MASALAH DAN PEMECAHANNYA: Suatu Pendekatan Sistem

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YA ATAU TIDAK": Pemandu Cara Pengambilan Keputusan Yang Lebih Tepat/Baik"

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