Globalization is a topic that is frequently in the news, with the economic andsociopolitical impacts of globalization often receiving a considerable mediacoverage. By contrast the effects of globalization on education and curricula receivefar less attention. Nonetheless, the potential impacts of globalization on education areof international interest, and some have argued that competition betwe…
Anyone who’s had an argument about politics with a friend may walk away wondering how this friend could possibly hold the beliefs they do. A few self-reflective people might even wonder about their own political beliefs after such an argument. This book is about the reasons that people have, and could have, for political beliefs: the evidence they might draw on, the psychological sources of t…
With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and hand-coloured maps from East Asia. Map colouring provides an insight into past societies, landscapes and territories. Colour is an important key to a more precise understanding of the map’s content, purposes and uses; moreover, colours …
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 present publication constitutes the Proceedings of Session 7 of the ‘Creation of landscapes VI’ workshop, hosted by the CAU Kiel in 2019. The session was entitled ‘Mediterranean Connections – how the sea links people and transforms identities’. With our focus on the linkage of people, this volume can be understood as a contribution to recent network research. But network research,…
"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.
Countries around the world attempt to increase the human capital of their citizens. Currently, education constitutes a large share of the economy in developed countries. The average expenditure on primary and secondary education institutions is about 3.5% of GDP in OECD countries (OECD, 2016). Moreover, investment in education has large implications for economic development, democratic institut…
In all the talk about the Paris Agreement, reached at the twenty-first Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in 2015, it is sometimes forgotten that the world’s political leaders have held negotiations about climate change at the highest possible level for at least three decades. Many have known about …
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…
ased on the words and experiences of the people involved, this book tells the story of the community arts movement in the UK, and, through a series of essays, assesses its influence on present day participatory arts practices. Part I offers the first comprehensive account of the movement, its history, rationale and modes of working in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; Part II bring…
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…
During these first days of his life his home was in the heart of a great windfall where Gray Wolf, his blind mother, had found a safe nest for his babyhood, and to which Kazan, her mate, came only now and then, his eyes gleaming like strange balls of greenish fire in the darkness. It was Kazan's eyes that gave to Baree his first impression of something existing away from his mother's side, …
Cold winter lay deep in the Canadian wilderness. Over it the moon was rising, like a red pulsating ball, lighting up the vast white silence of the night in a shimmering glow. Not a sound broke the stillness of the desolation. It was too late for the life of day, too early for the nocturnal roamings and voices of the creatures of the night. Like the basin of a great amphitheater the frozen …
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Mempelajari kebudayaan masa lalu tidak harus dengan berkutat di perpustakaan ditemani buku-buku tebal berdebu. Kartu pos bisa mengenalkan kekayaan tradisi masa silam dengan cara yang ringan dan menyenangkan. Kartu pos yang terbuat dari foto-foto menarik di masanya merekam sejarah-sejarah kecil yang kerap dianggap remeh-temeh. Di antaranya sebut saja busana pengantin, perhiasan yang dipakai…
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KATA SEPUR biasanya diartikan sebagai kereta api, namun arti sejatinya berbeda. Kata ini berasal dari kosakata Belanda spoor yang berarti jalur dengan dua rel yang harus dilintasi kendaraan rel. Kata ini sebenarnya lebih mengacu pada infra struktur rel daripada lokomotif dan gerbong. Dalam Sepoer Oeap di Djawa Tempo Doeloe, melalui koleksi kartu pos kuno, penulis membahas jaringan rel yang per…
Masa sekitar pergantian abad ke-19 hingga pertengahan abad ke-20 merupakan zaman emas untuk kartu pos. Demikian juga yang terjadi di Nusantara. Pada masa itu, saat telepon masih belum umum digunakan atau dianggap terlalu mahal, kartu pos merupakan media korespondensi terpenting untuk kalangan yang bisa baca tulis. Banyak penerbit swasta mengedarkan beraneka macam kartu pos bergambar yang menari…
Mempelajari kebudayaan masa lalu tidak harus dengan berkutat di perpustakaan ditemani buku-buku tebal berdebu. Kartu pos bisa mengenalkan kekayaan tradisi masa silam dengan cara yang ringan dan menyenangkan. Kartu pos yang terbuat dari foto-foto menarik di masanya merekam sejarah-sejarah kecil yang kerap dianggap remeh-temeh. Di antaranya sebut saja busana pengantin, perhiasan yang dipakai…
Kecintaan akan kecantikan rupa bumi dan ragam biota yang terhampar di alam Nusantara nan luas - mulai dari keelokan dasar laut beraneka warna hingga kemegahan puncak pegunungan di atas hamparan awan nan putih - selalu mengundang manusia untuk menjelajah alam. Papua adalah salah satu pulau eksotis dengan kekayaan alam tak terperi yang terletak di ujung timur tanah air. Sementara di balik rangk…