Dubai and Abu Dhabi have so much to offer, and you can experience it all, from unique shops, malls, and souks to the finest restaurants and cafes. Luxuriate at the best golf courses, hotels, and spa resorts, or embrace adventure on exciting desert excursions, at local sporting events, or at lively bars and clubs. In addition to traditional historic palaces and mosques, Dubai and Abu Dhabi have …
Drones quite possibly represent the most transformative military innovation since jet engines and atomic weaponry. No longer do humans have to engage in close military action or be in the same geographical vicinity as the target. Now, through satellite imaging and remote technology, countries such as the United States can destroy small targets halfway around the world with pinpoint accuracy. …
The world is more interested in issues surrounding agricultural and food issues than ever before. Are pesticides safe? Should we choose locally grown food? Why do some people embrace new agricultural technologies while others steadfastly defend traditional farming methods? In the debates about organic food, genetically modified organisms, and farm animal welfare, it's not always clear what the …
Today, the majority of the world’s population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single women in India, examining what makes living outside of marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the s…
For as long as there has been cinema, there has been the remake; and for as long as there has been the remake, there has been a sense of critical unease about the value of making a film which has ‘already been made’. And yet, wave upon wave of remakes continue to wash over audiences worldwide. Arguably the most prolific global creator of these remakes, Hollywood, has audiences geared up for…
Histories of migration to the United States are also a history of American photogra-phy. Yet, the relationship between these histories are rarely discussed in surveys of the history of photography in America. Neither are immigrants’ uses and circula-tion of photographs discussed in the historiographies of the European immigration to the United States.1 However, US migration history and the hi…
The final decades of the 18th century became a crucial period for the differ-ent fields of natural history and related disciplines of ethnology and archaeol-ogy, as academic subjects in light of the advancement of Linnaean systematic classification in botany and zoology.5 The perception and systematization of the natural world went through a paradigmatic shift as a result. Collections and the p…
From the award-winning Eyewitness Guides team - one of four new Eye Wonder titles for 2002 - for all young children with a fascination for big cats! Vocabulary is accessible to children aged 5 plus with the meanings of new subject-related words clearly explained in a glossary.
n het kader van de coronapandemie, waarin we vertoeven bij het schrijven van deze uitgave van het Jaarboek Armoede en Sociale Uitsluiting, blijkt een aantal werken uit de literaire rijkdom erg goed te scoren. Zo ziet uitgeverij Penguin een opmerkelijke stijging in de verkoop van zogenaamde pandemie- en rampenliteratuur. In Frankrijk en Italië is de verkoop van La Peste van Albert Camus, versch…
Over the past thirty years, there has been growing interest in aspect, not somuch in traditional Romance research but rather in typological studies. Here,there has been intensive and increasing concern with the combination of those grammatical verbal categories that are often realised by morphological syncre-tism in many of the world’s languages, the so-called TMA categories: tense,mode and a…
Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology, this book investigates children’s acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual Singapore, one of the traditional Kachruvian Outer Circle or ESL countries. The book investigates language choice, use, and dominance in Singaporean families, identifies common linguistic characteristics of L1 Singapore…
etween seven and eight million men and women left Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century.1 For a country whose popula-tion has never been more than eight and a half million, that is a mind-boggling statistic, and one that might easily obscure individual emigrant lives. Historians have therefore tended to tackle Irish emigration in two di…
In hisremarkable study of the Upper Palaeolithic parietal art of Western Europe, The Mind in the Cave, David Lewis-Williams suggests that some imagery present in caves such as Chauvet and Lascaux was inspired by ex-periences of altered states of consciousness.1 Emergence from such altered states can be accompanied by the appearance of afterimages, mental pic-tures that hang suspended in the fie…
Global warming is ushering us into a new mosquito epoch. Ready or not, mos-quitoes are coming faster than before, both indigenous and non-, human-biting and not, disease-carrying and sometimes–disease-carrying. What are we to do with these buzzing creatures, and what has been done with them so far? Usually perceived as a pest or at least as a nuisance, their mere presence often prompts us to …
If you are involved in aviation, you will deal with administrative agency regulations far more frequently than any other area of the law. Indeed, you will probably be confronted with making decisions based on the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) on a daily basis. Those regulations also establish standards of legal behavior by which a judge or jury may later decide whether you and your employ…
Recent theories of society and social change have become caught in a dilemma. A renewed focus on individual agency, on beliefs and values and on cultural processes falls short of any adequate specification of social structural process. Sociological researchers have often made a leap of faith between agency and structure, and between norms and concrete social relations. This book explores a rang…
Selama periode 1937-1945, Perang Dunia II yang diprovokatori tentara Jerman melanda hampir seluruh dunia. Dalam perang yang memakan korban antara sembilan hingga sebelas juta jiwa di seluruh dunia itu, Jerman di bawah komando Hitler harus bertekuk lutut. Sekutu menjadi pemenang. Sejarah berbicara : Hitler lah orang yang harus bertanggung jawab penuh atas holocaust, pembunuhan besar-besaran terh…
Vira menghilang! Kabar itu cukup mengejutkan penghuni SMA 299. Tidak ada yang aneh di hari-hari sebelum hilangnya Vira. Dia dikenal sebagai gadis ceria yang sesekali berurusan dengan guru BK karena melanggar peraturan sekolah. Selain itu, tidak ada yang aneh. Kecuali... tentang cerita Vira pagi itu. Vira bilang menerima telepon dari orang misterius. Entah orang iseng mana yang menelpon tengah …
Kemerdekaan yang diraih pada tahun 1945 memberikan harapan yang sangat besar bagi seluruh rakyat Indonesia. Mimpi untuk menjadi penduduk sebuah negara yang berdaulat pun terwujud, terlepas dari cengkeraman penjajah. Namun hal itu tidak menyurutkan dinamika politik-keamanan yang terjadi di tanah air, baik itu rongrongan konflik internal, gerakan separatisme maupun kembalinya kekuatan asing. Buku…
Kemerdekaan yang diraih pada tahun 1945 memberikan harapan yang sangat besar bagi seluruh rakyat Indonesia. Mimpi untuk menjadi penduduk sebuah negara yang berdaulat pun terwujud, terlepas dari cengkeraman penjajah. Namun hal itu tidak menyurutkan dinamika politik-keamanan yang terjadi di tanah air, baik itu rongrongan konflik internal, gerakan separatisme maupun kembalinya kekuatan asing. Buku…
Drayne's face was flushed, and, though he strove to hide the fact,there was an anxious look there. "I didn't quite understand, Drayne," continued the young captain of the team, "that you were to take a very important part this year." "Pshaw! I'd like to know why I'm not," returned the other boy hotly. "I think that is regarded as being the general understanding," continued Dick. He didn'…