E-book The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation

Wildlife conservation varies worldwide in its form, function, and underlying principles. In recent years, efforts have been directed to describe the key attributes that collectively make wildlife conservation in North America unique. Although efforts to articulate wildlife conservation in North America have come of late, awareness among practitioners in the U.S and Canada that their wildlife …

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-boo Like Fire : The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia

In early 2012, when I visited Theodore (Ted) Schwartz at his home in Del Mar, California, he had recently finished digitising audio recordings of interviews he had conducted with Manus people in Papua New Guinea (PNG) from 1953 through 1995; the annotated catalogue went on for many pages.1 Ted gave me an audio tour and we listened to Paliau, his supporters, an…

E-book Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions

When the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as 100,000 people perished as a result of the blast and an ensuing famine caused by the destruction of rice fields on Sumbawa and neighboring islands. Gases and dust particles ejected into the atmosphere changed weather patterns around the world, resulting in the infamous ''year without a summer'' in North America, food riots in Eur…

E-book A Diffusion Hydrodynamic Model

The Diffusion Hydrodynamic Model (DHM), as presented in the 1987 USGS publication, was one of the first computational fluid dynamics computational programs based on the groundwater program MODFLOW, which evolved into the control volume modeling approach. Over the following decades, others developed similar computational programs that either used the methodology and approaches presented in the D…

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 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 Introduction to Biological Aging Theory

Why do we age? The answer to this question is critical to our ability to prevent and treat highly age-related diseases such as cancer and heart disease that now cause the majority of deaths in the developed world. For centuries aging has been considered an unalterable and therefore untreatable condition. We can find treatments for individual diseases but not for aging. Consequently, the effecti…

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 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 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…

Kiat-kiat pede untuk meningkatkan rasa percaya diri

Edisi

cet. 1

ISBN/ISSN

978-979-22-7068

Deskripsi Fisik

263hlm; ilus;13.5 x 20 cm

Judul Seri

-

No. Panggil

158 TAY k

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…

Ensiklopedia IPTEK - 4 : Cahaya dan energi - Gaya dan gerak : Ensiklopedia Sa…

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 - 5 : Listrik elektronika - Konservasi dan Lingkungan : En…

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…

MENGATASI KETIDAKMAMPUAN DALAM MENGAMBIL KEPUTUSAN: Delapan Langkah Pengambil…

Edisi

cet. 4

ISBN/ISSN

979-415-204-8

Deskripsi Fisik

xv; 237 hlm;13 cm x20 cm

Judul Seri

-

No. Panggil

658.4 RUB m

MENGATASI KETIDAKMAMPUAN DALAM MENGAMBIL KEPUTUSAN: Delapan Langkah Pengambil…

Edisi

cet. 4

ISBN/ISSN

979-415-204-8

Deskripsi Fisik

xv; 237 hlm;13 cm x20 cm

Judul Seri

-

No. Panggil

658.4 RUB m

DRAMA FORMAL DAN TEATER REMAJA

Edisi

cet. 1

ISBN/ISSN

-

Deskripsi Fisik

iv; 58 hlm;16 x 23,5 cm

Judul Seri

-

No. Panggil

812 TAY d

SUARA HATI

Edisi

cet. 1

ISBN/ISSN

979-605-763-8

Deskripsi Fisik

768 hlm;11 x 18cm

Judul Seri

-

No. Panggil

823 BRA s