People and communities, lives and livelihoods. These define the Arctic, just as with all other populated areas on the planet. Is there, then, any-thing special, specific, exceptional or unique about the Arctic? To the peoples in the Arctic, the answer is ‘of course’.Because it is home.As Arctic literature is fond of stating, there is no single Arctic. Definitions abo…
This book poses a question: since, in encounters between the present and the past, the present always wins, how might we in the present recover the strangeness of a society that flourished two-and-a-half millennia ago? Can we find ways of throwing off our mind-forged manacles, and instead make an attempt, without preconceptions or agendas, to…
If it were announced on the Manchester Exchange, or among any other large gathering of intelligentmen, that not one in every hundred of them could see correctlythe appearance of the walls or windows about them, it might cause no small amount of surprise,if not disconcert ; yet such is probably the fact. Millions of persons pass through life unconscious of the change that takes place in the appe…
Each year, fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) are consumed in ever-greater quantities, despite the danger of global warming, which makes such large-scale consump-tion unsustainable. The facts of consumption growth are at odds with ever more insistent claims that we are moving to a post-fossil-fuel era. Clearly, the causes of consumption growth are very strong. The purpose of this book is to put t…
A True Story of the Imperial German Government's Spies and Intrigues in America from facts furnished Each morning at 3 o'clock, American time, those messages flashed from the tremendous wireless tower at Nauen, Germany—to find spies waiting everywhere in America for them. On interned ships, in shacks, built far from the roar and bustle of the city, even in Fifth Avenue residences, were wirel…
Dalam survei ini tidak dijumpai individu orangutan secara langsung, hanya indikasi keberadaannya berdasarkan sarang yang ditinggalkan. Indikasi keberadaan Orangutan tersebut, hanya dijumpai pada kawasan hutan di blok Air Hitam, sementara pada kawasan hutan blok Kendawangan tidak dijumpai indikasi keberadaannya baik dari sarang, suara maupun informasi dari masyarakat. Temuan 4 sarang Orangutan y…
The history of early human advance is the history of harvesting prosperity from agricultural innovation. In India, the later Vedic texts (c. 3000–2500 BCE) make frequent references to agricultural technology and practices.Jia Sixie, drawing on over one thousand years of Chinese study in his Qimin Yaoshu, or Essential Techniques for the Common People (535 CE), asserts throughout his work the c…
This book has been created to help you make decisions about practical conservation management by providing an assessment, from the available scientific evidence, of what works and what does not work in conservation. It also tells you if no evidence has been found about whether or not a conservation intervention is effective. This is the 2020 edition of What Works in Conservation, which was firs…
Yerusalem adalah kota universal, ibukota dua bangsa, dan tempat suci tiga agama. Kota warisan berbagai kekaisaran yang di masa kini menjadi medan perang bagi bentrokan peradaban ini dipercayai bakal jadi tempat penghancuran terakhir dunia di Hari Kiamat. Bagaimana kota kecil yang terpencil ini menjadi Kota Suci, “pusat dunia” dan kini menjadi kunci perdamaian di Timur Tengah? Dalam buku ya…
The subject of adaptive filters constitutes an important part of statistical signal processing. Whenever there is a requirement to process signals that result from operation in an environment of unknown statistics, the use of an adaptive filter offers an attractive solution to the problem as it usually provides a significant improvement in performance over the use of a fixed filter designed by …