E-book Public Information Act Handbook 2024 : Texas

The Texas Public Information Act (the “Public Information Act” or the “Act”) gives the public the right to request access to government information. Below is a description of the basic procedures, rights and responsibilities under the Act. The Act is triggered when a person submits a written request to a governmental body. The request must ask for records or information already in exist…

E-book Health Care in America : Trends in Utilization

People use health care services for many reasons: to cure illnesses and health conditions, to mend breaks and tears, to prevent or delay future health care problems, to reduce pain and increase quality of life, and sometimes merely to obtain information about their health status and prognosis. Health care utilization can be appropriate or inappropriate, of high or low quality, expensive or inex…

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E-book Evil Twins and the Ultimate Insight : Ayn Rand, Vladimir Nabokov, and …

The twinship phenomenon might be a mere curiosity, a quirk of fate and fortune, were the two writers’ legacies less politically fraught and consequential. Both get blamed for a lot of dam-age in the world. Nabokov is sometimes charged, from the right flank, with condoning or committing or making light of pedo-philia (a recent scholarly book promises guidance on Teaching Na…

E-book Co-Creation for Sustainability The UN SDGs and the Power of Local Par…

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem-solving and create a framework to achieve it through the power of partnerships. Goal 17 points to the central importance of partnerships, networks, and multi-stakeholder collaborations for bringing together a broad range o…

E-book Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality

“It’s just different here,” is a common way in the Nordic countries for relativizing—that is, eschewing responsibility—for racism. “It’s not our fault we are so white, it’s just the way it is.” These commonly held justifications were presented by the anthropologist Kristín Loftsdóttir during her keynote speech at “The ‘Great White North’? Critical…

E-book Research in Global Learning

Young people around the world are calling ever more urgently on policymakers to address today’s global challenges of sustainability, structural inequality and social justice. So it is little surprise that learning in a global society, understanding sustainable development and being active global citizens are increasingly popular themes for education at all levels. Educational research makes a…

E-book New Horizons for the Alps

We started our respective field research in 2018 and we were somehow surprised not to find an international anthropological community in which researchers exchange and debate ideas in specific journals, meet at conferenc-es and hold working groups on Alpine matters. At the same time, the term “Alpine anthropology” is widely used (Kezich, 2022; Zanini and Viazzo, 2022) and there ex…

E-book Bring on the Books for Everybody

Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore book…

E-book Indian Agriculture Towards 2030

The historical experience of almost all economies shows that the share of the agricul-ture and allied sectors in total employment as well as in their national income fallswith progress in economic development. This decline does not, however, diminish theneed to address various challenges confronting the agriculture sector, which is a coreconcern in both developed and developing countries. Agric…

E-book Mapping Water in Dominica : Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism

?e probate that accompanied the suit included a detailed descrip-tion of the property, documenting enslaved laborers, buildings, furniture, ani-mals, equipment, and the disposition of the land. ?e estate in question was in the southwestern quarter of the island of Dominica (maps I. and I.?). For those acquainted with Caribbean estates, this is a familiar story. In their descrip-tion, the docum…

E-book Peri Urban Life Worlds Contested

The opening paragraph of this dissertation originates from Mozambican writer Mia C outo’s1 famous novel The Last Flight of the Flamingo (O Último Voo do Flamingo in Portuguese original). It plays at the end of Mozambique’s civil war, when the Italian United Nations officer Massimo R isi is sent to the village of Tizangara to investigate the mysterious deaths of local United Nations …

E-book Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance

Fifteen years to the day after making this statement, on 2 April 2011, MelesZenawi laid the foundation stone for what would become the Grand EthiopianRenaissance Dam (GERD), domestically funded and, at 5,150 megawatts (MW)of installed capacity and 74 billion cubic metres of water storage, one of the largestdams in the world. As Turkey had unilaterally built a series of dams upstream onthe trans…

E-book Gaza on Screen

In early May 2021, demonstrations by Palestinians protesting planned evic-tions from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem spread quickly to al-Aqsa Mosque and other parts of East Jerusalem where Israeli authorities had engaged in several provocative actions throughout the month of Rama-dan, including disabling the loudspeakers that broadcast the call to prayer, preventing worshippers fro…

E-book Invited to Witness : Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine

“They called me a tourist, which I found insulting.” So began a reflection by a delegate I interviewed who had gone on solidarity tours to Palestine during the first intifada. She grappled with her discomfort in occupying this term: tourist. She outlined her rationale, explaining that the designation tourism, attached to what she did in Palestine, felt derisive of her work, as though it was…

E-book The Case of Mexico

In this chapter, I employ a model of the consolidated government budget constraint to study the monetary and fiscal history of Mexico. I study the period 1960–2017, dividing it into three subperiods: rapid growth and monetary expansion, 1960–1982; crisis and reform, 1982–1995; and slow growth and macroeconomic stability, 1995–2017. The crisis and reform period includes the major economi…

E-book Contract Farming in Developing Countries

Contract farming—described broadly as an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricul-tural commodities against predetermined conditions—is not a recent phenomenon. Yet, a recent wave of agricultural industrialization and the emergence of large-scale food retailing in developing countries may have precipitate…

E-book Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education

As critical science studies scholar Karen Barad (2010) reminds us, “thepresent is not simplyhere-now” (p. 244, emphasis mine). Rather, it isalso a dis/continuous enfolding of heterogenousthere-thens.1This isto say that the central process of this book—accounting for and beingaccountable to the uneven and unequal relation between Indigenousmetaphysics and classical Western metaphysics by w…

E-book Children in Custody Disputes : Matching Legal Proceedings to Problems

he aim of this anthology is to explore how such legal proceedings in, and out-of-court, can be matched with the complex problems that are both caused by, and underlie such disputes. The anthology draws specif-ically on Nordic experiences of resolving custody disputes. However, the challenges are not unique to the Nordic legal systems: they exis…

E-book State of Empowerment : Low-Income Families and the New Welfare State

At around 3:00 on weekday afternoons, dismissal bells ring at thousands of schools across the country. For millions of students, these bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important educa-tional activity: federally funded after-school programs offering tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision.At Jackson Elementary1 in Chicago, the end o…

E-book Motherhood and the Law

Who is a child’s legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood in a gender neutral way? Questions such as these would have appeared esoteric only a few decades ago, but as a result of new social developments (such as frequent family …

E-book In a Wounded Land : Conservation, Extraction, and Human Well-Being in …

TANGANYIKA (TANZANIA SINCE 1964) was part of German East Africa from 1885 to 1918. It became a British League of Nations mandate between 1922 and 1946 and a British United Nations Trusteeship Terri-tory between 1946 and 1961. On December 9, 1961, Tanganyika gained independence from the British, and in 1964 it merged with Zanzibar, a former British protectora…

E-book Emotional and Ecological Literacy for a More Sustainable Society

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations in 2015 (hereinafter Agenda 2030),1 marks a global milestone in the commitment to addressing imperative sustainability issues such as ending poverty, overcoming food insecurity, reversing climate change impacts, and reversing inequality and injustice.2 At the core of the Agenda …

E-book Failure by Design : The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Mar…

Markets are the ambivalent gods of our societies. Powerful and fickle, they become subject to our collective hopes and fears. Some believe that they will deliver us from evil by reconciling us with our rivals and fostering in-novation. To others, they will forever corrupt nature, spread inequality, and alienate us from our communities. True to this ambiguity, markets var-iously appear…

E-book The Ethical Challenges Experienced by Healthcare Workers During the Wa…

Disasters, from natural phenomena to human-made conflicts, indiscriminately af-fect societies, where the gravity of impact varies significantly depending on time, place, and extent (Karadag & Hakan, 2012, p. 609). For instance, regional and global military conflicts present very complex and unpredictable situations with far-reach-ing consequences. Wars and armed conflicts frequently destroy …

E-book The European Union and the Arctic

Over the past decade, the EU has adopted a number of pieces of legislation regarding ocean governance with internal and external dimensions, such as the Marine Strategy Framework Directive2 and the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive.3 The Arctic is also on the EU’s Agenda. The EU aims to ensure sus-tainable development in and around the Arctic region on the basis of i…

E-book Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy

A political anthropology of energy starts from the position that en-ergetic infrastructures are pivots for sociopolitical inquiry. They fa-cilitate the contours of the state and local communities, both in their material existence and in their projection of imaginaries into the fu-ture and into a global environment. Not only is energy at the core of many economic interests, geopolit…

E-book Impersonations

Impersonation in Kuchipudi dance is grounded in a moment of divine inspira-tion. According to popular hagiography, the founding saint of Kuchipudi dance, Siddhendra, had a revelatory vision of Krishna and his consort Satyabhama, after which he abandoned all worldly ties and dedicated his life to singing the praises of his god. Envisioning himself as Sa…

E-book The Pleasure of Punishment

The main aim of this book is to generate a better understanding of how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. The question – how punishment produces pleasure – is understood against the background of the problematic of desire. It is a problematic defined by the inescapable tension between desire and enjoymen…

E-book Leadership and Governance in Primary Healthcare

Governance is about how society, organizations and individual groups make and implement collective choices. It comprises shifting decision-making responsibilities from individuals to a governing authority, with implementation by one or more institutions and with accountability systems to monitor and assure the progress of the decisions taken. Governance in the health system…

E-book Sector Based Action Against Corruption : A Guide for Organisations and…

This book is for professional people working in organisations and institu-tions who need to acquire competence in recognising, analysing and deal-ing with corruption issues. It is action-oriented, enabling the reader to know better how to limit the effects of such corruption on their organisa-tion’s functioning and outputs, thereby improving performance, and to build their…

E-book Doing Business 2020 : Luxembourg

This topic measures the number of procedures, time, cost and paid-in minimum capital requirement for a small- to medium-sized limited liability company to start up and formally operate in each economy’s largest business city. To make the data comparable across 190 economies, Doing Business uses a standardized business that is 100% domestically owned, has start-up capital equivalent to 10 tim…

E-book Doing Business 2020 : Ireland

This topic measures the number of procedures, time, cost and paid-in minimum capital requirement for a small- to medium-sized limited liability company to start up and formally operate in each economy’s largest business city. To make the data comparable across 190 economies, this book uses a standardized business that is 100% domestically owned, has start-up capital equivalent to 10 times th…

Presiden Manusia 1/2 Binatang

Kekuasaan presiden tak jarang jatuh pada puppeteerisme yakni keadaan di mana ia tidak lebih dari sebuah boneka yang diatur oleh kekuatan eksklusif lainnya. Mengapa demikian? Pertama, presiden tidak mampu menjadi komando bagi kekuasaan eksternal itu. Ia justru tunduk pada kekuasaan mereka. Kedua, presiden memang mau terikat oleh kekuatan itu karena menguntungkan diri dan kelompoknya. Dengan demi…

E-book Identity, Power, and Prestige in Switzerland's Multilingual Education

There is a saying by Ludwig Wittgenstein that could be used to summarize the un-derlyingmessageofthisstudy:DieGrenzenmeinerSprachebedeutendieGrenzenmeinerWelt,which is commonly translated into English asthelimitsofmylanguagemeanthelimitsofmyworld.Languagesandlanguagehierarchiesdevelopoutofideologiesthatconnectindividuals,languages,andculturewithinasocialspace.Peoplearejudgedaccording to their l…

E-book Doing Business 2020 : Morocco

This topic measures the number of procedures, time, cost and paid-in minimum capital requirement for a small- to medium-sized limited liability company to start up and formally operate in each economy’s largest business city. To make the data comparable across 190 economies, this ebook uses a standardized business that is 100% domestically owned, has start-up capital equivalent to 10 times t…

Agama, Filsafat, & Lingkungan Hidup

Kenyataan krisis ekologi menyerang kita dari banyak arah. Skala dan kompleksitas permasalahan-permasalahan dan kerumitan pemecahan-pemecahan jangka panjang semakin sulit diabaikan. Tak mungkinlah kita tidak terus berusaha mencari cara-cara untuk menemukan jalan keluar dari labirin kemerosotan lingkungan yang terus berjalan. Banyak perspektif, termasuk yang muncul dari agama dan filsafat, diperl…

Pakar (Panduan Akurat Belajar) TKA SMA/MA 2025-2026 IPA

Materi Super Lengkap Buku ini memuat ringkasan materi super lengkap dari mapel-mapel yang diujikan dalam TKA (Tes Kemampuan Akademik). Dilengkapi juga dengan latihan soal dan soal pengayaan sehingga memudahkan kalian. Paket Soal Buku ini dilengkapi dengan paket soal latihan yang komprehensif dan diberikan kunci jawaban serta pembahasan. Sehingga kalian dapat berlatih drilling soal dengan mak…

Jejak Diplomasi Retno Marsudi Tegas dalam Prinsip, Lentur dalam Cara: Kilas B…

Buku ini terdiri atas sepuluh bab yang mendalami dan komprehensif, menyajikan kisah-kisah penting dan strategi diplomaso yang diimplementasikan oleh Retno Marsudi saat menjabat sebagai Menteri Luar Negri

GERCEP Gerak Cepat Menuju Kampus Impian TKA IPS 2025/2026 SMA/MA/SMK

Buku "Gercep (Gerak Cepat Menuju Kampus Impian) TKA (Tes Kemampuan Akademik) IPS SMA/MA/SMK 2025/2026". ini merupakan salah satu sumber belajar yang bisa digunakan untuk mengenal tipe-tipe soal TKA. Matematika, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Inggris.

Teori sosiologi: Dari teoori Sosiologi Klasik Sampai Perkembangan Mutakhir Te…

Di dalam buku ini perjalanan teori sosiologi dari awal kelahiran sampai perkembangan mutakhirnya dibahas secara terperinci. Kerincian itu dapat dilihat dari pemaparan tentang basis-basis epistemologis dan pengandaian-pengandaian ontologis tentang hakikat kehidupan sosial yang melandasi setiap teori yang lahir, latar sosiohistoris tempatnya muncul dan ringkasan biografi para teoretisi pencetus t…

Puspadanta Gonzaga : Setia Berjalan dan Berjuang Bersama

Buku ini terdiri atas 18 tulisan dengan tema beragam, yang didasarkan pada kegelisahan masing-masing penulisnya dalam kehidupan bermasyarakat, karya sederhana ini untuk bangsa. Pandangan yang kritis terhadap permasalahan bangsa ini justru menunjukkan kecintaan dan kepedulian mereka terhadap negeri. Selain membahas topik yang sifatnya aktual, buku ini juga membahas permasalahan laten, seperti ke…

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Economics Today and Tomorrow

1. An Introduction to Economics Chapter 1 What Is Economics? Chapter 2 Economics Systems and the Americam Economy 2. Practical Economics: How Theory Works for You Chapter 3 Your Role as a Consumer Chapter 4 Going Into Debt Chapter 5 Buying the Necessities Chatpet 6 Saving and Investing Chapter 7 Deman and Supply Chapter 8 Business Organizations Chapter 9 Competition and Monopolies…

Desain Pengembangan Profesionalisme Guru Sekolah Yesuit

Tujuan pendidikan di sekolah Yesuit diarahkan agar siswa memiliki kompetensi yang baik, hati nurani benar, dan berbela rasa. Istilah ini sering disingkat dengan 3C. Untuk mendukung tujuan tersebut, paradigma yang senantiasa dihidupi oleh Kolese Yesuit adalah Paradigma Pedagogi Ignasian (PPI). sebagai sebuah spirit dasar. juga menjadi fundamen bagi penyusunan desain pengembangan profesionalisme …

Komunitas-Komunitas Imajiner

Barangkali tanpa banyak terlacak, sebuah proses transformasi dalam sejarah Marxisme dan gerakan Marxis terjadi tepat di depan mata kita. Isyarat-isyarat paling gamblang ke arah itu adalah peperangan yang baru terjadi antara Vietnam, Kamboja, serta Cina. Perang-perang ini punya makna penting historis lantaran menjadi perang-perang pertama yang terjadi antar-rezim yang kadar kemerdekaan dan kuali…

Kearifan Lokal Pancasila Butir-Butir Filsafat KeIndonesiaan

Dalam konteks terkini bangsa kita, kehadiran buku ini ibarat "mata air jernis" yang darinya kita seperti dibuat dahaga untuk segera meneguk "air" nilai-nilai hidup harmoni kebangsaan sendiri. Kearifan Lokal-Pancasila: Butir-Butir Filsafat KeIndonesiaan ini merupakan harta karun yang kini digali untuk didalami, dihayati serta diresapkan hingga sendi-sendi paling mendasar dari kehidupan berbangsa…

Mengobarkan Kembali Api Pancasila

Pancasila sebagai dasar negara, pandangan hidup bangsa, dan sebagai jati diri bangsa "digali" Bung Karno dari akar-akar kehidupan bangsa Indonesia. Masalahnya, sampai kini pancasila yang luhur baru mewujud sebagai kata0kata dan semboyan belaka. Ia belum menjadi realitas yang dapat dilihat dan dirasakan dalam kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara. Pancasila, yang intinya adalah kehidupan gotong royo…

Negara Paripurna: Historititas, Rasionalitas, dan Aktualitas Pancasila

Buku ini menunjukan posisi dan kelas Yudi Latif sebagai intelektual-aktivis yang memiliki panggilan moral-intelektual tinggi untuk memantapkan Pancasila sebagai jati diri bangsa Indonesia dengan pendekatan ilmiah. Saya yakin buku ini akan menjadi karya klsik yang selalu bisa jadi rujukan siapapun yang ingin mengenal dan mendalami jati diri bangsa Indonesia. Buku ini wajib dimiliki dan dibaca ol…

Tanggung Jawab Negara

Negara merupakan payung hukum tertinggi untuk menjadim terciptanya masyarakat yang adil dan sejahtera. Kehadiran negara bukan hanya dibutuhkan, tetapi juga penting untuk memberikan kepastian dan jaminan kehidupan bagi seluruh warna negaranya. Negara dituntut mampu memberikan keadilan bagi seluruh rakyat sesuai dengan amanat dari dasar negara. Negara juga dituntut untuk mampu mengelola kekaya…