E-book Innovations in Teaching History: Eighteenth-Century Studies in Higher …

An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education. The study of the eighteenth century has been a growth area in university research and teaching in recent decades. Although widely taught in history departments, the eighteenth century also presents challenges, including new students’ unfamiliarity with the peri…

E-book Come Hell or High Fever : Readying the World's Megacities for Disaster

Haruki Akamatsu had not felt the ocean crust heave 10 metres upward. He was not there to see the 6-metre tsunami surge inland, drowning thousands and clawing the earth bare with its retreat. He had, however, clutched the carpet beneath his desk as the twenty-first-floor office in Tokyo swayed sickeningly, thinking the worst was over when the swaying stopped. It was not, b…

E-book The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations : Social Respon…

Climate change threatens the physical and mental health of vulnerablecommunities and can have a significant impact on their livelihoods. Climate changecan also deepen existing social and economic inequities and contribute to the erosionof coping skills and resilience. Transformative social and economic responses basedon inclusion and dialogue with members of the community are needed in such ane…

E-book The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in Global Context

Introduction; Yasue Kuwahara PART I: PRODUCTION 1. Hallyu as a Government Construct: The Korean Wave in the Context of Economic and Social Development; John Walsh 2. Transformations of Korean Media Industries by the Korean Wave: The Perspective of Glocalization; Hyejung Ju 3. The Politics of the Dancing Body: Racialized and Gendered Femininity in Korean Pop; Chuyun Oh PART II: GLOCALIZATION 4. …

E-book Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations

Previously unknown operations and new names continue to surface in the Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations. This new edition contains updated information on Cold War spying, with over 350 A?Z main entries (over thirty of them new) biographical sketches, and an updated bibliography. In support of the entries the book includes useful tools: a complete chronology of si…

E-book Industrial Development In East Asia: A Comparative Look at Japan, Kore…

This book presents a broad descriptive and quantitative evaluation of industrial policies in four East Asian economies -- Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore -- with a special focus on Singapore. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the discussions on the concept of industrial policy within the East Asian context and quantitative assessments of these policies through productivity analyse…

E-book Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authors…

The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses various modes and strategies by which learned women (authors, scientists, jurists, midwifes, painters, and others) sought to negotiate and legitimise their authority at th…

E-book Borderlands : Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East

In recent years, images of migrants and refugees risking their lives to reachEurope from the Middle East and Africa havefilled the pages and screens ofEuropean media. Migration has turned into a highly politicized matter inEurope, galvanized by xenophobic movements and right-wing parties alike.Increasingly restrictive policies towards migrants and refugees, adopted bynumerous European countries…

E-book Values of Happiness: Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life

How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fundamental questions about how to live and what it means to be human. Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned less with gauging h…

E-book Empire, Colony, Postcolony

Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary political issues. The book analyzes major concepts and explains the meaning of key terms. The first book to introduce the main historical and c…

E-book Ethics or the Right Thing?: Corruption and Care in the Age of Good Gov…

A sympathetic examination of the failure of anti-corruption efforts in contemporary Indonesia. Combining ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Kupang with an acute historical sensibility, Sylvia Tidey shows how good governance initiatives paradoxically perpetuate civil service corruption while also facilitating the emergence of new forms of it. Importing critical insights from the anthropology …

E-book Vote Buying in Indonesia: The Mechanics of Electoral Bribery

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates the impact of vote buying on the accountability of democratic institutions and policy representation in newly democratic countries, with a focus on Indonesia. In doing so, the book presents a wide-ranging study of the dynamics of vote buying in Indonesia’s young democracy, exploring the nature, extent, determinants, ta…

E-book Sugarcane: Agricultural Production, Bioenergy and Ethanol

Sugarcane: Agricultural Production, Bioenergy and Ethanol explores this vital source for "green" biofuel from the breeding and care of the plant all the way through to its effective and efficient transformation into bioenergy. The book explores sugarcane's 40 year history as a fuel for cars, along with its impressive leaps in production and productivity that have created a robust global mar…

E-book Advanced Land Warfare : Tactics and Operations

International politics has become ever more volatile in the last decade,increasing the risk of large-scale military violence. Yet the precise charac-ter of future wars will depend on a range of factors that relate to adversaries,allies, technology, geographical scope, and multiple domains of warfighting.Few would question that land forces will also be important in the foreseeablefuture. Recent …

E-book Ploughshares and Swords : India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War

A major corporate scandal broke out in London in 1916. It was over German control of monazite sands in the princely state of Tiruvitamkur, anglicized as Travancore, in British India. Travancore was home to one of the world’s largest monazite deposits. Monazite was a major source of thorium nitrate used in incandescent gas mantles for street lighting— a cheap alternative to electric ligh…

E-book Sport, Forced Migration and the 'Refugee Crisis'

The tabloid newspaper Bild portrayed the rise of Bakery Jatta as a professional football player with almost fan-alike admiration. The word ‘fairy tale’ was widely used to describe the sport career of this young Gambian, who migrated to Europe in 2015 in the context of the ‘refugee crisis’ and rapidly made a name for himself in one of the world’s top football leagues. Within just…

E-book What activities can help students use technologies better?: Chapter 5 …

How to Augment Language Skills outlines ways in which translators and language providers can expand their skillset and how translation technologies can be integrated into language learning and translator training. This book explains the basics of generative AI, machine translation, and translation memory suites, placing them in a historical context and assessing their fundamental impacts on lan…

E-book Politics in Publishing: Japan and the Globalization of Intellectual Pr…

Non-Western perspective on the international history of intellectual property rights. Politics in Publishing focuses on Japan's involvement in shaping international copyright law over a seventy-year period following the country's 1899 accession to the Berne Convention, the first multilateral copyright treaty. During this time, Japanese state officials collaborated with various stakeholders such…

E-book Shared Physical Custody : Interdisciplinary Insights in Child Custody …

Shared physical custody (SPC)1, the care arrangement in which a child lives from30% to 70% of the time with each parent after their separation or divorce, has beenon the rise in most Western regions in the last two decades (Smyth2017). Prevalenceand incidence of SPC vary substantively by context though. While the percentage ofSPC among divorced and separated parents grew from 12% to 50% between…

E-book Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Cr…

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E-book Agricultural Value Chains in India : Ensuring Competitiveness, Inclusi…

Changing consumption preferences towards high value, nutrient and protein richfoods are signaling agricultural diversification in India. Currently, India is the largestproducer of milk, pulses, banana, mango, pomegranate, papaya, lemon, okra, gingerand non-food crops like cotton and jute; the second-largest producer of rice, wheat,fruits and vegetables, tea and one of the leading producers of e…

E-book Environmental Governance in Indonesia

This open access book presents the state-of-the-art environmental governance research and practices in Indonesia. It offers a wide scope, covering different sectors (e.g., forestry, mining) and geographical landscapes (e.g., inland and coastal areas). This book engages with existing theories and frameworks, including Earth System Governance, Adaptive and Interactive Governance, among others to …

E-book Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesi…

What is the experience of truth and reconciliation? What is the purpose of a truth commission? What lessons can be learned from established truth and reconciliation processes? Flowers in the Wall explores the experience of truth and reconciliation Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific, with and without a formal truth commission. Although much has been written about the operational phases of …

E-book Seeing the City Digitally : Processing Urban Space and Time

This book explores what’s happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualized are digital. It is by no means comprehensive. Its chapters all explore specif ic examples of different kinds of digital technologies and examine different sorts of images in different cities: many other technologies, images and cit…

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E-book Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia: Embedded Rem…

This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence. These memories are not exclusively determined by the state’s repressive memory project, but are actually embedded in …

E-book Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia

Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and Christian scenes proliferated on walls and billboards around a provincial town in eastern Indonesia in a conflict pitting Muslims against Christians. A manifestation of the extreme perception that emerged amidst the uncertainty and challenge to seeing brought on by urban warfare, the street paintings e…

E-book Islam and Politics in Indonesia: The Masyumi Party between Democracy a…

The Masyumi Party, which was active in Indonesia from 1945 to 1960, constitutes the boldest attempt to date at reconciling Islam and democracy. Masyumi proposed a vision of society and government which was not bound by a literalist application of Islamic doctrine but rather inspired by the values of Islam. It set out moderate policies which were tolerant towards other religious communities in I…

E-book Courts and Diversity: Twenty Years of the Constitutional Court of Indo…

The Constitutional Court of Indonesia functions in one of the most diverse societies in the world. It is required to resolve disputes within a kaleidoscope of diversity and plurality with flexibility, pragmatism, asymmetry, and wisdom. Whilst national minimum norms are important for nation-building, recognition of local customs, diversities and indigenous systems are equally important to protec…

E-book Resisting Indonesia's Culture of Impunity: Aceh's Truth and Reconcilia…

Resisting Indonesia's Culture of Impunity examines the role of Indonesia’s first truth and reconciliation commission—the Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or KKR Aceh—in investigating and redressing the extensive human rights violations committed during three decades of brutal separatist conflict (1976–2005) in the province of Aceh. The KKR Aceh was founded in late 2016, as a pr…

E-book Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History

Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History is inspired by the conviction of so many of Indonesia's Independence-era artists that there is continuing interaction between art and everyday life. In the 1970s, Sanento Yuliman, Indonesia’s foremost art historian of the late twentieth century, further developed that concept, stating: 'New Indonesian Art cannot wholly be und…

E-book Global Platform Work : Negotiating Relations in a Translocal Assemblage

This study seeks to explore and theorise remote gig workers’ everyday workpractices of making and sustaining global connections mediated by online platforms.By shedding light on an aspect of work that is usually unpaid and often overlooked, the insights generated from this study are anticipated to contribute to debates about how work can be organised, managed, and al-located more fairly. More…

E-book Soeharto's New Order and its Legacy: Essays in honour of Harold Crouc

Indonesia’s President Soeharto led one of the most durable and effective authoritarian regimes of the second half of the twentieth century. Yet his rule ended in ignominy, and much of the turbulence and corruption of the subsequent years was blamed on his legacy. More than a decade after Soeharto’s resignation, Indonesia is a consolidating democracy and the time has come to reconsider the p…

E-book What We Now Know about Race and Ethnicity

Th is may have been a reference to the statement issued by the Amer-ican Association of Physical Anthropologists that declared, among other things, that ‘there is no national, religious, linguistic or cultural group or economic class that constitutes a race’.2Th e ASA statement continued: ‘Growing numbers of humanist scholars, social anthropologists, and political …

E-book Creating the University of the Future: A Global View on Future Skills …

This open accesspublication presents a global panorama of institutional strategies, academic programs, scholarly insights as well as teaching and learning practices taking stock of the Future Skills Turn taking place in higher education. Future Skills have evolved to be one of the most important priorities for the development of higher education institutions globally. Students and graduates lea…

E-book Global Agendas and Education Reforms: A Comparative Study

This open access book examines the effects of global education agendas such as digitalization, innovation and entrepreneurship, education in emergencies, globalization-internationalization, diversity, and sustainability on education reforms in several countries and regions. It explores how increasing international interaction and communication tools bring along a more intense convergence in nat…

E-book Impacts of Study Abroad on Higher Education Development

This open-access book is an exceptional contribution to the burgeoning fields of higher education development and higher education internationalization as it empirically examines the impact of the study abroad experiences of faculty members on individual and institutional development. The research and its outcomes presented here utilize results from a large-scale survey and interviews of facult…

E-book Unfree Lives: Slaves at the Najahid and Rasulid courts of Yemen (11th …

This first detailed study of slavery in medieval Yemen examines the lives of women and men who were enslaved as children and then placed in various subaltern positions - from domestic servant to royal concubine, from quarryman to army commander. Diese erste detaillierte Studie der Sklaverei im mittelalterlichen Jemen analysiert das Leben von Frauen und Männern, die als Kinder versklavt wur…

E-book "Unity in Diversity is Not For Us"

Unity in Diversity is not for us explores the lived experiences of primarily Muslim lesbians and trans men (LT+) in Indonesia, where Islam is the majority religion. Using an ethnographic approach, the book traces how LT+ individuals understand their identities and negotiate their gender and desire amidst socio-religious rejection. The analysis illustrates the biographical process of coming of a…

Kisah-kisah Kebijaksanaan China Klasik : Refleksi bagi Para Pemimpin

Inilah harta yang tak pernah usang bagi mereka yang mencari pencerahan pribadi dan spiritual. Kebenaran dan kebijaksanaan yang terkandung dalam kisah-kisah China klasik menawarkan begitu banyak hal bagi mereka yang mencari keunggulan dalam dunia bisnis saat ini. Pemimpin menyuguhkan lebih dari seratus cerita masyarakat China zaman dulu, masing-masing menawarkan pesan yang sangat menggelitik pi…

Bitcoin : Trading for Z Generation

Bitcoin adalah mata uang digital yang paling populer yang telah diterima oleh berbagai negara di belahan dunia ini. Mata uang digital yang tidak bisa dikontrol oleh negara manapun ini semakin hari semakin kuat ditopang oleh transaksi di internet dan berbagai tempat fisik di dunia yang kian banyak menggunakan Bitcoin sebagai alat pembayaran yang sah. Sebagai mata uang dengan perkembangan yang pa…

E-book Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction

Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is decidedly not post-nuclear'. For all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero, it seems that the…

E-book Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction

Throughout history, humanity has borne witness to the political and moral challenges that arise when people place national identity above allegiance to geo-political states or international communities. This book discusses the concept of nations and nationalism from social, philosophical, geological, theological, and anthropological perspectives. It examines nationalist conflicts past and prese…

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace - One School at a Time

The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverishe…

E-book China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half …

E-book Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®

From gluten-free to all-Paleo, GMOs to grass-fed beef, our newsfeeds abound with nutrition advice. Whether sensational headlines from the latest study or anecdotes from celebrities and food bloggers, we're bombarded with "superfoods" and "best ever" diets promising to help us lose weight, fight disease, and live longer. At the same time, we live in an over-crowded food environment that makes it…

E-book Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know

Historically, Americans have seen libertarians as far outside the mainstream, but with the rise of the Tea Party movement, libertarian principles have risen to the forefront of Republican politics. But libertarianism is more than the philosophy of individual freedom and unfettered markets that Republicans have embraced. Indeed, as Jason Brennan points out, libertarianism is a quite different--a…

E-book The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know®

When guns began firing again in Europe, why was it Ukraine that became the battlefield? Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's current crisis can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However this theory only obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic revolution and the conflict's crucial international di…

Undang-Undang Perkawinan & Administrasi Kependudukan, Kewarganegaraan

Sesuai dengan falsafah Pancasila serta cita-cita untuk pembinaan hukum nasional, perlu adanya Undang-Undang tentang Perkawinan yang berlaku bagi semua warga negara. Perkawinan adalah ikatan lahir batin antara seorang pria dan seorang wanita sebagai suami istri dengan tujuan membentuk keluarga atau rumah tangga yang bahagia dan kekal berdasarkan Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa. Semoga buku ini bermanfaa…

E-book Agricultural and Food Controversies: What Everyone Needs to Know®

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 …