E-book Feeding Future Generations : How Finance can Boost Innovation in Agri-…

Agri-food is more than a strategically important economic sector. It is also crucial for society, because it provides affordable and sustainable nutrition for the population. An increasingly growing part of society, especially the young, are willing to pay more for sustainable food. This is important, as the sector is extremely sensitive to price changes. Crowdfunding can give more financing to…

E-book Study Secrets

One of the first questions that students have when they start reading Study Secrets is ‘what actions should I take first?’. This book is packed with so much helpful information that it can be difficult to know where to start. A student who can read, but doesn’t act upon their reading, is really the same as a student who never reads at all. Acting upon the secrets you learn is the only way…

E-book Saving and Investing : A Roadmap to Your Financial Security Through Sa…

If you buy a cup of coffee every day for $1.00 (an awfully good price for a decent cup of coffee, nowadays), that adds up to $365.00 a year. If you saved that $365.00 for just one year, and put it into a savings account or investment that earns 5% a year, it would grow to $465.84 by the end of 5 years, and by the end of 30 years, to $1,577.50. That’s the power of “compounding.” With compo…

E-book The Sage Handbook of Diplomacy

Preparing a handbook on diplomacy nowadays reflects a major challenge that was not present during Satow’s times, and which lets us say a great deal more about diplomacy than Satow could. Specifically, a handbook today encounters and benefits from the development over the last 100 years of the academic discipline of International Relations and within it the rich and expanding field of Diplomat…

E-book The New Public Diplomacy : Soft Power in International Relations

The idea to create this book was triggered by the feeling that the debate about public diplomacy after September 2001 had mainly taken place in the press and that the time was ripe for students of diplomacy to look at this phenomenon. In the early stages of the book it became clear how much confusion still surrounded public diplomacy (that is, the relationship between diplomats and the foreign …

E-book A Dictionary of Diplomacy

In this second edition of A Dictionary of Diplomacy we have added a considerable number of entries, excluded some which no longer seemed significant, reworked others in the light of further reflection, and corrected a few errors. We would like to thank all of those who offered criticisms of the first edition and suggested new entries for inclusion in this one, notably Lorna Lloyd (who also gav…

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 Global Political Demography : The Politics of Population Change

Political demography, or the systematic study of population changeand politics, public policies and polities, sees population dynamics (struc-ture and change) as one of the main drivers of politics at the meso-and macro-level. As an approach, it can be defined as the study of thedynamics in the size, composition and distribution of populations andtheir effects on political and policy processes.…

E-book Preferable Futures

Preferable Futures delves into the question of possible, probable, and desirable futures amidst the pressures of climate change and digitalization. Through a diverse range of perspectives, the book explores ways to negotiate and create desirable futures using the concept of transformation design in theory and practice, economic business simulations, and recent humanistic theories. This thought-…

Ebook Counter-Dancing Digitality: On Commoning and Computation

Digitality is imposed upon us! To change this, we should not turn away from it, but look carefully into its transformative power and make operable alternatives such as counter-algorhythms and solidarity-oriented commoning. The aim is a world where profit and property no longer exist, but instead where a cooperative dance – between all the needs posed by our ecosystems, and all the needs of pe…

E-book Touchscreen Archaeology: Tracing Histories of Hands-On Media Practices

The touchscreen belongs to a century-long history of hands-on media practices and touchable art objects. This media-archaeological excavation examines the nature of our sensual involvement with media and invites the reader to think about the touchscreen beyond its technological implications. In six chapters, the book questions and historicizes both aspects of the touchscreen, considering “tou…

E-book Who Owns the Images?: The Paradox of Archives, between Commercializati…

Digitization carries the utopian promise of archival access unlimited by constraints of space and time, and with it, of new forms of research and historiographies. In reality, digital image archives pose a complex set of technical, legal, ethical and methodological challenges, particularly for film and media studies and adjacent fields. In a series of studies and interviews with practitioners, …

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E-book Volunteer Tourism : Characterisation and Debates of a Global Phenomenon

At the same time, there has been a growing interest in the analysis of this phenomenon by academics which have conceptualised and drawn attention to different dynamics of volunteer tourism (Salvador, 2019). However, despite the multiple definitions of the concept, there is still a lack of consensus of the critical components of voluntourism (Gofrey et al., 2019). Meanwhile, it is also argued th…

E-book U.S. Navy Program Guide - 2017

The U.S. Navy is ready to execute the Nation’s tasks at sea, from prompt and sustained combat operations to every-day forward-presence, diplomacy and relief efforts. We operate worldwide, in space, cyberspace, and throughout the maritime domain. The United States is and will remain a maritime nation, and our security and prosperity are inextricably linked to our ability to operate naval force…

E-book Money and Debt: The Public Role of Banks

Money, as the saying goes, makes the world go round. Everybody uses it; ourmodern societies would not function without it. Credit is just as crucial, as borrowingallows businesses to invest and consumers to buy goods and services today againsttheir income tomorrow. But although money and debt are central in our societies andto our welfare, how they actually function is not easily understood.The…

E-book Quest for Money

The purpose of this chapter is to identify remaining research interests in money in the age of digitalization and put my past research topics in perspective. I have no intention to conduct a comprehensive review of the history of money,1 nor to search for the origin of money. n my research, I started the choice of optimal currency denominatio…

E-book Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural: Nordic Perspectives on Land…

Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural presents a summa of current and classic theorizing on religion and the supernatural in relationship to the land and develops this theorizing further by confronting it with a rich set of folkloristic and historical data. Focusing on the themes of “time and memory,” “repeating patterns,” “identity formation,” “morality,” “labor,” “pl…

E-book How Money Works: The Facts Visually Explained

Money facilitates the billions of transactions that take place every day across the globe. Using ‘need to know’ boxes, step-by-step diagrams, and other eye-catching visuals, How Money Works shows you how this is possible. It explains economic theories, how governments raise and control money, what goes on in the stock exchange, how analysts predict where shares are heading, and many other i…

E-book The Space and Power of Young People's Social Relationships

The book examines the power of young people’s social relationships in schools to transform, or more often, to continue, differences that pervade societies: mind-body-emotional diff erences or Special Educational Needs and Disability, gender, poverty, race/ethnicity, sexuality and their intersections. The book details extensive qualitative research with young people, foregrounding their accoun…

E-book How Citizens View Science Communication: Pathways to Knowledge

Science communication aims at the successful sharing and explanation of sciencerelated topics to a wider audience. In order to enhance communication between science and society, a better understanding of citizens’ habits and perceptions is needed. Therefore, it is vital to understand how citizens acquire knowledge about science- related issues, how this knowledge affects their beliefs, opinio…

E-book Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland

Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland presents comparative case studies of clock time from Fiji and Finland in order to ask what other values is time capable of expressing besides monetary worth – what “else” can time be besides money? Time is a highly particular vehicle for different considerations of what is good or important, but it is also one which is deployed at diffe…

E-book Teaching Myself to See

Teaching Myself to See deals with Tito’s struggles to participate in a world full of visual details. As a person with autism, Tito is visually selective, processing the myriad of details seeping in through the eye rather than the whole. Tracing Tito’s experiences to learn to see in his own, “hyper-visual” way, through art, through magazines, through everyday life, Teaching Myself to See…

E-book Playing Dystopia: Nightmarish Worlds in Video Games and the Player's A…

Video games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating gameworlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the enacted events. Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player's aesthetic response to their nightmarish gameworlds. Players, he argues, will gradually come to see similarities between the virtual dys…

E-book Disaster Anarchy : Mutual Aid and Radical Action

In late October 2012, almost a year after the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) encampment at Zuccotti Park, Hurricane Sandy hit New York, with first landfall near Brigantine, New Jersey, with winds of 80 mph. At the time, Sandy was the second costliest storm in US history, costing around US $73.5 billion, second only to Hurricane Katrina. The human cost was significant: more t…

E-book What is Rape?: Social Theory and Conceptual Analysis

What exactly is rape? And how is it embedded in society? Hilkje Charlotte Hänel offers a philosophical exploration of the often misrepresented concept of rape in everyday life, systematically mapping out and elucidating this atrocious phenomenon. Hänel proposes a theory of rape as a social practice facilitated by ubiquitous sexist ideologies. Arguing for a normative cluster model for the conc…

E-book Children and Young People’s Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction…

he CUIDAR project began as a response to a timely call by the European Commission’s Secure Societies theme within its Horizon 2020 programme for culturally sensitive disaster management plans. So we argued that children and young people should be considered as a cultural group whose perspectives and insights were overlooked in the adultist cultural worlds of emergency planning and disaster ri…

E-book Wildlife Trafficking : The Illicit Trade in Wildlife, Animal Parts, an…

Wildlife trafficking includes the taking, trading, importing, exporting,processing, possessing, obtaining, and purchasing of wild animals, animalparts, and plants in contravention of international or national law. Wildlifetrafficking threatens the existence of many animal and plant species. Themore endangered a species becomes, the greater is the value of theremaining specime…

E-book Central Banking & Monetary Policy : An Introduction

Price stability is low and stable (non-volatile) changes in the general price level, generally referred to as the inflation rate. History has shown that when inflation is low, it tends to be non-volatile. What is low inflation? The majority of the world tends to subscribe 2-3% pa. Why 2-3% pa and not 0% pa? The jury is out on this one, but present economic lore holds that 0% pa is too close to …

E-book Monetary Theory and Policy

Monetary economics investigates the relationship between real economic variables at the aggregate level (such as real output, real rates of interest, employment, and real exchange rates) and nominal variables (such as the inflation rate, nominal interest rates, nominal exchange rates, and the supply of money). So defined, monetary economics has considerable overlap with macroeconomics more gene…

E-book Introduction to Public Health

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E-book Enhancing the Value of Teacher Education Research: Implications for Po…

This book invites us to critically reflect on the value of research in, on and for teacher education. It explores the nature and role of teacher education research and identifies ways to enhance its value for policy and practice. It gathers together studies that deploy a wide range of methodologies, including small-scale practitioner-focused research and large-scale empirical studies, consideri…

E-book Forecasting : in Economics, Business, Finance and Beyond

One key field is economics, broadly defined. Governments, businesses, policy organizations, central banks, financial services firms, and economic consulting firms around the world routinely forecast major economic variables, such as gross domestic product (GDP), unemployment, consumption, investment, the price level, and interest rates. Governments use such forecasts to guide monetary and fisca…

E-book A Sensory Education

There is also certainly a very specific market, of those who are addressed in the marketing of sensory education tools, with a rather limited inclusivity entailed in many of the workshops, books and programs I found, whether through targeted groups or representation in advertisement. As I delve into throughout the book, sensory education is often seen as an antidote to dig-ital maximalism, wh…

E-book Future Drinking Water Infrastructure : Building Blocks for Drinking Wa…

Firstly, the focus in this framework is on planning for and adapting to socio-technical change of drinking water infrastructure. This assumes that any strategic planning of drinking water infrastructure needs to consider both the social and technical aspects in relation to each other, not in isolation. Drinking water infrastructure comprises physical elements like pipes and pumps, but they are …

E-book Infrastructure Investment in Indonesia: A Focus on Ports

his interdisciplinary collection—spanning the disciplines of engineering, law and planning—draws helpfully on a range of practical and theoretical perspectives. It is the collaborative effort of leading experts in the fields of infrastructure project initiation and financing, and is based on international research conducted by the University of Melbourne, Universitas Indonesia and Universit…

E-book Battle at Sea: 3000 Years of Naval Warfare

A visual journey through 3,000 years of naval warfare — now in paperback! From the clash of galleys in Ancient Greece to deadly encounters between nuclear-powered submarines in the 20th century, explore every aspect of the story of naval warfare on, under, and above the sea.

E-book A Country of Shepherds: Stories of a Changing Mediterranean Landscape

This book draws on the life stories told by shepherds, farmers, and their families in the Andalusian region in Spain to sketch out the landscapes, actions, and challenges of people who work in pastoralism. Their narratives highlight how local practices interact with regional and European communities and policies, and they help us see a broader role for extensive grazing practices and sustainabi…

E-book Women in the Workplace 2022

Women are far less likely than men to work in engineering and technical fields, and women’s relative representation in these jobs is lower than it was in 2018.12 As a result, women in technical roles are twice as likely as women overall to say they are frequently the only woman in the room at work. The fact that they are so often “Only” women may partly explain why women in tech face high…

E-book Women and Trade : The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality

As this report demonstrates, women are often more economically vulnerable than men and thus are less likely to be resilient in the face of the crisis. As economies emerge out of the crisis, it is important that governments generate long-term gender-inclusive growth by addressing the constraints that women face. Although most of this report was prepared prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemi…

E-book A Child is A Child : Protecting Childern on the Move from Violence, Ab…

As large numbers of refugees and migrants arrive, children among them are routinely left in conditions that would be deemed unacceptable for native-born children. They languish in overcrowded shelters, end up in makeshift camps or are left exposed to the dangers of life on the streets. Sometimes, compatriots force them to work under exploitative conditions in exchange for shelter and food. Mist…

E-book Women Empowerment : Women Empowerment for Inclusive Businesses, Learni…

This book is a humble attempt to contribute to the subject of Women Empowerment by presenting to you our learnings. We have throughout this book, ensured that we bring you these learnings with key insights from our experts and project partners. Chapter two of the book is dedicated to the same. Chapter one will give you a context of Danone, The Ecosystem Fund and also the reason why this topic i…

E-book The Terms of Our Surrender : Colonialism, Dispossession and the Resist…

Based on the experience of the Innu resident in Quebec and Labrador, this book is intended to be a work of advocacy for the full extent of the rights of indigenous peoples whose landholdings have been devastated in the Canadian land claims process. As things stand at present, the Innu who are resident in government villages in Quebec have lost their rights to …

E-book Cambodia : Diversifying Beyond Garments and Tourism Country Diagnostic…

The economy has grown rapidly, with real per capita income doubling in the 12 years to 2013. Human development has improved, marked by a significant decline in poverty and gains across a range of socioeconomic variables. The key sectors of the economy have gone from strength to strength, with Cambodia now the world’s 8th largest rice exporter and Asia’s 10th largest garment producer. The to…

E-book Modern Folk Devils : Contemporary Constructions of Evil

Closely intertwined with the folk devil is the moral panic that subsequently arises with public fear. For Cohen, a moral panic typically takes its starting point in big newspaper headlines where the folk devil is pointed out, yet, as this volume demonstrates, today it may as well arise from a grass-root level, in social media, through political discourses or from alre…

E-book Eating beside Ourselves : Thresholds of Foods and Bodies

Eating, after all, is not strictly a human activity. Eating beside Ourselvesasks what can be learned by recognizing that what makes food food, in both substance and significance, concerns its relation to a myriad of eaters—not only human eaters but others besides. In turning organic substances into food, acts of eating create webs of relations, interconnected food chains organized by relative…

E-book Navigating the Cultures of Health Care and Health Insurance : Highly s…

This book aims to challenge this assumption by analysing the experiences and expectations of foreign-born skilled professionals with the US health care and health insurance systems, focusing on structural and functional discrepancies within health care and health insurance. In the framework of an ethnographic study based in Washington, DC, a highly modern, international metro…

E-book The Journey Stories by K. C. Das

thing of a challenge to the elite and orthodox literary culture ofIndia's classical language, Sanskrit. Only the so-called heterodoxreligious groups, the Buddhists and Jains, accepted and encouragedwriting in a vernacular language. Both Buddhists and Jains used earlyvernaculars, called Middle Indie, for religious texts and secular com-positions. …

E-book Water in Times of Climate Change : A Values-driven Dialogue

Although the urgent COVID-19 pandemic now garners almost all political attention, the more stealthily emerging crisis of climate change will, ultimately, have a more structural and encompassing impact and is, therefore, crucial to the outcome of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda. Water is and will be a key factor in how societies will experience, and …

E-book Food for Change

One of the most valuable lessons of the Italian kitchen is to make the most of everything you have available and never to throw anything away. No crumbs or bones are ever thrown in the bin. In a certain sense, a ragù is nothing more than a sauce made with leftover scraps of meat or fish or vegetables. In the classic Italian cookbook …