E-book 2020 Demographics : Profile of the Military Community

In the Active Duty chapters of this report, data are presented for the four DoD Service branches (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force). Some information about the DHS’s Active Duty Coast Guard is presented in the Total Military Force chapter of this report. In the Reserve and Guard Members chapter, the label “Total DoD” is used to reflect the six Reserve components under DoD (Army Nat…

E-book Military Service Records at the National Archives

Several changes have occurred since the 1985 revision of General Information Leaflet (GIL) Number 7, Military Service Records in the National Archives of the United States. This reference information paper (RIP) replaces GIL 7 and updates much of its content. For example,some records listed under the Coast Guard section of GIL 7 as residing in the Washington National Records Center in Suitland…

E-Book Facing Authority: A Theory of Political Legitimacy

When your friends call on you to take to the streets and demand the fall of the regime, this presses a practical predicament that we all address, often implicitly, in our everyday lives: Is this regime legitimate? Facing Authority investigates the ways in which this question of legitimacy can be addressed in theory and practice, in the face of disagreement and uncertainty. Instead of asking, �…

E-Book Modelling Between Digital and Humanities

This volume presents an exploration of Digital Humanities (DH), a field focused on the reciprocal transformation of digital technologies and humanities scholarship. Central to DH research is the practice of modelling, which involves translating intricate knowledge systems into computational models. This book addresses a fundamental query: How can an effective language be developed to conceptual…

E-Book Preventing Mass Human-Rights Violations and Atrocity Crimes

The problem of preventing mass human-rights violations and atrocity crimes is one of the key issues in international relations. The book presents the capacity of the international community in the field. The available instruments of early warning, preventive diplomacy as well as legal, economic, and military measures of prevention are included. Cases of Chechnya, Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire and Liby…

E-Book Sameness and Repetition in Contemporary Media Culture

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Our culture has an uneasy relationship with repetition and sameness. On the one hand, we find familiarity pleasurable and soothing; on the other, we crave novelty and long for a sense of discovery. We blame algorithms, intent on selling us more of the same, and on a media industry too greedy to risk investing in…

E-Book The European Digital Economy: Drivers of Digital Transition and Econom…

The “digital economy” is a conceptual umbrella referring to markets, organizations and their networks that are based on digital technologies, communication, data processing and e-commerce. It is multidimensional and its dynamic structure must be analysed from various dimensions, such as economic – changes in the nature of resources, production factors and economic processes; technological…

E-Book Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene, Volume 2

This volume, a follow up to Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene (2021), continues a transdisciplinary conversation around reconceptualizing science education in the era of the Anthropocene. Drawing educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together in a creative work that helps reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with this cont…

E-Book Human-Centred Economics: The Living Standards of Nations

This open access book examines the chronic underperformance of economies with respect to inclusion, sustainability and resilience. It finds that the standard liberal economic growth and development model has evolved over the past century in a fundamentally unbalanced manner that underemphasizes the crucial role of institutions – legal norms, policy incentives and public administrative capacit…

E-Book Unleashing Society’s Innovative Capacity: An Integrated Policy Frame…

This is an open access book. Europe faces significant challenges in the coming decades: geopolitical, demographic, technological, increased competition, climate-related, and health issues due to an aging population, to mention a few. Given these challenges, technological progress and new ways of handling complex issues will be key to continued prosperity and growth. To accomplish a growth proce…

E-Book How Is It Between Us? : Relational Ethics and Care for the World

A new theory of relational ethics that tackles contemporary issues. In How Is It Between Us?, Jarrett Zigon puts anthropology and phenomenological hermeneutics in conversation to develop a new theory of relational ethics. This relational ethics takes place in the between, the interaction not just between people, but all existents. Importantly, this theory is utilized as a framework for consider…

E-Book Revitalizing Collegiality: Restoring Faculty Authority in Universities

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The higher education and research system faces a constant dilemma. On the one hand, research and higher education are run by autonomous, interrelated academic communities, often described as collegial governance. On the other hand, they are an instrument for the fulfillment of goals that are often external to th…

E-Book The Power of Energy Justice & the Social Contract

This book focuses on the energy sector and will make a significant contribution to its continued evolution. For many years, the energy sector has been missing a raison d’etre and now finally there are increased calls for that to be justice. Hence, this book will develop the concept of energy justice and how it needs to be formalised in a new ‘social contract’ with all stakeholders in soci…

E-Book Endeavoring for China’s Environment and Development Transformation

hina Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) has been woven into the fabric of China’s environmental development for the past 30 years—the length of an entire generation. It is also consistent with the most rapid modernization shift of the nation’s economy–environment relationship. This report provides insights into how CCICED operates and its succe…

E-Book Mirrored Spaces: Social Inequality in the Digital Age

This open access book critically examines discussions on digitalisation and individual opportunities for socio-economic advancement. Contrary to the prevailing narratives of “digital empowerment” and opportunities for every individual, this book argues that digitalisation massively curtails social advancement opportunities, consolidating existing social relations. From a spatial perspective…

E-Book Disability Practice: Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery

This open access book critically engages with the social, political and ethical implications of support for people with disability to be fully included in society. The authors examine contemporary issues of quality and safeguarding in disability services, translating research and practice wisdom into foundational knowledge. Written by leading researchers, the book provides a comprehensive overv…

E-book Buku Informasi Menyimpan Bahan Kimia dengan Aman

Bahan kimia yang tidak boleh disimpan dengan bahan kimia lain, harus disimpan secara khusus dalam wadah sekunder yang terisolasi. Hal ini dimaksudkan untuk mencegah pencampuran dengan sumber bahaya lain seperti api, gas beracun, ledakan, atau degradasi kimia. Banyak bahan kimia yang memiliki sifat lebih dari satu jenis tingkat bahaya. Penyimpanan bahan kimia tersebut harus didasarkan atas tingk…

Caping Kalo: Riwayat Penutup Kepala Perempuan di Kota Kretek

Caping dihormati sebagai benda fungsional sekaligus benda sakral yang dekat dengan tradisi. Hal ini membuat caping berubah menjadi sebuah simbol yang memainkan " dual function" yakni " revealing " atau membuka diri dan membuat dirinya menjadi jelas, sekaligus "concealing" atau merahasiakan diri agar tak diketahui. Di dunia persilatan, seorang pendekar seringkali digambarkan turun gunung dengan …

E-book Pengelolaan Laboratorium (Panduan Para Pengajar dan Inovator Pendidikan)

Panca indra manusia memiliki kemampuan daya pisah yang sangat terbatas. Oleh karna itu banyak masalah mengenai benda atau organisme yang akan diamati hanya dapat di periksa dengan menggunakan alat bantu. Salah satu alat bantu yang sering digunakan dalam pengamatan, terutama dalam bidang biologi, adalah mikroskop. Mikroskop berfungsi untuk meningkatkan kemampuan daya pisah seseorang sehingga m…

E-book Mother's Voices : Exploring Experiences of Maternity and Health in Low…

The NHS has many dedicated healthcare professionals and other staff engaged in work to improve health outcomes for low income pregnant women, new mothers and children from diverse ethnic backgrounds, including the most vulnerable. Improving on this work requires an understanding of the areas in which this work is less effective than it could be and of the other barriers to health faced by this …

E-Book Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War Against …

This volume examines Russia’s war on Ukraine. Scholars who have lived through the Russian invasion or who have conducted ethnographic research in the region for decades provide timely analysis of a war that will leave a lasting mark on the twenty-first century. Using the concept of dispossession, this volume showcases some of the novel ways violence operates in the Russian-Ukrainian war and t…

E-Book Political Racism: Brexit and its Aftermath

Political Racism conceptualizes a distinctive form of racism – intentional, organized hostility mobilized by political actors – and examines its role in the Brexit conflict and in the rise of a new nationalist politics in the UK. In a compelling analysis the book argues that Powellite anti-immigrant racism, reinterpreted in numerical terms, was combined with anti-East European and anti-Musl…

E-book Buku Saku Petunjuk Konstruksi Proteksi Kebakaran

Bahaya kebakaran adalah bahaya yang diakibatkan oleh adanya ancaman potensial dan derajat terkena pancaran api sejak dari awal terjadi kebakaran hingga penjalaran api, asap dan gas yang ditimbulkan. Kebakaran merupakan suatu ancaman bagi keselamatan manusia, harta benda maupun lingkungan. Dengan adanya perkembangan dan kemajuan pembangunan yang semakin pesat, resiko terjadinya kebakaran semaki…

E-book Stop Perundungan

Perundungan atau bullying adalah perilaku tidak menyenangkan baik secara verbal, fisik, ataupun sosial di dunia nyata maupun dunia maya yang membuat seseorang merasa tidak nyaman, sakit hati dan tertekan baik dilakukan oleh perorangan ataupun kelompok. Perundungan dianggap telah terjadi bila seseorang merasa tidak nyaman dan sakit hati atas perbuatan orang lain padanya.

E-Book Inside Mining Capitalism: The Micropolitics of Work on the Congolese a…

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E-book Indeks Kerawanan Pemilu & Pemilihan Serentak 2024

Berdasarkan Pasal 94 ayat 1 huruf (a) dalam UU No.7 tahun 2017 tentang Pemilu dikatakan bahwa salah satu tugas Bawaslu dalam upaya mencegah pelanggaran pemilu dan sengketa proses pemilu, maka Bawaslu mengidentifikasi dan memetakan potensi kerawanan dan pelanggaran pemilu. Atas dasar itu, Bawaslu menjalankan satu usaha dalam pemetaan potensi kerawanan pemilu dan pilkada dalam bentuk kegiatan ber…

E-Book Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and De…

Richly detailed and timely study on conservation, development and sustainability in Tanzania. Provides valuable insights into the successes and failures of the management and governance of wildlife, forestry and coastal resources. Responding to the urgent need to examine the outcome of interventions in governing natural resources, this book analyses different types of sustainability partnership…

E-Book Social Research for our Times: Thomas Coram Research Unit past, presen…

For 50 years, researchers at UCL’s Thomas Coram Research Unit have been undertaking ground-breaking policy-relevant social research. Their main focus has been social issues affecting children, young people and families, and the services provided for them. Social Research for our Times brings together different generations of researchers from the Unit to share some of the most important result…

E-book Re-imagining Japan After Fukushima

The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March 2011 (3.11) was an event of unforeseen proportions. A magnitude 9.0 earthquake was followed by 9.3-metre-high tsunami waves over the coast of north-eastern Japan, which claimed the lives of nearly 20,000 people and obliterated communities. The earthquake began at 2.46 pm, which meant that most children were at sc…

E-Book Arab Berlin: Dynamics of Transformation

Berlin is increasingly emerging as a hub of Arab intellectual life in Europe. In this first study of Arab culture to zoom in on the thriving metropolis, the contributors shed light on the dynamics of transformation with Arabs as agents, subjects, and objects of change in the spheres of politics, society and history, gender, demographics and migration, media and culture, and education and resear…

E-Book Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World

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E-Book The Christian Right in Europe: Movements, Networks, and Denominations

Inspired by the success of the US Christian Right and the rise of the global far-right, ultraconservative Christians in Europe are joining forces and seek to reshape Europe. By assembling in anti-gender movements and sharing anti-Muslim narratives, they actively influence the political landscape and shape government policies. The contributors offer new perspectives on the protagonists and the e…

E-Book Capitalism Reconnected: Toward a Sustainable, Inclusive and Innovative…

Capitalism has gone astray. Today we face ecological exhaustion, persistent inequality, financialization, stress on communities, short-termism, and new power concentrations. An avalanche of new economic thinking and a reorientation of European values show the way toward a different economy. A new perspective is necessary if we want to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and if we consid…

E-Book Disciplinary Struggles in Education

This book discusses disciplinary struggles in education from three perspectives. The chapters in the first section analyse the disciplinary character of educational practice and institutions. The second section focuses on justification of educational knowledge in transmission between theory and practice. The contributions of the third section problematise the aims and functions of educational p…

E-Book Children’s English in Singapore: Acquisition, Properties, and Use

Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology, this book investigates children’s acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual Singapore, one of the traditional Kachruvian Outer Circle or ESL countries. The book investigates language choice, use, and dominance in Singaporean families, identifies common linguistic characteristics of L1 Singapore…

E-Book Cities and Local Governments in Central Asia: Administrative, Fiscal, …

This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power to combat current urban challenges in Kazakhstan. Focusing on the cities and regions selected by the national government of Kazakhstan to be the drivers of national economic development, the author analyses the impact of decentralization on the role o…

E-Book Sociolinguistics of the Korean Wave: Hallyu and Soft Power

Samosir and Wee examine how the immensely popular Korean Wave (""K-wave"") also known as Hallyu is wielded as soft power through the use of communication for persuasion and attraction on the global stage. The Korean Wave refers to the global spread and popularity of South Korean culture, particularly its pop music (""K-pop""), serialised dramas (""K-dramas"") and films (""K-films""). Given the …

E-Book Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies

Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and accelerating; yet are uncertain and uneven both in terms of geography and socio-economic impacts. Emerging from the dynamics of capitalism since the …

E-Book Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures

Diving in to the history of South African gold and uranium mining, Gabrielle Hecht shows how forms of state governance and the fight for infrastructural and environmental justice tell a global story of racial capitalism and the Anthropocene.

E-Book Propaganda and Neutrality: Global Case Studies in the Twentieth Century

This is the first broad-ranging, comprehensive and comparative study of the concepts of propaganda and neutrality. Bringing together world-leading and early career historians, this open access book explores case studies from the time of the First World War to the end of the Cold War in countries such as Belgium, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Switzerland, Vichy France, USA, Argentina, Turkey…

E-Book Pedagogy of Hope for Global Social Justice: Sustainable Futures for Pe…

Following Paulo Freire and his concept of pedagogy of hope, this open access book explores the educational role of hope as an approach to learning about global issues in different areas of the world. Climate change, racism, and the COVID-19 pandemic have shown more than ever the need for a global shift in education policy and practice. This book provides a conceptual framework of global educati…

E-Book Expanding Media Histories: Cultural and Material Perspectives

Contemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film, and television. This volume expands the scope further still to analyse ephemeral, mundane phenomena long overlooked by media historiography. In eight original essays, the volume demonstrates the strengths of a broad concept of the media. The first …

E-Book Fake Gods and False History: Being Indian in a Contested Mumbai Neighb…

n an age where history is a global battleground and fake news proliferates, culture wars are being waged across India over its future – majoritarian or inclusive, neoliberal or socialist, religious or secular? Fake Gods and False History takes us to the BDD Chawls, a central Mumbai neighbourhood of tenement blocks (chawls) on the brink of a controversial redevelopment. Throughout the book, …

The Psychology of Money

Kesuksesan dalam mengelola uang tidak selalu tentang apa yang anda ketahui. Ini tentang bagaimana anda berperilaku. Dan perilaku sulit untuk diajarkan, bahkan kepada orang yang sangat pintar sekalipun. Seorang genius yang kehilangan kendali atas emosinya bisa mengalami bencana keuangan. Sebaliknya, orang biasa tanpa pendidikan finansial bisa kaya jika mereka punya sejumlah keahlian terkait peri…

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E-Book 21st Century Media and Female Mental Health: Profitable Vulnerability …

This open access book examines the conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture. While early 21st century-media was marked by a distinct focus on happiness, productivity and success, during the 2010s negative feelings and discussions around mental health have become increasingly common in that same media landscape. This book traces this turn to sadness in wo…

E-Book 2050 China: Becoming a Great Modern Socialist Country

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese road to socialist modernization, explores and summarizes the development goal and the basic logic of the socialist modernization of China, and further shows the general basis of the primary stage of socialism. A…

E-book Transformative pathways to sustainability : Learning across discipline…

This book tries to address these questions. The research detailed in this volume (which took place pre-Covid-19) engages with the specificities of dif-ferent contexts around the world, while seeking general lessons that can be drawn about transformations to sustainability and the role of research within them. It thus documents a new approach (or approaches) that…

E-Book Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War 1618–1648: Aspects of I…

Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War 1618–1648 investigates change and decline in military institutions during a period of protracted and destructive European warfare. Conceptual background is provided by the Military Revolution thesis, which argues that changes in military technology and tactics drove revolutionary transformation in the way states organised and waged war in the early…

E-book Environment in the Courtroom Vol. 2

here are also a set of statutory offence provisions that proscribe speci-fied conduct. These offences can be prosecuted in the courts, and guilty de-fendants can be penalized by fines, prescribed conduct (such as soil or water remediation), and even imprisoned.Such offences are not pure criminal offences that require proof of intent. Rather, they are regulatory offences that require only proof …