E-book How Modern Science Came into the World Four Civilizations, One 17th-C…

Once upon a time 'The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as 'the master narrative' serves rather as a strait-jacket — so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. No attempt has been made so far to replace the master narrative. H. Flori…

E-book Economy Studies A Guide to Rethinking Economics Education

The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety of economics graduates and specialists, equipped with a broad toolkit, enabling them to collectively understand and help tackle the issues the world faces today. This is a p…

E-book Oral Health and Oral Diseases

The pearly white visible part of the tooth is the crown and the longer portion anchored inside the gum and the bone is the root. The outermost hardest white cover is known as the enamel. The inner relatively less hard part is the dentin. It surrounds the pulp containing blood vessels and nerves of the tooth. Teeth are embedded in the jawbone which is covered from outside by a specialized layer …

E-book A User Guide for Mouth Care Products

The purpose of this guide is to provide you with information on mouth care products which may be available and useful for children and young people (CYP) within a special educational etting (SES). Please note that products may change and be discontinued and that Mini Mouth Care Matters it not affliated with any brand, company or product.

E-book Higher Education in 2040 A Global Approach

Since the Middle Ages, universities have displayed impressive resourcefulness in their ability to adapt to the changing dynamics and demands of their times. But in the last fifty years, the landscape of higher education - with the emergence of online and mass education, skyrocketing tuition, and a controversial system for ranking institutions - has begun evolving so rapidly and profoundly that …

E-book The Art of Regenerative Educatorship A Developmental Guide

A regenerative current is rising all around us. Stories of the need to reconnect, heal and transform are becoming more urgent, challenging a dominant worldview built on competition, economic growth, extractivism, militarisation and personal gain. Our planet's resources are stretched beyond their limits, causing widespread suffering and injustice for both humans and non-humans. Yet, each of us h…

E-book The Digital Economy and the Productivity Paradox

Despite the billions of dollars invested in digitalization, productivity growth in developed economies remains sluggish and the promised technological revolution has yet to deliver its full potential. This concise book questions why digitalization is not translating into higher productivity and economic expansion, exploring this paradox through the lens of Schumpeter's creative destruction hypo…

E-book The Co-evolution of Technology and Warfare Reshaping the Battlefield

This book explores the relationship between technology and warfare, by examining how recent technological advancements have revolutionized the conduct of war. The work analyses contemporary conflicts, including the Syrian civil war, the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, and the ongoing war in Ukraine, but also by exploring future war scenarios and assessing the military capabilities of major pow…

E-book Designing Instruction with Generative AI

Designing Instruction with Generative AI offers a novel set of tools and strategies for leveraging generative AI to create engaging and personalized learning experiences. While instructional designers are a tremendous asset to higher education, not all colleges or universities have the robust staff needed to support all instructors on staff or large student populations. Drawing on a wealth of r…

E-book Museums and Digital Confidence Organisation, Collection, Interface

Museums and Digital Confidence explores the evolving nature of digital practices in museums. It interrogates the skills, literacies, and mindsets that can support the use of digital technologies within these institutions. It also reflects on why digital adoption has faltered (at times), why digital continues to matter, and how the digital museum may flourish into the future. Underscored by nati…

E-book Anthropology of Transformation From Europe to Asia and Back

This collection of essays is the result of the joint efforts of colleagues and students of the leading social anthropology and post-socialism theorist, Professor Chris Hann. With the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 2019 as their catalyst, the authors reflect upon Chris Hann’s lifelong fieldwork in the discipline, spanning regions as diverse as East Central Europe, …

E-book Public Law and Economics

This comprehensive textbook applies economic analysis to public law. The economic analysis of law has revolutionized legal scholarship and teaching in the last half-century, but it has focused mostly on private law, business law, and criminal law. This book extends the analysis to fundamental topics in public law, such as the separation of government powers, regulation by agencies, constitution…

E-book Inside Versace Home

The glamorous style of Versace Home Collectionis today represented by the sophisticated shapes and innovative materials that live in a “now mood” contexts offering a total home design that highlight “The ver y Versace way”. The collection is inspired by an imaginar y that puts the emphasis on Versace’s energy and it is a homage to the most iconic elements of Versace’s World.

E-book Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories

This Open Access book presents the results of an interdisciplinary research program to utilize data from the multicohort German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), which included over 100.000 participants in six nationally representative panel studies. Renowned researchers from the fields of sociology, psychology, educational science, economics, and survey methodology have used the (longit…

E-book Brian's Winter

Fall came on with a softness, so that Brian didn’t realize what was in store—a hard-spined north woods winter—until it was nearly too late. He had never thought he would behere this long. After the plane crash that marooned him in the wilderness he had lived day by day for fifty-four days, until he had found the survival pack in the plane. Then another thirty-five days through the norther…

E-book The Long Winter

The mowing machine’s whirring sounded cheerfully from the old buffalo wallow south of the claim shanty, where bluestem grass stood thick and tall and Pa was cutting it for hay. The sky was high and quivering with heat over the shimmering prairie. Half-way down to sunset, the sun blazed as hotly as at noon. The wind was scorching hot. But Pa had hours of mowing yet to do before he could stop f…

E-book Philosophies of Catholic Education

This seminal volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to presenting an authoritative account of contemporary philosophies of Catholic education, intersecting the substantive boundaries of education, religious studies, philosophy, and theology to ultimately re-examine these philosophies and reinvigorate the authentic aspects of the Catholic educational endeavour. Against the backdrop of an inc…

E-book Digital Transformation in Educational Organizations

Technological transformation should lead to enhance people’s potential and the development of their cognitive and social competences, especially those connected with effective communication on different levels. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified all these processes and, for better resilience and effectiveness at work, it requires now different sets of competences. This book gives direct in…

E-book Women in Leadership

This book is not just about women in leadership; it’s a testament to the power of diversity and inclusion in driving organisational growth and success. It’s a call to action for organisations to recognise, nurture, and empower women leaders, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s essential for their own growth and sustainability.

E-book The Fine Art of Persuasion Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and …

Gennifer Weisenfeld examines the evolution of Japanese advertising graphic design from the early 1900s through the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a pivotal design event that rebranded Japan on the world stage.

E-book Poultry Production and Agribusiness Training Manual for Small and Medi…

The materials in the manual are a blend of theory from expert knowledge, review of training manuals from other countries including Ethiopia, Uganda, India, Nigeria, review of manuals, and guides from trademarks of broilers, layers, and specially developed dual-purpose breeds of Sasso, Kuroiler and Boschverd. The Department of Animal Health and Livestock Development (DAHLD) developed livestock g…

E-book The Business of Higher Institutional Education Integrating Academic Fr…

Higher education is facing increasing challenges. Economic and financial pressures have heightened the strain on the sustainability of higher education institutions (HEIs). These pressures have prompted a shift toward adopting business models and commercial practices to maintain institutional operations. While these changes have enabled some innovations, they have also placed traditional academ…

E-book Equine Health and Production Management

The horse is very important among the equine species because their contribution to human civilization has been commendable. In modern times, horses also do integral work in the Indian Army, the security forces, the police and various socio-cultural programs. There has been a considerable decrease in the number of Indian horses since 1952. Many horse breeds have reached the brink of extinction. …

E-book Guide to Managing Risks when New and Inexperienced Persons Interact wi…

One worker is hospitalised each day in Australia due to a horse related injury. For everyworker injured another nine non workers are injured, often at workplaces like riding schools, equestrian centres and trail riding businesses. The most common causes of horse related death or injury are falls from a horse or being bitten, struck or kicked by a horse. Information about horse related injuries …

E-book Access to Social Justice Effective Remedies for Social Rights

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book proposes a conception of social justice according to international human rights law. Social rights include everyday rights such as housing, food, fuel and social security. Drawing on extensive research with frontline practitioners, the book frames access to social justice as a journey that should end with the realisation of an…

E-book Crystallography

Crystallography is the experimental science of the arrangement of atoms in solids. The word "crystallography" derives from the Greek words crystallon = cold drop / frozen drop, with its meaning extending to all solids with some degree of transparency, and grapho = write. Unit cell is the smallest unit of volume that permits identical cells to be stacked together to fill all space. By repeating…

E-book Italy Itinerary : A 10 Day Highlights Tour

Welcome to Italy and Rome! One of the world’s greatest cities, Rome is where you start your Italian journey. It is a fun and vibrant city with a magnificent past stretching over 2,000 years. You can see evidence of the Ancient Roman civilisation on almost every corner and of course the iconic monument – the Colosseum.But Rome has evolved over the ages and it is this melange of Ancient, Baro…

E-book Chamber of Shipping : Monaco

The shipping sector supports and enables more than 90 % of the world’s international trade. This complex and dynamic industry underpins passengers' transportation on ferries and cruise ships as well as moving all kinds of cargo on container, bulk and tanker vessels. In the Principality of Monaco, the shipping industry represents in excess of 4% of the country‘s GDP and employs more than 1.0…

E-book Development of Manufacturing Industries in Oman

As the Sultanate of Oman moves towards the completion of the Ninth Five Year Development Plan, the last stage of the country’s long-term development plan (Vision 2020), it contemplates whether the overall objectives were met. For a long time, Oman has recognized the need to accelerate its national structural transformation through industrialization and economic diversification to promot…

E-book Nutrition Guide : Summer Food Service Program

The meal patterns at 7 CFR 225.16(d) outline the required food components and their minimum serving sizes in order for the meal to be eligible for reimbursement. A food component is one of the food groups that comprise a reimbursable meal. For example, a fruit or vegetable and a meat or meat alternate would be a food component. A food item is a specific food offered within the food component. F…

E-book Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023

In 2016, the Nordic Council of Ministers took the initiative to update the scientific foundation for national nutrient recommendations and dietary guidelines in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The present NNR2023 report has been developed according to the project description and describes the science advice to the authorities in the Nordic and Baltic counties. The scientific foundation for the…

E-book Nutrition for Healthspan : A Non-Judgmental Nutritional Guide for Health

Think about all of the delicious foods you get to eat, things that are loaded with nutrients your body craves and uses to help you function at your best. Have you tasted a fresh peach in season? What about farm fresh green beans, or warm whole grains? Don’t think about what you “can’t” have, focus on what you “can” have, Once you start feeling strong in both body and mind, you’ll …

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…

E-book Quality in Primary Health Care

The quality of primary health care can be greatly affected by the prevailing culture and environment of the health system. There are a number of interventions to improve quality of care at the system level that create an enabling environment, including: national workforce strategies; registration and licensing mechanisms; external evaluation or accreditation; public reporting and benchmarking m…

E-book Drawing Analogies Diagrams in Art, Theory and Practice

By exploring diagrams, diagramming and the diagrammatic across a range of disciplines and arts-led practices, this open access book addresses the gap between diagrams as a widely valued mode of visual representation and their under-examined status within arts and art education Informed by Charles Sanders Peirce’s understanding of a diagram as an analogy of relations, Drawing Analogies draws o…

E-book Beyond Suspicion The Moral Clash between Rootedness and Progressive L…

For more than four decades, socially disadvantaged Israeli Mizrahim—descendants of Jews from Middle Eastern and North African communities—have continuously supported right-wing political parties. Scholars, left-wing politicians, and activists tend to view Mizrahim as reacting against their structural exclusion, or more crudely as acting against their own interests, but Nissim Mizrachi locat…

E-book Knowledge : a Human Interest Story

In this book the author argues for a groundbreaking perspective that knowledge is inherently interest-relative. This means that what one knows is influenced not just by belief, evidence, and truth, but crucially by the purposes those beliefs serve. Drawing from classical Ny?ya epistemologies, the book asserts that knowledge rationalizes action: if you know something, it is sensible to act on it…

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E-book The Life of Nuns

In the Middle Ages half of those who chose the religious life were women, yet historians have overlooked entire generations of educated, feisty, capable and enterprising nuns, condemning them to the dusty silence of the archives. What, though, were their motives for entering a convent and what was their daily routine behind its walls like? How did they think, live and worship, both as individua…

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 State-of-the-Art Digital Twin Applications for Shipping Sector Decarbo…

In the most general term, a digital twin (DT) represents a digital counterpart of a physical entity, encom-passing its entire lifecycle, continually updated with real-time data, and serving as a decision support tool (IBM-A, nd). The digital twin concept has been around since the 1960s; however, it has started to gain traction only relatively recently, due to technological advances that we disc…

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 Decide Better : Open and Interoperable Local Digital Twins

The concept of Local Digital Twins (LDTs) has gained significant attention in recent years as a means to enhance urban management and governance. Initially mentioned by the European Commission (EC) in 2021 during a workshop called “Local Digital Twins, Forging the Cities of Tomorrow” held at the annual European Week of Regions and Cities conference, …

E-book To Be an Actress Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong’s Cross-Med…

Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theater, radio, and American television. Born in Los Angeles and growing up amid the suspicion and scrutiny epitomized by the Chinese Exclusion Act, Wong—a defiant misfit—innovated nuanced performances to subvert the racism and sexism that beset her life and caree…

E-book Biodiversity Biobanking – a Handbook on Protocols and Practices

Biodiversity and environmental biobanks, which can stand by themselves or can be housed at e.g., natural history collections, botanical gar-dens, zoos/aquaria, or culture collections, are essential infrastructures not only to preserve and provide samples from different groups of organ-isms but also to sustain innovation, food security, natural resource management, biotech…

E-book Fungi Media : Performing Fungosexual Mutations

This book examines how our understanding of human sexuality and human body changes through the processes of mediation unfolding at the intersection of nonhuman life and the Internet. It analyses performances and simulations of human subjectivity, as well as digital image manipulation strategies that generate novel visions of bodily and sexual mutations, in the context of new materialist philoso…

E-book An Education in Sport

The story of sporting communities and individuals at the University of Westminster over 150 years is the second book to explore the institution's diverse history including its role as a pioneer of women's sports. Drawing upon the University's extensive archives this richly illustrated book celebrates its unique, ground-breaking sports heritage.

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…