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…

E-book Genome Finland

his book is a thorough examination of Genome Finland, outlined in the extract above. By ‘Genome Finland’ we refer to the predominant presentation of Finnish genetics as a success story, and Finland as a milieu of unique excellence for biomedical research. In this book, we study the content of the success story and the image, how they came about, and what lies benea…

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 Transformative Role-playing Game Design

This textbook describes theory and practice in analog role-playing game (RPG) design that encourage specific transformative impacts in participants, including tabletop, live action role-playing (larp), and Nordic and American freeform. We describe three types of transformative RPGs: transformative leisure, therapeutic, and educational. We present our model of nano-game design, offering recommen…

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 The Reuse of Tombs in Eastern Arabia

Reuse of ancient monuments and other sites is a well-known phenomenon in all periods all over the world. People in the past were always confronted with surviving remains from previous periods, and reacted to and en-gaged with them in most varying ways. This is particu-larly true for liminal places like tombs. Reused structures are by definition used.1 This…

E-book Complexity and Dynamics

How did people organize their settlements in prehistory? This question is at the core of a large number of archaeological excavations throughout Scandinavia and beyond, and has remained so during the past three to four centuries. A few decades after the introduction and implementation of settlement archaeological excavations based on top-soil m…

E-book Treatment of Refractory Renal Anemia

A 32-year-old female patient presented with persistent general fatigue, chest tight-ness, palpitations, and dizziness for 2 weeks. Prior to admission, she did not report any recognized causes for these symptoms. She denied experiencing any skin, oral, or nasal bleeding, fever, gastrointestinal distress, abdominal pain, diarrhea, ery-thema, joint pain, or any other discomfort. Routine b…

E-book The Kingdom of God and the Poor

This study investigates the specific Contextual Bible Study among particular groupsof poor Christians in the Southwestern part of Tanzania. The main objective isto research and discuss the relationships between text and context when poorChristians undertake Contextual Bible Study. To this end, I use the InterreligiousCommunity Bank Bible Study groups (IR-VICOBA)1. IR-VICOBA groups aregroups of …

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 A Grammar of Paunaka

The aim of this work is to provide a detailed grammatical description of the Pau-naka language (ISO 639-3: pnk, Glottocode: paun1241), a critically endangered(cf. Krauss 2007: 6) Southern Arawakan language spoken in the Chiquitania, aregion in the lowlands of Eastern Bolivia, see Figure 1.1.The data which forms the basis for this analysis was collected by me duringfour fieldwork trips (2011, 20…