The Whale in the Living Room follows the thrilling adventures of award-winning wildlife documentary producer, John Ruthven, on a journey of discovery - by turns memorable, touching and often funny -that has helped the undersea world flow into countless living rooms to reveal many of our ocean's mysteries.
Social practice theories help to challenge the often hidden paradigms, worldviews, and values at the basis of many unsustainable practices. Discourses and their boundaries define what is seen as possible, as well as the range of issues and their solutions. By exploring the connections between practices and discourses, Minna Kanerva develops a conceptual approach enabling purposive change in uns…
Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries examines the library’s role in the development, implementation, and instruction of successful digital humanities projects. It pays special attention to the critical role of librarians in building sustainable programs. It also examines how libraries can support the use of digital scholarship tools and techniques in undergraduate e…
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Time and Space were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. It also aims to foster awareness and discussion on Time and Space, focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design and Social Sciences, and its importance and benefits …
Contrary to the widespread perception that the‘spiritual dimension’of health isprimarily related to palliative care and has emerged relatively recently within theWHO, we show in this book that its history is considerably longer and morecomplex. The emergence of a‘spiritual dimension’in WHO discourse wasconnected to aspirations for universal primary healthcare, attempts to delivera more …
Robot yang ada di komik biasanya terbang di angkasa dan mengitari lautan serta hanya terlihat sebagai si pembela kebenaran yang membuat takut para penjahat. Namun, Robot di dunia nyata tentu memiliki kegunaan bagi kehidupan kita, seperti robot untuk keluarga yang bisa membantu bersih-bersih, untuk membantu operasi, untuk merakit atau memasang komponen. Di Korea pun, dikembangkan robot canggih y…
Let’s start with the basic concept, the notion of system itself. There were andstillarecountlessdefinitionsof“system”.Wedonotlistthemhereortryacom-prehensive categorization of those notions. For our purpose at this point, weonly need reflect on what a system is.That is the question: what is a system?The first answer that may come to our minds is a unit.When something iscalled a system,the…
e live in hugely paradoxical times. We will see greater change in the twenty-firstcentury than we have in any previous human century. Huge leaps in science andtechnology, accompanied by huge economic and social advances in many societiesaround the world, especially Asian societies, will mean that the texture and chem-istry of the twenty-first century will be massively different from the ninetee…
We believe that science has something to offer every student. That’s why we have a suite of science qualifications for Key Stage 4 – to suit students of all abilities and all aspirations. The subject content and required practicals in this specification are also in our GCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics. So you have the flexibility to co-teach and to move your students betweencourses. We…
In the process reflecting citizen science and its practices, many questions arise.How old is citizen science? What is the difference, if any, between citizen science,participatory science, post-normal science, civic science, and crowd science? Iscitizen science just a new political term in order to obtain funding? Some criticsview citizen science as a renewed neoliberal approach to exploit citi…