First published in 1989. Understanding Leisure is a readable introductory analysis of the key elements in the study of leisure. This includes leisure concepts and dimensions of leisure, its activity forms, participants, provision, and leisure futures, leisure and social theory. A collaborative work of six authors, Understanding Leisure is a textbook which introduces the reader to the interrelat…
This innovative collection explores critical issues in understanding multilingualism as a defining dimension of identity creation and negotiation in contemporary social life. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often those who have not written together before. The combined effect is a volume showcasing unique and…
The story of global sport is the story of expansion from local development to globalized industry, from recreational to marketized activity. Alongside that, each sport has its own distinctive history, sub-cultures, practices and structures. This ambitious new volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the development of every major sport or classification of sport, examining their history, …
Contemporary strength and conditioning coaching is, for the most part, informed by the exercise sciences, with little engagement being made with sociocultural and pedagogical perspectives which have emerged in sports coaching research over the last two decades. In Understanding Strength and Conditioning as Sport Coaching: Bridging the Biophysical, Pedagogical and Sociocultural Foundations of Pr…
The Internationalization of the Academic Library presents a theoretically informed, empirically grounded analysis of the process of academic library internationalization. Drawing on interviews with library personnel from around the world, Lombard analyzes internationalization at the departmental level of an academic library. Demonstrating that college and library personnel have positive intenti…
This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and d…
This new edition of The Standard Model and Beyond presents an advanced introduction to the physics and formalism of the standard model and other non-abelian gauge theories. It provides a solid background for understanding supersymmetry, string theory, extra dimensions, dynamical symmetry breaking, and cosmology. In addition to updating all of the experimental and phenomenological results from t…
Compact Models for Integrated Circuit Design: Conventional Transistors and Beyond provides a modern treatise on compact models for circuit computer-aided design (CAD). Written by an author with more than 25 years of industry experience in semiconductor processes, devices, and circuit CAD, and more than 10 years of academic experience in teaching compact modeling courses, this first-of-its-kind …
This is an open access book discusses readers to various methods of modeling plans and policies that address public sector issues and problems. Written for public policy and social sciences students at the upper undergraduate and graduate level, as well as public sector decision-makers, it demonstrates and compares the development and use of various deterministic and probabilistic optimization …
This open access book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. Global Animal Law refers to the sum of legal rules and principles (both state-made and non-state-made) governing the interaction between humans and other animals, on a domestic, local, regional, and international level. Global animal law is the response to t…
This open access book asks just how climate-smart our food really is. It follows an average day's worth of food and drink to see where it comes from, how far it travels, and the carbon price we all pay for it. From our breakfast tea and toast, through breaktime chocolate bar, to take-away supper, Dave Reay explores the weather extremes the world’s farmers are already dealing with, and what ne…
This open access book aims to set an agenda for research and action in the field of Digital Humanism through short essays written by selected thinkers from a variety of disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, education, law, economics, history, anthropology, political science, and sociology. This initiative emerged from the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism and the associated le…
This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of the complex phenomenon of resilience from a multi-sectorial, cross-national, and multidisciplinary perspective. The book facilitates a conversation across diverse disciplinary…
This book analyses the specificity of the law-making activity of European constitutional courts. The main hypothesis is that currently constitutional courts are positive legislators whose position in the system of State organs needs to be redefined. The book covers the analysis of the law-making activity of four constitutional courts in Western countries: Germany, Italy, Spain, and France; an…
A contemporary examination of what information is represented, how that information is presented, and who gets to participate (and serve as gatekeeper) in the world's largest online repository for information, Wikipedia. Bridging contemporary education research that addresses the 'experiential epistemology' of learning to use Wikipedia with an understanding of how the inception and design of th…
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle. Part I provides an overview of ideas of race and ethnicity in the philosophical canon, egalitarian traditions, race in biology, and race in American and Continental Philosophy. Part II addresses race as it operates in life through colonia…
This open access book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First IFIP International Cross-Domain Conference on Internet of Things, IFIPIoT 2018, held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, in Poznan, Poland, in September 2018. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. Also included in this volume are 4 WCC 2018 pl…
Persoalan dalam sektor transportasi adalah bagaimana cara merekayasa lalu lintas sehingga terjadi keseimbangan antara kebutuhan pergerakan dengan kemampuan penyediaan prasarana jaringan jalan dan fasilitas-fasilitas pendukungnya. Pembenahan sistem transportasi harus dilakukan melalui pandangan dan pendekatan yang luas, menyeluruh, terkoordinasi dan konsisten. Untuk itu diperlukan sistem yang ba…
This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, GKR 2020, held virtually in September 2020, associated with ECAI 2020, the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The 7 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited contributions were revie…
This open access edited volume provides theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives on art and education in a post-digital, post-internet era. Recently, these terms have been attached to artworks, artists, exhibitions, and educational practices that deal with the relationships between online and offline, digital and physical, and material and immaterial. By taking the current socio-tech…
Before unlocking creativity, we must first unpack what it means. In this book, creativity is unravelled from various perspectives and the relevance for language teaching and learning is explored. Tin offers a coherent discussion of creativity, adopting an inclusive and integrated but, at the same time, focused approach to creativity. Divided into 12 chapters, the book covers: A critical review …
Pertumbuhan penduduk memicu pertumbuhan volume kendaraan dan tidak diiringi dengan pengembangan kapasitas ruas jalan, pada akhirnya menimbulkan kemacetan khususnya pada kota-kota besar di Indonesia. Akibat kemacetan, pergerakan masyarakat perkotaan justru cenderung melakukan perjalanan sebagai tujuan dalam beraktivitas sehari-hari dengan menggunakan kendaraan pribadi. Penggunaan kendaraan priba…
This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their family members and spans the entire university student life cycle (pre-entry, commencement, progression and graduation) with a focus on specific cohorts including mature-aged…
Buku ini sangat berguna bagi mahasiswa, pemerhati, dan pekerja dengan berbagai bidang profesi pekerjaan. Struktur penyajian Buku ini terbangun atas dua belas bab, Sejarah dan Jenis Konstruksi Perkerasan Jalan, Jenis dan Fungsi Lapis Perkerasan, Bahan-Bahan Pembentuk Struktur Perkerasan Jalan, Tahapan pembangunan jalan, Parameter Perencanaan Tebal Lapisan Konstruksi Perkerasan, Perencanaan Metod…
This open access book explores how educational researchers working at the edges of innovations in languages and literacies, leadership, assessment, social and cultural transformation, and pedagogies rethink the educational turn in new sites. It engages with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) for educational researchers to redefine ways of knowing about learning post-COVID and deepe…
Buku ini merupakan panduan komprehensif yang dirancang untuk membantu pembaca memahami dan menguasai tiga pilar utama pengembangan web modern: HTML, CSS, dan JavaScript. Buku ini cocok bagi pemula yang ingin memulai karier di bidang pengembangan web maupun profesional yang ingin memperdalam keterampilan mereka. Keunggulan dari buku ini terletak pada Metodologinya yang praktis dan orientasi pada…
Literature and the World presents a broad and multifaceted introduction to world literature and globalization. The book provides a brief background and history of the field followed by a wide spectrum of exemplary readings and case studies from around the world. Amongst other aspects of World Literature, the authors look at: New approaches to digital humanities and world literature Ecologies of…
Buku ini membahas pengantar rekayasa lalu lintas. Pada bab pertama dijelaskan definisi dan tujuan teknik lalu lintas serta perkembangannya. Bab selanjutnya membahas karakteristik pengemudi dan pejalan kaki yang mempengaruhi lalu lintas. Bab ketiga membahas karakteristik arus lalu lintas seperti volume, kecepatan, dan kerapatan serta hubungannya. Bab empat membahas kajian ruas jalan perkotaan.
Elemen 2 ini hadir sebagai penunjang pembelajaran pada Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan. Buku ini berisi materi pembelajaran yang membekali para siswa agar memiliki keahlian di bidang Teknologi Konstruksi dan Bangunan. Materi yang dibahas dalam buku ini meliputi beberapa hal berikut. • Pengertian jalan dan jembatan • Macam-macam konstruksi jalan dan jembatan • Menggambar 2D denah, potonga…
Perancangan adalah kegiatan awal dari suatu rangkaian kegiatan dalam proses pembuatan produk. Dalam tahap perancangan tersebut dibuat keputusan - keputusan penting yang mempengaruhi kegiatan - kegiatan yang menyusulnya. Dalam melaksakan tugas merancangnya, perancang memakai dan memanfatkan ilmu pengetahuan, ilmu dasar teknik, pengetahuan empirik, hasil penelitian, informasi dan teknologi, yang …
Buku ini membahas secara mendalam tentang pikiran-pikiran filsafat Pancasila dari dua filsuf besar, yakni Prof., Dr. Notonagoro dan Prof., Dr. N. Drijarkara, SJ. Keduanya tidak diragukan lagi sebagai filsuf yang memberikan kontribusi besar bagi perumusan atau pengembangan filsafat Pancasila. Dengan latar belakang pendidikan filsafat dan sosio-kultural yang berbeda, membandingkan pemikiran kedua…
Buku ini membahas dasar-dasar sistem transportasi nasional Indonesia. Terdiri dari 3 bagian utama yaitu komponen-komponen sistem transportasi nasional, instrumen-instrumen perumusan kebijakan transportasi, dan aspek-aspek geografis, sumber daya alam, dan demografi yang mempengaruhi perencanaan transportasi.
Kota ergonomis sangat menarik untuk dicermati, agar tercipta lingkungan dan budaya kota yang nyaman, terhindar kemacetan, dan kondusir untuk aktivitas sehari-hari. Beberapa penerapan ergonomi itu antara lain: Performen ergonomis dan parameternya; Posisi kerja berdiri statis operator mesin bubut; Kursi ergonomis untuk operator SPBU; Desain ergonomis kerja posisi duduk. Desain ergonomis stasiun k…
Transportasi darat khususnya jalan raya masih menjadi tulang punggung angkutan orang dan barang di Indonesia. Pertumbuhan infrastruktur jalan ini masih cukup tinggi, apalagi dengan maraknya pembangunan jalan baru dan jalan bebas hambatan (tol) dalam mendukung pembangunan transportasi yang berkelanjutan. Seiring dengan pembangunan jalan ini maka diperlukan tenaga ahli perencana jalan yang menger…
Sistem pengendalian merupakan sekumpulan peralatan yang bekerja sama dengan tujuan untuk mengendalikan sesuatu. Peralatan peralatan tersebut biasanya merupakan komponen-komponen elektronik.Buku ini bertujuan agar pembaca dapat memperoleh wawasan dengan mengenal dan memahami pengetahuan mengenal sistem kontrol otomotif.
Sudah berapa kali kita mengeluh soal kemacetan? Atau, apa yang kita bayangkan tentang transportasi masa depan? Berjalan kaki dengan nyaman dan romantis seperti di Champ de Elysse, naik sepeda di Amsterdam, atau naik kereta peluru Shinkansen di Jepang? Tentu banyak pendapat yang kita lontarkan tentang transportasi yang merupakan kebutuhan sehari-hari kita. Dari semua pro-kontra yang ada…
This open access book explores supply chains strategies to help companies face challenges such as societal emergency, digitalization, climate changes and scarcity of resources. The book identifies industrial scenarios for the next decade based on the analysis of trends at social, economic, environmental technological and political level, and examines how they may impact on supply chain processe…
This open access book considers the stories of adolescents and young adults from different regions of the world who use digital media as instruments and stages for storytelling, or who make the media the subject of story telling. These narratives discuss interconnectedness, self-staging, and managing boundaries. From the perspective of media and cultural research, they can be read as responses …
This open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ideas of co-ethnic networks often obscure the reality, for example confounding ties with co-ethnics and ‘strong ties’. This open access book addresses key questions ab…
This open access book brings science and practice together and inspires a global movement towards co-creating regenerative civilizations that work for 100% of humanity and the Earth as a whole. With its conceptual foundation of the concept of transformation literacy it enhances the knowledge and capacity of decision-makers, change agents and institutional actors to steward transformations effec…