Pernahkah terpikir, bagaimana kita dapat berbelok dengan aman tanpa adanya cermin samping pada mobil kita? Kemudian, apa yang akan terjadi jika tidak ada lampu rem pada mobil kita? Tentu, kecelakaan lalu lintas akan sering terjadi dan kita tidak akan merasa aman dan nyaman ketika berkendara. Buku ini menyuguhkan bahasan tentang berbagai jenis instrumen optik pada mobil, baik yang berfungsi se…
Pancasila berasal dari kristalisasi budaya tradisional Indonesia. Di era Orde Baru, Pancasila ditetapkan sebagai dasar berpikir dan bertindak setelah disederhanakan ke dalam bentuk norma untuk mewujudkan tatanan masyarakat selaras, serasi, dan seimbang. Melalui penyederhanaan rumusan Pancasila dan pendidikan Pedoman Penghayatan dan Pengamalan Pancasila (P4), secara nasional Pancasila dinyatakan…
Bertempat di Sulawesi Selatan dan Barat, penulis meneliti potensi limbah jerami padi dan tanaman murbei sebagai pakan lengkap untuk kambing. Buku ini tidak hanya mengemukakan langkah-langkah praktis pembuatan silase pakan lengkap, namun juga membahas dasar-dasar pengetahuan mengenai potensi, nutrisi, parameter keberhasilan, hingga uji coba pakan yang dihasilkan secara in vivo pada kambing. Ter…
Komik adalah suatu bentuk karya seni yang menekankan kepada kesinambungan gambar dan tulisan dalam mengemukakan ide atau gagasan. Pengalaman artistik komikus ketika mencipta komik tidak hanya mendudukkan komik dalam bingkai seni rupa, namun lebih luas sebagai artefak kebudayaan. Buku Menimbang Sandhora: Telaah Komik Teguh Santosa menyajikan secara metodik sebuah kajian sosio-historis dengan pen…
Menurut para Intelektual, bahasa berkaitan dengan kebudayaan. Kaitan itu juga tidak terlepas dari hubungannya dengan lingkungan sosial. Lingkungan sosial berpengaruh terhadap kehidupan bahasa dan sebaliknya. Di desa Kao terdapat kondisi kebahasaan multilangualisme. Bahasa komunikasi antaretnik adalah bahasa Melayu Ternate. Penutur bahasa Kao berjumlah 36 orang, usia penuturnya yang paling muda …
Buku ini termasuk bagian dari upaya mendiseminasikan perihal pengertian radiasi, bagaimana radiasi berinteraksi dengan materi dan hasil-hasil riset lain dalam bidang khusus yang disebut biologi radiasi. Menilik dari cakupan buku ini, maka bagi pembaca yang ingin mengetahui tentang elemen dasar radiasi, buku ini memberikan informasi yang sangat baik tentang apa itu radiasi, dosis radiasi, bagaim…
Buku ini berisi informasi 101 jenis ikan hias air tawar Asli Indonesia yang selanjutnya disebut Ikan Hias Nusantara. Ikan-ikan tersebut tersebar di Papua Barat (Irian), Sulawesi, Kalimantan, Jawa, dan Sumatera. Akan tetapi cenderung didominasi oleh ikan hias yang berasal dari Papua yang berjumlah 49 jenis. Dua jenis di antaranya merupakan hasil rekayasa (hibridisasi) yang dilakukan di Laborator…
Pada tahun 1930-an dunia mengalami apa yang disebut zaman malaise, krisis ekonomi. AKan tetapi ketika itu pula pergerakan politik kebangsaan yang radikal menaikkan aktivitasnya. Ketika itu pulalah de Jonge, Gubernur Jenderal, yang konservatif, bukan saja mengadakan penghematan anggaran belanja Hindia Belanda, tetapi juga-dan lebih penting-melakukan pengekangan pergerakan kebangsaan. Di zaman ma…
Abim sedang liburan di Ciamis. Suatu hari, ia diajak Ujang, sepupunya, untuk menangkap ikan. Namun, mengapa Ujang tidak membawa alat penangkap ikan apa pun? Mereka akan menangkap ikan menggunakan apa?
Planet Earth hosts an astonishing degree of biodiversity, spread across the globe. Much of this biodiversity is still unknown to science and remains poorly documented, like butterflies. As an insect facing rapid species loss and population declines due to habitat conversion and climate change, the need to document butteries has become more urgent than ever. Butteries of Jambi contains names, oc…
Buku ini mengupas pemanfaatan radionuklida alamiah untuk penanggalan radioaktif (radioactive dating). Di dalamnya dibahas secara komprehensif hal-hal yang berkaitan dengan radionuklida primordial dan radionuklida kosmogenik. Dibahas pula hal-hal yang terkait dengan teknik penanggalan dengan mengandalkan kedua jenis radionuklida tersebut baik di bidang geologi maupun arkeologi, disertai dengan c…
This book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well-being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco-social system. It develops a theoretical framework for analysing youth participation holistically, embedded in its everyday context, and as a relational phenomenon, underpinned by universal human needs. …
Senjangnya hasil produk tanaman jagung antara produksi aktual dan potensi hasil khususnya di area dengan lahan jagung potensial—Sumatra Utara—membuat seluruh upaya dan program yang telah digalakkan, termasuk oleh pemerintah, perlu dikaji ulang. Kondisi ini menyiratkan fakta bahwa program-program dari pemerintah belum sepenuhnya diadopsi dengan baik oleh petani. Proses kaji ulang tersebut…
Buku Alternatif Penanggulangan Tuberkulosis (TBC): Wilayah Indonesia di Luar Sumatra dan Jawa–Bali ini hadir sebagai bentuk tanggung jawab untuk menyebarluaskan upaya penanggulangan tuberkulosis di Indonesia, khususnya di luar Sumatra dan Jawa–Bali. Buku ini juga menunjukkan bahwa masih perlunya perbaikan dan tindak lanjut, baik dalam hal penemuan kasus, penegakan diagnosis, maupun karena r…
Kemajuan suatu bangsa sangat dipengaruhi oleh kemampuannya menguasai ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi. Generasi peneliti baru yang berkompeten harus terus diciptakan untuk mempercepat penguasaan iptek. Tujuan utamanya agar manfaat iptek dapat langsung dirasakan oleh masyarakat. Oleh karena itu, buku panduan ini merupakan sebuah usaha untuk memberikan petunjuk kepada para peneliti pemula tentang b…
Minimnya laboratorium kalibrasi di daerah masih diperparah dengan minimnya jumlah layanan yang dapat diberikan. Oleh karena itu, industri di daerah banyak yang memilih untuk mengirim alat ukur penginspeksinya ke Jabodetabek untuk dikalibrasi dengan biaya transpor yang tinggi, risiko kerusakan perjalanan yang besar, dan biaya asuransi yang tidak kecil. Berdasarkan kebutuhan jasa kalibrasi dari s…
Secara khusus buku ini dapat digunakan untuk para teknisi kalibrasi guna membantu kelancaran dalam melakukan kalibrasi termometer inframerah di laboratorium. Buku ini juga merupakan salah satu sumber referensi yang tepat bagi berbagai kalangan yang menaruh minat terhadap termometer inframerah, seperti kalangan industri, dosen dan mahasiswa teknik di perguruan tinggi.
Buku Stasiun Nol: Teknik-Teknik Pemetaan dan Survei Hidrologi Gua ini merupakan sebuah dokumentasi pemetaan gua yang dihasilkan oleh para penggiat speleologi dan penelusuran gua Indonesia yang telah mendedikasikan ilmu, tenaga dan waktu yang tidak sedikit hingga gua tersebut dapat dimanfaatkan secara luas. Membaca buku ini akan membawa Anda untuk mempelajari aktivitas penjelajah gua termasuk pr…
Alor, disebut juga Nusa Kenari, adalah pulau yang penuh eksotisme. Di sana, keragaman bahasa dan budaya masyarakat sama indahnya dengan keelokan alam yang mewujud pada laut, bentangan garis pantai, dan gunung berliku tiada putus. Bahasa dan budaya, sebagai olah rasa dan hasrat manusia pun mewujud menyesuaikan tempat tinggal dan garis keturunannya. Puluhan bahasa sebagai produk terpenting kebuda…
The Internet is not an unchartered territory. On the Internet, norms matter. They interact, regulate, are contested and legitimated by multiple actors. But are they diverse and unstructured, or are they part of a recognizable order? And if the latter, what does this order look like? This collected volume explores these key questions while providing new perspectives on the role of law in time…
This open access book focuses on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on individuals and society from a legal perspective, providing a comprehensive risk-based methodological framework to address it. Building on the limitations of data protection in dealing with the challenges of AI, the author proposes an integrated approach to risk assessment that focuses on human rights and encompasses…
Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its …
This open access book deals with global sanitation, where SDG 6.2 sets a target of enabling access to sanitation services for all, but has not yet been achieved in low- and middle-income countries. The transition from the United Nations MDGs to the SDGs requires more consideration based on the socio-cultural aspects of global sanitation. In other words, equitable sanitation for those in vulnera…
With a wealth of exciting data emerging in this rapidly evolving field this book will review the state-of-the-art knowledge with emphasis on multidisciplinary decision and management of head and neck cancer. The book provides significant detail on a wide range of topics including: the role of new targets for treatment, immunotherapy, resistance mechanisms, standardizing molecular profiling prog…
Over 98% of sprayed insecticidies and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other their target species, including non-target species, air, water, and soil. The extensive reliance on insecticide use reduce biodiversity, contributes of pollinator decline. destroy habitat, and threatens endangered species. This new textbook attempts to address various fundamental components of AW-IPM, e.g. the imp…
This is a trilingual dictionary of Vurës, with meanings provided in both English and Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu. Vurës is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of Vanua Lava in Vanuatu. The dictionary is a companion volume to A Grammar of Vurës, Vanuatu (Malau 2016). There is no established tradition of writing in Vurës and most speakers are not literate in their own langu…
When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space – even reaching what he described as the gentle and benign southern ocean nations. This volume discusses archaeological evidence of conflict from those southern oceans, from Palau and Guam, to Australia, Vanuatu and Tonga, the Marquesas, Easter Island an…
Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis. Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that a…
Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation provides an outstanding and insightful critique of the ways that contemporary education is impacted by a range of political, social and cultural influences that inform the approaches that schools take in relation to gender and sexuality diversity. By applying feminist poststructural and Foucauldian frameworks, the book examines the ongoi…
Germany has had a profound influence on English stories for children. The Brothers Grimm, The Swiss Family Robinson and Johanna Spyri’s Heidi quickly became classics but, as David Blamires clearly articulates in this volume, many other works have been fundamental in the development of English children’s stories during the 19th century and beyond. Telling Tales is the first comprehensive stu…
«As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the lat…
«As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the lat…
How have our interactions with animals shaped Calgary? What can we do to ensure that humans and animals in the city continue to co-exist, and even flourish together? This wide-ranging book explores the ways that animals inhabit our city, our lives and our imaginations. Essays from animal historians, wildlife specialists, artists and writers address key issues such as human-wildlife interactions…
What does it mean to “speak for the social” in projects of technical and infrastructural change? This is the problem that the contributors to Speaking for the Social: A Catalogue of Methods set out to explore through a series of creative interventions that reimagine the role for qualitative social science in understanding and shaping design and engineering projects. The book departs from fa…
How did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such as probate inventories? These questions seem straightforward, yet few endeavours are more challenging than reconstructing a sixteenth-century domestic reality from written so…
This book takes a unique approach to explore the moral foundations of nationalism. Drawing on nationalist writings and examining almost 200 years of nationalism in Ireland and Quebec, the author develops a theory of nationalism based on its role in representation. The study of nationalism has tended towards the construction of dichotomies – arguing, for example, that there are political and c…
This open access short reader provides a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants. It covers the ways in which discrimination is defined and conceptualized, how it is measured, how it may be theorized and explained, and how it might be combated by legal and policy means. The book also present…
The first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012.
Many think they know the legends behind tulipmania and the legacy of the Dutch East India Company, but what basic knowledge of Dutch history should be passed on to future generations? This overview of historical highlights, assembled by a number of specialists in consultation with the Dutch general public, provides a thought-provoking and timely answer. The democratic process behind the volume …
Consumers trust is a key factor in dealing with rising concerns about food safety and food quality, but only few studies have dealt with consumer attitudes and none of them has tried to model the process of consumer response. This book reports the main findings of an european project aimed at analysing trust along the food chain and its relationship with food risk communication. The papers coll…
This open access book offers a new, capital-theoretical perspective on the macroeconomic relationship between desired wealth and investment, and it presents new empirical data on private wealth and its composition in the OECD plus China area. The authors argue that a free economic and social order can only be stabilized if the wealth aspirations of individuals are met under conditions of price …
Artistic research is an endeavour in which the artistic and the academic are connected. In this emerging field of research artistic practices contribute as research to what we know and understand, and academia opens its mind to forms of knowledge and understanding that are entwined with artistic practices. Henk Borgdorff also addresses how we comment on such issues, and how the things we say ca…
This open access book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around precision oncology. Each chapter addresses the experiences, concerns and issues at stake for people who work in settings where precision oncology is practiced, enacted, imagined or discussed. It subsequently discusses and analyses bioethical dilemmas, scientific c…
This Open Access volume highlights how tree ring stable isotopes have been used to address a range of environmental issues from paleoclimatology to forest management, and anthropogenic impacts on forest growth. It will further evaluate weaknesses and strengths of isotope applications in tree rings. In contrast to older tree ring studies, which predominantly applied a pure statistical approach t…
This open access textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the arithmetic theory of quaternion algebras and orders, a subject with applications in diverse areas of mathematics. Written to be accessible and approachable to the graduate student reader, this text collects and synthesizes results from across the literature. Numerous pathways offer explorations in many different directions, whi…
The book begins with an analysis of the technological infrastructure environment and of the manifold regulatory theories developed in the Internet Governance context. Based on this foundation the transnational normative ecosystem is outlined, followed by a detailed discussion of the substantive Internet Governance principles (such as legitimacy, participation, transparency, accountability). The…
From her immigration to Mandatory Palestine in 1933 until her death in 1950 American-born Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon worked as a reporter for The Palestine Post (later The Jerusalem Post), while freelancing for periodicals in Palestine and abroad. Bar-Adon covered life in towns, kibbutzim and Arab communities of Mandatory Palestine during this period of World War, armed conflict between Arabs and Je…
The relationship of participation in online communities to civic and political engagement.Young people today have grown up living substantial portions of their lives online, seeking entertainment, social relationships, and a place to express themselves. It is clear that participation in online communities is important for many young people, but less clear how this translates into civic or polit…
Going beyond current books on privacy and security, Unauthorized Access: The Crisis in Online Privacy and Security proposes specific solutions to public policy issues pertaining to online privacy and security. Requiring no technical or legal expertise, the book explains complicated concepts in clear, straightforward language. The authors two renowned experts on computer security and law explore…