In Black Dragon, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian, and Asian American people and cultures to offer new insights into the relationships among these groups. Drawing on case studies that include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s appearance in Bruce Lee’s film Game of Death, Ron Van Clief and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, the Wu-Tang…
"Manipulating practices is the first ever collection of critical physiotherapy studies and comes at a time of unprecedented change in the profession. Written as a collaboration between 20 authors, many members of the Critical Physiotherapy Network (CPN), the book uncovers the growing body of critical thinking now emerging in physiotherapy. From topics as diverse as 21st century education, ethic…
Social work field education in Canada is in crisis. New understanding and approaches are urgently needed. Innovative and sustainable models need to be explored and adopted. As professionals, social workers are expected to use research to inform their practice and to contribute to the production of research. Yet many social workers are reluctant to integrate research into their practice and into…
What is soul? Can it be forfeited? Can it be traded away? If it can, what would ensue? What consequences would follow from loss of soul — for the individual, for society, for the earth? In the early nineteenth century, Goethe’s hero, Faust, became a defining archetype of modernity, a harbinger of the existential possibilities and moral complexities of the modern condition. But today the dir…
The first comprehensive analysis of the emergence of academic brands, this book explores how the modern university is being transformed in an increasingly global economy of higher education where luxury is replacing access. More than just a sign of corporatization and privatization, academic brands provide a unique window on the university's concerns and struggles with conveying 'excellence' an…
This book is generally focused on food choice and which factors are associated with the decisions that define people’s eating behaviour. These factor are highly variable and include influences from the surrounding environment as well as the individual characteristics of each person. The book includes a number of chapters that address these issues from different points of view. Some explore th…
Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as resulting from a range of biases that together ensure that human beings fall short of being genuinely rational animals. This book presents an alternative account. It argues that bad beliefs arise from genuinely rational p…
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern society. Dissecting the Criminal Corpse takes issue with the historical cliché of corpses dangling from the hangman’s rope in crim…
This Special Issue addresses a topic of great relevance. In developed countries, there is a higher prevalence of people choosing to spend time indoors. Data show that the time a person spends at home ranges from 60% to 90% of the day, and 30% of that time is spent sleeping, though this varies depending on the individual. Taking into account these data, indoor residential environments have a dir…
This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into high-prestige professions. The biographies were collected and analysed by a consortium of researcher…
This open access book focuses on how and why digital games and gambling are increasingly intertwined and asks “does this matter?” Looking at how “loot boxes” became the poster child for the convergence of gambling and gaming, Wardle traces how we got here. She argues that the intersection between gambling and gaming cultures has a long lineage, one that can be traced back throughout the…
Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on the geographic and sociopolitical margins both of China and of Tibet’s medical establishment in Lhasa, exploring the work of medical practitio…
This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four parts: Part One The End of the Era of Western Domination. The major strategic error that the West is now making is to refuse to accept this re…
This volume provides a methodological toolbox for conducting policy research. Recognizing that policy research spans various academic disciplines, each of which takes a different view on causality, the volume introduces a methodologically pluralistic approach to policy studies. Each chapter clarifies the research question that each technique can answer, the research design and data treatment th…
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The massive expansion of the internet into every aspect of our lives creates a challenge for social researchers: can they simply transfer their traditional methods and techniques online or do they need to reinvent research methods for the new environment? As onli…
What are the current trends in housing? Is my planned project commercially viable? What should be my marketing and advertisement strategies? These are just some of the questions real estate agents, landlords and developers ask researchers to answer. But to find the answers, researchers are faced with a wide variety of methods that measure housing preferences and choices. To select and value a v…
This book addresses the relationship between social media and social order at multiple scales and sites, from city neighborhoods to national politics, to how the data harvested by transnational corporations influence lives worldwide. It provides insights into how diverse social worlds are being reshaped by social media, analysis of what this means, and reflection on how critical publics might c…
At a time when the global development industry is under more pressure than ever before, this book argues that an end to poverty can only be achieved by prioritizing human dignity. Unable to adequately account for the roles of culture, context, and local institutions, today’s outsider-led development interventions continue to leave a trail of unintended consequences, ranging from wasteful to e…
What is the experience of truth and reconciliation? What is the purpose of a truth commission? What lessons can be learned from established truth and reconciliation processes? Flowers in the Wall explores the experience of truth and reconciliation Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific, with and without a formal truth commission. Although much has been written about the operational phases of …
Many people know the stories behind the tulip mania in the 17th century and the legacy of the Dutch East India Company, but what basic knowledge of Dutch history and culture should be passed on to future generations? A Key to Dutch History and its resulting overview of historical highlights, assembled by a number of specialists in consultation with the Dutch general public, provides a thought-p…
This transdisciplinary volume investigates the ways in which people and organisations deal with the overflow of information, goods or choices. It explores two main themes: the emergence of overflows and the management of overflows, in the sense of either controlling or coping with them. Individual chapters show the management of overflows taking place in various social settings, periods and pol…
This open access book brings together a collection of cutting-edge insights into how action can and is already being taken against climate change at multiple levels of our societies, amidst growing calls for transformative and inclusive climate action. In an era of increasing recognition regarding climate and ecological breakdown, this book offers hope, inspiration and analyses for multi-level …
Peter Toon is the leading writer on primary care virtue ethics and this thought-provoking book builds on the thinking of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. A Flourishing Practice? looks at the moral problems that currently seem prevalent in health care. Common moral dilemmas highlighted by the media include threats to continuity of care, inappropriate care at the end of life, problems associated w…
Fighting for a Living investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years. It does so on the basis of a wide range of case studies taken from Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and Asia. The novelty of "Fighting for a Living" is that it is not military history in the tradit…
Uniting the usually distinct areas of particle physics and quantum field theory, gravity and general relativity, this expansive and comprehensive textbook of fundamental and theoretical physics describes the quest to consolidate the elementary particles that are the basic building blocks of nature. Designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students and abounding in worked examples and d…
The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. In current debates on technology, however, the »human factor« is often largely ignored. The ageing individual is rather seen as a malfunctioning machine whose deficie…
This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences in social status with health behaviours and outcomes, and add to this literature by providing a coherent theoretical explanation for the causes of these health inequalities…
Designing a contract is often more of an economic than a legal problem. A good contract protects parties against opportunistic behavior while providing motivation to cooperate. This is where economics and, especially contract theory, may prove helpful by enhancing our understanding of incentive issues. The purpose of this book is to provide specific tools which will help to write better contrac…
Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex, diverse, and rapidly evolving field of distance education blend scholarship and research; practical attention to the details of teaching and learning; and …
Subsektor peternakan merupakan salah satu kontributor gas rumah kaca (GRK) nasional. Kontribusi GRK dari subsektor ini masih di bawah 2% dari total emisi GRK secara nasional. Kontribusi ini diasumsikan akan terus meningkat sejalan dengan upaya penambahan populasi ternak sebagai efek dari diterapkannya salah satu program pemerintah untuk pemenuhan protein hewani asal ternak. Penghitungan emisi G…
This open access book bridges the divide between political science and public health, whilst simultaneously embracing the complexities and differences of both. Although public health is inherently political, the tools and insights of political science are often ignored in public health scholarship. Bringing together academics and researchers working at the intersection of both, the book demonst…
Historically, alternative media have been viewed as fundamental, albeit at times culturally peripheral, forces in social change. In this book, however, Kenix argues that these media do not uniformly subvert the hierarchies of access that are so central to mainstream media - in fact, their journalistic norms and routines have always been based on the professional standards of the mainstream. Ken…
Adult learning is recognized as a key component of lifelong learning and Member States are required to remove barriers to participation, to increase overall quality and efficiency in adult learning, to speed up the process of validation and recognition and to ensure sufficient investment in and monitoring of the field (European Commission, 2006, 2007; European Parliament, 2008; European Council…
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditi…
While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have seen radical changes in their business models and practices as a direct result of new technologies, higher education has so far resisted the wholesale changes we have seen elsewhere. However, a gradual and fundamental shift in the practice of academics is taking place. Every aspect of scholarly practice is seeing changes effec…
COVID-19’s impacts revealed that teaching writing online was no longer merely an issue of convenience or economic necessity—it was critical to public health and equity concerns as well. Now higher education faces one of its greatest historical challenges, expanding online offerings to fully engage and support students around the world. Gathering together educators who teach writing at colle…
This book is an integration of keynote speeches, lectures, and related teaching materials during the five years of the "Central Bank Policy Mix: Issues, Challenges and Policy Responses" flagship program of the BI Institute, the learning and research centre of Bank Indonesia. The book examines the interactions among central bank policies including monetary policy, exchange rate policy, macroprud…
Instructors in today’s language classrooms face the challenge of preparing globally competent and socially responsible students with transcultural aptitude. As classroom content shifts toward communication, collaboration, and problem solving across cultural, racial, and linguistic boundaries, the teaching of culture is an integral part of foreign language education. This volume offers nontrad…
This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies are formed and implemented in diverse locales around the world, from global policy spaces to sites of practice. The authors – both internationally respected anthropologists and new voices – demonstrate the value of ethnography and the utility of reproduction as a l…
Buku ini merupakan dokumentasi ilmiah yang lengkap dan terkini mengenai keanekaragaman tumbuhan Pulau Sempu dan ekosistemnya. Selain menyajikan deskripsi tumbuhan, status konservasi, dan potensi tumbuhan yang berguna, buku ini juga mengulas adanya gangguan ekologis yang menjadi ancaman keberadaan ekosistem di Pulau Sempu. Pembahasan buku ini disajikan dengan bahasa yang mudah dipahami. Dilengka…
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Sadar kawasan adalah usaha, ikhtiar untuk memperkenalkan gunung-gunung, hutan, dan totalitas alam beserta aturan dan ketentuan pada umumnya agar masyarakat dapat mengenal dan mengetahui alam, yang pada akhirnya bisa mencintai alam sebagai sumber hidup dan kehidupan. Untuk itu, diharapkan dengan sendirinya muncul kesadaran untuk menjaga keutuhan alam. Buku ini selain membahas relasi konsep kawas…
Industri kecil pengolahan pangan, khususnya pengolahan tahu, memanfaatkan air cukup banyak, namun juga menghasilkan limbah cair dan limbah padat sehingga mencemari lingkungan sekitar industri. Kajian terhadap peluang pemanfaatan teknologi tepat guna ini dikaitkan dengan penerapan konsep produksi bersih di industri kecil pengolahan tahu, khususnya industri kecil pengolahan tahu di Subang dan Sum…
Nanoteknologi itu ilmu pengetahuan tentang benda yang sangat kecil, bahkan lebih kecil dari semut. Nanoteknologi sudah digunakan dalam berbagai teknologi kuno dan masih dipelajari sampai saat ini. Nanoteknologi juga sudah banyak kita gunakan, lho. Mulai dari plester, pembersih lantai, pupuk tanaman, vitamin, hingga bahan bangunan dan handphone. Dimasa depan, nanoteknologi akan semakin berkemban…
Obat-obatan merupakan salah satu aspek penting bagi masyarakat dalam pembangunan kesehatan. Namun, tidak semua masyarakat mumpuni untuk mencukupi kebutuhan tersebut karena tidak jarang harga yang dipasarkan tidak terjangkau. Masalah tersebut akan dapat dipecahkan apabila obat yang dibutuhkan tersedia dengan harga yang terjangkau oleh mereka yang membutuhkannya. Bioteknologi, Biosimilar, dan Rev…
Tempe sebagai bahan pangan bernutrisi tinggi dengan harga terjangkau menjadi salah satu makanan favorit masyarakat Indonesia. Namun, keterbatasan daya simpan yang dimiliki tempe menjadi salah satu permasalahan dalam pengolahan tempe. Buku ini hadir sebagai solusi untuk menjawab permasalahan tersebut. Salah satu alternatif pengolahan tempe adalah dengan mengolah tempe menjadi tepung BMC tempe ya…
Sayuran merupakan salah satu sumber utama asupan gizi bagi tubuh manusia. Selain bergizi, sayuran juga merupakan sumber serat yang sangat baik bagi pencernaan tubuh. Di Indonesia, konsumsi sayuran terus meningkat setiap tahun. Walaupun demikian, tingkat konsumsi sayuran di Indonesia per tahun masih jauh di bawah standar konsumsi sayuran yang direkomendasikan FAO. Bahkan, Indonesia masih terting…
Tahukah kalian? Ada buah yang sudah turun-temurun digunakan untuk merawat batik-batik juga pusaka keraton. Buah itu bernama lerak. Wah, mengapa lerak ya? Bagaimana caranya? Mari kita berkenalan dengan Rarak! Rarak si buah lerak tahu jawabannya. Dalam cergam ini, Rarak juga akan bercerita tentang pohon lerak, lho! Adakah manfaat lainnya? Yuk, kita baca!
Buku ini merupakan dokumentasi ilmiah yang lengkap dan terkini mengenai keanekaragaman tumbuhan Pulau Sempu dan ekosistemnya. Selain menyajikan deskripsi tumbuhan, status konservasi, dan potensi tumbuhan yang berguna, buku ini juga mengulas adanya gangguan ekologis yang menjadi ancaman keberadaan ekosistem di Pulau Sempu. Pembahasan buku ini disajikan dengan bahasa yang mudah dipahami. Dilengka…