E-book Testing Knowledge : Toward an Ecology of Diagnosis, Preceded by the Di…

In the beginning, when the world was just fifty centim-eters long, there was Jeanne’s inquiring face. A five-year-old face, flush up against the months-old fragment I then was, my opaque little mole eyes fumbling across this earliest of landscapes, my sister’s face watching me. She smiles, I smile. I smile, she smiles. She gives me a quick slap, I cry, she smiles, I smi…

E-book Ethics, conflict and medical treatment for children : From disagreemen…

Shortly after three-o’clock on 28th July 2017, in a private room of a specialised hospice in suburban London, staffdisconnected the breathing machine that was keeping alive 11-month old infant, Charlie Gard. Lying on either side of him, his parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard held his hands, leaned close, and talked to him. They spoke to him of how proud they were of him. They saw him open hi…

E-book Euthanasia : Searching for the Full Story Experiences and Insights of …

For more than 20 years I have practiced nursing, first in oncology services, then in palliative care. As a teacher and psychotherapist for the past 10 years, I have had the opportunity to continue working with nursing students in palliative care and psychi-atric services, as well as to supervise nursing teams. An ethicist by training, I belong to an ethics committee in a neuropsychiatric hospit…

E-book A History of Force Feeding : Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethic…

n March 2013, a group of detainees at Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp, Cuba, went on hunger strike. At the height of their protest, 106 individuals were refusing to eat. For detainees incarcerated for over a decade without charge or trial, food refusal offered a potent way to rebel. Having been stripped of their capacity for political communication and placed …

E-book Heroism in Doctor Who 1963 – 2020

Doctor Who (1963–1989, 2005–) is a curiosity in the vast landscape of British tele- vision history. What started out as an educational children’s programme has transformed into a “pop-cultural artefact”1 and a “cultural phenomenon”.2 The Doctor, the eponymous hero of the BBC’s time travel programme, is a figure invested both with personal memori…

E-book A Wartime Necessity

During World War II, advances in aviation became unmistakable. Many nations’ air forces entered the war flying biplane aircraft that were not much different from their predecessors of the previous world war. They were soon eclipsed by aircraft that took advantage of new designs that utilized many aeronautical advances of the interwar period such as new powerplants, stressed-skin aluminum stru…

E-book Nature Guiding

One of the difficulties in the establishment of nature-study has been that there is no field for the work. This is no longer true. There is an awakening throughout the country. 1. Summer Camps need Nature Counsellors. It is admitted that nature lore is the most important and the most difficult position to fill in the summer camp. There are over 5000 camps. 2. Scouting and Camp Fire Organiz…

E-book Spacecraft Structures: A Lesson in Engineering

NASA engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center, along with their partners at other NASA centers and in private industry, are designing and building the next generation of rockets and spacecraft to transport cargo, equipment, and human explorers to space. Known collectively as Deep Space Exploration Systems, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the Orion spacecraft, and ground systems at Kenned…

E-book Making a Homeland : Roots and Routes of Transnational Armenian Engagement

This emotional statement describes the long-distance ‘homecoming’ experi-ence of a young volunteer, a third-generation Armenian American from theBoston area, who arrived in Yerevan at the Zvartnots International Airport inJune 2007 to ‘discover’ his ‘ancestral homeland’ and to ‘move mountains’ inmodernArmenia.Thiswasnotajourneyalongapilgrimagetour.However,theperception of encoun…

E-book Ginseng and Borderland

In 1745, the Shengjing military governor (jiangjun), Daldangga, wrote to the Qian-long emperor (r. 1736–95) to propose building a guard post at the mouth of the Yalu (K. Amnok) River. The suggested place was Mangniushao, a sandbank located where the confluence of two tributaries of the Yalu River, the Caohe and the Aihe, flowed into the mainstream of the Yalu. These tri…

E-book Botanical Art with Scientific Illustration

Botanical and scientific illustration share many common themes - the meticulous observation, the crucial composition, the precision of rendering and the accuracy of colour are all intrinsic to this niche genre of art. In this beautiful book, Sarah Jane Humphrey explains the techniques of the botanical artist but also introduces ideas for scientific illustration, so that the illustrator has a fu…

E-book Rivers of the Anthropocene

“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it” (Shapin 1996, 1). So began Stephen Shapin’s The Scientific Revolution, a work, con-cise and smart, that embodied an approach to the history of science termed “the social construction of science.” Shapin argued that if we are going to talk about a “scientific revolution,” then we need to see it not …

E-book The Seine River Basin

Water resources are indispensable for social development. Human needs shapedrivers and river basins, leading to a drastic modification of the global water cycle.Changes due to human activities are so large nowadays that they override naturalprocesses, leading to the end of a geological era and the beginning of a new onecalled“the Anthropocene”first conceptualized by Crutzen [1, 2]. Using th…

E-Book Bekisar Merah

Bekisar adalah unggas elok hasil kawin silang antara ayam hutan dan ayam biasa yang sering menjadi hiasan rumah orang-orang kaya. Dan, adalah Lasi, anak desa yang berayah bekas serdadu Jepang yang memiliki kecantikan khas - kulit putih, mata eksotis - membawa dirinya menjadi bekisar di kehidupan megah seorang lelaki kaya di Jakarta, melalui bisnis berahi kalangan atas yang tak disadarinya. Las…

E-book Policemen of the Tsar : Local Police in an Age of Upheaval

s the minister responsible for the local police, Lanskoi had particular grounds for concern over their poor performance. His, however, was not the only ministry dependent on the police. A contemporary journalist described the local police as, in effect, the eyes, ears, and hands of the state. “Almost everything discussed by ministerial departments,” he noted, “or…

E-book Holding down the Fort : Policing Communities and Community-Oriented Po…

Policing is one of those defining concepts of modernity about which much haswritten—to the point where it is difficult to imagine that there is much left to besaid—that is, at the same time, decisively modern. The modern conceptualizationof police referring to a fixed and commonly identifiable role, occupation andorganization, rather than simply a practice performed by the state through its…

E-book Policing in the Pacific Islands

Police, as the most visible arm of government and the primary interface between a state and its population, signify and implement a state’s right to engage in actions intended to ensure legislated acceptable behaviours from its populace (Dunham & Alpert, 2010; Pollock, 1998). The power and authority assigned to state police place police and acts…

E-Book Orang-Orang Proyek

Aku insinyur. Aku tak bisa menguraikan dengan baik hubungan antara kejujuran dan kesungguhan dalam pembangunan proyek ini dengan keberpihakan kepada masyarakat miskin. Apakah yang pertama merupakan manifestasi yang kedua? Apakah kejujuran dan kesungguhan sejatinya adalah perkara biasa bagi masyarakat berbudaya, dan harus dipilih karena keduanya merupakan hal yang niscaya untuk menghasilkan kema…

E-book Creating Standards : Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript …

Manuscripts originate from literacy practices embedded in numerous social domains, such as education, administration, religion and trade. Expressed in spoken and written languages, various social activities prompt the development of organising principles and structures, which in turn serve as models for the agents and participants of literacy practices. The…

E-book Reading Today

In what follows I discuss unreadability and its relation to reading and interpretation of experimental literature. What precisely does unread-ability mean? Where can it be located? How far does it impede reading and can it be overcome? I want to address these questions within the frameworks of narratology and literary pragmatics, and suggest that in som…

E-book Grassland use in Europe

Grass seeds include the coleoptile (shoot sheath), the scutellum, the radicula and the coleorrhiza (root sheath) (Figure1.1). The scutellum is homologous to the leaf lamina of the cotyledon and the coleoptile to the leaf sheath of the cotyledon. Co-leoptile and coleorrhiza are membranes that protect shoot and leaf meristems and the radicula, respectively, during the first step of the germinatio…

E-book Animal Industries : Nordic Perspectives on the Exploitation of Animals…

In 2019, Juha Marttila, the President of the Central Union of Agricultural Pro-ducers and Forest Owners (MTK) in Finland, expressed his astonishment in apress interview about the increasing public criticism of intensive meat and dairyproduction:“The cow has kept us alive for some ten thousand years, so how comeit has now been made a criminal?”1He was quite right about the long interrela-tio…

E-book Buddhism in a Dark Age: Cambodian Monks under Pol Pot

This pioneering study of the fate of Buddhism during the communist period in Cambodia puts a human face on a dark period in Cambodia’s history. It is the first sustained analysis of the widely held assumption that the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot had a centralized plan to liquidate the entire monastic order. Based on a thorough analysis of interview transcripts and a large body of contemporary m…

E-book Cosmopolitan Love : Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

Love as a feeling is universal. Since we all have a sense for what it means, this default understanding of love is as deeply rooted and unconsciously ingrained in us as our relationship to our own family. Consequently, we are too familiar with it to be able to step back and really observe its form and significance. To really see what love is would require us to step outside of ourse…

E-book I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the T…

"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank r…

E-book Camphill and the Future Spirituality and Disability in an Evolving Co…

Each year I bring students from Harvard University to a Camphill community—usually, either Camphill Village USA in Copake, New York, or Heartbeet Lifesharing in Vermont. At Camphill my students encounter a social world that is different from their own. We travel from the busy streets of Cambridge to dirt roads and mountain valleys, where our passage may be bl…

E-book Doing Democracy Differently: Indigenous Rights and Representation in C…

Across North and South America, Indigenous people play a dual political role, building self-governing structures in their own nations and participating in the elections of settler states. Doing Democracy Differently asks how states are responding to demands for Indigenous representation and autonomy and in what ways the ongoing project of decolonization may unsettle the practice of democracy. B…

E-book The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World

Islamic peoples account for one fifth of the world's population and yet there is widespread misunderstanding in the West of what Islam really is. Francis Robinson and his team set out to address this, revealing the complex and sometimes contrary nature of Muslim culture. As well as taking on the issues uppermost in everyone's minds, such as the role of religious and political fundamentalism, th…

E-book Social Media in Rural China : Social Networks and Moral Frameworks

This book is one of a series of 11 titles. Nine are monographs devoted to specific field sites (including this one) in Brazil, Chile, China, England, India, Italy, Trinidad and Turkey – they will be published in 2016–17. The series also includes a comparative book about all of our findings, published to accompany this title, and a book which contrasts the visu-als …

E-book The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine

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E-book A Greek State in Formation : The Origins of Mycenaean Pylos

The Bronze Age in Greece began around 3100 B.C. with the first bronze work-ing for the manufacture of tools and weapons (see map 1). Already in the Neo-lithic, there had been limited use of copper, the essential ingredient of bronze, while stone tools were still essential for some purposes in the Bronze Age. Copper typically was alloyed with tin to produce bronze, but…

E-book Surgery: An Illustrated History

Designed like a fine art book, this beautiful work by the foremost American historian of surgery represents the finest pictorial record of the history of surgery ever assembled between two covers. Writing from a surgeon' perspective, Dr. Rutkow traces the development of surgery from its crude beginnings, from a primitive craft to one of modern society's most accomplished achievements. Brief bio…

E-book Conversations with Shotetsu

This leaves the question of whether Sogi and his cohorts sawsomething in the waka of their day that scholars since have not; andthe answer would seem to be yes. For while many poets of that agewere satisfied with vain repetitions of familiar lines, a few intrepidindividuals still managed to approach the old form with vitality andartistic purpose. …

E-book A Little History of the World: Illustrated Edition

E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World, an engaging and lively book written for readers both young and old, vividly brings the full span of human experience on Earth to life, from the stone age to the atomic age. Gombrich’s text paints a colorful picture of wars and conquests; of grand works of art; of the advances and limitations of science; of remarkable people and remarkable even…

E-book Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History

See the greatest medical breakthroughs come to life through superb illustrations! From ancient herbal medicine to traditional Chinese medicine, take a visual tour throughout the history of medicine with this comprehensive medical reference book.

E-book Seeing the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Urban

The city is a complex object. Some researchers look at its shape, others at its people, animals, ecology, policy, infrastructures, buildings, history, art, or technical networks. Some researchers analyse processes of in- or exclusion, gentrification, or social mobility; others biological evolution, traffic flows, or spatial development. Many combine these topics or add still more topics beyond …

E-book Hip Hop’s Organic Pedagogues: Teaching, Learning, and Organizing in …

What can Hip Hop culture and its art forms (dance, rap, DJing, graffiti/style writing) contribute to the development of individuals, communities, and even society? To answer this question, this book delves into Hip Hop activism in social work, education, and political movements in New York and Dakar. It follows the work of Hip Hop practitioners who teach their art forms in high schools, in neig…

E-book Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in The Ancient Near East…

Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered from archaeological excavations. Urban form is the focus: the physical appearance and overall plans of the cities, their architecture a…

E-book The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Hidden History: The U…

Discover 10,000 years of the shadowy side of our world in this treasure trove of alternative history. The Encyclopedia of Secret Societies features detailed information about.

E-book Ancient Rome: An Illustrated History

In this colorfully-illustrated reference for young adult readers, the history of ancient Rome is traced from the mythic founding of the city by the twins Romulus and Remus, through its many emperors and wars, to the disintegration of the empire in the third and fourth centuries CE. Boxed information provides further details on aspects of daily life, traditions, and laws; the Roman military; fam…

E-book An Illustrated History of Britain

This is an illustrated history of Britain from prehistoric times to the present day. The book analyzes the major political and military events in British history, and where appropriate, looks at these within a wider, international context. It also describes everyday life for men and women from different levels of society in different ages: the kind of work they did, family life, etc. Emphasis i…

E-book Before the Pyramids: Cracking Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

Were the pyramids of the pharaohs conceived in Britain? The acclaimed coauthors of Civilization One think so, and they take readers on a gripping excursion into ancient religion and astronomy. Knight and Butler not only establish the existence of an advanced civilization with astonishing, almost modern knowledge, but they also explain how the oldest Neolithic monuments--the henges of North York…

E-book Current Research in Egyptology 2023: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third A…

Collecting 22 selected papers from the twenty-third Current Research in Egyptology conference, topics include language and literature, archaeology and material culture, society and religion, archival research, intercultural relations, reports on archaeological excavations and methodological issues, regarding all periods of Ancient Egypt. The twenty-third Current Research in Egyptology confer…

To Kill a Mockingbird

"Kalian boleh menembak burung bluejay kalau bisa, tapi ingat, kalian berdosa apabila membunuh burung mockingbird". Hidup Scout dan Jem berubah saat ayah mereka menjadi pembela seorang kulit hitam. Ketika Atticus membela seorang yang dianggap sampah masyarakat, kecaman pun datang dari seluruh penjuru. Novel ini menunjukkan betapa prasangka sering kali membutakan manusia. Dan keadilan hanya dapa…

E-book The Wheat Genome

In 2018, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium published a reference genome sequence for bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The landmark achievement was the culmination of a thirteen-year international effort focused on the production of a genome sequence linked to genotypic/phenotypic maps to advance understanding of traits an…

Bacaan Harian dari Your Best Life Now

Penulis buku terlaris, Joel Osteen, menawarkan 90 hari inspirasi untuk menolong orang meraih potensi penuh mereka. Dalam buku terlarisnya Your Best Life Now, Joel Osteen menjamin kita kembali bahwa menjalani kehidupan yang penuh potensi itu ada dalam jangkauan kita. Ia berbicara tentang memperbesar visi kita, menyadari kuasa pikiran dan kata-kata kita, dan mengubah kesukaran menjadi kesempatan…

E-book Moves - Spaces - Places : The Life Worlds of Jamaican Women in Montrea…

“More Jamaican women migrating to Canada, Statistics reveal” is a headline inthe Jamaican newspaperThe Gleanerin January (2018) discussing the recent cen-sus results gathered in Canada from 2012 to 2016. The data indicates that almost20,000 more Jamaican women than men migrated to Canada within that timespan,demonstratinga recentdisparity in migrants’genderdistribution.The socio-economic …

E-book Certifying China: The Rise and Limits of Transnational Sustainability …

In the early 1990s, Mr. H, who was in his thirties at that time, was already the general manager of a state- owned tea company in the Jiangxi province of China. However, he was struggling to find customers for tea produced in his county, Wuyuan— which had been famous for its green tea for more than 1,000 years— in a free and open market after the government had ceas…

Majalah Gema Loyola 2024 : The Cultural Kaleidoscope

Berisikan cuplikan dari kegiatan-kegiatan yang telah diselenggarakan, seperti LOSAAC 2024 yang menampilkan lomba olah raga, akademik, dan seni, serta Gelar Karya Senandika Adiwarna, Live in Sragen dan Ekskursi 2024, juga perayaan P5.

Majalah Gema Loyola Reborn 2023 : A Glimpse of 2023

Berisikan cuplikan reportase dari kegiatan-kegiatan yang berlangsung selama tahun 2023, mulai dari launching antologi cerpen La Reverie, Temu Kolese, hingga Perayaan P5.