Central bankers are supposed to be a rather dour lot. They are charged, after all, with maintaining the monetary and financial integrity of the whole economy. They cultivate a public reputation as prudent, cautious guardians of price stability — an independent, reliable force, ready to pounce at the first signs of economic overheating and inflationary pressure. They are the ones wh…
Why do some people appear to obtain a disproportionate share of income and wealth? The French economist Thomas Piketty, in his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, frames the problem in a rather old-fashioned way as a tussle between capital and labour. His main thesis is that inequality is rising because the rate of return on capital, held disproportionately by the wealthy, exc…
In the past few years a number of book-length English-language studies of the cultural dimensions of disasters in modern Japan have appeared in print.2 The question arises: Why do we need another? The reason is that none of these books concentrates solely on literature, as this book does, and only a few of the volumes treat the disaster spawned by World War II—the most destruc-tive military c…
Anthropogenic environmental change and the uneven global effects of mass mobil-ity,eachwiththeirownuniquehistoriesandlong-termeffectsonlifeontheplanet,are two of the most urgent challenges of the twenty-first century. ContemporaryAmerican poetry can help us understand some of the complex ways in which thesetwo challenges are interrelated.When connecting environmental change and massmobility,bot…
“This is the death of the poem as I have faithfully reported it, November 29, 1966, as I have faithfully reported it, this is the death of the poem” in-tones Canadian poet bpNichol one day after the Dominion Day celebrations marking Canada’s centennial year. Addressing a national television audi-ence, Nichol reads these lines with poets bill bissett an…
Diverse processes of democratic participation – and exclusion – are braided with or propelled onwards by ritual acts and complexes. This volume is the result of collaborations and conversations between international researchers who have focused on the employment and deployment of those cultural resources identifiable as ‘ritual’ as pa…
This book is inspired by Acehnese scholar Eka Srimulyani’s appeal to bring ‘the sub-altern narrative and stories to the fore so the marginalized groups and perspectives can be brought to the discourse and common knowledge of the people’ and, in order to do so, it requires revisiting ‘the notion of agency and xplor[ing] the different agencies that were the …
Human relationships with our oceans date back millennia. They have shaped the rise of civilizations, provided food and story, and seeded a diversity of coastal cul-tures and engagement practices around the world. However, they have also been a source of conflict, oppression and turmoil. Human-ocean stories are not new, but the magnitude of changes now incurred from these relationshi…
The creation of—or even the existence of—a “Pacific World” is a question that has preoccupied scholars to a much greater degree than existential doubts have bothered historians of other oceanic basins. Economic historian Eric Jones and colleagues have written that “there can be no meaningful history ofthe whole Rim or Basin [ofthe Pacific] since there…
As indicated by its title, this is a book about the relationship between what are perceived to be scarce natural resources and the tendency for access to them to lead to international conflict or cooperation. It is apparent from our reading of existing literature and from the contributions to this book that experts are often situated in positions that find little opportunity to engage …
The current publishing environment has experienced a drastic change in the way content is created, delivered, and acquired, particularly for libraries. With the increasing importance of digital publishing, more than half the titles published in the United States are self-published. With this growth in self-published materials, librarians, publishers, and vendors have been forced to rethink chan…
Tahun 2024 ini, Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia (Perpusnas) genap berusia 44 Tahun. Perpusnas berulang tahun tepat pada tanggal 17 Mei. Dalam perjalanannya sebagai penjaga ilmu pengetahuan dan peradaban, Perpusnas telah menorehkan sumbangsih yang cukup besar bagi kemajuan negeri ini.
What is so interesting about housing policies? I have been asked this question many times over the last years, ever since I became interested in the topic of housing. I used to respond in a simple way, disregarding the complexity of the topic: ‘We cannot allow the existence of one billion people living in slums!’, ‘We live in the 21st century; there must be a way to improve the living con…
When I imagine my eggs, I think of them as grey and shiny, like slippery helium balloons clustering in the thousands within organs lit up and awake. I think of eggs enfleshed in follicular cavities, folding again and again into a sponge of cells and yellow bodies, pulsing patiently with only an occasional burst: membrane breaking at the touch of engorged fimbrae, fallopian fingers brushing the …
An anthropological exploration is a journey that takes place through a long tunnel?4 Truthfully, this process can be portrayed as a journey, that can be gen-erally described as one that starts with a declaration of a dissertation problem-atic followed by narrowing of the field of study, setting out how you are going to approach the study, reviewing all the existing li…
Mereka bukan sekedar menjadi penikmat kata yang didapatnya dari buku. Lebih dari itu, para pelopor kecerdasan yang sudah menghibahkan hidupnya dalam dunia perpustakaan telah membawa perubahan sosial. Meski punya latar belakang pendidikan yang berbeda, para pegiat literasi itu memiliki pandangan misi yang sama. Di tengah keterbatasan, kerap mengeksplorasi ilmu dan menyusun peradaban di lingkung…
For scholars of the Arab world, the state remains an elusive, unsettled, and unsettling presence. Since mandatory and then independent states emerged in the Arab world in the aftermath of World War I, theorizing the Arab state has been a central preoccupation for generations of regional specialists. The gravitational pull of the state is not surprising. As a pr…
The internal combustion engine was invented around 1790 by various scientists and engineers worldwide. Since then the engines have gone through many modifications and improvements. Today, different applications of engines form a significant technological importance in our everyday lives, leading to the evolution of our modern civilization. The invention of diesel and gasoline engines has defini…
The Pacific Islands region has entered a new period of uncertainty precipitated in large part by the emergence of China as a major regional actor as well as the reaction of more established powers to perceived threats to their longstanding influence. In March 2019, in the wake of a flurry of activity on the part of Australia, New Zealand and the United States …
In 2007, in a speech before the Indian Parliament, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe brought back to light an ancient Asian geographical vision: the so-called “confluence of the two seas”. It referred to the idea of linking the Pacific with the Indian Ocean, as Japanese policymakers conceived the concept at the time. That would later become the “Indo-Pacific …
This book tells the story of power and diplomatic agency in Pacific regionalism against the backdrop of a changing global order and a changing political situation within Pacific societies and states. Its purpose is to explore the political significance of this region-building activity for Pacific societies and its political meaning withi…
The early twenty- first century was in many ways the perfect unipolar moment. A decade after the end of the Cold War, major events such as the ideological triumph of liberal democracy, the resolution of violent conflicts in the Balkans and elsewhere and the declaration of the UN Millennium Development Goals promised a future in which the United States, as primus inter pares, would over-see the …
This book is for people who have to make decisions about how best to support or conserve biodiversity. These include land managers, conservationists in the public or private sector, farmers, campaigners, advisors or consultants, policymakers, researchers or people taking action to protect local wildlife. What Works in Conservation and the associated synopses summari…
We are all familiar with the many reasons why we should fight poverty. Poor people do not have enough money to meet their basic needs, are excluded from society, are often not given proper respect, or can become easy prey at the hands of others who want to dominate them. In the domains of both material and immaterial goods, there is a widespread understanding about what it means w…
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all member states ofthe United Nations in 2015, is a shared blueprint for people and the planet,intending to achieve peace and prosperity for all. The Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs) is a call to action, to develop innovative solutions to some of theworld’s most complex, societal, and environmental challenges. Businesses play acrucia…
A combination of all three aspects is also feasible. For example, the cult of a protective saint against the plague spreads in a European region hardly affected by the Black Death, even as the pandemic itself was sparked in part by changing precipitation pat-terns in Central Asia.Perhaps it is more useful to think of the multi-level impacts of a meteorological extreme event on a s…
"‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relationship between bodily sensation, emotion and perception, and asks his readers what it means to be human i…
This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book’s …
According to the equations of the general theory of relativity, the universe is either ex-panding or contracting [17]. In order to circumvent the unthinkable, Einstein introduceda factor to keep the size constant. Some 20 years later, however, Hubble, who gave hisname to the telescope, discovered that the universe is actually expanding. He did thisby proving that the color spectrums of far star…
No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame. As a physicist, Young challenged the theories of Isaac Newton and proved that light is a wave. As a physician, he showed how the ey…
Physics is an exciting adventure that is concerned with unrav-eling the secrets of nature based on observations and measure-ments and also on intuition and imagination. Its beauty liesin having few fundamental principles being able to reach outto incorporate many phenomena from the atomic to the cos-mic scale. It is a science that depends heavily on mathematicsto prove and express theories and …
Immersed in digital 3D stereoscopic vision, we f loat in a low orbit above Earth’s atmospheric threshold, which glows blue against an otherwise black screen. A velvety, thick silence fortif ies the authenticity of this senso-rial encounter made possible by way of seamless integration between cinematographic excellence and high-performance computation. In this visually immense opening sequence…
Export activity has been traditionally analysed for countries. Its regional dimension was somewhat neglected or not noticed. The main premise of our research is that exports are strongly diversified regionally. The imperative to conduct such research stems from constatation that exports do not come from an undefined space, from a country treated as a s…
This book is more than fifteen years in the making, although its origins go back much further than that, most likely pointing to a darkened almost empty local cinema more than 30 years ago in 1991. I had convinced two of my loyal friends to attend the screening of a new film entitled Prospero’s Books directed by artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway. I sat there mesmerised by its innovative us…
Tidak mudah menjadi Kei. Vitiligo membuatnya tidak percaya diri. Warna kulitnya tidak sama dan beberapa helai rambutnya tampak keperakan. Dia sering dipandang aneh dan di-bully teman-teman. Jadi, dia memilih untuk bersahabat hanya dengan cello kesayangannya. Beruntung Kei berkenalan dengan Domi, cowok berkacamata yang kurang-lebih senasib dengannya. Dan suatu hari, mereka sepakat membuat wishl…
This book presents a detailed analysis of the translation of the Qur’an in Saudi Arabia, the most important global actor in the promotion, production and dissemination of Qur’an translations. From the first attempts at translation in the mid-twentieth century to more recent state-driven efforts concerned with international impact, The Kingdom and the Qur’an adeptly elucidates the link bet…
How Divine Images Became Art tells the story of the parallel ‘discovery’ of Russian medieval art and of the Italian ‘primitives’ at the beginning of the twentieth century. While these two developments are well-known, they are usually studied in isolation. Tarasov’s study has the great merit of showing the connection between the art world in Russia and the West, and its impact in the c…
In the next decade, NASA, by itself and in collaboration with the European Space Agency, is planning a minimum of four separate missions to Mars. Clearly, exciting times are ahead for Mars exploration. This is an insider's look into the amazing projects now being developed here and abroad to visit the legendary red planet. Drawing on his contacts at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the a…
Martin Luther King Jr. will always be remembered for his famous "I have a dream" speech, which he gave during the March on Washington in 1963. But his life before and after that big event, and his other enormous contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, largely go unspoken. In this biography, learn all about MLK - from his early family life and experiences in education, t…
Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing due to an early childhood illness and spent the first six years of her life unable to interact with other people. She remained isolated from the outside world until Anne Sullivan came to work as her teacher. In this biography for kids ages 8-12, learn all about Helen Keller's amazing life and achievements--how she learned to read Braille and speak, go to …
This revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive account of the human male gamete. Detailed overviews of human sperm production, maturation, and function - and how these processes affect and influence fertility, infertility, and assisted reproduction - are given. A wide range of new developments including proteomics, spermatogenesis, sperm-specific WW domain-binding proteins, Ca…
This book accompanies the landmark television series Kingdom of Plants 3D: With David Attenborough. In the last 500 million years, plants have undertaken an epic journey that has not only spanned the ages but has altered the very make-up of the planet. It was a journey that began in a dark and barren world, and has culminated in a planet that is draped in rich colours, and overflowing with a…
Think outside the box and get results with Essential Managers: Innovation. This book will give you all the tools you'll need to succeed.
Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the 21st century and beyond. Original photography and artworks illustrate the extraordinary visions of the future of scientists, artists and inventors through the ages, offering a unique "eyewitness" view of a world we are yet to know. See an insect robot learning to walk, a hypersonic plane, a calendar for the next century, a space hotel and a mil…
Detailed photographs trace the origins, heyday, and eventual decline of knighthood, chivalry, and the feudal system. Discover how armor was made, how men became knights, and what life in a medieval castle was like. "Great for reluctant readers."--School Library Journal.
Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record, Prothero creates a riveting history of life on our planet. The t…
Entrepreneurship scholars have paid significant attention to the role of theory in their research. Indeed, publishing in most top entrepreneur-ship and management journals requires a paper to contribute to theory (Hambrick, 2007; Shepherd, 2010). Although some scholars question this dominant role of theory (Hambrick, 2007;Pfeffer, 2014), few disagree about…
Kabar duka datang menghampiri Bianca. Sahabatnya, Zie, meninggal dunia. Kenyataan itu membuat Bianca harus terbang ke New Zealand. Tetapi, bukan hanya duka yang harus Bianca hadapi. Dia dihadapkan pada fakta bahwa dia kembali bertemu Levy Welsh, mantan suaminya. Tentu saja Bianca tidak bisa menghindar. Masa lalunya bersama Levy cukup buruk. Tapi sebuah ciuman yang tak disengaja mengubah keteg…
Every man sees a war in which he fights from two points of view. The one is his own, his view of his personal life in relation to the harsh environment of battle; the other is the outlook of his unit which makes him share closely the corporate experience of this unit and gives that unit an individual entity and character with its own peculiar difficulties and joys, its…
The research landscape in the area of forecasting and assessing working conditionshas become increasingly difficult to understand. There are plenty of identifiedreasons, drivers and catchwords to describe a systemic transformation. Individual-and subject-specific approaches to describe and understand the changes to work arebeing developed in almost every scientific discipline, as well as by (ec…