E-learning and digital education in the twenty-first century

E-learning and digital education approaches are evolving and changing the landscape of teaching and learning at all levels of education throughout the world. Innovation of emerging learning technologies is assisting e-learning and digital education to meet the needs of the 21st century. Due to the digital transformation of everyday practice, the process of learning and education has become more…

Social Enterprise in Asia :Theory, Models and Practice

In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the ""International Comparative Social Enterprise Models"" (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200 researchers from 55 countries and relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the SE phenomenon. This strategy made it possible to take into acco…

Technologies and Innovations in Regional Development:The European Union and i…

The subsequent volume revolves around the Social-Fields-Approach (SOFIA) as an approach to conceptualization and operationalisation for the purpose of empirical research. It contributes a new perspective and approach in research on innovation. We believe that SOFIA can have implications for both academic research and practical applications in reshaping the existing instruments and governance ar…

Social Sector in a Decentralized Economy

In this book, we will analyze the process of decentralization in India and examine its effectiveness on health and education service delivery. Against the backdrop of theoretical and empirical evidences, the book examines the accountability frameworks of decentralization in public service delivery and arrives at a plausible public expenditure benefit incidence in health and education sectors in…

How creativity is changing China

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The question Professor Li Wuwei investigates is not 'whether' creativity is changing China - but 'how' creativity is changing China. The outcome will have a profound impact on how China develops and its economic role in the world. Creative industries maintain and…

Tumbuhan pengusir bau:dongeng tumbuhan super

Pada buku ini diperkenalkan tumbuhan yang bisa menjadi bahan minyak wangi. Dimulai dari tumbuhan yang dekat dan dikenal oleh anak-anak yakni bunga melati dan jeruk. Lalu diperkenalkan tumbuhan langka yakni cendana. Selain diperkenalkan tentang tumbuhan tersebut, anak-anak juga diajak praktek cara mengolahnya. Semoga buku ini selain menjadi pengetahuan anak-anak, juga menjadi bekal life skill me…

Recollecting Resonances :Indonesian-Dutch Musical Encounters

Over time Dutch and Indonesian musicians have inspired each other and they continue to do so. Recollecting Resonances offers a way of studying these musical encounters and a mutual heritage one today still can listen to.

This open access book presents a wide portfolio of examples of positron emission tomography coupled with computer tomography (PET/CT) studies in various cardiac conditions in order to provide a rationale for the implementation of this technology in an array of clinical conditions. Cardiovascular diseases are a major contributor to premature morbidity and mortality worldwide. Low- and middle…

Rempah berkisah

Apakah kamu tahu kalau cengkih tertua di dunia ada di lereng gunung Gamalama, Ternate? Atau kamu pernah mendengar mengenai senyawa Euganol yang ada di dalam cengkih bisa menghilangkan rasa sakit? Atau pernahkah kamu mendengar kisah tentang perahu Sawerigading yang dipakai pelaut untuk mengarungi samudra dalam perjalanan mencari rempah? Jika kamu belum pernah mendengar tentang hal-hal itu, janga…

Lives in peace research

This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their p…

Permata:perlindungan mata air di bali

Air sebagai salah satu penyokong kehidupan manusia lambat laun semakin menurun kualitasnya. Penurunan kualitas disebabkan oleh tercemarnya mata air yang sebagian besar terjadi karena ulah dari manusia. Salah satu upaya untuk mencegah terjadinya pencemaran mata air adalah dengan kegiatan Perlindungan Mata Air (PERMATA). Komik ini bercerita tentang dua orang mahasiswa yang melakukan studi lapanga…

Forts and Fortification in Wallacea :Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investi…

This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and dating defensive sites in often remote and difficult terrain, the chapters provide an important and scholarly set of archaeological and ethnohistoric studies that investigate …

Knlowledge and Civil Society

This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science. …

Bridging between research and practice :supporting professional development t…

This book presents a fresh approach to bridging the perceived gap between academic and classroom cultures. It describes a unique form of research partnership whereby Cambridge University academics and school teachers together grappled with and reformulated theory—through in-depth case studies analysing practice using interactive whiteboards in five subject areas. The inquiry exploited the col…

Honey bee colony health

This book summarizes the current progress of bee researchers investigating the status of honey bees and possible reasons for their decline, providing a basis for establishing management methods that maintain colony health. Integrating discussion of Colony Collapse Disorder, the chapters provide information on the new microsporidian Nosema ceranae pathogens, the current status of the parasitic b…

Water-filtered Infrared a (wira) Irradiation

The aim of this open access book is to provide a unique, timely, critical and comprehensive compilation of more than 30 years of robust international experimental and clinical research related to the basic science and therapeutic application of water-filtered infrared-A (wIRA) and hyperthermia in oncology, psychiatry (depression), musculoskeletal disorders, dermatology, infectiology, and surger…

How creativity is changing China

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The question Professor Li Wuwei investigates is not 'whether' creativity is changing China - but 'how' creativity is changing China. The outcome will have a profound impact on how China develops and its economic role in the world. Creative industries maintain and…

Tumbuhan pengusir bau:dongeng tumbuhan super

Pada buku ini diperkenalkan tumbuhan yang bisa menjadi bahan minyak wangi. Dimulai dari tumbuhan yang dekat dan dikenal oleh anak-anak yakni bunga melati dan jeruk. Lalu diperkenalkan tumbuhan langka yakni cendana. Selain diperkenalkan tentang tumbuhan tersebut, anak-anak juga diajak praktek cara mengolahnya. Semoga buku ini selain menjadi pengetahuan anak-anak, juga menjadi bekal life skill me…

Recollecting Resonances :Indonesian-Dutch Musical Encounters

Over time Dutch and Indonesian musicians have inspired each other and they continue to do so. Recollecting Resonances offers a way of studying these musical encounters and a mutual heritage one today still can listen to.

This open access book presents a wide portfolio of examples of positron emission tomography coupled with computer tomography (PET/CT) studies in various cardiac conditions in order to provide a rationale for the implementation of this technology in an array of clinical conditions. Cardiovascular diseases are a major contributor to premature morbidity and mortality worldwide. Low- and middle…