Tokens and social life in Roman imperial Italy

This is a unique and accessible introduction to an underutilised source, Roman tokens, with a focus on those found in Imperial Italy. It explains how tokens can illuminate all kinds of issues such as identity, entertainment, euergetism, imperial ideology, festivals, material culture and everyday life

Decolonizing the English literary curriculum

An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reforming the English Literary Curriculum from specific decolonial perspectives in this book, using evidence-based arguments from classroom contexts, as well as establishing new critical agendas

Koko si cokelat lezat

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9786023220274

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iv, 48 p.: ill.; 23 cm

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633.74 KOK

Yuk memanen jagung

Kalian pernah makan sup jagung, bubur jagung, es krim jagung, atau sarapan nan lezat corn flake yang dicampur susu? ternyata penganan lezat itu hanya sebagian dari aneka jenis olahan dari jagung. Masih banyak penganan lainnya, yang selain lezat ternyata menyehatkan bagi tubuh, termasuk nasi jagung juga, lho Kali ini, Pak Ino bersama Tia, Ami, dan Dita mengajak kalian untuk mengenal lebih dekat …

Hangusnya ladang paman

Lihatlah ladang Paman, hangus habis terbakar! Paman sangat sedih karena akhir-akhir ini sering gagal panen. Peristiwa banjir makin sering terjadi. Demikian pula dengan musim kemarau, cenderung lebih Panjang dan lebih terik. Musim seolah tertukar waktu. Yang biasanya sudah musim hujan, kini masih kemarau. Akibatnya ladang paman beberapa kali mengalami puso. Perubahan musim itu tidak hanya terjad…

Hanyutnya sekolah kami

Bayangkanlah kalau suatu saat desamu terkena banjir atau longsor. Pasti banyak temanmu yang kehilangan tempat tinggal, harus pindah sekolah, atau ternak dan sawahnya musnah. Memang akan ada banyak kerugian yang timbul bila banjir dan longsor datang. Apalagi, bencana alam seperti itu bisa datang kapan saja tanpa ada tanda terlebih dahulu. Itulah yang dialami Pak Guru Kani saat masih anak-anak. D…

Blockchain and crypt currency :building a high quality marketplace for crypt …

This open access book contributes to the creation of a cyber ecosystem supported by blockchain technology in which technology and people can coexist in harmony. Blockchains have shown that trusted records, or ledgers, of permanent data can be stored on the Internet in a decentralized manner. The decentralization of the recording process is expected to significantly economize the cost of transac…

Global voices in higher education

Traveling from Zimbabwe to New Zealand and on to Ghana and the United States, the voices of higher education are presented in a way only scholars from these regions can fully articulate and understand. The changing world of higher education challenges all of those involved in very unique ways. In Global Voices in Higher Education, scholars from 10 different countries share their work, describin…

Community development and schools:conflict, power and promise

"This book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community building institutions. It explores the challenges faced in incorporating schools into broader community development policy. It recognizes the changing demographics of schools and the need to integrate schools with economic development policy in order to promote broader community development. The book includes chapters on tax …

Higher education institutions and digital transformation:building university-…

"The growing complexity, fluidity and instability of the environment as well as changing needs are challenges that both enterprises and higher education institutions must face. Higher education institutions understand that their key product, i.e. knowledge, is a value that can and should be offered to enterprises in a desirable form as a key to innovation and development as well as the basis of…

Managing the digital university:paradigms, leadership, and organization

The reflection on university management is based on the question about the shape of universities of the future. Civic, responsible, sustainable, virtual, digital, and many other universities can be mentioned among the concepts present in the literature. All these names describe an important distinctive feature of a university, which will gain more and more importance in the future. However, giv…

Defending checks and balances in EU member states :taking stock of europe’s…

This open access book deals with Article 7 TEU measures, court proceedings, financial sanctions and the EU Rule of Law Framework to protect EU values with a particular focus on checks and balances in EU Member States. It analyses substantive standards, powers, procedures as well as the consequences and implications of the various instruments. It combines the analysis of the European level, be i…

Surveying climate-relevant behavior :measurements, obstacles, and implications

This open access book discusses the contribution of sociology and survey research to climate research. The authors address the questions of which behaviors are of climate relevance, who is engaging in these behaviors, in which contexts do these behaviors occur, and which individual perceptions and values are related to them. Utilizing survey research, the book focuses on the measurement of clim…

World protests :a study of key protest issues in the 21st century

This book analyzes almost three thousand protests that occurred between 2006 and 2020 in 101 countries covering over 93 per cent of the world population. The study focuses on the major demands driving world protests, such as those for real democracy, jobs, public services, social protection, civil rights, global justice, and those against austerity and corruption. It also analyzes who was demon…

Preparing for digital disruption

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9783030778385

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xiv, 74p. : ill.

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005.8 ERI p

Resilient urban futures

This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for …

Evolutionary Equations :Picard's Theorem for Partial Differential Equations, …

This open access book provides a solution theory for time-dependent partial differential equations, which classically have not been accessible by a unified method. Instead of using sophisticated techniques and methods, the approach is elementary in the sense that only Hilbert space methods and some basic theory of complex analysis are required. Nevertheless, key properties of solutions can be r…

Population ageing and Australia's future

This volume provides evidence from many of Australia’s leading scholars from a range of social science disciplines to support policies that address challenges presented by Australia’s ageing population. It builds on presentations made to the 2014 Symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. The material is in four parts: Perspectives on Ageing Population Ageing: Glob…

Expanding horizons in the history of science:the comparative approach

This book challenges the common assumption that the predominant focus of the history of science should be the achievements of Western scientists since the so-called scientific revolution. The conceptual frameworks within which the members of earlier societies and of modern indigenous groups worked admittedly pose severe problems for our understanding. But rather than dismiss them on the grounds…

Living for the city:social change and knowledge production in the Central Afr…

More than most monographs, this book rests on the collective efforts of the brilliant team of researchers it has been my privilege and pleasure to work alongside during the five years (2016–2021) of the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project. Each of these researchers brought distinctive insights and made major contributions to the project as a whole and to this volume in particular. Ste…