Visual Methodology in Migration Studies

This open access book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical studies. The first section looks at how various visual methods, including photography, film, and mental maps, may be used to analyse the spatial presence of migrants. The second section addresses the processual building of narratives around migration, thereby…

From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships

This book explores the concept of multi-species relationships and suggests critical systemic pathways to protect shared habitats. This book discusses how the eradication of species as a result of rapid urbanisation places humanity at risk. This book demonstrates how narrow anthropocentrism has focused on the rights of human beings at the expense of other species and the environment. This bo…

Topologies of Digital Work

This book provides a unique contribution to the controversial discussion that surrounds the digitalisation and virtualisation of work. With a focus on the new formation of space and place, it critically discusses the idea that places in the context of work are increasingly losing their importance, and becoming more arbitrary with new technical possibilities. Theoretical considerations that …

Geographical Reasoning and Learning

This book presents the distinctive theoretical and methodological approaches in geography education in South America and more specifically in Brazil, Chile and Colombia. It highlights cartography and maps as essential tools and provides a meaningful approach to learning in geographical education, thereby giving children and young people the opportunity to better understand their situations, co…

Virtuality and Humanity

This is a pioneering study of virtuality through human history: ancient-to-modern evolution and recent expansion; expression in many fields (chapters on Religion; Philosophy, Math, Physics; Literature and the Arts; Economics; Nationhood, Government and War; Communication); psychological and social reasons for its universality; inter-relationship with "reality." The book's thesis: virtuality was…

Mountains and Megastructures

This book explores the shared qualities of mountains as naturally-formed landscapes, and of megastructures as manmade landscapes, seeking to unravel how each can be understood as an open system of complex network relationships (human, natural and artificial). By looking at mountains and megastructures in an interchangeable way, the book negotiates the fixed boundaries of natural and artificial …

Empowering Human Dynamics Research with Social Media and Geospatial Data Anal…

This book discusses theoretical backgrounds, techniques and methodologies, and applications of the current state-of-the-art human dynamics research utilizing social media and geospatial big data. It describes various forms of social media and big data with location information, theory development, data collection and management techniques, and analytical methodologies to conduct human dynamics …

Handbook of Active Ageing and Quality of Life

This handbook presents an overview of studies on the relationship of active ageing and quality of life. It addresses the new challenges of ageing from the paradigm of positive ageing (active, healthy and successful) for a better quality of life. It provides theoretical perspectives and empirical studies, including scientific knowledge as well as practical experiences about the good ageing and t…

Age as Disease

Age as Disease explores the foundations of gerontology as a discipline to examine the ways contemporary society constructs old age as a disease-state. Framed throughout as ‘gerontological hygeine’, this book examines contemporary regimes, strategies and treatment protocols deployed throughout Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The book deploys critical cultural theories s…

Arts-Based Methods for Research with Children

This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors’ experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK. Based on the Australian Research Council-funded Interfaith Childhoods project, the authors describe methods of engaging communities and making data with children that foreg…

Climate Resilient Urban Areas

This book describes the urgent challenge faced by cities worldwide to become resilient to climate change impacts. This challenge goes further than the ability to resist the impacts of extreme weather conditions. Coping with climate impacts and the ability to recover from them are equally important, as well as the capacity to adapt to the effects of climate change and the ability to transform th…

Climate Vulnerability and Resilience in the Global South

This book provides hands-on conceptual, theoretical, and case study discussions on vulnerability and resilience in the global south. This book covers the core of adaptation strategies in developing countries context in an easy-to-follow theoretical and empirical examples. This book shares contemporary approaches on vulnerability, adaptation strategies, and resilience, which aim to assist its ta…

Territorialising Space in Latin America

The vision of this book is to bring together examples of grounded geographic research carried out in Latin America regarding territorial processes. These encompass a range of histories, processes, strategies and mechanisms, with case studies from ten countries and many regions: struggles to reclaim indigenous lands, conflicts over land/resource/environmental services, competing land claims, urb…

In Search of Lost Futures

In Search of Lost Futures asks how imaginations might be activated through practices of autoethnography, multimodality, and deep interdisciplinarity—each of which has the power to break down methodological silos, cultivate novel research sensibilities, and inspire researchers to question what is known about ethnographic process, representation, reflexivity, audience, and intervention within a…

Terror and the Dynamism of Islamophobia in 21st Century Britain

This book provides powerful insights into the dynamics, nature, and experiences of the terrors of counter-terrorism measures in the UK. Abbas links her analysis to wider concerns of nation construction and belonging; racial profiling and policing; the state of exception and pre-emptive counter-terrorism measures; community-based counter-terrorism measures; and restrictions to political engageme…

Enhancing Video Game Localization Through Dubbing

This book addresses the hot topic in audiovisual translation (AVT) of video game localization through the unique perspective of dubbing, an area which has so far received relatively little scholarly focus. The author analyses the main characteristics of video game localization within the context of English-Spanish dubbing, and emphasizes the implications for research and localization as a profe…

Embriologi Fungsional: Perkembangan Sistem Fungsi Organ Manusia, EDISI 2

Edition

2

ISBN/ISSN

978-979-448-960-4

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xii, 189 hlm.; ilus.; 24 cm

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-

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612.64 Roh e

Socialization, Moral Judgment, and Action

How does culture affect action? This question has long been framed in terms of a means vs ends debate—in other words, do cultural ends or cultural means play a primary causal role in human behavior? However, the role of socialization has been largely overlooked in this debate. In this book, Vila-Henninger develops a model of how culture affects action called “The Sociological Dual-Process M…

CRASH COURSE: Sistem Endokrin, Metabolisme dan Nutrisi

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-4666-22-0

Collation

xx, 665 hlm.: ilus.; 21cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

616.4 Cra c

CRASH COURSE; Sistem Saraf

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-9-8145-7093-0

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xii, 439hlm.; ilus.; 20cm

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-

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611.8 Ros s

ANALISIS KUALITAS BUTIR SOAL BUATAN MAHASISWA PENDIDIKAN FISIKA MATERI USAHA …

This study aims to analyze the quality of questions made by physics education students on the material of work and energy. This study uses a quantitative descriptive method by analyzing the validity, reliability, level of difficulty, and discriminatory power of questions using the Rasch model with the help of Winsteps software. Data were obtained from a multiple-choice test of 16 questions that…

The Intersection of Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Community, and the…

This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities. The authors draw on their diverse experiences in research, practice, and education to suggest interdisciplina…

Trauma and Resilience Among Displaced Populations

This open access book provides an enriched understanding of historical, collective, cultural, and identity-related trauma, emphasising the social and political location of human subjects. It therefore presents a socio-ecological perspective on trauma, rather than viewing displaced individuals as traumatised “passive victims”. The vastness of the phenomenon of trauma among displaced pop…

Creative Families

This edited collection brings together two strands of current discussions in gender research through the concept of creativity. First, it addresses creativity in the context of the family, by exploring changing and newly emergent family forms and ways of creating and maintaining intimate relationships. Creativity here is understood not as just “newness or originality,” but as that which, in…

Sobotta Atlas of Human Anatomy Latin Nomenclature Head, Neck, and Neuroanatom…

Edition

15

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-7234-3733-8

Collation

370 p.; ill.; 32 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

611.022 Sob s

bioethics : A Nursing Perspective, 7 e.

Edition

7

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-7295-4322-4

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xvii, 464 p.; 24 cm.

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-

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174.2 Joh b

The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe

This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main theoretical and methodological approaches in addition to issues such as families as relationships, parental arrangements, par…

ULTRASONOGRAPHY of the PRENATAL BRAIN

Edition

3

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-07-161306-4

Collation

xiv; 490 p.; ill.; 28 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

618.320 754 3 Ult u

Muscles, Bones, AND Skin

Edition

3

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-7234-3434-4

Collation

xii, 272 p.; ill.; 26 cm

Series Title

Crash Course

Call Number

612.7 Rit m

COVID-19 and Social Protection

This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19. The crisis of the capitalist economy due to border closure, downturn in business, loss of jobs and large-scale destruction of people’s well-being has worsened poverty, and inequality worsened the situation of the already marginalized. At the same ti…