Technological change is today central to the theory of economic growth. It is recognised as an important driver of productivity growth and the emergence of new products from which consumers derive welfare. It depends not only on the work of scientists and engineers, but also on a wider range of economic and societal factors, including institutions such as intellectual property rights and corpor…
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India’s migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were thrown up as a result of this forced migration. The book examines the failings of the public health systems and the state response to address the humanitarian crisis which u…
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times. …
As population estimates for 2050 reach over 9 billion, issues of food security and nutrition have been dominating academic and policy debates. A total of 805 million people are undernourished worldwide and malnutrition affects nearly every country on the planet. Despite impressive productivity increases, there is growing evidence that conventional agricultural strategies fall short of eliminati…
This book, Teaching Learners with Visual Impairment, focuses on holistic support to learners with visual impairment in and beyond the classroom and school context. Special attention is given to classroom practice, learning support, curriculum differentiation and assessment practices, to mention but a few areas of focus covered in the book. In this manner, this book makes a significant contribut…
This open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with the history, it introduces various views on bioethics, based on specific experiences from Japan. It describes how Japan has been confronted with Western bioethics and the ethical issues new to this modern age, and how it has found its foothold as it decides whe…
Burung sampai saat ini masih menjadi salah satu satwa yang pa ling menarik untuk publik karena selain indah, banyak jenis yang sangat karismatik dan merupakan ‘flagship’ataujenisbendera yang penting untuk upaya konservasi. Perlu diketahui bahwa‘bulu’adalahcirikhasburungyangtidakdimilikiolehmakhluk hidup lain yang ada di dunia ini. Dalam konteks ketertarikan pub…
Seri Lingkungan ini ditulis berangkat dari kekhawatiran bahwa kebijakan lingkungan yang telah ada selama ini keliru. Buku ini mendukung empat target dari SDGs, yaitu manajemen sanitasi dan air bersih (poin 6), pola konsumsi dan produksi yang berkelanjutan (poin 12), penanganan perubahan iklim (poin 13), dan ekosistem daratan (poin 15). Isu lingkungan menjadi sentral dan sangat menarik untuk dib…
Research in tertiary mathematics education is a fast growing field as evidenced by the success of the Topic Study Group on Mathematics Education at Tertiary Level in the International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME); the continued success of the Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education conference in the United States (RUME), now at its 19th annual conference; the university…
Penulis naskah ini adalah H.J. Domis, yang menjabat sebagai Residen Pasuruan pada tahun 1830. H.J. Domis memberikan informasi secara detail mengenai sejarah Pasuruan pada saat itu, mulai dari keadaan pemerintahan dan penduduk, sejarah, pabrik dan perdagangan, pertanian, sejarah alam, keadaan geografi, iklim, angin musim serta keadaan alam sungai dan pantai di Pasuruan. Penelitian mengenai Pasur…