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If you work in a university, you are almost certain to have heard the term 'open access' in the past couple of years. You may also have heard either that it is the utopian answer to all the problems of research dissemination or perhaps that it marks the beginning of an apocalyptic new era of 'pay-to-say' publishing. In this book, Martin Paul Eve sets out the histories, contexts and controversie…
Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanuel Kant. The sentiment could not be truer of cultural heritage ethics. This intra-disciplinary book bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together a stellar cast of academics, activists, consultants, journalists, lawyers, and museum practitioners, each contributing their own expert…
Measuring the Master Race by Kyllingstad,which explores the various theories and debates held by Norwegian anthropologists and eugenicists on the concept of a superior Nordic race in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is an important contribution to [Physical anthropology's history] research . . . Measuring the Master Race, the first monograph to open up Norwegian anthropology to the Engli…
Is time travel just a confusing plot device deployed by science fiction authors and Hollywood filmmakers to amaze and amuse? Or might empirical data prompt a scientific hypothesis of time travel? Structured on a fascinating dialogue involving a distinguished physicist, Dr. Rufus, a physics graduate student and a computer scientist this book probes an experimentally supported hypothesis of backw…
Based on eleven months of field work (2009-2011), this book analyzes the situation of youth in urban Gulu, Northern Uganda, in the aftermath of the war between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Ugandan Government (1986-2006). Specifically, it focuses on the generation that was born and grew up during the 20-year war: How do members of this generation perceive and evaluate socio-cultural chan…
Buku ini ditulis dengan bahasa yang ringan, muatan pikirannya berbobot, keberpihakannya jelas, datanya kaya dan baru, perspektifnya pun optimistik. Buku ini merupakan kumpulan tulisan yang akan membantu kita mencari makna berbagai peristiwa, dengan perenungan yang mencerahkan. Kita dibantu dengan pemaknaan yang semoga bisa membuat kita menjadi lebih arif mengarungi gelombang perubahan. Me…
Mengingat kekayaan alam dan keanekaragaman hayati Indonesia yang sangat besar, wisata alam adalah sangat berpotensi. Tantangan utama adalah bagaimana mengembangkan lokasi wisata alam seperti taman nasional secara berkelanjutan dalam arti lingkungan hidup, ekonomi, sosial dan budaya. Terbitnya buku ini akan menambah pengetahuan dalam rangka mewujudkan alam di Taman Nasional yang berkelanjutan. B…