When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between Canada’s diverse ecosystems and its communities. Today, Parks Cana…
This reprint presents a collection of contributions on the application of high-performing computational strategies and enhanced theoretical formulations to solve a wide variety of linear or nonlinear problems in a multiphysical sense, together with different experimental studies.
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Coronapandemie in besonderen Wohneinrichtungen der Eingliederungshilfe im sozialwissenschaftlichen Blick erfasst. Die Lagebeschreibung spiegelt verschiedene Perspektiven: die Einschätzungen von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen, Leitungsverantwortlichen, Fachpersonal und Angehörigen. Die Daten wurden bundesweit während der Lockdown-Phasen in einer qualitati…
This open access book draws on an international research project, using extensive and multiple methods to explore unwanted sexual contact and violence in sex work populations. A project delivered by a large team of sex workers, peer researchers, and academics, and with practitioner input over a four-year period, the central question they explore is: how do social, legal, and judicial contexts s…
The purpose of this open access book is threefold. The first is to shed light on patient participation and health literacy for Good Health and Well-being, which is one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Health literacy is considered a prerequisite for patients to be able to participate in shared decisions on their own treatment (WHO,1998). Health literacy has received increased internat…
Marianne Werefkin dan Para Seniman Wanita dalam Lingkarannya melacak hubungan antara seniman modernis dalam lingkaran Werefkin, termasuk Erma Bossi, Elisabeth Epstein, Natalia Goncharova, Elizaveta Kruglikova, Else Lasker-Schüler, Marta Liepiņa-Skulme, Elena Luksch-Makowsky, dan Maria Marc. Buku ini menunjukkan bahwa interaksi mereka didominasi bukan oleh ikatan nasional, tetapi oleh ide-ide …
Berdasarkan penemuan manuskrip Latin yang tidak diketahui, Maria Petyt - Seorang Mistikus Karmelit di Masa Perang memberikan informasi baru yang mengejutkan tentang mistikus Flemish abad ketujuh belas Maria Petyt (1623-1677) yang menulis banyak surat kepada direktur spiritualnya, Michael dari St. Augustine. Buku ini berisi transkripsi dari manuskrip yang (sayangnya sebagian rusak), terjemahan b…
Dalam Memetakan Lanskap Pāśupata: Narasi, Tempat, dan Imajinasi Śaiva di India Utara Abad Pertengahan Awal, Elizabeth A. Cecil mengeksplorasi geografi suci dari komunitas pertama pemuja Śiva yang disebut Pāśupatas. Buku ini membawa kartografi naratif dari Skandapurāṇa ke dalam percakapan dengan lanskap fisik, prasasti, monumen, dan ikon untuk memeriksa cara-cara di mana Pāśupatas dit…