A Compendium of Essays on Alternative Therapy is aimed at both conventional and alternate therapy practitioners, besides serving as an educational tool for students and lay persons on the progress made in the field. While this resource is not all-inclusive, it does reflect the current theories from different international experts in the field. This will hopefully stimulate more research initiat…
Studi yang dikumpulkan ini didedikasikan untuk pusat monastik Ortodoks di Gunung Athos selama Abad Pertengahan menggambarkan gambaran yang menarik tentang komunitas monastik di Gunung Suci sebagai pelaku ekonomi. Kepemilikan arsip yang kaya di Gunung Athos memungkinkan baik untuk pengamatan mendetail terhadap aktivitas ekonomi maupun penelusuran tren jangka panjang. Tidak hanya biara Hagiorite …
Buku akses terbuka ini memberikan perspektif interdisipliner tentang studi seks dan gender serta menyarankan arah untuk penelitian masa depan di berbagai bidang. Seks dan gender dipahami, diukur, dan diterapkan dengan cara yang berbeda di seluruh masyarakat dan ilmu pengetahuan. Untuk mendorong dialog interdisipliner dan mempromosikan aplikasi yang terinformasi dalam penelitian, kebijakan, kedo…
Educational Data Analytics (EDA) have been attributed with significant benefits for enhancing on-demand personalized educational support of individual learners as well as reflective course (re)design for achieving more authentic teaching, learning and assessment experiences integrated into real work-oriented tasks. This open access textbook is a tutorial for developing, practicing and self-a…
This open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics. Through the lens of scientific knowledge and genetic technology, Machado and Granja offer a unique perspective on current trends in crime governance. They explore the place and role of genetics in criminal justice systems, and show how classical …
Proceedings of the 47th congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology
This open access book provides a multifold exploration of how people in early modern Europe understood, conducted, and actively used private conversations. From sharing personal matters to discussing delicate secrets, all layers of early modern society had their motives for wanting to keep certain exchanges out of public eyes and ears, and ways of trying to achieve this. Detecting such instance…
This open access book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not necessarily conform with the curriculum prescribed for them. The practices of Jane Lumley in England, Camila Herculiana in Padua, Victorine de Chastenay in Paris, as well as Elisabe…
This open access book addresses self-care on sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV prevention and treatment in the most marginalized and vulnerable communities. Case studies and personal narratives are used to share their perspectives and experiences, sources of information for self-care products, motivations for self-care, and challenges and outcomes. Self-care provides the way to …