Animals and Medicine offers a detailed, scholarly historical review of the critical role animal experiments have played in advancing medical knowledge. Laboratory animals have been essential to this progress, and the knowledge gained has saved countless lives—both human and animal. Unfortunately, those opposed to using animals in research have often employed doctored evidence to suggest that …
Sebuah cerita tentang persahabatan antara anak-anak dan orang tua yang dilansirkan dari kenyataan kehidupan berbagai kelompok etnik di suatu kampung di Kalimantan Barat. Alur cerita dikemas sebegitu mengalir dalam bentuk narasi fiksi ilmiah. Semoga melalui cerita ini, kesadaran tentang harmoni dan toleransi dalam kepelbedaan berbagai suku, agama, bahasa, dan budaya di Indonesia terbangun secara…
Indonesia adalah sebuah bangsa yang kaya. Tidak hanya berlimpah sumber daya alam, tetapi juga memiliki warisan kearifan lokal yang tak ternilai. Setiap kelompok masyarakat dan daerah di seluruh penjuru Indonesia memiliki kekhasan kearifan lokal masing-masing. Keragaman ini menjadi fondasi utama bagi bangsa Indonesia mewujudkan pembangunan sumber daya manusia yang Buku bunga rampai ini berisi…
The public library is the prime community access point designed to respond to a multitude of ever-changing information needs. These guidelines are framed to provide assistance to library and information professionals in most situations. They assist to better develop effective services, relevant collections, and accessible formats within the context and requirements of the local community. In th…
This volume comprises papers prepared for the 8th World Conference on Continuing Professional Development (Bologna, Italy, 18-20 August 2009). Within the broad theme of creating a positive work environment for a multi-generational workforce in library and information organizations, the conference addresses managing between and across generations, mentoring and coaching, attracting people to the…
Kebijakan dan penerapan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi (iptek) dalam bidang pertanian telah lama dilakukan, khususnya teknologi yang dapat meningkatkan produktivitas pertanian dan ketahanan pangan di Indonesia. Dalam praktiknya, pengembangan iptek bidang pertanian yang hanya terfokus pada upaya peningkatan produktivitas menyebabkan banyak hal menjadi terabaikan. Sehubungan dengan itu, buku in…
Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in others. This collection of essays gives a comparative overview of vaccination at different times,…
This Special Issue is both experimental and comparative. It appropriates diverse disciplinary idioms from the distinctive fields our authors inhabit to focus on the ever-recurrent theme of the individual and the study of religion. Here the familiar topics of "belief", "practice" and "identity" come into conversation with each other from scholars in anthropology, sociology, African-American hist…