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The rediscovered Ukrainian classic - the gripping story of Kyiv
during the Second World War, told by a young boy who saw it all.
'Read it and weep... Nothing I have read about that barbaric time
has been as affecting as this gripping, disturbing book - rightly
hailed a masterpiece' Daily Mail 'So here is my invitation: enter
into my fate, imagine that you are twelve, that the world is at war
and that nobody knows what is going to happen next...' It was 1941
when the German army rolled into Kyiv. The young Anatoli was just
twelve years old. This book is formed from his journals in which he
documented what followed. Many Ukrainians welcomed the invading
army, hoping for liberation from Soviet rule. But within ten days
the Nazis had begun their campaign of murdering every Jew, and many
others, in the city. Babi Yar (Babyn Yar in Ukrainian) was the
place where the executions took place. It was one of the largest
massacres in the history of the Holocaust. Anatoli could hear the
machine guns from his house. This gripping book is the story of
Ukraine's Nazi occupation, told by one ordinary, brave child. His
clear, compelling voice, his honesty and his determination to
survive guide us through the horrors of that time. Babi Yar has the
compulsion and narration of fiction but everything recounted in
this book is true. 'Extraordinary' Orlando Figes, Guardian 'A vivid
first-hand account of life under one of the most savage of
occupation regimes... A book which must be read and never
forgotten' The Times This is the complete, uncensored version of
Babi Yar - its history written into the text. Parts shown in bold
are those cut by the Russian censors, parts in brackets show later
additions.
This work offers succinct, medically-oriented coverage of
biochemistry, examining biologically important materials and
presenting the properties of nucleic acids as well as nucleic acid
metabolism. Each metabolic process is integrated in a review of
overall energy metabolism, diabetes and starvation. A solutions
manual is available to instructors only.
Viewing the Arctic as a key region for global development in the
21st century, this book offers a cross-disciplinary conceptual
framework for understanding what international cooperation is, why
it is difficult and what kind of alternative views can apply in the
Arctic. Written by Arctic experts, the book presents major trends
and scenarios for international cooperation in the Arctic up to
2035 and future prospects for international cooperation in the
Arctic in various sectors: energy, business and economy,
transportation and logistics, climate change, diplomacy and
security, culture, innovations, higher education and research.
Implications of the scenarios for global development are discussed
in the light of the United Nations Agenda for Global Development
and Sustainable Development Goals. The book offers a
cross-disciplinary conceptual framework of international
cooperation in the Arctic and discusses implications of this
framework for global development. Filling the gap in analytical
understanding of international cooperation, this book will be of
interest to academics, students and professionals concerned with
global development and the Arctic region.
This book explores how the structures of international
organizations have become increasingly complex and considers why
states choose to become part of networks of international
organizations alongside non-state actors. While granting
participation rights to non-state actors, states have been actively
involved in establishing complex ties with them. International
organizations, in their turn, have enhanced the sustainment of
complex networks. The author argues that the involvement in
networks of international organizations provides better capacities
in communication. Thus, being a governmental or non-governmental
entity, an actor tends to occupy the beneficial structural
positions of a leader, connecting to as many actors as possible; or
a broker bridging isolated subgroups within a network. Through a
study of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) and the respective
diplomatic, institutional, and organizational networks that
participate in it, he explores the most visible stakeholders, the
institutional setting of the HRC, and the multilateral negotiations
on the prevention of human rights violations in 2010-2019. The
volume will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners
interested in the international organisations, networks, foreign
policy, the United Nations and the Human Rights Council.
Winning Online Instruction provides concise, pragmatic solutions to
common challenges and demands that higher education faculty face in
teaching online. This book's unique question-and-answer format
allows readers to easily identify the issues important to them,
spanning online formats and teaching methods, course development
and technology woes, student motivation and engagement, academic
integrity and fair grading, and more. Written for instructors who
have little to no experience designing and teaching online courses
or who are teaching online courses developed in a hurry, this is an
approachable, efficient guide to the real problems of everyday
distance education.
This book examines the issues of theorizing citizenship education
research in non-Western societies that have embarked on democratic
development after the fall of authoritarianism and colonialism.
Despite a proliferation of studies on citizenship and citizenship
education in non-Western contexts, there has been limited
theorization of this research and little discussion of the
applicability to such contexts of Western theoretical frameworks.
This volume addresses these issues through empirical case studies
of citizenship conceptions, practices, and education in South and
West Africa, Latin America, Central Europe, and the Middle East.
The contributors to the volume call into question the uncritical
application of Western theoretical frameworks to non-Western
societies and advocate for the development and wider application of
new paradigms rooted in local processes and indigenous knowledge to
better understand and theorize citizenship and citizenship
education in such societies. This volume will be of interest to
scholars, researchers, and practitioners working in the field of
comparative and international citizenship education. It was
originally published as a special issue of Compare: A Journal of
Comparative and International Education.
This new collection covers a wide variety of research on the
ecological aspects of crops growing under stress conditions due to
atmospheric changes and pollution and the impact on both plant and
human health. The book provides research that will help to find
ways to overcome adverse abiotic environmental factors and
unfavorable anthropogenic pressures on crop plants, which also
eventually impact human health. Divided into six parts, leading
authors from many institutes provide and share new knowledge gained
from studies on ecological and genetic controls of plant resistance
to various adverse environmental factors. Geneticists and breeders
are creating new cultivars and hybrids of crops, which greatly
expand the range of source material. The book includes a range of
material on the biology, genetics, and breeding of crops, taking
into account ecological and climatic conditions, with emphasis on
the impact to humans. The main agricultural crops are studied:
cereals, fodder crops, and horticultural plants. The chapters
include the interaction of plant-soil-environment, ways of using
plants as anticancer drugs, and other important problems and trends
in agricultural and nature management. The role of different
genetic and agronomical approaches to improving plant productivity
and seasonal and profile dynamics of elements of soil acidity are
considered. With the increasing demand and consumption of
vegetables and fruits (by themselves or as additions to other
foods), new agricultural methods are needed to overcome the
deficit, and these new methods pose new concerns. The book
includes: Plant breeding under adverse conditions of acid soils New
studies in horticultural crop science Ecological peculiarities of
particular regions and cytogenetic anomalies of the local human
population Phenogenetic studies of cultivated plants and biological
properties of the seeds Anthropogenic pressure on environmental and
plant diversity Methods of evaluation of the quantitative and
qualitative characters of selection samples The research found here
will be valuable to agricultural engineers and others and is
applicable at both regional and international levels.
This important volume provides new research on the design and
application of ecologically safe formulations for protecting
cultivated crops against pathogen-causing diseases and weeds-that
also provide nitrogen fertilizers at the same time. The authors
make a significant contribution to the development and agricultural
use of environmentally safe and biodegradable new-generation
pesticides with targeted and controlled release of active
ingredients. They discuss the problems associated with the use and
accumulation of xenobiotics in the biosphere and present highlights
of modern trends in the design of new-generation formulations. The
authors present their original research results on the properties
of herbicides, fungicides, and nitrogen fertilizers deposited in a
degradable polymer base and the effectiveness of the use of these
formulations in laboratory ecosystems with higher plants infected
with fusariosis and weeds. The research provided here provides a
new direction for the use of degradable polymers, essential for the
creation of ecologically safe agricultural technologies and
reducing uncontrolled accumulation and spread of xenobiotics in the
biosphere.
Ecological and genetic control of plant resistance to unfavorable
environmental influences is being carried out all over the world,
and new varieties and hybrids of plants are being created,
resulting in rich, new information and innovative new methods of
cultivation. This new volume, Temperate Horticulture for
Sustainable Development and Environment: Ecological Aspects,
explores the vast biotic diversity in horticulture, with a focus on
sustainable development in today's deteriorating environment. The
book offers new technologies for a wide range of horticultural
crops, including vegetables, fruit, berries, and flowers. The
information presented here is the result of original experiments
and study of leading specialists in horticulture, plant breeding,
and related areas. Part 1, Innovation in the Field of Vegetable
Growing, looks at several completely new methods for increasing the
yield of potatoes and cucumbers. The second part. The Arctic
Berries: Ecology and Biochemistry presents an abundance of data on
the phytocenotic properties of wild-growing and cultivated berry
plants and of arctic raspberry and blueberry in natural populations
of taiga zones. The authors studied berry crops, cranberry, Arctic
bramble, blueberry, Arctic raspberry, cowberry, growing on the
boggy soil and peatlands in taiga zones. Part 3, Decorative Plants:
Breeding and Biochemistry, provides an overview of winter garden
plants and their successful cultivation, looks at the range of
resistance to salinization and other stresses of ornamental plants
growing, and presents a biochemical analysis of biological active
compounds and antioxidants among various species of the genus Aloe.
Part 4, on Fruit Growing and Breeding, reviews various technologies
for the cultivation of various fruits and presents an overview of
data on breeding rare fruit crop. This volume will be useful for
the scientific community, ecologists, geneticists, breeders, and
industry professionals interested in using science to implement
practical applications in production of fruits, vegetables, and
flowers.
This book discusses theoretical approaches to the taxonomy of
biological systems and theory and mathematical approaches to the
problem of plant diversity, cultivation, and the environment.
Particular attention is given to theoretical and practical problems
of soil and the environmental sustainability of phytocoenosis, with
the goal to enhance the productivity of agricultural crops:
cereals, legumes, vegetables, and fruit. Providing valuable
information on the distribution of chemical elements in the
soil-plant system and on the migration of chemical elements in the
food chain, this book looks at the composition of the soil and the
distribution of elements in the soil-plant system that are
manifested as adaptations of plant organism to environmental
conditions. With chapters written by acknowledged scientists in the
field of genetics, plant selection, ecology, and agro-economy, the
book attempts, in many cases, to find consensus between the need to
address ways to decrease the excess load on the environment and the
need to provide adequately for the human population in
agro-developed countries. This book also presents precision farming
techniques, including the introduction of differentiated
agrochemicals and considering variability of soil fertility and
crop conditions. An important element for the conservation and
adaptation of plant organism to environmental conditions is the use
of physiologically active compounds.
With contributions from leading scientists in agricultural biology
and young researchers, this book examines the ecological
consequences that sometimes arise with various methods of
increasing crop productivity. It also presents agroecological
approaches to crop improvement and productivity from several
perspectives, examines alternative energy sources, and discusses
other problems related to sustainable agriculture.
Best Practices for Administering Online Programs is a practical
volume for university teams seeking to manage effective online
programs. Defining, designing, implementing, and updating online
courses is a highly collaborative effort, particularly with limited
resources and expanding student enrollment. This book unites the
efforts of program directors, supervisors, department chairs,
participating faculty, instructional designers, IT specialists, and
support staff toward a common goal: affordable, accessible, and
scalable online learning. Readers will find guidelines for
fostering quality, faculty skills, academic integrity, learning
objectives, course improvement, and more.
Best Practices for Administering Online Programs is a practical
volume for university teams seeking to manage effective online
programs. Defining, designing, implementing, and updating online
courses is a highly collaborative effort, particularly with limited
resources and expanding student enrollment. This book unites the
efforts of program directors, supervisors, department chairs,
participating faculty, instructional designers, IT specialists, and
support staff toward a common goal: affordable, accessible, and
scalable online learning. Readers will find guidelines for
fostering quality, faculty skills, academic integrity, learning
objectives, course improvement, and more.
This book is a collective work by many leading scientists,
analysts, mathematicians, and engineers who have been working at
the front end of reliability science and engineering. The book
covers conventional and contemporary topics in reliability science,
all of which have seen extended research activities in recent
years. The methods presented in this book are real-world examples
that demonstrate improvements in essential reliability and
availability for industrial equipment such as medical magnetic
resonance imaging, power systems, traction drives for a search and
rescue helicopter, and air conditioning systems. The book presents
real case studies of redundant multi-state air conditioning systems
for chemical laboratories and covers assessments of reliability and
fault tolerance and availability calculations. Conventional and
contemporary topics in reliability engineering are discussed,
including degradation, networks, dynamic reliability, resilience,
and multi-state systems, all of which are relatively new topics to
the field. The book is aimed at engineers and scientists, as well
as postgraduate students involved in reliability design, analysis,
experiments, and applied probability and statistics.
A Unified Microscopic Approach to Analyzing Complex Processes in
Molecular Motors Motor Proteins and Molecular Motors explores the
mechanisms of cellular functioning associated with several specific
enzymatic molecules called motor proteins. Motor proteins, also
known as molecular motors, play important roles in living systems
by supporting cellular transport and force generation via the
transformation of chemical energy into mechanical work. The book
presents established results, theoretical methods, and experimental
observations related to biological molecular motors. It uses
fundamental physical-chemical concepts and methods to develop a
systematic theoretical framework for understanding motor protein
dynamics. The author introduces the main ideas using simple
arguments that avoid heavy mathematical derivations in favor of
more intuitive physical understanding. Although the book assumes
some rudimentary knowledge of cell biology, calculus, and basic
ideas from chemistry and physics, it gives explanations and
derivations for most results. Accessible to students and
researchers in a wide range of scientific fields, this book
provides a unified molecular picture for analyzing motor proteins.
It connects major experimental facts on molecular motors to
principal theoretical concepts consistent with the fundamental laws
of chemistry and physics.
This new volume, Biological Assessment of Natural and Anthropogenic
Ecosystems: Trends in Diagnosis of Environmental Stress, diverse
methods and achievements in assessing the biological state of
ecosystems are presented, biochemical, genetic and cytological
methods are used, methodological achievements in this area are
discussed in this volume. Experimental and practical aspects of the
genetic diversity of cultivated plants and its application in
modern business conditions are considered. The use of biological
indicators for the purpose of protecting nature and practical
application is presented. The authors of the book are biologists,
biochemists, genetics, and ecologists from prestigious scientific
institutions. This volume explores different types, different plant
tissues and intracellular structures for the diagnosis and
prediction of anthropogenic effects on living natural systems.
Here, scientific information on the bioindication properties of
living systems is presented and the theoretical foundations of its
study are emphasized. This authoritative reference source will be a
valuable addition for scientific researchers and students working
in the field of biology, ecology, genetics, cytogenetics, agronomy
and environmental assessment and its protection from anthropogenic
destruction. The authors highlight the achievements, problems, and
opportunities of biological methods for indicating the environment.
Key features: Provides an overview of recent events and
opportunities in the field of bioindication to control
anthropogenic damage of living systems Considers the screening of
new parameters to determine the health status of biological objects
from one cell to an entire ecosystem, such as boreal peatlands
Presents the results of a study of the response of plants to
abiotic stressors Demonstrates the importance of role-related
research of living objects as bioindicators Provides new research
on various topics of plant resistance to stress Discusses design
methodology, development and law of selection of indicators for
specific environmental issues.
This book examines learning-mobility tensions and ties caused by
convergences and divergences of social, organizational and
cognitive forces in global higher education. As some of these
forces generate status anxiety, and others enhanced self-worth,
this volume asks the questions: How can students navigate
treacherous education markets to reduce the former and increase the
latter? Which specific forces and confluences enhance the quality
of self-discovery? Does the search for identity and meaning produce
better results when conducted internationally? Which transformative
drivers of global mobility enhance social mobility? What allows
some students to gain the capacity for impactful higher learning at
a time when others lose it? Why are strategically minded students
increasingly concerned about equality and the quality of
contribution to the common good of education, rather than about
their own status? What makes some places of learning stand out when
students recount their journeys of self-discovery and roads to
self-worth? This book includes a broad range of stories and
firsthand perspectives that are often overlooked in the process of
internationalization of higher education. The narratives offer
important insights to consider, given the ever-increasing disquiets
of competitiveness-oriented global higher education.
Weakly Connected Nonlinear Systems: Boundedness and Stability of
Motion provides a systematic study on the boundedness and stability
of weakly connected nonlinear systems, covering theory and
applications previously unavailable in book form. It contains many
essential results needed for carrying out research on nonlinear
systems of weakly connected equations. After supplying the
necessary mathematical foundation, the book illustrates recent
approaches to studying the boundedness of motion of weakly
connected nonlinear systems. The authors consider conditions for
asymptotic and uniform stability using the auxiliary vector
Lyapunov functions and explore the polystability of the motion of a
nonlinear system with a small parameter. Using the generalization
of the direct Lyapunov method with the asymptotic method of
nonlinear mechanics, they then study the stability of solutions for
nonlinear systems with small perturbing forces. They also present
fundamental results on the boundedness and stability of systems in
Banach spaces with weakly connected subsystems through the
generalization of the direct Lyapunov method, using both vector and
matrix-valued auxiliary functions. Designed for researchers and
graduate students working on systems with a small parameter, this
book will help readers get up to date on the knowledge required to
start research in this area.
The enigmatic character of The Art of Fugue became apparent as
early as in its first edition, printed more than a year after the
composer's death. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who published both the
first and the second editions, raised several unsolved questions
regarding this opus. Anatoly P Milka presents a consistent and
coherent solution to the unresolved questions about the history,
structure and appearance of J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue, opening
new perspectives for further exploration of this musical
masterpiece. Milka challenges the present scholarly consensus that
there exist two different versions of The Art of Fugue (the
Autograph and the Original Edition) and argues that Bach had
considered four versions, of which only two are apparent and have
been discussed so far. Only Bach's illness and death prevented him
from fulfilling his plan and publishing a fourth, conclusive
version of his opus.
*Winner of the Best Book Award from Researchers and Students and
Study Abroad Programmes at the CIES2019 conference 2019 This book
examines learning-mobility tensions and ties caused by convergences
and divergences of social, organizational and cognitive forces in
global higher education. As some of these forces generate status
anxiety, and others enhanced self-worth, this volume asks the
questions: How can students navigate treacherous education markets
to reduce the former and increase the latter? Which specific forces
and confluences enhance the quality of self-discovery? Does the
search for identity and meaning produce better results when
conducted internationally? Which transformative drivers of global
mobility enhance social mobility? What allows some students to gain
the capacity for impactful higher learning at a time when others
lose it? Why are strategically minded students increasingly
concerned about equality and the quality of contribution to the
common good of education, rather than about their own status? What
makes some places of learning stand out when students recount their
journeys of self-discovery and roads to self-worth? This book
includes a broad range of stories and firsthand perspectives that
are often overlooked in the process of internationalization of
higher education. The narratives offer important insights to
consider, given the ever-increasing disquiets of
competitiveness-oriented global higher education.
Winning Online Instruction provides concise, pragmatic solutions to
common challenges and demands that higher education faculty face in
teaching online. This book's unique question-and-answer format
allows readers to easily identify the issues important to them,
spanning online formats and teaching methods, course development
and technology woes, student motivation and engagement, academic
integrity and fair grading, and more. Written for instructors who
have little to no experience designing and teaching online courses
or who are teaching online courses developed in a hurry, this is an
approachable, efficient guide to the real problems of everyday
distance education.
Around the world, on average, four coal miners die for each million
tons of coal recovered. Improving the safety of mining work while
responding to the need for increased coal production, however, is
impossible without further development of the physics of mining
processes. A relatively new branch of science, it tackles problems
that arise during mineral products recovery, particularly safety
issues such as rock failures, coal and gas outbursts, and methane
explosions. The first book to present a unifying methodology for
addressing problems such as outbursts and explosions of methane in
coal mining, Physics of Coal and Mining Processes integrates
theoretical and experimental research on coal and bearing rocks and
examines the anthropogenic processes that occur during deep
underground mining. The book summarizes the results of recent and
established research, including studies conducted at the Institute
of Physics of Mining Processes of the National Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine, headed by the author. Key topics covered include rock
mass in multi-component compressive stress fields and phase
conditions of methane in coal. The book also examines
state-of-the-art instrumentation and physical methods of analysis,
among them x-ray analysis of coal structures combined with computer
simulation and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
combined with gas chromatography. Bridging the gap between the
academic theory and the practice of coal mining, the book proposes
novel methods to predict rock mass condition, control gas-dynamic
phenomena, and estimate safe mining loads. A useful reference for
scientists, technicians, and engineers working in the coal
industry, it also offers an overview of the physics of mining
processes for students pursuing careers in the field.
The Arctic region contains large amounts of natural resources
considered necessary to sustain global economic growth, so it is
unsurprising that it is increasingly susceptible to political,
economic, environmental, and even military conflicts. This book
looks in detail at the preconditions and outlook for international
cooperation on the development of Arctic petroleum resources,
focusing on Norwegian-Russian cooperation in the Barents Sea
towards 2025. The authors provide a cross-disciplinary approach
including geopolitical, institutional, technological, corporate and
environmental perspectives to analyse the underlying factors that
shape the future development of the region. Three future scenarios
are developed, exploring various levels of cooperation and
development influenced by and resulting from potential political,
commercial and environmental circumstances. Through these
scenarios, the book improves understanding of the challenges and
opportunities for Arctic petroleum resource development and
promotes further consideration of the possible outcomes of future
cooperation. The book should be of interest to students, scholars
and policy-makers working in the areas of Arctic studies, oil and
gas studies, energy security, global environmental governance,
environmental politics and environmental technology. Chapter 1 of
this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138783263_oachapter1.pdf
Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 3.0 license.
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Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 3.0 license.
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