E-book Writing Equipment

Writing equipment is key for the comprehensive study of Roman handwriting, non-monumental inscriptions and literacy. Cost, material and design of the equipment and how it was used had an impact on many aspects of writing such as letter shapes, document layout and who was writing. Im-portantly, the equipment also has an impact on what kinds of ancient handwritten texts have survived and therefor…

E-book Manipulating Practices : A critical physiotherapy reader

Consistent with the aims of this book, my intent in this chapter is to outline a critical approach to physiotherapy ethics. However, it would perhaps be more accurate to state that my task is to explicate how any critical work is concerned with ethics. Physiotherapists, like most health professionals, are trained in a narrow version of bioethics that emphasizes juridical rules and top do…

E-book The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics, and Reform in Renai…

Saint Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373), one of the most famous visionary women of the late Middle Ages, lived in Rome for the last 23 years of her life. Much of her extensive literary work was penned there. Her Celestial Revelations circulated widely from the late 14th century to the 17th century, copied in Italian scriptoria, translated into vernacular, and printed in several Latin and Italian edi…

E-book Cats and Conservationists: The Debate Over Who Owns the Outdoors

Cats and Conservationists is the first multidisciplinary analysis of the heated debate about free-roaming cats. The debate pits conservationists against cat lovers, who disagree both on the ecological damage caused by the cats and the best way to manage them. An impassioned and spirited conflict, it also sheds light on larger questions about how we interpret science, incorporate diverse perspec…

E-book Writing from Invention to Decipherment

This book corrals global scholarship on ancient writing systems from China, Mesopotamia, Central America, the Mediterranean, to more recent newly created scripts such as the Rongorongo from Easter Island, the Caroline Island scripts, as well as the alphabet. The aim is to dig into the foundations of writing and showcase the complexities and varieties of scripts, from their invention to the pote…

E-book The Play in the System : The Art of Parasitical Resistance

I 2006 the tactical media collective Ubermorgen gained access to Amazon’s digital library, capturing more than three thousand copyright-protected books sold on the site by manipulating its “Search Inside the Book” feature.1Unleashing a series of software applications known as “bots,” Ubermorgen sent five thousand to ten thousand requests per book and reassembled them into pdfs that we…

E-book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things A…

When asked simple questions about global trends?what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school?we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor …

E-book What Works in Conservation 2021

This book is for people who have to make decisions about how best to support or conserve biodiversity. These include land managers, conservationists in the public or private sector, farmers, campaigners, advisors or consultants, policymakers, researchers or people taking action to protect local wildlife. What Works in Conservation and the associated synopses summari…

E-book When Music Takes Over in Film

A cold and grey day in an urban environment, monotony reigns and dictates the mundane lives of the city’s inhabitants. A boy wants to express his love for the girl next door. Timidly at first he starts to sing and an orchestral accompaniment slowly rises as the girl joins him in song and they begin to dance. Here the environment changes,…

E-book Lonely Planet: Vietnam

Astonishingly exotic and utterly compelling, Vietnam is a country of breathtaking natural beauty with a unique heritage, where travel quickly becomes addictive. Eat, drink and shop til you drop in beautiful, ancient Hoi An; kite surf in Mui Ne; or visit the impressive pagodas and royal tombs of Hue; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Vietnam and begin your journey no…

E-book Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World

“Precarity is everywhere today”, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu announced in a lecture in 1997 (qtd. in Springveld 26). “[P] recarity is not a passing or episodic condition, but a new form of regulation that distinguishes this historical time”, American philosopher Judith Butler writes in her foreword to German political theorist Isabell Lorey’s study State of Insecurity: Governme…

E-book Extended Store : How digitalization effects the retail space design

The definition of the location variables is fundamental for both the retailer and the consumer, it includes a wide set of decisions. The most important variables to take into account are the geographical location and the type of structure. The choice of the venue includes the decision about the urban location of the retail point: city center or outskirt, commercial or residential district, etc.…

E-book Querying Childhood: Feminist Reframings

This book critically examines assumptions about age, women, and gender. Amidst all the attention that has been granted to difference and inequality, however uneven and unsatisfactory in terms of class and caste, race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, disability, religion, and nation, questions of age and its importance for feminism have been less well defined. Drawing on recent literature on…

E-book Special Topics in Information Technology

A fundamental pillar for the research work in the Department of Electronics,Information, and Bioengineering (DEIB) is its Ph.D. program in InformationTechnology, with more than 50 doctors graduating each year. The program ischaracterized by a broad approach to information technology, in the areas ofComputer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Controls, andTelecommunications.The ch…

E-book Global Platform Work : Negotiating Relations in a Translocal Assemblage

This study seeks to explore and theorise remote gig workers’ everyday workpractices of making and sustaining global connections mediated by online platforms.By shedding light on an aspect of work that is usually unpaid and often overlooked, the insights generated from this study are anticipated to contribute to debates about how work can be organised, managed, and al-located more fairly. More…

E-book Beyond Neoliberalism and Neo-illiberalism: Economic Policies and Perfo…

In many countries, the political backlash against neoliberalism has mainly been a retreat from democracy, with a decline in independence of the judiciary and the monetary authorities, increased control of the media, and manipulation of elections for purposes of authoritarian control. The economic dynamics and the impact of neoliberalism, i.e. deregulation and liberalized markets, is just one ca…

My Mother Always Used to Say

Di dalam buku inspirasional dan penuh humor ini, Anna Tochter menghadirkan koleksi lebih dari 300 kalimat yang biasa dikatakan oleh para ibu. Buku ini akan mengingatkan kita bahwa tak seorang pun dapat mengasihi kita melebihi ibu kita,

E-book The Places Where Community Is Practiced : How Store Owners and Their B…

The idea behind this book has a long history. It was inspired less by my academic work than by my family life and side jobs. It is the result of living in and moving between urban and rural neighborhoods as a child, teenager, and student. Growing up in the 1980s, my family lived in inner-city Munich; like most families there, we lived in a small apartment. Gentrification has a much longer histo…

E-book Virtual Heritage : A Guide

While virtual heritage was initially described as a fusion of virtual reality (VR) technology with cultural heritage content (Addison 2001; Roussou 2002), as VR keeps changing, preservation of the content becomes increasingly problematic. Virtual heritage has been a (sometimes) successful communication medium but seldom has it succeeded as a preservation medium (Champion 2016).Even the term …

E-book Trust in Robots

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is a multidisciplinary research field that integrates disciplines such as engineering, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and more1. Collaboration between different disciplines is necessary to achieve goals (such as developing robotic systems for human-aware navigation), but can be com-plicated as each discipline has a different jargon, uses different methods, and …

E-book Reflexively Speaking : Metadiscourse in English as a Lingua Franca

Ten years ago, I remarked on the surprisingly small proportion of metadiscoursestudies that investigated spoken discourse compared to the total amount of meta-discourse research (Mauranen 2012). This is still true, even though much more re-search has been devoted to spoken discourses since then. The proportional gapremains enormous. If we look for studies addressing not only speaking in general…

E-book Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning : Bridging Disciplinary Gaps…

Disasters happen with appalling frequency in our world, resulting in death, injury, destruction, disruption and economic loss that can set back the development efforts of affected countries by decades. Disasters from natural hazards are growing at a rapid rate for several reasons. Population growth, migration and urbanisation are all leading to the poorest, most vulnerable, people …

E-book Medicinal Effects of Agathosma (Buchu) Extracts

South Africa is rich in floral biodiversity as well as cultural diversity. The Cape region1 of South Africa has veldt types, with one of the richest compositions of indigenous aromatic plant species in the country. One such aromatic plant is the genus Agathosma. There are about 150 different species within this genus, which derives from a greater fa…

E-book Agricultural Meteorology and Climatology

The Earth, our home planet, was “born” some 4.5 billion years ago. Vol-canic and hot, the planet was rotating and cooling. In volcanic eruptions, gases such as CO2, CO, NOx and water vapour were released. Additionally, some atmospheric components including water (vapour) came from the Earth’s bombardment by meteors and comets. After a solid surface was formed whose temperature cooled down…

E-book Dark Botany: The Herbarium Tales

Dark Botany activates the material and sensorial wonder of plants—their energy, their mysterious allure, their capacities and skills, their independent might. In this Wunderkammer of critical plant studies essays and plant+artworks, the herbarium emerges as a site of multiple materialities and reflexive forms of counter-narrative. Herbaria specimens come alive as assemblages, telling truths a…

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Hungary

With stunning photography, illustrations, and maps, this easy-to-use guide will lead you straight to the best in Hungary including the Royal Palace of Gödölló and Budapest's striking Memento Park. Those spending time in picturesque Budapest can quickly uncover the best shops and museums, exploring the area with the help of a detailed streetfinder map. Carefully plotted itineraries showcase t…

E-book Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt

A fascinating chronicle of an extraordinary epoch—from the first Stone Age settlements through the reign of Cleopatra and the Roman invasions—Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs brings ancient Egypt to life as never before. Lavishly illustrated with pictures, maps, photographs, and charts, it offers tantalizing glimpses into Egyptian society and everyday life; amazing stories of the pharaohs an…

E-book Risky Futures : Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncert…

This is a book about the experiences, hopes, fears, responses and re-actions of Circumpolar people who are engaging with rapidly shifting environmental circumstances. As reflected in our opening quotation, these changing conditions herald futures that may well be global, but that Arctic inhabitants are trying to imagine even as they develop strategies to cope with today’s event…

E-book Faith Stories

My empirical research for this book began in 2016 with funding from the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. This faculty grant supported an experimental pilot of my methods and ways of recording them, which formed the basis for the meth-ods that feature in this book. This early work was undertaken at a community service provider in west Sydney. This …

E-book Chronologics : Periodisation in a Global Context

At a first conference in Frankfurt, in 2016, we met to discuss Les usages de la temporalité dans les sciences sociales.9 Then, our focus was on the disciplines and their particular ways of structuring and shaping the past. We asked since when certain disciplines had begun to use specific periodisation schemes, and whether these schemes, and with them the introduction of temporality as a key co…

E-book Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South A…

This book takes as its object of investigation an array of traumatic heritage sites and spaces of memory, including museums, former detention camps, and sites of commemoration, in Europe, Argentina, and Colombia, to investigate how various traumatic pasts can be preserved and transmitted through space, and which kind of actions might be taken both to improve knowledge of the past and to serve a…

E-book True Cost Accounting for Food : Balancing the Scale

Behind all the food that we eat is a vast realm of unaccounted for interactions:the diversion of water from rivers; the extraction of nutrients from soil; thedischarge of pollutants to air and water; the exaction of labor to grow, manage,pick, and package; the release of carbon dioxide to transport and deliver; and soon. When we shine a light on these interactions it becomes clear that a 99¢ha…

E-book A Sensory Education

There is also certainly a very specific market, of those who are addressed in the marketing of sensory education tools, with a rather limited inclusivity entailed in many of the workshops, books and programs I found, whether through targeted groups or representation in advertisement. As I delve into throughout the book, sensory education is often seen as an antidote to dig-ital maximalism, wh…

E-book Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages : Writing, Language, and Creat…

For a long time, the simplicity of the Physio logus stories impeded any serious attempt to understand its function. They evoke the fables of Aesop and other “sto-ries with a moral” that are often read to children. Such stories seem to have didactic but otherwise no real intellectual value and little historical significance or influence. The editor of the facsimile of the Physio logus in Ber…

E-book Down to Earth : A Memoir

The haunts of my youth have vanished, in two senses — they rest under layers of mental debris, accumulated along life’s way, and under the lava that flowed from the flanks of Mount Helgafell, “Holy Mountain,” in Iceland’s Westman Islands in 1973. These facts evoke in me both pure curiosity and a poignant sense of loss. Where is my home? As have so many ot…

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Sardinia

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E-Book Digital Techniques for Documenting and Preserving Cultural Heritage

This book presents interdisciplinary approaches to the examination and documentation of material cultural heritage, using non-invasive spatial and spectral optical technologies.

E-Book Shattering Minds

This study offers a new perspective on unusual and unsettling experiences that are often interpreted as “mental illnesses” and on the techniques through which literary representations invite readerly responses and engagement. The book examines how four Finnish modernist writers, Helvi Hämäläinen, Jorma Korpela, Timo K. Mukka, and Maria Vaara, construct experiences of shattering and distr…

E-book Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine

This is the fi rst edition of the book without either of the original authors—Tony Hope and Murray Longmore. Both have now moved on to do other things, and enjoy a well-earned rest from authorship. In this book, I am joined by a Nephrologist, Gastroenterologist, and trainees destined for careers in Cardiology, Dermatology, and General Practice. Five physicians, each with very diff erent inter…

E-Book Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Lea…

Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World focuses on the continuities and discontinuities of the learning careers and identities of non-traditional adult students in diverse learning contexts. Readership: All those interested in adult education and the challenges facing adult education today such as researchers in education and social …

E-Book Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Mate…

This book contributes to the study of oceans, seas, coastal waters, and rivers within blue humanities by broadening, circulating, and interweaving knowledge about such waters, ocean epistemologies, and sea narratives from pluriversal epistemological, geographical, cultural, and disciplinary perspectives. The contributors from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, North America and the Pacific ex…

E-book Bally : A History of Footwear in the Interwar Period

Shoes are accessories. They add the finishing touches to an outfit, complete a look. Shoes offer up information about so-cial identities, class, and gender roles. From clogs to sandals, high heels to brogues, sneakers to boots—shoes have become indispensable extensions of the body, shaping the way we stand and walk. With the appropriate footwear, walking can assume entirely differe…

E-book Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and Eastern Europe

While the usefulness of periodization in general has been questioned before,1 the established periodizations of Central and Eastern European art histories have not been systematically compared or criticized. At the heart of the issue is the relation-ship between Western models of periodization and the emerging discipline of art his-tory in the region. Wes…

E-book Bio-based Building Skin

he function of façades in architecture and the big portfolio of protective layersdeveloped by nature (skin, membranes, shells, cuticles) share several similarities. Innature, skin is the largest organ that protects the body from external invaders. Skinis a multitasker performing several functions critical for health and well-being oforganisms. Built from several layers, skin protects, regulate…

E-book The Norton Anthology of English Literature

She wrote political pamphlets in the 1790s, opposing Britain's declaration of war against France, defending democratic government and popular education, and campaigning for the repeal of the Test Acts that had long excluded Nonconformist Protestants (those who would not subscribe, as a "test" of their loyalty, to the thirty-nine Articles of the Established Church) from the public life of the na…

E-book Milk and Dairy Products in Human Nutrition

Good nutrition and access to an adequate diet and health are essential for child growth and development, body maintenance and protection from both infectious and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in adult life. Adequate nutrition and a healthy productive population are increasingly recognized not only as resulting from but also as an important prerequisite for poverty reduction and economic and …

E-book Overwhelmed by overflows? : How people and organizations create and ma…

This transdisciplinary volume investigates the ways in which people and organisations deal with the overflow of information, goods or choices. It explores two main themes: the emergence of overflows and the management of overflows, in the sense of either controlling or coping with them. Individual chapters show the management of overflows taking place in various social settings, periods and pol…

E-book Movement of knowledge : Medical humanities perspectives on medicine, s…

edical knowledge is always in motion. It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant’s desk and then on to a policymaker. Knowledge is deconstructed, reconstructed, and transformed as it moves. The dynamic, ever-evolving nature of medical knowledge has given rise to different concepts to explain it: diffusion, translation, c…

E-book Urban Food Sharing : Rules, Tools and Networks

When was the last time that you ate together with others? Maybe you had breakfast with your family or lunch with your friends. Such food sharing is often part of everyday routines; habitual practices that we rarely reflect on, except when they change. Perhaps an extended daily commute to work in a new job means that breakfast with the family gets replaced with a snack on the go, whil…

E-book The Tale of Tales : The Book Collection

Every Silversea guest knows from personal experience that stories and travel are close companions. Yet the two have never been so deeply interwoven as they were for the Silversea Tale of Tales World Cruise 2019. This anthology celebrates all those who were part of that extraordinary voyage. Those who travelled further into the world to discover its beauty. Those who were fascinated, amazed and …