A fascination with the night sky is integral to the story of what it is to be human. The history of our relationship with dark skies is diverse and rich, a connection across space and time that has shaped and been shaped by society, culture, and reli-gion, as well as science. Beyond the astronomical, scientific understandings about the universe, the stars, planets, and moon have proved inspirat…
This open access book provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between fungi and grapevines, covering contemporary mycological classifications, pathogens, the mycobiome, endophytes, and mycorrhizae. Inspired by the French book "La Vigne, Maladies Fongiques" by the same authors, which won first prize at the 2015 OIV book competition (Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du …
The PhD in Design at Politecnico di Milano was established in 1990, exactly 30 years ago. It was Italy’s first PhD Programme on the topic, and its leading figure was Ulm School of Design former teacher and director Tomàs Maldonado. Its original name was “Doctoral Programme in Industrial De-sign and Visual Communication,” which showed the discipline’s traditional legacy as b…
Artificial intelligence (AI), generally thought of as using c omputers t o a ccomplish tasks r equiring human intelligence, is not a new c oncept. Ho wever, gen erative AI, a type of AI system that can generate t ext, ima ges, or other m edia in response to pr ompts, has suddenly become an omnipresent part of the a cademic scene. In the f orm of ChatGPT an d oth ers, generative…
A typical example of the benefits and challenges of miniaturization is the ABS(anti-blocking system) in modern cars. Whilst the weight could be decreased toapprox. 10% of the weight of thefirst system, the part complexity has significantlyincreased. This is indicated by the decrease in the number of parts by approx. 90%in current systems, compared to thefirst versions [Nos14], even though addit…
This book presents developments, research results and industrial applications thatwere achieved in the European Twin-Control project. This book serves as the publicreport of the project and lies within the dissemination activities that have beencarried out by project partners in the last three years.Twin-Control project has developed ICT applications in thefield of machine toolindustry. Project…
"Dia memang bukan pelaku kriminal. Dia hanya seorang laki-laki menyebalkan yang tidak tahu caranya tersenyum. Bodohnya, aku selalu kesulitan untuk benar-benar marah padanya."(Kendra Elanith) "Dan dia adalah gadis paling ceroboh yang selalu meninggalkan ponselnya di sembarang tempat. Tapi dia selalu mampu menghadapiku lebih baik dibanding orang lain."(Maxim Fordel Arsjad) Mereka lebih seri…
Lucas Ford pertama kali bertemu dengan Sophie Wilson di bulan Desember pada tahun terakhir SMA-nya. Gadis itu membencinya. Lucas kembali bertemu dengan Sophie di bulan Desember sepuluh tahun kemudian di kota New York. Gadis itu masih membencinya. Masalah utamanya bukan itu - oh, bukan! - melainkan kenyataan bahwa gadis yang membencinya itu kini ditetapkan sebagai tunangan Lucas oleh kakeknya ya…
n this chapter we motivate the study of disordered media through the example of a porous system. The basic terms in percolation theory are introduced, and you learn how to generate, visualize and measure on percolation systems in Python. We demonstrate how to find exact results for small systems in two dimensions by addressing all configuration…
Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and post-modern influences jostle with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist conc…
In an age of accelerating ecological crises, global inequalities and democratic fragility, it has become crucial to achieve renewed articulations of human commonality. With anchorage in critical theory as well as world literary studies, this volume approaches literature – and modes of literary thinking – as a key resource for such a task.
Responding to the victimisation of children is a key societal challenge to which nations are increasingly committed. As victims, children have rights and needs that require services from both the justice and welfare sectors. In Europe, the Barnahus (“Children’s House”) model has been introduced as a way to strengthen children’s access to j…
For much of human history, actively sensing and being in resonance witheach other was part and parcel of social cohesion, was part of play, produc-tion, and reproduction. Such ways of deeply listening and attending to eachother have been significantly reduced or changed by contemporary modes ofdaily life and social organisation.Moving from the deep tissues of our humanbodies, this book suggests…
At a time when graphic novels have expanded beyond their fan cults to become mainstream bestsellers and sources for Hollywood entertainment, Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels serves as an exhaustive exploration of the genre's history, its landmark creators and creations, and its profound influence on American life and culture. Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels focus…
Twenty years ago, Wikipedia set out on its path to provide humanity with free access to the sum of all knowledge. Even if this is a mission that can’t be finished, Wikipedia has made remarkable progress toward the impos-sible. How so? Wikipedia is an encyclopedia built on a wiki. And never has an application (gathering the sum of human knowledge) been so suited to its medium (easily …
This short book aims to turn a modest, one might even think trivial, literary labour into something more substantial, going beyond one particular novel into broader questions of novel-writing, character and narrative. My starting point is tracking down those allusions and quotations in Middlemarch that have hitherto gone unidentified by scholars. Most…
Novel ini mengungkap sisi paling gelap tragedi kemanusiaan akibat perang dan perbudakan oleh penjajah Belanda dan Jepang terhadap bangsa Indonesia. Perang dan penjajahan telah menginjak-injak harkat kemanusiaan serta menorehkan luka dan trauma bagi perempuan korban perang, seperti Mirah. Kuli kontrak, jugun yanfu, romusha, nyai (perempuan piaraan), buruh anak adalah pengalaman yang menjadi sisi…
In March of 2012, The Linux Foundation released a report entitled, ‘Linux Kernel Development: How Fast it is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who is Sponsoring It’. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system that facilitates communication between computer hardware and soft-ware, and the Linux kernel development project is conside…
Czerny’s closeness to Beethoven, and his extraordinary musical abilities, have tendedto encourage confidence in him as a reliable source of information about Beethoven’sexpectations for the performance of his music. But despite his obvious reverence forBeethoven’s works, closer scrutiny suggests that he adopted a progressive rather thancuratorial position towards them: perhaps his concern…
As the first comprehensive work to assemble ideas, concepts, discourses, and extensive essays in this vital area, the Encyclopedia of African Religion explores such topics as deities and divinities, the nature of humanity, the end of life, the conquest of fear, and the quest for attainment of harmony with nature and other humans. Editors Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama include nearly 500 entr…
According to a widely held view in 20th- Century aesthetics, a music work is equivalent to the performances that conform to a certain score? And this notion complies with at least three requirements of a satisfactory ontology of the music work, or so it seems?1Thus, although a Beethoven manuscript would command a very high price, it is not very interesting as a unique phys…
Taking the advice of my inner Don, I decided to attend the sym-posium, “Don Giovanni and Casanova,” which is held every year in a different Italian city, this time in Venice. I go there with a young Polish woman, Emilia, a student of mine from many years ago. She is almost fifty now but is still as playful, and sometimes as acerbic, as she once was. The thea…
Covering the entire continent from Morocco, Libya, and Egypt in the north to the Cape of Good Hope in the south, and the surrounding islands from Cape Verde in the west to Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelles in the east, the Encyclopedia of African History is a new A-Z reference resource on the history of the entire African continent. With entries ranging from the earliest evolution of human …
More than two hundred years ago, a theater journal from Hamburg reviewed a performance of The Marriage of Figaro. Its author was probably Bernhard Anselm Weber, a composer and music director. The evening’s entertainment left a deep impression on Mozart’s fellow musician:It is just as one would expect from Mozart: great and beautiful, full of new ideas a…
Philosophy tends to relegate senses to the realm of phe-nomenology and experience. By contrast, critical the-ory has gradually eroded the holy opposition between knowing and sensing to the extent that new speculative trends are now seeking to rebuild it. While the social sciences endeavour to frame sensing within socio- historical geneal ogies, …
This open access book explores the complementarity of hydropower with new energy sources such as solar and wind in the global energy transition. It analyzes the technological advantages, environmental impacts, and economic potential of combining hydropower and new energy sources, while examining the related policies and market mechanisms. Through a multidimensional approach, the book demonstrat…
This open access book provides graduate students and scientists with fundamental knowledge on the mechanics of granular suspensions as well as on the mathematical and numerical techniques that can be adopted to investigate geophysical flows. To this end, three formidably complex problems (sediment transport, flow-like landslide inception, and gravity currents) are considered. The reader will fi…
This open access textbook introduces beginning undergraduate students and high school students to the world of quantum mechanics and atomic spectroscopy. Requiring no previous knowledge of physics and no math beyond basic algebra and sines and cosines, this book focuses on concepts to make the excitement of atomic physics more accessible for learners than ever before. It comes replete with lear…
This open access book takes a human-focused multidisciplinary look at the ways in which autonomous technology shapes experience, affecting human lives and ways of working in settings ranging from the arts, design, and service to maritime and industry. The book focuses on the humane, observing how technology can be designed and implemented in an ethical, human-centered way. Chapters in this book…
In 1969, an influential volume arising from a conference at LSE began with a declaration phrased to echo Marx and Engels: ‘A spectre is haunting the world: the spectre of populism’ [1]. More than half a century has gone by, and the warning re-mains timely. Donald Trump may be gone from the White House, but populism is still a powerful force in world politics. …
In2019,agraffitiartistsprayedamuralofFridaKahloonthebackofagunshopin Greensboro, North Carolina. The Mexican artist is shown with an ammunitionbelt around her hips, leaning back against the wall. In her hand, she holds a gunpointing downward,as if ready to lift her arms and shoot at the viewer.The mural copied a photograph of Kahlo which has long become a commodity.Itsdepictionof»Frida«reiter…
Catatan Pinggir, esai pendeknya tiap minggu untuk majalah Tempo, di antaranya terbit dalam terjemahan bahasa Inggris oleh Jennifer Lindsay, dalam Sidelines (1994) dan Conversations with Difference (2002). Kritiknya diwarnai keyakinan Goenawan bahwa tak pernah ada yang final dalam manusia. Kritik yang meminjam satu bait dalam sajaknya, "dengan raung yang tak terserap karang".
Until recently relations among siblings did not attract much interest among scholars studying the history of the early medieval family. They were mentioned primarily in discussions of marriage strategies used to safeguard the interests of family groups and in analyses of relations between families linked by marriage. Fraternal relations appeared as a research topic …
It was late morning in May 2014, and I was sitting on the sofa in the lobby of a Radisson Blu Hotel. The sliding doors of the hotel opened onto a typical, international hotel lobby with marbled floors, a series of lifts, a spiralling staircase and clusters of small, hard, colourful square-shaped sofas and arm-chairs. If you could only see the lobby, and not the street outside, you would not hav…
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…
The fact that the tagline culminates in the emboldening of‘again’highlights therepetitionofdeath,whichprovidesthemotionpicture’sforwardmomentum.Inthefilm, protagonist and quintessential final girl, Teresa “Tree” Gelbman finds herselfcaptured in a Groundhog Day-esque loop in which she keeps being murdered, onherbirthday(Mondaythe18th),onlytowakeupagainthemorningofthatverysameday.The es…
Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910–1991) and Otto Pfister (1900–1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans—Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic—who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and th…
Stalin's Quest for Gold tells the story of Torgsin, a chain of retail shops established in 1930 with the aim of raising the hard currency needed to finance the USSR's ambitious industrialization program. At a time of desperate scarcity, Torgsin had access to the country's best foodstuffs and goods. Initially, only foreigners were allowed to shop in Torgsin, but the acute demand for hard-currenc…
Paper, milk, clouds and white paint share a common property: they are opaque disordered media through which light scatters randomly rather than propagating in a straight path. For very thick and turbid media, indeed, light eventually propagates in a ‘diffusive’ way, i.e. similarly to how tea infuses through hot water. Frequently though, a material is neither perfectly opaque nor transparent…
Sajak-sajak yang terkumpul di sini belum pernah diterbitkan dalam bentuk buku. Beberapa di antaranya ditulis di tahun 2016. Ini merupakan kumpulan puisinya yang ke-9. Kumpulan puisi pertama, Pariksit, terbit empat puluh lima tahun yang lalu. Selain menulis puisi, Goenawan dikenal sebagai esais, terutama prosa pendek Catatan Pinggir, yang sampai sekarang sudah terbit dalam 10 jilid. Di samping …
Renal MRI holds incredible promise for making a quantum leap in improving diagnosis and care of patientswith a multitude of diseases, by moving beyond the limitations and restrictions of current routine clinicalpractice. Clinical and preclinical renal MRI is advancing with ever increasing rapidity, and yet, aside from afew examples of renal MRI in routine use, it is still not good enough. Sever…
Photoacoustic tomography has been developed for in vivo functional, metabolic, molecular, and histologic imaging by physically combining optical and ultrasonic waves. Broad applications include early-cancer detection and brain imaging. High-resolution optical imaging—such as confocal microscopy, two-photon microscopy, and optical coherence tomography—is limited to superficia…
Over the last decades and since the’60 s, civil aircraft noise has been mitigatedsignificantly:theacousticalenergyemittedbyaveragemoderncivilaircraft—directlyrelated to the noise it is responsible for—is somehow only 10% of an aircraft of thesame size in the’60 s. This success was made possible thanks to specific researchefforts which focused on reducing the aircraft noise at its source…
In the ethnographical examination of entrepreneurial-creative places such asmakerspaces, incubators, or living labs, I frequently encountered assertions andexplanatory patterns imbued with emotion. Interestingly, these narratives oftenseem to evade a conscious acknowledgement of their emotional nature. Instead,participants describe experiences asmagical moments, visions of a brighter future,afl…
Th is is a book about practical reason, action, and emotion in Kant. My aim is to answer what is the real importance of emotion for Kant. I will try to show that Kant had considerable views about emotions and that he was not blind to their importance in action in general. My object is not moral action, but action in general, including weak and even evil ones. My purpose is to show that Kant de…
In an age where science and technology hold sway and the humanities face a crisis, this book explores the evolving role of literature. It delves into how American self-help culture shapes contemporary ideals of success, mindfulness, and happiness, with a particular focus on its influence in science communication, notably in TED talks. Moreover, it underscores the enduring relevance of literatur…
Seumur hidup, Allyson Healey anak baik-baik. Lalu pada hari terakhir tur ke Eropa, ia bertemu Willem. Cowok Belanda itu aktor drama berjiwa bebas, sama sekali tidak seperti Allyson. Namun, ketika Willem mengajaknya meninggalkan rombongan dan ikut ke Paris, Allyson setuju. Keputusan spontan yang tidak sesuai dengan sifat Allyson ini membuatnya mengalami hari yang penuh resiko dan romantis, kebeb…
The book provides an overview of the different AI technologies, demystifying terms such as search, reasoning, learning, adapting, understanding, and interacting. It covers the two dominant paradigms in AI, both the “data-driven” and “symbolic” AI systems, showing how they can complement each other. The theory is illustrated with 22 real-world examples from industry, giving a solid under…
Sir George Buc (1560-1622), one of the careful antiquarian scholars of the English Renaissance, is famous in literary history as Master of Revels under King James I. In 1619 Sir George wrote The History of King Richard the Third, a study of Richard’s life and reign and a defence of his historical reputation. In the late 1960s/early 1970s Arthur Kincaid embarked on creating the first authentic…
This volume features ten articles, each dealing with a particular aspect of the relationship between the Korean people and foreigners. It is a work conducted with a comparative/structuralist approach, which comprises a time span of over 1500 years and intends to give Korean studies that transnational aspect which is still neglected today.