Living with chronic conditions requires careful, ongoing management, or what Annemarie Mol (2008) has defined as ‘tinkering’. This means continually making adjustments, and not only to the fluctuating symp-toms and moods, but also to the presence and action of the multiple, significant actors involved in the field of care. Anthropological research on…
One step after another, each recorded and located by the Global Position-ing System (GPS) and shared with the world. Sequential steps repeated daily in our morning run or commute become part of an economic cycle of digital tracking, extracting our location data and serving parts back to us as directions, as ads, as insurance rates. And also as egregious privacy violations which set …
Just who are ‘the Malays’? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical, ‘Malay’ context. The Malays is a comprehensive examination of the origins and development of Malay identity, ethnicity, and consciousn…
A century and a half after it was first published, this book remains one of the great classics of natural history and travel—perhaps the greatest. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) deserves equal billing with Charles Darwin for his independently drawn but parallel conclusions on the theory of evolution. Darwin himself called Wallace "generous and noble" and referred favorably to his work in l…
Write Yourself is a complete introduction to facilitating creative writing for therapy or personal development, both with individuals and groups. Clear and practical, and with a strong theoretical base, it is also an essential handbook for individuals embarking on their own personal writing journeys. Topics covered include the nature, values and principles of therapeutic creative writing, how t…
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 …
Pernah jatuh cinta pada seseorang yang luar biasa keren tapi selalu menganggapmu hanya sebagai adik manis yang lucu? Begitulah nasib Anya Abigail selama bertahun-tahun. Gigit jari karena William Anthony yang notabene sohib kakaknya sendiri dan juga vokalis grup band Falling Star yang beken dan keren hanya menganggapnya sebagai adik sohibnya yang harus dijaga. Tadinya Anya sudah mengubur cinta…
This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will …
From the hidden entrails of the National Security Agency to Silicon Valley,algorithms appear to hold the key to insidious transformations of social, po-litical, and economic relations. “‘Ad-tech” has become “Natsec-tech.” Potentialadversaries will recognize what every advertiser and social media companyknows: AI is a powerful targeting tool’, announced the Final Report by theUnited …
Complex technology has been around ever since the start of computers. MaxwellNewman’sfirst programmable computer Colossus in 1943 cracking World War IIcryptography was a truly complex system at that time (Haigh & Ceruzzi,2021). In1965 Gordon Moore posited that the number of transistors on microchips doublesevery 2 years, implying that the technical developments underlying our increasinglycomp…
Thisisabookaboutsocialorder.Morespecifically,itisaboutthecompli-cated relationship between machine learning algorithms and the formation of democratic order. And there are good reasons for such a book. Algorithms appeartobecomeadefiningmomentinthedigitizedsocietiesofthe21stcentury – and it seems that no domain of life is spared from the rati…
The human body is an intricate network of multiple functioning sub-systems. Many unobserved processes quietly keep running within the body even while we remain largely unconscious of them. For decades, scientists have sought to understand how different physiological systems work and how they can be mathematically modeled. Mathematical models of biol…
2021, the leaders of major industrial countries declared a shared goal of achieving a carbon-neutral international community by mid-century, during the G7 meeting. This objective is in alignment with the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit global warming to well below 2°C, and preferably to 1.5°C, compared to pre-industrial levels. In addition, …
The known facts of Gaspar van Weerbeke’s life point to a composer who was one of the most successful and important of his lifetime. Born in the mid-fifteenth century in the city of Oudenaarde in the Burgundian Netherlands, now in the province of East Flanders, he occupied positions of prestige in the best-known musical institutions of the time: the Sforza court in Milan, the Burgundian court …
Questions concerning the ethical status of children, and their position and their relationships within families, have been widely debated in recent moral philosophy and biomedical ethics, as well as in pedagogic sciences and sociology. This volume is intended to contribute to these interdisciplinary debates from a very specific angle. Combining philosophical, ethical and q…
The term“built environment”refers to all aspects of the human-made surroundingsthat provide the setting for human activity: the human-made space in which peoplelive, work, and create on a day-to-day basis (Roof and Oleru2008). It ranges inscale from indoor to outdoor active spaces, and it extends in four-dimensional space(i.e., length-x, width-y, depth-z, time-t), so the boundaries among th…
The expansion of the so-called gig economy, where flexible patterns of employment prevail in contrast to permanent jobs, is causing numerous issues. The UK Government’s inquiry into Employment Practices in the Modern Economy is a much-neededinitiative in response to this trend: the number of self-employedworkers in Britain has increased by 1 million between …
The writing collected here is bookended by rupture. I began writing these essays because my body gave out in November 2016, at a time that was eerily aligned with the moment when my last thread of faith in American democracy also gave out. Or gave in, or gave way. The first time I wrote about chronic pain and politics was for an anthology curated by E…
It was a cold winter evening in 2010, and I had just arrived in Paris for a short research trip. The tiny hotel where I would be staying was on the fifth floor of the ophthalmological wing of the hôtel-Dieu (or hospital) just across from the cathedral of Notre Dame. 1 Given the subject of the book I was in France to research, it seemed appropri-ate that I should s…
St. Gregory of Nazianzus' (ca. AD 330-390) classicizing Christian verse is the earliest Greek verse of its kind that survives in any great quantity. This is a critical edition, with introduction and commentary, of four poems (I.2.17; II.1.10, 19, 32). The commentary is primarily linguistic, but attention is paid to historical and theological matters. The poems' fate in Byzantium is also examine…
A highly original thinker' - New York Times David Graeber (1961–2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist, who left us with new ways to understand humankind. This collection of new writing brings together his insights into one book, showing how deeply his work continues to influence us today. Graeber’s writing resonates with both scholars and activists looking to shake thi…
Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model for the twenty-first-century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself. 2018 marks 30 years since the publication of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s ground-breaking book…
For rock engineering projects, the cutting and fragmenting of rocks has attracted much attention. Exploring the fracture characteristics of rocks is helpful in achieving efficient and sustainable excavation for mining and tunneling engineering. The frac-ture toughness of rocks is a crucial mechanical indicator that weighs the initiation and extension…
Given the increasing attention to managing, publishing, and preserving research datasets as scholarly assets, what competencies in working with research data will graduate students in STEM disciplines need to be successful in their fields? And what role can librarians play in helping students attain these competencies? In addressing these questions, this book articulates a new area of opportuni…
In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist that we absolutely must rely on memory to make sense of past experience. Building on his 45 y…
Siapa yang nggak kenal Lyla Melati? Playgirl dari Fakultas Bahasa Inggris itu terkenal dengan kecantikan dan ciri khasnya yang selalu mengenakan baju warna putih. Sifatnya yang ramah tapi cool bikin cowok-cowok penasaran dan gemar mengejarnya. Mempunyai reputasi sebagai cewek playgirl yang hobi bikin rontok hati para cowok sama sekali bukan masalah bagi Lyla. Baginya, cinta sejati itu omong kos…
Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history of Europe in the twentieth century? The Complete History of Yugoslavia by Marie-Janine Calic provides a concise, accessible, comprehensive…
During f ieldwork at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, I spent most of the week explaining my research to game designers. With over 28,000 of them attending GDC that year, there was a lot of explaining to do. The most common question was not, “Why do you study what we make?” Most game developers are acutely aware that their industry is the largest and most interesting c…
Hip hop is from the United States. So, in Vietnam they copy from gangsterrap videos, right?” “Hip hop is violent and misogynistic. So, why should it bea good thing for young Vietnamese people to engage with hip hop?” These aresome of the many concerned questions that I am often confronted with whentellingpeopleaboutmyresearchonyouthandhiphopinVietnam.Whatthesequestions imply, among many o…
The Korean Wave (or Hallyu), which refers to the global circulationof Korean media and popular culture, seems more visible than ever,despite almost two decades of doubt, skepticism, and disapproval aboutits continuation. In particular, the rapid surge of K-pop (Korean idolpop music) in the global mediascape, led by several idol groups andtheir dedicated overseas fans since the mid-2010s, reveal…
Central bankers are supposed to be a rather dour lot. They are charged, after all, with maintaining the monetary and financial integrity of the whole economy. They cultivate a public reputation as prudent, cautious guardians of price stability — an independent, reliable force, ready to pounce at the first signs of economic overheating and inflationary pressure. They are the ones wh…
Why do some people appear to obtain a disproportionate share of income and wealth? The French economist Thomas Piketty, in his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, frames the problem in a rather old-fashioned way as a tussle between capital and labour. His main thesis is that inequality is rising because the rate of return on capital, held disproportionately by the wealthy, exc…
In the past few years a number of book-length English-language studies of the cultural dimensions of disasters in modern Japan have appeared in print.2 The question arises: Why do we need another? The reason is that none of these books concentrates solely on literature, as this book does, and only a few of the volumes treat the disaster spawned by World War II—the most destruc-tive military c…
Anthropogenic environmental change and the uneven global effects of mass mobil-ity,eachwiththeirownuniquehistoriesandlong-termeffectsonlifeontheplanet,are two of the most urgent challenges of the twenty-first century. ContemporaryAmerican poetry can help us understand some of the complex ways in which thesetwo challenges are interrelated.When connecting environmental change and massmobility,bot…
“This is the death of the poem as I have faithfully reported it, November 29, 1966, as I have faithfully reported it, this is the death of the poem” in-tones Canadian poet bpNichol one day after the Dominion Day celebrations marking Canada’s centennial year. Addressing a national television audi-ence, Nichol reads these lines with poets bill bissett an…
Diverse processes of democratic participation – and exclusion – are braided with or propelled onwards by ritual acts and complexes. This volume is the result of collaborations and conversations between international researchers who have focused on the employment and deployment of those cultural resources identifiable as ‘ritual’ as pa…
This book is inspired by Acehnese scholar Eka Srimulyani’s appeal to bring ‘the sub-altern narrative and stories to the fore so the marginalized groups and perspectives can be brought to the discourse and common knowledge of the people’ and, in order to do so, it requires revisiting ‘the notion of agency and xplor[ing] the different agencies that were the …
Human relationships with our oceans date back millennia. They have shaped the rise of civilizations, provided food and story, and seeded a diversity of coastal cul-tures and engagement practices around the world. However, they have also been a source of conflict, oppression and turmoil. Human-ocean stories are not new, but the magnitude of changes now incurred from these relationshi…
The creation of—or even the existence of—a “Pacific World” is a question that has preoccupied scholars to a much greater degree than existential doubts have bothered historians of other oceanic basins. Economic historian Eric Jones and colleagues have written that “there can be no meaningful history ofthe whole Rim or Basin [ofthe Pacific] since there…
As indicated by its title, this is a book about the relationship between what are perceived to be scarce natural resources and the tendency for access to them to lead to international conflict or cooperation. It is apparent from our reading of existing literature and from the contributions to this book that experts are often situated in positions that find little opportunity to engage …
The current publishing environment has experienced a drastic change in the way content is created, delivered, and acquired, particularly for libraries. With the increasing importance of digital publishing, more than half the titles published in the United States are self-published. With this growth in self-published materials, librarians, publishers, and vendors have been forced to rethink chan…
Tahun 2024 ini, Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia (Perpusnas) genap berusia 44 Tahun. Perpusnas berulang tahun tepat pada tanggal 17 Mei. Dalam perjalanannya sebagai penjaga ilmu pengetahuan dan peradaban, Perpusnas telah menorehkan sumbangsih yang cukup besar bagi kemajuan negeri ini.
What is so interesting about housing policies? I have been asked this question many times over the last years, ever since I became interested in the topic of housing. I used to respond in a simple way, disregarding the complexity of the topic: ‘We cannot allow the existence of one billion people living in slums!’, ‘We live in the 21st century; there must be a way to improve the living con…
When I imagine my eggs, I think of them as grey and shiny, like slippery helium balloons clustering in the thousands within organs lit up and awake. I think of eggs enfleshed in follicular cavities, folding again and again into a sponge of cells and yellow bodies, pulsing patiently with only an occasional burst: membrane breaking at the touch of engorged fimbrae, fallopian fingers brushing the …
An anthropological exploration is a journey that takes place through a long tunnel?4 Truthfully, this process can be portrayed as a journey, that can be gen-erally described as one that starts with a declaration of a dissertation problem-atic followed by narrowing of the field of study, setting out how you are going to approach the study, reviewing all the existing li…
Mereka bukan sekedar menjadi penikmat kata yang didapatnya dari buku. Lebih dari itu, para pelopor kecerdasan yang sudah menghibahkan hidupnya dalam dunia perpustakaan telah membawa perubahan sosial. Meski punya latar belakang pendidikan yang berbeda, para pegiat literasi itu memiliki pandangan misi yang sama. Di tengah keterbatasan, kerap mengeksplorasi ilmu dan menyusun peradaban di lingkung…
For scholars of the Arab world, the state remains an elusive, unsettled, and unsettling presence. Since mandatory and then independent states emerged in the Arab world in the aftermath of World War I, theorizing the Arab state has been a central preoccupation for generations of regional specialists. The gravitational pull of the state is not surprising. As a pr…
The internal combustion engine was invented around 1790 by various scientists and engineers worldwide. Since then the engines have gone through many modifications and improvements. Today, different applications of engines form a significant technological importance in our everyday lives, leading to the evolution of our modern civilization. The invention of diesel and gasoline engines has defini…
The Pacific Islands region has entered a new period of uncertainty precipitated in large part by the emergence of China as a major regional actor as well as the reaction of more established powers to perceived threats to their longstanding influence. In March 2019, in the wake of a flurry of activity on the part of Australia, New Zealand and the United States …
In 2007, in a speech before the Indian Parliament, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe brought back to light an ancient Asian geographical vision: the so-called “confluence of the two seas”. It referred to the idea of linking the Pacific with the Indian Ocean, as Japanese policymakers conceived the concept at the time. That would later become the “Indo-Pacific …