Cities are growing worldwide due to an increasing population, and simultaneously,motorization intensifies. Challenges such as local environmental pollution, a lack ofspace, and saturation of existing infrastructure are thereby becoming more pressing.The urgency to act and the need for new forms of mobility sets the tone not only forpolitics, urban, and transport planning but also leads some com…
Each reader of this book brings its pages to life, using your own history and insights to interpret and apply what we have written. Before writing this book, Amelia and William were students then researchers and teachers in a variety of places. We worked in agricultural schools, liberal arts colleges and health-science campuses in the U.S., E…
John Ruskin, who had read Lucretius’s De rerum natura in his student days as a set book at Oxford, commented in later years: ‘I have ever since held it the most hopeless sign of a man’s mind being made of flint-shingle if he liked Lucretius’.2 Such antipathy to the Roman poet was nothing new, of course, particularly towards his philosophy. Though his …
he Age of Innocence (1920) adalah sebuah cerita yang mencakup cinta rahasia, perselingkuhan, dan kehidupan masyarakat aristokrat di Zaman Keemasan di New York. Novel ini ditulis oleh Edith Wharton (1862-1937) dan merupakan novelnya yang ke-12. --------------------------------- Edith Wharton's masterwork captures the opulence and deceit of a bygone era. It follows Newland Archer, a young lawye…
What are photographs ‘doing’ in museums? Why are some photographs valued and others not? Why are some photographic practices visible and not others? What value systems and hierarchies do they reflect? What Photographs Do explores how museums are defined through their photographic practices. It focuses not on formal collections of photographs as accessioned objects, be they ‘fine art’ or…
Barry Unsworth, the British Booker Prize- winning author, was, in a sense, the creative catalyst for this volume. While researching the late- twentieth- century revival of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis on international stages, Edith Hall was led from drama to fi ction by reading Unsworth’s 2002 novel, Th e Songs of the Kings . 1Unsworth’s novel pinpointed on…
One of the most notable features of any survey of the history of energy regimes in the Americas over the past century is the “pendulum effect.” Anecdotal though the observation may be, it is clear that despite the broad and incremental transformational changes that have occurred in the global energy landscape over time, individual countries have un…
Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions is a transdiciplinary essay collection that explores the physical, conceptual, and political possibilities materialized by “solarity”— a form of relation to the sun and its elemental force upon planetary life. The authors propose that a different set of questions becomes possible when the material specificities of solar become the compass f…
Andre mungkin saja memiliki banyak kekurangan, tapi selingkuh bukan salah satunya. Sesaat aku mengutuk diriku, sempat menuduh mendiang suamiku atas tuduhan yang belum tentu benar. Tapi aku bisa apa? Rinjani sudah terlalu lelah dengan kedukaan atas meninggalnya suami tercinta. Ratapan setahun terakhir seolah tidak pernah cukup. Sampai ia harus berurusan dengan surat-surat tanpa identitas yang m…
On the shore of a little land-locked haven, into which the gulls and terns bring tidings of the sea, stands the fishing hamlet of Pittenloch. It is in the "East Neuk o' Fife," that bit of old Scotland "fronted with a girdle of little towns," of which Pittenloch is one of the smallest and the most characteristic. Some of the cottages stand upon the sands, others are grouped in a steep glen, …