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…
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…
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…
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…
The quotation above was one of several responses received from teachers in a series of interviews that sought their perceptions of how Irish reading is taught and of the particular challenges they face in helping school children develop literacy skills in their second language. Although less specific than some responses, this one captures vividly the sense of frustration on the part of teac…
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 …
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…
We are all familiar with the many reasons why we should fight poverty. Poor people do not have enough money to meet their basic needs, are excluded from society, are often not given proper respect, or can become easy prey at the hands of others who want to dominate them. In the domains of both material and immaterial goods, there is a widespread understanding about what it means w…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
This book presents interdisciplinary approaches to the examination and documentation of material cultural heritage, using non-invasive spatial and spectral optical technologies.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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Myths establish a link to immutable principal events in the past and in doing so establish a social whole united by notions of common origin. They have the uncanny power of self-definition and are therefore suitable for political uses. Myths have played and still play an important role in social movements attempting to create group unity on national or ethnic grounds. Myths address both cultura…
In terms of recognising diversity, the very way the Spanish state is organised territorially has been an admission of the cultural diversity of the country. Protection of diversity has been mainly interpreted by looking internally at the individual traits of the various cultures comprising modern-day Spain. Since 2000, as a result of the dramatic increase in immigration, recognition of another …
Buku ini memberikan mahasiswa kedokteran dasar-dasar ilmu biokimia dengan cara yang menarik dan relevan. Dalam buku yang ringkas tetapi komprehesif ini, tercakup studi kasus terbaru, diskusi mengenai penyakit-penyakit biokimia dan informasi klinis. * Terdapat pula informasi mengenai keadaan medis yang menjadi prevalensi, mencakup hiperkolesterolemia, obesitas, dan diabetes melitus. * Memberi …
Buku ini berisi tentang doa-doa yang dianggap memiliki kekuatan bagi umat yang membacanya. Doa-doa yang ada di dalamnya merupakan doa-doa yang digunakan ketika mengalami masa-masa buruk di kehidupan. Merupakan kumpula doa yang dapat memberikan kekuatan bagi Anda dalam menghadapi pengalaman buruk dalam hidup ini. Ingat bahwa kita mendapat kekuatab dari Tuhan sendiri. Maka buku ini berbicara dar…
"Tuhan, sampai berapa kali aku harus mengampuni saudaraku jika ia berbuat dosa terhadap aku? Sampai tujuk kali?" Yesus berkata kepadanya: "Bukan! Aku berkata kepadamu: Bukn sampai tujuh kali, melainkan sampai tujuh puluh kali tujuh kali." (Mat 18:22) Dlam Kitab Suci, angka 70 memiliki makn dan simbol yang cukup mendalam. Kutipan di atas merupakan salah satu bukti bahwa Yesus mengajarkan kepada…
Sursum Corda artinya "angkatlah hati". Buku ini hadir untuk membantu kita mengangkat hati kepada Allah. Doa-doa dalam buku ini merupakan doa-doa klasik Gereja Katolik. Sebagian besar diambil dari Missale Romanum dan Brevir serta sisanya banyak yang ditulis oleh para kudus sendiri. Beberapa doa adalah madah yang juga dapat dinyanyikan. Selain didoakan, teks-teks doa yang indah ini pun bisa dig…
Pensiunan menimbulkan ketakutan akan masalah keuangan. Bayangan hidup di umur yang sudah tidak produktif membayangi pikiran tiap pensiunan. Semua orang tentu mengharapkan masa pensiun yang menyenangkan. Naun apakah Anda sudah menabung dengan cukup untuk semua itu? Jika belum, Anda tak perlu khawatir. Dengan kreativitas, Anda akan tetap bisa ;menghasilkan pundi-pundi uang di masa tua. Anda tent…