E-book The Atheist's Bible: Diderot's 'Éléments de physiologie'

"‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relationship between bodily sensation, emotion and perception, and asks his readers what it means to be human i…

E-book A Guide to Sustainable Corporate Responsibility

Since the Industrial Revolution in late eighteenth century, there have been tremendous increases in both production and population growth. In the 1960s, the society began to consider the relationship between industrial development, environmental degradation, and the costs it imposed on everyone in one way or another. The United Nations (UN) initiated the World Co…

E-book Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History

Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History is inspired by the conviction of so many of Indonesia's Independence-era artists that there is continuing interaction between art and everyday life. In the 1970s, Sanento Yuliman, Indonesia’s foremost art historian of the late twentieth century, further developed that concept, stating: 'New Indonesian Art cannot wholly be und…

E-book Fonthill Recovered : A Cultural History

Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is usually associated with the writer and collector William Beckford, who built his Gothic fantasy house Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eight-eenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for over- arching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story …

E-book Designing Urban Food Policies : Concepts and Approaches

ollowing the reign of nation states, there is every reason to believe that the twenty-first century will be a new era for cities.First because, from a structural standpoint, currently over half of the world popu-lation is urban (compared to 30% in 1950), and it will increase to two-thirds by 2050 according to the United Nations (2014). Medium-sized cities have consider-able weigh…

E-book Basic Pathology : An Introduction to the Mechanisms of Disease

Almost anything can cause ‘disease’ if the conditions are right. For example, water is essential for life but if taken in extreme excess or given intravenously, particularly in a patient with kidney failure, it can cause problems. In this situation, the body is unable to respond adequately so homeostasis is not maintained and a ‘disease state’ occurs.What may be harmless to one person m…

E-book Eyewonder: Horse

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E-book LexArt Words for Painting (France, Germany, England, The Netherlands, …

The chronological and geographical limitations of this explorationof the terms and notions were justified by the growing importance,in both number and diversity, of the publications on art in NorthernEurope from 1600 onwards, and more particularly from 1604, the yearof publication of Karel Van Mander’sHet Schilder-Boeckuntil 1750,a moreflexible date depending on the countries studied. This da…

E-book Out of Place : Artists, Pedagogy, and Purpose

The academic landscape is broad and fickle; academic fields, disciplines, and teach-ing perspectives always shift and change. In these academic places, identities, and communities overlap and work together. This book holds space for identities that are often undervoiced in academia. The perspectives of the contributors serve as models for how artists work within communit…

E-book Living Art : Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History

In pre-pandemic 2019, when it was possible to organise international art exhibitions, the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) curated and presented an exhibition of contemporary Indonesian art to show the diversity and richness of art in new millennium Indonesia. Contemporary Worlds: Indonesia was the first major survey of post-1998 Indonesian art seen in Austral…