E-book Automatic Religion : Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France

Brazil’s most famous outsider artist, Arthur Bispo do Rosário, spent fi ft y years in an asylum on the edge of Rio de Janeiro, diagnosed with schizophrenia. On the walls of his studio- cell as well as on objects therein, he created scores of works, many of them now displayed in museums. When, late in life, he gained public recognition, it caused …

E-book Monkey Trouble : The Scandal of Posthumanism

The human is a source of trouble for posthumanism. Committed to dis-turbing the opposition between human and nonhuman, posthumanist theory has tended to sideline the human from the scene of its theoretical engagements with otherness. The human has become akin to the “Invisible Gorilla” made famous by psychologists Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. Seeking to establish …

E-book The Spectre of Capital: Idea and Reality

AlthoughIstartfromMarx,Igobeyondhim.SomybookaimstoreconstructMarx’sworkinthespiritofasystematic-dialecticallogic.Idonottakeaposi-tionhereon‘whatMarxreallymeant’,stilllesson‘whatHegelreallymeant’,noryeton‘whetherMarxgotHegelrightorwrong’.1WhatIaimatisentirelysub-stantive,eventhoughIdrawheavilyuponmyreadingsofHegelandofMarx.InsofarasIappropriatetheirideasformypurposesitiseasytodisce…

E-book Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction

The schizophrenic patient presented to the public in sensational press reports and lurid films bears little resemblance to reality of the illness. This book describes what schizophrenia is really like, how the illness progresses, and the treatments that have been applied. It also summarizes the most up-to-date knowledge available about the biological bases of this disorder. Finally it attempts …

E-book Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction

Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly readable introduction the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged,…

E-book Schopenhauerp: A Very Short Introduction

Schopenhauer is the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer's central notion is that of the will - a blind, irrational force that he uses to interpret both the human mind…

E-book Reiner Schurmann and Poetics of Politics

To begin with a thinker who remained always attuned to the du-plicitous nature of beginning requires candor. There is a thetic dimension to every beginning, and we will do well not to deny it here. Rather, let us begin by attending to the things Reiner Schürmann himself said about beginning: “A starting point,” he wrote, “that neither abandons ordinary experience nor t…

E-book London’s Urban Landscape : Another Way of Telling

Substitute the term ‘place’ for the apricot-cocktail glass, and you have the overall theme of this book. It puts forward an account of London’s urban landscape by considering it as a constellation of places linked by paths of movement between them.The aim of this book is to describe these places as faithfully as possible through phenomenological description grounded in partic…

E-book Augustus De Morgan, Polymath: New Perspectives on his Life and Legacy

When Augustus De Morgan died in 1871, he was described as ‘one of the profoundest mathematicians in the United Kingdom’ and even as ‘the greatest of our mathematicians’. But he was far more than just a mathematician. Because much of his voluminous written output on various subjects was scattered throughout journals and encyclopaedias, the breadth of his interests and contributions has b…

E-book The Challenges of Nuclear Security : U.S. and Indian Perspectives

Nuclear safety and security—the protection of nuclear facilities, weapons, technologies, and materials against accidents or attacks—is an under-studied area of international security studies.1 Periodically, the subject has received high levels of attention. Following the fall of the Soviet Union, for example, scholars and policymakers worried intense…

E-book Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature

What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching in a present-day schoolroom? Rather than regarding such anachronisms as errors, Samurai with Telephones develops a theory of how texts can use different types of anachronisms to challenge or rewrite history, play with history, or open history up to…

E-book The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, and Soccer

In today’s hypercompetitive world, contact sports bring about fierce rivalries between fans, between players, and even between countries. From the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Michigan Wolverines in grid iron football, to the Australian Wallabies and the New Zealand All Blacks in rugby, to Real Madrid and Barcelona in association football (soccer), contact sports incite a passion few other gam…

E-Book Eldest (Yang Pertama)

Kegelapan turun... Pedang-pedang beradu... Kejahatan menang. Eragon dan naganya, Saphira, berhasil menyelamatkan para pemberontak dari Raja Galbatorix, penguasa kejam Kekaisaran. Sekarang Eragon harus pergi ke Ellesmera, negeri para elf, untuk mempelajari lebih dalam ilmu sihir dan ilmu pedang, keahlian utama Penunggang Naga. Perjalanan yang luar biasa itu membuatnya sampai di banyak tempa…

E-book The Sperm Cell: Production, Maturation, Fertilization, Regeneration, 2…

This revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive account of the human male gamete. Detailed overviews of human sperm production, maturation, and function - and how these processes affect and influence fertility, infertility, and assisted reproduction - are given. A wide range of new developments including proteomics, spermatogenesis, sperm-specific WW domain-binding proteins, Ca…

E-book Eyewitness: Knight

Detailed photographs trace the origins, heyday, and eventual decline of knighthood, chivalry, and the feudal system. Discover how armor was made, how men became knights, and what life in a medieval castle was like. "Great for reluctant readers."--School Library Journal.

E-book Eyewitness: Matter

Examines the elements that make up the physical world and the properties and behavior of different kinds of matter

E-book Bats and Viruses: A New Frontier of Emerging Infectious Diseases

Approximately 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, and the rate of emergence of zoonotic diseases is on the rise. Bats are being increasingly recognised as an important reservoir of zoonotic viruses of different families, including SARS coronavirus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus and Ebola virus. Understanding bats’ role in emerging zoonotic diseases is crucial to this rapidly expandi…

E-book Before the Pyramids: Cracking Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

Were the pyramids of the pharaohs conceived in Britain? The acclaimed coauthors of Civilization One think so, and they take readers on a gripping excursion into ancient religion and astronomy. Knight and Butler not only establish the existence of an advanced civilization with astonishing, almost modern knowledge, but they also explain how the oldest Neolithic monuments--the henges of North York…

E-book Political Landscapes : Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico

In 1937 an offi cial from the Mexican forest service visited the rugged Sierra Tarahumara mountains in southern Chihuahua, which even today remain one of the nation’s most isolated places. Th e landscape that greeted An-tonio H. Sosa was unlike anything he had seen in central Mexico. He ad-mired the “immensity, beauty, and potential” of the untouched Ponderosa and Montezuma pines tha…

Inheritance : Warisan

Beberapa waktu lalu, Eragon-Shadeslayer, Penunggang Naga bukanlah siapa-siapa, hanya bocah petani miskin. Naganya, Saphira cuma batu biru di hutan. Sekarang, nasib seluruh umat manusia berada di tangan mereka. Latihan dan pertempuran selama berbulan-bulan yang panjang membawa kemenangan dan harapan, tapi juga duka mencekam. Namun, pertempuran yang sesungguhnya belumlah terjadi: mereka harus ber…

Brisingr

Eragon dan naganya, Saphira berhasil bertahan hidup setelah pertempuran kolosal melawan para prajurit Kekaisaran di Dataran Membara. Namun masih banyak yang harus dihadapi sang Penunggang dan naganya ini. Eragon harus menyelamatkan Katrina, kekasih Roran dari cengkeraman Raja Galbatorix, sesuai janjinya pada abangnya itu. Tetapi kaum Varden, elf, dan kurcaci pun membutuhkan sang Penunggang. Ket…

Eldest

Eragon dan naganya, Saphira, berhasil menyelamatkan para pemberontak dari Raja Galbatorix, penguasa kejam Kekaisaran. Sekarang Eragon harus pergi ke Ellesmera, negeri para elf, untuk mempelajari lebih dalam ilmu sihir dan ilmu pedang, keahlian utama Penunggang Naga. Perjalanan yang luar biasa itu membuatnya sampai di banyak tempat yang memikat dan menemui orang-orang yang menakjubkan. Setiap ha…

Eragon

Suatu hari Eragon, anak petani miskin berusia lima belas tahun, telah menemukan "batu" berwarna biru yang indah. Ternyata batu itu telur naga! Ditemani Brom si pendongeng tua dan naga yang dinamainya Saphira, Eragon belajar berbagai hal mengenai sejarah dan naga. Brom juga mengajarkan ilmu sihir dan ilmu pedang karena ternyata Eragon adalah penerus klan para Penunggang Naga. Klan ini punah kare…

E-book The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits

To be an airline passenger in transit is to move through states without permanently adopting them. The very legal nature of a transit lounge embodies this perfectly. When one is in tran-sit, one does not pass through immigration and enter the legal boundaries of a nation-state. The strange nature of transit is best exemplified by its failures — the case of Mehran Karimi Nas…

E-book Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: European Perspectives

Humans have always had the ability to influence the genetic makeup of their children. Individuals who wanted tall and attractive children, for instance, could find tall and attractive partners to reproduce with, thereby raising the probability that their progeny would be tall and attractive. However, until very recently, this power was limited. Individuals …

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Top 10 Cuba

True to its name, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Cuba covers all the island nation's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use "top 10" lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you.

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Venice and The Veneto

The jewel of the Veneto, Venice is a dreamlike city filled with architectural wonders and incredible collections of art. But this region offers far more than this watery oasis. Lake Garda boasts beautiful scenery, Verona features the world's third-largest Roman Arena, and the Dolomites are rich with alpine forests and verdant hills.

E-book The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction

The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates, and from the Rhine to the North African coast. It was, above all else, an empire of force--employing a mixture of violence, suppression, order, and tactical use of power to develo…

E-book Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction

Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly readable introduction the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged,…

Ebook Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction

Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products--from animated movies and computer games to cars, semiconductors, and management techniques--are consumed around the world. In many ways, Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it remains something of an en…

E-book An Anthropology of Landscape : The Extraordinary in the Ordinary

Landscape is a subject of study that belongs to nobody. It has long been studied in various ways and under various guises by geologists, social and cultural geographers, planners, ecologists, historians and art historians, archaeologists and anthropologists. Landscapes form the basis for much poetry and innumerable novels and are thus of interest to…

E-book Landscape in the Longue Duree

A common- sense understanding of the ‘longue durée’ might be that it simply refers to the long term, a long period of chronological time. This notion of clock or objective chronological time is ultimately uninteresting and helps us to explain and understand nothing. It is empty time, time as a container segmented by dates and events, befores and afters.The Annales approach to t…

E-book Civilian Specialists at War : Britain’s Transport Experts and the Fi…

ooking back upon the operations of 1916, and in anticipation of the battles to come, the French prime minister, Aristide Briand, remarked that military offensives had become ‘really like a great industrial undertaking. There were so many miles of front, so many troops, and so many guns required; all had to be calculated to a nicety, and all kinds of preparations made’.1 In the…

E-book Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us

The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games, Asia, and America, showing how examining games offer new ways of imagining empire, race, and coalition.

E-book Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion vol. 2

A perusal of academic books in fashion studies over the last decade reveals that the term “fad” itself may have fallen out of style. Even Arthur Berger’s text Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture includes little mention of fads. Still, popular media feature lists of “what’s hot” versus “what’s not.” Why aren’t these called fads? Perhaps the timespace nexus associated with contemp…

E-book Monster

When the guards came over, they made us line up against the wall. The guy who was hit they made sit at the table while they waited for another guard to bring them rubber gloves. When the gloves came, the guards put them on, handcuffed the guy, and then took him to the dispensary. He was still bleeding pretty bad. They say you get used to being in jail, but I don’t see how. Every morning I wak…

E-Book Not Yet Imagined: A Study of Hubble Space Telescope Operations

Not Yet Imagined documents Hubble history from the telescope’s launch through its first 30 years, focusing on the interactions between astronomers, engineers, government officials, and public during that time. It chronicles the telescope’s tumultuous beginnings, the decision-making behind the servicing missions, Hubble’s contributions to our understanding of the universe, and how the tele…

E-book The Writer's Journey : Mythic Structure for Writers

In the nine years since the last edition, I have traveled widely, applied my ideas to writing, publishing, and producing projects of my own, and done a few more "tours of duty" as it were for major Hollywood studios. The first of these jobs, commencing just after the publishing of the second edition, was a four-year return to 20th Century Fox, where I had been a story analyst at the beginning …

E-book Emerging Threats of Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology : Addressing S…

Synthetic biology raises the possibility that pathogenic bioweapons could be designed, developed, and deployed in new ways that diverge from the disease-causing characteristics of naturally occurring pathogens (NAS 2018). Traditionally, only known pathogens found naturally in the environment, such as B. anthracis and Y. pestis, were developed as biological weapons because o…

E-book Funding International Development Organizations : AIIB Yearbook of Int…

Funding development requires access to financial resources. While this causal-ity is commonsense, the underlying complexity and struggle has accompanied international development organizations ever since they were founded. The objective of the 2020 aiib Legal Conference and the 4th Volume of the aiibYearbook of International Law is to take stock. Taking stock requires us t…

E-book Knowledge and Networks

The book series on Knowledge and Space explores the nature of human knowledge from a geographical perspective. How to create, share, and adopt new knowledge is a core question in the social sciences. Processes of learning and knowledge creation are the result of social practice and always take place in space and in specific geo-graphical contexts. The eleventh volume is the outcome of the sympo…

E-book Cooperative Evolution : Reclaiming Darwin's Vision

f you choose not to read this and move straight on to In Homage to Darwin, we will not be offended. The story, however, of how two scientific dinosaurs came to cooperate in writing about their shared world view, gleaned from a combined total of more than 150 years of independent study of biology, needs, we feel, some explanation.Any two biologists can b…

E-book The haunted bookshop

If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to be hoped you may chance upon a quiet by-street where there is a very remarkable bookshop. This bookshop, which does business under the unusual name "Parnassus at Home," is housed in one of the comfortable old brown-stone dwellings which have been the joy of seve…

INHERITANCE ( WARISAN )

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