The internet is changing the way knowledge, in the broadest sense, is made and understood. It is a change from making knowledge predominantly in small groups via face-to-face interaction to making knowledge predominantly via remote interaction. We think this change, if it is too radical, could be disastrous for the long-term future of what we call ‘pluralist d…
With over three million copies in print, CultureShock! is a bestselling series of culture and etiquette guides covering countless destinations around the world. For anyone at risk of culture shock, whether a tourist or a longterm resident, CultureShock! provides a sympathetic and fun-filled crash course on the do's and don'ts in foreign cultures. Fully updated and sporting a fresh new look, the…
Why are there such significant and persistent differences in living standardsacross countries? This is one of the most important and challenging areas ofdevelopment thinking and policy. Much of the focus in the academic andpolicy literature on‘growth’has been on steady-state or long-run average rateof growth of output per capita or, equivalently, comparinglevelsof income.But the focus onone…
Explore the beautiful and complex world of art! Too often, textbooks obscure the beauty and wonder of fine art with tedious discourse that even Leonardo da Vinci would oppose. Art 101 cuts out the boring details and lengthy explanations, and instead, gives you a lesson in artistic expression that keeps you engaged as you discover the world's greatest artists and their masterpieces. From col…
Witchcraft is often thought of, wrongly, as a thing of the past. In fact, it continues to be taken seriously by people all over the world. But because the subject of this study is, specifically, early modern witchcraft and its dramatic representation, it will be necessary to clarify what the term ‘witch’ meant within this specific context. As several early modern authors on witchc…
In March 2014, podcaster and comedian Adam Carolla initiated a crowd-funding campaign designed to “save” podcasting. A company called Per-sonal Audio LLC was suing Carolla for infringing on a patent—a “system for disseminating media content in serialized episodes” (Nazer 2018)—that it claimed gave the company exclusive rights over the very practice of distributing audio via a podcas…
“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…
The rise of civilization is synonymous with the creation of tools that extend the intel-lectual and physical reach of human beings [133]. The pinnacle of such endeavours isto replicate the flexible reasoning capacity of human intelligence within a machine,making it capable of performing useful work on command, despite the complexityand adversity of the real world. In order to achieve such Artif…
For more than 20 years I have practiced nursing, first in oncology services, then in palliative care. As a teacher and psychotherapist for the past 10 years, I have had the opportunity to continue working with nursing students in palliative care and psychi-atric services, as well as to supervise nursing teams. An ethicist by training, I belong to an ethics committee in a neuropsychiatric hospit…
The human mind is capable of entertaining an astounding range of thoughts. These thoughts are composed of concepts or ideas, which are the building blocks of thoughts. This book is about where all of these concepts come from and the psychological structures that ultimately account for their acquisition. We argue that the debate over the origins of concepts, known as the rationalism-empiricism d…
Why at all deviate from literal meaning in the law by appealing to analogy, to precedent instead of clear legal rules, to paradigm instead of principle, and to paradoxes of metaphor instead of literal meaning and truth?However we understand absurdity, the textual approach gives priority to the language used in the text in its ordinary sense over other evidence of the author’s intention. The t…
Trees can also be tied to the idea of domination. I have long argued that the process of ecological restoration, in which a kind of environ-mental engineering attempts the re-creation of previously degraded or destroyed natural environments, is an example of the human project to assert our technological mastery over the autonomous processes of the natural world.1 The management of forests for h…
These listings provided the now vanished cinematic geography of prewar Paris. One could chart how movies moved through neighborhoods, the de-velopment (and closure) of cinemas, and the relative importance of movies to diferent parts of town (typically around eighteen cinemas in the periph-eral, working-class twentieth arrondissement and none in the firs…
Public interest in biblical archaeology is at an all-time high, as television documentaries pull in millions of viewers to watch shows on the Exodus, the Ark of the Covenant, and the so-called Lost Tomb of Jesus. Important discoveries with relevance to the Bible are made virtually every year--during 2007 and 2008 alone researchers announced at least seven major discoveries in Israel, five of th…
Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose—and, if at all possible, cure—the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Wa…
The word manage, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is derivative of the Latin manus, or hand and emerges from the Italian maneggiare, which refers to the handling or training of horses. Its use has since been expanded to represent a broader concern for the proper handling of things or people, particularly with regard to a company or organization. This is true across multiple levels of…
This book attempts to understand the origins and development of religious belief in Iceland and greater Scandinavia through the lenses of five carefully selected Icelandic folktales collected in Iceland during the nineteenth century. Each of these five stories has a story of its own: a historical and cultural context, a literary legacy, influences from beliefs of all kinds (orthodox and heterod…
I would like to begin by saying a few things about the origin and purpose of this book. These chapters began as a series of lectures organized and sponsored by the Esalen Center for Theory and Research, founded by independent scholar Michael Murphy, author of The Future of the Body. Mike likes to convene groups of passionate and competent scholars to discuss issues and themes that are not being…
Belajar bahasa Arab memang tak mudah, meski sebenarnya anda bisa belajar secara otodidak dengan berbekal buku yang tepat. Buku Lengkap Percakapan Bahasa Arab ini sangat mudah dipelajari, karena memuat beragam tema yang digunakan dalam percakapan sehari-hari yang disusun secara terstruktur. Dengan berbekal buku ini anda bisa belajar percakapan bahasa Arab secara mandiri. Anda bisa berlatih bersa…
Mengapa Edinburgh dapat melahirkan sekumpulan genius kreatif, Florence melahirkan Leonardo da Vinci, dan Silicon Valley melahirkan Steve Jobs? Apakah karena iklimnya, toleransi masyarakatnya, sumber daya melimpah, atau hanya keberuntungan belaka? Lalu, apakah formula genius juga berlaku di tempat lain? Para genius tidak lahir di sembarang waktu dan tempat. Leonardo da Vinci tak akan melahirkan…
Apakah orang Swiss lebih bahagia karena negara mereka paling demokratis di dunia? Apakah penduduk Qatar, yang bergelimang dolar dari minyak, menemukan kebahagiaan di tengah semua kekayaan itu? Apakah Raja Bhutan seorang pengkhayal karena memakai indikator kebahagiaan rakyat yang disebut Gross National Happiness sebagai prioritas nasional? Mengapa penduduk Asheville, Carolina Utara, sangat bahag…
his book is a venture in the metaphysics of science, the exploration of the most basicfeatures of the world implied or presupposed by science. One of its main aims is todemonstrate the fundamental importance of such an investigation. Getting this verygeneral picture right makes a real difference to whether we do the science well andunderstand properly what it tells us. The particular metaphysic…
The digitisation boom of the last two decades, and the rapid advancement of digital tools to analyse data in myriad ways, have opened up new avenues for humanities research. This volume discusses how the so-called digital turn has affected the field of Jewish Studies, explores the current state of the art and probes how digital developments can be harnessed to address the specific questions, ch…
Orchids are some of the best known and loved plants by amateurs and scientists alike, although sadly many species are being driven to extinction by either direct or indirect human activities. The preparation of a conservation Action Plan for the Orchidaceae, a family comprising some 20,000 species, therefore seemed a daunting task, but this compilation of views and experience from many experts …
Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms—from jazz and cinema to dance and literature—this volume's contributors locate improvisation as a key site of mediation between the social and the aesthetic. As a catalyst for social experiment and political practice, improvisation aids in the creation, contestation, and codification of social realities and identities. Among other to…
This text explains how to use mathematical models and methods to analyze problems that arise in computer science. Proofs play a central role in this work because the authors share a belief with most mathematicians that proofs are essential for genuine understanding. Proofs also play a growing role in computer science; they are used to certify that software and hardware will always behave correc…
The tendency towards concentration in the corporate sector has been given a huge boost as we approach the twenty-first century. There were more mega-mergers in 1998 than in any previous year - in banking, insurance, oil, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, automobiles and the media. This merger frenzy has amplified the power of a handful of companies over whole sectors of the global economy. The merger…
On behalf of vehicle and engine manufacturers from around the world, the Worldwide Fuel Charter (WWFC) Committee is pleased to present the Sixth Edition of the Worldwide Fuel Charter for Gasoline and Diesel Fuel, 21 years after publishing the First Edition. In addition to this Charter, the Committee recently published the First Edition of the WWFC for Methane-Based Transportation Fuels and prev…
Dalam buku ini, Eric Weiner melakukan perjalanan keliling ke beberapa tempat di dunia untuk mencari tahu hubungan antara lingkungan kita dan ide-ide inovatif. Ia menjelajahi sejarah kota-kota, seperti Wina, Florence, Athena, Hangzhou, dan tentu saja Silicon Valley. Masih dengan gayanya yang nakal, cerdas, dan humoris, Weiner menapaktilasi jalan yang pernah dilalui Socrates, Michaelangelo, dan …
Penulis buku bestseller versi New York Times, The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner, melakukan perjalanan intelektual yang berliku, mengikuti jejak para pemikir besar dalam sejarah dan menunjukkan kepada kita bagaimana para filsufdari Epicurus hingga Gandhi, Thoreau hingga Beauvoirmenawarkan kearifan serta kebijaksanaan praktis dan spiritual untuk masa-masa ambyar seperti sekarang. Kita kembali …
The wounded swordsman collapsed and stared up at the sky. His eyes always accidently met with the white clouds that looked like sitting cross-legged, with a wide blue background that stretched out. No breeze dared to move the position of the cotton white objects. The nature was silent. Between the blurred vision and the unfailing consciousness, Serunting's eyes saw the clouds resembling the h…
Riri observed the man dressed in a black shirt who was talking to a large, tall foreigner wearing a uniform with red-white-and-blue sign on his left breast. The foreigner's hair was dark-blond and his eyes were blue, while the man in black shirt was only as tall as the foreigner’s shoulder. He was wearing a brown cot with a red line on his head. "They will try to attack Muko-Muko area tomorr…
Kiat Menjadi Pemenang merupakan buku yang mudah dan enak dibaca, praktis dengan pendekatan yang masuk akal yang akan memperkenalkan Anda pada kebijaksanaan masa lampau hingga ke cara berpikir kontemporer. 8 Kiat Menjadi Pemenang akan menolong Anda untuk menyingkirkan kebingungan dalam cara hidup sehari-hari dan memperjelas nilai-nilai. Buku ini juga menolong Anda untuk mengevaluasi kalau-kalau …
Liam selalu mengganggu Kate, Kate sangat benci kepada Liam. Liam mendiamkan Kate, Kate merindukan Liam. Liam mengutarakan perasaannya, Kate selalu menolaknya mentah-mentah. Ketika dunia keduanya berputar karena mulai melibatkan perasaan, saat semua berubah ketika orang baru di di dalam hidupnya bermunculan. Tak hanya itu, orangtua, sahabat, teman, mantan, gebetan, semua orang itu juga ikut andi…
Dengan cara yang khas pelayanan kita melalui paroki membuat kita bertemu dengan umat Tuhan sejak sebelum mereka lahir sampai dengan setelah mereka meninggal dunia. Mereka melayani berbagai latar belakang, bermacam keadaan hidup dan beraneka ancangan mada depan. Jangkauan pelayananannya melalui paroki sungguh luas dan beragam. Keluasan dan keberagaman jangkauan pelayanan paroki memerlukan kedal…
Saat ini masyarakat kita mengalami banyak perubahan sebab nilai-nilai global telah masuk ke semua aspek kehidupan dan semakin cepat memarjinalkan nilainilai lokal yang sarat dengan muatan kebajikan (local wisdom). Tergerusnya budaya bangsa harus diantisipasi dengan penguatan nilai budaya bangsa atau disebut Nilai Keindonesiaan. Perumusan dan penanaman Nilai Keindonesiaan kepada seluruh rakyat I…