Over recent years, Arabic popular culture has become a focal point of West Asian and North African studies. Most of the new research dealing with it concentrates on the ‘popular’ as opposed to an intellectual ‘high’ culture far from the harsh and hierarchically organized reality many Arabic-speaking societies face today. Popular cultural practices are thus seen as a rejection of the eli…
his interdisciplinary collection—spanning the disciplines of engineering, law and planning—draws helpfully on a range of practical and theoretical perspectives. It is the collaborative effort of leading experts in the fields of infrastructure project initiation and financing, and is based on international research conducted by the University of Melbourne, Universitas Indonesia and Universit…
Ada banyak kendala dan tantangan yang ditemukan dalam pembangunan sektor ketenagalistrikan di wilayah perdesaan, terutama di beberapa wilayah di Nusa Tenggara Timur. Buku Akses Listrik dan Kesejahteraan Masyarakat ini hadir untuk memberikan solusi terhadap berbagai kendala dan tantangan tersebut. Dengan fokus kajian di wilayah perdesaan terpencil di NTT, buku ini menjelaskan beberapa tantangan …
Fictional Practices of Spirituality provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into worlds of fiction, be it interactive or non-interactive. This first volume focuses on interactive, virtual worlds - may that be the digital realms of video games and VR applications or the imaginary spaces of life action role-playing and soul-searching prac…
It is for individuals to assure themselves that they are fit to drive. The doctor in charge of an individual’s care should be able to advise them if it is safe to continue driving while the DVLA conducts medical enquiries. Individuals must be reminded that if they choose to ignore medical advice to stop driving, this may affect their motor insurance cover. Doctors should document the advice t…
The kitchen and cooking have emerged as important differentiated cultural fields in the 21st century. Alongside their important role in the natural and nutritional sciences, they are also in the focus of culinary studies, design, art, gastronomy and agriculture. The heyday of issues of nutrition to which this attests contrasts with the “crisis of food”1 some have discerned and a…
This book presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present. Bringing together international researchers from a wide variety of disciplines (including the history of science, museum anthropology, archaeology, geography and postcolonial history) to consider the mobility of collections, we aim to provi…