Southeast Asia has been home to some of the world’s bloodiest separatist conflicts. Myanmar alone has the most simultaneous ongoing civil wars; it also has the longest ongoing conflict between the Karen National Libera-tion Army (KNLA) and the Myanmar government. Beyond Myanmar, in other parts of the region, violent ethnoregional movements continue to rage, from Western Papua (I…
Water plants of all sizes, from the 60-meter long Pacific Ocean giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) to the micro ur-plant blue-green algae, deserve attention from critical plant studies. This is the first book in environmental humanities to approach algae, swimming across the sciences, humanities, and arts, to embody the mixed nature and collaborative identity of algae. Ranging from Medieval Isla…
As a result, a unique amalgam was formed. On the one hand, the Alpha-betical Odyssey is a guide showing the breadth of the creative field of children’s literature that blends the ancient and the modern for readers of all ages, thereby making it possible for them to travel beyond time, to learn about new things, but also to rediscover what may already seem familiar. Short chapters on clas-sica…
I have no sort of objection now to telling the whole story. The subscribers, of course, have a right to know what became of their money. The astronomers may as well know all about it, before they announce any more asteroids with an enormous movement in declination. And experimenters on the longitude may as well know, so that they may act advisedly in attempting another brick moon or in re…