E-book Encyclopedia of Communication Theory

Sociolinguistic research in the 1950s and 1960s had shown how people change the degree of formality of their language as a function of the social contexts in which they find themselves. This was explained in terms of social norms dictating language use. In other words, we should speak very softly and respectfully here, but we can be more boisterous and casual there. Communication (or speech) ac…

E-Book This Is Not A Grass Skirt: On Fibre Skirts (Liku) and Female Tattooing…

The Pacific ‘grass skirt’ has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualised depiction of Pacific bodies. While these stereotypical portrayals associated with ‘nakedness’ are challenged in this book, the complex uses and meanings of the garments themselves are examined, including their link to other body adornments and modifications. In nineteenth-century Fiji, beautiful fibre skir…

E-book Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World

The study of signs, portents observed in the physical and social worlds indicating the will of supernatural agents and the course of future events, was undoubtedly important in all ancient cultures. The first written evidence for a concept of sign, however, comes from cuneiform texts of ancient Mesopotamia.

E-book The Figure of Knowledge : Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1…

In recent international literature addressing the history of twentieth-century archi-tectural theory, the year 1968 is often seen as a decisive moment, giving rise to a “new” architectural theory. From that moment onwards, less emphasis was placed on the aesthetics of architecture, and more on its critical potential. Increasingly, and also from that moment onwards, architectural theory beca…

E-book Understanding Genetics

Understanding the underlying concepts of human genetics and the role of genes, behavior, and the environment will be important to appropriately collecting and applying genetic information and technologies during clinical care. This chapter provides some fundamental information about basic genetic concepts including cell structure, the molecular and biochemical basis of disease, major types of g…

E-book Waterlands : Prehistoric Life at Bar Pasture, Pode Hole Quarry, Peterb…

Waterlands: Prehistoric Life at Bar Pasture, Pode Hole Quarry, Peterborough recounts a decade-long archaeological investigation at Bar Pasture Farm, Pode Hole Quarry, Peterborough, and represents one of the most significant landscape excavations carried out in recent years. The 55-hectare archaeological dig was the scene of human activity on the fenland edge from the Mesolithic through to the L…

E-book New Libraries in Old Buildings : Creative Reuse

Formerly seen as a menial architectural task, adaptive reuse has come into its own. It is no longer a secret, and certainly no longer a novel idea, that the archi-tecture of adaptive reuse is, in terms of architectural creativity, beauty and impor-tance, in no way inferior to designing and building a brand-new building (Hauke and Werner 2011).Architecture incorporating existing …

Sejarah Tuhan

Sejarah Tuhan adalah kajian lengkap tentang Tuhan yang paling populer sejak publikasi pertamanya pada dekade terakhir abad ke 20. Ditulis oleh Karen Armstrong, komentator masalah agama terkemuka asal Inggris. Buku ini melacak persepsi dan pengalaman manusia tentang Tuhan sejak zaman Nabi Ibrahim hingga masa kini. Selain memerinci sejarah tiga agama monoteistik: Yahudi, Kristen, dan Islam. Buku…

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