The songs of the Royal Zh?u (“Zh?u Nán” ??) and of the Royal Shào (“Shào Nán” ??) have formed a conceptual unit since at least the late Spring and Autumn period (771–453 BC). With this book Meyer and Schwartz provide a first complete reading of their earliest, Warring States (453–221 BC), iteration as witnessed by the ?nhu? University manuscripts. As a thought experiment, the au…
This book offers exciting and often surprising insights into one hundred diseases that have emerged over the past century. The authors focus on the period from 1923, when Radboud University was founded, to 2023, the university's centennial anniversary. All of the diseases included in this book have left an indelible mark on the century in which they emerged, in either a scientific and/or socio-…
What is the company’s social responsibility? Following Milton Friedman’s state-ment that “the business of business is business”, shareholders have been playing an increasingly dominant role in business since the 1980s. Shareholders have the primary objective of maximising the financial value (F) of the company. But corporate models that adopt …
Storytelling was clearly of major importance in the development of cinema and television, as well as new forms of printed and graphic media, during the early twentieth century. But even if these media were new (or, more accurately, new inf lections of existing screen and print forms), storytelling is as old and universal as any sense of consciousness, according to the neuroscientist, Antonio Da…
File system analysis examines one volume of a disk respective disk image. The datacontained in the volume is interpreted as a file system. Typically an interpreted filesystem offers a listing of files organized in directories (at least this is true for thefour described file systems in this book). One aim of file system analysis is usuallyrecovering deleted files. In contrast to files that have…
As we use money every day without much thought, it is important to understandhow it does work before discussing its future. Money is “the set of assets in aneconomy that people regularly use to buy goods and services from other people”[2]. In particular, money serves certain desiredeconomic functions, which requirecertainphysical propertiesof assets. Over time, different approaches have evo…
n 1920 the prestigious French Légion d’honneur was awarded to the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, whose clever business tactics had launched the careers of the impressionists a few decades earlier. The reason for this official mark of honour was not so much Durand-Ruel’s role in the flowering of French art as such, as it was his contribution to foreign trade.1 This mot…