Warren and Brandeis [23] cite the judge Thomas M. Cooley when making this statement and refer to a section on bodily integrity in his book [6, p. 29] where the original quote reads “The right to one’s person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone”[6, p. 29]. However, Cooley mainly refers to the integrity of the h…
Whether the vocalizer is heard over the radio or the phone, as part of a movie soundtrack or in person—positioned far away and therefore hard to see or speaking right in front of the listener—the foundational question asked in the act of listening to a human voice is Who is this? Who is speaking? Regardless of whether the vocalizer is visible or invisible to the l…
Double-Sided Antler and Bone Combs in Late Roman Britain offers the first detailed study and catalogue of a comb type that represents a new technology introduced into Britain towards the end of the 4th century AD and a major signifier of the late fourth- to fifth-century transition. Their end-plates were worked into a variety of decorative profiles, some clearly zoomorphic. Over time this decor…
‘Mighty are numbers; joined with art, resistless.’1 The quotation from Euripides’ play Hecuba joins the two elements at the heart of this book, and it expresses the pleasure resulting from the combination of mathematics and literature – domains that are often regarded as alien or opposed to each other. The context of the quotation reveals, however, that it does not refer to th…
Whatever else people do when they come together—whether they play, fight, make love, or make automobiles—they talk. We live in a world of language. We talk to our friends, our associates, our wives and husbands, our lovers, our teachers, our parents, our rivals, and even our enemies. We talk face-to-face and over all manner of electronic media, and everyone responds with more talk. Hardly a…
This book aims to challenge this assumption by analysing the experiences and expectations of foreign-born skilled professionals with the US health care and health insurance systems, focusing on structural and functional discrepancies within health care and health insurance. In the framework of an ethnographic study based in Washington, DC, a highly modern, international metro…
This publication deals with A Biblical Theology of Life based on the New Testament. It forms the second of a two volume publication on A Biblical Theology of Life. These two volumes trace the concept of life throughout Protestant canon, working with the final form of the biblical books in Hebrew (vol. 5) and Greek (vol. 6) Scripture. This is done by providing the reader with a book-by-book over…
Nicoletta Navarro dipecat dari redaksi Majalah Posh! di New York karena entah bagaimana artikel yang ia tulis begitu subjektif sampai menggemparkan dunia selebritas dan menuai kritik pedas dari sesama jurnalis. Tidak mungkin ada cara untuk menyelamatkan karier yang sudah tujuh tahun Nic bangun dengan susah payah. Sementara Vincenzio Vasari, setelah dua kali batal menikah, justru dicampakkan ol…
Kesadaran terhadap ancaman kepunahan spesies akibat kerusakan lingkungan mulai marak akhir-akhir ini. Namun demikian, banyak dimensi yang perlu dipahami oleh masyarakat suatu bangsa terkait ancaman kepunahan tersebut. Hal ini berhubungan pula dengan kebijakan nasional yang dibangun secara sektoral sebagaimana kita pahami melalui sejarah yang berlaku universal. Amerika sebagai negara maju pun me…
Ki Hajar Dewantara lahir pada 2 Mei 1889 di Yogyakarta dengan nama RM Soewardi Soerjaningrat (SS), putra GPH Soerjaningrat, atau cucu Sri Paku Alam III. Dari genealoginya SS adalah keluarga bangsawan Pakualaman. Sebagai bangsawan Jawa, SS mengenyam pendidikan ELS (Europeesche Lagere School) – Sekolah Rendah untuk Anak-anak Eropa. Kemudian SS mendapat kesempatan masuk STOVIA (School tot Opleid…