Dalam buku ini penulis membahas salah satu faktor yang berpengaruh dalam kehidupan keluarga, termasuk keluarga besar, yakni urutan kelahiran dalam keluarga asal, entah sebagai anak sulung, anak kedua, anak ketiga, anak bungsu, anak tunggal, atau anak kembar. Mungkin Anda adalah anak semata wayang yang direncanakan sebagai anak tunggal atau Anda mempunyai adik atau kakak kembar dari satu atau du…
Buku ini berisi tentang beragam hikayat yang disajikan untuk pertemuan dalam retret yang diurutkan sesuai dengan urutan hari-hari dalam retret (hari ke-1 sampai dengan hari ke-5). Sesuai dinamika tema permenungan dalam retret, hikayat-hikayat disajikan dari awal permenungan yang sederhana hingga permenungan yang makin mendalam. Pada akhir setiap hikayat, disertakan pertanyaan penegasan serta ku…
Seperti apakah seharusnya pria itu? Menjadi pria berarti harus taat pada janji, tegas dalam pendirian, dan mantap dalam perjuangan. Pria harus berani jujur, berjuang gigih untuk meraih yang terbaik, dan sekali waktu ia harus rela menahan rasa lapar dan rasa sakit. Pria harus juga belajar dan bekerja keras, dan menjawab sesuai keyakinannya. Buku mengupas enam ciri pokok kaum pria, yaitu sebagai…
Siapa tidak suka bergaul dengan anak kecil yang bersikap polos, lugu, dan lucu? Mata anak kecil itu bersih dan murni. Bagi kita orang dewasa masa kecil itu sudah lewat, dan anggapan umum berkata bahwa kini tinggal kenangan manis. Sekali waktu timbul kerinduan akan masa manis itu. Di kedalaman hati kita, anak dari masa kecil masih ada. Semua yang pernah kita alami, yang kita sukai dan yang kita …
Mimpi itu bualan belaka, mimpi adalah bunga tidur. Mimpi datang kepada setiap orang. Mengupas dan menafsir mimpi mengajak kita untuk mengenal dan bergaul akrab dengan mimpi sebagai bahasa hidup, mengungkapkan apa yang hidup di dalam diri kita: kerinduan, persoalan, harapan, dan tawaran-tawaran sekaligus peluang-peluang dalam perjalanan hidup untuk melangkah lebih maju. Mimpi bisa mengungkapkan …
In the following, I would like to present some central aspects of Hannah Arendt’sthinking and work that identify her as a non-academic and non-intellectual.In do-ing so,I would like to take up the criticism often levelled at her and turn it in a pos-itive way.The criticism not only concerns her reportEichmanninJerusalem,her sup-posedly conservative nostalgia for the Greek polis, or her critiq…
Volume 2 covers knowledge discovery in particle and astroparticle physics. Instruments gather petabytes of data and machine learning is used to process the vast amounts of data and to detect relevant examples efficiently. The physical knowledge is encoded in simulations used to train the machine learning models. The interpretation of the learned models serves to expand the physical knowledge re…
When Carl Maria von Weber conducted Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Dresden in the 1820s, one of the people sitting in the auditorium was the Italian singer Luigi Bassi who had created the title role back in 1787. And he was not pleased with what he saw. ‘Bassi generally passed the judgement on all Don Giovannis whom he and I saw performing’, his friend Count Hohenthal recalled a few years afte…
Unity in Diversity is not for us explores the lived experiences of primarily Muslim lesbians and trans men (LT+) in Indonesia, where Islam is the majority religion. Using an ethnographic approach, the book traces how LT+ individuals understand their identities and negotiate their gender and desire amidst socio-religious rejection. The analysis illustrates the biographical process of coming of a…
It is 2009, a year after the Beijing Olympics, and I have made my way across northern Beijing, past one of the massive ring-roads, to a large block of office buildings that sits not too far from the Olympic axis — a long stretch of asphalt, greenery, and event buildings that cuts across the city in an extension of the old north-south connection that the Forbidden Ci…
With this programme, the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster aims to make a lasting impact on Arts Education in Africa by creating a vibrant forum for exchange between Africa’s cultural scholars and practitioners and by producing research that is specifically targeted at Africa- based practitioners and policy makers.D. M.:The idea to decolonize art education seems to…
What remains in the wake of centuries of technological and scientific developments and in the wake of histories of modern progress—which is also to say histories of dispossession, displace-ment, and exploitation? How are remains and remainders, and the process of remaining, to be understood, engaged, and entered into a relationship with? What is the place of remain(s) in a global capitalist, …
This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management. Specifically, the book focuses on Global Forest Watch, the most developed and widely available forest-monitoring platform, created in 1997 by the World Resource Institute. Forest maps are always political as they visualize power relations and for…
Scientists are nowadays faced with a few important discontinuities with the past:(a) an exponentially growing rate of technological innovation, (b) the ever-increasing availability of multimodal data, (c) an increasing disciplinary specializa-tion, involving the danger of being blind to interdisciplinarity, and (d) a pressingdemand for problem-oriented interdisciplinarity. 19th century medical …
The insurance industry safeguards the assets of its policyholders by transferring risk from an individual or business to an insurance company. Insurance companies act as financial intermediaries in that they invest the premiums they collect for providing this service. Insurance company size is usually measured by net premiums written, that is, premium revenues less amounts paid for reinsurance.…
Governing is the art of planning and predicting. Developing a picture of long-term jobs and skills requirements is critical for policymakers as they navigate rapid, complex and uncertain shifts in the economy and society. A wide range of areas – from curriculum development and careers guidance through apprenticeships and workplace training to occupational standards, migration and social insur…
an account of the life, carrier painting of 19th century french artist edouard manet, with background information on the time-life library of art