This open access book offers an overview of the relations between comics and religion from the perspective of cultural sociology. How do comics function in religions and how does religion appear in comics? And how do graphic narratives inform us about contemporary society and the changing role of religion? Contributing scholars use international examples to explore the diversity of religions, s…
A literary mirror; Balinese reflections on modernity and identity in the twentieth century I Nyoman Darma Putra A literary mirror is the first English-language work to comprehensively analyse Indonesian-language literature from Bali from a literary and cultural viewpoint. It covers the period from 1920 to 2000. This is an extremely rich field for research into the ways Balinese view their cultu…
Making Sense explores the experiential, ethical, and intellectual stakes of living in, and thinking about, a world in which language cannot be taken for granted. In Nepal, many deaf signers use Nepali Sign Language (NSL), a young, conventional signed language. The majority of deaf Nepalis, however, use what NSL signers call natural sign. Natural sign involves both conventional and improvisatory…
The historical experience of almost all economies shows that the share of the agricul-ture and allied sectors in total employment as well as in their national income fallswith progress in economic development. This decline does not, however, diminish theneed to address various challenges confronting the agriculture sector, which is a coreconcern in both developed and developing countries. Agric…
Twenty-first-century literature by women from across the Caribbean and its diaspora evidences an urge to start afresh. It frequently points to the lingering legacy of enslavement, coloniality, and patriarchy as it denounces the pernicious effects of an inequitable global economic order premised on exploitative relationships and unsustainable practices that have ushered in ecological …
Many important theoretical and practical advances have taken place in the areaof Formal Methods (FMs), and impressive applications have been developed.Furthermore, FMs and their associated tools are now routinely used in manyindustries. However, their full potential remains partly unexploited. In pg. 57 ofa recent FMs survey [47], I gave my own view about their future in a positionstatement whe…
?e probate that accompanied the suit included a detailed descrip-tion of the property, documenting enslaved laborers, buildings, furniture, ani-mals, equipment, and the disposition of the land. ?e estate in question was in the southwestern quarter of the island of Dominica (maps I. and I.?). For those acquainted with Caribbean estates, this is a familiar story. In their descrip-tion, the docum…
The opening paragraph of this dissertation originates from Mozambican writer Mia C outo’s1 famous novel The Last Flight of the Flamingo (O Último Voo do Flamingo in Portuguese original). It plays at the end of Mozambique’s civil war, when the Italian United Nations officer Massimo R isi is sent to the village of Tizangara to investigate the mysterious deaths of local United Nations …
When Townes van Zandt was once asked why most of his songs are so sad, he replied with the telling phrase: ‘Blues is happy music!’ His blues is ‘happy,’ of course, not because it is jolly and there is no sadness in it, but much rather precisely because it affirms and gives form to sadness, thereby enabling us to transform and transcend it. Townes’ point w…
In the aftermath of the 2018 June 12 summit between the US and North Korea, held in Singapore, there was vehement disagreement among experts and commentators over the question as to whether anything sub-stantive had been established by President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un, or whether it was China, North Korea or the US that had emerged as a winner. The only c…
Fifteen years to the day after making this statement, on 2 April 2011, MelesZenawi laid the foundation stone for what would become the Grand EthiopianRenaissance Dam (GERD), domestically funded and, at 5,150 megawatts (MW)of installed capacity and 74 billion cubic metres of water storage, one of the largestdams in the world. As Turkey had unilaterally built a series of dams upstream onthe trans…
In early May 2021, demonstrations by Palestinians protesting planned evic-tions from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem spread quickly to al-Aqsa Mosque and other parts of East Jerusalem where Israeli authorities had engaged in several provocative actions throughout the month of Rama-dan, including disabling the loudspeakers that broadcast the call to prayer, preventing worshippers fro…
On 1 April 1931, the Lebanese engineer Albert Naccache guided a group of touriststo the Qadisha Valley in Northern Lebanon. Nowadays, the Qadisha Valley figures in the World Heritage List of UNESCO, owing to its age-old cedars and monasteries dating back to the early days of Christianity.1 Naccache, however, drew the atten-tion of his visitors to a mo…
“They called me a tourist, which I found insulting.” So began a reflection by a delegate I interviewed who had gone on solidarity tours to Palestine during the first intifada. She grappled with her discomfort in occupying this term: tourist. She outlined her rationale, explaining that the designation tourism, attached to what she did in Palestine, felt derisive of her work, as though it was…
Growing up, my sister and I listened to the soundtrack of the musical Pip-pin (1972) so frequently, with such verve, that a permanent skip formed in the middle of “War Is a Science.” (We eventually bought a replacement record.) I don’t recall her ever expressing interest in any other musical, but she LOVEDPippin. She was a particular fan of Ben Vereen, who received a Tony Award for Best A…
In recent decades, many members of the public have come to see processed food as a problem that needs to be solved by eating “real” food and reforming the food system. But for many food industry professionals, the problem is not processed food or the food system itself, but misperceptions and irrational fears caused by the public’s lack of scientific understanding. In her highly original …
This open access book collects the historical and medial perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and mathematics, ranging from, for example, the physical mathematical models of the 19th century to the simulation and digital modelling of the 21st century. The aim of this anthology is to showcase the status of the mathe…
Chaired by K Wüthrich (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2002) and co-chaired by B Feringa (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2016), this by-invitation-only conference gathered around 40 participants, who are well-recognized leaders in the diverse field of Chemistry. The highlights of the Conference Proceedings include short prepared statements by all the participants, and the recordings of lively discu…
In this chapter, we study the physics of wave motion. We concentrate on mechanical waves, which are disturbances that move through a medium such as air or water. Like simple harmonic motion studied in the preceding chapter, the energy transferred through the medium is proportional to the amplitude squared. Surface water waves in the ocean are transverse waves in which the energy of the wave tra…
As expected, the velocity increases when the tension increases, and decreases when the mass increases. An 80.0-m-long, 2.10-mm-diameter copper wire is stretched between two poles. A bird lands at the center point of the wire, sending a small wave pulse out in both directions. The pulses reflect at the ends and arrive back at the bird’s location 0.750 seconds after it landed. Determine the ten…
Global cumulative glacier mass change for (whole period) 1801 –2010 and (inset) 1961–2010. The cumulative estimates are all set to zero mean over 1986–2005. Glacial lake volume change (absolute magnitude change), 1990-1999 to 2015 -2018 (Shugar et al, Nature Climate Change, 2020). The research question posed by this study is to what extent BC reduction policies undertaken by South Asian c…
In this chapter, I employ a model of the consolidated government budget constraint to study the monetary and fiscal history of Mexico. I study the period 1960–2017, dividing it into three subperiods: rapid growth and monetary expansion, 1960–1982; crisis and reform, 1982–1995; and slow growth and macroeconomic stability, 1995–2017. The crisis and reform period includes the major economi…
This e-book contains Latin-English vocabulary.
Many, many years ago, in the pleasant land of Italy, there was a little city called Alba. It stood on the sunny side of a mountain, near the River Tiber and not far from the Mediterranean Sea. In this city and around the mountain lived a brave, intelligent people known as Latins. Several other tribes inhabited the adjacent mountains and plains. The Latins were ruled by kings, and one of their …
This e-book contains guides about travelling in Rome city.
Rome is a paradox embodied in a city. It is both alive and buried, both pagan andChristian, both a small Mediterranean village and the historical centre of the westernworld. Rome is, and has for a very long time been, a place extraordinarily chargedwith preconceptions and prescriptions concerning cultural and historical heritage.Guidebooks to the city have, from the Middle Ages and onward, play…
Cells are the basic building blocks of all living things. The human body is composed of trillions of cells. They provide structure for the body, take in nutrients from food, convert those nutrients into energy, and carry out specialized functions. Cells also contain the body’s hereditary material and can make copies of themselves. Cells have many parts, each with a different function. Som…
Turtles are in the class Reptilia, which includes snakes, crocodiles, and lizards. Marine turtles belong to the order Testudines, the first specimens date back 220 million years. Marine turtles are thought to have come from land turtles and freshwater turtles that lived about 230 million years ago in the Cretaceous period. The earliest sea turtle ancestor found so far is Desmatochelys padil…
The previous edition of this publication added 6% wastage to the feed requirements. This allowed for feed that was offered to cows under good grazing conditions but was not eaten by the cows. In research trials 6% of the feed offered to cows disappeared, but was not accounted for by milk production or liveweight change, so is assumed to be lost in the grazing process. Farmers should be aware th…
Information about cattle instincts and associated behavior is a valuable tool that helps producers understand why cattle behave or respond as they do. Although cattle have been domesticated for a very long time, they are dictated by the herding instinct, especially if they perceive a dangerous situation. Cattle depend heavily upon sight, and they have a nearly 360-degree panoramic view. This vi…
With a large and growing population, ensuring an adequate food supply has alwaysbeen one of the most important goals worldwide. According to the Food and Agricul-ture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), food production will have to increaseby 70% to feed the world’s projected 9.1 billion population by 2050 (FAO2009). In2018, this world population projected figure has been updated to 10 …
Contract farming—described broadly as an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricul-tural commodities against predetermined conditions—is not a recent phenomenon. Yet, a recent wave of agricultural industrialization and the emergence of large-scale food retailing in developing countries may have precipitate…
When it was originally published in 2002, Sue Curry Jansen’s “What Was Artificial Intelligence?” attracted little notice. The long essay was published as a chapter in Jansen’s Critical Communication Theory, a book whose wisdom and erudition failed to register across the many fields it addressed. One explanation for the neglect, ironic and telling, is that Jansen’s sheer scope as an in…
This book shines a light on the value and effectiveness of football clubs’ community engagement work, the cultural value of sport and the position sport plays within people’s daily lives. The book considers the deep historical roots that many football clubs have as charitable institutions within their civic locales. Including original research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic, the b…
Which kind of music do I listen to and which not? Can I go to a classical music concert if I have never been to one? Can I, as a pop music fan, attend a heavy metal concert? Which music do I talk about with my friends? How do I communicate my preferences? And what does it even mean to be a jazz fan? In light of the fundamentally social function of music, this book tries to answer the question o…
The basic premise of this volume of articles is that there is a need to respond to the challenge issued by Jerry Bentley – one of the pioneers of the now well-established field of ‘World History’ – for historians to attempt both to ‘globalize history’ and to ‘historicize globalization’. Though directed at historians, it is a challenge that raises broader questions about the …
The benchmarks in this guide were developed using data from experiments carried out in England, Scotland and Wales over four growing seasons (harvests 2014-2017). These ‘reference’ trials examined winter and spring husked milling oat varieties. The trial sites are represented by the blue squares on the map. The benchmarks for winter and spring oats are presented in separate sections of this…
Oil palm is one of the most profitable commercial high-tree crops, and has undergone one of the highest rates of expansion in comparison with other crops in the tropical world. Nevertheless, the conditions under which oil palm plantations expand as well as their social and environmental implications are ambiguous, which makes palm oil one of the most controversial globally traded commodities. O…
Napier grows in low to medium altitudes. Napier grows in an altitude of up to 2000 m above sea level. However, altitudes of 2000m and above cause slow regeneration of Napier. Napier performs best if rainfall is above 950mm per year. Napier performs well in annual temperatures ranging between 18.3 °C to 26.6°C . In highland areas where morning frost occurs it should be noted that Napier grass …
The easy to use Syngenta Grass Identification Guide, produced in conjunction with specialists from the Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI), provides a quick and reliable means to accurately assess the main turf grass species. The Syngenta Grass ID Guide is uniquely designed to help identify grass species in closely mown turf. Following a route of characteristic physiological features you will…
This e-book contains tree's identification guide.
The same basic laws govern the flight of both fixed and rotary wing aircraft and, equally, both types of aircraft share the same fundamental problem; namely that the aircraft is heavier than air and must, therefore, produce an aerodynamic lifting force to overcome the weight of the aircraft before it can leave the ground. In both types of aircraft the lifting force is obtained from the aerodyna…
OSHA has established permissible exposure limits (PELs), as specified in 29 CFR 1910, subpart Z, for hundreds of chemical substances. A PEL is the chemical-specific concentration in inhaled air that is intended to represent what the average, healthy worker may be exposed to daily for a lifetime of work without significant adverse health effects. The employer must ensure that workers’ exposure…
Domestic Cook Book, pub-lished in 1866, is a fascinating first-person chronicle of a free woman of color in mid-19th century Amer-ica. Hers was a life of “hard labor” and travail, but she overcame all her hardships and setbacks with an indomitable spirit. It is truly an American story.Like its author, the fragile copy of A Domestic Cook Book, housed in the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary …
The primary aim of this book is to introduce key ideas, concepts and analyses in order to reveal the social and ethical implications of the globalization of the emerg-ing skin-whitening biotechnology. These biotechnologies promise women ‘ageless beauty’ and youthful appearance by removing visible signs of ageing and by shield-ing women’s bodies from the harmful effects of ageing, environm…
As critical science studies scholar Karen Barad (2010) reminds us, “thepresent is not simplyhere-now” (p. 244, emphasis mine). Rather, it isalso a dis/continuous enfolding of heterogenousthere-thens.1This isto say that the central process of this book—accounting for and beingaccountable to the uneven and unequal relation between Indigenousmetaphysics and classical Western metaphysics by w…
he aim of this anthology is to explore how such legal proceedings in, and out-of-court, can be matched with the complex problems that are both caused by, and underlie such disputes. The anthology draws specif-ically on Nordic experiences of resolving custody disputes. However, the challenges are not unique to the Nordic legal systems: they exis…
At around 3:00 on weekday afternoons, dismissal bells ring at thousands of schools across the country. For millions of students, these bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important educa-tional activity: federally funded after-school programs offering tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision.At Jackson Elementary1 in Chicago, the end o…
What does it mean to you when I say, “These are my parents”? What would you want to know in order to figure out whether they are, in fact, my parents? Whether they are my genetic progenitors? Whether the woman on the right gestated me? Whether they raised me?We all know that the relationships captured by these questions— the ge-netic relationship, the gestational relationship, and the soc…
Who is a child’s legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood in a gender neutral way? Questions such as these would have appeared esoteric only a few decades ago, but as a result of new social developments (such as frequent family …