This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria’s third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era. The creative writing of this period reflects new sensibilities and anxieties about Nigeria’s changing fortunes in the post-colonial era. Th…
Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020,…
"Tensions in South African universities have traditionally centred around equity (particularly access and affordability), historical legacies (such as apartheid and colonialism), and the shape and structure of the higher education system. What has not received sufficient attention, is the contribution of the university to place-based development. This volume is the first in South Africa to enga…
Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia offers the latest understanding of complex global problems including nuclear weapons, urban insecurity, energy, and climate change in the region. Detailed case studies in China, North and South Korea, and Japan demonstrate the importance of civil society and 'civic diplomacy' in reaching shared solutions to these problems in East Asia and beyo…
* Menyajikan wawasan interdisipliner tentang masalah normativitas, aturan, dan aturan berikut. * Memungkinkan konfrontasi dari berbagai pendekatan. * Ditulis oleh para ahli terkemuka dari tradisi filosofis dan hukum yang berbeda. * Mempromosikan dialog di antara para filsuf, ahli logika, dan ahli teori hukum. ;;; Masalah normativitas, aturan, dan mengikuti aturan sering kali muncul dalam berbag…
This study presents the contemporary Islamic resurgence movement among young people in Bandung Indonesia, focusing on its emergence, development and routinisation. It traces various factors and conditions that contributed to the emergence of the movement. It also tries to explain how and why young people (students in particular) turn to Islam, and how the movement is organised and developed amo…
This book presents state-of-the-art results and methodologies in modern global optimization, and has been a staple reference for researchers, engineers, advanced students (also in applied mathematics), and practitioners in various fields of engineering. The second edition has been brought up to date and continues to develop a coherent and rigorous theory of deterministic global optimization, hi…
* Memperkenalkan dunia bentuk modular yang menakjubkan melalui pendekatan pemecahan masalah. Membahas topik tentang seri-q, grup modular, bidang setengah atas, fungsi-t Ramanujan, produk dalam Petersson, operator Hecke, dan seri Dirichlet. * Ditulis oleh pemenang Penghargaan Coxeter-James, Penghargaan Jeffery-Williams, Persekutuan E. W. R. Steacie, dan Persekutuan Killam. ;;; Teori Bentuk Modu…
Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these te…
Este trabajo pretende servir como guía para estudiantes de posgrado e investigadores que deseen familiarizarse con las principales herramientas teóricas y prácticas para la minimización numérica de funciones convexas en espacios de Hilbert. Por lo tanto, contiene las principales herramientas necesarias para realizar investigaciones independientes sobre el tema. También es un libro de text…