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Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender a…
Volume ini merupakan kumpulan tulisan terpilih dari Dr. Joseph Couture (1930–2007), seorang tetua keturunan Cree/Métis dan akademisi perintis yang mendedikasikan hidupnya untuk mendefinisikan kembali cara memandang dunia terhadap kearifan pribumi. Buku ini menyajikan pemikiran kritis Couture selama lebih dari tiga dekade mengenai pendidikan, spiritualitas, keadilan, dan penyembuhan bagi masy…
Miastenia gravis saat ini merupakan gangguan autoimun yang dimediasi antibodi yang tidak dapat disembuhkan, ditandai dengan kelemahan otot rangka sukarela yang menyeluruh. Penyebab kelemahan ini adalah cacat pada tingkat sambungan neuromuskular, di mana antibodi autoimun memblokir reseptor yang bertanggung jawab untuk memulai kontraksi otot. Diterjemahkan secara harfiah dari akar etimologi Lati…
Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries, in masses and motets, in orchestral and chamber music, and even in his sonatas for violin solo. The more intimate fugues he wrote for keyboard are among the greatest, most infl uential, and best-loved works in all of Western music. They have long been the foundation of the keyboard repertory, played …
The electrical activity of the muscles, as measured by means of electromyography (EMG), is a major expression of muscle contraction. This book aims at providing an updated overview of the recent developments in electromyography from diverse aspects and various applications in clinical and experimental research. It consists of ten chapters arranged in four sections. The first section deals with …
Bab ini melacak perkembangan wacana perdamaian Agustinus dalam konteks polemik anti-Donatis yang ditemukan dalam surat-suratnya yang lebih awal dan risalah-resalah formal. Pertama, ia menyajikan bukti usaha Agustinus untuk mengamankan perdamaian di Afrika Utara dari surat-suratnya; dan kedua, penulis berfokus pada daya tarik Agustinus terhadap teks Latin dari Yohanes 14:27a dalam konteks ketida…
Publikasi akses terbuka dari buku ini telah diterbitkan dengan dukungan dari Swiss National Science Foundation. Kematian, perubahan yang paling mendasar, adalah sebuah Leitmotiv yang tidak terduga dari karir dan penerimaan Ovid. Delapan belas kontribusi yang dikumpulkan dalam volume ini mengeksplorasi tema kematian dan transformasi dalam karir Ovid sendiri dan penerimaan setelah kematiannya, me…
This chapter traces the development of Augustine’s discourse on peace in light of anti-Donatist polemics found in both his earlier letters and formal treatises. First, it presents evidence of Augustine’s effort to secure peace in North Africa from his letters; and second, the author focuses on Augustine’s appeal to the Latin text of John 14:27a in light of contemporary social and ecclesia…
This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a continent, on the cusp of almost complete colonization at the hands of European pow…