Aspects of the Medieval Animal Epic: Proceedings of the International Conference, Leuven, May 15–17, 1972 (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia)
Karya ini menganalisis transformasi narasi Kitab Wahyu (Apokalips) menjadi diskursus "distopia kritis" dalam ranah musik populer modern. Alih-alih hanya dipandang sebagai bencana akhir zaman yang pasif, elemen apokaliptik dalam musik—khususnya genre rock dan heavy metal—digunakan sebagai instrumen protes sosial dan kritik terhadap kegagalan sistemik masyarakat kontemporer. Penelitian ini me…
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, claiming millions of lives each year. Cancer biology is an essential research field to understand how cancer develops, evolves, and responds to therapy. By taking advantage of a series of “omics” technologies (e.g., genomics, transcriptomics, and epigenomics), computational methods in bioinformatics and machine learning can help scientists and r…
An Introduction to the Study of Mineralogy is a collection of papers that can be easily understood by a wide variety of readers, whether they wish to use it in their work, or simply to extend their knowledge. It is unique in that it presents a broad view of the mineralogy field. The book is intended for chemists, physicists, engineers, and the students of geology, geophysics, and soil science, …
Publikasi ini berisi penelitian asli yang menargetkan spesialis ilmiah di bidang pendidikan. Disposisi upaya penelitiannya tidak hanya didasarkan pada landasan filosofis, tetapi juga tertanam dalam empiris. Metodologi penelitian setiap bab berasal dari asumsi filosofis yang berlaku dalam bentuk kerangka teoretis dan konseptual yang berlaku. Yang terakhir membentuk dasar yang kuat untuk penerapa…
In this volume Yehudi Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of unpublished material in the JDC archives and other repositories, as well as on his thorough knowledge of recent and continuing research into the Holocaust, he focuse…
Few modern materials have been as central to histories of environmental toxicity, medical ignorance, and legal liability as asbestos. A naturally occurring mineral fibre once hailed for its ability to guard against fire, asbestos is now best known for the horrific illnesses it causes. This book offers a new take on the established history of asbestos from a literary critical perspective, showin…
Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in their community as well as how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningfu…
Many people see citizenship in a globalised world in terms of binaries: inclusion/exclusion, past/present, particularism/universalism. Aoileann Ni? Mhurchu? points out the limitations of these positions and argues that we need to be able to take into account the people who get caught between these traditional categories. Using critical resources found in poststructural, psychoanalytic and postc…
Ambient air quality in the present-day Czech Republic (CR), one of the two succession countries of Czechoslovakia post-1993, was perceived as a major problem with severe human health and environmental consequences, particularly between the 1970s and 1990s. Since that time, the ambient air quality in the CR has improved substantially, due to newly introduced stringent legislation and technical c…