If one uses Facebook, Facetime, Skype, Netflix, or any application of the internet internationally, a submarine cable is involved. Fibre optic cables bind the world together and computer server farms, maintained by major telecom and content companies, allow vast amounts of data to be stored and retrieved from the cloud. Not often appreciated is the fact that these server locations worldwide are…
Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future. This book explores aetiology as a tool for thinking, and draws attention to the paradoxical structure of origin stories. Aetiologies r…
This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were constantly played upon in the processes of negotiation and (re)definitio…
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences of religious plurality, providing insights into the developments and drawbacks of religious coexistence in this turbulent period. The essays examine three main groups of a…
This is the second volume in a series of volumes which together will provide an entirely new history of ancient Greek (narrative) literature. Its organization is formal rather than biographical. It traces the history of central narrative devices, such as the narrator and his narratees,time, focalization, characterization, and space. It offers not only analyses of the handling of such a device b…
Time Distortions in Mind brings together current research on aspects of temporal processing in clinical populations, in the ultimate hope of elucidating the interdependence between perturbations in timing and disturbances in the mind and brain. Such research may inform not only typical psychological functioning, but may also elucidate the psychological consequences of any pathophysiological dif…
This book examines women’s activism in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally within and across different historical periods, political regimes, and scales of activism. The authors explore the wide range of activist agendas, repertoires, and forums in which women sought to advocate for their gender and labour interests. Women were engaged in trade unions, women-only orga…
What is Dance? What is Theatre? What is the boundary between enacting a character and narrating a story? When does movement become tinted with meaning? And when does beauty shine alone as if with no object? These universal aesthetic questions find a theoretically vibrant and historically informed set of replies in the oeuvre of the eleventh-century Kashmirian author Abhinavagupta. The present b…
Buku teks neuroaesthetics akses terbuka ini, yang pertama di dunia, dirancang untuk mengajarkan modul satu semester (14 pertemuan) kepada mahasiswa sarjana/magister baik dari bidang sains maupun humaniora. Ditulis dengan gaya yang menarik bagi mahasiswa humaniora tanpa pelatihan sains sebelumnya, dan bagi mahasiswa sains tanpa pelatihan humaniora sebelumnya, buku teks ini berisi 6 Unit, materi …
Dengan buku akses terbuka ini, gali wawasan para pemimpin terkemuka dari akademisi dan industri saat mereka mengungkap seluk-beluk transformasi bisnis yang digerakkan oleh keberlanjutan. Buku yang diedit dengan cermat ini merefleksikan The Road To Net Zero, menggarisbawahi perlunya jalur perintis. Mulailah perjalanan pembelajaran kolaboratif dan jelajahi isu-isu utama di sepanjang jalan menuju …