Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the encounter between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective. The essays explore how legal language expresses and advances power relations, along with the ways in which the language of law legitimates power. The wide geographical and chronological scope showcases how power, legitimacy and language interact, moving the discussion b…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lace…
This open access book provides a unique overview of geographical, historical, political and environmental issues facing the French overseas territory New Caledonia, also called “Kanaky” by the indigenous Kanak people, who outnumber citizens of European and other origin. New Caledonia has seen a long and complex struggle for decolonization, but is still on the United Nations’ list of “No…
Buku akses terbuka ini merupakan kumpulan revisi makalah terpilih dari Lokakarya Internasional yang diadakan pada Konferensi Internasional ke-4 tentang Penambangan Proses, ICPM 2022, yang berlangsung di Bozen-Bolzano, Italia, dari 23 hingga 28 Oktober 2022. Konferensi ini fokus pada area penelitian dan praktik penambangan proses, termasuk teori, tantangan algoritmik, dan aplikasi. Lokakarya yan…
Volume ini merupakan kumpulan makalah dari Konferensi Internasional ke-18 tentang Pengembangan Perangkat Lunak Agile, XP 2017, yang diadakan di Cologne, Jerman, pada bulan Mei 2017. 14 makalah lengkap dan 6 makalah pendek yang disajikan dalam volume ini ditinjau dan dipilih dengan cermat dari 46 pengajuan. Mereka diorganisasikan dalam bagian topikal yang diberi nama: meningkatkan proses agile; …
While comparative studies on purity and impurity presented in the last decades have mostly concentrated on the ancient world or on modern developments, this volume focusses the hitherto comparatively neglected period between ca. 300 and 1600 c. E. The collection is innovative because it not only combines papers on both European and Asian cultures but also considers a wide variety of religions a…
Kumpulan buku akses terbuka Catatan Kuliah Ilmu Komputer (LNCS, Lecture Notes in Computer Science) -14933 + 14934 merupakan prosiding yang diseleksi dari Simposium Internasional ke-26 tentang Metode Formal, FM 2024, yang berlangsung di Milan, Italia, pada bulan September 2024. 51 makalah lengkap dan 4 makalah pendek yang disertakan dalam prosiding ini ditinjau dan dipilih secara saksama dari 21…
Kumpulan buku akses terbuka LNCS 14933 + 14934 merupakan prosiding yang diseleksi dari Simposium Internasional ke-26 tentang Metode Formal, FM 2024, yang berlangsung di Milan, Italia, pada bulan September 2024. 51 makalah lengkap dan 4 makalah pendek yang disertakan dalam prosiding ini ditinjau dan dipilih secara saksama dari 219 kiriman. Prosiding ini juga mencakup 2 ceramah undangan dengan pa…
The frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated to the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with analyses of experiences from five continents. In this, the first of these two volumes, 16 authors offer a critical and…
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Blockchain is the first global mechanism for the transfer and storage of value. Despite being conceived as an alternative to state and law, the technology and its use cases raise many legal questions, most notably, regarding jurisdiction and applicable law with respect to tran…