What Caused the Big Bang?

This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, Big Divide, and Big Accident, that affirm the eternity and self-sufficiency of the universe without God. This study defends and revises Process Theology and argumen…

Social Accountability Initiatives in Morocco, Tunisia, and Lebanon

The Middle East and North Africa region has been absent form stocktaking exercises on social accountability initiatives (SAI), an umbrella term to designate citizen-led tools aimed at socio-political change. We argue that this sidelining is unwarranted, given the proliferation of participatory governance initiatives, civic associations and popular mobilisation in Arab societies after 2…

Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets

The present study of the Lives of the Poets is designed to show that Johnson’s value judgements about literature lead to ethical literary criticism that pertains to human problems affecting our daily life and world crises. In his Dictionary, Johnson defines ethics as “the doctrine of morality; a system of morality.”1 While morality and ethics were, according to Johnson, nearly in…

The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes

The Zhou Changes, better known in the West as I Ching, is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book, the climax of more than forty years of research in Chinese archaeology, explores the text’s origins in the oracle-bone and milfoil divinations of Bronze Age China and how it transformed over the course of the Zhou dynasty into the first of the Chinese classics. The book provides…

Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia

Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia redirects the largely western-oriented study of citizenship to postcolonial states. Providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens interpret and realize the recognition of their property, identity, security and welfare in the context of a weak rule of law and clientelistic politics, this study highlights the importance of stud…

Technologies and Applications for Big Data Value

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In Search of Middle Indonesia : Middle Classes in Provincial Towns

The post-1998 surge in local politics has moved the provincial town back to centre stage. This book examines the Indonesian middle class (now 43%!) up close in the place where its members are most at home: the town. Middle Indonesia generates national political forces, yet it is neither particularly rich nor geographically central. This is an overwhelmingly lower middle class, a conservative pe…

„Deutschland ist das Land der Chancen“ = Berufsorientierungen junger Gefl…

Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Wie leben und erleben junge Geflüchtete ihren Alltag in Deutschland? Wie stehen sie zur Aufnahmegesellschaft und welche Zukunft sehen sie für sich, insbesondere mit Blick auf den Arbeitsmarkt? Diesen und weiteren Fragen geht die SINUS-Studie qualitativ-empirisch nach. Dabei lässt sie die Jugendlichen in Form von zahl…

Greek Inscriptions on the East Bank

For the first time, this book presents the complete collection of Greek inscriptions of Gebel el-Silsila East – Ancient Egypt’s largest and most important sandstone quarry, including lists of names and professions of individuals involved in the quarry expeditions. The inscriptions are described, illustrated and analysed and placed within their archaeological context based on careful documen…

Data Spaces

igital transformation, data ecosystems, and Data Spaces are inevitable parts of our future. The book aims to educate the reader on data sharing and exchange techniques using Data Spaces. It will address and explore the cuttingedge theory, technologies, methodologies, and best practices for Data Spaces for both industrial and personal data. The book provides the reader with a basis for unde…