The Roman legal tradition is the ancestor of modern contract law but there is no agreement as to how and when a general law of contract emerged. Wim Decock’s thesis is that an important step in this evolution was taken by theologians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They transformed the Roman legal tradition (ius commune) by insisting on the moral foundations of contract law. Theol…
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…
The forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814 remain controversial, with new research and interpretations continually appearing. Shore’s narrative approaches these years, and the period preceding the suppression, from a new perspective that covers individuals not usually discussed in works dealing with this topic. As well a…
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 …
Buku akses terbuka ini, diterbitkan oleh Springer di bawah Lisensi Akses Terbuka CC BY 4.0 bekerja sama dengan International Fluid Academy (IFA, www.fluidacademy.org), mengeksplorasi terapi cairan intravena yang rasional untuk pasien kritis. Meskipun sering diresepkan di lingkungan rawat inap, cairan intravena sering diberikan tanpa pedoman berbasis bukti, mengabaikan pertimbangan penting seper…
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 …
Buku akses terbuka ini merupakan contoh langka dari studi etnografi jurnalisme investigasi. Buku ini mengeksplorasi upaya-upaya wirausaha untuk menggabungkan jurnalisme investigasi tradisional dengan cara-cara alternatif untuk mengorganisir pekerjaan ini. Buku ini melampaui proyek-proyek investigasi daerah aliran sungai dan mendukung cara-cara di mana para pelaku baru (warga, ahli teknologi, bl…
This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and liter…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several d…
This Open Access book offers a novel perspective on the role of quantification in the making of education utopias through an analysis of expert knowledge and its producers. Drawing on empirical findings from the European Research Council funded project ‘International Organisations and the Rise of a Global Metrological Field’ (METRO, 2017-2022), Education, Quantification and Utopia focuses o…