Contested Legitimacies Repression and Revolt in Post-Revolutionary Egypt

Since the military overthrow of President Mursi in mid-2013, Egypt has witnessed an authoritarian rollback. Through a combination of repression and nationalist securitizing discourses, popular pressure for reform was successfully channelled into a state-centric model of governance. But despite state violence and the restriction of public spaces, protests have anything but ceased. Contested Legi…

Chapter The Existential byt’ in the Translations of I.A. Bunin’s The Gent…

This article deals with the translations of a Bunin’s story The Gentleman from San Francisco into Japanese and English. Japanese translations of the phrase with the existential verb byt’ reflect a different understanding of death. A comparison of the original text with the translations also helps us understand the image of the gentleman’s being, bytie, which changes as the story develops.

Chapter The economic revolution in book design that went unnoticed. The case …

This contribution discusses the evolution of paper thickness of books produced in the Southern Netherlands in the period 1473 until the middle of the sixteenth century. Changing paper thickness is one of the key elements which in all likelihood helped coping with the problem of the rapidly increasing demand for paper by the press. After a description of relevant aspects of the production of han…

Chapter 4 Pretty Dolls Don't Play Dice : The Calculated Vulnerabilities of Je…

Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach (2017) narrates the misadventures of young Irish Catholic Anna Kerrigan in her pursuit of a diving career in the New York docks during WWII. These misadventures are heavily conditioned by the accumulation of a series of structural vulnerabilities intersecting class, gender, religion, immigration, and disability, as well as political and economic corruption, whi…

Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Systems Biology

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researcher…

Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge

How the tools of STS can be used to understand art and science and the practices of these knowledge-making communities. In Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge, Hannah Star Rogers suggests that art and science are not as different from each other as we might assume. She shows how the tools of science and technology studies (STS) can be applied to artistic practice, offering new ways of t…

1st Plasma for Nanotechnology and Bioapplications Workshop: Scientific Progra…

The Book of Abstracts contains the contributions for presentations during the 1st Plasma for Nanotechnology and Bioapplications Workshop held on 8th – 10th December 2019 in University Centre in Telč. Workshop was attended by the researcher teams from Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno (CEPLANT), and Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty o…

Tech giants, artificial intelligence, and the future of journalism

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A beautiful collection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, minia…

Goethe, Joh. Wolfg. v. Dichter, geb. Frankfurt a. M. 1749, gest. Weimar 1832. L. s. Jena 22. Febr. 1797. 1 S. 8. Frs. 100.— Eigenhandige Unterschrift: „Goethe" auf einem Brief e, in dem er die Absendung eines „kleinen Aufsatzes iiber die Grundlage zu einer architektonischen Bibliothek" anzeigt. 34 Grillparzer, Franz, osterr. Dramatiker, geb. in Wien 1791, gest. das. 1872. Doc. a. s.…

The black rose and other poems

Introspection, carried too far, may wreck the soul of a man, but without it a poet is merely a versifier or an experimenter, dealing with the laboratory instead of with life. For him there must be no eternal verities except those he discovers and proves to himself. He can take nothing on trust. His life-work is to " stir the decent dust about the world " — his own world as well as that of oth…