The pandemic presented religion as a paradox: faith is often crucial for helping people weather life’s troubles and make difficult decisions, but how can religion continue to deliver these benefits and provide societal structure without social contact? The topical volume, An Epidemic among My People explains how the COVID-19 pandemic stress tested American religious communities and created a …
Hasil Simposium Asia Pasifik ke-18 tentang Sistem Cerdas dan Evolusioner, Ditulis oleh para ahli terkemuka dari kawasan Asia Pasifik. --> Buku ini adalah kumpulan makalah yang dipresentasikan pada Simposium Asia Pasifik ke-18 tentang Sistem Cerdas dan Evolusioner (IES 2014) di Singapura. Simposium yang disponsori oleh Memetic Computing Society dan disponsori bersama oleh berbagai institusi term…
"Humanizing Encounters is about the sense of community that exists between persons with dementia. This book is the outcome of a year of ethnographic fieldwork at the specialized dementia care units of two different long-term nursing facilities. Through participatory observation in these units, the author discerned the various ways residents interacted, collaborated and expressed care for each o…
This volume focuses on the linguistic constructs involved in ethnic borders. Ethnic borders have proven themselves to be surprisingly long-lived: in nearly all European countries and beyond, border demarcation, exclusion of foreigners, and minority conflicts are some of the most persistent challenges for nations and societies. Which linguistic factors play a role in the formation of these borde…
The Surrendered is Peruvian public intellectual José Carlos Agüero's reflections on his parents—who were executed by the state for being Shining Path militants—as well as the legacies of the Peruvian internal armed conflict and the possibility for forgiveness and reconciliation in the face of hate.
In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements. This study looks at micropolitics and the nesting of the political action of everyday life in larger, ultimately global structures of power. Exploring the …
Brings together in one volume for the very first time the results of a major re-examination of the site of the Roman town of Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough, in North Yorkshire), with recent geophysical surveys and a re-evaluation of earlier antiquarian work and archaeological fieldwork and excavations – some never before published. Provides historians and archaeologists with exciting new infor…
Why do great powers accommodate the rise of some challengers, while others are contained and confronted, even at the risk of war? The book proposes that when faced with a new challenger, great powers will attempt to divine its intentions, to determine whether that rising power poses a revolutionary threat to the system, or whether it can be incorporated into the existing international order. In…
Rekayasa Sistem Manusia-Mesin-Lingkungan (MMESE) adalah studi prinsip desain sistem yang berpusat pada manusia yang sangat baik, Prosiding ini adalah studi interdisipliner tentang konsep dan metode fisiologi, psikologi, rekayasa sistem, ilmu komputer, ilmu lingkungan, manajemen, pendidikan, dan disiplin ilmu terkait lainnya. --> Pada tahun 1981, di bawah arahan ilmuwan besar Xuesen Qian, sebuah…
Rekayasa Sistem Manusia-Mesin-Lingkungan (MMESE) adalah studi prinsip desain sistem yang berpusat pada manusia yang sangat baik, Prosiding ini adalah studi interdisipliner tentang konsep dan metode fisiologi, psikologi, rekayasa sistem, ilmu komputer, ilmu lingkungan, manajemen, pendidikan, dan disiplin ilmu terkait lainnya. --> Rekayasa Sistem Manusia-Mesin-Lingkungan (MMESE) adalah ilmu perba…