The anthology explores breath from the perspective of the arts and humanities, as well as experimental scientific and design practices. Focus is on the period from 1900 to the present day – an era during in which air has become a precarious medium, co-created and manipulated by humans. Against this backdrop, breath appears as an elusive yet vital substance that reveals connections between the…
Buku Akses Terbuka ini merayakan pencapaian luar biasa Profesor Peter Marwedel dalam kompilator, sistem tertanam, dan sistem siber-fisik. Kontribusi dalam buku ini merangkum isi kuliah undangan yang diberikan pada lokakarya "Sistem Tertanam" yang diadakan di Technical University Dortmund pada awal Juli 2019 untuk menghormati ulang tahun Profesor Marwedel yang ketujuh puluh. Menyediakan pandanga…
This book collects some of the works presented at ATEE Florence Spring Conference 2020-2021. The Conference, originally planned for May 2020, was forcefully postponed due to the dramatic insurgence of the pandemic. Despite the difficulties in this period, the Organising Committee decided anyway to keep it, although online and more than one year later, not to disperse the huge work of authors, m…
Sebuah sumber primer tentang perjalanan ke Persia oleh Kapten John Compton Pyne pada tahun 1884 yang mengungkapkan ketertarikan Barat terhadap Timur Tengah di era Victoria. Buku ini mencakup pengantar oleh para editor dan transkripsi manuskrip dengan catatan dan ilustrasi asli, terutama cat air. Sebuah dokumen sejarah penting dan kesaksian saksi mata yang berkaitan dengan Iran, antropologi, stu…
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…
At War with Women reveals how post-9/11 politics of gender and development have transformed US military power. In the mid-2000s, the US military used development as a weapon as it revived counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military assembled all-female teams to reach households and wage war through development projects in the battle for "hearts and minds." Despite women technically …
Kehidupan Masa Kecil Seorang Yahudi di Mediterania Muslim menyatukan kisah-kisah pribadi yang menarik dari para penulis, cendekiawan, dan intelektual Yahudi yang tumbuh dewasa di negeri-negeri di mana Islam adalah agama yang dominan dan kehidupan sehari-hari diwarnai oleh politik proyek kekaisaran Prancis. Didorong oleh novelis Leïla Sebbar untuk merefleksikan masa kecil mereka, para penulis i…
Alexander Williamson was professor of chemistry at UCL (1849-87) and a leading scientist of his time. He taught and cared for visiting Japanese students, thereby assisting them with their goal of modernising Japan. This short, accessible biography explores his contribution to nineteenth-century science as well as his lasting impact on Japanese society. In 1863 five students from the Cho?shu? cl…
In the centre of this study stand some 154 letters exchanged between the Austrian writer Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976) and Maria Charlotte ("Lotte") Sweceny (ne?e Stein, 1904-1956), the co-proprietor of the Viennese publishing house Manz, between 1938 and 1945. The transcripts are followed by a commentary that aims to elucidate the historical, individual and geographical references. A me…
Volume ini merupakan kumpulan esai reflektif dan ilmiah yang diterbitkan untuk merayakan hari jadi ke-90 The Institute of Optics (IoO) di University of Rochester, institusi pendidikan optik pertama dan tertua di Amerika Serikat. Sebagai kelanjutan dari volume peringatan ke-75, buku ini mendokumentasikan evolusi institut selama lima belas tahun terakhir sekaligus memberikan penghormatan terhadap…