This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to d…
What does power abuse look and feel like in the academic world? How does it affect university faculty, students, education and research? What can we do to counteract and prevent power abuse? These questions are addressed in this collection of autobiographical poems, essays and illustrations about academia. The contributors reflect on individual experiences as well as underlying institutional st…
This revised textbook motivates and illustrates the techniques of applied probability by applications in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). The author presents information processing and communication systems that use algorithms based on probabilistic models and techniques, including web searches, digital links, speech recognition, GPS, route planning, recommendation systems, c…
This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate and clarify how the concepts developed in Elleström’s influential article The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding …
his chapter introduces the study of the politics of feminist foreign policy and digital diplomacy. It unpacks two transformative and intersecting developments: (1) Sweden’s adoption of a distinct feminist branding of its foreign policy and (2) the embrace of digitalisation in diplomacy. In 2014, Sweden made history by becoming the first country in the world to launch a feminist foreig…
Circular Economy is an emerging production-consumption paradigm showing the potential to recover and re-use functions and materials from post-use, end-of-life, products. Even if several barriers still exist at different levels, from legislation to customer acceptance, the transition to this sustainable industrial model has been demonstrated to potentially bring economic, environmental, and …
Buku akses terbuka ini berfokus pada dampak pandemi COVID-19 terhadap kesejahteraan, kebahagiaan, dan kualitas hidup, dengan memperhatikan efek mediasi dari ketidaksetaraan sosial. Buku ini mengumpulkan dan menghidupkan dialog pengalaman dan perspektif berbeda dari negara-negara dan peneliti dari Utara dan Selatan Global. Para ahli dari seluruh dunia telah menganalisis data empiris untuk mengun…
Dalam diskusi politik kepemilikan saat ini, terdapat usulan yang mengarah pada relatifisasi yang signifikan dari hubungan personal dengan kepemilikan dan marginalisasi atau bahkan penghilangan manfaat pribadi dari kepemilikan. Misalnya, ada usulan untuk memperkenalkan model masyarakat dengan kekayaan terikat atau juga gagasan untuk memberikan subjek hukum sendiri kepada alam secara hukum. Namun…
Buku akses terbuka ini menyatukan karya-karya para ahli dari berbagai disiplin ilmu dan benua untuk merefleksikan hubungan antara kepemimpinan, spiritualitas, dan kearifan, terutama yang berkaitan dengan dunia yang semakin tidak menentu, tidak pasti, kompleks, dan ambigu (VUCA.; Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous). Buku ini menguraikan, pertama-tama, apa yang dimaksud dengan dunia VUCA…
The first half of the book of Daniel contains world-famous stories like the Writing on the Wall. These stories have mostly been transmitted in Aramaic, not Hebrew, as has the influential apocalypse of Daniel 7. This Aramaic corpus shows clear signs of multiple authorship. Which different textual layers can we tease apart, and what do they tell us about the changing function of the Danielic mate…