This book studies how the concepts of body, personhood and privacy can be expanded across disciplinary borders. Notwithstanding the diversity of empirical material and theoretical frameworks, the chapters suggest innovative tools for common key issues: dialogue with the cultural Other, the appropriation of space, and personality. Human embodiment and ethical aspects of representing and regulati…
At the start of the twenty-first century, warnings have been raised in some quarters about how – by intent or by mishap – advances in biotechnology and related fields could aid the spread of disease. Science academics, medical organisations, governments, security analysts, and others are among those that have sought to raise concern. Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences examines a vari…
This work aims to develop new readings of the poetics and the politics of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) in the light of the bodily metamorphoses represented in the fairy tales. Metamorphic processes can be said to inform the stories of the collection both in a thematic and a stylistic perspective and address the need to rethink human experience altogether, especi…
Sir John Hawkins (1719–1789), lawyer, friend of Samuel Johnson and member of the Academy of Ancient Music, published his pioneering five-volume history in 1776 just after the first volume of Burney's. Hawkins' work suffered badly in the resulting competition between the two, partly because of his difficult personality, partly because of the scholarly style of the writing contrasting with Burn…
Sir John Hawkins (1719–1789), lawyer, friend of Samuel Johnson and member of the Academy of Ancient Music, published his pioneering five-volume history in 1776 just after the first volume of Burney's. Hawkins' work suffered badly in the resulting competition between the two, partly because of his difficult personality, partly because of the scholarly style of the writing contrasting with Burn…
Menjelaskan bagaimana fase pra dan pasca desain ditangkap dan dimodelkan, Mengilustrasikan hubungan antara sains & teknologi dan budaya dalam perspektif desain yang luas. Banyak negara telah berhasil mengembangkan masyarakat berteknologi tinggi. Namun, masih ada beberapa masalah utama yang tidak dapat dijelaskan dalam kerangka penelitian atau metodologi desain konvensional. Dengan kata lain, ad…
Sejak awal abad ini, perubahan iklim telah menjadi topik pembahasan di berbagai bidang. Sejalan dengan itu, topik tersebut menjadi penting di bidang sumber daya air dan pertanian. Iklim dengan berbagai variabel pentingnya, yaitu variabel klimatologi, berdampak langsung atau tidak langsung terhadap produksi pertanian. Ada kebutuhan untuk mempelajari pengaruh variabel klimatologi dan dominasinya …
Pertama, siapa audiens yang dituju? Saya pikir saya berbicara kepada orang-orang yang merupakan peneliti aktif di beberapa bidang matematika atau fisika atau sedang mempersiapkan diri untuk itu. Juga, mereka bukan ahli dalam topik judul dan ingin mempelajari sesuatu tentangnya. Sebagai saya sendiri yang bukan ahli, saya merasa memenuhi syarat untuk mengetahui apa yang perlu diketahui oleh non-a…
(1). Menyediakan jalur yang relatif cepat ke topik khusus dalam geometri diferensial: kumpulan utama, yang propertinya kemudian dijelaskan secara mendetail (2). Menyajikan ide-ide geometris modern yang penting dalam bentuk yang dapat diakses oleh mahasiswa dan peneliti di bidang lain. (3). Tidak ada pengetahuan sebelumnya tentang geometri diferensial yang diasumsikan. Matematikawan harus menyad…
Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) began his career as an apprentice to the engraver and businessman Ralph Beilby (1743–1817). Having entered into a partnership and illustrated more than eighty small books for children, they decided to work together on this natural history, with Beilby drafting the descriptions and Bewick providing wood engravings and textual revisions. It was first published in 179…