How did a narrow tactical victory for the British at Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War lead to the failure of the British Southern Campaign? This volume offers an indispensable point of departure for a staff ride to the battlefield at Guilford Courthouse, providing a systematic analysis of this key battle in the American Revolution. Author Harold Allen S…
Kini tersedia dalam Akses Terbuka berkat dukungan Universitas Helsinki. Dalam Poets of Hope and Despair: The Russian Symbolists in War and Revolution (1914-1918), Ben Hellman mengkaji respons artistik serta sikap filosofis dan politik delapan penyair Rusia utama terhadap Perang Dunia Pertama dan revolusi tahun 1917. Bencana sejarah memunculkan firasat kiamat dan dahaga akan metamorfosis spiritu…
Dalam apa yang sering dianggap sebagai 'masyarakat "setelah Tuhan"', jutaan orang Belanda berpartisipasi setiap tahun dalam pertunjukan multi-media publik tentang Pasion Kristus. Apa yang harus dilakukan dengan paradoks ini?. Dalam Playing On: Re-staging the Passion after the Death of God, Mirella Klomp menawarkan analisis teologis tentang pertunjukan ini dan mereka yang terlibat di dalamnya. B…
Buku ini berisi deskripsi gramatikal yang komprehensif tentang Mehri, sebuah bahasa Semit yang tidak tertulis yang digunakan di daerah Dhofar di Oman, bersama dengan korpus lebih dari seratus teks. Topik dalam fonologi, semua aspek morfologi, dan berbagai fitur sintaksis dibahas. Teks-teks tersebut, disajikan dengan komentar yang luas, dikumpulkan oleh mendiang T.M. Johnstone. Beberapa diterbit…
Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers. Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere University, the dominance in the global canon of African literatures written in European languages ove…
In 1985, the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard curated a groundbreaking exhibition called Les Immatériaux at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition showed how telecommunication technologies were beginning to impact every aspect of life. At the same time, it was a material demonstration of what Lyotard called the post-modern condition. This book features a previously unpublished r…
In 1985, the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard curated a groundbreaking exhibition called Les Immatériaux at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition showed how telecommunication technologies were beginning to impact every aspect of life. At the same time, it was a material demonstration of what Lyotard called the post-modern condition. This book features a previously unpublished r…
Livro de atas do Congresso ptBIM 2022, onde se promove um fórum de discussão técnico-científica em língua Portuguesa nas metodologias ‘Building Information Modelling’ (BIM), envolvendo a participação ativa das comunidades profissional e académica das áreas de Arquitetura e Engenharia. Pretende-se enfatizar os problemas e esforços de implementação na Indústria da Construção e …
Livro de atas do Congresso ptBIM 2022, onde se promove um fórum de discussão técnico-científica em língua Portuguesa nas metodologias ‘Building Information Modelling’ (BIM), envolvendo a participação ativa das comunidades profissional e académica das áreas de Arquitetura e Engenharia. Pretende-se enfatizar os problemas e esforços de implementação na Indústria da Construção e …
In early modern England, the birth of a human being with congenital physical deformities was an event which aroused horror and fascination, disgust and morbid curiosity. In a time when modern science was taking its first steps, this kind of prodigy sometimes appeared as a sort of divine punishment for a moral fault, sometimes as a bizarre pastime, or political weapon, or a pre-medical investiga…