Religious pluralism is an important aspiration of contemporary societies, meaning that religious diversity is permitted and everyone has the freedom of religion or belief, or not to believe. The peaceful coexistence of people of a myriad of faiths is indispensable for securing peace in the modern era of political upheaval and economic dissonance. This book brings together a variety of religi…
Neuroscientists often consider free will to be an illusion. Contrary to this hypothesis, the contributions to this volume show that recent developments in neuroscience can also support the existence of free will. Firstly, the possibility of intentional consciousness is studied. Secondly, Libet’s experiments are discussed from this new perspective. Thirdly, the relationship between free will, …
"At the moment of writing, we are in the last quarter of an incredible year. The world is facing an astonishing number of changes resulting from one of the worst pandemics ever. Food, agribusiness, and biofuel chains will be working in a new macro environment and will operate differently after 2020. These structural changes come on top of the need to increase food production to feed 9 billion p…
Female protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Italy, where women’s scope of action is often portrayed as heavily restricted. This book redresses the notion of Italian women’s passivity, arguing that women’s crimes were far too common to be viewed as an anomaly. Based on over two thousand criminal complaints and investigation dossiers, Sann…
« Entré en tant que cousin, sorti en tant que gendarme ». Cette anecdote révèle le paradoxe identitaire aux Comores et le drame ‘migratoire’ qui se déroule dans l’Archipel depuis l’instauration arbitraire du Visa Balladur en 1995. L’île de Mayotte, officiellement française, est taxée de « plus grand cimetière marin du monde. » Comment des œuvres d’imagination sur la « …
While recent years have been dominated by Covid-19 and now the war in Ukraine, we are witnessing numerous ongoing tragedies. The last few decades have seen a dramatic increase in freak weather events caused by climate change.
This open access book presents a catalogue of over one thousand indicators which can be used by cities' public administrators to monitor and evaluate social innovation action plans to support people-centred, collaborative or co-designed solutions to lower carbon emissions. Indicators are clustered according to a framework of social innovation solutions for climate neutrality at city level, deve…
Krisis iklim dan penggunaan lahan saling terkait erat dan mempengaruhi kita semua. Penggunaan lahan menawarkan potensi besar untuk mengatasi krisis iklim. Bagaimana potensi ini dapat dimanfaatkan dalam konteks pembangunan berkelanjutan yang secara holistik mempertimbangkan dimensi sosial dan alam?. Ini adalah buku akses terbuka. Ekosistem daratan menyediakan berbagai layanan ekosistem yang tida…
"Buku ini, sekarang dalam edisi keduanya, adalah sumber utama untuk belajar SYCL (Sistem Berkecepatan Tinggi) 2020 dan merupakan satu-satunya buku yang Anda butuhkan untuk menjadi bagian dari komunitas ini." Erik Lindahl, GROMACS dan Universitas Stockholm. Pelajari cara mempercepat program C++ menggunakan paralelisme data dan SYCL (Sistem Berkecepatan Tinggi). Buku akses terbuka ini memungkinka…
Buku akses terbuka ini mengkaji hubungan antara perdagangan dan pemberdayaan ekonomi perempuan dengan berfokus pada usaha kecil dan menengah (UKM) di enam negara: Kamboja, Ghana, Madagaskar, Nigeria, Senegal, dan Vietnam. Para penulis menggunakan data survei dan analisis kualitatif untuk memahami mengapa dan bagaimana perdagangan dapat menciptakan lebih banyak lapangan kerja bagi perempuan, dan…