Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives

"In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia – a culture deeply influenced by the regime’s adoption of Byzantine Orthodoxy centuries before – questions of religion and spirituality were of paramo…

The Bible in the Bowls: A Catalogue of Biblical Quotations in Published Jewis…

The Bible in the Bowls represents a complete catalogue of Hebrew Bible quotations found in the published corpus of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls. As our only direct epigraphic witnesses to the Hebrew Bible from late antique Babylonia, the bowls are uniquely placed to contribute to research on the (oral) transmission of the biblical text in late antiquity; the pre-Masoretic Babylonian vo…

Consuming Cities

This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a difference. Consuming Cities examines this impact using case studies from around the world including: the USA, Japan, Germany, the UK, China, Indi…

Social Life Cycle Assessment

This book details the primary concepts of Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), integration of social aspects in product life cycles, quantification of social impacts in S-LCA, impact categorization in S-LCA, methodological aspects of S-LCA, and detailed case studies. As the societal implications of producing a product are coming to take on a new importance, the concept of Social Life Cycle Ass…

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Research of Arts, Design and Hu…

Mendukung kampanye desain universal seperti desain berkelanjutan, ramah lingkungan, lingkungan bebas hambatan, dan desain untuk kebutuhan khusus, Mendorong diskusi di antara akademisi dan praktisi industri tentang evolusi desain. ;;; Simposium Internasional tentang Penelitian Seni, Desain, dan Humaniora (ISRADH 2014) berfungsi sebagai platform penting bagi para peneliti, desainer, dan profesion…

Life Cycle Impact Assessment

This book offers a detailed presentation of the principles and practice of life cycle impact assessment. As a volume of the LCA compendium, the book is structured according to the LCIA framework developed by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)passing through the phases of definition or selection of impact categories, category indicators and characterisation models (Classifi…

"Human Minds and Animal Stories "

The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy. This is the first book to investigate that power and explain the psychological and cultural mechanisms behind it. It does so by presenting the results of an experimental project that involved thousands …

Climate-Smart Maize Breeding: The Potential of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbios…