A Certain Age : Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of Its Intellectuals

'A Certain Age' is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mra?zek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and around Jakarta. With few exceptions, they were part of an urban elite born under colonial rule and…

A Chain of Kings: The Makassarese Chronicles of Gowa and Talloq

The chronicles of Gowa and Talloq are the most important historical sources for the study of pre-colonial Makassar. They have provided the basic framework and much of the information that we possess about the origins, growth, and expansion of Gowa during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During this period Gowa and its close ally Talloq became the most powerful force in the eastern Indon…

A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age

Building information modelling (BIM) has ushered in the era of symbolic building representation: building elements and spaces are described not by graphical elements but by discrete symbols, each with properties and relations that explicitly integrate all information. Digital twinning promises even more: a digital replica in complete sync with the building and its behaviour. Such techno…

"The Constitution of the People": Reflections on Citizens and Civil Society

To be a U.S. citizen is to be a member of a constitutional order that requires political unity but is also committed to social and cultural diversity. How do we solve the riddle of the one and the many? What is, in Tom Paine's words, "the constitution of the people"?This is a perennial question that goes to the heart of American society and that increasingly shapes public debates about the heal…

A Citizen of Yiddishland : Dovid Sfard and the Jewish Communist Milieu in Poland

This pioneering study shows what brought Yiddish-speaking Jewish intelligentsia to the Communist movement in the interwar years. They believed that Communism is not only a way to solve the Jewish problem but also to save the Yiddish culture. Biography of the central protagonist of the book, a Yiddish writer Dovid (David) Sfard, is just a pretext to show a full range of Jewish Communist activist…

A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism

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A Closer Look at Organizational Culture in Action

Values, attitudes, and behaviors constitute an organization's culture and employees both share and use them on a daily basis in their work. This book aims to briefly portray a new interpretation of organizational culture varying from the profusion of literature in the following ways: it attempts to include how cultures are created organically or through consistent planning and action in differe…

A Collection of Papers on Chaos Theory and Its Applications

This current volume contains 12 new papers on the subject of chaos in the physical sciences, which was initiated with the publication of the book Research Advances in Chaos Theory. It is clear the subject continues to attract a great deal of attention among scientists in the scientific community. This volume looks at such problems as chaos in nonlinear systems, in dynamical systems, quantum cha…

A Colonial Affair : Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India

Danna Agmon's gripping microhistory is a vivid guide to the "Nayiniyappa Affair" in the French colony of Pondicherry, India. The surprising and shifting fates of Nayiniyappa and his family form the basis of this story of global mobilization, which is replete with merchants, missionaries, local brokers, government administrators, and even the French royal family.Agmon's compelling account draws …

A Colonial Southern Bookshelf : Reading in the Eighteenth Century

A Colonial Southern Bookshelf studies popular books among southern readers in eighteenth-century America. From booksellers' lists and sale catalogs, Richard Beale Davis's study focuses on three key groups of literature: books in law, politics, and history; books on religious topics; and belles lettres. His examination of the colonial southern library suggests many revealing conclusions: persons…