Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four technolegal devices—formula, index, list and pact. She arg…
This book, the ideal following of the previous New Insights into Anxiety Disorders, collects papers of a number of clinical psychiatrists all over the world, giving their contribution to the comprehension and clinical management of anxiety disorders. Following the previously edited book on anxiety, this new one will focus on some specific clinical issues such as PTSD, psychosomatics, and comple…
In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the work of two seminal figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur and contemporary multimedia artist Vivan Sundaram. Examining their written and visual works over the past fifty years, Mathur illuminates how her protagonists' political and aesthetic commitments intersect and foreground uncertainty, diffi…
This reference provides comprehensive information on the taxonomy and distribution in time and space of all currently recognized southern African fossil mammals. After an introductory background chapter on southern Africa, mammals, sites and dating, the following chapters are presented by epoch, covering the Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene and Holocene. Individual maps provide informatio…
Dalam Pelabuhan, Perompakan, dan Perang Laut, Thomas K. Heeboll-Holm menyajikan studi tentang predasi maritim di perairan Inggris dan Prancis sekitar tahun 1300. Mengikuti Cicero, perompak secara tradisional digambarkan sebagai perampok yang sangat bejat dan musuh semua orang, tetapi Heebøll-Holm menunjukkan bahwa pembajakan sering kali merupakan bagian dari perang pribadi antara pelabuhan dan…
Politik dan Budaya Pembebasan: Media, Memori, dan Proyeksi Demokrasi berfokus pada pemetaan, analisis, dan evaluasi memori, ritual, dan respons artistik terhadap tema "pembebasan." Bagaimana nasional dibingkai dalam sistem dinamis zona kontak antarbudaya yang menyoroti agenda-agenda memori yang seringkali bersaing? Bagaimana produksi, (re)mediasi, dan pembingkaian narasi dalam lingkungan sosial…
The limits of solid solutions and thermal deformations in the L-alanine–L-serine (L-ala–L-ser) amino acid system have been determined. Thirteen amino acid mixtures with various proportions of the components L-ser/L-ala were studied using powder X-ray diffraction techniques
Politik dan Estetika dalam Tragedi Barok dan Klasik Eropa adalah kumpulan esai yang menyelidiki tragedi Eropa pada abad ketujuh belas, membandingkan Shakespeare, Vondel, Gryphius, Racine, dan beberapa penulis tragedi vernakular lainnya, serta mempertimbangkan drama neo-Latin oleh para Jesuit dan penulis drama lainnya. Sejauh mana tema, alur, struktur, dan gaya serupa dikembangkan? Bagaimana per…
Chemical stabilization of soils is one of the most used techniques to improve the properties of weak soils in order to allow their use in geotechnical works. Although several binders can be used for this purpose, Portland cement is still the most used binder (alone or combined with others) to stabilize soils. However, the use of Portland cement is associated with many environmental problems,…
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…