Potosí (sekarang Bolivia) adalah pemasok utama bagi Kekaisaran Spanyol dan dunia, dan hingga kini masih memiliki deposit perak terkaya di dunia. Buku ini mengeksplorasi ekonomi politik produksi dan sirkulasi perak, menyoroti bab penting dalam sejarah kapitalisme global. Ia menelusuri geologi, ruang suci, dan pengetahuan teknis di bagian pertama; sejarah lingkungan dan tenaga kerja di bagian ke…
The motion of nonholonomic mobile manipulators (NMMs) is inherently constrained by joint limits, joint velocity limits, self-collisions and singularities. Most motion planning algorithms consider some of the aforementioned constraints, however, a unified framework to deal with all of them is lacking
Postkolonialisme tidak hanya merujuk pada era sejarah setelah berakhirnya masa kolonial, tetapi juga konsep teoretis untuk menganalisis hubungan kekuasaan. Dalam teologi berbahasa Jerman, konsep ini belum banyak diperhatikan. Dalam buku kumpulan dwibahasa Postkolonialisme, Teologi, dan Konstruksi yang Lain, perwakilan dari semua disiplin teologi, termasuk studi agama, mengeksplorasi kemungkinan…
A fast paced changing world requires dynamic methods and robust theories to enable designers to deal with the changing product development landscape successfully and hence make a difference in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world
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…
Abstract The current power system should be renovated to fulfill social and industrial requests and economic advances. Hence, providing economic, green, and sustainable energy are key goals of advanced societies. In order to meet these goals, recent features of smart grid technologies need to have the potential to improve reliability, flexibility, efficiency, and resiliency. This book aims t…