At one point in his Romanstudien he even goes so far as to speak of his own age as being an "epic" age. 1 In this context, to be sure, the term is not employed in its conventional sense. Here it means not an heroic age, but one in which outer reality impinges on human life and activity to such a degree that it seriously hampers freedom of choice and freedom of action
Di utara Lingkar Arktik terdapat pemukiman Vorkuta, sebuah kamp terkenal dalam sistem interniran Gulag yang menyaksikan tiga momen penting dalam sejarah Rusia. Pada tahun 1930-an, aksi mogok makan yang putus asa oleh tahanan sosialis, korban rezim represif Joseph Stalin, berujung pada eksekusi massal. Pada tahun 1953, aksi mogok para pekerja paksa menandai akhir dari sistem kerja paksa Stalinis…
Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, the emergence of airports as gateways for their cities has turned into one of the most important architectural undertakings. Ever since the first manned flight by the Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17th 1903, utilitarian sheds next to landing strips on cow pastures evolved into a completely new building type over the next few decade…
Human beings need to breathe oxygen diluted in certain quantity of inert gas for living. In the atmosphere, there is a gas mixture of, mainly, oxygen and nitrogen, in appropriate proportions. However, the air also contains other gases, vapours and aerosols that humans incorporate when breathing and whose composition and concentration vary spatially. Some of these are physiologically inert. Air …
I have incurred a great number of debts in the process of writing this book. First of all, many thanks are due to Margaret Mitchell, who was my advisor and chair of the committee that accepted an earlier, rather different version of this study as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago in 2015. If this monograph exhibits any scholarly virtues at all, it is largely to her credit
This collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of East German art, film, literature, music, and museum studies, seeks to renegotiate the artistic legacy of the German Democratic Republic. Combining a range of theoretical and practical perspectives, the volume challenges the narrow frameworks of totalitarianism and Ostalgie that have dominated discussions of art produced in…
The most complete survey of architecture in Ireland ever published. The essays in this volume cover all aspects of Ireland’s built environment, not only buildings but infrastructure, landscape development, public and private construction and much else. The volume challenges and expands the traditional understanding of Irish ‘architecture’, giving novel and exciting interpretations of the …
Arsenic Monitoring, Removal and Remediation discusses methods for determining arsenic levels in the environment and removing arsenic pollution. Chapters in the first section comment on the principal methods for arsenic determination in environmental samples with emphasis on sample pretreatment, extraction, separation, and method validation techniques for speciation analysis. Attention is paid t…