Pada tahun 1847, insinyur militer dan diplomat Rusia Egor Petrovich Kovalevsky memulai perjalanan melalui wilayah yang sekarang disebut Mesir, Sudan, Eritrea, dan Ethiopia, mencatat kesan-kesannya tentang wilayah yang sedang berubah. Diundang oleh penguasa Mesir Mohammed Ali untuk mencari emas dan membangun tambang di daerah antara Nil Biru dan Nil Putih, Kovalevsky menangkap lingkungan sosial …
A clear-eyed examination of the open access movement: past history, current conflicts, and future possibilities.Open access (OA) could one day put the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips. But the goal of allowing everyone to read everything faces fierce resistance. In Athena Unbound, Peter Baldwin offers an up-to-date look at the ideals and history behind OA, and unpacks the controversies …
This book depicts the long rich life and wide ranging work of Count Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). By exploring his complex personality, his processes of thought and his accomplishments, it reveals a man at once a wealthy aristocrat, a Pole in the Prussian diplomatic service, an active participant in and perceptive observer and critical commentator on political life, a connoisseur and art…
The anthology explores breath from the perspective of the arts and humanities, as well as experimental scientific and design practices. Focus is on the period from 1900 to the present day – an era during in which air has become a precarious medium, co-created and manipulated by humans. Against this backdrop, breath appears as an elusive yet vital substance that reveals connections between the…
Buku Akses Terbuka ini merayakan pencapaian luar biasa Profesor Peter Marwedel dalam kompilator, sistem tertanam, dan sistem siber-fisik. Kontribusi dalam buku ini merangkum isi kuliah undangan yang diberikan pada lokakarya "Sistem Tertanam" yang diadakan di Technical University Dortmund pada awal Juli 2019 untuk menghormati ulang tahun Profesor Marwedel yang ketujuh puluh. Menyediakan pandanga…
This book collects some of the works presented at ATEE Florence Spring Conference 2020-2021. The Conference, originally planned for May 2020, was forcefully postponed due to the dramatic insurgence of the pandemic. Despite the difficulties in this period, the Organising Committee decided anyway to keep it, although online and more than one year later, not to disperse the huge work of authors, m…
Sebuah sumber primer tentang perjalanan ke Persia oleh Kapten John Compton Pyne pada tahun 1884 yang mengungkapkan ketertarikan Barat terhadap Timur Tengah di era Victoria. Buku ini mencakup pengantar oleh para editor dan transkripsi manuskrip dengan catatan dan ilustrasi asli, terutama cat air. Sebuah dokumen sejarah penting dan kesaksian saksi mata yang berkaitan dengan Iran, antropologi, stu…
This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researcher…
At War with Women reveals how post-9/11 politics of gender and development have transformed US military power. In the mid-2000s, the US military used development as a weapon as it revived counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military assembled all-female teams to reach households and wage war through development projects in the battle for "hearts and minds." Despite women technically …
Kehidupan Masa Kecil Seorang Yahudi di Mediterania Muslim menyatukan kisah-kisah pribadi yang menarik dari para penulis, cendekiawan, dan intelektual Yahudi yang tumbuh dewasa di negeri-negeri di mana Islam adalah agama yang dominan dan kehidupan sehari-hari diwarnai oleh politik proyek kekaisaran Prancis. Didorong oleh novelis Leïla Sebbar untuk merefleksikan masa kecil mereka, para penulis i…