Art Crossing Borders offers a thought-provoking analysis of the internationalisation of the art market during the long nineteenth century. Twelve experts, dealing with a wide variety of geographical, temporal, and commercial contexts, explore how the gradual integration of art markets structurally depended on the simultaneous rise of nationalist modes of thinking, in unexpected and ambiguous wa…
Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) is a key figure in the history of ideas, whose concepts have been seen as precursors to those developed by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz and Kant. His Ethics presents a treatment of virtue from the standpoint of occasionalist metaphysics. The great Irish writer Samuel Beckett stated that Geulincx, with his emphasis on the powerlessness and ignorance of the human con…
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. From pilgrimage sites in the far west of Europe to the Persian court; from mystic visions to a gruesome contemporary “dance”; from a mundane poem on wine to staggering religious art: thus far in space and time extends the world of the Armenians. A glimpse of the vast and …
The Arjunawiwāha is one of the best known of the Old Javanese classics. This volume presents a new text, based on Balinese manuscripts, with a complete translation, building on the work done by earlier writers. An introduction provides ample background information, as well as an original interpretation of the significance of the text, within its historical and cultural setting. This poem was w…
Tujuan dari buku akses terbuka ini adalah untuk memulai percakapan internasional dan lintas disiplin tentang keterlibatan ayah. Dengan mengintegrasikan perspektif dari tiga sektor—Kesehatan, Kebijakan Sosial, dan Pekerjaan di Organisasi—buku ini menawarkan perspektif baru tentang manfaat keterlibatan ayah bagi pria, bagi keluarga, dan untuk kesetaraan gender. Bab-bab disusun untuk menarik a…
This volume studies the teaching of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics (the standard textbook for moral philosophy) in the universities of Renaissance Italy. Special attention is given to how university commentaries on the Ethics reflect developments in educational theory and practice and in humanist Aristotelianism. After surveying the fortune of the Ethics in the Latin West to 1650 and the wo…
Despite Aristotle's family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on Aristotle's philosophy is controversial and far from universally acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to re-examine the influence of medical knowledge and literature on Aristotle's work, in particular to explore the connections with the Hippocratic writings. The volume enco…
Buku akses terbuka ini membahas implikasi crowdsourcing internal (IC) dalam perusahaan. Menyajikan model referensi lintas sektoral yang berorientasi pada karyawan untuk praktik IC yang baik, buku ini membahas dasar-dasar teori inti, dan menawarkan panduan untuk manajemen proses dan cetak biru untuk implementasi IC. Selain itu, buku ini juga membahas solusi untuk pelatihan karyawan dan pengemban…
In Architecture and Asceticism Loosley Leeming presents the first interdisciplinary exploration of Late Antique Syrian-Georgian relations available in English. The author takes an inter-disciplinary approach and examines the question from archaeological, art historical, historical, literary and theological viewpoints to try and explore the relationship as thoroughly as possible. Taking the Geor…
Buku akses terbuka ini menyatukan karya-karya para ahli dari berbagai disiplin ilmu dan benua untuk merefleksikan hubungan antara kepemimpinan, spiritualitas, dan kearifan, terutama yang berkaitan dengan dunia yang semakin tidak menentu, tidak pasti, kompleks, dan ambigu (VUCA.; Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous). Buku ini menguraikan, pertama-tama, apa yang dimaksud dengan dunia VUCA…