An Ethnohistorian in Rupert's Land: Unfinished Conversations

In 1670, the ancient homeland of the Cree and Ojibwe people of Hudson Bay became known to the English entrepreneurs of the Hudson's Bay Company as Rupert's Land, after the founder and absentee landlord, Prince Rupert. For four decades, Jennifer S. H. Brown has examined the complex relationships that developed among the newcomers and the Algonquian communities-who hosted and tolerated the fur tr…

American Homes

An eccentric, otherworldly guide to the domestic spaces Americans inhabit

'A Peep at the Blacks'. A History of Tourism at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station…

Buku ini membahas sejarah pariwisata di Stasiun Aborigin Coranderrk di Healesville, timur laut Melbourne, yang berfungsi sebagai cagar alam pemerintah dari tahun 1863 hingga penutupannya pada tahun 1924. Di Coranderrk, kepentingan misi Aborigin dan pariwisata beririsan dan stasiun tersebut menjadi 'tempat pameran' budaya Aborigin dan kebijakan asimilasi pemerintah. Penduduk Aborigin menanggapi …

Bikol Dictionary

The Bikol language of the Philippines, spoken in the southernmost peninsula of Luzon Island and extending into the island provinces of Catanduanes and Masbate, is presented in this bilingual dictionary. An introduction explains the Bikol alphabet, orthographic representation (including policies adopted in writing Spanish and English loan words), foreign sounds in Bikol, and Bikol phonology.

Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts

Acting on conviction has been linked to extreme accomplishments and signifcant positive change. At the same time, according to one of the earliest modern commentators on the concept of conviction, Friedrich Nietzsche, “convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies”

Beyond Reward: Insights from Love and Addiction

Rewarding stimuli promoting the learning of goal-directed behaviors tend to produce positive emotions, and subsequently repetition of those learned behaviors. Some kinds of drugs and behaviors are highly rewarding, and thereby, control human behavior by generating a state called addiction. The core feature of this state is compulsive behavior despite negative consequences. Addiction on a ne…

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Health Care and Medical Sciences

This open access book provides a detailed review of the latest methods and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in medicine. With chapters focusing on enabling the reader to develop a thorough understanding of the key concepts in these subject areas along with a range of methods and resulting models that can be utilized to solve healthcare problems, the use of …

Between Peace and Conflict in the East and the West

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Aftermath

Aftermath: Genocide, Memory and History examines how genocide is remembered and represented in both popular and scholarly memory, integrating scholarship on the Holocaust with the study of other genocides through a comparative framework. Scholars from a range of disciplines re-evaluate narratives of past conflict to explore how memory of genocide is mobilised in the aftermath, tracing the devel…

A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North: Terrestria…

Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic. A historian by training, his 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on "The Historical and Legal Background of Canada's Arctic Claims" remains a foundational work on the topic, as does his 1966 chapter "Sovereignty in the North: The Canadian Aspect of an International Problem," in R. St. J. M…