This book explores different aspects of information-both explicit and implicit-and how it can be understood as a unified concept or as components within larger systems where human needs and technological possibilities interact.
This book is a recollection of McCartney's journey across 'Sanskritland,' which is the term coined to refer to the utopian landscape within which the 'Language of the Gods' is thought to be spoken.
This book explores the introduction and localization of the political concepts of left and right in Chinese media discourse from the late Qing to the late 1920s, analyzing their shift from spatial metaphors to political symbols that redefined Chinese society, politics, and culture.
Based on long-term ethnographic engagement with Alutiiq/Sugpiaq communities in Southwest Alaska, this book explores the interrelationship of cultural heritage, (de)colonialism, environmentalism, political agency, and the representation of Indigenous identity in museums.
This book offers a bold and timely rethinking of how sustainable energy transitions can be achieved in an era of climate urgency and geopolitical uncertainty.
This book offers a bold and timely rethinking of how sustainable energy transitions can be achieved in an era of climate urgency and geopolitical uncertainty.
Based on long-term ethnographic engagement with Alutiiq/Sugpiaq communities in Southwest Alaska, this book explores the interrelationship of cultural heritage, (de)colonialism, environmentalism, political agency, and the representation of Indigenous identity in museums.
Abdullah Ocalan and the Making of the PKK: A Political Biography offers a powerful and original account of one of the most influential and controversial figures in Middle Eastern politics.
A groundbreaking critical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, provides a thorough historical and philosophical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism.
A groundbreaking critical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, provides a thorough historical and philosophical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism.
The Moral Economy of Plant-Based Futures explores the complex interplay between plant-based social movements and the evolving global economy, offering a timely analysis of how these movements respond to and shape calls for reduced meat and dairy production.
Engineering the Future: Multi-Objective Optimization in Earthquake Resilience and Design develops a rigorous, decision-oriented treatment of performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) by placing multi-objective optimization (MOO) at the centre of modern seismic design and risk management.
