Ranggalawe : cerita kepahlawanan sang pemberontak

Ranggalawe adalah salah satu tokoh yang berperan penting pada masa pembentukan kerajaan Majapahit. Bersama dengan Lembu Sora, Wiraraja membantu Raden Wijaya dalam menegakkan kekuasaan Majapahit. Cerita kepahlawanan Ranggalawe dimulai dari terbunuhnya Raja Kertanagara yang berlanjut pada perjuangan Raden Wijaya ketika ingin berperang melawan Raja Jayakatwang, perjuangan Raden Wijaya mendirikan …

Ethnicity, race and inequality in the UK : state of the nation

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. 50 years after the establishment of the Runnymede Trust and the Race Relations Act of 1968 which sought to end discrimination in public life, this accessible book provides commentary by some of the UK’s foremost scholars of race and ethnicity on data relating to a wide range of sectors of society, including employment, health, education, criminal …

Pacific Island heritage: archaeology, identity & community

“This volume emerges from a ground-breaking conference held in the Republic of Palau on cultural heritage in the Pacific. It includes bold investigations of the role of cultural heritage in identity-making, and the ways in which community engagement informs heritage management practices. This is the first broad and detailed investigation of the unique and irreplaceable cultural heritage of th…

Class, culture and space

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9783839400517

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175 p.; 23 cm.

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959.304 HOR c

Documents and the history of the early Islamic world

Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important period. Although the field is richly served by surviving evidence, much of it is hard to locate, difficult to access, and philologically intractable. Presenting a mixture of historical studies and new edit…

Macassan history and heritage: journeys, encounters and influences

This book presents inter-disciplinary perspectives on the maritime journeys of the Macassan trepangers who sailed in fleets of wooden sailing vessels known as praus from the port city of Makassar in southern Sulawesi to the northern Australian coastline. These voyages date back to at least the 1700s and there is new evidence to suggest that the Macassan praus were visiting northern Australia ev…

Transnationalizing radio research : new approaches to an old medium

Transnationalizing Radio Research presents a theoretical and methodological guide for exploring radio's multiple »global ages«, from its earliest years through its recent digital transformations. It offers radio scholars theoretical tools and concrete case studies for moving beyond national research frames. It gives radio practitioners inspiration for production and archiving, and offers scho…

Advances in discrete differential geometry

This is one of the first books on a newly emerging field of discrete differential geometry and an excellent way to access this exciting area. It surveys the fascinating connections between discrete models in differential geometry and complex analysis, integrable systems and applications in computer graphics. The authors take a closer look at discrete models in differential geometry and dynamica…

Literacy, sexuality, pedagogy: Theory and practice for composition studies

Despite its centrality to much of contemporary personal and public discourse, sexuality remains infrequently discussed in composition courses and in our discipline at large. Moreover, its complicated relationship to discourse, to the very language we use to describe and define our worlds, is woefully understudied in our discipline. Talk and writing about sexuality surround us. Not only does the…

Man or monster?: the trial of Khmer rouge torturer

During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes against humanity. While the prosecution painted Duch as evil, his defense lawyers claimed he simply followed orde…