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Revolutionary Becomings
From the toppling of the Qing Empire in 1911 to the political campaigns and mass protests in the Mao and post-Mao eras, revolutionary upheavals characterized China’s twentieth century. In Revolutionary Becomings ̧ Ying Qian studies documentary film as an “eventful medium” deeply embedded in these upheavals and as a prism to investigate the entwined histories of media and China’s revolutionary movements. With meticulous historical excavation and attention to intermedial practices and transnational linkages, Qian discusses how early media practitioners at the turn of the twentieth century intermingled with rival politicians and warlords as well as civic and business organizations. She...
Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP TC 5, WG 8.4, 8.9, 12.9 International Cross-Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, CD-MAKE 2018, held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 2018. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are clustered under the following topical sections: MAKE-Main Track, MAKE-Text, MAKE-Smart Factory, MAKE-Topology, and MAKE Explainable AI.
History and Ideology in Charles Dickens’s and Orhan Kemal’s Selected Novels
History and ideology are important concepts to consider when going through a literary work. Since ancient times, they have been key tools for the examination of literature. By means of these two concepts, a given work is analyzed and evaluated more profoundly. Both English and Turkish literature show traces of history and contesting ideologies. Charles Dickens and Orhan Kemal are prominent authors, the works of whom reveal the historical and ideological background of their respective contexts. This book extensively accounts for history and Althusser's ideology in Charles Dickens's and Orhan Kemal's selected novels.
Social Paediatrics
This unique book take a completely fresh approach to child health. The authors address the challenges of child health as embodied in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the positive health targets of WHO's Health for All 2000 initiative. Throughout the book they use these as a theme around which to examine the effects of adverse social, political, environmental, and family influences on child health. Social Paediatrics provides an essential theoretical and philosophical framework for those wishing to face the challenge of enhancing life quality for all children and gives practical guidelines for all involved in child health issues. It is an indispensable source of information for every pediatrician.
Revolution and Disenchantment
The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, addressed this question. Bardawil excavates the long-lost archive of the Marxist organization Socialist Lebanon and its main theorist, Waddah Charara, who articulated answers in their political practice to fundamental issues confronting revolutionaries worldwide: intellectuals as vectors of revolutionary theory; political organizations as mediators of theory and praxis; and nonemancipatory attachments as...
Nits de pesta
Nits de pesta, la nova novel·la del Nobel turc Orhan Pamuk. Una història coral d’amor i revolta en temps de pesta. Una vibrant ficció històrica que ens toca molt de prop. Primavera de 1901: una epidèmia de pesta fa estralls entre els habitants de l’illa de Minguer, 29a província de l’imperi Otomà. El sultà Abdülhamit primer hi envia el seu inspector en cap de salut, el químic Bonkowski Paixà, i el jove i exitós doctor Nuri, que viatja acompanyat de la seva dona, Pakize Sultan, neboda del sultà. A l’illa també hi trobaran el jove oficial otomà Major Kâmil; la illenca Zeynep, de qui aquest últim està enamorat; el governador Sami Paixà, desbordat per la situació, i l...
