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The founding of the Kingdom of Sicily was a conflict-laden and eventful process of upheaval, of which we are informed by two historical works by immediate eye witness: the Ystoria by Alexander of Telese and the Chronicon by Falco of Benevento. For the first time, this study consistently analyzes both texts from the perspective and local context of their creation and with regard to their specific pragmatic function.

This book is focused on different aspects of geophysical research, particularly on modern approach in subsurface imaging, tectonics, geohazard, seismicity, and Earth planetary system. Syntheses of results from regional and local studies combined with new techniques of geophysical data acquisition and interpretation from diverse geological provinces are presented. Some of the chapter explained clearly the geophysical technic that can image local sources in urban and rural settings in Israel. An example of studies on basement tectonics and fault reactivation in North America using integrated geophysical methods is also presented. Two modes of seismicity, one involving rotational seismology and another based on seismic response in Mexico using Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) as an alternative technique for extracting data that will be useful for the assessment of potential earthquake, are discussed in other sets of chapters. The integration of geoelectric methods in another chapter demonstrated delimitation of the resistivity anomalies caused by different types of hydrocarbon contaminants and rocks in rural, industrial, and urban sites. The results of electrical resistivity method to define 1D and 2D electrical models from two datasets acquired in dry and rainy seasons in Panama (Central America) were used to show the relationship between electrical resistivity and volumetric water content. Petrophysical analyses show good fits between resistivity and volumetric water content and known parameters for rocks and soils. The study on Earth planetary system noted that at all stages of the Earth?s formation, convective heat and mass transfer are the most important factors in the dynamics of the planet. The chapter on magnetics shows how remanent magnetization and self-demagnetization complicate the inversion and interpretation of magnetic anomaly with examples from iron deposit in South Australia.

The unprecedented spread of false and misleading information is the flip side of the Internet's promise of universal access and information democratization. This volume features original contributions from scholars working on the challenge of misinformation across a wide range of STEM, humanities, and art disciplines. Modeling a collaborative, multidisciplinary "convergence approach,"Truth-Seeking in an Age of (Mis)Information Overload is structured in three parts. Part 1, "Misinformation and Artificial Intelligence," confronts the danger of outsourcing judgement and decision-making to AI instruments in key areas of public life, from the processing of loan applications to school funding, policing, and criminal sentencing. Part 2, "Science Communication," foregrounds the need to rethink how scientific findings are communicated to the public, calling on scientists to cooperate with colleagues in other disciplines and community representatives to help minimize the negative effects of mis/disinformation in such vital areas as climate change science and public health. Part 3, "Building Trust," further advocates for and explores instances of trust-building initiatives as a necessary precondition of both community-oriented scholarly activity and effective intervention strategies in high impact areas such as public health. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

This volume brings together twenty peer-reviewed studies honouring the scholarly career of Berit V. Eriksen, whose research has been highly influential in the study of Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in central Europe and southern Scandinavia. The contributions focus on the Late Glacial and Early Holocene, a time marked by profound environmental, social, and technological transformations that reshaped hunter-gatherer lifeways. Reflecting both Eriksen’s research interests and current debates in the field, the contributions address a broad range of themes in hunter-gatherer research. These include lithic technology and raw material procurement, long-distance connections and exotic materials, subsistence strategies, burial practices, and aesthetic expression. Several contributions emphasise methodological and theoretical innovation, employing approaches such as geophysical survey, palynology, isotopic analyses, and taphonomic studies to refine chronologies, reconstruct past environments and human-environmental interactions. Geographically, the volume spans across northern Germany, Denmark, southern Scandinavia, the Baltic region, and adjacent areas, offering case studies that illuminate both regional variability and wider patterns of transition. Particular attention is given to processes of change and continuity, including the emergence of Mesolithic lifeways, shifting relationships between humans, animals, and environments, and the complex responses of hunter-gatherer societies to climatic and ecological challenges. Together, the contributions question linear narratives of cultural development and highlight the diversity and dynamism of Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic worlds. Aimed at researchers, students, and readers with an interest in early prehistory, this volume presents new data, innovative interpretations, and critical reflections that advance our understanding of hunter-gatherer societies at the end of the Ice Age and the beginning of the Holocene, while celebrating Berit V. Eriksen’s lasting impact on the discipline.

Dear Professor: A Chronicle of Absences is a collection of over two hundred often involuntarily comical emails in which students excuse themselves for missing class. The result is a satirical yet unexpectedly sympathetic collective portrait of modern-day academia where both students and teachers feel pressured to comply with the impositions of hyper-connectivity.

This Special Issue addresses philosophical questions regarding various non-classical religious beliefs. The contemporary philosophy of religion includes an active and venerable tradition of arguments concerning religious beliefs. While some new approaches address different questions, the vast majority address the belief in and nature of God. Frequently, ‘God’ is defined as a perfect being: a supernatural being with the greatest powers and qualities (omniscience, omnibenevolence, necessity, omnipresence, etc.) who created the universe. This concept of God is often labeled as ‘classical theism.’ While defining ‘God’ as a perfect being is fairly common in Abrahamic religious traditions, it is far less prevalent in non-Western traditions. In Indian religions, Gods are bound by karma and therefore not omnipotent. In Afro-American traditions, vodoun or loa are sometimes regarded as localized and therefore not omni-present. Many adherents of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism also hold beliefs on ‘intermediary’ supernatural beings that lack perfection, such as angels, demons, and Jinn. This Special Issue contains publications that discuss various topics pertaining to non-classical religious beliefs, including the epistemic features of belief in spirits or demons, belief in angels, belief in animism, process theism, Indian beliefs and practices, Chinese philosophy of religion, Afro-Brazilian practices, and neo-pagan spirituality.

Understanding the multitude of knowledges that constitute architectural thinking, designing and making In architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role in both the design process and its reception. The essays in this book explore the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, and reflexive understanding of what we build. Tacit knowledge, described in 1966 by Michael Polanyi as what we ‘can know but cannot tell’, often denotes knowledge that escapes quantifiable dimensions of research. Much of architecture’s knowledge resides beneath the surface, in nonverbal instruments such as drawings and models that articulate the spatial imagination of the design process. Awareness of the tacit dimension helps to understand the many facets of the spaces we inhabit, from the ideas of the architect to the more hidden assumptions of our cultures. Beginning in the studio, where students are guided into becoming architects, the book follows a path through the tacit knowledge present in materials, conceptual structures, and the design process, revealing how the tacit dimension leads to craftsmanship and the situated knowledge of architecture-in-the-world. Contributors: Tom Avermaete (ETH Zürich), Margitta Buchert (Leibniz-Universität Hannover), Christoph Grafe (Bergische Universität Wuppertal), Mari Lending (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Angelika Schnell (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Eireen Schreurs (Delft University of Technology), Lara Schrijver (University of Antwerp)

Der Begriff Governance ist in den letzten Jahren fast ein Modewort geworden - oft benutzt, aber zumeist nicht klar definiert und daher recht unterschiedlich interpretierbar. Obwohl er als wissenschaftlicher Terminus aus den Wirtschaftswissenschaften stammt - im Wesentlichen wird er auf Ronald Coase und Oliver E. Williamson zurückgeführt - spielte er zunächst vor allem in den Politikwissenschaften eine sichtbare Rolle. Heutzutage ist er aber auch aus der wirtschaftspolitischen Diskussion nicht mehr wegzudenken. Governance umfasst dabei zum einen Regelungsstrukturen, die sich auf Institutionen und Akteurskonstellationen beziehen, zum anderen aber auch formelle und informelle Regeln sowie Anreizstrukturen in Hinblick auf ihre Bedeutung für den Koordinationsprozess wirtschaftlicher Aktivitäten. Eine klare und eindeutige Begriffsabgrenzung in der Art einer Lehrbuchdefinition fehlt jedoch nach wie vor. Diese zunehmende, aber oft unspezifizierte Verwendung des Begriffs Governance in der wirtschaftspolitischen Forschung nahm der Wirtschaftspolitische Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik zum Anlass, für seine diesjährige Jahrestagung, die vom 24. - 26. März 2009 in Leipzig stattfand, das Rahmenthema "Governance in der Wirtschaftspolitik" zu wählen. Der hier vorliegende Tagungsband beinhaltet die schriftlichen Fassungen der vorgestellten Beiträge. Es werden darin verschiedene Governance-Begriffe und Governance-Konzepte abgegrenzt, konkrete Governance-Probleme dargestellt und die Rolle bestimmter Governancestrukturen vor dem Hintergrund verschiedener ökonomischer Rahmenbedingungen untersucht. Der vorliegende Tagungsband soll somit helfen, den Begriff Governance in seinen verschiedenen Facetten und in seiner Bedeutung für wirtschaftspolitische Fragestellungen zu erfassen.

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La métaphore est un des lieux privilégiés où se déploie la réflexion contemporaine sur les modalités de production et de structuration du sens. Fondamentalement, il s'agit d'un processus de signification par transfert, où des univers réputés irréductibles se trouvent fusionnés par le biais de l'analogie. Plus profondément, l'on doit s'interroger sur le caractère spécifique de la métaphore, c'est-à-dire sur les mécanismes fondamentaux de son fonctionnement. Cette tâche implique un effort de description et d'évaluation du processus métaphorique dans les langages les plus divers. C'est à cette double entreprise que contribue le présent ouvrage. On y trouvera l'exposé de cinq approches différentes, s'alimentant chacune aux interrogations les plus récentes dans les disciplines suivantes : philosophie, épistémologie, psychanalyse, linguistique et sémiotique du langage pictural.

Existe-t-il des « pensées de crise », des pensées qui ne soient pas simplement nées durant une « crise », mais qui soient entièrement ordonnées au processus critique ? Il n’est pas de meilleur terrain d’investigation, pour répondre à cette question, que la république de Weimar, puisque celle-ci a vécu toute sa brève existence (de 1919 à 1933) sous le signe d’une crise structurelle, multiforme et toujours en voie d’exacerbation. Mais, surtout, la crise de Weimar a fait l’objet d’une constante réflexion de la part de ceux qui en étaient les acteurs. La pensée de Weimar est une pensée de crise, cela va presque de soi, mais elle est aussi une pensée de la crise, une pensée dont l’objet même est de réfléchir une situation insupportable. C’est chez les juristes que le débat théorique a été le plus immédiatement politique, et de la manière la plus explosive. Ses protagonistes sont mus par la conviction que le régime vit une crise si profonde que seules des transformations radicales pourront en venir à bout. Et c’est ici qu’ils rejoignent, volens nolens, le débat politique ordinaire de Weimar : ce qui est toujours en question, c’est la possibilité et la forme d’une transformation profonde, d’une révolution, prolétarienne ou nationale... Ainsi, la pensée juridique de Weimar est, à tous les sens du terme, une pensée de crise : non pas simplement une réflexion sur les issues possibles de la crise du régime, mais véritablement une pensée conduite en régime d’exception. L’axiome posé par Carl Schmitt, à savoir que c’est l’exception qui est la clef de l’intelligence de la « situation normale », est le révélateur inquiétant d’une direction que les juristes, même acquis à l’ordre constitutionnel existant, vont adopter de plus en plus aisément avec l’aggravation de sa crise. Ainsi, la théorie juridique paraît jouer à fronts renversés : le désordre, ce « néant normatif », paraît constituer sinon le paradigme, du moins la condition d’intelligibilité de l’ordre « normal » et normatif.

Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data. The first volume of this handbook extensively explored these oppressive roles.This second volume illustrates that escaping the corporatized and bureaucratized orders of power, techno-managerial and consumer-oriented capitalist economic models is more urgent and necessary than ever before. Herein lies the political role of architecture and urban space, including the ways through which they can be transformed and alternative political realities constituted. The volume explores the methods and spatial practices required to activate the political dimension and the possibility for alternative practices to operate in the existing oppressive systems while not being swallowed by these structures. Fostering new political consciousness is explored in terms of the following themes: Events and Dissidence; Biopolitics, Ethics and Desire; Climate and Ecology; Urban Commons and Social Participation; Marginalities and Postcolonialism. Volume II embraces engagement across disciplines and offers a wide range of projects and critical analyses across the so-called Global North and South. This multidisciplinary collection of 36 chapters provides the reader with an extensive resource of case studies and ways of thinking for architecture and urban space to become more emancipatory. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Ethics is a vigorously contested field. There are many competing moral frameworks, and different views about how normative considerations should inform the art and craft of governmental policy making. What is not in dispute, however, is that ethics matters. The ethical framework adopted by policy analysts and decision makers not only shapes how policy problems are defined, framed and analysed, but also influences which ethical principles and values are taken into account and their weighting. As a result, ethics can have a profound impact, both on the character of the policy process and the choices made by decision makers. Public Policy – Why Ethics Matters brings together original contributions from leading scholars and practitioners with expertise in various academic disciplines, including economics, philosophy, physics, political science, public policy and theology. The volume addresses three main issues: fist, the ethical considerations that should inform the conduct of public officials and the task of policy analysis; second, the ethics of climate change; and third, ethics and economic policy. While the contributors have varying views on these important issues, they share a common conviction that the ethical dimensions of public policy need to be better understood and given proper attention in the policy-making process.

The object of this publication is to explore the legal limits of a European Super League. Like the ECJ in Case C-333/21, the author examines the question of whether UEFA may regulate breakaway competitions and sanction clubs and players for participating in such competitions in order to protect the established structures of the European sports model. Unlike the ECJ, he also analyses the compatibility of UEFA's new authorisation rules governing international club competitions (edition 2022) with EU antitrust law. Furthermore, the subject of the work is the admissibility of a closed European Super League under EU antitrust law.

The convenient myth of Wilhelm Reich is that he “lost his mind” in the early 1950s, if not before, and that the last seven years of his life and work — the orgone and radiation experiments, the cloudbuster, and flying saucer intrigues — present an embarrassment. Even the counterculture that embraced Reich, not least William S. Burroughs, Norman Mailer, and filmmaker Dušan Makavejev, tended to distort his theory. The psychosis attached to Reich by his detractors was the culmination of decades of scapegoating by psychoanalysts, Nazis, communists, and conservatives. But Reich’s environmental and Cold War preoccupations and his slow-burning fascination with UFO phenomena were not signs of a madness incipient since his break with Sigmund Freud. They anticipated and reflected much in the American psyche. Defining the presence of a “cinematic self” in the misunderstood analyst once considered an heir to Freud, Wilhelm Reich versus the Flying Saucers rejects orthodox portrayals of Reich’s final years as merely pathological. Combining original analysis and evidence from the Wilhelm Reich Archive, James Reich uncovers the fatal moments in the psychologist’s uncanny identification with the “spaceman,” and the myth of a scientist lost to his own grandiosity and paranoia. Taking seriously the influence of The Day the Earth Stood Still, Bad Day at Black Rock, and other pop cultural narratives on Reich, this “psychoanalytic detective story” concerns existential traps, conscious and unconscious collaborations and betrayals by disciples, and unidentified flying object-relations. Reich’s is an atomic-age passion narrative. Vitally, Reich’s story could be ours. The author is not related to his subject.