TIME FOR THE ANCIENTS; MEASUREMENT, THEORY, EXPERIENCE

The book offers an overview of experiences, theories and conceptions of time in the Graeco-Roman world. It presents the results of new research on neglected medical texts, relating to time management, aging and times of life, and the importance of the accurate time assessment. At the same time it draws together the most important findings of much recent classical scholarship on ancient attitude…

MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURES AND THE POLITICS OF DIGITAL TIME; ESSAYS ON HARDWIRED T…

Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time, promising instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these outward interfaces of convenience by calling attention to their supporting infrastructures, the networks of digital time that exert pressures of conformity and standardization…

ANTI-JAPAN

In August 2017, four Chinese men dressed in Second World War Japanese military uniforms posed at the Continental Bank Warehouse in Shanghai where Chinese troops fought the Japanese imperial army in 1937. In February 2018, two different men, also in Japanese military garb, struck various poses in front of a memorial site on Zijin Mountain in Nanjing where Chinese civilians were murdered by th…

THE PREHISTORIC MARITIME FRONTIER OF SOUTHEAST CHINA :INDIGENOUS BAI YUE AND …

Edisi

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ISBN/ISSN

9789811640797

Deskripsi Fisik

xxiii, 264 pg; ill.

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

931.01 THE

OVERWHELMED BY OVERFLOWS? :HOW PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS CREATE AND MANAGE EXCESS

This transdisciplinary volume investigates the ways in which people and organisations deal with the overflow of information, goods or choices. It explores two main themes: the emergence of overflows and the management of overflows, in the sense of either controlling or coping with them. Individual chapters show the management of overflows taking place in various social settings, periods and pol…

THE CONTAINER PORT PERFORMANCE INDEX 2022 : A COMPARABLE ASSESSMENT OF PERFOR…

The purpose of the CPPI is to help identify opportunities to improve a terminal or a port that will ultimately benefit all public and private stakeholders. The CPPI is intended to serve as a benchmark for important stakeholders in the global economy, including national governments, port authorities and operators, development agencies, supranational organizations, various maritime interests, and…