Lu, Toh-Ming (2023). Flashes of life in Sibu, In: “Global Humanities and Liberal Arts”, Wang, Lawrence K. (Editor), Volume 2023, Number 2A, 2023(2A), February 2023; 99 pages, Lenox Institute Press, MA, USA. Lenox.Institute@gmail.com; lut@rpi.edu. https://doi.org/10.17613/k9f1-y534 ………….. ABSTRACT: This ele…[Read more]

This is a prologue to the Spanish translation of Joanna Zylinska’s The End of Man. A Feminist Counter-Apocalypse (2019).

The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)

The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)

The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)

Today’s world is characterized by the increase of environmental degradation due to the predatory exploitation of natural assets, deforestation, desertification and geopolitical hegemonies related to oil and gas, while climate calamities, object of repeated scientific events, become evident and are continuously witnessed by ordinary people. The…[Read more]

Syllabus for English 2Z03: Nature, Literature, Culture: An Introduction to the Environmental Humanities at McMaster University in the 2022 winter semester. This course used a form of contract grading, and this document includes the Contract Grading FAQ provided to students ahead of/during the course.

A discussion of majāz or allegory that is commonly ascribed to the 15th-century Ottoman polygraph Mollā Lüṭfī and that builds on the works of al-Sakkākī and al-Qazwīnī.
The author gives two alternative overarching classifications: a linguistic vs. cognitive allegory classification, and a metaphor vs. hypallage classification that is supplemen…[Read more]

इस पुस्तिका में बिहार की कोसी नदी में वर्ष 2008 में आई प्रलयंकारी बाढ़ का आंखों देखा वर्णन है। बाढ़ में हजारों लोग मारे गए थे, लेकिन बिहार में सत्ता पर काबिज पार्टी ने इस त्रासदी काे एक जाति विशेष को सबक सिखाने के अवसर के रूप में लिया था। इसका तथ्यात्मक ब्यौरा इसमें है। साथ ही इसमें बेघर हुए लोगों की मर्मांतक पीड़ा का भी चित्रण है।…[Read more]

Notas tomadas en la Jornada de la Obra Social de IberCaja en colaboración con el Instituto Francés, “Darwin: Del Big Bang al Hombre (2013); organizadas simultáneamente en la sede de IberCaja en Zaragoza, y en el ayuntamiento de Brive (Francia). Las ponencias de la primera parte de la jornada versan sobre el contexto histórico y científico de Char…[Read more]

The establishment of Camden in 1840 was a private venture of James and William Macarthur, sons of colonial patriarch John Macarthur, at the Nepean River crossing on the northern edge of the family’s pastoral property of Camden Park. The town’s site was enclosed on three sides by a sweeping bend in the Nepean River and has regularly flooded the…[Read more]

The purpose of this study is to determine if there is a relationship between self-directed learning and academic achievement among second year BEED students at UM Peñaplata College. This particular study has used the quantitative–descriptive correlational design to determine the level of self-directed learning in terms of le…[Read more]

Humanity’s age-old dilemmas are often set down to what we call human nature. Even the most philosophical shake their heads in despair at this, as an impassible boundary to progress. Though some have denied its existence, studies indicate that we do indeed have a nature, instincts, and patterns of behavior which are endemic to our species. Even…[Read more]

El mapa energético de Estados Unidos y México. Explica la compleja relación de infraestructura entre ambos países y permite entender que los proyectos energéticos responden al mercado mundial.
El mapa se realizó con datos de la Secretaría de Energía (2019), “Infraestructura de Gas Natural en México”, así como SENER (2022) respecto a las asign…[Read more]

El río Sonora y la mortalidad por cáncer, insuficiencia renal y malformaciones congénitas. En el mapa se aprecian los distritos y zonas de riego principales, así como la Ciudad de Hermosillo. Adicionalmente, se observa la concesión minera de Grupo México. Este mapa salió en el reportaje de Ricardo Balderas: El río y la muerte: Crisis de enferme…[Read more]

This dataset captures all of the references to trees in Richard Power’s The Overstory. Data from the book include page number, section, and sentence the reference appears in. Additional data include, when possible, scientific name, order, family, subfamily, genus, species, and native range.

Contribución a libro sobre:…[Read more]

This paper examines North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as one of the most important instruments of the U.S. Strategy from energy security perspective. The main purpose, here, is to discuss the evolution of NATO in late 2000s and to show how it was designed in that period as a dimension of the U.S. Strategy for sustaining energy security.…[Read more]

Ecological crisis is a complete balls-up. Deepening crisis has ultimately been moving nature and humanity towards a tremendous zero-point. It is essential to make a holistic and true ascertainment about the reason of the crisis, in order to explain its meaning and overcome it. A more holistic approach can be provided with multidimensional…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: El lenguaje no puede entenderse al margen de la evolución. No basta sólo con explicar el surgimiento evolutivo de una “capacidad de lenguaje”, sino que también hay que explicar la evolución del lenguaje en sí, el lenguaje en acto y no en potencia. En suma, no sólo se trata de averiguar si nuestros ancestros hablaban, pues hoy c…[Read more]