JOHN McMANNERS, Death and the Enlightenment. Changing attitudes to death among Christians and unbelievers in eighteenth-century France,'Oxford University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. vii, 619, £17.50. JOACHIM WHALEY (editor), Mirrors ofmortality. Studies in the social history of death, London, Europa, 1981, pp. vii, 252, £19.50. There is no more universal social fact than death ("never send to know fo...

one of the special islamic arts, calligraphy was given a great reputation because of its association with quranic verses from its earliest appearance on kufic script. this spiritual support along with the utilization of kufic on craft decoration cause the advent of different kinds of kufic, and different cultures and eras flourished its vast variety of unique characteristics. among all of islam...

the sepah-salar complex, including the mosque and the school, has a set of qajar era architectural art including tile-work, painting, inscription, stucco, woodwork and carpentry. the complex was made and endowed by hossein khan, known as sepah-salar (1241-1298 a.h/ 1825- 1882 a.d). he employed the best and the most famous artists and architectures of his era using his own asset. the inscription...

author of Truth from Trash presents machine learning in the form of “edutainment” for the lay reader. The book might also supply points of interest, although not always dependable instruction, to social scientists, philosophers, and psychologists. Thornton describes his book as a research memorandum “in keeping with the technicolour spirit of our times” and also owns to “importing various devic...

Libraries are a permanent feature in the cultural history of the world. The earliest, being collections of clay tablets, date back to 2600 BC (1 ). Library buildings were features in early town planning, in towns such as the Hellenistic Pergamum in Anatolia (today’s Turkey) and Alexandria in Egypt (third to first centuries BC), both collections being widely famous in the ancient world. It is sa...

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This paper reports on the first phase of research that investigates the Net generation entering university. The paper focuses on claims about the Net generation’s relationship to collaboration and cooperation and the ways that this relationship is associated with technological rather than social processes. Based on a survey of first year students in five universities across a range of subjects ...

Mark Weiser described ubiquitous computing as, “invisible, everywhere computing that does not live on a personal device of any sort, but is in the woodwork everywhere.”[11] The EasyLiving project at Microsoft Research is focused on those aspects of ubiquitous computing that are relevant to smart environments, including work in distributed computing, geometric world modeling, computer vision, an...

When everyday objects become equipped with computation and sensors, it will be important to explore interaction techniques that rely on natural actions. We show examples of how non-accidental simultaneous movement of “smart” objects can be exploited as implicit interaction. Applications include implicit access control when opening a door and an automatic packing list creator. This principle of ...