A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the wave of a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into great rippling rivers, that set buildings ablaze for days on end, that made homes collapse upon themselve…
A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were—and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmar…
Ada satu percakapan yang melibatkan Einstein di Princeton tahun 1946. Para saintis ditanya, “Anda bisa membuat bom atom. Bisa menelaah struktur atom, tapi tidak bisa men-device secara politik, yang membikin atom tidak merusak kita?” Einstein menjawab, “Itu sederhana. Sebab politik lebih susah daripada fisika.” Einstein tidak mengglorifikasi sains. Dan memang tidak sepatutnya diglorifi…
Analisis data kualitatif merupakan salah satu kesulitan yang kerap ditemui dalam penggunaan dan praktik penelitian kualitatif. Buku ini mencoba untuk menjawab permasalahan tersebut dengan terlebih dahulu mengenalkan berbagai metode dan alat yang lazim digunakan dalam pengelolaan dan analisis data kualitatif. Ilustrasi dan contoh singkat diberikan berdasarkan pengalaman penulis ketika menyusun t…
Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is a comprehensive analysis of knowledge of animals among the Nage people of central Flores in Indonesia. Gregory Forth sheds light on the ongoing anthropological debate surrounding the categorization of animals in small-scale non-Western societies. Forth's detailed discussion of how the Nage people conceptualize their relationship to the animal world covers t…