John D. Barrow: Pi in the Sky. Counting, Thinking and Being

In the Baltic mythology and folklore, the sky covering the Earth and its bodies – the Sun, Moon, stars and their constellations are among the most prominent archaic images, compris...

William J. Barrow was a unique and significant individual in the history of archives preservation, the development of permanent/durable book paper, and the application of investiga...

This essay considers the use of “serial thinking”—an approach to representation and cognition that emphasizes repetition, enumeration, and aggregation—in the work of Thomas Hardy. ...

Pollution of the night sky by artificial light has now become an important element of the modern city landscape. The decline in the quality of the sky observed at night in urban ar...

King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (1458‒1490), son of the “Scourge of the Turks,” John Hunyadi, was a foremost patron of early Renaissance art. He was only fourteen years old in 14...

This article intends to make a contribution to the study of lay thinking on democracy and proposes a theoretical framework based on the notion of the `argumentative pole' that I ha...

This chapter introduces the purpose, warrant, and contents of the book Sociological Thinking about Music Education: International Intersections, namely that sociological thinking c...

Between 1880 and 1893 General Pitt Rivers excavated two Bronze Age sites inside his park at Rushmore. In 1880 and 1884 he investigated a cemetery of six barrows at Barrow Pleck, an...