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SEMAR IS AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING CONCERN
specialising in high quality editions in humanities and social sciences
and is the only publishing house in the world to use materials manufactured
with conservation criteria that guarantee its publications
both sustainability and an unprecedented durability.
This direct intervention on structural factors
affecting the ageing of a paper-based work
has changed the focus of attention from
conservation to prevention and has led
the company twice being awarded,
in 1988 and 1989, the Premio Cultura
of the Italian Presidency of the Cabinet,
while creating wide interest with international
centres for the study of preservation of cultural property.

The cross-cultural editorial line of the house aims for a better
understanding among people by a deeper knowledge
of their mutual culture, ideas, traditions and beliefs
in a dialog intended to stimulate cultural diversity.
Resolute in its quest to carry out a cultural action
in the widest sense of the word,
Semar intends to grant each work the possibility
to becoming, over the course of time, a historical
witness, whilst also recognising the consumer's
right to durability of the purchased product.
Besides the use of high quality materials, the
publishing house, whose motto is Ut durent,
places particular emphasis on the selection
of content and on product design.

All materials employed by Semar
throughout the production cycle,
besides complying with the ISO 9706
requirements on permanence of paper,
take into account the whole production cycle
of the book as integral part of an environmentally sustainable policy.
Materials are selected and used according to an in-house patented procedure
to confer a durability that ensures a gradual and homogeneous ageing process:
inks with low concentration of acidity and lead; strings, twines and binding studied
for durable conservation, including the most recent findings on the high pollution
emissions given off by traditional types of glue used in the bookbinding industry.
Semar diversifies the use of materials according to the obsolescence of the
product, while keeping clean production and zero waste
as an aim in sight.
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Supporting ISO 14001 and Environmental Management.

Semar is Fully Committed to the
Preservation and Conservation
of Our Cultural Heritage and
of the Environment.
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Our knowledge collection continues to grow
through the expertise of our staff, advisers and partners.
In our site we are proud to build upon Semar's long commitment
to the thrill of discovery and a lifelong love of learning, and we hope you will visit often.
We will continue to add products and partners of the highest quality and, as always,
we welcome your suggestions. You may email your suggestion to us at any time.

The writings in our publication do not represent
any consensus of beliefs or ideologies. We do not expect
that readers will sympathize with all the feelings and the ideas
they find here. Some of our authors may flatly disagree with
others: but we hold that while keeping clear of mere vagaries,
Semar can do more to inform the public opinion by a broad
hospitality to divergent ideas that it can by identifying
itself with one school.
Semar does not accept responsibility for the
view expressed in any writing, signed or unsigned,
which appears in its pages: what it does accept is
the responsibility for giving them a chance
to appear here.

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SEMAR
is   a   mythological
character   of   the   Javanese
shadow   theatre   (wayang).   He
symbolizes   the   undivided,   unity,  the
divine   mystery.   He   lives   in   the   realm
of   the   ‘heart’   from   which   feelings   flow.
He   marks   a   temporary   upset   of   the   natural
order   of   the   universe   by   appearing   when   the
main   character,   smarting   from   the   human   condition,
calls   upon   the   divine   intervention.
He   is   a   clown,   a   cosmic   servant   who
deals,   with   irreverence,   in   heroes’
and   lords’   matters   alike;   his
temperament   prevails   on
their   wisdom.
Semar
reveals   to
the   audience   the   true   meaning   of
what  is   happening   on   the   stage   by
rendering   the   courtly   language
into   ordinary,   everyday
speech.

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