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Pankaj Mishra Tijd van woede
een geschiedenis van het heden
Pankaj Mishra beschrijft in ‘Tijd van woede’ op een beknopte en briljante manier de geschiedenis van woede als politieke drijfveer. Met verrassende historische parallellen laat hij zien dat deze tijd niet uniek is: ook het begin van de twintigste eeuw was vol van destructiedrift, nationalisme en terrorisme. Dat is geen geruststellende gedachte en ‘Tijd van woede’ is dan ook een alarmerend boek: er zal een mentaliteitsverandering nodig zijn om onze vrijheid, welvaart en stabiliteit te behouden. Bron:...
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Nederlands | 310 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
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Salomon Kroonenberg Spiegelzee
de zeespiegelgeschiedenis van de mens
Geschiedenis van het zeeniveau vanaf de prehistorie tot heden en van de invloed daarvan op het landschap en de mens.
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Nederlands | 184 pagina's (ePub2, 35 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
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Wendy Geuverink In mijn familie
moeilijke medische keuzes rond ziekte en erfelijke aanleg
Persoonlijk en indringend relaas van een vrouw die draagster is van het erfelijke borstkankergen BRCA2, over de impact hiervan op haarzelf en naaste omgeving.
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Nederlands | 133 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | AnkhHermes, Utrecht | 2017
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Nicholas Arnst Nicholas
geheimen van een goochelaar
In het razend populaire tv-programma Nicholas trekt illusionist Nicholas Arnst de straat op om argeloze voorbijgangers op straat en Bekende Vlamingen te verbazen met zijn street magic. Mysterieuze verdwijningen, coole kaarttrucs en andere vingervlugge close-up acts laten iedereen versteld staan. 'Dees kannekik ni aan': Karen Damen vatte het mooi samen. 'Hoe doet hij dat toch allemaal?' vraagt heel Vlaanderen zich met open mond af. In zijn boek onthult Nicholas meer dan wat hij op televisie laat zien....
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Nederlands | 162 pagina's (ePub3, 16 MB) | Horizon, Antwerpen | 2017
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Sebastiaan Hooft APK voor ondernemers
hoe je onder druk gezond en succesvol blijft
Persoonlijk getint relaas over duurzaam ondernemerschap.
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Nederlands | 80 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Business Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
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Rob de Wijk De nieuwe revolutionaire golf
waarom burgers zich van hun leiders afkeren
Analyse van de huidige onrust op politiek gebied in veel Europese landen, onder meer door de opkomst van het populisme.
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Nederlands | 210 pagina's (ePub2, 3,9 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
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J. Jolles Het tienerbrein
over de adolescent tussen biologie en omgeving
Je zoon van 15 is slim en verstandig. Waarom doet hij dan soms van die ongelooflijk domme dingen? En waarom vindt hij zijn smartphone en onmiddellijke bevrediging belangrijker dan het plannen van zijn activiteiten? Waarom neemt hij soms onverantwoorde risico's? En hoe kan het dat tieners zich plots heel snel ontwikkelen en een eerdere achterstand omzetten in een voorsprong? Antwoord: de tiener is 'werk in uitvoering'. Dat hangt samen met de hersenrijping: die gaat door tot vér na het twintigste...
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Nederlands | 361 pagina's (ePub2, 25 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
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A. Abeling | Christine Ulein Franse uitdrukkingen en zegswijzen, ingedeeld op onderwerp
druk je beter uit in het Frans
Verzameling thematisch geordende Franse uitdrukkingen met vertaling.
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Nederlands | 315 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Prisma, Amsterdam | 2013
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Everyday life practices of Muslims in Europe
Bijdragen over de dagelijkse gewoonten van moslims in Europa.
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Engels | 234 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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The debate about colour naming in 19th century German philology
selected translations
The Debate about Colour Naming in 19th Century German Philology is comprised of eleven essays illustrating the intensity of interest in colour naming and categorisation that arose in nineteenth century Germany. The themes of each chapter vary in their emphasis on particular theories which lie behind the 'testing' of the colour-naming capacities of 'primitive people' throughout the world, and which move towards new variants of the doctrine of 'evolution.' This selection of work directs itself towards...
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Engels | 200 pagina's (PDF, 1,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Amir Valle Gagged
censorship in Cuba
Amir Valle (Cuba, 1967) offers a unique analysis of the suppression of freedom of expression in Cuba by Fidel Castro's 'revolutionary' government. From the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 to the 'Raulist Era' of today, he offers a chilling survey of the most significant cases of cultural repression and censorship perpetrated by the longest Communist dictatorship in the world. From their beginnings in literature and journalism, the author has witnessed first hand the oppressive and painful...
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Engels | 130 pagina's (ePub2, 1,1 MB) | Eva Tas Foundation, Amsterdam | 2017
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Deleuze and psychoanalysis
philosophical essays on Deleuze's debate with psychoanalysis
Gilles Deleuze is among the twentieth century's most important philosophers of difference. The style of his extended oeuvre is so extremely dense and cryptic that reading and appreciating it require an unusual degree of openness and a willingness to enter a complicated but extremely rich system of thought. The abundant debates with and references to a variety of authors of many different domains; the sophisticated conceptual framework; the creation of new concepts and the injection of existing concepts...
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Engels | 160 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Katrien Hendrickx The origins of banana-fibre cloth in the Ryukyus, Japan
The Japanese word bashôfu literally means 'banana-fibre cloth'. Both the cloth and the clothing made from it are now considered important constituents of Okinawan identity. This special trait of Okinawan material culture was brought to attention by the Japanese Folk Craft Movement in the 1930s. After years of decline following World War II, the weaving and use of bashôfu saw a revival that accelerated after the return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972 and still continues. Although today bashôfu receives...
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Engels | 336 pagina's (PDF, 59 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Elusive Russia
current developments in Russian state identity and institutional reform under President Putin
Since President Putin came to power, Russia's domestic political process underwent continuous changes. Up till now it remains unclear whether Russia is on the road towards becoming a fullfledged democracy or if it is diverting from this path. Elusive Russia brings together the views of four leading Russia experts on Russian state identity and institutional reform. Marie Mendras, Luke March, Irina Busygina and Andrei Zakharov share their original approaches on some key components of today's russian...
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Engels | 90 pagina's (PDF, 1 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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A Holocene prehistoric sequence in the Egyptian Red Sea area: the tree shelter
The prehistory of the Eastern Desert of Egypt is not well understood. A Holocene Prehistoric Sequence in the Egyptian Red Sea Area: The Tree Shelter is an important contribution to our knowledge of the Epi-Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Predynastic occupation of the area. It presents the results of an excavation of a small rock shelter near Quseir, Egypt, which is one of the rare stratified sites in the Eastern Egyptian desert. The stratigraphic sequence starts around 8000 bp and continues until about...
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Engels | 104 pagina's (PDF, 22 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Rockwell F. Clancy Towards a political anthropology in the work of Gilles Deleuze
psychoanalysis and Anglo-American literature
'Political anthropology' as the major contemporary importance in Deleuze's work. This work explores the significance of two recurring themes in the thought of Gilles Deleuze: his critique of psychoanalysis and praise for Anglo-American literature. Tracing the overlooked influence of English writer D.H. Lawrence on Deleuze, Rockwell Clancy shows how these themes ultimately bear on two competing 'political anthropologies', conceptions of the political and the respective accounts of philosophical anthropology...
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Engels | 336 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Parvez Alam Disappearing public spheres
censorship in Bangladesh
'State of Nature' and 'State of exception' have become the only two options for the people of Bangladesh recently, where writers, bloggers and publishers are getting killed by Al-Qaeda affiliates and persecuted by the Government. Empowerment of polarizations such as 'secular' verses 'Islamists' have also empowered the ruling regime and Islamist extremist groups. Severe censorship on all kind of media has suffocated freedom of expression. New public spheres that had emerged in the internet era are...
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Engels | 92 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Eva Tas Foundation, Amsterdam | 2017
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Crossing cultures
Nineteenth-century anglophone literature in the Low Countries
Crossing Cultures brings together scholars in the field of reception and translation studies to chart the individual and institutional agencies that determined the reception of Anglophone authors in the Dutch and Belgian literary fields in the course of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. The essays offer a variety of angles from which nineteenth-century literary dynamics in the Low Countries can be studied. The first two parts discuss the reception of Anglophone literature...
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Engels | 218 pagina's (PDF, 3,6 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Science translated
Latin and vernacular translations of scientific treatises in medieval Europe
Medieval translators played an important role in the development and evolution of a scientific lexicon. At a time when most scholars deferred to authority, the translations of canonical texts assumed great importance. Moreover, translation occurred at two levels in the Middle Ages. First, Greek or Arabic texts were translated into the learned language, Latin. Second, Latin texts became source-texts themselves, to be translated into the vernaculars as their importance across Europe started to increase....
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Engels | Frans | 478 pagina's (PDF, 5,6 MB) | Leiven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Sexuality and psychoanalysis
philosophical criticisms
The relationship between sexuality and psychoanalysis can be described in terms of an old and stormy love affair. The same can be said about the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy. It is precisely this fascinating 'love triangle' that the present volume of essays aims to explore. A diverse group of philosophers and psychoanalysts reflected on the concept of sexuality in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis. The result is a stimulating collection of essays where the role of sexuality in...
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Engels | 239 pagina's (PDF) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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