• Paulo C. Chagas Unsayable music

  six reflections on musical semiotics, electroacoustic and digital music

  Profound theoretical and philosophical approach to contemporary music. Unsayable Music presents theoretical, critical and analytical reflections on key topics of contemporary music including acoustic, electroacoustic and digital music, and audiovisual and multimedia composition. Six essays by Paulo C. Chagas approaching music from different perspectives such as philosophy, sociology, cybernetics, musical semiotics, media, and critical studies. Chagas's practical experience, both as a composer of...

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  Engels | 300 pagina's (PDF, 4,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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• Emiel Lamberts The struggle with Leviathan

  social responses to the omnipotence of the state, 1815-1965

  A panoramic picture of international politics and the formation of the modern State. The opposition to the omnipotence of the State - as symbolised by Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651) - had a significant impact on the political organisation of European society. A liberal strategy intended to provide a protective legal status for individual citizens, whereas a social strategy aimed to strengthen the social fabric to counterbalance the power of the State. Gradually both strategies became interwoven....

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  Engels | 344 pagina's (PDF, 21 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Juan Maldonado Spanish humanism on the verge of the picaresque: Juan Maldonado's Ludus chartarum, Pastor bonus, and Bacchanalia

  The 16th-century humanist Juan Maldonado in his Latin essays foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Like Erasmus, with whom he corresponded,Maldonado advocated the use of Latin in a wide-range of activities. Maldonado's Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satirical style the abuses of the churchmen in his diocese. His ludus chartarum is framed as a colloquium similar to Vives' on the subject, entertaining while teaching a Latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia,...

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  Engels | Latijn | 298 pagina's (PDF, 14 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Luc Rombouts Singing bronze

  a history of carillon music

  Geschiedenis van het klokkenspel.

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  Engels | 369 pagina's (PDF, 8,9 MB) | Lipsius Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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• Rembrandt Koppelaar | Willem Middelkoop The Tesla revolution

  why big oil has lost the energy war

  Informatie in de vorm van vraag en antwoord over de ingrijpende veranderingen in de energievoorziening en de gevolgen daarvan voor het dagelijks leven.

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  Engels | 334 pagina's (ePub2, 4,3 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2017

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• The use and abuse of sacred places in late medieval towns

  Congresbijdragen over de maatschappelijke betekenis en het wereldlijke nevengebruik van kerk- en kloostergebouwen in West-Europa tijdens de middeleeuwen.

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  Duits | Engels | 248 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Geert Mak The many lives of Jan Six

  a portrait of an Amsterdam dynasty

  Geschiedenis van de Amsterdamse patriciërsfamilie vanaf de zestiende eeuw tot en met de periode vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

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  Engels | ePub2, 4,2 MB | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017

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• Erik Zürcher Three months in Mao's China

  between the great leap forward and the cultural revolution

  In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners. During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed,...

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  Engels | 119 pagina's (ePub2, 8 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2017

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• Hans Jansen Why shouldn't Israel exist in the Middle East?

  a synopsis

  This book is a synopsis of the very extensive work Why shouldn't Israel exist in the Middle East? (published in 2015). The author argues that the Middle East conflict is the easiest problem in the world to explain, but also the most difficult to solve. "Briefly stated: Israel wants to exist, and to recognise the rights of the Palestinians to have their own state. The Palestinians and many other Arabs and Muslims, however, do not acknowledge that the Jewish State of Israel has a right to exist". Prof....

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  Engels | 52 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Aspect Publishers, Soesterberg | 2017

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• Pascal Borry | Gert Matthijs The human recipe

  understanding your genes in today's society

  A smart and witty guide to all you want to know about human genetics. Human genetics is not the playground of science alone. Genetics concerns all of us, for we all have DNA, genes, genomes, and chromosomes. Our genes determine partly our appearance and our behaviour, our talents and our health risks. The authors of The Human Recipe use humour to explain what we understand about human genetics. With anecdotes and topical examples, they demonstrate how genetics affects our everyday lives. What if...

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  Engels | 232 pagina's (PDF, 3,7 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Jan Geurtz Addicted to love

  the path to self-acceptance and happiness in relationships

  In Addicted to Love, Jan Geurtz clearly demonstrates how our search for love and approval stems from a fundamental self-rejection. We try to compensate for this by seeking other people’s appreciation. But this is counterproductive: it actually makes us more insecure and therefore increasingly dependent. This creates an addiction to love, approval and the security of a relationship. As a result, most romantic relationships eventually fail, or – perhaps even worse – are reduced to dreary co-existence...

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  Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub2, 1,7 MB) | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2017

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• Wim Denslagen Observations on urban aesthetics

  London, Paris and New York

  London, Paris and New York were each designated as 'capital of the world' in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Besides their cultural importance, they were also admired for their beauty. How travellers described these cityscapes is the theme of this book. Why is it interesting to look at these cities through the eyes of travellers from the past who visited places, which have changed over time? Well, firstly, because if you always restrict your views on architecture by only looking...

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  Engels | 156 pagina's (ePub2, 22 MB) | U2pi, Voorburg | 2016

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• Niels Shoe Meulman Shoe is my middle name

  written paintings and painted words

  Ever since he picked the graffiti name Shoe in 1979, Niels Meulman has been carving out his own path towards the international art world. Being a graffiti pioneer from Amsterdam, he worked with American counterparts such as Dondi White, Rammellzee and Keith Haring in the 1980s. He made the transition from the streets to fine art with a unique fusion of calligraphy and graffiti, which he named Calligraffiti. This soon became a worldwide phenomenon and now plays a significant role within Urban Contemporary...

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  Engels | 345 pagina's (ePub3, 89 MB) | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2016

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• Jacqueline den Breejen Midnight train

  “Oh no, wait! The train! The midnight train! The midnight train from Moingona! It’s coming here. At 12 o’clock. It’s coming to Honey Creek. The midnight train will crash in Honey Creek! I must stop the midnight train!” July 6, 1881, at 11:00, by Honey Creek, Iowa (USA). A storm, a bridge, a crash. A train that is coming. And a 16-year-old girl. Can Kate Shelley stop the midnight train? Een waargebeurd verhaal. Geschikt voor 8 tot12-jarigen met een basiskennis van Engels. Voor gebruik op school of...

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  Engels | 10 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | De Banier Bv, Apeldoorn | 2016

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• Vincent Vermeulen What we can learn from the butler

  Waarom zijn butlers zo'n innemende, correcte personen die altijd klaar staan en nooit een steek laten vallen? Omdat dat hun beroep is, zegt u? Fout: in de allereerste plaats is het een levenswijze, een constant het-beste van jezelf vragen. Ze gebruiken daarvoor technieken die ieder van ons kan aanleren. Want zeg nu zelf, zijn we niet allemaal toe aan verbetering? In dit boek leert Vincent Vermeulen, ervaren butler en directeur van de 'School for Butlers & Hospitality', hoe kennis over etiquette,...

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  Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, Ghent | 2016

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• Peter Olsthoorn The price we pay for Google

  The growth of Google as a gate to information and entertainment is as dizzying as it is fascinating. 'I can't imagine a life without Google', is an often heard saying. There is a blind trust at its ground, but are we aware of Google's selection processes and what it does with the information on our behavior on the internet? The search results are getting more and more personal and the so-called 'free' services are paid for by the information on our surf behavior. We have become both the producer...

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  Engels | 71 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Eburon Elements, Delft | 2016

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• Jenny Slatman Our strange body

  philosophical reflections on identity and medical interventions

  Filosofische beschouwing over de wijze waarop mensen zich identificeren met ingrijpende veranderingen aan het eigen lichaam.

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  Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub2, 2,7 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016

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• ICY and SOT Let her be free

  ICY and SOT, stencil artists from Iran 2006-2015

  ICY (born 1985) and SOT (born 1991) are refuge stencil artists from Tabriz, Iran, currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2006, the two brothers have contributed to Iranian and international urban art culture through their striking stencil work that depicting human rights, ecological justice, social and political issues. Their work appears on walls and galleries throughout the Iran, USA, Germany, China, Norway, and globally.They transcend their histories of artistic and political censorship...

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  Engels | 264 pagina's (ePub3, 66 MB) | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2016

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• Bart Luirink | Madeleine Maurick Homosexuality in Africa

  a disturbing love

  Plagues of locusts, drought and ebola. In Africa homosexuals are getting the blame for everything. It's open season. Homosexuality is called 'un-African', 'in direct conflict with its own distinctive culture', a 'western disease'. What's the motivation behind those leaders who are fighting to keep their continent 'morally pure'? There's another story. More and more African gays and lesbians are coming out of the closet. Equal rights activism has become a reality and a passionate debate is raging....

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  Engels | 234 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2016

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• Berthold Gunster Omdenken

  the Dutch art of flip-thinking

  This practical booklet shows what flip-thinking means and how to do it. To flip through, to come up with ideas, to be put on the wrong track and especially to trigger your own creative ability. In short, look, think and - particularly - create. Berthold Gunster (1959) is the founding father of 'Omdenken', the Dutch art of flip-thinking. He has written several bestselling books about his ideas. With his team of actors and trainers he performs inspiring shows and workshops in both Dutch and English....

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  Engels | 64 pagina's (ePub2) | Lev., Amsterdam | 2016

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