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Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence' Simon ArmitageDaniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling to survive on a remote desert island. The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily battle to stay alive, as he conquers isolation, fashions shelter and clothes, enlists the help of a native...
Engels | ePub2, 1,9 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Cold war Mary
ideologies, politics, Marian devotional culture
One hardly known but fascinating aspect of the Cold War was the use of the holy Virgin Mary as a warrior against atheist ideologies. After the Second World War, there was a remarkable rise in the West of religiously inflected rhetoric against what was characterised as "godless communism". The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church not only urged their followers to resist socialism, but along with many prominent Catholic laity and activist movements they marshaled the support of Catholics into a spiritual...
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Engels | PDF, 27 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Photography’s materialities
transatlantic photographic practices over the long nineteenth century
There is little dispute that photography is a material practice, and that the photograph itself is ineluctably material. And yet "matter," "material," and "materiality" have proven to be remarkably elusive terms of inquiry, frequently producing studies that are disparate in scope, sharing seemingly little common ground. Although the wide methodological range of materialist study can be dizzying, it is this book's contention that that multiplicity is also the field's greatest asset, keeping materialist...
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Engels | PDF, 9,2 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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The body as a mirror of the soul
physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance
The idea of the body as a mirror of the soul has fascinated mankind throughout history. Being able to see through an individual, and drawing conclusions on their character solely based on a selection of external features, is the subject of physiognomy, and has a long tradition running well into recent times. However, the pre-modern, especially medieval background of this discipline has remained underexplored. The selected case studies in this volume each contribute to a better understanding of the...
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Engels | PDF, 8,7 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Orpheus Institute Experience music experiment
pragmatism and artistic research
"Truth happens to an idea." So wrote William James in 1907; and twenty-four years later John Dewey argued that artistic experience entailed a process of "doing and undergoing." But what do these ideas have to do with music, or with research conducted in and through music-that is, with "artistic research"? In this collection of essays, fourteen very different authors respond with distinct and challenging perspectives. Some report on their own experiments and experiences; some offer probing analyses...
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Engels | PDF, 15 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Fiona Hack The umbrella mystery
Danni's grandfather disappeared without a trace during a visit to Japan. No one has heard from him for forty years. Until Danni receives a Japanese umbrella from her grandmother. This and a letter are the only clues grandpa left. Is it enough to find him? Together with her friend Kiko, she unravels the sinister secret of the miracle umbrella, for which she has to pay a great price. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
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Engels | 122 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Ambilicious, Breda | 2021
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Ellen Spee My granny is a pirate
This is a story about a Granny who wanted to be a pirate. It could have happened anywhere: a city and a street just like anywhere else, in a terraced house with normal people. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
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Engels | 73 pagina's (ePub2, 31 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2021
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Kees Klomp | Shinta Oosterwaal Thrive
fundamentals for a new economy
While the world speculates about its post-pandemic state within the traditional economic narrative, unprecedented ecological and social damage prove the current neoclassical economic model to be untenable. In Thrive. Fundamentals for a New Economy, Kees Klomp and Shinta Oosterwaal provide insights into alternative approaches to economics that are sustainable and just for both society and the planet in the long term. In twenty-four essays, internationally renowned economic thinkers like Kate Raworth,...
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Engels | ePub2 | Uitgeverij Business Contact, Amsterdam | 2021
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Geertrui Mieke De Ketelaere Wanted
Human-AI Translators e-book; Artificial Intelligence Demystified
Anyone who thinks artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t really concern us yet is wrong. AI is no longer a matter for futuristic science fiction films or hip technology fairs. It is now everywhere in your life. That personalised advertising folder from the supermarket with offers “especially for you”? AI. The songs suggested for you on Spotify? AI. The self-regulating traffic lights on the corner of your street? AI. It is undeniable that AI is entering our lives at a dizzying speed. It is now part...
Engels | 216 pagina's (ePub2, 2,6 MB) | Pelckmans, Edegem | 2021
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Rob Bakker The Plot of Europe
Amsterdam. The European summit has convened, and the German Federal Chancellor is staying in the safest suite in the best-guarded hotel in town. Yet in the morning he is found dead and murdered ... A barrage of questions, media coverage and police activity is unleased by this painful - and embarrassingly ill-timed assassination. The German and Dutch authorities feverishly throw themselves into solving the affair while they work at cross purposes, and an unprecedentedly well-planned conspiracy unfolds...
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Engels | 260 pagina's (ePub2, 1,8 MB) | LetterRijn publishers, Leidschendam | 2021
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Derk-Jan de Grood Surfing the waves of agile
value delivery in medium and large organizations
Value delivery gets more difficult when organizations grow. The enterprise structures challenge the way of working. Challenges that change when organizations progress on their Agile journey. Agile leaders need to shift their focus from the teams to collaboration and business outcome. Agile coaches discover that they need additional skills and knowledge to support them. Derk-Jan de Grood created a rich source of knowledge for Agile coaches and leaders to combine forces and guide their organization...
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Engels | 220 pagina's (ePub2, 13 MB) | Techwatch, Nijmegen | 2021
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Hannah Cuppen Love phobia
how to overcome your fear of commitment and abandonment
'Would you like to have a relationship but do you find that your partner always withdraws? Do you keep falling in love with someone who is already taken? Or do you have the tendency to keep the other person at a distance, just as they are beginning to develop feelings for you? If you keep ending up in situations like this, you might recognise the dance of pursuit and withdrawal. You’re not the only one! The fundamental conflict between our need for intimacy and our need for freedom creates this game...
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Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | AnkhHermes, Utrecht | 2021
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Catherine Steadman De verdwijning
Actrice Mia Eliot is vanuit Londen naar LA gekomen om auditie te doen – haar kans om definitief door te breken. Ze voelt zich een buitenbeentje in de stad vol beroemde filmsterren en meedogenloze competitie, tot ze Emily ontmoet. Ook zij is actrice, maar ze is vriendelijk en oprecht en Mia kan het onmiddellijk goed met haar vinden. Maar dan verdwijnt Emily plotseling en Mia blijkt de laatste persoon te zijn die haar heeft gezien. Er duikt een vrouw op die beweert dat ze Emily is, maar Mia weet meteen...
Fictie | Psychologische roman | Thriller
Engels | 291 pagina's (ePub2, 2,1 MB) | Xander, Haarlem | 2021
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Lida Varvarousi Gagaroo goes to the moon
Gagaroo the donkey has a big dream: taking a special trip to the moon with his best friend Apollo. But how will they get there? Riding on a cannon ball, a catapult or an elevator? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
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Engels | 32 pagina's (ePub2) | Book-A-Tale, [Edegem] | 2021
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Marlous de Haan How (not) to video call
75 essential rules of etiquette for successful virtual meetings
How (not) to Video Call, 75 essential rules of etiquette for successful virtual meetings. How do you make video calling more fun and professional for you and for others? The 75 essential rules of etiquette in this book will ensure you have successful virtual meetings. Video calling - certainly because of the coronavirus pandemic - has become an indispensable part of all our lives. "Hello? Can you all hear me?"; "I hear you, but I can't see you"; "The report frWOOF WOOF WOOFhere"; "I-i HEAR-hear AN-an...
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Engels | 160 pagina's (ePub2, 8,4 MB) | Magic at Work, Doetinchem | 2021
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Henricus Gandavensis Henrici de Gandavo Summa
(Quaestiones ordinariae), art. LX-LXII
Articles 56-59 of Henry of Ghent's Summa is devoted to the trinitarian properties. Henry was the most important Christian theological thinker in the last quarter of the 13th century and his works were influential not only in his lifetime, but also in the following century and into the Renaissance. Henry's Quaestiones ordinariae (Summa), articles 56-59 deal with the trinitarian properties and relations, topics of Henry's lectures at the university in Paris. In these articles, dated around 1286, Henry...
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Engels | PDF, 9,5 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Ioannis Papachristou John Philoponus on Physical Place
This book examines the place of physical bodies, a major topic of natural philosophy that has occupied philosophers since antiquity. Aristotle's conceptions of place (topos) and the void (kenon), as expounded in the Physics, were systematically repudiated by John Philoponus (ca. 485-570) in his philosophical commentary on that work. The primary philosophical concern of the present study is the in-depth investigation of the concept of place established by Philoponus, putting forward the claim that...
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Engels | PDF, 2,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Orpheus Institute Machinic assemblages of desire
Deleuze and Artistic Research 3
The concept of assemblage has emerged in recent decades as a central tool for describing, analysing, and transforming dynamic systems in a variety of disciplines. Coined by Deleuze and Guattari in relation to different fields of knowledge, human practices, and nonhuman arrangements, "assemblage" is variously applied today in the arts, philosophy, and human and social sciences, forming links not only between disciplines but also between critical thought and artistic practice. Machinic Assemblages...
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Engels | PDF, 27 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Summistae
the commentary tradition on Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae from the 15th to the 17th centuries
Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologiae is one of the classics in the history of theology and philosophy. Beyond its influence in the Middle Ages, its importance is also borne out by the fact that it became the subject of commentary. During the sixteenth century it was gradually adopted as the official text for the teaching of scholastic theology in most European Catholic universities. As a result, university professors throughout Europe and the colonial Americas started lecturing and producing commentaries...
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Engels | PDF, 4,9 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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A text worthy of Plotinus
the lives and correspondence of P. Henry S.J., H.-R. Schwyzer, A.H. Armstrong, J. Trouillard and J. Igal S.J.
A Text Worthy of Plotinus makes available for the first time information on the collaborative work that went into the completion of the first reliable edition of Plotinus' Enneads: Plotini Opera, editio maior, three volumes (Brussels, Paris, and Leiden, 1951-1973), followed by the editio minor, three volumes (Oxford, 1964-1983). Pride of place is given to the correspondence of the editors, Paul Henry S.J. and Hans-Rudolf Schwyzer, with other prominent scholars of late antiquity, amongst whom are...
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Engels | PDF, 16 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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