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Cultural mediation in Europe, 1800-1950
International exchange in European cultural life in the 19th and 20th centuries From the early nineteenth century till the middle of the twentieth century, cultures in Europe were primarily national. They were organized and conceived of as attributes of the nation states. Nonetheless, these national cultures crossed borders with an unprecedented intensity even before globalization transformed the very concept of culture. During that long period, European cultures have imported and exported products,...
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Engels | PDF, 1,2 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Centrum voor Migratie en Interculturele Studies Migration and integration in Flanders
multidisciplinary perspectives
Thought-provoking insights on the nexus of migration and integration beyond the national context Across the world, and due to ongoing globalisation, migration is increasingly becoming a part of daily life. But more than ever, migration can no longer be viewed as a simple linear trajectory from A to B. The emergence of transnational communities and intense interactions between regions of origin and of destination have led to new forms of social-cultural praxis and (sub)cultures which exert an important...
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Engels | PDF, 3,5 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Centrum voor Migratie en Interculturele Studies Gender and migration
a gender-sensitive approach to migration dynamics
The impact of gender on migration processes Considering the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between gender relations and migration, the contributions in this book approach migration dynamics from a gender-sensitive perspective. Bringing together insights from various fields of study, it is demonstrated how processes of social change occur differently in distinct life domains, over time, and across countries and/or regions, influencing the relationship between gender and migration. Detailed analysis...
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Engels | PDF, 1,9 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Doing double Dutch
the international circulation of literature from the Low Countries
The importance of a minor language in the field of world literature. Dutch literature is increasingly understood as a network of texts and poetics connected to other languages and literatures through translations and adaptations. In this book, a team of international researchers explores how Dutch literary texts cross linguistic, historical, geophysical, political, religious, and disciplinary borders, and reflects on a wide range of methods for studying these myriad border crossings. As a result,...
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Engels | 336 pagina's (PDF, 6,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Orpheus Institute Experimental encounters in music and beyond
Multidisciplinary analysis of experimentalism in music and the wider arts today Experimental Encounters in Music and Beyond opens a necessary dialogue on experimental practices in the arts and negotiates their place in contemporary society. Going beyond the music-historical usage of the term "experimental", this book reimagines experimentation as an open working definition encompassing multiple forms of artistic attitudes and processes. The texts, images, and sounds offer multiple traces, faces,...
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Engels | 212 pagina's (PDF, 3,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Yves Knockaert Wolfgang Rihm, a chiffre
the 1980s and beyond
Wolfgang Rihm ( b. Karlsruhe, 1952) is the most performed living German composer. With his personal, expressive, and versatile music, he became the most prominent representative of his generation. His individual approach to music was established in the 1980s and he continues to explore and enlarge his original concepts today. His 1980s work is at the core of this book, more specifically his instrumental music: the Chiffre cycle and the string quartets. Thinking about Rihm includes reflecting on his...
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Engels | PDF, 3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Orpheus Institute Artistic research in music: discipline and resistance
artists and researchers at the Orpheus Institute
The Orpheus Institute celebrates 20 years of artistic research in music. Artistic research in music is now at a generational stage of development. How should it deal with its own maturing? From a kaleidoscope of individual pursuits, ethos and methodologies have emerged to encompass more distributed approaches. This transformation has taken place in parallel with changes in the dynamics and structures of culture, its institutions and constituencies. Artistic research maintains a productive dialectic...
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Engels | 316 pagina's (PDF, 5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Aad van der Klaauw Taste my words
poems from the Netherlands
Aad van der Klaauw, librarian in the Netherlands, lives in Staphorst. A small village in the province Overijssel. Taste me Words Poems published on the world’s largest poetry site Allpoetry. Poems about the seasons, strong people like Nadia Murad, religion, countries and other themes. Read my lines, taste my words. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
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Engels | 80 pagina's (ePub2, 3 MB) | Boekenbent, Barneveld | 2018
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Art history after Deleuze and Guattari
At the crossroads of philosophy, artistic practice, and art history Though Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were not strictly art historians, they reinvigorated ontological and formal approaches to art, and simultaneously borrowed art historical concepts for their own philosophical work. They were dedicated modernists, inspired by the German school of expressionist art historians such as Riegl, Wölfflin, and Worringer and the great modernist art critics such as Rosenberg, Steinberg, Greenberg,...
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Engels | PDF, 2,1 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Shammah Hart Woman a new beginning for you too
I meet regularly women who went through hard times in life. I want to encourage them to never lose hope. It does not matter what we go through in life, we must keep our hope and trust in the Lord.
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Engels | 108 pagina's (ePub2, 4 MB) | Highly Favored Publishing, Almere | 2018
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The astrological autobiography of a medieval philosopher
Henry Bate's Nativitas (1280-81)
Critical edition of the earliest known astrological autobiography The present book reveals the riches of the earliest known astrological autobiography, authored by Henry Bate of Mechelen (1246-after 1310). Exploiting all resources of contemporary astrological science, Bate conducts in his Nativitas a profound self-analysis, revealing the peculiarities of his character and personality at a crucial moment of his life (1280). The result is an extraordinarily detailed and penetrating attempt to decode...
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Engels | Latijn | 290 pagina's (PDF, 4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Jane C. Judge The United States of Belgium
the story of the first Belgian revolution
New and comprehensive insights into the seminal events that shaped Belgian identity In 1790, between the birth of America (1776) and the creation of the French National Assembly (1789), nine provinces nestled between the French and Dutch borders declared themselves a new free and independent country: the United States of Belgium. Before then, the provinces had been part of the vast Austrian Habsburg Empire ruled by Joseph II. In 1789 revolutionaries from Brussels to Ghent to Namur recruited a grass-roots...
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Engels | PDF, 9,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Petrus Thomae Petri Thomae Quaestiones de ente
Editio princeps of Peter Thomae's De ente It is generally acknowledged by historians of philosophy that medieval philosophers made key contributions to the discussion of the problem of being and the fundamental issues of metaphysics. The Quaestiones de ente of Peter Thomae, composed at Barcelona ca. 1325, is the longest medieval work devoted to the problem of being as well as the most systematic. The work is divided into three parts: the concept of being, the attributes of being, and the descent...
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Engels | Latijn | 590 pagina's (PDF, 7,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Linda Jansma Haunted
From the Dutch award-winning author, Linda Jansma, comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heart stopping in the blink of an eye. Haunted Sixteen years ago, something terrible happened to Janine- so terrible she never told anyone. Now she is a successful business woman and owner of a famous dance club in Amsterdam. With a wonderful husband and lovely daughter Janine seems to have it all, until in one life-shattering moment the love of her life is murdered in cold blood. Completely devastated...
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Engels | 350 pagina's (ePub2) | Going Dutch, an imprint of De Crime Compagnie, Laren nh | 2018
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Nicole Bremer-Ammann People and projects
behaviour skills and team roles in project management
The instrumental aspects of project management are important of course. But instrumental aspects alone will not guarantee success. Projects are always carried out by people and it is precisely the behaviour of people that will in many instances define the success of a project. The author goes into all the important aspects of project management. She offers practical advice to project leaders and spends some time focusing among others on dealing with conflict and team roles. "Nicole Bremer-Ammann...
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Engels | 141 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | Thema, Zaltbommel | 2018
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Han Peeters The Cheetah mystery
faction
ENGLISH EDITION Robin de Graaf and his parents were looking forward to a fun day out with a drive through the wildlife park. Unfortunately, things went differently and their life turned into a nightmare. In front of their eyes people got out of their car, seemingly unaware that uncaged cheetahs are dangerous predators. Robin filmed the event and then posted it on his YouTube channel where it caused mixed excitement among the viewers. The film went viral. The family organized a press conference to...
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Engels | 120 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2018
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Luc Smekens The art pope
The Art Pope is a critique on contemporary art and the way the Belgian state treats its visual artists. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
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Engels | 26 pagina's (ePub2, 0,1 MB) | Schrijverspunt, Almelo | 2018
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Henricus de Gandavo Henrici de Gandavo Summa
(Quaestiones ordinariae), art. LX-LXII
Henry of Ghent was the most important thinker of 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. This critical edition of Henry of Ghent's Summa, art. 60-62 deals with the Trinity. The respective articles are based upon this scholastic philosopher's lectures in the theology faculty at the university in Paris and can be dated to slightly after Advent 1290. For Henry and his contemporaries, Trinitarian...
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Engels | Latijn | 322 pagina's (PDF, 3,5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Joke Korteweg Breaking new ground
Dutch dredging pioneers
The world-famous Palm Islands in Dubai, the new Afsluitdijk, the Zuiderzee Works, the Delta Works: dredging and offshore company Van Oord is the key player in all these gigantic projects. A hundred and fifty years ago, this extraordinary company was founded by a man called Govert van Oord, an independent trader in osier and other wood products from the Biesbosch region of the Netherlands. In this period, contractors constructed the Nieuwe Waterweg and the North Sea Canal, deepened the rivers and...
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Engels | ePub2, 24 MB | Balans, Amsterdam | 2018
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Koert Debeuf Tribalization
Why war is coming
War is coming. In 'Tribalization' Koert Debeuf depicts war as an inevitable outcome should the current decreasing of democracy and globalization continue. To describe this worldwide process towards more authoritarian nationalism and fundamentalism The author coins the term tribalization to describe this worldwide process, towards a more authoritarian nationalism and fundamentalism, and reminds his readership of the highly similar 1930s. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States,...
Engels | 142 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Academic & Scientific publishers, Brussel | 2018
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