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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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J.E. 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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Tom van de Ven | Rik Marselis | Humayun Shaukat Testing in the digital age
Ai makes the difference
Testing in the digital age brings a new vision on test engineering, using new quality attributes that tackle intelligent machines and a roadmap split up in fi ve hops. With everything digital there are more possibilities for test automation and piles of (test) data growing out of control. Working together with robots (cobotics), using artifi cial intelligence in testing and eventually predict the occurrence of defects brings your testing to the digital age. We have interviewed companies on their...
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Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub3, 1,6 MB) | Sogetibooks, Vianen | 2018
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Thomas Coomans Life Inside the cloister
understanding monastic architecture: tradition, reformation, adaptive reuse
Sacred architecture as reality and metaphor in secularised Western society. Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic tradition, architecture has contributed to developing specific religious identities...
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Engels | PDF, 17 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Blue planet
the collection
Documentaireseries over het leven in en rondom de oceanen.
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Film
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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Loes Botman Stille levens
Publicatie van pasteltekeningen van dieren van de kunstenares Loes Botman (1968) naar aanleiding van haar vijftigste verjaardag.
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Nederlands | Engels | 175 pagina's | Aurora Productions, Zuid-Scharwoude | 2018
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Francien Krieg Francien Krieg
precious bodies
Schilderijen van Francien Krieg (1973) die zij maakte van naakte ouder wordende vrouwen.
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Nederlands | Engels | 143 pagina's | VanSpijk, Venlo | 2018
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Hilary Bradt | Janice Booth South Devon & Dartmoor
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Engels | 288 pagina's | Bradt Travel Guides, Chalfont St. Peter | 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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Latijn | Engels | 590 pagina's (PDF, 7,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 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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Latijn | Engels | 290 pagina's (PDF, 4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Cecilia Odé Bij de Joekagieren
het oudste toendravolk van Noord-Oost Siberië; north-east Siberia's oldest tundra people; Древнейший тундренный народ северо-восточной Сибири
Beschrijving van de ervaringen van een onderzoekster van bedreigde talen en culturen bij de Joekagieren, een nomadisch volk in Siberië.
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Nederlands | Engels | Russisch | 240 pagina's | Lias Uitgeverij, Hilversum | 2018
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Dora, hysteria, gender
reconsidering Freud’s case study; a Sigmund Freud Museum's symposium
Freud's Dora case and contemporary debates on gender, sexuality and queer theory. 'Dora' is one the most important and interesting case studies Sigmund Freud conducted and later described. It constitutes a key text in his oeuvre and finds itself at the crossroads of his studies in hysteria, the theory of sexuality and dream interpretation. The Dora case is both a literary and theoretically ground-breaking text and an account of a 'failed' treatment. In Dora, Hysteria and Gender renowned Freud scholars...
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Engels | PDF, 0,9 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Dennis A-Tjak Indische pracht
vier eeuwen fascinatie voor de flora van Indonesië; four centuries of fascination for the flora of Indonesia
Kleurenfoto's van bloemen- en plantenrassen uit Indonesië.
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Nederlands | Engels | 127 pagina's | LM Publishers, Volendam | 2018
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Jan De Volder Cardinal Mercier in the first world war
Belgium, Germany and the catholic church
Church leaders and their contrasting opinions in the face of the Great War Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, was the incarnation of the Belgian resistance against the German occupation during the First World War. With his famous pastoral letter of Christmas 1914 'Patriotisme et Endurance' he reached a wide audience, and gained international influence and respect. Mercier's distinct patriotic stance clearly determined his views of national politics, especially of the 'Flemish...
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Engels | PDF, 10 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Craig Unger House of Trump, house of Putin
the untold story of Donald Trump and the russian mafia
Overzicht en analyse van de connecties van de Amerikaanse president Trump met de Russische president Poetin en zijn coterie van rijke oligarchen, de Russische maffia en de inlichtingendiensten.
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Engels | 337 pagina's | Bantam Press, London | 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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Marry de Gaay Fortman Don't drown a dead duck
the art of gentle effectiveness
Adviezen aan vrouwen die streven naar een topfunctie in het bedrijfsleven.
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Engels | 151 pagina's (ePub2, 2,2 MB) | Business Contact, Amsterdam | 2019
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Amy C. Balfour | Brett Atkinson | Andrew Bender | Alison Bing | Cristian Bonetto | Celeste Brash California
top sights, authentic experiences
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Engels | 324 pagina's | Lonely Planet, [Dublin] | 2021
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Andy Dennis | Anna Simon Ebola behind the mask
October 2014 and a devastating epidemic of the viral disease Ebola is raging in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The non-governmental aid organisation Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the major actors in the fight against the disease. MSF needs more and more nurses and doctors to work in their expanding Ebola Management Centres. The authors responded to MSF's call for volunteers, and left behind their regular jobs for two months to work in an Ebola Management...
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Engels | 260 pagina's (ePub2, 3,2 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2018
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