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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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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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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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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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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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Centrum voor Migratie en Interculturele Studies Moroccan migration in Belgium
more than 50 years of settlement
First volume in the new series CeMIS Migration and Intercultural Studies Moroccans are one of the largest and most debated migrant groups in Belgium. Moroccan Migration in Belgium analyses diverse facets of this community from a multidisciplinary perspective and addresses the most relevant and some underexposed topics in the rapidly developing field of migration studies. Combining various academic disciplines and different research methods, the book offers a panoramic introspection into the dynamic...
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Engels | 388 pagina's (PDF, 5,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 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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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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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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Claude Doom The IT Management Essentials
Delivering business value
Proper IT management in a contemporary business environment is of utmost importance, on an equal footing even with proper financial management and business acumen. Understanding information technology is therefore essential to all organizations. The IT Management Essentials offers a sound and structured framework for the techniques, methodologies, and activities related to IT management. Modern information technology is more than simply high-tech and gadgetry. In the near future, professional organizations...
Engels | 222 pagina's (ePub2, 3,2 MB) | BORGERHOFF & LAMBERIGTS, Brussel | 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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René van Blerk At the Van Gogh Museum
Ga je mee naar het Van Gogh Museum met Bax, Toby en Pepper? Maak kennis met Vincent, leer Engelse woordjes en ontdek van alles over kijken naar kunst en het mengen van kleuren.
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Engels | ePub3 | StoryZoo B.V., Amsterdam | 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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Peter Kapitein How has it ever come to this?
a fresh look at healtcare
Healthcare is a sector changing at breakneck speed due to new technologies, fresh policies, years of cutbacks, and market forces. But is healthcare heading the right way, and are the developments ones which are happening in the interests of the patient, for whom the whole healthcare system was supposedly set up? Are we all being given optimum treatment? How heavily do commercial interests weigh against patient interests? In healthcare, is government largely concerned with the patient or with the...
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Engels | 161 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Water, Amsterdam | 2018
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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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Han Peeters The Cheetah mystery
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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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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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Henri Stellman What is antizionism?
(and is it antisemitic?); a short handbook for activists and analysts
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Engels | 164 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2018
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Sander Cruz Dewy in the world of colors
'Who are you, orange one?' asks Betsy the butterfly. In the beginning Dewy has no idea. Dewy starts on an adventurous journey, from the lowlands to the tropics, searching for his family. With the help of several colorful animals he discovers that he is unique, but not alone. A picture-book for children to discover colors, animals, emotions and friendship - together with Dewy. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
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Engels | 32 pagina's (ePub3, 63 MB) | [Arpenco], [Zoetermeer] | 2018
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Daniël Jumelet Bringing IT architecture to life
real world application of a function-oriented approach
The complexity of modern IT landscapes forces organizations to implement changes and innovations in a well-defined and structured way, applying architecture. But that's easier said than done, because how do you actually bring IT architecture into practice? What are the tasks of an IT architect? What methods and tools are available to an IT architect? What products does an IT architect deliver? And how do you make sure that these products are effective and offer added value to an organization? In...
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Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub3, 6,5 MB) | Kleine Uil business boeken, Groningen | 2018
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