This book examines confidentiality, secrecy and privilege issues in insolvency proceedings for corporates and banks. It attempts to fill the gap that the authors have identified. Bankruptcy and insolvency legal research, in particular, seem to lack clear definitions, incomplete laws and cases with respect to the application of these three themes in corporate insolvency and bank resolution proceedings. Moreover, there are still inconsistent views and opinions of judicial authorities across dif...

This research project focuses on how decisions made by practitioners, articulating rural housing in Sub-Sahara Africa, contribute to the decreasing level of self-reliance inhabitants have regarding their housing. Multiple case studies on Mt. Elgon proved that inhabitants have a significantly higher self-reliance level, comparing traditional to modern housing. To study this phenomenon in practice and to articulate suitable design support the Design Research Methodology was chosen. The research...

Have you often wondered why your colleagues do the things they do? Do you work as a professional in a modern organization and have you contemplated on a regular basis how useful it would be to be able to understand the human mind better?

If you’re skeptical about the many clickbait wonder solutions to issues of the mind you will find in social media these days, and you are serious about your profession and indeed about not wasting your valuable time, efforts, and therefore money, you are...

ME is a capital, a produced identity, a competitive subjectivity.

If I practice de-forming the product of ME, do I annihilate ME, aside from the matter-of-factness by which I still exist in flesh and bone?

By the urgency of not belonging

Not owing

Not being owned

Running from a contract I considered a given

I talked to that breath

It gave me a shiver in response.

Who are we? Who are we together? And who am I?

We are on this world together. Yet there is every single one of us making choices, making friends, making memories. Life is full of experiences, full of lessons. This book is a personal essay in which Helen Nurdina de Graaff (1999) shows the beauty of vulnerability. She explores life lessons of living in 2019’s London and during 2020’s corona pandemic. She explores imaginations for the future. She explores the ways humans come together or dri...