Is there anything more entertaining, inspiring and instructive than observing art? Yes, it is watching the people interacting with this art. This book may forever change your approach to art as it urges you to always consider both the work and the response. Because ultimately artists create, but we – the audience – complete the picture.

'A Spectator is an Artist Too' is a visual essay about human behaviour around art: what happens when we are confronted with something immensely beautiful,...

Let’s stop criticising or extolling the old value systems. Instead, let’s anticipate the value systems of the future, exploring, expressing, developing and living them here and now. There’s no need for science fiction, the thought of the future is active at this moment right under your nose. Take the side of the plant and a whole new vista opens up.

"Bureaucrats of Liberation" narrates the history of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a civil rights organization founded in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy. Between 1963 and 1994, the Southern Africa Project connected lawyers from Namibia, South Africa, and the United States. Within the Project’s network, activist lawyers exchanged funding resources, provided logistical support for political trials, and mediated new voting ...

Social inequality is a subject of contemporary concerns. Life capabilities and the access to resources vary significantly in rich and poor countries, between elites and others. Furthermore, inequalities based on bio-anthropological and non-bio-anthropological causes are almost universal. Accordingly, inequality was also inherent in past societies and archaeologists have continually examined and interpreted social inequalities in sources such as burial grounds.

This book continues such analyse...

Are you a doctoral student or a researcher in the field of Natural Sciences?

Would you like to present your research in a well-structured and readable manner? This book shows you how to make sure your article receives the attention it deserves. Advanced Academic English: Writing a Research Article addresses the following questions:

- How can I acquire an academic writing style?

- How can I develop an elaborate and accurate academic vocabulary?

- How can I integrate the literature into my paper?

- How can I structure an introductio...

World history is written with the blood of the terrific losses Napoleons coalition. It least half a million coalition soldiers never returned home. Also the costs for the Russian army as well as the Russian population was shocking.

Together with the loss of his soldiers, the Tsar had to accept a loss in human lives of at least 500.000 of his countrymen, so that the total cost of this failed adventure was more than one million casualties.

The campaign was doomed from the first phase.The lo...

Frank Libertas was in Kiev during the Maidan-revolte in February 2014 en this inspired him to write down his experiences and personal observations what really happened behind the scene. In this complex geopolitical forcefield the tensions were rising so high that Frank seriously feared for a total escalation between NATO and Russia, which was later confirmed by president Putin. On the 17th of July 2014 the MH17 airplane of Malaysian Airways was shot down above the Eeastern part of Ukraine an...

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Het Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature is een internationaal, open-access, intercollegiaal getoetst tijdschrift over architectuur en literatuur. Dit tijdschrift is een middel dat door Writingplace platform gebruikt wordt om de relatie tussen architectuur en literatuur nader mee te onderzoeken. Dit heeft eerder al geresulteerd in de publicatie van Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature in 2016.

Elk nummer van het tijdschrift is geri...

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Today, under the pressure of climate change and ecological catastrophe, environmentalism has become a key driver to rethink the architectural discipline. The publication Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture aims to highlight some of the historical sources of ecological approaches that are currently reshaping the architectural field. The book will point out the paradigmatic shift in thinking about the built environment as something inherently contextual ...

Het Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature is een internationaal, open-access, intercollegiaal getoetst tijdschrift over architectuur en literatuur.

Dit tijdschrift is een middel dat door Writingplace platform gebruikt wordt om de relatie tussen architectuur en literatuur nader mee te onderzoeken. Dit heeft eerder al geresulteerd in de publicatie van Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature.

Elk nummer van het tijdschrift is gericht op thema’s die centraal s...