The social, economic and technological developments of the late modern society have radically changed policing approaches both at national and supranational levels. With the anti-terrorism discourse and the global crises of mobilities, the security needs of citizens is now at the pinnacle of government priorities. At the same time, traditional law enforcement faces an epistemological crisis through the digitalisation and privatization of security. Governments, and especially the police, are e...

Technological developments have impacted both libraries and copyright law for decades, though not at the same pace. Whereas libraries are increasingly unlocking their collections digitally, copyright law still seems to adhere to a traditional perception of brick-and-mortar libraries. Consequently, the question arises whether copyright law, as a system of exclusive rights and exceptions, offers suffi cient space for current library practice in an era of information overload.

Therefore, this bo...

European pension law is a topic that does not always receive the attention it deserves. For many years, the European Union has made efforts to bring the benefits of the EU single market to the realm of occupational pensions with some remarkable successes. However, some aspects of the EU’s pension law and policy remain incomplete for a number of reasons. This book studies European (occupational) pension law from the perspective of a pension scheme member by looking at the prerogatives of the...

This compilation consists of key cases and materials in the area of public international law, selected by the Department of International and European Union law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam to use in their bachelor education. Core areas of importance covered by this compilation are the law of treaties, state responsibility, the use of force, international criminal law, human rights law, law of immunities, international economic law, and dispute settlement.

What makes this book unique i...

The city is a complex object. Some researchers look at its shape, others at its people, animals, ecology, policy, infrastructures, buildings, history, art, or technical networks. Some researchers analyse processes of in- or exclusion, gentrification, or social mobility; others biological evolution, traffic flows, or spatial development. Many combine these topics or add still more topics beyond this list. Some projects cross the boundaries of research and practice and engage in action research...

Sleep and Sleep Disorders: A Practical Handbook gives an in-depth overview of the fundamental aspects of sleep and important sleep disorders. It presents the physiology and pathophysiology as well as the clinical approaches and treatments of sleep disorders, paying special attention to paediatric sleep disorders.

This comprehensive basic volume is a practical guide for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders in daily practice. Its contents are enriched by illustrations, flowcharts and ...

Accurate determination of building’s critical thermo-physical characteristics such as the walls’ thermal resistance, thermal conductivity, and volumetric heat capacity is essential to indicate effective and efficient energy conservation strategies at building level. In practice, the values of these parameters, which determine not only possible energy savings, but also related costs, are rarely available because the current determination methods are time-and-effort-expensive, and consequen...

At TU Delft, in the interdisciplinary MSc II Design Studio Architecture & Urban Design, students of the master tracks Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment work closely together. The integrative approach of this graduate course setting allows the students to examine urban space as architectural space and architectural space as urban space. Through an experimental design method, developed during the 2018 national research pro...

When one realises that thousands of liturgical chants were transmitted over more than three centuries in which there were no accurate means of melodic notation, the core repertoire of Gregorian plainchant has been transmitted with an astonishing degree of uniformity.

On the other hand, these chants are reflections of a living liturgy, and thus reflections of their particular surroundings: any monastic or collegial environment could develop its own conventions in relation to what only seems to...

The future of the banks as 'healthy' organisations.

As CEO of the nv CKV bank and mentor of the non-profit organization Camèn, I give an image of the banks in 2025 in a nice, smoothly written and future-oriented book.

Based on my own financial and human background as well as several quotes from other authors, I sketch my picture of what the new role of banks will be.

In my first book I departed from the financial crisis of 2008; now, more than ten years later, I am expressing my positive ...