“Our hearts are calling out to us, but we are too busy calling out to the hearts of others. Checking in with them, yet forgetting to check in on ourselves.”

The poems written in this book portray my personal experience and shed some light on a few observations I have made about different types of issues in today’s society. Through my poems, I hope to give some insight into both my opinions and my mind. By writing about these topics and sharing them with the world, I aim to spread knowle...

Over the years, DevOn has helped many large-scale enterprises with their DevOps transformations. In doing so, we have discovered that organizations have differing opinions about the benefits of DevOps. Even 10 years after DevOps emerged, the subject still seems to confuse many people.

We asked 14 technology leaders, from 12 different Dutch organizations, their view on terms like DevOps and how they contribute to accelerating high performing IT organizations. This book is a must-read for moder...

And again new territory is explored: The 5th book in the series Creative Explored is set against Gulliver’s voyage to Houynhnnm. Very rational horses live together with the unreasonable Yahoo. The first don’t want change, and the others are change. The two extremes are the background to explain pitfalls and opportunities for an authentic creative life. Creativity is an adventurous journey combining discipline and open mindedness. As much of today’s innovation is the work of cooperation...

This is the first study to focus on ikat of the Timor region from a technical perspective, including microscopy and design analysis of asymmetry, an understudied subject. Paradoxically this technical perspective highlights the human factor. Focused on the last century of the colonial period, we see the weaver’s decisions in close-up, as if we are sitting next to her. This yields rich insights, not just in materiality, but also in the weavers’ creativity.

Asymmetry is widely distributed in...

Once upon a time, our desire and pursuit for the love of a woman, led entire kingdoms into war. These days, instead of being brave and bold, instead of living the life ahead of us, we believe that it is dangerous to talk to beautiful women. We have been thought that one must spend one third of his life, serving leaders he cannot respect, in an office he hates, before he can actually enjoy the rest of his rusty days. Men work for the dream of someone else because they are afraid to live for th...

Effigy hanging and burning, a specific theatrical form of political protest, has become increasingly visible in the news media, particularly in protests against United States military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, in US domestic politics, and in the Arab Spring. Taking these events as points of departure, Göttke investigates the conditions of this visual genre of protest, its roots and genealogies in a number of countries, its aesthetics and politics.

Effigy protests communicate comm...

Liesbeth Piena (1993) maakt krachtige schilderijen waarin planten en natuurlijke landschappen worden teruggebracht tot essentiële vormen. Ze kijkt met een analytische blik naar de werkelijkheid, waarin kleine details haar aandacht trekken. Uit haar observaties isoleert ze opvallende fragmenten en stelt daarmee nieuwe beelden samen. Liesbeth Piena is prijswinnaar van de Sieger White Award 2020 voor getalenteerde jonge kunstenaars.

liesbeth Pienna (1993) makes powerful paintings in which plan...

This monograph brings together Rody Luton’s artistic practice in its diversity: painting, photography, drawing and mixed media. Covering three decades, it invites a dialogue across time as well as mediums. Rody Luton.Time Encircled presents her oeuvre as a journey of exploration, as if wandering in a landscape, encountering both human-made and natural environments.

Nature is the vital inspiration. In Rody Luton’s own words (from the Preface): ‘I reach out to the natural world and engag...

What is inspiration? What inspires you? 111 INCEPTION is a chain of inspiration, which involves 111 architects from around the world.

This book was not guided by theory, yet it grew out of a search for new ways to look at authorship, ideas and inspiration. The experimental and playful character of the project itself, with its unpredictable outcomes, allowed for a much needed change of perspective—away from the traditional approach to creation characteristic of modernity and towards inspirat...

Cross-Cultural Management: An Introduction offers students a hands-on approach to cross-cultural management that they can apply to a wide variety of organizational contexts.