This inspiring book addresses questions such as: How can we become active within our own learning and unlearning process? What happens when we open to the wisdom of the body? Or for the knowledge that comes from conversations around the dinner table? How can we make time to really listen and not to understand? This publication is an invitation to deal openly and critically with numerous artistic learning methods such as making, listening, talking, researching, voting, asking questions and col...

The first publication on the life and work of the Argentine-American architect Helena Arahuete explores how she is one of the few architects who still practice the original principles of organic architecture, pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan over a century ago. The book expands the scholarship on organic architecture by illuminating Arahuete’s personal philosophy and integration of this tradition with the current discourse on sustainability. With contributions by Alan Hess...

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Simone Albers (1990, NL)is gefascineerd door de kosmos. Zij onderzoekt de mechanismen die verborgen liggen achter de direct waarneembare wereld. De complexiteit ervan verbeeldt Albers in kleurrijke landschappen; met meanderende vormen en draaikolken van DNA-moleculen, sterrenstelsels en zwarte gaten voert Albers ons mee in een kosmische stroom.

In 'Myriad Ways of Being ~ Being of Myriad Ways' belichten auteurs Loes van Beuningen, Susan Peeters, Sabine Winters, en Wout...

Kerry James Marshall is een van Noord-Amerika’s belangrijkste hedendaagse kunstenaars en wordt geroemd om zijn werk dat de ondervertegenwoordiging van de zwarte figuur in de Westerse beeldcultuur aankaart. Marshall staat vooral bekend als schilder, maar heeft tijdens zijn carrière ook een uitgebreid grafisch oeuvre geproduceerd, dat nauwelijks gedocumenteerd is. In zijn jeugd leerde hij tekenen en schilderen, maar verdiepte hij zich ook in grafische druktechnieken. Het merendeel van zijn g...

Your phone, my life. Or, how did that phone land in your hand? is the adventurous story of how the world built and expanded its mobile networks over the past thirty years.

The author’s journey started in the USSR, Ukraine, where she, as part of a team, negotiated with the Minister of Telecommunications of a country with virtually no telecom infrastructure.

From Kiev, her work took her first to other countries in the former Eastern Bloc and then to Western Europe, Kosovo, Lebanon, Azerbaijan...

Success awaits those who can execute a powerful strategy; this book will show you how to unlock this ultimate competitive advantage

The Execution Advantage reveals the secrets of organisations that excel at strategy execution, by putting people at the heart of it.

Discover how these exceptional companies prioritise effectively, empower for action, embrace learning by doing, and successfully adapt to change. They acknowledge that humans do not always act rationally and that each organisation i...

Starting a new business can be an exciting and challenging endeavor, but with the right steps and planning, it can also be successful. In this book you will learn the general steps to starting a new business. You will learn how to conduct market research, develop a business plan, choose a business structure, and learn how to register your business and how to launch and market your business.

'Just read it.' Elon Musk

The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company.

SpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years after its founding, it boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first private company to launch human beings into orbit. Half a cen...

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award

'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' Observer

An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live

We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of year...

For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a more interesting and balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic perspectives.

In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alon...