Wards of State: In the Netherlands, minors who have been placed under state supervision or have been removed from their home environment at the order of Youth Care are what we call wards of state.

Youth care in the Netherlands is a market that is driven by perverse incentives, as this book makes clear. A market where expansion and money take precedence over the welfare of young people. A world in which truth and the best possible care are not of paramount importance.

The research concerns t...

“IT is often evaluated based on hard skills. The resilience of architecture, the amount of coding languages you master, how many years of experience the tech department has. These aspects form the pit of the cherry. They are important, but none of them bring innovation. Soft skills do. Innovation grows when people learn from each other, work together and challenge each other. Soft skills are the cherry’s nutritious, sweet flesh that brings all the birds to the yard.”

Anneke Keller create...

In the nineteenth century, when the principal cultural, political, and financial institutions of the Netherlands were established, slavery was still very much part of the nation’s global imperial structures. Dutch families, institutions, and governments are increasingly interested in the role their predecessors played in this history of colonialism and enslavement.

This book is a history of De Nederlandsche Bank in which particular attention is paid to its links with slavery, both as a fac...

The task of ending famine in India was taken up by many at the beginning of the twentieth century. Only decades earlier, famine in India had been believed to be a necessary evil. Now it was the reason for the increasing activities of doctors, nutritionists, social reformers, agricultural experts, missionaries, anti-colonial activists and colonial administrators, all involved in temporary relief and finding permanent solutions to famine.

Parvin Etesami (1907-1941) is among the few Persian female poets, who has gained nationwide popularity, while her authorship was disbelieved. She is celebrated in a plethora of publications every year in Iran and beyond. Etesami is the only female poet who has remained part of the daily lives of people in her society for about a century. Her poetry appears in school curricula both before and after the Revolution of 1979. People use her poetry on social media, particularly in critical times. I...

This book explains, by following the mainstream of the history of computus (i.e. Paschal reckoning developed from early third century for determining Julian or Alexandrian calendar dates of Paschal Sunday) which shortly after AD 250 rose in Alexandria (Egypt) to ultimately in AD 1582 (turning point in the history of chronology) flow into a more realistic method for determining Gregorian calendar dates of Easter, how at the time calendar dates of Paschal Sunday depended on phases of the moon ...

This book will reacquaint you with your right brain. It will show you how to harness the power of ideas. In short, it will ensure your career survival.

Think about it, your left brain has received a solid 20 plus years of training, your right brain, 0. Your left brain has clever tools such as math, language, and science, you right has small pieces of sticky yellow paper. For all of the business processes that deal with complex problems, we have overlooked the foundational element of it all, �...

An ambassador's account of India's relations with one of her oldest engaging neighbours-Myanmar