The book X Years in Art celebrates the ten year anniversary of the Antwerp based Nadya Kotova Gallery. Studying economics in the early 1990s in St. Petersburg—during the shift from a planned market economy to a free market economy in Russia—she initially didn’t think of becoming a gallerist or an art dealer. The turning point though was when she discovered the work of Igor Kislitsyn, who was—and still is—relatively unknown, partly because he is zealously religious. Kotova was strong...

In 1594, the first Dutch ships sailes to 'the East'. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost five thousand ships were sent to the Dutch East Indies, attracting a growing number of travellers, with trade as one of the major incentives. In addition to Dutch missionary ambitions, progress and technological innovations not only fed the growing hunger for expansion, but also stirred an appetite for adventure. The hope for a life in welfare is mirrored in the growing numbers of ...

Around 3000 BCE, a turning point occurred in Europe: Long-existing regional societies entered into a process of transformation. The result is a world in which new global communication networks brought different regions closer together. From 3200/3100 BCE, the Globular Amphora phenomenon (GA) was the trailblazer in Eastern and Central Europe. Due to a focus on pastoral subsistence, in comparison to more agrarian economic systems, new ritual practices formed in light of a more flexible form of ...

Across Western Asia, the astonishing increase in the availability of durable ceramic containers in the seventh millennium BCE had significant societal repercussions – so much so that vital social, economic, and symbolic activities became dependent upon the availability of pottery containers. These early ceramic containers, however, established themselves alongside flourishing pre-existing container traditions, with vessels made in a wide range of materials including clay, bitumen, basketry,...

This book is intended to be a groundwork of how to theorise prehistory and archaeology and how to make connectivities between the past and the present. It is divided into four parts. The first part is epistemological. It explains why there must be theoretical investments if past ways of human life are to be understood and explained. This insight is specified to a ladder-model (sensu Hawkes) with conceptual scaffoldings on each step. Stepwise, sets of concepts are introduced. This constitutes ...

This monograph examines a set of questions concerning human and nonhuman primate cognition, spatial memory, foraging behavior, and the ability of monkeys to form mental maps of the location and distribution of feeding and resting sites.

Two primary forms of spatial memory have been hypothesized for primates. First, it has been suggested that primates might represent spatial memory in the form of a coordinate-based (geometric) map in which points in the landscape are stored as true coordinates...

Celebrate the beauty of diversity with the "All Sizes Are Beautiful Grayscale Coloring Book," a collection of 57 single-sided grayscale coloring pages that lovingly showcase the radiance of beautiful, confident, and diverse women of all sizes.

In this empowering coloring book, you'll find grayscale illustrations that capture the essence of body positivity and self-acceptance. Each page features unique and stunning representations of women who proudly embrace their bodies, proving that beauty ...

Are you tired of being stuck in the mundane routine of a 9-to-5 job? Do you crave a more flexible and balanced lifestyle that allows you to be your own boss? Well, look no further than "Unshackled: How to Become a Lifestyle Entrepreneur."

This comprehensive guide is your ultimate resource for lifestyle entrepreneurship. It's packed with practical strategies, real-life success stories, and valuable insights on various freelance opportunities, such as graphic design, consulting, and e-commerce....

The correspondence of two men for a decade, when youngsters met each other in the sixties, remained friends up to the age of founding families and now at old age, create an image of them in getting-older-times.

Here are letters for one decade from 2012 to somewhere 2021. It starts with their meeting in 1969, recorded by memory and diary, and then jumps to a continuation of email-stream as presented here, which starts in 2012. It was a time of books, music, politic instabilities, loves, famil...

“On the balcony of life – Part I: what negative emotions are and how they work” and “On the balcony of life – Part II: what positive emotions are and how they work” form a revolutionary diptych that will now finally help you understand what your emotions are and how they work... Timmer walks you in two times 92 simple steps through every single pure and every single vile aspect of both all your negative and all your positive emotions, that you’ve been through in your life up til...