In October 1740, a tragedy unfolded in Batavia, the Asian headquarters of the Dutch East India Company on the island of Java. Faced with a spontaneous Chinese peasant uprising, Batavia’s vengeful inhabitants carried out a bloody massacre of their fellow Chinese within the city walls. The murderers marched from house to house, looting and pillaging, not even sparing the hospitals and prisons.

How could such a slaughter take place in the prosperous Queen of the East? Drawing on a wealth of Du...

This document is a TOGAF Series Guide: The TOGAF Leader’s Guide to Establishing and Evolving an EA Capability. It has been developed and approved by The Open Group, and is part of the TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition.

Written for the Enterprise Architecture Capability Leader, the person who is tasked to lead the effort to establish or evolve an Enterprise Architecture Capability, the Leader’s Guide presents advice on establishing an Enterprise Architecture Capability that aligns to a set of r...

Skate/worlds brings together writers, educators, researchers and social workers who use skateboarding as a learning tool. Can skateboarding be a school subject? Is it therapeutic? Why do skaters learn to move sideways? What do you learn from falling and failing? And how can skateboarding help parents with raising newborns?

This volume chronicles how we can learn to skate and learn from skateboarding – zooming in on topics including gestalt therapy, high school education, opensource learning...

comparing provisions in Türkiye, England and Wales, and the Netherlands to the ECHR framework

This publication offers a unique comparative analysis of the sentencing of mentally disordered offenders in Türkiye, England and Wales, and the Netherlands, exploring the alignment of these systems with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). While the presence of mental disorders impacts criminal responsibility, the legal responses and practices differ significantly across jurisdictions.

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They say life is all about choices; that our choices, whether easy or difficult, shape the journey ahead. But what if for every path we choose, another possibility unfolds in a parallel universe?

Roya is a work of historical fiction, telling the story of a young Iranian woman living in a parallel universe, one in which the Iranian Revolution of 1979 did not happen and the Islamic Republic was not established. In this alternate reality, the ayatollahs never rose to power and Iran follows a dif...

“The Descartes Lectures” is a biennial event at Tilburg University that invites a distinguished philosopher to deliver a series of three lectures, each followed by commentaries from other experts in the field. In 2022, Tilburg University had the honor of hosting Cheshire Calhoun for a series of talks on the important philosophical question of what it means to be a responsible person. The commentators for the lectures were Gunnar Björnsson, Jules Holroyd, and Heidi Maibom. This book is a ...

This journal is designed to help you break free from poverty thinking and embrace a wealth-building mindset. Over the next 21 days, you’ll transform how you think about and manage money and learn to take practical steps toward financial freedom.

Anna Karenina is a novel, first published in book form in 1878, by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1875 to 1877, all but the last part appearing in the periodical The Russian Messenger. By the time he was finishing up the last installments, Tolstoy was in an anguished state of mind having come to hate it but finished it unwillingly.

The novel deals with themes of betrayal, faith, family, marriage, Im...