The Global Financial Crisis (2008-2013) was a paradigm shift for mortgage enforcement proceedings. Not only did it lead to significant changes in legislation to improve enforcement procedures in many jurisdictions, the crisis also revealed the importance of forbearance measures. Combined with growing attention at an international and EU level to the position of the homeowner-consumer, the topic of forbearance and mortgage enforcement proceedings offers an interesting study. This book contains...

Homo Amor Manifesto is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. Homo Amor Manifesto contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.

In the 1930s and 1940s, London was a metropolis of artistic exile and a place of refuge from Nazi persecution. London Exile is the first book to look at the British capital as a sanctuary for modern artists. The city presented its new arrivals with opportunities and challenges: exiles established galleries, founded publishing houses and magazines, collaborated with local artists, organised exhibitions, published their work, and built networks. Artistic and theoretical production flourished in...

For centuries, Maastricht has been a leading place of pilgrimage, whose Pilgrimage of the Relics, held every seven years, attracts over a hundred and fifty thousand visitors. The veneration of Saint Servatius, the sacred treasures of the Basilica of St. Servatius and the Basilica of Our Lady, and the four extraordinary devotions of Maastricht give the city a unique role in an ancient tradition of pilgrimage. Pilgrimage to Maastricht brings the city’s rich religious history to life with stor...

Binnenstormende neushoorns bij het familiediner, mislukte voedselexperimenten en natuurlijk de eeuwige oom die een verrassende draai geeft aan de feestelijkheden… niks zo geschikt om in de stemming te komen voor de feestdagen als de tekeningen van Glen Baxter! The Baxter Book of Festive Failures bevat een aantal van de beste tekeningen over dit vrolijke thema in Baxters kleurrijke stijl met het kenmerkende Britse understatement in de onderschriften.

There are ominous signs that the festiv...

To most obervers, the recent intensification of heat and drought alternating with torrential downpours and floods, destroying crops and infrastructure, is clear evidence that the climate system has become unstable, and that we’re entering a roller coaster of state changes that we will hardly be able to cope with. Meanwhile, mankind keeps racing at full speed on the highway that traverses the technological promise land full of illusions of an even easier and more affluent existence.

This bo...

What do you do when you work in an environment where uniformity is the norm, but you happen to see another way? When you want to belong, but you sometimes step away on purpose, to gain perspective?

In Armed with Sensitivity, Lieutenant-General Elanor Boekholt-O’Sullivan shares her adventures in leadership, management, and organisational and social transformation, with an open heart and a healthy dose of self-deprecation. Not as a hero or a role model, but as a human being. She writes vividl...

In Britain, Ireland and Southern Scandinavia, the Early Neolithic is characterised by monumental constructions (e.g. causewayed enclosures, dolmens) and by specific traditions of depositional practice. Some aspects of these practices are similar in both regions, for example the shapes and use of monuments, their overall developmental sequences, and the traditions of deposition (kinds of objects and their treatment, locations chosen and so on). In spite of these similarities, however, there ha...

St. Eustatius, a small island in the Lesser Antilles, has played an important role in Atlantic World history. Since its first permanent European settlement in 1636, the island changed hands 22 times between the Dutch, French, and English. As a result of the Dutch free trade policy, St. Eustatius became one of the Caribbean’s main transshipment centers in the eighteenth century. During the American War of Independence (1775-1783), large amounts of arms, ammunition, and gunpowder were shipped...