Cocoa Butter and Dreams. A Collection of Poems, Paintings and Ponderings on (my) Blackness is the first book in English by Belgian author, columnist and theatre-maker Dalilla Hermans. This layered art book combines nearly ten years of poems, letters and essays — some originally written for the stage, many never published before. Hermans wrote them all in English, the language she instinctively turned to when giving shape to Blackness within a European context. The collection also features t...

Creativity is a natural force that drives innovation and change. This book explores how nature itself is creative – constantly shaping and reshaping life, matter, and the environment through a dynamic process of evolution.

At its heart, this book looks at the deep connections between mind and body, action and thought, chaos and order, and humans and other living beings. It is a thought-provoking read for anyone curious about how life, human thought, and culture were invented by nature and a...

The Dutch province of Limburg, as it exists now, once bordered the frontier zone of the Roman Empire. It was known for its fertile soils, where, especially in the south, a villa landscape developed during the first three centuries CE. Many of these Roman villas were excavated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, without being analysed, and publications relating to these sites did not meet contemporary standards.

The Leiden Villa Project, conducted between 2022 and 2024 by a team of res...

The Winthir Collection is one of the few identified skeletal collections from the 19th century, offering a rare insight into the lives of 245 individuals recovered from a long-forgotten section of Winthir Cemetery in Munich, southern Germany. Now housed in the State Collection for Anthropology in Munich, these remains have been analysed through an interdisciplinary project that combines historical and osteological research.

For each individual, historical data such as demographics, cause of ...

The art of painting on bark was once widely found in many parts of the Pacific, including the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea, the home of the Kwoma people who are the subject of this study. The styles of the paintings and the subjects of designs were as varied as the hundreds of languages spoken in this region.

Following European contact at the end of the nineteenth century, and the social change this brought, many New Guinea peoples discontinued producing their vibrant designs on ba...

This collection provides interdisciplinary discussions of the impact of the heritage of modernity in archaeology and related disciplines from a theoretical and philosophical point of view. The ways the philosophical and scientific heritage of modernity shapes current human scientific thought is a much-discussed topic in archaeology, anthropology, and beyond. From central themes of modernity, such as reductionism, materialism, and physicalism, there is a connection to central archaeological an...

Europe is under fire, both literally and figuratively. The war in Ukraine represents an indirect attack on the European model, and the European Union (EU) is also facing heavy internal criticism from various quarters. At the same time, Europe remains an attractive continent for many, with countries lining up to join the EU.A lot is expected of the EU. How can the European continent survive in a world that seems to become increasingly hostile and complex? Can Europe even maintain its position?...