De Mexicaanse Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is zonder twijfel een van de bekendste en meest geliefde kunstenaars ter wereld. Door haar indrukwekkende kunstwerken, opvallende verschijning, roerige leven en bijzondere levensstijl is zij een wereldwijd icoon geworden.

Frida Kahlo heeft een onuitwisbare indruk achtergelaten met haar gedurfde gevoel voor schoonheid en haar idealen over gelijkheid voor iedereen. Hoewel haar leven grotendeels bepaald werd door tegenslag, wist ze haar pijn en emotionele st...

What if your customer experience could do more than delight — what if it could change behavior, fuel loyalty, and accelerate your sustainability goals? Consumers want to make better choices — but too often, businesses make it hard. That’s where customer experience comes in.

This book shows you how to design CX that makes sustainable behavior the easy, obvious and rewarding choice. Build on interviews with 12 leaders in the field, guided by Kyden’s practical method for Sustainable Expe...

In the rolling hills of Limburg, near Margraten, they slowly loom up, row after row: the thousands of white marble crosses and Stars of David. They mark the final resting place of nearly 8,300 American soldiers who died during World War II. While the headstones provide us with the names of the mostly young men involved in the liberation of the Netherlands, they do not tell us who the soldiers were and who they left behind. Moreover, the peace and quiet at the only American war cemetery in the...

BOEKFICHE The Bold and the Beautiful - In Flemish Portraits

Men in stately black, women with huge ruffs, children with golden rattles, old women with wizened faces, and self-satisfied artists… These are the main players in just about every portrait ever painted in the Southern Netherlands. From the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, the tract of land that we today call Flanders was the economic, cultural, intellectual and financial heart of Europe. And money flows – with everyone who ...

Tami Amit’s self-titled monograph compiles reproductions of her recent work on paper and canvas. Amit’s practice is a particular mode of action painting which processes childhood memories and issues of self identity and expression. This is her first monograph as a painter.

In 1905 Einstein introduced his Special Theory of Relativity (STR). The rumours I heard when I was about 16 years old were that only he and a few other extremely intelligent scientists would be able to understand this theory. A turning point in the history of physics, not only because of this supposed sublime theory, but even more because of the abandonment of the phenomenon ‘ether’. Until that turning point in history no physicist ever thought about the possibility that this phenomenon w...

This book brings together a selection of papers delivered at the Video Game Cultures 2023 conference, held from 7 to 9 September 2023 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. An interdisciplinary collection drawing on disciplines from literary and cultural studies through to evolutionary psychology, this book critically investigates many developments in video game cultures, technologies, practices, texts, paratexts, and genres. Through examining ideas such as narrative and time, gender and s...

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,...