Anders dan kunstenaars opereren architecten per definitie vanuit het centrum van de samenleving. Als een van de weinige architecten toont Rem Koolhaas aan dat je vanuit dat midden toch een kritische distantie in acht kunt nemen. Is in zijn strategieën een hint gelegen voor kunstenaars om betekenisvolle kunst te scheppen in een wereld waarin betekenis geen enkele kans meer lijkt te hebben?

Schrijver Edzard Mik bezocht het door het OMA ontworpen CCTV hoofdkantoor in Beijing en schreef een lyri...

After a number of relatively calm winters, the 2011/2012 season was particularly

wild and stormy. Maritime aerial photographer Herman IJsseling of Flying Focus

was once again at last able to take off in his Cessna Skymaster to photograph ships in the roughest of weather conditions. The flights provided sufficient

spectacular pictures to compile a new photographic record.

Hard cover, 21x30 cm, 96 pages.

This book contains two major subjects:Firstly; some academic papers about Islamic Banking. The main characteristic of Islamic banking in comparison to traditional banking is that it is more concerned with the profitability and length of the proposed investment rather than collateral. Projects with high profitability and low collateral that might otherwise be rejected can be funded through Islamic banking. This leads to a banking behavior that is similar to development banks and microfinance i...

Het werk van Desirée Dolron heeft zich de afgelopen 25 jaar gemanifesteerd als een intense opeenstapeling van ervaringen en ontmoetingen, verenigd in haar ambitieuze benadering van fotografie. Dit essay over haar serie Xteriors is een bespiegeling over de kern en creatieve context van een kunstenares die voortdurend bezig is met thema's van kaliber: de hartstocht van religieuze ceremonies op het zuidelijk halfrond, het geduldig de geschiedenis 'uitzitten' dat zo sterk is ingebed in het Cubaa...

Bertien van Manen grew up in Heerlen, at the heart of the eastern part of the former coal mining region in the Netherlands, where her father worked as an engineer for the State Mines. Living in close proximity to this industry, the surrounding culture, and tangible consequences, she also became intimately familiar with the kinds of places and people associated with it. Spanning multiple decades, this publication brings together photographs Van Manen took in various mining towns scattered arou...

How well do you know yourself? How well do you want to know yourself? Why?

Knowing yourself more fully can lead to better leadership, relationships, and decision-making. You can also pursue it for its own sake.

However, we don’t often get the chance to turn our attention inward, to notice aspects of ourselves that go unnoticed in a world full of demands, information overload, and distractions.

So why wait? Feel free to seize the opportunity, and immerse yourself in this workbook full of tim...

How did Reformed Christianity, the public faith of the Netherlands, influence the Dutch experience abroad? How did the Reformed Church and the West India Company (WIC) interact in each setting? What effect did the major religious issues and divisions of the period have on the WIC and its directors, merchants, employees, settlers, and indigenous allies? Conversely, what effect did expansion have on Dutch Calvinism?

In answering these and other questions, D. L. Noorlander argues against prevaili...

'Rethinking Environmental Governance' brings to light the pluralistic views, diverse forces, and multiple realities (re)shaping formal and informal decision-making structures, processes, and power interplay in environmental governance. Linking socio-economic drivers with the evolution of cultural norms, the (re)shaping of institutional arrangements, and ever-changing power relations, the book looks at processes of institutional emergence across spatio-temporal scales. Through case study illus...

Spanning Malaysia’s post-independence period, and using the repression-mobilization nexus as a key theoretical framework, this study outlines how its Christian community delicately and simultaneously defends its religious rights without being construed as anti-Islam in the face of state-led “Islamization”. By primarily focusing on the 1980s to the contemporary period, while considering subnational differences between East and West Malaysia, this study charts the changes in the community...