The education book “Schoolveteran” tells the true story – 2017–2020 – of a Dutch family and their struggle with Suitable Education, where parents, along with their sick son, get completely stuck in bureaucracy. Consequence? Injustice due to incompetence.

A child who, despite his illness, manages to pass the third grade of his accelerated education based on his own will, discipline, and self-study. Being sick, succeeding, and then being forced to choose a different educational path? ...

After a breast cancer diagnosis, women face important decisions about reconstruction that affect both physical recovery and emotional wellbeing. In this thoughtful exploration of breast reconstruction options, Dr. Foumani provides clear, honest information based on years of clinical experience with countless patients.

The book meticulously details various reconstruction techniques, including implant-based solutions, autologous tissue transfers like DIEP and latissimus dorsi flaps, and innovat...

Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan (now the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies) published the 102-volume "Senshi Sosho" (War History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. Volume 3 of the series, "The Invasion of the Dutch East Indies", describes in depth the campaign to gain control over ...

This book provides a fresh reinterpretation of the global spread of modern leisure travel in the middle of the nineteenth century through a critical comparative reading of twenty-two works of popular travel writing from maritime Southeast Asia and Ceylon. The examination of these books reveals a coherent genre that was seemingly frivolous yet in fact intensely political, with shared rules and tropes that served to legitimise colonial rule and codify aspects of colonial culture in the popular ...

For almost half a century, NATO’s armies deterred a Soviet attack on Western Europe. Today, they once again provide a check on Russia's revanchist agenda. As in the Cold War, if Russia’s aggression escalates to armed conflict, the Alliance’s armies will likely bear the brunt of the fighting. Thus, a study of the national armies that comprised NATO during the Cold War has both historical and current relevance.

Each chapter offers an analysis of how the respective constituent NATO army ...

This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. It presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial objects and systematises these into war booty, confiscations by missionaries and contestable acquisitions by private persons and other categories. Former colonies consider this as a historical injustice that has not been undone.Former colonial powers have kept most of the objects in their custody. In the 1970s ...

Grand Narratives of colonization, especially ones related to the Spanish and Portuguese Americas, began circulating soon after 1492. The danger of these Grand Narratives is that they are often mistaken as reality and eclipse all other possible narrations pertaining to a particular place and/or time. As more Caribbean territories become independent, the questioning of Grand Narratives has permeated many disciplines in the region, and archaeology is no exception.

This work attempts to examine th...

Studio Piet Boon is een internationaal opererende design studio voor exterieur-, interieur- en productontwerp, erkend om het creëren van perfect uitgebalanceerde ontwerpen. Dit jaar viert de studio zijn 40-jarig bestaan. 40 by Studio Piet Boon is een collectie van 40 ideeën over design die worden toegelicht met foto's van uiteenlopende projecten die Studio Piet Boon wereldwijd heeft gerealiseerd. Simpele ideeën met een buitengewone impact, zo blijkt uit de teksten van de ervaren journalist...

In haar boek Outdoor Interiors pakt auteur Juliet Roberts uit met de mooiste en meest stijlvolle buitenruimtes ter wereld, allemaal ontworpen om van te genieten als verlengstukken van de huizen die ze omringen. Ze moeten uitnodigen om samen te komen, te entertainen en te ontspannen - tuinen zijn om in te leven. Roberts belicht vijf stijlen - 'traditional', 'contemporary', 'playful', 'everyday' en 'minimal' - en geeft tal van tips om dezelfde stijl te creëren in jouw tuin en dat in verschille...