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Facing the Past
Policies and Good Practices for Responses to Illegal Intercountry Adoptions
2024 || Hardcover || Elvira Loibl e.a. || Eleven international publishing
In a growing number of countries, inquiries into past intercountry adoptions take place that identify systemic abuses and irregularities and conclude that adoption stakeholders encouraged or facilitated illegal intercountry adoptions. However, so far, the response from these stakeholders has been inadequate in addressing the profound human rights violations endured by those affected by illegal adoptions. Despite the growing movement of adoptees advocating for justice on behalf of themselves a...
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Inner Stance
Distinctions for living a faster, stronger, more effective life.
2024 || Hardcover || Straight-Line Leadership Group B.V.
Inner Stance is geschreven door Dusan Djukich, uitgegeven door Straight-Line Leadership International.
Eindelijk is het zover. Het allereerste Inner Stance boek, geschreven door de legendarische coach Dusan Djukich, is vanaf nu in het Engels verkrijgbaar. Dit boek is bedoeld om de koers van je eigen leven te bepalen. Het heft terug in handen te nemen.
In dit boek zet de auteur diverse distincties uiteen die direct verbonden zijn met prestaties in het leven en het bedrijfsleven. Deze distincti...
The Sage Handbook of Sociology of Education
2024 || Hardcover || Mark Berends e.a. || SAGE
The SAGE Handbook of Sociology of Education offers a diverse and timely perspective on the intricate relationships between education and society, with expert contributions covering topics such as social stratification, educational policy, and the impact of COVID-19 on early childhood education.
Prophets, Poets & Scholars
Exploring the Collections of the Middle Eastern Library at Leiden University
2024 || Hardcover || Arnoud Vrolijk e.a. || Leiden University Press
The year 2024 marks the opening of the new Middle Eastern Library of Leiden University, a purpose-built facility to serve the needs of all those who engage in the study of the Middle East and North Africa from the dawn of history to the present day. To celebrate the occasion, more than 40 authors from Leiden and beyond have contributed to this special volume on the library’s rich and multifaceted Oriental holdings.
Topics range from the Ancient Near East to the material and conservational ...
The Anxious Generation
How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
2024 || Hardcover || Jonathan Haidt || Penguin LLC US
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European Environmental Law / Druk 5
Treaty Based Law
2024 || Hardcover || Jan Jans e.a. || Europa Law Publishing
This leading monograph on European Environmental Law is now completely updated and revised. This book provides an in-depth analysis of important legal issues of European environmental law. What are the legal grounds for EU environmental policy and on what principles are directives and regulations based upon? To what extent precludes EU environmental regulation more stringent national environmental standards? What are the requirements the Court of Justice has imposed on the Member States imple...
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Taiwan Strait
Conscious City Incubator
2024 || Hardcover || Raoul Bunschoten || Jap Sam Books
The Taiwan Strait is a liminal space, and a natural incubator. These two conditions create a unique opportunity for implementing a future city-making process.
The Conscious City concept brings together all the challenges facing contemporary city-making. It is a concept for the urban curation processes required for future cities; for adapting to the impacts of climate change, emerging intelligences, a growing population, affordable housing, the need for a new pact with nature, as well as navi...
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Ecology and conservation of the Dutch ground beetle fauna
Lessons from 66 years of pitfall trapping
2024 || Hardcover || Hans Turin e.a. || Wageningen Academic Publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
Over the past decades, large amounts of data about carabids have been collected in the Netherlands, initially for the purpose of creating distribution maps for the country. In addition to information from collections and faunistic publications, a significant amount of data came from ecological studies using pitfall traps. Because of the rich tradition of carabidological research in the Netherlands, an exceptionally large database of these pitfall data is available. The database is a mix of ap...
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Zillion
Thomas Manneke
2024 || Hardcover || Thomas Manneke || Idea Books B.V.
At his workspace in the centre of Amsterdam, when the afternoon sun is just right, Thomas Manneke captures still lifes and portraits of his daughter, Laurie, using an 8x10 inch plate camera. Most photographs in this book were made in collaboration with his daughter. The objects in the book are made especially to photograph them. Sometimes they are inspired by found objects, like a small grey stone with whimsical white lines or by a web created by caterpillars. Some objects were inspired by ar...
Is Free Speech Under Threat?
One big question. Two great answers.
2024 || Hardcover || Charlotte Lydia Riley e.a. || Bodley Head
One big question. Two great answers. In Is Free Speech Under Threat? two leading thinkers tackle the issue at the very heart of the culture wars.
Suzanne Nossel (CEO of PEN America) puts the case that even though there is an important rebalancing of power taking place in society today, rightly giving minority voices the space and prominence they have long been owed, even so the uncompromising intolerance of a left-leaning minority crosses the threshold of an important principle on which free ...