In 2006 Leiden University has initiated a series Leiden Dissertations at Leiden University Press. This series affords an opportunity to those who have recently obtained their doctorate to publish the results of their doctoral research so as to ensure a wide distribution among colleagues and the interested public. The dissertations will become available both in printed and in digital versions. Books from this LUP series can be ordered through www.lup.nl.

The large majority of Leiden dissertati...

Het hoogtepunt van de Nederlandse literatuur in speciale editie voor het voortgezet onderwijs.'Max Havelaar' van Multatuli wordt beschouwd als het hoogtepunt van de Nederlandse literatuur. Maar behalve een literair meesterwerk is het ook een roman met een missie, bedoeld als een harde aanklacht tegen de wantoestanden in Indië. Honderdvijftig jaar na dato heeft het boek nog niets van zijn kracht verloren. Het is geestig en ontroerend, onderhoudend en vlijmscherp. Het is prachtig gecomponeerd ...

Risks and uncertainties play a role in virtually all of our decisions. Quantitative models have so far been either too unrealistic or too complex. This graduate textbook presents modern models that are both realistic and tractable. All mathematical tools are related to real-life processes, ensuring accessibility to a wide audience.

Eentalige methode zakelijk Duits, met nadruk op communicatieve vaardigheden. Bevat uitleg over de belangrijkste grammaticale onderwerpen.

Het Übungsbuch volgt de opbouw van het Kursbuch in hoofdstukken en paragrafen, maar legt de nadruk op de schrijfvaardigheid, de woordenschat en de grammatica. Elke paragraaf begint met een overzicht van de belangrijkste woordenschat, met ruimte om de Nederlandse vertaling erbij te schrijven, en een aantal handige uitdrukkingen uit het Kursbuch. Daarop volg...

From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny.

In this book, Catherine Bell off...

The first two editions of Concise Chemical Thermodynamics proved to be a very popular introduction to a subject many undergraduate students perceive to be difficult due to the underlying mathematics. With its concise explanations and clear examples, the text has for the past 40 years clarified for countless students one of the most complicated branches of science. Following in the tradition of its predecessors, this Third Edition continues to offer a practical, example-based exploration of a ...

The Silk Road was the current name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during the Han Dynasty (206BCE-220CE), in consequence of the inter-dependence and the conflicts of these two distinctive societies. In their quest for horses, fragrances, and spices, gems, glassware, and other exotics from the lands to their west...

Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was w...