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Metaphors in philosophy

2013 || Paperback || Arthur Cools e.a. || Academic & Scientific publishers

Since Hans Blumenberg developed his metaphorology, there has been a constantly growing interest among philosophers in the function of metaphorical language in philosophy. In this tradition of a positive approach to philosophical metaphors, the publication of Ralf Konersmann's Wörterbuch der philosophischen Metaphern (2007, third edition 2011) is a landmark, that testifies to the actuality and importance of the problem of the relationship between philosophical rationality and its roots in pre...

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LIBER AMICORUM SERGE GUTWIRTH

Uncommon explorations into law, science & technology

2024 || Paperback || Gloria González Fuster e.a. || Academic & Scientific publishers

Since his seminal work on the relationships between law and sciences in 1992, Serge Gutwirth has been exploring numerous scholarly paths, and reinventing the ways in which academia intersects with activism. Full Professor at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije University Brussel (VUB), legal scholar, criminologist, founder of the Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) research group, he has been not only a pioneering mind and a multifaceted writer, but also a mentor and inf...

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Tribalization

Why war is coming

2018 || Paperback || Koert Debeuf || Academic & Scientific publishers

War is coming. In Tribalization Koert Debeuf depicts war as an inevitable outcome should the current decreasing of democracy and globalization continue. To describe this worldwide process towards more authoritarian nationalism and fundamentalism The author coins the term tribalization to describe this worldwide process, towards a more authoritarian nationalism and fundamentalism, and reminds his readership of the highly similar 1930s. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United St...

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Mindblowers: where art and science meet

2021 || Paperback || Caroline Pauwels e.a. || Academic & Scientific publishers

Art and science are both ways of understanding the world and orientating oneself in it. Scientists and artists are society's visionaries, and this unlikely collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and KVS aims to reconnect these different disciplines, sending the strong message that tomorrow’s society will only be built on the basis of dialogue and the search for common ground.

Mindblowers is structured around four themes: Resistance, Imagination, Time and Beauty. The 39 contrib...

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Text editing

a handbook for students and practitioners

2013 || Paperback || Kris Van de Poel e.a. || Academic & Scientific publishers

What is a text editor? What does the process of editing texts involve? What level of intervention is required to make texts communicate effectively?

Text editing sets out to answer these questions directly and in the amount of detail appropriate to a work that describes the text editor's complex craft. At once thoroughly researched and firmly grounded in modern editing practice, this comprehensive, user-friendly handbook covers many aspects of the text editor's intervention in the name of eff...

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PSS Design and Strategic Rollout

2018 || Paperback || Ivo Dewit || Academic & Scientific publishers

This toolkit is an ongoing effort to develop a methodology, with tools and techniques, to design meaningful product-service systems. It mixes state-of-the-art insights of the domains of systems thinking, service design, human-centered design, interaction design, product design and design thinking.

Furthermore, the toolkit can also be used to solve complex societal challenges and Internet of Things connected issues. Its tools and techniques alternate between whole and particle thinking and hel...

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The Age of Women

why Feminism also liberates men

2019 || Paperback || Alexander De Croo || Academic & Scientific publishers

The future is now—and it is female. Women and women’s rights are the key to progress. We believe in the West that we have already solved gender issues; it is the rest of the world that still has a problem. Nothing could be further from the truth! We have to do better. Through his work as Deputy Prime Minister and Belgian Minister of International Development, Alexander De Croo has discovered that the role of women worldwide is filled with too little opportunity and too much bias. In this ...

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Diplomatic skills

The basics

2022 || Paperback || Johan Verbeke || Academic & Scientific publishers

Diplomacy aims to make the world a somewhat better place. And for that to happen, we need thoughtful people, which most diplomats happen to be. But thought alone does not carry us very far. Thought needs to result in action. It is not thinking about the world but changing it that makes for an effective diplomat. Diplomacy is not a science, but a practice. It is what diplomats do. They write reports, make public speeches, debate, negotiate, preside over meetings … For all that they need dipl...

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Beckett Digital Manuscript Project The making of Samuel Beckett's stirrings still / soubresauts and comment dire/what is the word

2011 || Paperback || Dirk van Hulle || Academic & Scientific publishers

This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

The BDMP (www.beckettarchive.org) digitally reunites the dispersed manuscripts of Samuel Beckett’s works and facilitates their examination. The projec...

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Urban notebooks The Brussels reader

a small world city to become the capital of Europe

2013 || Paperback || Eric Corijn e.a. || Academic & Scientific publishers

Brussels is a small world city. It is the third richest region in Europe but has a poor population in its central neighbourhoods; it is the capital of Belgium, a nation fading away; it has high cosmopolitan potential but lacks an integrated urban governance and is in need of an inspiring urban project ... Moreover, the European institutions settled in Brussels over fifty years ago and their presence has not been an absolute success story. Today the international functions of the city are very...