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Embracing Diversity and Empowering Lives
Celebrating the Transgender Community
2023 || Paperback || Paul Woldhek || Paul Woldhek
In a world that is increasingly recognizing the importance of inclusivity and acceptance, this extraordinary book takes you by the hand and invites you to celebrate the vibrant and resilient transgender community. With profound stories, insightful interviews, and thought-provoking discussions, this book aims to uplift and empower not only the transgender community but all readers who wish to embrace diversity and make a positive change in the world.
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THE RIGHT DEAL
Making the Case for a more Respectful Country
Paperback || Peter Hendriks Okello || Mijnbestseller.nl || met inkijkexemplaar
This book explains the alarming and developing influence from radical liberalism on political, social and spiritual matters in the US and Canada. In Canada, two political parties, Liberals and NDP, publically oppose long-existing Judeo-Christian values, norms and principles.
In the US, the Far Left show similar disrespect for the same long-held values, norms and principles. The history of radical liberalism reveals the immense human suffering it has caused in the world. We may expect that tod...
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Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Paperback || Steven Pinker || Penguin US
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR
AND A PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT
"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In th...
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Migration, Equality and Racisms
44 opinions
2021 || Paperback || Ilke Adam e.a. || VUBPRESS
Migration, Equality and Racisms trigger ever more salient societal debates. More than 80 VUB academics and co-authors joined forces. Philosophers, lawyers, psychologists, health scientists, sociologists, geographers, criminologists, communication and political scientists … Together they aim to contribute to an exercise of humanism as a praxis of criticism or a ‘technique of trouble-making’, in the words of Edward Said. Through 44 thought-provoking and informed opinion pieces, they quest...
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Lab Amsterdam - What can we learn from urban fieldlabs?
working, learning, reflections
2017 || Paperback || Stan Majoor e.a. || Thoth, Uitgeverij || met inkijkexemplaar
Amsterdam as a lab. That is what Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences' three fieldlabs and its many partners have in mind. Functional illiteracy, debts, learning deficiencies or problems caused by extreme precipitation: the city contains plenty of tough issues, demanding novel approaches in which co-creation and participation by residents, social organizations and knowledge institutions are basic principles.In the fieldlabs, people try to change current practices by working with, instead ...
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This is who we are and how we live!
stories and faces of the Vietnamese LGBT Community.
Paperback || Diana van Oort || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
This is who we are and how we live!
Many Vietnamese LGBT persons lead invisible lives. Their stories are seldom told and those who dare to come out of the closet are often alone and have a low self-esteem. At the same time it’s hard for those who want to come out without any examples of how good and normal life can be as a Vietnamese lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Our goal is to give the LGBT community a face and a voice. This book is filled with interviews and photographs, packed ...
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Socioeconomic Deprivation and the Support for Populism
A Study on Individual and Contextual Determinants
2022 || Paperback || Michael Kolander || Open Press Tilburg University
While there is evidence suggesting that an unfavorable socioeconomic status does foster voting in favor of populist parties, multiple previous studies agree that cultural or political concerns surpass the explanatory power of economic insecurity. Nonetheless, economic approaches of populist voting should not be discarded.
Next to the substantial investigation on which aspects of socioeconomic hardship increase support for populism, another objective of this thesis is to illustrate the method...
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Reflections on European Values
2022 || Paperback || Ruud Luijckx Tim Reeskens || Open Press Tilburg University
This book on Reflections on European Values is a Liber Amicorum honouring Loek Halman’s contribution to the European Values Study. For years, he has been a key figure in this longitudinal and cross-national research project on moral, social, and political values, dedicating his academic life to advancing the understanding of values in Europe. This Liber Amicorum is published at the occasion of Loek’s retirement after a long career at the Department of Sociology at Tilburg University. It b...
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This is Not a New World Order
Europe Rediscovers Geopolitics, from Ukraine to Taiwan
2024 || Paperback || Sven Biscop || Owl Press
If every event in international politics is a turning point, one can only go and lie down, out of sheer dizziness. In reality, we have been living in the same multipolar world for more than three decades. Europeans are only now again getting used to how such a world of great powers works. In the process, the European Union has rediscovered the importance of geopolitics. Without geopolitical awareness, crafting good strategy is impossible. But not every problem is geopolitical, and strategy co...
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Gay is natural
2024 || Paperback || Jasmin Hajro || Brave New Books
Introducing "Gay is natural´´: A Journey to Understanding and Resilience" by the acclaimed author Jasmin Hajro
This captivating book is a powerful exploration of what it truly means to live peacefully and respectfully with others who are different, embracing diversity and understanding the human experience in its entirety.
In "Gay is natural" the author fearlessly delves into their own personal journey, sharing candid accounts of their mistakes, failures, and the valuable lessons they've le...