This is the first single-volume social history of eighteenth-century Dutch Cape Town. Not only does it consider the elite inhabitants such as the 'expat' officials of the Dutch East India Company and the free burghers but it also includes members of Cape Town's underclasses: soldiers and sailors, artisans, convicts, exiles and freed slaves. At the same time the book positions the town in the wider context of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and stresses its complex connections with Europe, Asia...

This management guide offers an introduction to the IT Capability Maturity Framework™ (IT-CMF™), 2nd edition. The IT-CMF offers a comprehensive suite of tried and tested practices, organizational assessment approaches, and improvement roadmaps covering key IT capabilities needed to optimize value and innovation in the IT function and the wider organization. It enables organizations to devise more robust strategies, make better-informed decisions, and perform more effectively, efficiently,...

"One would think solitude was seldom demanded, yet it became our primary endeavour."

This story is about Yama, a monk who lives in a temple settled high in the mountains. He, together with several other monks, inhabit this remote monastery, yet where the others live according to the way of the monk, Yama doesn't. He thinks where others don't, he doubts where others are certain.

Yama carries a burden, a burden that makes him want to doubt everything, thus he wants to obtain that which he will...

In order to develop an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, the European

Union is adopting measures to enhance international cooperation in criminal

matters among the police and judicial authorities of its Member States. The

adopted instruments concerning evidentiary matters, such as the gathering of

evidence in another EU Member State, seem to serve the main purpose of

assisting the authorities in investigating and prosecuting (cross-border) crime. This raises the question to what extent t...

Which role, competences, and ethical mind-set should legal professionals have in order to contribute meaningfully to the challenges of contemporary societies? How should universities prepare students for their future roles as lawyers, judges, or legal scholars?

In this inaugural lecture, Elaine Mak traces the emergence of the image of the T-shaped lawyer, which has become prominent in current debates in law schools and legal practice. She demonstrates how organisational demands - relating to ...

At the crossroads of philosophy, artistic practice, and art history.Though Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were not strictly art historians, they reinvigorated ontological and formal approaches to art, and simultaneously borrowed art historical concepts for their own philosophical work. They were dedicated modernists, inspired by the German school of expressionist art historians such as Riegl, Wölfflin, and Worringer and the great modernist art critics such as Rosenberg, Steinberg, Greenbe...

Dit is de eerste monografie over beeldend kunstenaar Tirzo Martha (Willemstad, Curacao 1965). Deze omvangrijke publicatie omvat een intrigerende compilatie van zijn kunstwerken, performances en installaties. Martha wordt gedreven door een diep engagement met de wereld om hem heen, in het bijzonder met Curaçao en het Caribische Gebied. Zijn werk is veelzijdig, kritisch, politiek en maatschappelijk geladen. Het oeuvre van Martha omvat beelden, installaties, assemblages, video's en performances...

In this book, Farid Tabarki describes how the middle disappears. Travel agents and record companies, as middle men in an antiquated production process, are certainly on the way. However, as Tabarki claims, the entrepreneur, HR manager, civil servant and school teacher also may see themselves falling into oblivion.

In his book, Farid describes three megatrends that bring about the liquid society and the disappearance of the middle. Firstly, surging online platforms are taking over the jobs of ...

Research shows that 88 percent of employees are not enthusiastic about their work. This is a huge waste of talent and energy. In this book, teacher and researcher Bas Kodden presents a step-by-step plan towards a more enthusiastic approach to work, all on the basis of practically applicable management theories, personal experience and meetings with highly-skilled (sports) legends.

This book helps you become a HELD: Highly Energetic Responsible Operator. A HELD - literally a HERO in Dutch - is...

Intuitive Biostatistics takes a non-technical, non-quantitative approach to statistics and emphasizes interpretation of statistical results rather than the computational strategies for generating statistical data. This makes the text especially useful for those in health-science fields who have not taken a biostatistics course before. The text is also an excellent resource for professionals in labs, acting as a conceptually oriented and accessiblebiostatistics guide.

With an engaging and conv...