Assuming an advanced civilisation possessed the capability to travel interstellar distances at a velocity of 0.1% of the speed of light, it could potentially establish colonies throughout the Milky Way Galaxy within a span of approximately 100 million years. This duration, while significant, is comparatively brief in light of the galaxy’s estimated age of over 13 billion years. And yet we see and hear nothing. The Universe seems empty and dead. However, given the possibility for the rapid g...

Nay-Sayers

How to innovate and deal with resistance against new ideas

Ben je al die zwartkijkers die je nieuwe ideeën afwijzen of lachen om je innovatieve plannen zat?

Iedereen die zich bezighoudt met innovatie, onderzoek of het creëren van nieuwe ideeën kan je vertellen dat het overwinnen van weerstand een van de moeilijkste dingen is als je iets nieuws introduceert. Soms lijkt het schier onmogelijk om de zwartkijkers te overtuigen, en als je met argumenten komt wordt het alleen maar erger.

Het Nay-Sayers boek biedt een speelse en effectieve methode om met kritiek en weerstand van de zwartkijkers om te gaan. Je lee...

All you have to do is get started!

Forget everybody who says it's not possible. Forget the thought that you are useless. Or that you need to have a certain happiness before you can start making your dreams come true. You can make your dreams come true!

With advice from various successful entrepreneurs and people who are chasing or living their dream, you can also make your dreams come true. This book gives you information, practical examples and handy tools to get started yourself.

This bo...

Yes Lord!

Technology and Regulation (TechReg) is an international journal of law, technology and society, with an interdisciplinary identity. TechReg provides an online platform for disseminating original research on the legal and regulatory challenges posed by existing and emerging technologies (and their applications) including, but by no means limited to, the Internet and digital technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, robotics, neurotechnology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, energ...

Create outstanding gift packages and papercraft projects with our strikingly designed papers! PEPIN Gift & Creative Paper Books offer 12 high-quality sheets, boasting a broad assortment of modern and classical art and design styles. The sheets are folded to fit into the books; tear along the perforated line to open them up to the standard gift wrap size of 500x700mm.

Titles include vintage design themes, botanical and floral styles, cultural styles and artist-themed books, all put into edito...

'Clearing the Path' is the first volume of the collected writings of Ñāṇavīra Thera. It contains his most important writings: those that originated after he attained sotāpatti (Stream-entry) on 27.06.1959. 'Clearing the Path' is supplemented by 'Seeking the Path', a second volume consisting of his early writings (1954-1960) and marginalia. In March 1963 Ñāṇavīra Thera wrote to one of his correspondents: 'With regard to any of my past writings that you may come across [...] I would ...

In 1741 a VOC ship from India arrives in the Netherlands, with a miraculous animal on board that no one in Europe has ever seen before: a young rhino named Clara. For no less than seventeen years she travelled with her owner Douwe Mout through almost every country in Europe. Wherever she is exhibited, she is a sensation; she grows into the most famous rhino in European history.

She is a star, a wonder for science and a muse for artists who immortalise her in paintings, drawings, sculptures an...

This compilation consists of key treaties, secondary legislation and case law in the area of international and European institutional and constitutional law, selected by the Department of international and European Union law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam to use in their bachelor education. The compilation uniquely combines these two areas of law in one single compilation, making it ideal for introductory courses in these fields.

What makes this book furthermore unique and of added value...

No other country has, in the past two decades, developed its space capabilities and capacities in such an expansive way as China. Today it is mastering practically all space activities and applications and, furthermore, can set ‘firsts’ as landing on the far side of the moon. These impressive achievements make China not only an ever-important actor in outer space but also an object of research and analysis.

China’s Space Ambition – Programs, Policies and the Law allows for analysis o...