Fotograaf Friso Spoelstra bezocht in de afgelopen tien jaar talloze traditionele volksfeesten in zestien verschillende Europese landen en legde de tradities vast op foto. Het fotoboek 'Devils and Angels, Ritual Feasts in Europe' gaat voorbij de politiek van Brussel. Het brengt verhalen samen en toont eigenheid én verrassende overeenkomsten in de verschillende culturen van het groter wordende Europa. Speerpunt vormt het immaterieel cultureel erfgoed van Europa, waarin lokale cultuur en tradit...

Using engineering performance evaluations to explore design alternatives during the conceptual phase of architectural design helps to understand the relationships between form and performance; and is crucial for developing well-performing final designs. Computer aided conceptual design has the potential to aid the design team in discovering and highlighting these relationships; especially by means of procedural and parametric geometry to support the generation of geometric design, and buildin...

Nowadays, organisations must cope with the pressure of cost reduction and efficiency in order to succeed in a highly competitive business environment. However, drivers to improve social interaction and employee’s performance and as such to contribute to organisational goals and objectives make it necessary to be concerned with other performance criteria as well, such as effectiveness, flexibility, employee satisfaction, productivity and creativity. There is a growing need for performance ma...

Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The cult of domesticity has often been linked to the privatization of religion and the idealisation of the motherly ideal of the 'angel in the house'. This book revisits the Christian home of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and sheds new light on the stereotypical distinction between the private and public spheres and their inhabitants. Emphasizing the importance of patriarchal domesticity duri...

Bas de Kruyff (1966) is a seasoned coach in the field of leadership and personal effectiveness. In his work, he keeps seeing how leaders are being unconsciously influenced by patterns from their descent in their current position. He himself has experienced how liberating it is when you have the conscious choice of whether to continue that pattern or to adjust to the direction that serves you and your organization the most.

In Systemic Leadership, he projects the basics of systemic work to th...

This book addresses one of the more controversial dilemmas in transnational contract law, especially in times of economic volatility and change - how should the law and its agents assist in ensuring that contracting parties are held to their promises whilst seeking to prevent economic waste and disorder, both for the parties and society. We live in extremely challenging economic times - the huge financial maelstrom that broke in 2008 and the after-shock effects will remain with us for years t...

Aquarius Agenda is a journey of self discovery through new sciences, psychology, and Buddhism. Along the way the reader is confronted with crises, the byproduct of our civilizations denial of its own humanity. Finally, when the true horror of our misperception is laid bare,technology and spirituality deliver the answers offering beautiful alternatives. The book looks back into our recent history building a psychological profile of Western man growing up under the mercantile and imperial syst...

Slowly, I put the phone to my ear. Then, Alice s voice. `Edward? she whispered, sounding cautious. `What happened?

Yes. What happened? Really, it was better not to think about it. It hurt. But she needed to know, right? So, for the first time, and for the last time because, damn, it hurt so much, I told her what happened.

`Bella.. speaking her name felt like sticking a few extra knives in my insides, and I cringed. `She s ... gone.

Five years after Bella saved her entire vampire family ...

Bridget is a young Ghanaian woman born with cerebral palsy, a physical disability.

She had the fortune to survive because of her exceptional mother and grandpa in a village that thought of her as a worthless if not dangerous being.

Bridget, now 25 years old, looks back and still wonders if she is worthy of living the life of a normal human person...

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Story and Illustrations © Artist Pepijn de Jonge