Spring 1934. In a boggy clay polder south of Amsterdam, the first sods are cut for what would become the largest urban forest in the world: Amsterdamse Bos. Over the next decades, the so-called Boschplan expanded into a unique project. Creating woodland in the polder was a technological tour de force, and Cornelis van Eesteren and Jakoba Mulder’s modern design caused a sensation at home and abroad. Equally unique were the conditions that surrounded the Bos’ birth. Amidst the hardships of ...

In 2009 ontwikkelde de Nederlandse kunstenaar Iebele Abel een methode om random getallen (bits) om te zetten in muziek. Een aantal van deze muziekstukken is in deze uitgave als bladmuziek beschikbaar gemaakt.

In the historiography of the period of Dutch rule in the Cape of Good Hope, from 1652 until 1795, Cape burghers are represented as the perpetual underdogs bristling against the rule of a restrictive Dutch East India Company (VOC). But was this relationship really so antagonistic?

The author places Cape colonial society in the wider context of the Dutch Republic and, in doing so, compares the political structures, institutions and dynamics of the Republic and its overseas settlement. He shows ...

The terracotta figurines from Akragas (Agrigento) with their chubby faces, splendid furniture, and rich adornments, depict a prosperous life in the late sixth and early fifth century BCE. The extensive jewellery on the figurines contains strikingly large fibulae appliques fastening pectoral chains with several sorts of pendants. They are modelled after existing items. The form of the jewellery items changed fast, influenced by different peoples and changing fashions, which can be compared wit...

This book explains, by following the mainstream of the history of the computus paschalis, i.e. the science developed from the beginning of the third century on behalf of the determination of the date of Paschal Sunday, which rised around AD 250 in Alexandria (Egypt), how of old the date of Easter depends on the phases of the moon, and provides, on the basis of NASA’s Six Millennium Catalog of Phases of the Moon, the reconstruction of the two strongly different lost Metonic 19-year lunar cyc...

This pocket guide to Scrum is the one book for everyone who wants to learn or re-learn about Scrum. The book describes the framework as it was designed and intended, with a strong focus on the purpose to the rules and adding an historical perspective to Scrum and the Agile movement.

Several elements that were described in the first edition of Scrum - A Pocket Guide (2013) were later added to the official Scrum Guide. The most noticeable ones are the Scrum Values (2016) and the description of ...

The book 'Live with Passion!', written by integral coach and management consultant Humphrey Isselt, is dedicated to providing insight with regard to what is actually meant by passion. Not from an academic principle or scientific framework, nor a 'dictionary definition', but based on the essence of passion: the balance between feeling and reason.

Passion is a powerful drive, it motivates and inspires. Passion is an expression of feeling and therefore a reactive process. It is in fact a reacti...

With his book "What Do You Need?" Humphrey Isselt offers a guide to answer the essential life question: What do I need? Can the question "What do I need?" be answered in such a way that you know what is expected of you or what you expect from the other person? The question is often asked with the aim of 'being happy'. "What do I need to be happy?" However, people generally do not know what makes them happy. One then strives for short moments in which one strives for desires and wishes (impuls...