Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to the lives of islanders and used for clothing, furnishings and ritual artefacts. Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth takes a new approach to the study of the history of this region through its barkcloth heritage, focusing on the plants themselves and surviving objects in historic collections. This ...

Why are so many nautical words in Danish the same as in Dutch? Who taught the shipwrights in the Royal Danish Shipyard in Copenhagen to build carvel planked ships? How did the first Danish ships find their way to the riches of the East Indies? These questions and many more are meet in this Ph.D. dissertation, which circles around the maritime relationships between especially the seaward provinces of the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries. In the early renaissance Dutch maritime techno...

Why are so many nautical words in Danish the same as in Dutch? Who taught the shipwrights in the Royal Danish Shipyard in Copenhagen to build carvel planked ships? How did the first Danish ships find their way to the riches of the East Indies? These questions and many more are meet in this Ph.D. dissertation, which circles around the maritime relationships between especially the seaward provinces of the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries. In the early renaissance Dutch maritime techno...

This book has been written for all passionate project practitioners. People who are driven by the need to create real impact and are willing to take untraditional measures to lead projects. Whether you are a PMO, project owner, project leader, team member or someone who invests time in temporary endeavours undertaken to create an impact – this book is for you.

This is a practical handbook designed to change your way of thinking and acting in and with projects. It provides you with hands-on ...

The one event in our history that has been least understood, is the coming of Jesus Christ to our world, to transfer humanity and our planet into a grand new reality.

What he has done is clear and simple. Yet it is so far beyond our limited imagination, that its significance has escaped the entirety of the human population, including Christian religion. The small number of individuals, and sometimes small groups, that really understood, was so free of this world and its trouble, that they hav...

In this incandescent novel Frances Raval gives superbly vivid, powerful and at times wickedly funny portrayals of the foundations of Freudian psychoanalysis as it emerged in the 1890s and thus by implication of the inner life of the whole epoch. The Story of Dora is a richly ironic and imaginative reconstruction of the famous Freudian case-history, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. The novel shows Freud’s handling of the case to be one of his most scandalous impositions of theory ont...

Samminator asks forgiveness from God. A Christian says, "God forgives everything, really all sins, if only you are sorry,' And Samminator showed this regret with this book.

During the summer of the year 2000, Medieval Art Historian Scott Montgomery and Early Modern Historian Alice Bauer undertook the task of retracing the medieval pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. This book documents their thousand-mile, sixty-seven-day journey walking from Le Puy en Velay, France to the tomb of St. James at Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It also examines the historical background and numerous historical lessons gleaned from the experience.

As academics, Montgomery ...

ORDEAL AT THE SUPERDOME is an extraordinary play written by French playwright Alain Saint-Saëns, who lived twenty years in New Orleans. Many readers will identify themselves with Barbara Carter’s family and her ordeal through Katrina and its immediate aftermath. Deaths because of heat exhaustion and stress; rapes of women in the bathrooms; have been attested and reported by survivors after the NFL Superdome evacuation. Barbara Carter, modern ‘Mother Courage,’ exemplifies the fortitude,...

“The fact that hierarchical organisations require ever more rules, procedures and control to function is a clear indication that this model has reached the end of its operational life.”

Evert Bleijenberg MBA

In nature, groups of more than fifty members behave like self-organising swarms, while smaller groups are hierarchically led by alpha leaders. Human organisations, regardless of size, try to maintain control through hierarchy, assuming that the hierarchical leadership principles of sm...