Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the confederation of the United Arab Emirates, ‘50U’ tells the story of the seven Gulf states in 50 portraits of people, plants, and places. Designed by Irma Boom, the book paints an intimate picture of life in the Emirates through the memories, hopes, and ambitions of its inhabitants. Over a period of just half a century, they have witnessed the transformation of a partly nomadic, partly urbanised community into a metropolitan and glob...

What does this book offer you?

A4 Project Management has been rated as “more than excellent tool for both project team members and managers as well as principals” and “easy to learn, easy to use”.

It combines pragmatic insights with a truly scientifically fundament; based upon the two valid axiom’s of business science: division of labor, and design of organization. And with just alliterating words you can inspire, control and finish your projects.

Who has written this work for you?

René Hombergen has been working as a project-, program- and portfolio-manager. Now he coaches and teaches on the discipline. He has written seventeen books on this field of renewal...

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This book was written by members of the Citizens' Convention of the Federal Alliance of European Federalists (FAEF, www.faef.eu). It contains a constitution of only ten articles for a federal Europe, an extensive explanation of those articles and a number of studies that explore aspects of federalism in greater depth.

It is a response to the identity crisis in which the European Union finds itself. A crisis that leads to the disintegration of the EU, with the risk of falling back to t...

De Haarlem uit de ‘Alkmaar klasse’ verhaalt de historie van een bijzonder goede Europese samenwerking die nog steeds vaak als voorbeeld wordt aangehaald. Gebouwd van polyester en voorzien van de nieuwste Franse sonar bleken de schepen in Nederlandse dienst uitstekend te voldoen. Zo werden in 1984 de splinternieuwe Haarlem en Harlingen uitgezonden voor mijnenbestrijding in de Rode Zee. Een ommezwaai in de filosofie van zowel de politiek als de marineleiding was hiervoor nodig.

Toen twee m...

Duik in dé interieurtrend van dit jaar: Japandi.

Een stijl waarbij serene Scandinavische designelementen worden gecombineerd met de rijke Japanse designtraditie. Een combinatie van sereniteit en strakke lijnen met veel aandacht voor materialen, texturen en natuurlijke toetsen.

Japandi is volgens de auteurs Laila Rietbergen en Marlous Snijder meer dan alleen een woonstijl. Het is ook echt een levensstijl en dat willen ze met hun lezers delen. In het boek worden naast meer dan 200 beelden van ...

After a violent storm in January 1647 in the Netherlands, votive stones and altars with texts and reliefs referring to an unknown goddess named Nehalennia were found on a beach in Zeeland. It was, and still is, incorrectly maintained in history that she was a goddess who belonged to a local cult. This happened not only because of the tunnel vision of researchers, but also because information was demonstrably and consciously withheld. As a result, Nehalennia acquired the stature of a legend.

D...

PTSD is an invisible disease ...

That makes it incredibly difficult to live with PTSD.

In this booklet I explain, among other things, what PTSD is like for me.

I also give tips on what you can try in certain situations.

Both for those who have PTSD, but also for their environment.

With this booklet I hope to create more understanding for this incredibly difficult disease.

Hopefully it will help you both understand each other better.

I wrote this book because my mother was looking for a b...

Feel the Love, Live the Magic offers an essential practice to keep the love and magic alive in your relationship. Whether you’re starting out together, or in a long-term partnership, get this practice to keep the energy clear, prevent drama or growing apart, and discover new heights of intimacy, love and magic.

The Linking Hearts Ritual is for conscious couples and bold daters desiring new heights of real connection, bold love and inspiring magic. Do The Linking Hearts Ritual on date night...

Acid Clouds is an atlas and anthology of datacenters that maps the material traces of virtual data in the Dutch landscape. It investigates the massively resource-intensive and earthbound properties of digital storage, and questions the image of large-scale data repositories as clean, sterile and environmentally-friendly domains. The book brings together data of more than 100 datacenters across the Netherlands with texts on ecological, architectural, economical, political and digital righ...