This book provides a fresh reinterpretation of the global spread of modern leisure travel in the middle of the nineteenth century through a critical comparative reading of twenty-two works of popular travel writing from maritime Southeast Asia and Ceylon. The examination of these books reveals a coherent genre that was seemingly frivolous yet in fact intensely political, with shared rules and tropes that served to legitimise colonial rule and codify aspects of colonial culture in the popular ...

For almost half a century, NATO’s armies deterred a Soviet attack on Western Europe. Today, they once again provide a check on Russia's revanchist agenda. As in the Cold War, if Russia’s aggression escalates to armed conflict, the Alliance’s armies will likely bear the brunt of the fighting. Thus, a study of the national armies that comprised NATO during the Cold War has both historical and current relevance.

Each chapter offers an analysis of how the respective constituent NATO army ...

All you need to know about Science and New Perspectives on Immunology, Immunesystem, Lymphatic System, Lymphatic vessels and lymphnodes, Acupuncture, Meridians, Yin and Yang, Qi, Wei Qi, Chinese Materia Medica, Foodincompatibilities, Allergies and Intolerances, Systemic Candidiasis and other fungi, and all relations to eachother

Thus all you need to know to become and stay healthy

As Hippocrates (Kos, 460 BC - Larissa, 377 BC) once stated:

‘Let food be thy medicine and medicine thy food’...

What does the future hold for the public sector? A convergence of illiberalism, major crises, system quakes and digital transformations are reshaping current politico-administrative systems. How will this challenge the way states and public administrations can and should be managed, and what will be the impact on citizen–administrative relations and our models of democracy? In this book, leading public administration scholars reflect on major trends in the public sector and their implicatio...

Most brand teams have built up huge data sets over the past years. Yet, many marketers don’t seem to know very well what to do with all those data.

In The Brand Butterfly, marketing expert Bert Peleman explains how to look at the data and how to put them to work, with a focus on finding and keeping your High-Value Customers.

Based on dozens of B2C cases from an array of industries across Europe, The Brand Butterfly outlines the three steps for success:

How to define your High-Value Customer...

Over the past decade, the proposal for a Universal and Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) has become a serious alternative in policy-making circles. UBI promises replace the complex welfare bureaucracy with a single benefit – abandoning targets (such as the unemployed) and activation instruments (such as job-search requirements). This disarmingly simple idea has inspired policy experiments in many countries, the Netherlands among them. I show how UBI became a credible policy alternative in th...

This is the definitive, vendor-neutral guide to building, maintaining, and operating a modern Security Operations Center (SOC). Written by three leading security and networking experts, it brings together all the technical knowledge professionals need to deliver the right mix of security services to their organizations. The authors introduce the SOC as a service provider, and show how to use your SOC to integrate and transform existing security practices, making them far more effective. Writi...