Eind zeventiende eeuw verruilde Jan van Gijsen (1668-1722) zijn geboortestad Haarlem voor de Amsterdamse Jordaan en enige jaren later zijn beroep van wever voor dat van schrijver. Voortaan zou hij zijn brood verdienen met de pen. Hij begon met verzen over de actualiteit voor de Antwerpse courant, maar zijn journalistieke ambities kregen pas echt de ruimte in zijn eigen wekelijkse Amsterdamsche Merkurius (1710-1722), ’s lands eerste nieuwsblad op rijm. Dat leverde hem vrienden, maar ook vija...

Capitalism has gone astray. Today we face ecological exhaustion, persistent inequality, financialization, stress on communities, short-termism, and new power concentrations.

An avalanche of new economic thinking and a reorientation of European values show the way toward a different economy. A new perspective is necessary if we want to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and if we consider our planet as ‘Our Common Home,’ for present and future generations.

This book argues that ...

How ‘green’ were people in late antiquity and the Middle Ages? Unlike today, the nature around them was approached with faith, trust and care. The population size was many times smaller than today and human impact on nature not as extreme as it is now. People did not have to worry about issues like deforestation and sustainability.

This book is about the knowledge of plants and where that knowledge came from. How did people use earth and plants in ancient times, and what did they know abo...

Some multiple-used city churches are neither fully in use by a faith community nor fully allocated to new forms of use, but are shared by both a (protestant) faith community and secular users. By sharing the church building, the diverse users and communities get in touch with each other. Eventual (slight) offenses between them can often be traced back to their respective relationships with the church building. Each church building has a specific history of the use of the building, its own arc...

Institutions across the globe are increasingly questioned on how their foundations are rooted in colonialism and how they aim to ‘decolonize’. The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past provides an overview of critical scholarly reflections on the history of Dutch slavery and colonization, as well as how this translates into critical cultural practices. It also explores possible futures: What can heritage institutions learn from (international) best practices regarding the ‘decolonization’...

De zeeschilderkunst is een vierhonderd jaar oud specialisme van de traditionele Hollandse schilderschool. Het schilderen van schepen en de zee vereist zowel nautische kennis als een groot artistiek talent. Cécile Bosman onderzoekt de achtergrond, opleiding en onderwerpkeuze van de negentiende-eeuwse zeeschilder. Ook beschrijft ze hoe tegen zeestukken werd aangekeken door de zeeschilders zelf, hun collega-schilders op de kunstenaarsverenigingen, door kunsttheoretici en in de kunstkritiek.

He...

Academische vrijheid is essentieel voor goede wetenschap, maar lijkt wereldwijd

steeds meer onder druk te staan. In deze bundel gaan prominente en jonge

wetenschappers met elkaar in discussie over de belangrijkste actuele thema’s

rondom academische vrijheid binnen de Nederlandse wetenschap, van

samenwerking met China tot intimidatie op sociale media en van de Nationale

Wetenschapsagenda tot diversiteitsbeleid op de universiteit. Aan de hand van deze

en andere thema’s laten Lukas Verburgt ...

This Volume presents a first introduction to a thought-provoking Model of Motivation developed by Menno Mennes over a period of almost thirty years.

The Model of Motivation in its approach presents a radical departure from everything that has appeared so far in literature on the subject.

And yet, it provides a surprisingly detailed account of how motivation works, which appears to be supported by findings from theories and research from current literature. In an unparalleled analysis, the M...

In recent years, more and more organisations have realised that diversity and inclusion in the workplace is both crucial and enormously beneficial. But how do you stop this realisation from remaining empty words and flashy statements, and turn awareness into action?

In 'The Inclusion Marathon', Kauthar Bouchallikht and Zoë Papaikonomou interview 41 practitioners and researchers about their knowledge and experience within the field of diversity, equity and inclusion in the Netherlands. These...

Nowadays it seems there is a manual for everything. What if there was a manual for how to interact with people so that we could all function optimally and succeed in life?

This book comes closest to being the definitive manual for life. It is based on over 50 years of groundbreaking scientific research on self-determination theory which has produced a structural approach to social interaction—the ‘ABC of life’—as a concrete and actionable approach to success. For if you do not unders...