De wereld staat op de rand van een ecologische ondergang. Desinformatie is er in overvloed. We stormen halsoverkop het tijdperk van de AI binnen. Om goed te kunnen begrijpen wat er gebeurt, moeten we leren van het verleden en analyseren welke rol informatie voor ons speelt. Yuval Noah Harari neemt ons in Nexus mee door het stenen tijdperk, de Bijbel, vroegmoderne heksenjachten, het stalinisme, het nazisme en de heropleving van het hedendaagse populisme, en legt zo de complexe relatie tussen ...

Sourcing is een vorm van organiseren waar organisaties (de vragende partijen) keuzes maken over de manier waarop wordt samengewerkt met marktpartijen, interne dienstverleners, shared service centers, ketenpartijen of andere samenwerkingsverbanden (de leverende partijen) om de gestelde doelstellingen te bereiken.

In dit boek nemen we professionals van zowel vragende als leverende organisaties, toeleveranciers of andere dienstverleners mee in alle facetten die met sourcingsvraagstukken te maken...

Al jaren becommentarieert David Grossman in internationale bladen (The Guardian, De Standaard, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The New York Times en vele andere) ‘de situatie’ in Israël en Palestina. Maar wat kun je na de terreuraanval van 7 oktober en de gebeurtenissen die daarop volgden, anders dan je afschuw en vertwijfeling uiten?

David Grossman zou zichzelf niet zijn als hij na de eerste schok niet de noodzakelijke pijnlijke vragen zou stellen: Hoe heeft dit bloedbad op Israëlisch...

The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture - high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure - across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. It deftly maps postmodernism's successive historical phases, from its emergence in the 1960s to its waning in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Weaving together multiple strands of postmodernism - people and places from Andy Warhol, Jeffers...

The English language has changed dramatically over the past 500 years, making it increasingly difficult for students to read Chaucer's works. Assuming no previous linguistic knowledge or familiarity with Middle English, Simon Horobin introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than modern translation. Chaucer's Language- leads the reader gently through basic linguistic concepts with appropriate explanation- highlights how Chaucer's E...

A searing memoir of Rose Boyt’s relationship with her father, the renowned artist Lucian Freud.

All too often, attention is paid only to those children's novels that were written in English, with non-English-language works being passed over and neglected. Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature examines eleven of the most celebrated European children's novels in substantial, critical essays written by well-known international scholars. This approach provides a comprehensive discussion of the selected works from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Each essay offe...

The popularity of such books as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, and Kathryn Harrison's controversial The Kiss, has led columnists to call ours "the age of memoir." And while some critics have derided the explosion of memoir as exhibitionistic and self-aggrandizing, literary theorists are now beginning to look seriously at this profusion of autobiographical literature. Informed by literary, scientific, and experiential concerns, How Our Lives Become Stories enhance...

Annemarie Schimmel, one of the world's foremost authorities on Persian literature, provides a comprehensive introduction to the complicated and highly sophisticated system of rhetoric and imagery used by the poets of Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and Muslim India. She shows that these images have been used and refined over the centuries and reflect the changing conditions in the Muslim world.

According to Schimmel, Persian poetry does not aim to be spontaneous in spirit or highly personal in form. In...