We are not on Earth merely to survive or just experience life; we are here to elevate and sublime.

Currently, we are undergoing the most significant societal transformation our species has ever faced. We’ve mastered the art of moulding our environment to suit our needs. Through advancements in technology, we’re now enhancing our own bodies to expand our abilities. It seems we can shape the world entirely to our desires, and even death could soon become nonexistent in our lives.

Yet, these...

Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste analyses various economic dynamics in past and present Timor-Leste. Comprising 14 research chapters, the volume brings to the fore: 1) local, community-based economic values and arrangements; 2) community-based entanglements with a market-driven economy; 3) the colonial and postcolonial governance praxis through which a market-driven economy has permeated the country, and 4) the creative and place-based ways through which local people have respon...

Six years of research with the purpose of having the untold account of Suriname’s LGBT history at long last comprehensively divulged and documented, has resulted in this publication:

Love – A History of Hate in Suriname - Hide, Flee or Suicide

Execution Extinction Existence Expression - An Insight into a Country’s Gay History.

Until now, due to taboo, legal and social repercussions from a repressive ‘heteronormative’ biased society, this has been a forgotten, concealed disguised o...

Hey, I'm Jamie, a 29-year-old trans guy from the UK. I've been transitioning for 12 years now after realising I was trans (by accident!) at sixteen years old. I knew I was a boy since the age of four, but realised whilst growing up that I was different. It was only in my teens that I found the words to express who I was and what I needed to do. Since then, I've been on testosterone for more than a decade - I know, I can't believe it either - I've also had top and bottom surgery and legally ch...

The Flemish biotech sector is world-renowned. Flanders is a world player in ‘life sciences’, the study of all life forms, and in particular in biotechnology, the practical application of that knowledge through technology. Thanks to a fruitful cross-fertilization between high quality healthcare, excellent scientific research, daring entrepreneurship, risky financing and a supportive government, an academic and industrial network has emerged in Flanders over the past forty years that is con...

Deze studie gaat over het subsidiariteitsbeginsel. Het is een onderdeel van het katholiek sociaal denken. Subsidiariteit gaat over een manier van ordenen. Over de relatie tussen de persoon en zijn omgeving. Cruciaal is de vraag naar de voorwaarden waaronder instituties invloed mogen uitoefenen op de natuurlijke sociale vrijheden en verantwoordelijkheden van de menselijke persoon en zijn sociale verbanden. De probleemstelling van dit proefschrift spitst zich toe op de vraag hoe in een tijd van...