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Religious Radicalism
Demarcations and Challenges
2024 || Paperback || Johan Temmerman || Academic & Scientific publishers
Religious Radicalism places the religious motives and mechanisms behind radicalism under scrutiny. The contributors of this edited volume observe a growing lack of understanding of religion in secular policy-bodies, as well as in the academic world in Europe and beyond. They put forward an approach ‘from within’, in an attempt to provide policymakers with workable tools and a user-friendly method with which to constructively tackle religious radicalism. A major underlying issue is that of...
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We can change the weather
100 Cases in changeability
2010 || Paperback || Marleen Wynants || Academic & Scientific publishers
This 4th CROSSTALKS book documents 100 tangible local initiatives from all over the world that fit into a constructive and holistic movement for social and ecological change. Drawing from a pool of personally driven research and bottom-up projects, the book singles out 100 cases in different, yet interrelated domains. The selection itself was motivated by scientific researchers, architects, artists, political thinkers and entrepreneurs who try to make a positive difference in our quest for a ...
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Belgian courts-martial
Prosecution of military law offences during World War I
2019 || Paperback || Stanislas Horvat || Academic & Scientific publishers
This publication is the first in-depth study of the Belgian military court during World War I.
Martial law application and procedures are described in detail and evaluated on the basis of a comprehensive study of previously unexamined archive documents from the Attorney General's Office and the Military Court, including more than 300 Attorney General's circulars, about 5,500 judgments and nearly 1,000 Military Court cases.
Criminal procedure, from inquiry to execution, is fully explained thro...
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After the covid-19 pandemic: How does the world change?
2021 || Paperback || Len Ishmael || Academic & Scientific publishers
The BDA Currents: Where Diplomacy Meets Business, is the Brussels Diplomatic Academy’s annual report covering the wider geopolitical and other factors influencing and affecting the world of diplomacy, international relations and global business. The journal focuses on issues of topical interest around the centers of global power, influence and importance, including the continents of Europe and Africa, the Middle East, China, India & Asia, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States an...
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Managerial Economics of Non-Profit Organisations
6th revised edition
2024 || Paperback || Marc Jegers || Academic & Scientific publishers
This is the sixth edition of a book bringing together microeconomic insights on the functioning of non-profit organisations, complementing the wide range of books on the management of non-profit organisations by focusing on both theoretical and empirical work. Firstly, definitions of non-profit organisations are considered, after which the economic rationale behind their existence is examined, followed by a study of the demand for them and its implications for their functioning. The final cha...
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LOOKING AT PIETER BRUEGEL’S Blind Leading the Blind
Canvas in the landscape, selective preparation of the figures, and the place of man in the cosmos
2024 || Paperback || Hannah de Corte || Academic & Scientific publishers
In a pivotal moment in the development of the arts and the sciences, Pieter Bruegel painted The Blind Leading the Blind (1568), a major work that embodies the transition from the medieval to the humanist mind. In The Blind Leading the Blind, Bruegel ascribed a different treatment to the fi gures and the landscape. I will show how Bruegel applied a white preparation underneath the human fi gures and not beneath the earthy ground surrounding the blind men. In doing so, he physically placed the ...
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New perspectives in iconology
visual studies and anthropology
2018 || Paperback || Barbara Baert e.a. || Academic & Scientific publishers
New Perspectives in Iconology is the first book in the new series Iconologies, founded by the Iconology Research Group (www.iconologyresearchgroup.org).
In this book the authors investigate how iconology as a field and method, which originated within art history, relates to recent developments in the Humanities such as Anthropology and Visual Studies. The main questions are: How has iconology evolved in the past decennia, could it incorporate Anthropology and Visual Studies towards a new scie...
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The IT Management Essentials
Delivering Business Value
2018 || Paperback || Claude Doom || Academic & Scientific publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
Proper IT management in a contemporary business environment is of utmost importance, on an equal footing even with proper financial management and business acumen. Understanding information technology is therefore essential to all organizations. The IT Management Essentials offers a sound and structured framework for the techniques, methodologies, and activities related to IT management.
Modern information technology is more than simply high-tech and gadgetry. In the near future, professional...
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1523 - THE FIRST MARTYRS OF THE REFORMATION
What has changed in the 500 years since the first martyrs of the Reformation?
2023 || Paperback || Harry Sinnaghel || Academic & Scientific publishers
1 July 1523, Hendrik Vos and Johan van den Esschen died by burning at the stake on the Grand-Place in Brussels. They were the first martyrs of the Reformation.
Following this event, the Faculty of Protestant Theology and Religious Studies (FPTR) in Brussels organized a colloquium to discuss what has changed in the 500 years since the first martyrs of the Reformation. After an historical introduction to set the scene regarding 1 July 1523, this colloquium dealt with the consequences of the Ref...
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Spindus
2020 || Paperback || Ruth Segers || Academic & Scientific publishers
Hardly any concept is as intangible as spatial quality. Especially when considering the ‘making of space’. Many people are convinced of its importance. Witness references to ‘livability’, ‘genius loci’, environmental quality, good spatial planning and more. Different users of space also have different visions about what exactly it is that makes a particular organisation of space qualitative.
The research project SPINDUS – initiated by three universities and partners from practic...