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Mime Handbook
A Handbook for Mime Corporel
2022 || Hardcover || Amos de Haas e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
The 'Mime Handbook' covers the theory of mime corporel (Corporeal Mime) and explains the technique through dozens of clearly illustrated exercises. It provides an overview of the work and life of Etienne Decroux (1889-1991), founder of the ‘mime corporel’ and father of modern mime. Building onto Decroux’s mime corporel, additional concepts are introduced on the use of space in physical theater and the creation of mime performances.
Mime corporel is a physical theater technique that has ...
History and Philosophy of the Humanities
An Introduction
2019 || Paperback || Michiel Leezenberg e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
History and Philosophy of the Humanities: An Introduction presents a reasoned overview of the conceptual and historical backgrounds of the humanities.
The humanities include disciplines as diverse as literary theory, linguistics, history, film studies, theology, and philosophy. Do these various fields of study have anything in common that distinguishes them from, say, physics or sociology? The tripartite division between the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities may seem se...
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The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708
Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
Paperback || Henk van Nierop || Amsterdam University Press
This is the first book-length biography of Romeyn de Hooghe, the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The study narrates how his reputation became badly tarnished when he was accused of pornography, fraud, larceny, and atheism.
Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire, he is best known as the chief propaganda artist working for stad...
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Visser 't Hooft, 1900-1985
Living for the Unity of the Church
2020 || Hardcover || J. Zeilstra || Amsterdam University Press
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The Modern Idea of History and its Value
An introduction
Paperback || Chiel van den Akker || Amsterdam University Press
This is an original and accessible introduction to the modern idea of history and its value, and an indispensable companion to the study of history and its philosophical underpinnings.
The book answers two basic questions: What is history? And what is its value? It also shows how the answers to these questions are mutually dependent. The old view that history is the teacher of life, for instance, assumes that the past is a reservoir of examples from which moral lessons for the present can be ...
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Warship HNLMS Tromp
2012 || Paperback || Jantinus Mulder || Amsterdam University Press
Trapped in the far east by the over-run of the Netherlands and by the occupancy of the Netherlands East Indies, Tromp`s destiny lay in the Indian Ocean ans Pacific onslaughts. The ship became one of the highest decorated Dutch warships of World War 2. Often refered as to as 'The Ghostship, the crew prefered to call her The Lucky ship. Because besides the British Ark royal, there was no other ship more often claimed as to be sunk.
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Darling Queen - Dear old Bones
Queen Wilhelmina's correspondence with her English governess Miss Saxton Winter, 1886-1935
2017 || Hardcover || Wilhelmina (koningin der Nederlanden) e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
This book presents a remarkable collection of letters from Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880-1962) and her governess, Elizabeth Saxton Winter (1855-1936), an Englishwoman. The earliest letters are those of a child, sent to Miss Winter when she was on holiday in England, but after Wilhelmina's education was finished in 1896 and she had no more need of a governess, she continued to write to Winter weekly. Her long letters cover a wide range of subjects: including her perspective on peop...
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Global Europe
The External Relations of the European Union
Paperback || Otto Holman || Amsterdam University Press
The European Union is facing the worst existential crisis in its 60-year history. At the same time, it is confronted with old and new challenges in its environment that call for joint action. But how do matters stand with the EU's capacity to act? Does the EU manage to effectively combine the different components of its external relations-such as trade, development aid, and security policy-better than it did in the past? How is the EU's external action determined by the internal socio-economi...
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Fact or Fluke?
A Critical Look at Statistical Evidence
2022 || Paperback || Ronald Meester e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Statistics is more topical than ever. Numerous decisions depend on statistical considerations: just think of the Corona crisis or decisions about approving new drugs or other products. If researchers announce they have proved some fact using statistical tests, can we then always be sure that their claim is correct? How, and more importantly why, does statistics work? What can we expect from statistics and what not? 'Fact or Fluke?' is not a textbook that explains statistical tests to the read...
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Van Gogh's Sunflowers Illuminated
Art Meets Science
2019 || Hardcover || Ella Hendriks e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
This book is entirely devoted to the research performed over the years into Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, an icon of Western European art.
Vincent van Gogh’s *Sunflowers* are seen by many as icons of Western European art. Two of these masterpieces – the first version painted in August 1888 (The National Gallery, London) and the painting made after it in January 1889 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) – have been the subject of a detailed comparison by an interdisciplinary team of experts. The pict...