'How to get rid of low self-esteem' 'How to be confident in your own skin' 'How to get self-confidence' 'How to master self-love.' Just a few fictive titles of books you could have read so that you will get the picture. It looks like everyone is in need of self-esteem or is looking for self-confidence. It even seems like a pandemic. Many people are stressed out and even burned out for a prolonged period of time. If you are also looking for self-esteem and self-confidence, look no further. Thi...

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The beautiful and innocent girl who lived an uneasy childhood. Mahitra is a girl who lived in the capital of India New Delhi, at a very young age she got kicked out of her parent's house because her family did not like her as a family member, they always favored her sister over her, and they have always thought that Mahitra was not good enough. Her parents treated her badly all the time. Mahitra later goes through a lot of things that will make her life go switch into the worse possible life.

My heart would burst

if I kept my poetry

locked inside

So my hands take the key

and I write the words

out of pure necessity

‘Healing through poetry’ is een verzameling van Engelse gedichten over mijn persoonlijke strijd tegen eetstoornissen en depressie. Het gaat echter niet alleen over ziekte, maar ook over herstel. Doorheen mijn verhaal merk je dat mijn negatieve gedachtegang verandert in een positievere mindset die hoop uitstraalt. Ook lees je gedichten die herkenbaar zijn voor iederee...

Studenten Nederlands die druk aan een paper werkten, scholieren in het middelbaar onderwijs die hun mondeling over de literatuurlijst voorbereidden, journalisten die in allerijl een portret over een schrijver moesten maken, docenten, uitgevers – allemaal hebben ze in het verleden hun toevlucht gezocht bij het Kritisch Literatuur Lexicon, de serie bruine banden met de rugtitel in helder geel die je in vrijwel iedere bibliotheek in Nederland kon vinden.

In die banden bevond zich een losbladig...

It is August 26, 2015. A crucial day during the Conference of State Parties in Cancún, Mexico. 67 of the 69 member states of the Arms Trade Treaty vote for a location of the new Secretariat. Three candidate host states and their cities are bidding: Austria (Vienna), Switzerland (Geneva), and Trinidad and Tobago (Port of Spain). In the first round, Port of Spain wins with 32 votes, Geneva gets 21, and Vienna drops out with 14 votes. The second round, Geneva gets 35, scooping up all of Viennaâ...

The law of property provides the building blocks for our market economy and is a manifestation of our post French and American Revolution thinking on how we want to organise ourselves. That organisational structure has not always been fair or equal around the world. European property law systems have been exported around the globe, yet outside of Europe things have been possible, such as owning another person (slavery) or extracting wealth from land at all costs. This was unthinkable on the E...

Integrating Technology into Your Dispute Resolution Practice: Making Friends with the Fourth Party is intended to offer accessible and useful advice for practitioners on how to choose and use information and communication technology in the most effective and ethical manner in the pursuit of mediation, arbitration, facilitation, and other dispute engagement modes. It is the first book to address the practice of online dispute resolution (ODR) from the point of view of the private practitioner....

Climate change poses tremendous legal challenges. The law is still largely unsettled. Seeing the global consequences of GHG emissions, many enterprises may face litigation before courts in multiple jurisdictions. The outcome of these cases is often hard to predict. It is in the best interest of humankind and the environment to create global obligations, for instance in the form of concrete obligations of States and enterprises, which can be applied by courts around the globe. Using a myriad o...

Robert Spano’s career at the Strasbourg Court is exceptional, as only three and a half years after his arrival, he was elected Section President, then Vice-President of the Court before taking up the post of President on 18 May 2020.

In his role, he has put his untiring energy at the service of the protection of human rights in Europe. While his qualities as a judge were known and appreciated by all his colleagues, as was his inexhaustible knowledge of case-law, during his term as Preside...