Ten years ago five friends took a decision and left Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam. Full of hope and dreams they bought a cheap old farm in Italy and renovated the house with their own hands. None of them would ever have thought that one fine day the German Tax Office would put a spoke in the wheel and destroy their beautiful plans. To survive and to avoid that they have to leave Italy they come up with creative and unorthodox ideas to solve their financial misery.

A book with fun children's stories to read or be read to.

As the front of the book shows it is about various topics ranging from gnomes to set spaceships. Because this book for is made for kids, I used a picture of my son.

I hope you have as much fun to read it as i have to writing it. This book that my children at least have read with pleasure.

Hoe kan nanotechnologie gebouwen en steden in de toekomst veranderen? Stel je een nieuwe stof voor, dat je zelf kunt aansturen en veranderen. Stel je voor dat dit een nanomateriaal wordt, dat zijn vorm kan veranderen, dat krimpen kan en groeien - dat bijna alles kan doen... Wij noemen dit materiaal Barba. Met Barba zouden wij in staat zijn om onze omgeving aanpassen aan welke wens en behoefte dan ook. Het nieuwste boek uit The Why Factory's Future Cities Series verbeeldt hoe nanomaterialen on...

Climate change can no longer be ignored. It is globally recognised that the evidence for climate change is unequivocal and that action needs to be taken in order to address its negative effects. These effects, such as warmer and drier summers and more extreme rainfall, may threaten the quality of life of those living in urban environments. To limit these threats, a number of climate change adaptation measures can be taken to pre-empt the negative effects of climate change.

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Darkly and amusingly written, Poor Me is about a self-destructive 26-year-old man named Matthew who finds himself wandering between loneliness and companionship. Being a lonesome drinker, he has the tendency to cause trouble wherever he goes. His life isn't nearly as exciting as his expectations wanted it to be so he does unforgivable attempts to pursuit happiness while destroying other's.

The operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history.History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. This book offers a discussion of contemporary art practices which question the received notions of historical representations after the pivotal changes of 1989 in Europe. These art practices reveal, in different ways, the operative role of the photographic ...

Over the past decade, the European Union has fallen into a drawn-out crisis, politically as well as economically. In this book, the authors argue that analyses of this crisis miss an important element: culture. Faith in politics, like faith in a European currency, is first and foremost a cultural issue. Democracy is a matter of political culture, just as good economic relations are a matter of economic culture. So, culture as a shared frame of reference and as something that lends meaning to ...