In de Stille Oceaan, tussen Californië en Japan, drijft een hoeveelheid plastic op een oppervlakte die twee keer zo groot is als de Verenigde Staten. Dit is de vuilstortplaats van de natuur, de plek waar het afval dat in zee terechtkomt naartoe drijft: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, ofwel de Plastic Soep.

In april 2009 gaat een bijzonder project van start: A Convenient Truth, ofwel ACT. Jonge Nederlandse wetenschappers gaan op zoek naar oplossingen voor de belangrijkste wereldproblemen, en...

Tweede deel in de reeks ‘Interactive Architecture’ uitgegeven door episode publishers in samenwerking met Hyperbody. De iA-bookzine serie brengt een overzicht van interdisciplinaire bijdragen over het onderwerp ‘Interactive architecture’ van onderzoekers, studenten, gast-docenten van Hyperbody, Faculteit Bouwkunde, TU Delft. Deze tweede editie bestaat wederom uit papers, reportages van workshops, een dialoog tussen Kas Oosterhuis en choreografe Krisztina de Châtel, en een overzicht van a...

Eerste monografie over het Amsterdamse architectenbureau VenhoevenCS Architekten. Ton Venhoeven (1953) studeerde als architect cum laude af aan de TU Delft. In 1995 is hij als zelfstandig architect gaan weken en in 1998 richtte hij zijn eigen bureau op. Mei 2005 werd Venhoeven benoemd tot hoogleraar Architectural History and Theory aan de TU Eindhoven. Venhoeven werd augustus 2008 benoemd tot Rijksadviseur voor de Infrastructuur. Als ontwerper is Venhoeven geïnteresseerd in diverse schaalge...

Free Space: Field guide

Field guide to conversations

In the middle of high speed communication, effortless connections and ultra-short meetings, we notice that we cannot do without conversations. Free Space – Field guide to conversations makes a wealth of inspiring and practical guides available to anybody who wants to start and conduct conversations which are rich in content, depth and reflection. All the practical guides foster personal and mutual inquiry, in small and large groups, in forma...

The scarcity of water is a major problem in many parts of the Near East today and has been so in the past. To survive in such a region people should be able to structurally attain more water than rainfall alone can supply. The archaeology of this area should not only identify when people inhabited such a region and what the character of this habitation was, but also how people were able to survive in such a region and why they chose to live there in the first place.

In this book these question...

Introducing Chinese Religions is the ideal starting point for students exploring the fascinating religious traditions of China. This introduction covers the whole spectrum of Chinese religious history, from the multi-faceted religious heritage of pre-modern China, to the practice of different religions in China today, as well as the spread and influence of Chinese religions throughout the world. Mario Poceski, an experienced teacher of Chinese religions, explores the three main traditions of ...

China boasts a history of art lasting over 5,000 years and embracing a huge diversity of forms - objects of jade, lacquer and porcelain, painted scrolls and fans, sculptures in stone, bronze and wood, and murals. But this rich tradition has not, until now been fully appreciated in the West where scholars have focused attention on the European high arts of painting and sculpture, downplaying arts more highly prized by the Chinese themselves, such as calligraphy. Art in China marks a breakthrou...

Written in a highly accessible style and in four parts, this book provides rapid and authoritative access to current ideas and practice in intercultural communication. It draws on concepts and findings from a range of different disciplines and uses authentic examples of intercultural interaction to illustrate points.

Nicholas Walliman's writing style is well loved and widely read. In this book the authors practically guide health and social care students through the process of doing a dissertation and how to achieve success with such a project.