This history is intended for students and their academic teachers and those in the general public who are interested in having a highlighted chronological panoramic view of from where the human capacity for creating civilizations is coming ever since anatomically modern humans came into the picture at the earliest about 200,000 years ago. Volumes Book-1 and Book-2 specifically deal with Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals. Book-1 begins with a summary that accentuates the last phenomenal 2...

From Memling to Rubens

The Golden Age of Flanders

Why did Hans Memling paint everything in such minute detail? How did Rubens, in just a few brushstrokes, create special effects that Steven Spielberg would envy? And why was the Southern Netherlands the artistic centre of the world for three centuries?

From Memling to Rubens: The Golden Age of Flanders tells the story of Flemish art from the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as you’ve never read it before. It’s a rollercoaste...

To understand the physics of Black Holes, it is important to understand the first law in Physics which controls our entire universe. This is the law of “Perfect Equilibrium”. Within the entire universe there is always a prefect equilibrium between all the physical forces like gravity, forces of inertia, radiation pressure and Electro-Magnetic Interaction forces at any time, in any direction and at any space coordinate. This is the fundamental law in physics on which also the existence of ...

Incoterms® Rules accompany the goods from the seller on their way to the buyer. Incoterms® Rules concern themselves with almost everything and that could be the reason that – so now and then – people decide not to apply them.

Once I met a logistic manager who turned out to hate Incoterms® Rules. And – of course – then I wish to know why. “They keep me away from where I aim for as I want to give my customers as much service as possible. And that doesn’t work when you prearrange ...

“This book is an enrichment for the standing debate about Europe and should be published and widely read and discussed.” – Boudewijn R.A. Bouckaert

Reflections on Democracy in de European Union, with a foreword by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, is a unique volume that offers an interdisciplinary approach on EU democracy, law and politics from economic, juridical and philosophical perspectives. It is divided in three parts and deals with EU’s contemporary challenges, its historical d...

‘The great-grandfather I never knew has gradually become closer to me as I read what was written about him and discovered the circumstances in which he must have lived and worked. It has become Jos’s story, following his path from budding architect to the one who has the age I have now. For me it also became an act of looking back.’

Architect Jos Viérin (1872-1949) played a prominent role in the reconstruction of the Destroyed Regions. After World War I, it was decided to reconstruct i...

Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals & Applications, 6e in SI Units, is a textbook for practical-oriented heat transfer course offered to engineering students. It has a perfect blend of fundamentals and applications. It covers the standard topics of heat transfer with emphasis on physics and physical arguments.

The text is designed to develop a deeper understanding of the subject and encourage creative thinking. With numerous real-world examples, the book enhances intuitive skill among studen...

Covers parallelism in-depth, with examples and content highlighting parallel hardware and software topics Includes new sections in each chapter on Domain Specific Architectures (DSA) Discusses and highlights the "Eight Great Ideas" of computer architecture, including Performance via Parallelism, Performance via Pipelining, Performance via Prediction, Design for Moore's Law, Hierarchy of Memories, Abstraction to Simplify Design, Make the Common Case Fast and Dependability via Redundancy

Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy, art theory, and many engrossing examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, sex, web sites, and research on the brain's role in perceiving art. This clear, lively book will engage the public, introductory students, and teachers in the arts.

How Genes Influence Behavior takes a personal and lively approach to the study of behavioral genetics, providing an up-to-date and accessible introduction to a variety of approaches and their application to a wide range of disorders, and modeling a critical approach to both methods and results. This second edition includes additional biology content to help students understand the biological foundations of the field, while maintaining an appropriate focus on the main issues of relevance to ps...