When asked to name an archetypal love story, most people will reply 'Romeo & Juliet', although some say 'Tristan & Isolde' instead. Very few will come up with a classical example, and the reason for this is simple: when you say archetypal, it is assumed you mean love between a man and a woman, and instances of this in classical accounts are rare. The reason for this is also not hard to find: as it does now, 'love' in the ancient world meant the affection of equals, and given the inferior posi...

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...

Who needs to read this book?

You do! You have a senior position in your organization. You’re either a manager, a CEO or another C-whatever-O and you get to decide things. Or your colleagues perceive you to be such a person. You’re comfortable with this. It’s what you do. You manage things. You’re good at it: you’ve done it for years. Or maybe you’re not quite the top dog, but the top dog has asked you to be in charge of the emergency response plans and the first responders of your...

- A woman who is lying in a coma in a hospital and later tells what at that time was discussed in the hall of the hospital, far from the department where she lay...

- A man who recognizes people who previously were only in his surroundings while he lay in coma...

- A woman who for surgery is cooled down to a level where her brain no longer functions, reports on that operation from personal observation

Just three of the millions of near-death experiences (NDE's) that people have experienced i...

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...

No School is een beweging die leren en het onderwijs open wil breken via creativiteit. Nieuwsgierig zijn en experimenteren, ongebreideld denken, maken en ontwikkelen — zelf en met elkaar— en diversiteit zijn basiselementen van alle vormen van leren en samen kunnen functioneren. In het huidige onderwijssysteem sneeuwen die waarden geregeld onder door regels, wetgeving, bureaucratie, eenheidsaanpak, en weinig aandacht voor de intrinsieke leergierigheid van zowel de leerling als de docent.

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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...