This book is not just for reading. Design thinking is something you need to actually do. Reading about design thinking will increase your knowledge, but by doing it, you will learn what design thinking can mean for you, in your studies and your work. In this book we encourage you to take action: design thinking by doing.

Since the end of the last millennium, design thinking has received an increasing amount of attention from the business community, social organizations, universities and colle...

This book is not just for reading. Design thinking is something you need to actually do. Reading about design thinking will increase your knowledge, but by doing it, you will learn what design thinking can mean for you, in your studies and your work. In this book we encourage you to take action: design thinking by doing.

Since the end of the last millennium, design thinking has received an increasing amount of attention from the business community, social organizations, universities and colle...

'Creative Block' is a book set out to ruffle feathers, get out of ruts and start those juices flowing. Focussing on creative process and theory, it is filled with over 100 tasks to get your head into a conceptual and creative space, encouraging experimentation and playfulness in art.

Ideal for artists, industry creatives and individuals who simply want to delve deeper into their own creativity. This book helps to improve your process and technique when approaching art, in all its forms. Intr...

Jerin van den Brink, a young man of Albanian-Dutch descent, full of passion,

passed away before his time from a rare disease, on the 5th of May

2018. Some of his works, sketches, poetry, and literary reviews on Albania

and the history, are being published as originally written in English or Albanian.

In her book Biri (translated from Albanian as ‘The Son’), dedicated

to the loss of her only child, the writer Flutura Açka, refers often to the texts

of her son. Written with love, thoughtfu...

The Book of Nâm is a book of deep wisdom. Its language is clear and accessible. The author of the book, Yoginâm, uses a terminology that is easily recognisable for readers of today.

Though the subject matter is perennial, the language in which it is written brings it alive for the needs of present day readers. This approach raises the subject matter level above the various different schools and traditions and makes it truly universal. It stresses the transcendence in which all members of hu...

Every Dutchman is well acquainted with the East India Company (VOC). The West India Company (WIC) however, is lesser known. Furthermore very few know of the episode when the WIC was active on the northern Brazilian coast. This period lasted roughly from 1624 to 1654. Yet this has been an important episode for both the Netherlands and the fledgling Brazil. Towards the end of the 12-year truce with Spain, the Netherlands sought to conquer and colonize the Portuguese part of South America and th...

Risicoanalysemethodes zijn er in vele soorten en maten. De Integrale Risicoanalyse die wij hier presenteren is een kwalitatieve analyse van beveiliging (security), waarbij de beschrijving van realistische dreigingsscenario’s de kwalitatieve onderbouwing samenvat.

Het doel van de Integrale Risicoanalyse is om zicht te krijgen op de security risico’s van organisaties. Een security risico is het risico dat ontstaat als mensen bewust en opzettelijk (moedwillig), vaak uit eigenbelang, de ...

Everyone knows that species go extinct and biodiversity decreases. It seems obvious that this loss might have disastrous consequences. Maybe because of a cascading effect we will end up in a barren moonscape – and if that does not happen, we at the very least remain dependent on biodiversity for food, health and well-being.

This essay tries to remove some fear; there are no reasons to believe that biodiversity loss will cause any kind of disaster. Nature is not like a machine that stalls i...