Samen met zijn tijdgenoot Jacob van Lennep was Joost Halbertsma één van de meest opmerkelijke schrijvers en sprekers van de negentiende eeuw. De mannen wandelden met elkaar, schreven elkaar brieven en 'vochten' over van alles en nog wat. Naast Van Lennep had Halbertsma ook veelvuldig contact met Willem Bilderdijk, Nederlands grootste dichter van die tijd.

Halbertsma legde visites af bij Thorbecke, was bevriend met de ministers Schimmelpenninck en Van Hall en correspondeerde met hen over de ...

De Iraanse Atti Bahadori vluchtte tijdens de Islamitische Revolutie in haar land naar Nederland. In 2002 ontvoerde haar man hun dochter naar Iran. Twee jaar later wist zij haar dochter terug te ontvoeren naar Nederland. Het boek 'Onder dezelfde sterrenhemel' dat verhaalt over deze tragedie werd in Nederland een bestseller.

Voor 'Gouden Maan' vertelde Atti haar familieverhaal aan schrijfster Sylvia Pessireron die daarop de kroniek op papier zette. Het resultaat is een even emotioneel als spann...

During the Battle of Arnhem Kate ter Horst-Arriëns lives with her family in the old vicarage next to the Old Church in Oosterbeek, the village where the battle is finally decided. There she and her husband are asked by the British to open their house as a first-aid post after the airborne landings on 17 September 1944. They agree, but the rapid victory that had been hoped for, fails to materialise and soon all rooms are crammed with wounded. Kate ter Horst is doing her utmost to help the oft...

GRONINGEN IN 3D

De stad in stereofoto’s 1868-1940

In 1855 maakte Nederland voor het eerst serieus kennis met de sensatie van stereofotografie. Zo overweldigend was het effect, dat ons land geheel in de ban raakte van deze nieuwe werkelijkheidsillusie. Ook in de stad Groningen werd het publiek al snel op zijn wenken bediend. Op 4 mei 1856 adverteerde de fotograaf H. Jansen als eerste met ‘sterioscopische gezigten van geheel Europa’. De eerste Groninger ‘gezigten’ in stereo kwamen pas...

Leading the reader from the fundamental principles of inorganic chemistry, right through to cutting-edge research at the forefront of the subject, Inorganic Chemistry, Seventh Edition is the ideal course companion for the duration of a student's degree. The authors have drawn upon their extensive teaching and research experience to update this text; the seventh edition retains the much-praised clarity of style and layout from previous editions, while offering an enhanced section on 'expanding...

Integrated Population Biology and Modeling: Part A offers very complex and precise realities of quantifying modern and traditional methods of understanding populations and population dynamics. Chapters cover emerging topics of note, including Longevity dynamics, Modeling human-environment interactions, Survival Probabilities from 5-Year Cumulative Life Table Survival Ratios (Tx+5/Tx): Some Innovative Methodological Investigations, Cell migration Models, Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancer Cells, ...

Ideal for students taking biomechanics courses, this fully updated second edition integrates basic and advanced concepts of mechanics with numerical methods and biomedical applications. It includes a brand new introduction to vector and tensor calculus, dozens of new examples, exercises and solutions, and online MATLAB-based FEM code.

New to this edition: update the section on game console HW, extend the rendering chapter, include a section on 2D GUI, new chapter on multiplayer networking, more coverage of the Unity game engine.In this new and improved third edition of the highly popular Game Engine Architecture, Jason Gregory draws on his nearly two decades of experience at Midway, Electronic Arts and Naughty Dog to present both the theory and practice of game engine software development. In this book, the broad range of ...

Towards a Posthuman Theory of Educational Relationality critically reads the intersubjective theories on educational relations and uses a posthuman approach to ascribe agency relationally to humans and nonhumans alike. The book introduces the concept of 'educational relationality' and contains examples of nonhuman elements of technology and animals, putting educational relationality and other concepts into context as part of the philosophical investigation. Drawing on educational and posthuma...

Fundamental theories and concepts for understanding how business is done in Europe, linked to the current European business environment through a range of up-to-date case studies and examples.