Poetry expressing criticism of social, political and cultural life is a vital integral part of Persian literary history. Its principal genres - invective, satire and burlesque - have been very popular with authors in every age. Despite the rich uninterrupted tradition, such texts have been little studied and rarely translated. Their irreverent tones range from subtle irony to crude direct insults, at times involving the use of outrageous and obscene terms. This anthology includes both major a...

Aegean archaeology has mainly concentrated on Prehistoric and Greco-Roman times and has provided relatively little information on human activity and material culture in the medieval period. Historical research concerning the medieval era is sufficiently developed but archaeological research on the medieval Aegean has mainly focused on matters of art and architecture. In fact, we have an overall picture of the medieval and post-medieval periods for only a few islands of the Aegean. This ASLU v...

The increasing complexity of the IT value chain and the rise of multi-vendor supplier ecosystems has led to the rise of Service Integration and Management (SIAM) as a new approach.

Service Integration is the set of principles and practices, which facilitate that collaborative working relationships between service providers required to maximize the benefit of multi-sourcing. Service integration facilitates the linkage of services, the technology of which they are comprised and the delivery or...

This book is my story, as it is lived. At the end you may feel unsatisfied, but that is not of my concern. I am not here to satisfy anyone or any feeling. I wrote this book, so I could leave the streets out of love for a girl. This is not going to happen, but I continue to publish it, because I feel like this story, my story, needs to be told. It is a story about a young man that decides to do that one thing that every man has had the idea of doing, at least once in his life. And some women a...

Op dit moment leeft de helft van de wereldbevolking in steden. Binnen twee decennia zal dit oplopen tot 60 procent. Extreme rijkdom en extreme armoede komen naast elkaar voor, maar steden blijven magneten die mensenmassa's aantrekken. Steden bieden voor velen de mogelijkheid voor werk en inkomen, scholing, en betere voorzieningen. In een achttal thema's geeft het boek een intrigerend beeld van deze ontwikkelingen en schetst het een mondiaal toekomstperspectief.

Cities in Transition onderzoek...

In its parallel pursuit of an increased competitivity for design offices and more pleasurable and easier workflows for designers, artificial design intelligence is a technical, intellectual, and political challenge. While human-machine cooperation has become commonplace through Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools, a more improved collaboration and better support appear possible only through an endeavor into a kind of artificial design intelligence, which is more sensitive to the human perceptio...

Get the best out of yourself and others!

Your unconscious motivations drive you 24/7. They determine your behaviour for 95%. Every coach, manager and educator should understand why an insight into motivations is so important. Understanding your motivations helps yourself move forward. Only then will you discover the ideal you're chasing after, what you most of all want to avoid, and how you end up frustrating yourself and those around you.

This kind of awareness gives you more control over ...

"In dit huis zullen de muren lesgeven", verkondigde het sovjet persbureau Pravda in 1962 bij de opening van het Paleis voor Jonge Pioniers in Moskou. Terloops toont deze verklaring een steeds terugkomend motief in de geschiedenis van de architectuur voor de jeugd: de aanspraak op te kunnen voeden door middel van de gebouwde omgeving. De jeugd werd gezien als ideale doelgroep voor deze sociaal-constructivistische benadering, vanwege hun ambivalente positie: wel objecten van sociale wetgeving m...

Hoe verhoudt het menselijk lichaam als levend organisme zich tot toegepaste technologieën in de medische zorg? In Critical and Clinical Carthographies buigen Nederlandse en internationale experts op het gebied van robotica, mechatronica, medische technologie, design en architectuur zich over dit onderwerp.

Critical and Clinical Carthographies komt voort uit een transdisciplinaire conferentie georganiseerd door de Theorie afdeling en Hyperbody van de Faculteit Bouwunde aan de TU Delft,in ...

The Cobra Museum of Modern Art presents 'The Soul in Limbo', a solo exhibition by Jennifer Tee (b. 1973, the Netherlands) in the framework of the 6th edition of the Cobra Art Prize. 'The Soul in Limbo' comprises a variety of works set within an exhibition architecture developed by Tee. The exhibition highlights various thematic aspects of her work over the past decade including the most recent developments. The exhibition's title derives from André Breton's novel Nadja(1928) and refers to a ...