Léontine van Geffen-Lamers Powervrouwen in beeld

Portretten in woord en beeld van vrouwen die vanuit hun eigen kracht en op hun eigen manier een bijdrage leveren aan de Nederlandse maatschappij.

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Engels | Nederlands | 160 pagina's | Monumentenfoto, Leuvenheim | 2017

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Islam & Europe

challenges and opportunities

Dedicated to increasing our knowledge and awareness of the ever-growing diversity and pluralism of global society, Forum A. & A. Leysen has initiated an annual debate/lecture series, beginning with a focus on Islam in today's world and in Europe in particular. Seven well-known influential authorities - each an active participant in the public debate on the global role of Islam past, present and future - recently presented papers at the first Intercultural Relations Conference sponsored by Forum A.&...

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Engels | 192 pagina's (PDF, 3,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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Islam & Europe

crises are challenges

Within the framework of the Forum A. & A Leysen, several experts from in and outside the Muslim world contributed to this book. In Islam and Europe: Crises Are Challenges they discuss how dialogues between Islam and the West, with a focus on Europe, can be achieved. The various authors (legal scholars, political theorists, social scientists, and psychologists) explore in these collected essays such interrelated questions as: How much diversity is permissible within a liberal pluralistic democratic...

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Engels | 248 pagina's (PDF, 2,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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Everyday life practices of Muslims in Europe

Bijdragen over de dagelijkse gewoonten van moslims in Europa.

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Engels | 234 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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Larry Loftis The watchmaker's daughter

the true story of World War II heroine Corrie ten Boom

Verhalende biografie van de Haarlemse horlogemaker en verzetsstrijder Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), die samen met haar familie onderdak bood aan Joodse onderduikers tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en concentratiekamp Ravensbrück overleefde.

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Engels | 370 pagina's | William Morrow, New York | 2023

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Niccolò Machiavelli The prince

Need to seize a country? Have enemies you must destroy? In this handbook for despots and tyrants, the Renaissance statesman Machiavelli sets forth how to accomplish this and more, while avoiding the awkwardness of becoming generally hated and despised. "Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of...

Engels | 172 pagina's | Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books, London | 2014

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Violet Moller The map of knowledge

how classical ideas were lost and found: a history in seven cities

Geschiedenis van de kennisoverdracht vanaf de klassieke oudheid tot en met de renaissance in zeven belangrijke steden.

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Engels | 330 pagina's | Picador, London | 2020

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Christopher De Hamel The posthumous papers of the Manuscripts Club

Engels | 616 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2024

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Peter Heather Christendom

the triumph of a religion

Engels | 704 pagina's | Allen Lane, [London] | 2022

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Alev Scott Ottoman odyssey

travels through a lost empire

Engels | 292 pagina's | Riverrun, London | 2018

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Roger Eatwell | Matthew J. Goodwin National populism

the revolt against liberal democracy

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Engels | 344 pagina's | Pelican, London | 2018

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