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Zora Neale Hurston | Oluale Kossola Barracoon
Oluale Kossola, overlevende van het laatste slavenschip
Het relaas van een van de laatste naar Amerika getransporteerde tot slaafgemaakten, in 1927 geïnterviewd door schrijfster en antropologe Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960).
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 267 pagina's | De Geus, Amsterdam | 2019
Gedrukt boek
Esther Ouwehand A Plague on Both our Houses
How Animal Exploitation is Driving Pandemics and What to Do Next
Discover how Esther Ouwehand sets out how we can use political courage to prevent new pandemic threats. MORE LIKE THIS Do you find this interesting? For more, click on the Biography and Non-Fiction series accompanying this book. ABOUT THIS BOOK In this audiobook Esther Ouwehand sets out the root causes of the corona pandemic and provides solutions for preventing the rise of new pandemic threats. A highly topical debut work from the successful leader of the Dutch Party for the Animals. 75% of all...
Engels | 4 uur 5 minuten (352 MB) | Bookora, Zeist | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Alexander De Croo The Age of Women
Why Feminism also Liberates Men
The future is now-and it is female. Women and women's rights are the key to progress. We believe in the West that we have already solved gender issues; it is the rest of the world that still has a problem. Nothing could be further from the truth! We have to do better. Through his work as Deputy Prime Minister and Belgian Minister of International Development, Alexander De Croo has discovered that the role of women worldwide is filled with too little opportunity and too much bias. In this book, he...
Engels | 104 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | ASP - Academic and Scientific Publishers, Brussel | 2019
E-book
Sven Gatz Molenbeek/Maalbeek
A Brussels Tale
22 March 2016, Brussels. It was a day that reverberated across the capital and the country. Bomb attacks shattered the airport and a metro station. In an instant the city was left with a gaping wound. How did the people of Brussels live through this day? Narrating from the perspectives of seven characters, Sven Gatz relives this dark day. Wandering from Molenbeek to Maalbeek, he uncovers the soul of Brussels. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | ASP - Academic and Scientific Publishers, Brussel | 2019
E-book
Alexander De Croo Why the Best is Yet to Come
A pandemic, a war in Europe and a climate that is getting warmer and warmer; in recent years, Alexander De Croo has had little option but to be a crisis prime minister. Even so, he is more convinced than ever that tomorrow will be better than today. Why the best is yet to come radically challenges the doom-laden thinking, nationalist tendencies and destructive negativism that characterise so much of modern politics. Our country is bursting with talent. If we give our people freedom, confidence and...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 2,3 MB) | Pelckmans uitgevers, Leuven | 2024
E-book
Sven Biscop This Is Not a New World Order
Europe Rediscovers Geopolitics, from Ukraine to Taiwan
If every event in international politics is a turning point, one can only go and lie down, out of sheer dizziness. In reality, we have been living in the same multipolar world for more than three decades. Europeans are only now again getting used to how such a world of great powers works. In the process, the European Union has rediscovered the importance of geopolitics. Without geopolitical awareness, crafting good strategy is impossible. But not every problem is geopolitical, and strategy covers...
Engels | 101 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Owl press, Edegem | 2024
E-book
H.P. De Nooy van Tol | Dieuwke Reuvers | Elke Dens | Herman Toch Tourism is Dead. Long Live the Traveller
Tourism in transition
Travel tomorrow will be quite different from the tourist industry we know today. As of now, we experience a transition with fundamental changes. Even though this may at times be disturbing, it’s a good and necessary evolution: In the next generation of travel, the traveller will need to create a net positive value for the people and the places he visits.Today we are at a crossroads. How do we build that new system? Which roads lead to sustainable or regenerative travel? What are the tradeoffs and...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 5,2 MB) | Pelckmans, Edegem | 2023
E-book
Martine Fokkens | Louise Fokkens Meet the Fokkens
at the red light district
The Fokkens are well-known, both in our own country and internationally. In their previous work we got acquainted with 'the garden gnome', and learned about other exciting details from their sex room. In this book the ladies leave nothing out, allowing the reader to learn about Holland's most famous neighborhood: the Red Light District. With their stories they enlighten us about, for instance, the 'Bon Bon eater', 'Pimmetje the Runner', 'the Fucker', and 'the Turd'. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Non-fictie
Engels | 178 pagina's (PDF, 7,6 MB) | Aspect Publishers, Soesterberg | 2021
E-book
Lectures for the XXIst century
2008-2009
The university is a nerve centre of society. This glimpse behind the scenes of the laboratories, workshops and classrooms of K.U.Leuven reveal what preoccupies scientists today, and how their ideas and discoveries impact our world. This second annual series of lectures in English includes such highlights as J.J. Cassiman on Genetics and Genomics, R. Merckx on Food in Africa, G. Verbeeck on The Future of History, and a great deal more. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Non-fictie
Engels | 300 pagina's (PDF, 5,4 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
E-book
Lectures for the XXIst century
What preoccupies scientists today? What is the impact of their ideas and discoveries on ourselves and on our society? This question is the starting point of the 'Lectures for the twenty-first century'. Parallel to the established Dutch series, this year for the first time an English edition was organized. This first English edition offers an international audience a glimpse behind the scenes of the laboratories, the work shops or the studies and shows how linguistic justice, the history of Belgium,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 286 pagina's (PDF, 2,4 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
E-book
'A truly golden handbook'
the scholarly quest for Utopia
'A Truly Golden Handbook, No Less Instructive than Delightful, by the Most Learned and Distinguished Professors of the Renowned University of Leuven.' 500 Years Utopia. What would the ideal society of the future look like? In 1516, the eminent English humanist Thomas More tried his hand at imagining a perfect society on a distant island. His Utopia was published in the Flemish town of Leuven, home of a university that was established almost a century earlier. 500 years later, scholars of this university...
Non-fictie
Engels | 576 pagina's (PDF, 6,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
E-book
Re:Thinking Europe
thoughts on Europe: past, present and future
What are the characteristics of European culture and identity? In which way can culture contribute to the current crisis of meaning within the EU and Europe? And should we return to the discourse of culture and historical experience in order to find a common ground for Europe? In the run-up to the Forum we will publish an anthology on these urgent questions. A host of prominent and influential thinkers such as political scientist Ivan Krastev and historians Philipp Blom and Adam Zamoyski have been...
Non-fictie
Engels | 318 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Patrick Develtere How do we help?
the free market of development aid
The balance sheet of 50 years of development aidOver the past 50 years the West has invested over 3000 billion euro in development aid and already tackled many problems. Now more and more countries and organisations present themselves on the development aid scene, including China, India, and foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Companies, trade unions, co-operatives, schools and towns set up their own projects in remote African regions. But can each and everybody become a development...
Non-fictie
Engels | 266 pagina's (PDF, 2,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2012
E-book
Hans L.M. Dassen A new philosophy of man & humanism
basic principles
In the 21st century we need a new philosophy as opposed to the old philosophy: a philosophy of man or philosophical anthropology. The importance of a new philosophy of man is that it addresses people all over the world, thus helping us to overcome our differences. And if we look a bit further into the world of the 21st century, we see that the most pressing project will be the search for meaning in the lives of human beings in a globalised world. Following the complete existential deconstruction...
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Anthroopos, Amsterdam | 2023
E-book
Vice city virtue
moral issues in digital game play
"In recent years, digital games have evolved into an entertainment form that is extensively debated and investigated. Particularly the moral issues surrounding this new medium are marked with high priority on the agenda of academic and political institutions. To date, morality in digital games is being studied in several disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, psychology, moral philosophy and human-computer studies. Findings remain fragmented and are hardly shared on an interdisciplinary...
Non-fictie
Engels | 386 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Acco, Leuven | 2011
E-book
Ellen Van Praet The dual voice of power
an ethnographic perspective on meetings
"The Dual Voice of Power discloses the duality of the discourse around meetings, with a proclaimed ideology of shared power, shared knowledge and equal opportunities masking and covering up an authority-based system promoting status differences and inequality. Relying on participant observation, audio recordings and interviews the book uncovers the subtle political and ideological processes that underlie the event of a weekly gathering of Heads of Section at an embassy. The book juxtaposes participants...
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | Acco, Leuven | 2011
E-book
Whose weight is it anyway?
essays on ethics and eating
It is a simple truth: nobody can do without food. But to solely describe food as a biological need would be too limited, neglecting the fact that food is a social and cultural practice as well. Despite its appearance, food is not even morally neutral. It is this moral aspect that is being explored in the book. Scholars from various disciplines address the ethical perspective of changing food habits in general, and the promotion of healthy eating in particular. While it is certainly the case that...
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Acco, Leuven | 2011
E-book
Joop Hazenberg Next Europe
how the EU can survive in a world of tectonic shifts
"The EU is in deep trouble. As the eurozone crisis keeps raging on, the European dream lies shattered on the ground. Euroscepticism and nationalism are on the rise, tens of millions are unemployed, Great Britain is heading for the exit door, while Russia flexes its muscles and the Middle East burns. Is there any hopeful future for the European Union? Are we going to lose the race with the BRICS? Will Europeans ever truly engage with the EU institutes in Brussels? Next Europe gives some compelling...
Non-fictie
Engels | 64 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Fosfor, Amsterdam | 2014
E-book
Reinold Widemann Money is a mind thing
Money was a mind thing long before certain goods were used as money and coins started circulating. As it happens money isn't a thing, but an idea, an idea of debt. What we generally take for money, are merely symbols of this idea of money. In this book a reader accompanies the author on a tour along various ideas on value man had from the beginning of time. The result is a colourful description of the historical development of ideas on money and values from ancient history to our present time. Reinold...
Non-fictie
Engels | 300 pagina's (PDF) | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Patrick Develtere | Huib Huyse | Jan Van Ongevalle International development cooperation today
a radical shift towards a global paradigm
Over the past 60 years high-income countries have invested over 4000 billion euros in development aid. With varying degrees of success, these investments in low-income countries contributed to tackling structural problems such as access to water, health care, and education. Today, however, international development cooperation is no longer restricted to helping by giving. Instead, it is rather about opportunities, mutual interests, risk taking, and an inclusive societal approach. With the arrival...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 5,7 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
E-book
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