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Harold de Haan Voortleven
Nationaal Monument MH17; National Monument MH17
In korte beschouwende hoofdstukken komen betrokkenen bij de realisatie van het Nationaal Monument MH17 voor de 298 slachtoffers van de op 17 juli 2014 neergeschoten vlucht MH17 aan het woord.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 160 pagina's | Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle | 2018
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J.E. Korteweg Breaking new ground
Dutch dredging pioneers
The world-famous Palm Islands in Dubai, the new Afsluitdijk, the Zuiderzee Works, the Delta Works: dredging and offshore company Van Oord is the key player in all these gigantic projects. A hundred and fifty years ago, this extraordinary company was founded by a man called Govert van Oord, an independent trader in osier and other wood products from the Biesbosch region of the Netherlands. In this period, contractors constructed the Nieuwe Waterweg and the North Sea Canal, deepened the rivers and...
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Engels | ePub2, 24 MB | Balans, Amsterdam | 2018
E-book
Jane C. Judge The United States of Belgium
the story of the first Belgian revolution
New and comprehensive insights into the seminal events that shaped Belgian identity In 1790, between the birth of America (1776) and the creation of the French National Assembly (1789), nine provinces nestled between the French and Dutch borders declared themselves a new free and independent country: the United States of Belgium. Before then, the provinces had been part of the vast Austrian Habsburg Empire ruled by Joseph II. In 1789 revolutionaries from Brussels to Ghent to Namur recruited a grass-roots...
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Engels | PDF, 9,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
E-book
Cultural mediation in Europe, 1800-1950
International exchange in European cultural life in the 19th and 20th centuries From the early nineteenth century till the middle of the twentieth century, cultures in Europe were primarily national. They were organized and conceived of as attributes of the nation states. Nonetheless, these national cultures crossed borders with an unprecedented intensity even before globalization transformed the very concept of culture. During that long period, European cultures have imported and exported products,...
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Engels | PDF, 1,2 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
E-book
Petrus Thomae Petri Thomae Quaestiones de ente
Editio princeps of Peter Thomae's De ente It is generally acknowledged by historians of philosophy that medieval philosophers made key contributions to the discussion of the problem of being and the fundamental issues of metaphysics. The Quaestiones de ente of Peter Thomae, composed at Barcelona ca. 1325, is the longest medieval work devoted to the problem of being as well as the most systematic. The work is divided into three parts: the concept of being, the attributes of being, and the descent...
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Latijn | Engels | 590 pagina's (PDF, 7,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
E-book
The astrological autobiography of a medieval philosopher
Henry Bate's Nativitas (1280-81)
Critical edition of the earliest known astrological autobiography The present book reveals the riches of the earliest known astrological autobiography, authored by Henry Bate of Mechelen (1246-after 1310). Exploiting all resources of contemporary astrological science, Bate conducts in his Nativitas a profound self-analysis, revealing the peculiarities of his character and personality at a crucial moment of his life (1280). The result is an extraordinarily detailed and penetrating attempt to decode...
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Latijn | Engels | 290 pagina's (PDF, 4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
E-book
Carol Ann Lee Anne Frank's story
The life story of Anne Frank, from her early happy childhood in Frankfurt, growing up in Amsterdam, her two years in hiding and the last few months of her life in the concentration camps. Narrated in six clearly written chapters, this biography for children answers the many detailed questions about Anne that readers of the Diary often have, and includes interesting anecdotes from friends who survived her. There is an Historical Note at the beginning of the book and a map of Europe, so that children...
Engels | 96 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Etty Hillesum Onderzoekscentrum Reading Etty Hillesum in context
writings, life, and influences of a visionary author
This book offers eighteen articles from the past fifteen years of international research into work and life of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), studying her ethical, philosophical, spiritual, and literary existential search. The volume also includes revised ans annotated versions of some of the papers delivered at the Second International Etty Hillesum Congress, organized in January 2014 by the Etty Hillesum Research Centre of Ghent University.
Non-fictie
Engels | 524 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Diane J. Reilly The Cistercian Reform and the art of the book in twelfth-century France
Non-fictie
Engels | 229 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Pope Eugenius III (1145-1153)
the first Cistercian pope
Non-fictie
Engels | 362 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2018
Gedrukt boek