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Rosa Swann His to protect
No matter how much you try to leave your past behind, it doesn't always leave you... Sean After being hired for my dream job, I move back to the small-minded town where I grew up, for the job and to finish my degree. I'm surrounded by my past, by old classmates, old neighbourhoods and old prejudices against gay people. But on my first day back, my eyes fall on something new around here. A goth guy sitting at the front of the class and I can't keep my eyes off him. Even though I don't know him,...
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Engels | 196 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Easily Distracted Media, [Groningen] | 2021
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Henricus de Gandavo Henrici de Gandavo Summa
(Quaestiones ordinariae), art. LX-LXII
Articles 56-59 of Henry of Ghent's Summa is devoted to the trinitarian properties. Henry was the most important Christian theological thinker in the last quarter of the 13th century and his works were influential not only in his lifetime, but also in the following century and into the Renaissance. Henry's Quaestiones ordinariae (Summa), articles 56-59 deal with the trinitarian properties and relations, topics of Henry's lectures at the university in Paris. In these articles, dated around 1286, Henry...
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Engels | PDF, 9,5 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Mark McKinney Postcolonialism and migration in French comics
Postcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954-62), antiracist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the end of the formal dismantling of French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic-minority and immigrant heritage are a major focus, including Zeina Abirached (Lebanon), Yvan Alagbé (Benin), Baru (Italy), Enki Bilal (former Yugoslavia), Farid Boudjellal (Algeria...
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Engels | PDF, 13 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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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...
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Engels | PDF, 5,7 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Lepanto and beyond
images of religious alterity from Genoa and the Christian Mediterranean
The Battle of Lepanto, celebrated as the greatest triumph of Christianity over its Ottoman enemy, was soon transformed into a powerful myth through a vast media campaign. The varied storytelling and the many visual representations that contributed to shape the perception of the battle in Christian Europe are the focus of this book. In broader terms, Lepanto and Beyond also sheds light on the construction of religious alterity in the early modern Mediterranean. It presents cross-disciplinary case...
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Engels | PDF, 56 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Graphic embodiments
perspectives on health and embodiment in graphic narratives
Comics and other graphic narratives powerfully represent embodied experiences that are difficult to express in language. A group of authors from various countries and disciplines explore the unique capacity of graphic narratives to represent human embodiment as well as the relation of human bodies to the worlds they inhabit. Using works from illustrated scientific texts to contemporary comics across national traditions, we discover how the graphic narrative can shed new light on everyday experiences....
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Engels | PDF, 26 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Missionary education
historical approaches and global perspectives
Missionaries have been subject to academic and societal debate. Some scholars highlight their contribution to the spread of modernity and development among local societies, whereas others question their motives and emphasise their inseparable connection with colonialism. In this volume, fifteen authors - from both Europe and the Global South - address these often polemical positions by focusing on education, one of the most prominent fields in which missionaries have been active. They elaborate on...
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Engels | PDF, 23 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Derk-Jan de Grood Surfing the waves of agile
value delivery in medium and large organizations
Value delivery gets more difficult when organizations grow. The enterprise structures challenge the way of working. Challenges that change when organizations progress on their Agile journey. Agile leaders need to shift their focus from the teams to collaboration and business outcome. Agile coaches discover that they need additional skills and knowledge to support them. Derk-Jan de Grood created a rich source of knowledge for Agile coaches and leaders to combine forces and guide their organization...
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Engels | 220 pagina's (ePub2, 13 MB) | Techwatch, Nijmegen | 2021
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Ioannis Papachristou John Philoponus on Physical Place
This book examines the place of physical bodies, a major topic of natural philosophy that has occupied philosophers since antiquity. Aristotle's conceptions of place (topos) and the void (kenon), as expounded in the Physics, were systematically repudiated by John Philoponus (ca. 485-570) in his philosophical commentary on that work. The primary philosophical concern of the present study is the in-depth investigation of the concept of place established by Philoponus, putting forward the claim that...
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Engels | PDF, 2,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Summistae
the commentary tradition on Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae from the 15th to the 17th centuries
Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologiae is one of the classics in the history of theology and philosophy. Beyond its influence in the Middle Ages, its importance is also borne out by the fact that it became the subject of commentary. During the sixteenth century it was gradually adopted as the official text for the teaching of scholastic theology in most European Catholic universities. As a result, university professors throughout Europe and the colonial Americas started lecturing and producing commentaries...
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Engels | PDF, 4,9 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Centrum voor Migratie en Interculturele Studies Co-creation in migration studies
the use of co-creative methods to study migrant integration across European societies
Co-creative methods are increasingly used to understand and facilitate integration processes of migrants in immigrant societies. This volume aims to contribute to the debates on the ways in which co-creative methods may advance migrant integration. More specifically, the contributions investigate how co-creative research strategies can provide insights into how integration processes into various domains of immigrant society (e.g. language learning, housing, employment) are shaped, and how they can...
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Engels | PDF, 11 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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University of Edinburgh The art of being dangerous
exploring women and danger through creative expression
The idea that women are dangerous - individually or collectively - runs throughout history and across cultures. Behind this label lies a significant set of questions about the dynamics, conflicts, identities and power relations with which women live today. The Art of Being Dangerous offers many different images of women, some humorous, some challenging, some well-known, some forgotten, but all unique. In a dazzling variety of creative forms, artists and writers of diverse identities explore what...
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Engels | 253 pagina's (PDF) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Emily Engberts A card for Valentine's
A brand new teacher at the local primary school, a woman taking care of her mum's book store, two hearts who believe that love and relationships aren't for them. Kara moves to her favourite island, Schiermonnikoog, following the job offer of a lifetime, become a teacher at the only primary school the island has. It's like a dream come true, live on the island, go on long walks with her dog Tys and teach, all in one neat package. But when she spots the beautiful woman at the local book store,...
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Engels | 208 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Easily Distracted Media, Groningen | 2021
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E. Engberts BASE status: online
Helheim Fallen Online, the next generation VRMMORPG will be released on 2042-04-02! Sign up NOW to win a chance to be a beta tester! Willow's life hasn't been easy. She's autistic, living in a community closed off from the rest of the world 'for her own safety', and the only way she gets to interact with anyone is by logging in to the BASE (Bioelectrical Augmented Synapse Enhancement) platform and play videogames. Her life revolves around playing VRMMORPGs with her close friends and making a little...
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Engels | 418 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | 5 Times Chaos / Easily Distracted Media, [Groningen] | 2021
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Lily Mitchell One for the birds
From a deal with the devil to heads in boxes and even a computer that goes on a rampage, One for the birds is a unique collection of short stories that makes you feel a bit uneasy in the end. In One for the birds, Lily Mitchell gives you surrealism, betrayal and some macabre situations in which the main characters find themselves lost or trapped. But that's not all. Here and there a main character learns valuable life lessons a little too late. Besides death and suspense you'll find a good dose of...
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Engels | 186 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Godijn Publishing, Hoorn nh | 2021
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Emily Engberts A blooming spring love
The first flowers each spring bring big changes along with them. Two women, thinking that they are too different, find that those differences don't have to be bad... Dani lost all her dreams in the divorce three years ago, but she's finally saved up enough to live her own dream this time. So, she moves to the island of Schiermonnikoog with her young daughter, Rose, to open a flower shop, ready for a new start in her life. Her heart is still tender, but when she catches a glimpse of her daughter's...
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Engels | 220 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Easily Distracted Media, Groningen | 2021
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Photography’s materialities
transatlantic photographic practices over the long nineteenth century
There is little dispute that photography is a material practice, and that the photograph itself is ineluctably material. And yet "matter," "material," and "materiality" have proven to be remarkably elusive terms of inquiry, frequently producing studies that are disparate in scope, sharing seemingly little common ground. Although the wide methodological range of materialist study can be dizzying, it is this book's contention that that multiplicity is also the field's greatest asset, keeping materialist...
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Engels | PDF, 9,2 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Geertrui Mieke De Ketelaere Wanted
Human-AI Translators e-book; Artificial Intelligence Demystified
Anyone who thinks artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t really concern us yet is wrong. AI is no longer a matter for futuristic science fiction films or hip technology fairs. It is now everywhere in your life. That personalised advertising folder from the supermarket with offers “especially for you”? AI. The songs suggested for you on Spotify? AI. The self-regulating traffic lights on the corner of your street? AI. It is undeniable that AI is entering our lives at a dizzying speed. It is now part...
Engels | 216 pagina's (ePub2, 2,6 MB) | Pelckmans, Edegem | 2021
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Kees Klomp | Shinta Oosterwaal Thrive
fundamentals for a new economy
While the world speculates about its post-pandemic state within the traditional economic narrative, unprecedented ecological and social damage prove the current neoclassical economic model to be untenable. In Thrive. Fundamentals for a New Economy, Kees Klomp and Shinta Oosterwaal provide insights into alternative approaches to economics that are sustainable and just for both society and the planet in the long term. In twenty-four essays, internationally renowned economic thinkers like Kate Raworth,...
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Engels | ePub2 | Uitgeverij Business Contact, Amsterdam | 2021
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Menno van Doorn | Sander Duivestein | Thijs Pepping Real fake
playing with reality in the age of AI, deepfakes and the metaverse
Get on a rollercoaster of disinformation and media manipulation. From lying hieroglyphs to computer-generated influencers and the future of deepfakes. People have always felt the need to play with reality, but never before has it been so easy and believable as now. How do we keep a grip on the information society now that artificial intelligence is getting involved in the manipulation game? Unlike most books about fading realities, Real Fake looks beyond the doom scenarios. Using inspiring restoration...
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Engels | 296 pagina's (ePub3, 4,5 MB) | Ludibrium Publishers, Groningen | 2021
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