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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,...
Fictie
Engels | 196 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Easily Distracted Media, [Groningen] | 2021
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Lida Varvarousi Gagaroo goes to the moon
Gagaroo the donkey has a big dream: taking a special trip to the moon with his best friend Apollo. But how will they get there? Riding on a cannon ball, a catapult or an elevator? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Engels | 32 pagina's (ePub2) | Book-A-Tale, [Edegem] | 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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Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
With an essay by George Orwell. 'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant'A savage and hilarious satire, Gulliver's Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject to bizarre and unnerving encounters with, among others, quarrelling Lilliputians, philosophizing horses and the brutish Yahoo tribe, that change his view of humanity - and himself - for...
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Hannah Cuppen Love phobia
how to overcome your fear of commitment and abandonment
'Would you like to have a relationship but do you find that your partner always withdraws? Do you keep falling in love with someone who is already taken? Or do you have the tendency to keep the other person at a distance, just as they are beginning to develop feelings for you? If you keep ending up in situations like this, you might recognise the dance of pursuit and withdrawal. You’re not the only one! The fundamental conflict between our need for intimacy and our need for freedom creates this game...
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | AnkhHermes, Utrecht | 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...
Non-fictie
Engels | 296 pagina's (ePub3, 4,5 MB) | Ludibrium Publishers, Groningen | 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,...
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2 | Uitgeverij Business Contact, Amsterdam | 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...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 11 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Louis Couperus Psyche
Psyche is based on Apuleius' story of Cupid and Psyche. It tells us about the king's daughter of that name and her two sisters, Emeralda and Astra. After the death of their father, Emeralda, the eldest sister, ascends to the throne of the Kingdom of the Past. Fearing her unscrupulous sibling, Psyche flees the castle on the back of the flying steed Chimera. She plunges into the unknown world outside the castle walls. On her magical journey she comes into contact with a Satyr, the Sphinx, weeps a river,...
Fictie
Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 24 MB) | Reith|Hendriks & partners, Rotterdam | 2021
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Fiona Hack The umbrella mystery
Danni's grandfather disappeared without a trace during a visit to Japan. No one has heard from him for forty years. Until Danni receives a Japanese umbrella from her grandmother. This and a letter are the only clues grandpa left. Is it enough to find him? Together with her friend Kiko, she unravels the sinister secret of the miracle umbrella, for which she has to pay a great price. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Engels | 122 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Ambilicious, Breda | 2021
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Cold war Mary
ideologies, politics, Marian devotional culture
One hardly known but fascinating aspect of the Cold War was the use of the holy Virgin Mary as a warrior against atheist ideologies. After the Second World War, there was a remarkable rise in the West of religiously inflected rhetoric against what was characterised as "godless communism". The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church not only urged their followers to resist socialism, but along with many prominent Catholic laity and activist movements they marshaled the support of Catholics into a spiritual...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 27 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Orpheus Institute Machinic assemblages of desire
Deleuze and Artistic Research 3
The concept of assemblage has emerged in recent decades as a central tool for describing, analysing, and transforming dynamic systems in a variety of disciplines. Coined by Deleuze and Guattari in relation to different fields of knowledge, human practices, and nonhuman arrangements, "assemblage" is variously applied today in the arts, philosophy, and human and social sciences, forming links not only between disciplines but also between critical thought and artistic practice. Machinic Assemblages...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 27 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Skylar Heart Scarred Cliff collection
One girl, on the run from her life, flees right into the arms of four boys from her past. Fleeing her abusive ex, a dead-end job and no prospects for anything better, Mia returns to the coastal town where she used to spend her summers as a kid. She hopes that going back to a time when things were easier will clear her head, but instead she runs right into the arms of the boys she loved as a teen. It starts with Dylan, the brainiac, now a maths teacher at a nearby secondary school. Then Mal, the...
Fictie
Engels | 225 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Easily Distracted Media, [Groningen] | 2021
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Skylar Heart Scarred Cliff collection
One day where everything falls apart, five lovers struggling to make sense of it all. The anniversary of Poppy's death was hard on them all, but no matter how hard she tried, Mia felt like she couldn't stay at the coast, that her being there would only bring more pain to Mal, Dylan, Tom and even Jake. So, she flees again, back to the city, to her parents' house, leaving the guys behind. As the guys are struggling to find their feet, how they're going to make things work when they've realised that...
Fictie
Engels | 209 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Easily Distracted Media, [Groningen] | 2021
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Neo-Thomism in action
law and society reshaped by Neo-Scholastic philosophy 1880-1960
In his encyclical Aeterni Patris (1879), Pope Leo XIII expressed the conviction that the renewed study of the philosophical legacy of Saint Thomas Aquinas would help Catholics to engage in a dialogue with secular modernity while maintaining respect for Church doctrine and tradition. As a result, the neo-scholastic framework dominated Catholic intellectual production for nearly a century thereafter. This volume assesses the societal impact of the Thomist revival movement, with particular attention...
Non-fictie
Engels | 331 pagina's (PDF, 16 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...
Non-fictie
Engels | 253 pagina's (PDF) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 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...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 2,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Gabriella Nugent Colonial legacies
contemporary lens-based art and the democratic republic of Congo
In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Focusing on three artists and one artist collective, Nugent analyses artworks produced by Sammy Baloji, Michèle Magema, Georges Senga and Kongo Astronauts, each of whom offers a different perspective onto this history gleaned from their own experiences. In their photography and video...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 51 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Ellen Spee My granny is a pirate
This is a story about a Granny who wanted to be a pirate. It could have happened anywhere: a city and a street just like anywhere else, in a terraced house with normal people. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Engels | 73 pagina's (ePub2, 31 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2021
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Aad van der Klaauw Let me color Your day
Aad van der Klaauw, librarian in the Netherlands, lives in Staphorst. A small village in the province Overijssel. Let me color Your day published on the world's largest poetry site Allpoetry. Poems about religion, countries and other themes. Read my lines, taste my words. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Engels | 62 pagina's (ePub2) | Boekenbent, Barneveld | 2021
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