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Frank N. Pieke China, een gids voor de 21e eeuw
Informatie over en visie op de ontwikkelingen in het huidige China en de rol van de Communistische Partij daarbij.
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Nederlands | 312 pagina's (ePub2, 2,7 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
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Herman van der Wusten | Virginie Mamadouh Geopolitiek
Wordingsgeschiedenis van de ontwikkeling en het gebruik van het begrip 'geopolitiek' in de internationale context.
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Nederlands | 130 pagina's (ePub2, 7,7 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2015
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I. Sluiter Socrates
Leermeester van Plato, ter dood veroordeeld vanwege zijn filosofische ideeën, uitvinder van de Socratische methode. Ineke Sluiter verkent het leven en het gedachtegoed van een van de meest legendarische filosofen uit de geschiedenis. Elementaire Deeltjes is een serie boekjes van AUP die kennis toegankelijk maakt voor een breed publiek. Het is de manier om snel kennis op te doen over onderwerpen die je interesseren. Experts nemen je mee op een ontdekkingsreis waarbij elk thema in de meest beknopte...
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Nederlands | ePub2, 4,5 MB | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2014
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Joop Bouma Slikken
hoe ziek is de farmaceutische industrie?
Analyse van de invloed van de farmaceutische industrie op alle niveaus van de gezondheidszorg.
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Nederlands | 500 pagina's (ePub, 1 MB) | Fosfor, [Nederland] | 2014
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Cordula Rooijendijk Vrije jongens
een geschiedenis van de Nederlandse handel
Wie zaten er achter de handel die Nederland ooit rijk maakte? Cordula Rooijendijk portretteert de succesvolle ondernemers van toen, de `vrije jongens van de Hanze, de Bergenvaarders, de VOC en de WIC. Ze vertelt over Hinrick van Hasselt, die alle Hanzegeboden negeerde en zijn stokvissen gewoon in Noorwegen verkocht, over Louis de Geer, die zonder scrupules vanuit Zweden de WIC beconcurreerde, over Jan Reeps, die in z n eentje Zuid-Amerika wilde koloniseren, en over Anthony van Hoboken, die rustig...
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Nederlands | 228 pagina's (ePub2, 4,4 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2014
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Twan Huys Over geluk
Kleine zoektocht naar het wezen van geluk in de voetsporen van de 18e-eeuwse filosoof Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Nederlands | 39 pagina's (ePub2, 0,2 MB) | Unieboek | Het Spectrum, Houten | 2013
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Frederike Doppenberg 'De Arbeiderspers moest blijven marcheeren'
een uitgeverij in oorlogstijd
In mei 2009 bestond Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers tachtig jaar. Sinds haar oprichting in 1929 heeft de uitgeverij heel wat stormen doorstaan. Maar de hevigste storm vond wel tijdens de Duitse bezetting plaats. Kort na de capitulatie bezette Meinoud Rost van Tonningen `De Rode Burcht . Hij had opdracht gekregen De Arbeiderspers om te vormen van een socialistisch tot een nationaal-socialistisch platform, naar eigen zeggen om `het ware volksche socialisme aan de arbeider terug te geven. De nieuwe leiding...
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Nederlands | ePub, 2 MB | Arbeiderspers, Utrecht | 2011
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Jan De Laender Het verdriet van Darwin
over de pijn en de troost van het rationalisme
Charles Darwins evolutietheorie dwingt ons te erkennen dat we bestaan zonder zin of reden, dat we zijn voortgebracht door een proces dat geen goedheid kent. Dit boosaardig proces schept bij middel van pijn en dood en het zorgt ervoor dat een diep egoïsme de kern vormt van al wat leeft. Het Heelal heeft ons voortgebracht, maar het is onverschillig voor ons lot. Het heeft ons niet gewenst en het bemint ons niet. Van God is al helemaal geen sprake! Dat is de diepe boodschap van Darwins theorie. De...
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Nederlands | 384 pagina's (ePub, 0,6 MB) | Acco, Leuven | 2010
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Theo D'haen | Hans Bertens Amerikaanse literatuur
een geschiedenis
Literatuurhistorisch overzicht van 1600 tot heden.
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Nederlands | 336 pagina's (ePub, 1,4 MB) | Acco, Leuven | 2010
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Studies in Latin literature and epigraphy in Italian fascism
This book deals with the use of Latin as a literary and epigraphic language under Italian Fascism (1922-1943). The myth of Rome lay at the heart of Italian Fascist ideology, and the ancient language of Rome, too, played an important role in the regime's cultural politics. This collection deepens our understanding of 'Fascist Latinity', presents a range of previously little-known material, and opens up a number of new avenues of research. The chapters explore the pivotal role of Latin in constructing...
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Engels | PDF, 11 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2020
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John Milton John Milton, Epistolarum familiarium liber unus and Uncollected letters
John Milton holds an impressive place within the rich tradition of neo-Latin epistolography. His Epistolae Familiares and uncollected letters paint an invigorating portrait of the artist as a young man, offering insight into his reading programme, his views on education, friendship, poetry, his relations with continental literati, his blindness, and his role as Latin Secretary. This edition presents a modernised Latin text and a facing English translation, complemented by a detailed introduction...
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Latijn | Engels | PDF, 6 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2019
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A Holocene prehistoric sequence in the Egyptian Red Sea area: the tree shelter
The prehistory of the Eastern Desert of Egypt is not well understood. A Holocene Prehistoric Sequence in the Egyptian Red Sea Area: The Tree Shelter is an important contribution to our knowledge of the Epi-Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Predynastic occupation of the area. It presents the results of an excavation of a small rock shelter near Quseir, Egypt, which is one of the rare stratified sites in the Eastern Egyptian desert. The stratigraphic sequence starts around 8000 bp and continues until about...
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Engels | 104 pagina's (PDF, 22 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Science translated
Latin and vernacular translations of scientific treatises in medieval Europe
Medieval translators played an important role in the development and evolution of a scientific lexicon. At a time when most scholars deferred to authority, the translations of canonical texts assumed great importance. Moreover, translation occurred at two levels in the Middle Ages. First, Greek or Arabic texts were translated into the learned language, Latin. Second, Latin texts became source-texts themselves, to be translated into the vernaculars as their importance across Europe started to increase....
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Engels | Frans | 478 pagina's (PDF, 5,6 MB) | Leiven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Minoan earthquakes
breaking the myth through interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinary study on the role of earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean. Does the "Minoan myth" still stand up to scientific scrutiny? Since the work of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos (Crete, Greece), the romanticized vision of the Cretan Bronze Age as an era of peaceful prosperity only interrupted by the catastrophic effects of natural disasters has captured the popular and scientific imagination. Its impact on the development of archaeology, archaeoseismology, and earthquake geology in the...
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Engels | 408 pagina's (PDF, 9,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Andrea Alciati Andreae Alciati contra vitam monasticam epistula
Criticism of monastic life by one of Europe's major Renaissance figures. In his letter Against Monastic Life (1514-17) Andrea Alciato, an Italian jurist and writer famous for his Emblemata, urges his friend Bernardus Mattius to reconsider his choice of monastic life. Alciato makes his argument by criticizing religious superstition, the Church's hierarchy, and monastic practices, particularly the Franciscans' hypocrisy, wealth, and divisiveness. Instead, he defends a stoic, civic humanism. Due to...
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Latijn | Engels | 144 pagina's (PDF, 2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Simon Verdegem Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades
story, text and moralism
At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch's biography of one of classical Athens' most controversial politicians functions within the...
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Engels | 499 pagina's (PDF, 5,5 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Geert Roskam A commentary on Plutarch's De latenter vivendo
Plutarch's De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus' famous ideal of an 'unnoticed life' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch's polemical strategies and about his own philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology. In this book, Plutarch's anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical...
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Engels | 279 pagina's (PDF, 2,2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, [Leuven] | 2017
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Geert Roskam Plutarch's Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum
an interpretation with commentary
The question of the political relevance of philosophy, and of the role which the philosopher should play in the government of his state, was often discussed in Antiquity. Plato's ideal of the philosopher-king is well-known, but was precisely his failure to realise his political ideal in Syracuse not the best argument against the philosopher's political engagement? Nevertheless, Plato's ideal remained attractive for later Greek thinkers. This is illustrated, for instance, by one of Plutarch's short...
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Engels | 252 pagina's (PDF, 3,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Aulularia and other inversions of Plautus
First critical edition of Burmeister's newly discovered Aulularia. Joannes Burmeister of Lüneburg (1576-1638) was among the greatest Neo-Latin poets of the German Baroque. His masterpieces, now mostly lost, are Christian 'inversions' of the Classical Roman comedies of Plautus. With only minimal changes in language and none in meter, each transforms Plautus's pagan plays into comedies based on biblical themes. Fascinating in their own right, they also bring back to attention forgotten genres of Renaissance...
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Engels | Latijn | Duits | 292 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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The early modern cultures of neo-Latin drama
The vitality and power of expression of Neo-Latin Drama. The essays in this collection all illustrate the vitality of Neo-Latin drama in early modern Europe, arising from its productive combination of classical models with deep-rooted vernacular traditions. While the plays were often composed in the context of a school or university setting, the dramatists seldom neglected the need to appeal to a broad audience, including non-Latinists. Yet the use of Latin, and the ambiguity of a plurivocal literary...
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Engels | 232 pagina's (PDF, 2,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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