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Book Brief van Maatschappij tot Nut van  t Algemeen aan Wethouder van Onderwijs der Gemeente Amsterdam

Download or read book Brief van Maatschappij tot Nut van t Algemeen aan Wethouder van Onderwijs der Gemeente Amsterdam written by Wethouder van Onderwijs der Gemeente Amsterdam and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tijdschrift Voor Sociale Hygiene

Download or read book Tijdschrift Voor Sociale Hygiene written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Cities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Asa Briggs
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1993-03-24
  • ISBN : 9780520079229
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Victorian Cities written by Asa Briggs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-03-24 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study in urban history, Victorian Cities examines the 19th-century history of four developing cities in England in a period of rapid growth, with chapters on London and Melbourne and references to Los Angeles and Chicago as well.

Book City Branding

    Book Details:
  • Author : Véronique Patteeuw
  • Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9789056622626
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book City Branding written by Véronique Patteeuw and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this era of 'experience economy' and the leisure industry, cities face increasing pressure to distinguish themselves. Ever since Frank Gehry put the city of Bilbao into the international spotlight with his design for the Guggenheim museum, architecture played a more and more important role within this competition between cities. City branding, the planned image or brand of a city, now forms a challenge for architects and urban planners. How do you position a city in a culture dominated by globalization? What are the priorities for inhabitants, companies and investors? Group portraits of young architects 2002 brought together four occasional groups of architects, which each developed a project for two cities in the Netherlands based on city branding. Critical essays on the subject by Berci Florian, Hans Mommaas and Michael Speaks. Koen van Synghel puts the projects in perspective.

Book Sustainism is the New Modernism

Download or read book Sustainism is the New Modernism written by Michiel Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the shift towards sustainism as seen through a series of visual symbols designed for use by businesses, institutions, and individuals.

Book Health Care Architecture in the Netherlands

Download or read book Health Care Architecture in the Netherlands written by Noor Mens and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Healthcare Architecture in the Netherlands describes the development of buildings for health care: hospitals and psychiatric institutions as well as housing and care facilities for the elderly. Eight chapters provide a chronological overview of the architecture of buildings for health care, from its emergence as a specific typology to the most recent care complexes. In addition, some 50 buildings from the last century and a half are described and illustrated in detail. A series of thematic texts addresses specific aspects of national and international architecture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in relation to buildings for the healthcare sector.

Book Smart Technologies and the End s  of Law

Download or read book Smart Technologies and the End s of Law written by Mireille Hildebrandt and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book tells the story of the smart technologies that reconstruct our world, by provoking their most salient functionality: the prediction and preemption of our day-to-day activities, preferences, health and credit risks, criminal intent and

Book Bonita Avenue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Buwalda
  • Publisher : Hogarth
  • Release : 2015-01-13
  • ISBN : 055341786X
  • Pages : 488 pages

Download or read book Bonita Avenue written by Peter Buwalda and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dazzling...Critics hailed Buwalda as 'The Dutch answer to Jonathan Franzen', but his brilliance is entirely unique."--The Times (UK) Siem Sigerius is a beloved, brilliant professor of mathematics with a promising future in politics. His family—including a loving wife, two gorgeous, intelligent stepdaughters and a successful future son-in-law—and carefully appointed home in the bucolic countryside complete the portrait of a comfortable, morally upright household. But there are elements of Siem's past that threaten to upend the peace and stability that he has achieved, and when he stumbles upon a deception that’s painfully close to home, things begin to fall apart. A cataclysmic explosion in a fireworks factory, the advent of internet pornography, and the reappearances of a discarded, dangerous son all play a terrible role in the spectacular fragmentation of the Sigerius clan. A riveting portrait of a family in crisis and the ways that even the smallest twists of fate can forever change our lives, Bonita Avenue is an incendiary, unpredictable debut of relationships torn asunder by lies, and minds destroyed by madness.

Book Foreign Direct Liability and Beyond

Download or read book Foreign Direct Liability and Beyond written by Liesbeth F. H. Enneking and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western societies are witnessing an emerging socio-legal trend towards transnational civil litigation against multinational corporations in relation to harm caused toward people and the planet. These 'foreign direct liability cases' arise against the background of a global governance gap resulting from the rapid globalization of economic actors and activities with no global institutions to manage their worldwide impacts. The increasing reliance on private law mechanisms to realize corporate accountability for violations of human rights, health and safety, and environmental and labor norms perpetrated around the globe raises interesting and complex issues. This study sets out the legal and socio-political framework of this particular type of transnational civil litigation. The book traces the role that Western systems of tort law may play in promoting international corporate social responsibility/accountability. It focuses on the feasibility of bringing foreign direct liability claims before domestic courts in the EU Member States - the Netherlands in particular - and sets out a number of recommendations for European policymakers.

Book The Architectural Representation of Islam

Download or read book The Architectural Representation of Islam written by Eric Roose and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of Dutch mosque designs that shows that current designs do not oppose Dutch society but those versions of Islam they hold to be false.

Book Political Silence

Download or read book Political Silence written by Sophia Dingli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of ‘silence’ in Politics and International Relations has come to imply the absence of voice in political life and, as such, tends to be scholastically prescribed as the antithesis of political power and political agency. However, from Emma Gonzáles’s three minutes of silence as part of her address at the March for Our Lives, to Trump’s attempts to silence the investigation into his campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, along with the continuing revelations articulated by silence-breakers of sexual harassment, it is apparent that there are multiple meanings and functions of political silence – all of which intersect at the nexus of power and agency. Dingli and Cooke present a complex constellation of engagements that challenge the conceptual limitations of established approaches to silence by engaging with diverse, cross-disciplinary analytical perspectives on silence and its political implications in the realms of: environmental politics, diplomacy, digital privacy, radical politics, the politics of piety, commemoration, international organization and international law, among others. Contributors to this edited collection chart their approaches to the relationship between silence, power and agency, thus positing silence as a productive modality of agency. While this collection promotes intellectual and interdisciplinary synergy around critical thinking and research regarding the intersections of silence, power and agency, it is written for scholars in politics, international relations theory, international political theory, critical theory and everything in between.

Book Summer House with Swimming Pool

Download or read book Summer House with Swimming Pool written by Herman Koch and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blistering, compulsively readable new novel from Herman Koch, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Dinner. When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he’s not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high profile doctor to the stars, Marc can't hide from the truth forever. It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meier’s extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife Judith, her mother, and film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the large group settles in for days of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations are revealed, and suddenly no one can be trusted. As the ultimate holiday soon turns into a nightmare, the circumstances surrounding Ralph’s later death begin to reveal the disturbing reality behind that summer’s tragedy. Featuring the razor-sharp humor and acute psychological insight that made The Dinner an international phenomenon, Summer House with Swimming Pool is a controversial, thought-provoking novel that showcases Herman Koch at his finest.

Book Those who Save Us

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jenna Blum
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0151010196
  • Pages : 497 pages

Download or read book Those who Save Us written by Jenna Blum and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trudy Swenson, haunted by her German heritage, embarks upon a deeper investigation of her past and uncovers secrets her mother has kept hidden for five decades.

Book Multimedia and Literacy Development

Download or read book Multimedia and Literacy Development written by Adriana G. Bus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the state of the art in multimedia applications and their promise for enhancing early literacy development, this volume, the first synthesis of evidence-based research in its field, broadens the field of reading research by looking beyond print-only experiences to young readers’ encounters with multimedia stories on Internet and DVD.

Book Gaza in Context

    Book Details:
  • Author : Noura Erakat
  • Publisher : Asi-Kp
  • Release : 2016-08-10
  • ISBN : 9781939067241
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Gaza in Context written by Noura Erakat and published by Asi-Kp. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2014, Israel launched its most devastating offensive on the besieged Gaza Strip to date. Israel sealed its perimeters, expanded its buffer zones, concentrated the already dense population, and launched six thousand airstrikes and fifty thousand artillery shells in an air and ground offensive that lasted for fifty-one days. The register of death and destruction was, expectedly, harrowing. Despite overwhelming evidence of the disparity of power between Israel and Palestinians and the aggressiveness of Israel's exercise of its power, including excessive and brutal violence and collective punishment in Gaza in the form of occupation, siege, and frequent military assaults against dense and captive civilian populations, mainstream media and educational materials continue to frame Israel as the victim. This compendium, in combination with the pedagogical project Gaza in Context, uses Operation Protection Edge to demonstrate the temporal and spatial continuity of Israel's settler-colonial policies across Israel and the Occupied Territories in order to disrupt the language of exceptionalism surrounding Gaza today. The volume scrutinizes Israeli settler-colonialism through a multidisciplinary lens including history, law, development, political economy, and gender. In addition to the articles within this volume, Gaza in Context: War and Settler Colonialism features several teaching guides and a bibliography that are intended for teaching and research purposes, respectively. Together, the aforementioned components and the short film Gaza in Context seek to provide an assertive framework for understanding Israel's systematic attacks as part of the larger question of Palestine.

Book Proust and the Squid

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maryanne Wolf
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2017-08-01
  • ISBN : 0062010638
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Proust and the Squid written by Maryanne Wolf and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wolf restores our awe of the human brain—its adaptability, its creativity, and its ability to connect with other minds through a procession of silly squiggles.” — San Francisco Chronicle How do people learn to read and write—and how has the development of these skills transformed the brain and the world itself ? Neuropsychologist and child development expert Maryann Wolf answers these questions in this ambitious and provocative book that chronicles the remarkable journey of written language not only throughout our evolution but also over the course of a single child’s life, showing why a growing percentage have difficulty mastering these abilities. With fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, Wolf asserts that the brain that examined the tiny clay tablets of the Sumerians is a very different brain from the one that is immersed in today’s technology-driven literacy, in which visual images on the screen are paving the way for a reduced need for written language—with potentially profound consequences for our future.

Book The International Politics of Television

Download or read book The International Politics of Television written by George H. Quester and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: