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LIBER AMICORUM SERGE GUTWIRTH
Uncommon explorations into law, science & technology
2024 || Paperback || Gloria González Fuster e.a. || Academic & Scientific publishers
Since his seminal work on the relationships between law and sciences in 1992, Serge Gutwirth has been exploring numerous scholarly paths, and reinventing the ways in which academia intersects with activism. Full Professor at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije University Brussel (VUB), legal scholar, criminologist, founder of the Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) research group, he has been not only a pioneering mind and a multifaceted writer, but also a mentor and inf...
Managerial Economics of Non-Profit Organisations
6th revised edition
2024 || Paperback || Marc Jegers || Academic & Scientific publishers
This is the sixth edition of a book bringing together microeconomic insights on the functioning of non-profit organisations, complementing the wide range of books on the management of non-profit organisations by focusing on both theoretical and empirical work. Firstly, definitions of non-profit organisations are considered, after which the economic rationale behind their existence is examined, followed by a study of the demand for them and its implications for their functioning. The final cha...
LOOKING AT PIETER BRUEGEL’S Blind Leading the Blind
Canvas in the landscape, selective preparation of the figures, and the place of man in the cosmos
2024 || Paperback || Hannah de Corte || Academic & Scientific publishers
In a pivotal moment in the development of the arts and the sciences, Pieter Bruegel painted The Blind Leading the Blind (1568), a major work that embodies the transition from the medieval to the humanist mind. In The Blind Leading the Blind, Bruegel ascribed a different treatment to the fi gures and the landscape. I will show how Bruegel applied a white preparation underneath the human fi gures and not beneath the earthy ground surrounding the blind men. In doing so, he physically placed the ...