In 2007 Dutch royal historian Arnout van Cruyningen first published a short guide to the House of Orange-Nassau and the Monarchy in the Netherlands in the English language.

This illustrated, revised and updated edition, packed with biographical, historical, genealogical and constitutional information, marks the abdication of Queen Beatrix and accession of King Willem-Alexander in 2013. It celebrates the two centuries old Kingdom of the Netherlands and much older Orange Dynasty.

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This book for a better new world based on a Plan of Recommendations arose from my intuition and inner strength. It must be possible to imagine a world society that is not based on money, oil or our current political system, just by using our common sense. This with the help of family and friends: the ordinary people and citizens of the earth.

The current power vacuums in economics and politics are no longer working. These are simply outdated and slow us down. We moved too far away from our cor...

Luis Moreno Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, had previously announced possible plans of undertaking investigations on the role played by entrepreneurs in financing violent conflicts in which core international crimes such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide have been committed. However, till this day investigations of this kind have not taken place. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the current impunity to gross human rights violations by corporations,...

FLAME LILIES

from Deventer to Rhodesia

- autobiography -

Lia Zwanikken-van Noesel was born in Deventer (The Netherlands) in 1937.

She met her husband Paul Zwanikken in 1956 and together they went to

Africa to what was then called Southern Rhodesia.

There they lived over 40 years and raised a family of three,

two daughters and a son.

She went to school in Deventer to Het Geert Groote College (1956).

In Africa she studied for a Bachelor of Arts Degree with the University

of South Africa by corresponden...

After three years of economic crisis, 2011 marked the start of popular resistance. Inspired by the Arab Spring, the citizens of Spain took the streets on May 15 to demand `Real Democracy Now!

What would have been a one day only protest, exploded into the largest popular movement since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. It was directed against the unhealthy influence of the financial world on politics. It was aimed at a radical change of society, into one that is founded on human ...

This publication covers a doctorate research on characteristics of intercultural competence among international business assignees, based on theory and practice.

Starting point was the notion that failure costs of failed international assignments are high, while at the same time the selection for international assignments is being carried out largely on basis of purely technical competences.

This research considers intercultural competence as an important generic competence for international as...